3096 Days / 3096 Tage (2013)
Crime | Drama
A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.
Starring: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Thure Lindhardt, Amelia Pidgeon
Director: Sherry Hormann
Elektra (2005)
Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Not long after recovering from seemingly mortal wounds, Elektra, the deadly female ninja, has severed all ties with the world, living only for her next assignment. But in an unexpected turn of events, she is forced to make a decision that can take her life in a new direction – or destroy her. Key players in Elektra's journey are Stick, a blind martial arts master responsible for Elektra's 'resurrection',- and Mark Miller and Abby Miller, a father and daughter on the run from The Hand, a powerful syndicate whose members practice the dark martial art of ninjitsu.
Starring: Jennifer Garner, Terence Stamp, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Will Yun Lee, Goran Visnjic, Kirsten Prout
Director: Rob Bowman
The Haunting (1963)
Horror
A paranormal researcher gathers a team to spend several nights in a notorious haunted house in an attempt to prove the existence of the supernatural.
Starring: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Lois Maxwell, Russ Tamblyn, Fay Compton
Director: Robert Wise
Adolphe Adam: Giselle – The Royal Ballet (2006)
Music
Alina Cojocaru stars as peasant girl Giselle in this 2006 Royal Ballet production of Adolphe Adam’s romantic tale, recorded live at the Royal Opera House in London. Staged by Peter Wright, the performance features the choreography of Marius Petipa. Marianela Nuñez and Martin Harvey also star, with Johan Kobborg dancing the role of Albrecht, Giselle’s deceitful lover. Boris Gruzin conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.
Starring: Alina Cojocaru, David Drew, Martin Harvey , Johan Kobborg, Marianela Nuñez, Genesia Rosato
Director: Ross MacGibbon
Vikings (TV Series 2013- )
Action | Drama | History | War
Vikings follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods, legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.
Starring: Travis Fimmel, Clive Standen, Gustaf Skarsgård, Katheryn Winnick, George Blagden, Jessalyn Gilsig, Maude Hirst, Alyssa Sutherland, Jefferson Hall
Creator: Michael Hirst
The Untold History of the United States (2012) (TV Series)
Documentary
There is a classified America we were never meant to see. From Academy Award®-winning writer/director Oliver Stone, this ten-part documentary series looks back at human events that at the time went under reported, but that crucially shaped America's unique and complex history over the 20th century. From the atomic bombing of Japan to the Cold War and the fall of Communism, this in-depth, surprising, and totally riveting series demands to be watched again and again.
Starring: Oliver Stone, Alan Shearman, Jim Ward, André Sogliuzzo
Creator: Oliver Stone
The River Why (2010)
Drama | Romance
Young Gus Orviston, a fishing prodigy, leaves the family where he feels smothered by the ceaseless competition of his mother and father, and takes up residence in a cabin near the Oregon river where he can fish all day. But his plan becomes more complicated as Gus meets new people who challenge him to expand his world, including Titus, an amateur philosopher, and Eddy, a beautiful and elusive young woman with fishing skills to match Gus's.
Starring: Zach Gilford, Amber Heard, William Hurt, Kathleen Quinlan, Dallas Roberts, William Devane
Director: Matthew Leutwyler
The Three Smiles / San xiao (1969)
Drama
The "Huangmei Opera" folk opera once constituted the most popular trend in Mandarin musicals, and this is not only the last great one, but perhaps the most memorable retelling of one of China's most popular romances. In a gender-bendering turn, Shaws' supreme star, Ivy Ling Po, plays the scholar who tries to seduce the sprite-like servant, played by "Baby Movie Queen" Li Ching, the youngest star to ever be named Best Actress. The result was number four hit of 1969.
Starring: Ivy Ling, Ching Lee
Director: Feng Yueh
The Pagemaster (1994)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
A cowardly boy who buries himself in accident statistics enters a library to escape a storm only to be transformed into an animated illustration by the Pagemaster. He has to work through obstacles from classic books to return to real life.
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Ed Begley, Jr., Mel Harris, Patrick Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg
Director: Joe Johnston
Jane Eyre (1943)
Drama | Romance
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
Starring: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, John Sutton, Peggy Ann Garner, Sara Allgood
Director: Robert Stevenson
Gaslight / A Strange Case of Murder (1940)
Mystery | Thriller
Twenty years after the murder of Alice Barlow, her house is finally occupied again. However, the husband of the couple who have moved in has a secret which he will do anything to keep hidden.
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Robert Newton
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Mad Men (TV Series 2007-2015)
Drama
Set in 1960 New York, MAD MEN reveals the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue's “Golden Age”, where key players make the art of the sell while their private lives get sold. And no one plays the game better than Don Draper (Golden Globe®-winner Jon Hamm), the biggest ad man – and ladies man in the business.
