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Tundra
Year: 2010
Genre: Action / Adventure
Director: Nicholas Powell
Synopsis
In a dangerous, frozen post-apocalyptic world, a remote oil rig serves to power a city representing the last remnants of civilization. Joshua, a charismatic loner at the outpost, stumbles upon a conspiracy that jeopardizes the lives of everyone in this struggling community, including Nina, the mystical woman that is in love with him.
Now a threat to the corrupt leadership of the outpost, Joshua is falsely accused and convicted of murder, triggering a revolt against the refinery. A frantic escape from the violent mutineers allows a disparate group, reluctantly led by survivalist Joshua, to face the dangers of an icy wasteland inhabited by roving cannibals and their flesh-eating wolf-dogs, as they attempt to reach the fabled city that only few claim to have seen and some doubt even exists. see director's reel and more details
 
The Coverup
Year: 2009
Genre: Crime / Drama
Cast: Eliza Dushku, Gabriel Mann, John Savage
Director: Brian Jun
Synopsis
Personal injury attorney Stuart Pepper faces the challenge of his young career when he takes on a controversial case of wrongful death in small town Iowa. Kevin Thacker’s body was found in the alley outside the Marshalltown Police Department after the young man was arrested for drunk driving. The arresting office’s story is highly suspicious and everyone involved, from the investigating detective to the FBI, appear to be aiding in covering up what actually happened that fateful night. With a promise made to the Thacker family to expose the truth, Pepper dives head first into an uphill battle against lies and corruption. What transpires will change this lawyer’s life forever. see trailer and more details
 
Perestroika
Year: 2009
Genre: Drama
Cast: Sam Robards, F. Murray Abraham, Ally Sheedy
Director: Slava Tsukerman
Synopsis
When he departed his Cold War era-repressed Soviet Union for the U.S., brilliant astrophysicist Sasha Greenberg was disgraced and rejected by his friends and peers in the scientific community, led by the esteemed Professor Gross. Greenberg reluctantly experiences a hero’s welcome when he returns to now capitalist Russia, discovering that his life, his reputation and his belief in science have all been unexpectedly transformed – but his home country has not. see trailer and more details
 
Show De Bola
Year: 2005
Genre: Crime / Sports / Drama
Cast: Thiago Martins, Luis Otavio Fernandes, Lui Mendes, Naima Santos, Gabriel Mattar
Director: Alexander Pickl
Synopsis
The 'favelas' of Rio de Janeiro are a jungle, where money is scarce, the rules made by crime lords, and where death is around every corner. Yet dreams can survive. After witnessing the brutal murder of his father at a soccer match, Thiago has dedicated his life to the game... his way out of this 'city without God'. see trailer and more details
 
Nearing Grace
Year: 2005
Genre: Drama
Cast: Gregory Smith, Jordana Brewster, David Morse, Ashley Johnson
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Synopsis
Set in New Jersey suburbia, circa 1979, Nearing Grace tells the story of Henry Nearing (Gregory Smith), a high school senior, who, deeply affected by the death of his mother, loses his bearings and falls in love with the alluring but elusive Grace (Jordana Brewster) while neglecting his best friend Merna, the prototypical girl next door. Meanwhile, Henry watches somewhat helplessly as his father, Shep, on a six-month bender since his wife’s death, falls into a dangerously dark depression. Blinded by his lust for Grace, Henry drops out of high school a month before his graduation, only to discover his obsession with her is illusory. But now it may be too late to win back the heart of his true soul mate. At turns funny, painful, ironic and bittersweet, Nearing Grace is directed by Rick Rosenthal and based on a novel by Scott Sommer. see trailer and more details
 
Bright Young Things
Year: 2003
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Cast: Simon McBurney, Michael Sheen, Emily Mortimer, James McAvoy, Stephen Campbell Moore, Stockard Channing
Director: Stephen Fry
Synopsis
Writer, actor and wit, Stephen Fry's directorial debut, a period dramedy, satirizes English celebrity culture long before it became unbearable. In the 1930s, Adam Fenwick-Symes (Stephen Campbell Moore), aspiring novelist of the idle class, suddenly can't afford to marry his fiancée, flighty socialite, Nina Blount (Emily Mortimer). Returning from France, the manuscript Adam got an advance for, Bright Young Things, chronicling the wicked ways of his friends the reckless rich, is confiscated by English customs for being too racy. Nina seeks lifestyle security in former beau, Ginger Littlejohn (David Tennant), while Adam trades in gossip and wagers. Before he can collect his earnings, war breaks out, spoiling the party. Adam's promising youth and happiness is suddenly tied to the fate of the Empire. see trailer and more details
 
