Movies In 2006
HD 118
Director: James Gartner
Stars: Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Austin Nichols
40 years ago Don Haskins went on the recruiting trail to find the best talent in the land black or white. 7 blacks and 5 whites made up the legendary 1965-66 Texas Western Miners. They were mocked and ridiculed for their showboating and flaunting of black players on the court. Yet in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds Haskins and his Miners came together as a team united to reach the...
HD 90
Director: Doug Biro, Jon Fine
Stars: Christina Aguilera, Trey Anastasio, Brian Eno
Possibilities is an intimate documentary about Herbie Hancock and his in-studio collaborations with a dozen formidable pop recording artists collaborations that explore the unexpected like jazz improvisations. The film is also about how Herbies unique world view shapes a creative environment that encourages artists to step outside the velvet prison of easy expectations. The hip stuff...
HD 86
Director: Jeffery Scott Lando
Stars: Mike Coleman, David Lewis, Kristina Copeland
A park ranger must protect hikers from an invasion of meteor-spawned aliens and hunters that want to eliminate the creatures - and any witnesses to their arrival on...
HD 108
Director: George Miller, Warren Coleman
Stars: Elijah Wood, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman
This is the story of a little penguin named Mumble who has a terrible singing voice and later discovers he has no Heartsong. However Mumble has an astute talent for something that none of the penguins had ever seen before: tap dancing. Though Mumbles mom Norma Jean thinks this little habit is cute his dad Memphis says it just aint penguin. Besides they both know that without a...
HD 114
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Stars: Ismail Ghaffari, Allah-Morad Rashtian, Farzin Sabooni
Mamo an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho which will...
HD 104
Director: Ronny Yu
Stars: Jet Li, Shidô Nakamura, Betty Sun
Martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia became the most famous fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness and into history defining the true spirit of martial arts. His self-discovery and the choices he made inspired his nation. The son of a great fighter who did not wish for his child to follow in his footsteps...
HD 90
Director: Christopher Abram, Michael W. Brown
Stars: Susana Gibb, Reece Rios, Natalie Jones
AFTER SUNDOWN is an action-packed story of a young woman who uncovers a dark secret that has been laid dormant for centuries. Before she can even comprehend her discovery she is plunged into a gory battle with a predatory vampire from the American Old West who is in search for his vampire offspring that was taken from him so long before. He will stop at nothing and devour all whom try to...
HD 111
Director: Alex Kendrick
Stars: Alex Kendrick, Shannen Fields, Jason McLeod
An action-packed drama about a Christian high school football coach who uses his undying faith to battle the giants of fear and failure. In six years of coaching Grant Taylor has never led his Shiloh Eagles to a winning season. After learning that he and his wife Brooke face infertility Grant discovers that a group of fathers are secretly organizing to have him dismissed as head coach....
HD 80
Director: David L. Cunningham
Stars: Daniel Caltagirone, Flora Montgomery, Nicholas Aaron
Urban Exploration. The practice of investigating areas not designed for public use. But strange things can happen in the dark closed-off areas of history beneath the streets of Moscow and what started as a way for Nate to escape his grief quickly turns into a journey that forces him to confront it head-on with nothing less than his eternal destiny hanging in the balance. Featuring Music from...
HD 88
Director: Colin Brady, Christopher Reeve
Stars: Jake T. Austin, Brian Dennehy, Whoopi Goldberg
A young boy named Yankee Irving finds himself at an extraordinary crossroads: He has a chance to be a hero - and make a difference against incredible odds - or he can play it safe. With faith in himself instilled by his family he teams up with a sassy young girl and some off-the-wall sidekicks and embarks on a sometimes perilous often funny cross-country quest. In the process he restores his...
HD 93
Director: Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Donald Crowhurst, Jean Badin
A documentary about the disastrous 1968 round-the-world yacht...