Starring: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones, Christina Hendricks, Aaron Staton, Rich Sommer, Kiernan Shipka, John Slattery, Robert Morse
Creator: Matthew Weiner
Banshee (TV Series 2013- )
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Lucas Hood is an ex-con and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, Pa., where he continues his criminal activities, even as he’s hunted by the shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier.
Starring: Antony Starr, Ivana Milicevic, Ulrich Thomsen, Frankie Faison, Hoon Lee, Rus Blackwell, Matt Servitto, Demetrius Grosse, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Ryann Shane, Lili Simmons, Ben Cross, Anthony Ruivivar, Matthew Rauch, Gabriel Suttle, Bonnie Cole, Chelsea Cardwell, Kevin J. O'Connor, Daniel Ross Owens
Creator: David Schickler, Jonathan Tropper
Peaky Blinders (TV Series 2013- )
Drama
A British ganagster saga set in 1919 post-war Birmingham. Cillian Murphy is Thomas Shelby, leader of the most feared and powerful local gang, the Peaky Blinders. Named for their practice of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps, they make money from illegal betting, protection and the black market. But when a crate of guns goes missing from an arms factory, their battle-hardened leader recognizes an opportunity to move up in the world.
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson, Sam Neill, Joe Cole, Eric Campbell, Tony Pitts, Ned Dennehy, Ian Peck, Annabelle Wallis, Jeffrey Postlethwaite, Matthew Postlethwaite, Aimee-Ffion Edwards
Creator: Steven Knight
Once Upon a Time (TV Series 2011- )
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
Emma Swan, a 28-year-old bail bonds collector, has always been a fiercely independent person since being abandoned as a baby. Her son Henry, who she gave up for adoption years ago, finds and tries to convince Emma that she is Snow White's missing daughter. Henry shows Emma that in the fairytale, Prince Charming and Snow White sent her away to protect her. Emma doesn't believe him and takes Henry back to Storybrooke…
Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Lana Parrilla, Josh Dallas, Robert Carlyle, Jared Gilmore, Meghan Ory, Raphael Sbarge, Emilie de Ravin, Lee Arenberg, Beverley Elliott, Colin O'Donoghue, Faustino Di Bauda, Mig Macario
Creator: Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis
Haven (TV Series 2010- )
Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When shrewd and confident FBI Special Agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven she soon finds herself caught up with the return of The Troubles, a plague of supernatural afflictions that occurred in the town at least once before. If that was not enough to draw her in, she also finds a link that may lead her to the mother she has never known.
Starring: Emily Rose, Lucas Bryant, Eric Balfour, Richard Donat, John Dunsworth
Creator: Sam Ernst, Jim Dunn, Stephen King
Grimm (TV Series 2011-2017)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery
Remember the fairy tales your parents used to tell you before bedtime? Those weren't stories — they were warnings. Nick Burkhardt thought he prepared himself for the realities of working as a homicide detective until he started seeing things he couldn't quite explain. When his ailing Aunt Marie arrives, Nick's life turns upside down when she reveals they are descendants of an elite group of hunters, also known as "Grimms," who fight to keep the balance of humanity safe from the supernatural creatures of the world. As Nick digs deeper into her past, he realizes that he will have to shoulder the responsibility of his ancestors — and contend with a larger-than-life mythology of the Brothers Grimm that is now all too real.
Starring: David Giuntoli, Russell Hornsby, Silas Weir Mitchell, Sasha Roiz, Reggie Lee, Elizabeth Tulloch, Bree Turner, Claire Coffee
Creator: Stephen Carpenter, David Greenwalt, Jim Kouf
Small Creatures (2010)
Drama
Jealousy and violence explode when three fourteen-year-old boys cannot conceal the cracks in their friendship any longer.
Starring: Michael Coventry, Tom Pauline, Paul Bamford
Director: Martin Wallace
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Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish (2010)
Comedy | Drama
Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish is a gritty, funny love story about charismatic and wayward Satmar Hasid youth who encounter Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet when they help a jaded NYC emergency room nurse with the play's translation.
Starring: Eve Annenberg, Yelena Shmulenson, Bubbles Yoeli Weiss, Lazer Weiss, Melissa Weisz, Mendy Zafir
Director: Eve Annenberg
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Louise and Her Lover (2011)
Crime | Romance | Thriller
A lesbian wanna-be model falls dangerously in love with an up and coming painter. The relationship goes too far too fast and the lines between art and sex get blurred.
Starring: Deirdre Herlihy, Julia Porter Howe, Morgan Powell, Richard Buonagurio
Director: Ryan Andrew Balas
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