Bobule / Grapes (2008)
Comedy
Film about two friends who find out that you do not have to fly to sea to spend fantastic holidays.
Starring: Krystof Hádek, Lukás Langmajer, Marian Roden, Tereza Vorísková, Václav Postránecký
Director: Tomás Barina
Zatoichi the Fugitive / Zatôichi kyôjô-tabi / Zatôichi 4 (1963)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Blind swordsman/masseur Ichi (known as Zatoichi, or "Masseur Ichi") angers a local yakuza gang when he defeats several of them in a wrestling match. When he finds that his long lost love Tane is nearby and romantically involved with a tough samurai in the employ of the gang, he remains in the village. Meanwhile, the young heir to the leadership is forced to confront his own fear and weakness when the gang insists he fight Ichi.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Tokuzô Tanaka
SDU: Sex Duties Unit / Fei hu chu zheng (2013)
Comedy
The Special Duties Unit (SDU) is an elite paramilitary tactical unit of the Hong Kong Police Force and is considered one of the world's finest in its role. But being the best carries takes a toll. Like everyone else, they go through troubles with love, with family and with their jobs…And sometimes they get horny. This is a touching story about Special Duties Unit Team B and their trip to Macau for a weekend of unadulterated debauchery.
Starring: Chapman To, Shawn Yue, Kwok Cheung Tsang, Matt Chow
Director: Gary Mak
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Sherlock Holmes (TV Series 19841994)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
This series (made by Granada between 1984 and 1994) featuring the late Jeremy Brett as the eponymous detective includes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four, and The Hound of the Baskervilles. Granada Television had set themselves the task of filming every one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. A number of the mysteries were still waiting to be filmed at Jeremy Brett's death in 1995, but Granada decided not to continue without him.
Starring: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Rosalie Williams, Charles Gray, Edward Hardwicke, Colin Jeavons, Eric Porter
Creator: Michael Cox
New Tale of Zatoichi / Shin Zatôichi monogatari / Zatôichi 3 (1963)
Action | Drama
Blind masseur and master swordsman, Zatoichi, is tired of killing. He journeys to his old village looking for peace, but is pursued by the brother of Boss Kanbei, a man he's killed. Back home, Ichi connects with Banno, his teacher, who seeks prestige and has arranged for his younger sister, Yayoi, to marry into a wealthy samurai family. Ichi and Yayoi realize they are in love, but Ichi's request for her hand meets with Banno's derision. Ichi is also drawn into Banno's plot to kidnap the son of a wealthy man, ostensibly to aid the Mito Goblins, a gang of thieves on the run; but Banno wants to keep the ransom. Ichi wants harmony and love, but can he escape a destiny of violence?
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Tokuzô Tanaka
Free Willy (1993)
Adventure | Drama | Family
When a boy learns that a beloved killer whale is to be killed by the aquarium owners, the boy risks everything to free the whale.
Starring: Jason James Richter, Lori Petty, August Schellenberg, Michael Madsen, Michael Ironside, Danielle Harris
Director: Simon Wincer
A F*ckload of Scotch Tape (2012)
Crime | Drama | Musical
A musical Neo-Noir drama where a patsy is set up to take the fall for a kidnapping that leads to murder. When the money he is paid is stolen, he embarks on a rampage of revenge. Things go from bad to perverse as Benji must fight and fuck his way through father figures, hookers with no hearts, marauding men and the hopelessly lost. All singing, all-fighting – FLOST is a throwback to the crime films of yesteryear mixed with the music of Kevin Quain. Based on the writings of pulp-fiction writer Jed Ayres, FLOST is a mash up of film noir, musical drama and hard-hitting social injustice. Not for the faint of heart or humor.
Starring: Louie Lawless, Hannah Phelps, Brian Shaw, Graham C. Jenkins, Holland Noel
Director: Julian Grant
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Splash Area: Night of the Freaks / Splash Area (2012)
Horror
Halloween night. A night filled with fancy dress costumes, candy, screams and blood. And then there's the 'trick-or-treaters'.
Starring: Anthony Boyle, Leanne Marks, Ruby Campbell
Director: George Clarke
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Trail of Blood (2011)
Horror | Thriller
On a weekend camping trip deep in the forest, Jim – a young U.S. Marine enlistee – and his friends stumble upon the murdered bodies of a vacationing couple and are taken hostage by a deeply disturbed war veteran on a sadistic killing spree, leaving Jim and his friends fighting to get out of the forest alive.