HD 94
Director: Ryan Schifrin
Stars: Matt McCoy, Haley Joel, Christien Tinsley
It has been sighted 42000 times in 68 countries. A creature of myth and legend known by several names; Yeti Sasquatch and the infamous Bigfoot! Weve hunted it for years but what happens when it decides to hunt us? Abominable centers on a man recovering from a mountain climbing accident trapped in a remote cabin in the woods who sees the legendary beast and must convince someone to...
HD 95
Director: Preston A. Whitmore II
Stars: Anthony Mackie, Wesley Jonathan, Wayne Brady
A naturally talented basketball player Noah Cruise is determined to become a doctor using his basketball scholarship to UCLA pre-med rather than succumb to the lure of former sports agent Vaughn and go for the NBA. His best friend the buddy that took the fall for him and did the time for an assault charge Tech also an outstanding basketball player has less lofty ambitions: he wants to get...
HD 100
Director: Debbie Isitt
Stars: Martin Freeman, Jessica Hynes, Stephen Mangan
Confetti - a mockumentary which follows three couples competing for the title of Most Original Wedding of the Year: The Musical Wedding The Tennis Wedding and the Naturist...
HD 99
Director: Steve Rash
Stars: Hayden Panettiere, Solange Knowles, Gus Carr
Britney Allen is living the dream -- the cheerleaders dream. At the elite seaside campus of Pacific Vista High School Britney is captain of the cheerleading squad and the envy of everyone at school -- including one overly-ambitious teammate. When Britney hears about a forthcoming audition for a top cheer squad to appear in recording star Rihannas upcoming television special she is determined...
HD 108
Director: Justin Lin
Stars: James Franco, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson
Jake Huard from a shipbuilders family promised his dying mother held make it to Anapolis Naval Academy. Thanks to tenaciously bugging a Congressman hes selected despite dubious grades. Once inside Jake soon proves sub-standard academically. Constantly challenged to his limits repeatedly made the over-cocky reason for the entire class to suffer Jake nearly quits but after facing his...
HD 90
Director: Michael Feifer
Stars: Alexandra Holden, John Burke, Sid Haig
In New York the journalist Rachel Beckwith is attacked by a burglar and her fiancé Brian is murdered trying to defend her. Rachel returns to her hometown Fillmore to recover in the house of her parents. Six months later she his hired by Stephen Javitz to work in the local television and her first assignment is to cover the architecture of the mansions in Fillmore. Rachel is attracted to the...
HD 75
Director: Jack Perez
Stars: Adam Vincent, Booboo Stewart, Sarah Lieving
After a plane crash where a boy is the only survival the famous anchor Erika Lawson convinces her husband and cameraman Scott to adopt the child. They bring Donald home and Scotts father Big Jake offers to take care of him while the couple works. However after a series of bizarre accidents that culminates with the death of Jake the nanny Lucy Fir comes to the Lawsons home to work. However...
HD 81
Director: Alexandra Lipsitz
Stars: Dan Crane, David S. Jung, Hadia Ackerman
Its time to rock and roll - air guitar style. AIR GUITAR NATION is the feature documentary about the year that air guitar swept America - from New York to Los Angeles and then all the way to northern Finland. AIR GUITAR NATION chronicles the birth of the US Air Guitar Championships and the personal journeys of those talented contestants who are vying to become the first World Air Guitar Champion...
HD 114
Director: Chookiat Sakveerakul
Stars: Krissada Sukosol, Achita Sikamana, Sarunyu Wongkrachang
Pusit is having the worst day of his life. He just lost his job and is in serious debt. That is all about to change when he receives a mysterious phone call with a tempting offer. If he could complete 13 tasks he will win 100 million Baht. Pusit agrees and the game...
HD 100
Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau
Stars: Frédéric van den Driessche, Maroussia Dubreuil, Lise Bellynck
François is a film-maker usually impassive and without affect. Hes making a film about womens pleasure as they transgress taboos. He doesnt know that two fallen angels whove been sent to upend him are manipulating his interest. He interviews young women video tapes screen tests and selects several for the film. The erotic scenes with them generate off-screen dynamics that may overwhelm...