To Kill A King
Year: 2003
Genre: Drama
Cast: Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Olivia Williams, Rupert Everett
Director: Mike Barker
Synopsis
1645, in an England rent by Civil War, Lord General Thomas Fairfax (Dougray Scott) and his loyal but ruthless deputy, Oliver Cromwell (Tim Roth), have overthrown King Charles I (Rupert Everett), put him under house arrest, and aim to rebuild England. Increasingly torn between his loyalty to his king, his comrade, and wife, Lady Anne (Olivia Williams), Fairfax wants a more egalitarian government, but eventually conspires to return the King to power. Cromwell's plans are far more radical and bloody, and his armies spread violence and fear throughout the country. Boasting strong performances by the three leads, To Kill a King is an exciting historical drama of friendship, love, and political intrigue, about two heroes of a revolution at odds about the future. see trailer and more details
 
Man-Thing
Year: 2003
Genre: Action / Horror
Cast: Matt Le Nevez, Rachael Taylor, Jack Thompson
Director: Brett Leonard
Synopsis
When engineers vanish building a controversial refinery deep in the swamp, local Sheriff Kyle Williams (Matthew Le Nevez) investigates at the behest of oil tycoon Frederich Schist (Jack Thompson). Believing it the work of a militant environmentalist, soon the Sheriff encounters a Seminole legend come to life. Innocents are safe, but “whoever knows fear, burns at the Man-Thing's touch!" With a mythology where natural and supernatural terror are a just consequence of greed, fear, and ignorance, Man-Thing is a horror/suspense film based on the popular Marvel comic book of the same name. see trailer and more details
 
Love's Brother
Year: 2002
Genre: Romance / Comedy
Cast: Rose Byrne, Adam Garcia, Giovanni Ribisi
Director: Jan Sardi
Synopsis
Angelo Donnini (Giovanni Ribisi), and his brother Gino (Adam Garcia) are of Italian origin, but live in Australia in the 1950s. Young, handsome and funny, Gino is engaged to Connie (Silvia De Santis), a wise, tough girl. Less attractive and confident, the older Angelo looks for a wife by writing letters to Italy, but they are always returned with his photograph. Despairing of ever finding love, Angelo uses a picture of Gino to draw the beautiful Rosetta (Amelia Warner) across the sea. When she arrives she is shocked by the real Angelo, but with Gino it's love at first sight, and she stays to try to marry him after all. A romantic comedy universal to any culture, anytime, anywhere, Love’s Brother is a magical, sweetly nostalgic journey about roots, family, sacrifice and the power of love. see trailer and more details
 
Doctor Sleep
Year: 2001
Genre: Thriller / Horror
Cast: Goran Visnjic, Paddy Considine
Director: Nick Willing
Synopsis
While treating a policewoman for smoking, troubled hypnotherapist Dr. Michael Strothermore (Goran Visnjic), has a psychic vision of a young girl floating beneath the surface of a stream. Detective Janet Losey (Shirley Henderson) prevails upon Michael to help hunt for a ritualistic serial killer who believes he’s discovered the key to immortality. The girl is an escaped victim with mysterious markings on her arms and struck dumb by her trauma. Scotland Yard needs the doctor’s strange powers to unlock her secrets as the investigation turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse. Based on the novel by Madison Smartt Bell, Dr. Sleep tells the story of a man who fears for the safety of his wife and daughter, and must endure the demons that come with his dangerous gift, as he tracks a killer who is tracking him. see trailer and more details
 
Superstition
Year: 2001
Genre: Thriller
Cast: Sienna Guillory, Charlotte Rampling, Alice Krige
Director: Kenneth Hope
Synopsis
When a baby of a wealthy Italian couple is killed during a mysterious fire, the attention is focused on their young nanny Julie, who is branded a witch by the press. Whilst her lawyer and a former psychiatrist try and clear her name it becomes clear that the fire is not the only supernatural occurrence to involve Julie and that her past may hold a deep secret. see trailer and more details