Starring: Robert Picardo, Tim Barraco, Trevor Torseth, Kandis Erickson, Mackenzie Mason, Maggie VandenBerghe, Ray Campbell
Director: Joseph Guerrieri, Justin Guerrieri
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Blow Dry (2001)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon. Phil and Shelly haven't talked in ten years, since she bolted; she's just found out her cancer is terminal; and, Ray Roberts, the reigning hairdressing champion, blows into town taunting Phil for retreating from competitive styling into barbering. Roberts also brings his daughter, Christina, who remembers Brian from when she was a little kid. Everything's set: Brian decides to enter the competition with his mom and Sandra; will Phil join in? Ray wants to win at any cost; will Christina go along?
Starring: Alan Rickman, Natasha Richardson, Rachel Griffiths, Rachael Leigh Cook, Josh Hartnett, Heidi Klum
Director: Paddy Breathnach
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Two Bits (1995)
Drama
It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter, which he's promised to Gennaro and which Gennaro would like to have to buy a ticket to the plush new movie theater. But grandpa's not ready to pass on the quarter or pass on to his final reward: he has some unfinished business with a woman from his past, and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.
Starring: Al Pacino, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Jerry Barone
Director: James Foley
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Stalingrad (2013)
Action | War
Stalingrad has become hell and paradise for those who were worthy of awards, but the only reward they managed to get was love. How they won, and how they were not defeated, who they were and who was on the other side of the street, what secret they have taken away with them – the movie will tell this story.
Starring: Thomas Kretschmann, Yanina Studilina, Philippe Reinhardt, Pyotr Fyodorov, Mariya Smolnikova
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk
Behind the Candelabra (2013)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
Starring: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Rob Lowe, Dan Aykroyd, Scott Bakula, Debbie Reynolds
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Zodiac (2007)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In the late 1960s and 1970s, fear grips the city of San Francisco as a serial killer called Zodiac stalks its residents. Investigators (Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards) and reporters (Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey) become obsessed with learning the killer's identity and bringing him to justice. Meanwhile, Zodiac claims victim after victim and taunts the authorities with cryptic messages, cyphers and menacing phone calls.
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch
Director: David Fincher
Lord of the Flies (1963)
Adventure | Drama | Thriller
After their plane crashes on an isolated island, a group of grade-school boys revert to savagery despite the attempts of a few to prevent it. (A film adaptation of William Golding's novel.)
Starring: Nicholas Hammond
Director: Peter Brook
A Man Escaped / Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)
Drama | Thriller | War
French Resistance activist Andre Devigny is imprisoned by the Nazis, and devotes his waking hours to planning an elaborate escape. Then, on the same day, he is condemned to death, and given a new cellmate. Should he kill him, or risk revealing his plans to someone who may be a Gestapo informer?
Starring: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock
Director: Robert Bresson
Detective Conan: Private Eye in the Distant Sea / Meitantei Conan: Zekkai No Private Eye (2013)
Animation | Mystery
To take part in the voyage of the Ijisu warship, Conan and his detective team arrive at Maizuru Port. Suddenly, they hear some noises. A soldier from the Self-Defense Forces, who lost his left arm, is found dead. Conan begins to investigate. He then tries to determine whether Spy X is on the Ijisu Warship.
Starring: Minami Takayama, Wakana Yamazaki, Rikiya Koyama, Kô Shibasaki, Chafurin
Director: Kobun Shizuno
Saat po long / Sha po lang / SPL: Kill Zone (2005)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
An ailing veteran cop whose relentless determination to do away with an untouchable gangster has led him to employ a series of unethical tactics finds his investigation complicated by the arrival of principled new inspector and the death of a fellow cop in this explosive underworld tale.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Jacky Wu, Sammo Hung
Director: Wilson Yip
The Tale of Zatoichi Continues / Zoku Zatôichi monogatari / Zatôichi 2 (1962)
Action | Adventure
Blind swordsman/masseur Zatoichi is pursued by the retainers of a lord who fear that he will reveal a secret weakness of their master. Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love: his own brother. He must face in combat not only the pursuing retainers but his own flesh-and-blood.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kazuo Mori
Hotel Noir (2012)
Crime | Drama
Holed up in a hotel room with a case of money he has stolen from the mob a gumshoe awaits his fate. A shower door installation guy checks in to write a memoir on his experiences moonlighting as a portrait painter for pets owned by desperate housewives. Another resident is a lounge singer being stalked by a mobster who in turn has a fling with a call girl who does the rounds of the hotel dressed as a superhero. As the assortment of characters intertwine Hotel Noir materialises as a stylish period homage to hardboiled Hollywood and the unreliable nature of storytelling. The tapestry of conflicting inner monologues adds to a web of intrigue and the heavy atmosphere both sexy and fatalistic occasions a parade of star performers smouldering at their best.
Starring: Malin Akerman, Aaron Behr, Kevin Connolly, Rosario Dawson, Danny DeVito, Robert Forster, Carla Gugino, Rufus Sewell
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez
