Young Yakuza

Documentary
Asia  /  Japanese

This story, based on real events, explores the secret world of Japanese organized crime, called the Yakuza. Young Naoki is a failure at school, work and in his personal life and is caught up in a wave of juvenile delinquency. His mother, driven by shame and despair, is reunited with an old friend who offers to introduce her son into the ranks of the Yakuza. Naoki’s news boss takes him under his wing. The Kumagai crime organization, confronted by new trends facing Japan, feels that the Yakuza is being edged out of modern society. Divided by loyalties to his mother and to his new "family," Naoki will have to choose between the light and the dark.

Youth Without Youth

Thriller, Romance
USA  /  English

Set in the 1930s, the story involves a Romanian linguist, named Dominic (Tim Roth) who is depressed about the state of his life. He plans to kill himself, but his plans go awry when he is struck by a bolt of lightning and ends up recovering in a hospital. Suddenly, things begin to change for Dominic as he inexplicably begins to grow younger. Some years pass and Dominic finds himself in Switzerland, he is the subject of study by soldiers of the Third Reich. A German spy named Veronica (Alexandra Maria Lara) resembles one of Dominic's long lost love and he quickly becomes enamored with her. Veronica herself finds herself in a strange situation when she is struck by lightning and begins to grow older. Dominic's fascination with Veronica grows even more when she begins speaking dead languages, which interests him very much as a professor of linguistics.

Wicker Park

Drama, Thriller, Romance, Mystery
USA  /  English

Set in Chicago, advertising executive Matthew (Josh Hartnett) is at a restaurant when he sees a woman that looks just like a girl he had a relationship with, Lisa (Diane Kruger). Two years prior, Matthew and Lisa had a romance but when Matthew asked her to move away with him, she vanished. He has been obsessed with her, and after seeing her in the restaurant, he follows her. He meets her only to discover that Lisa is another woman with the same name (Rose Byrne). Matthew and his friend, Luke (Matthew Lillard), investigate the mystery. This woman claiming to be Lisa turns out to be an actress named Alex. Luke is dating Alex, unbeknownst to Matthew. Alex turns out to have been Lisa's roommate and has been obsessed with Matthew. In the end, Matthew and Lisa meet up in a restaurant and hug and kiss.

What Love Is

Comedy
USA  /  English

Tom (Cuba Gooding Jr.) has the best of intentions. He has a big plan to surprise his girlfriend with an elaborate proposal during a surprise party. Problem is, when he arrives home she is gone, lock, stock and barrel. The film sets out to explain the purpose and potential in male-female relationships. He gets plenty of relationship help from his friends (Matthew Lilliard, Sean Astin, Anne Heche) who don’t always help that much because they have too many issues themselves.

Water Lilies

Drama
USA  /  English

During a summer in Paris, a love triangle develops between three girls in this provocative and perceptive portrait of teen angst and nascent sexuality. The awkward Anne, the bad girl Floriane and the gawky Marie play an intense game of emotional chess as they wrestle with love, friendship and their desire for one another.

War Inc.

Comedy, Crime, Action
USA  /  English

A loose follow up to 1997's Grosse Pointe Blank using similar character and plotline of an assassin, War, Inc. is the story of Brand Hauser (John Cusack) a hired assassin. His job is given to him by the Vice President (Dan Akroyd) who is the owner of Tamerlane, a large corporation. Mr. Vice President wants Hauser to assassinate Oil Minister Omar Sharif (Lyubomir Neikov) who is trying to get a pipeline built through Turiqstan on its own rather than through Tamerlane. As he prepares to do this he uses the wedding of a big star from Central Asia, Yonnica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff) as a cover for his operation. When Brand finds himself head over heels for a beautiful reporter, Natalie Hegalhuzen (Marissa Tomei), things become a lot more complicated for him.

Walk Hard : The Dewey Cox Story

Comedy, Music
USA  /  English

"Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" is a parody of epic musical dramas like "Ray" and "Walk the Line." The story starts with Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly) as a young boy, and when a tragic accident occurs, it leaves him saddened but spawns the birth of his career as a musician. His musical style evolves drastically throughout his career, and he struggles with things that most rock stars have to deal with: groupies, infidelity, and drugs. Eventually, Cox meets a Christian singer named Darlene Madison (Jenna Fischer) and they fall for each other. The question is, will she be able to change his wild rock and roll ways?

Walk All Over Me

Thriller, Crime
USA  /  English

In "Walk All Over Me" a pretty young blonde named Alberta (Leelee Sobieski) is working in a gasoline service station in a small town in Canada. Alberta is inept at the job, and she ends up losing some money that her boyfriend owes to loan sharks. She was supposed to give this money to a gangster who was going to pick it up at the station. Freaked out, Alberta quits the job giving no notice and hightails it to Vancouver, where her sister Celine (Tricia Helfer) lives. Celine works as a dominatrix who makes good money at her job. Celine allows Alberta to stay with her for awhile if she pays her own bills. When a job as a retail clerk doesn't work out for her, Alberta is desperate for another way to earn money. When Celine is off with a john, Alberta comes across videos of some of Celine's paying clients. She figures she can pretend to be a dominatrix for a day just to make the rent money. So she arranges a meeting with a pleasant seeming man named Paul and meets him at the food court in the mall. But when she goes to Paul's house, a trio of hoodlums attack Paul, shouting that he owes them $500,000.

Virgin Territory

Comedy, Adventure, Romance
USA  /  English

In the mid 1300’s, the Black Plague raged across Europe and Asia, killing millions. By 1348, it had spread from central Asia to Genoa, Venice, and Italy, continuing its march northwest across Europe. Lorenzo (Hayden Christiansen) decides to leave Florence to escape the brutal massacre. He persuades his friends to join him, including Pampinea (Mischa Barton), with whom he begins a love affair. They spend the rest of their days in the countryside, telling stories to each other, and sharing memories of happier times. All they can do is hope that their calming words can provide them with some respite from the horror that they left behind in Florence.

Untraceable

Thriller, Crime
USA  /  English

One serial killer has become a headache for the FBI as this killer performs the murders in public, for a live Internet audience and yet remains untraceable. This serial killer uses ludicrous ways to kill the victims. One of the victims is stripped naked with his legs encased in concrete. He is surrounded by sun lamps, and a live-streaming image is posted on the website killwithme.com. The viewers are then informed that the number of hits the site gets will accelerate, or slow down, the heat to which the man is exposed. The more people log on, the faster he fries. The killer coerces the thrill-hungry public to participate in an act of public murder. Inevitably, the site is jammed with viewers and everyone who watches is a murderer. It’s a fiendish scheme that an FBI cyber-crime agent, Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane), and her partner, Griffin Dowd (Colin Hanks), must unravel. A local cop Eric Box (Billy Burke) too joins them to assist them, but the cunning villain has made his website untraceable. Indeed, any attempt to crack it gives the killer the name and location of the investigators, who instantly find themselves on the killing list. While Marsh is trying her best to trace the killer, she is forced to do all she can when she comes to know that the next victim could be her mother Stella Marsh (Mary Beth Hurt) or daughter Annie Haskins (Perla Haney-Jardine). Now begins a deadly chase to trace and catch this serial killer, who was till now, untraceable.

Unnatural Causes

Mystery, Thriller
USA  /  English

An intriguing thriller starring provocative blonde beauty Tara Reid. Julia (Reid) and her husband Matt (Angus MacFayden) own a trendy and successful advertising agency in exotic, bustling Barcelona. But not everything is as perfect as it seems. Matt is very possessive of his young sexy wife and is convinced that she is cheating on him. For this reason he has her followed by one of his colleagues. When confronted with a series of pictures of Julia with another man, Matt is overwhelmed with jealousy and decides to get rid of her ... only to be tormented with remorse when the news of Julia’s death starts circulating the office. Seemingly defeated by his sense of guilt, Matt takes his own life, not long before Julia miraculously comes back onto the scene. Julia strongly suspects that Matt’s suicide was actually murder. Could the people out to eliminate her by convincing Matt of her infidelity be the same people behind his death? And what if they decide to finish the job?

Two Tigers

Action
USA  /  English

An international secret agent with authority to murder, named Gilda (Andrea Osvart), does most of her business in the Far East, especially Shanghai. One of her assignments is to do away with a corrupt Arab businessman on one of her trips. There she meets a high class prostitute named Lin (Selena Khoo), and the two strong-minded women hit it off as beautiful friends who discover men have not been the best companions in life. Neither one takes a back seat to men, but Lin keeps her boyfriend nonetheless. Gilda is also an expert in martial arts, which impresses Lin. As much as she enjoys her new friend, word comes from Gilda's anonymous control that her next victims must be a Frenchman and his girlfriend, who turns out to be Lin.