HD 131
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Stars: Ziyi Zhang, You Ge, Daniel Wu
In 907 AD the Tang Dynasty is in tatters; infighting snarls the imperial family. Crown Prince Wu Luan loves Little Wan but his father takes her as his Empress. Wu Luan goes into exile studying dance and music. His uncle murders his father taking throne and Empress; uncle sends assassins to kill Wu Luan. The Crown Prince eludes death and comes to court. The Emperor arranges for Little Wans...
HD 115
Director: David Von Ancken
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Anjelica Huston
In the 1860s five men have been tracking a sixth across Nevada for more than two weeks. They shoot and wound him but he gets away. They pursue led by the dour Carver who will pay them each 1 dollar a day once hes captured. The hunted is Gideon resourceful skilled with a knife. Gideons flight and Carvers hunt require horses water and bullets. The course takes them past lone...
HD 93
Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Stars: Penélope Cruz, Salma Hayek, Steve Zahn
In 1848 a New York bank wants to put a railroad across Mexico so it buys up small banks around Santa Rita Durango and evicts farmers on the proposed rail line who owe money. The banks henchman is the murderous Jackson. He runs afoul of two women MarÃa the tough but uneducated daughter of a farmer and Sara the European-educated daughter of the owner of one of these banks. To feed the...
HD 78
Director: Stefan Fjeldmark, Jesper Møller
Stars: Roger Carel, Lorà nt Deutsch, Sara Forestier
After another raid in an empty village the chief of the Vikings Timandahaf misunderstands the explanation of his druid Cryptograf that fear gives wings to the dwellers and believes that fear actually makes the villagers fly. They decide to chase the champion of fear in Gaul to learn how to fly and make them invincible warriors. Meanwhile the nephew of Vitalstatistix Justforkix is sent from...
HD 75
Director: Naoyuki Tomomatsu
Stars: Kenji Arai, Norman England, Masayuki Hase
This film has everything zombies guns aliens huge sword battles cyborg warriors and the ultimate Japanese schoolgirl zombies! Absolutely crazy stuff. The great thing is it is so quick to setup the main characters. Straight away we see the spaceship heading for Earth and flying erratically over the forest it has chosen to land in spraying some green gas as it goes. As it meanders across the...
HD 76
Director: Daigo Udagawa
Stars: Haruki Jo, Mihiro, Seiji Nakamitsu
Saki Mihiro is a beautiful high school girl secretly working for the Japanese government as a special student undercover cop. Her uniform includes a pair of see-through underwear. Attending a prestigious high school Saki is sent to investigate a student prostitution ring in order to bail her estranged mother out of jail. Once there Saki gets bullied and emotionally abused by her...
HD 84
Director: Brendan Maher
Stars: Rafe Spall, Rebecca Hall, Nina Sosanya
In this prequel to Jane Eyre Edward Rochester finds himself in Jamaica looking to make his fortune. As the second son the expectation is that his brother will inherit the family estate and so his future must lie elsewhere. He soon meets Antoinette Cosway and is offered a substantial dowry to marry her. Only after the wedding does he learn of her family history including the madness that...
HD 64
Director: Shinji Imaoka
Stars: Shirô Shimomoto, Minami Aoyama, Mutsuo Yoshioka
This surrealistic comedy follows the life of Haruo Maekawa a young man who makes a living catching squid. Haruo is obsessed with catching a legendary giant squid rumored to live in Tokyo Bay. Haruos uncle Takashi fallen on hard times comes to stay with his nephew until he can get back on his feet. Uncle Takashi is addicted to energy drinks and seduces any woman in sight including Haruos...
HD 104
Director: Min Du-Sik
Stars: So Yoo-jin, Jeong Seong-hwan
So Yu Jin from Oishi Propose and Cho Son Fan from Emperor Of The Sea star in the romantic comedy The Rainy Day. This MBC TV special received rave reviews after first airing in January of 2006. Shot in super HD Cinema quality So Yu Jin was the target of much of the shows praise being highly commended for her tough performance as a struggling single mother. 29 year-old single parent Su Jin So...