Trainwreck My Life As An Idiot

Comedy
USA  /  English

When two damaged people--an A.D.D.-afflicted alcoholic and a former prostitute--meet in this off-kilter comedy, an unlikely romance begins. Hilarious and oddly inspiring, Trainwreck is proof that a life disastrously lived can still turn out beyond anybody's wildest imaginings. Based on the memoir THE LITTLE YELLOW BUS by Jeff Nichols, this film stars Seann William Scott, Gretchen Mol, and Jeff Garlin.

Tom & Jerry Tales Vol.4

Animation, Comedy, Family
USA  /  English

They Wait

Horror, Mystery
USA  /  English

Sarah (Jaime King), her husband, Jason (Terry Chen), and their young son, Sammy (Regan Oey), return to North America after living in Shanghai for several years. They have returned for a family funeral. Sammy swears that he can see ghosts and then falls seriously ill. The strangeness continues. Traditional western medicine does nothing for him. A mysterious pharmacist (Henry O) says that the death grip of a living corpse has Sammy under his spell. To save her child before the last day of Ghost Month Sarah must hurry to discover what the ghost wants, before the sun rises or she’ll lose her child.

There Will Be Blood

Drama, Western, Crime
USA  /  English

Film loosely based on Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil", this is a sprawling epic about family, greed, corruption, and the pursuit of the American dream. In the California oil fields at the turn of the 20th century, oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a hardscrabble man who is tipped off about the possible oil strike of a lifetime. In short order he goes from wildcatter to oil baron. Coupling his fortunes and that of his son, H. W. (Russell Harvard) to this strike, he begins to amass an empire of wealth based on the black gold. But his richness comes at a price. The tip about the oil came from a preacher family who sold him the mineral rights to the land but only in return for money to be given to their church and the enigmatic child pastor Eli Sunday (Paul Dano). Though Daniel assesses Eli's preaching as that of a charlatan, nonetheless Eli serves as a mirror into Daniel's soul. Daniel begins to see the course of lies, trickery, deceit, and nihilism that his life has devolved to and begins to re-examine his place in it.

The Valley Of Light

Drama
USA  /  English

Made-for-TV drama about Noah (Chris Klein), a homeless World War II veteran who settles in a small North Carolina town and develops relationships with Eleanor (Gretchen Mol), a lonely war widow and a mute boy (Zach Mills) whose father has abandoned him. Noah, is a fantastic fisherman and aims to make a living at catfishing. Eleanor allows Noah to stay on her small farm in the "fishing shack". They are drawn to each other through mutual loneliness and a longing to find purpose in life and create a new future for themselves.

The Trap

Crime, Thriller
USA  /  English

"THE TRAP" is a modern film noir reflecting the true face of Serbian (Eastern European) 'society in transition.' It's a story that could happen to you. It is a film about an ordinary man, who is forced to choose between life and death of his own child. THE TRAP is a film about post-Milosevic's Serbia, in which there is no more war, but there is moral and existential desert, about Serbia in transition, in which human life still doesn't worth a lot, about normal life which still seems unreachable.

Whip It

Comedy
USA  /  English

Whip It!, the story of an ex-beauty pageant contestant named Bliss (played by Juno’s Ellen Page) who leaves her crowns behind after joining a roller-derby team. While her mother would prefer that Bliss unlace her skates and step back before the judges, the rebellious teen instead seeks the wisdom of rowdy mentor Malice in Wonderland (Kristen Wiig) in learning the tricks of the circuit track.

Whiteout

Thriller, Crime, Action
USA  /  English

A federal marshal named Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsdale) is stationed in an extremely remote place, Antarctica, but she finds crime not a particular challenge there until she is almost done with her term of service. A body shows up in the wreckage of a Soviet cargo plane. She must work then with Robert Pryce (Gabriel Macht) a representative from the United Nations as the base is under international control. Since the base is limited in the number of hiding places, the killer wears a ski mask and begins to stalk the investigating officer while killing off other members of the community. Her friend Dr. John Fury (Tom Skerritt) lets her know that a major blizzard may cause evacuation of the base, and her time to catch the killer grows short.