biography
HD 98
Director: Sacha Gervasi
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston, Toni Collette, Michael Stuhlbarg, Michael Wincott, Jessica Biel, James D'Arcy, Richard Portnow
Storyline: In 1959 Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma are at the top of their creative game as filmmakers amid disquieting insinuations about it being time to retire. To recapture his youths artistic daring Alfred decides his next film will adapt the lurid horror novel Psycho over everyones misgivings. Unfortunately as Alfred self-finances and labors on this film Alma finally loses...
HD 101
Director: David Jacobson
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Bruce Davison, Artel Great, Matt Newton, Dion Basco, Kate Williamson, Christina Payano, Tom'ya Bowden, Sean Blakemore, Mickey Swenson, Julius Branca, Pierson Blaetz
Storyline: Based on the true crime story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer this movie tells the emotionally riveting story of a man who turned his darkest fantasies into a horrifying...
HD DreamWorks Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Film Co
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones, John Hawkes, Jackie Earle Haley, Bruce McGill, Tim Blake Nelson, Joseph Cross, Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Peter McRobbie
Storyline: In 1865 as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion U.S. president Abraham Lincoln endeavors to achieve passage of the landmark constitutional amendment which will forever ban slavery from the USA. However his task is a race against time for peace may come at any time and if it comes before the amendment is passed the returning southern states will stop it before...
HD 115
Director: David Cronenberg
Stars: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, Monique Mercure, Nicholas Campbell, Michael Zelniker, Robert A. Silverman, Joseph Scoren, Peter Boretski, Yuval Daniel, John Friesen, Sean McCann, Howard Jerome
Storyline: Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burroughs novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee a writer who accidentally shoots his wife whose typewriter transforms into a cockroach and who becomes involved in a mysterious plot in an Islamic port called...
HD 98
Director: Julie Delpy
Stars: Julie Delpy, Daniel Brühl, William Hurt, Anamaria Marinca, Sebastian Blomberg, Adriana Altaras, Charly Hübner, Andy Gatjen, Maria Simon, Frederick Lau, Katrin Pollitt, Anna Maria Mühe, Rolf Kanies, Christine Mayer, Henriette Confurius
Storyline: A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her...
HD 125
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Stars: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, George Coe, Margaret Blye, Jacqueline Brookes, Richard Brestoff, Michael Alldredge, Raymond Singer, Allan Rich, Natasha Ryan, Melanie Gaffin, Alex Rocco, Sully Boyar, Tom Stern
Storyline: Carla Moran awakens one night to find herself being beaten and raped by an unseen presence. Terrified of whats happening to her and shunned by friends and family who think shes lost her mind she seeks help from parapsychologists. The researchers soon discover that evil spiritual force has been drawn to Carla and is responsible for the violent attacks. The question now however is...
HD 120
Director: Ben Affleck
Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy, Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham
Storyline: In 1979 the American embassy in Iran was invaded by Iranian revolutionaries and several Americans are taken hostage. However six manage to escape to the official residence of the Canadian Ambassador and the CIA is eventually ordered to get them out of the country. With few options exfiltration expert Tony Mendez devises a daring plan: to create a phony Canadian film project looking...
HD 119
Director: John Huston
Stars: José Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon, Claude Nollier, Katherine Kath, Muriel Smith, Mary Clare, Walter Crisham, Harold Kasket, Georges Lannes, Lee Montague, Maureen Swanson, Tutte Lemkow, Jill Bennett
Storyline: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec frequently visits the Moulin Rouge where he drinks cognac and draws sketches of the dancers and singers. Though the son of a French count Henris legs were badly deformed by a childhood fall and his personal life is often unhappy as a result. While he is going home one night a spirited young woman of the streets Marie asks him for help. He falls in love...
HD 112
Director: Alex Cox
Stars: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Debby Bishop, Andrew Schofield, Xander Berkeley, Perry Benson, Tony London, Sandy Baron, Sy Richardson, Edward Tudor-Pole, Biff Yeager, Courtney Love, Rusty Blitz, John Spaceley
Storyline: Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning Nancy is found stabbed to death and Sid is arrested for her...
HD 117
Director: Joe Wright
Stars: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander, LisaGay Hamilton, Nelsan Ellis, Rachael Harris, Stephen Root, Lorraine Toussaint, Justin Martin , Kokayi Ampah, Patrick Tatten, Susane Lee, Marcos De Silvas, Ilia Volok
Storyline: In 2005 the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez more than his face from a recent bike accident was his pressing need for story ideas. That is when he discovers Nathaniel Ayers a mentally ill homeless street musician who possesses extraordinary talent even through his half-broken instruments. Inspired by his story Lopez writes an acclaimed series of articles...
HD 114
Director: Achim Bornhak
Stars: Natalia Avelon, David Scheller, Matthias Schweighöfer, Friederike Kempter, Alexander Scheer, Victor Norén, Milan Peschel, Georg Friedrich, Petra Berndt, Oliver Binge, Klaus Bräuer, Inga Busch, Mila da Veela, Michael Falkenhagen, Martin Koch
Storyline: Achim Bornhaks movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16 Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab but soon becomes the it girl of Munichs club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans they move to Berlin and live in Kommune 1 the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. While the...
HD 122
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Stars: Jamal Woolard, Mohamed Dione, Derek Luke, Dennis L.A. White, Marc John Jefferies, Menyone DeVeaux, Christopher Jordan Wallace, Ricky Smith, Amanda Christopher, Angela Bassett, Jasper Briggs
Storyline: NOTORIOUS is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler once selling crack to pregnant women to one of the greatest rappers of all time; THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Follow his meteoric rise to fame and his refusal to succumb to expectations - redefining our notion of The American...
HD 117
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Nigel Pivaro, Paul Popplewell, Lennie James, Shirley Henderson, Mark Windows, Paddy Considine, Raymond Waring, Ron Cook, John Simm, Danny Cunningham, Dave Gorman, Ralf Little, Andy Serkis
Storyline: Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson Granada TV presenter is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history he and his friends set up a record label Factory Records signing first Joy Division who go on to become New Order then James and the Happy Mondays who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music sex...
HD 106
Director: Leon Ichaso
Stars: Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, John Ortiz, Manny Perez, Vincent Laresca, Federico Castelluccio, Nelson Vasquez, Antone Pagan, Romi Dias, Jared Everleth, Bernard Hernandez, Christopher Becerra, Andrea Navedo, Ismael Miranda, Tito Allen
Storyline: The rise and fall of salsa singer Héctor Lavoe 1946-1993 as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi who looks back from 2002. In the early 1960s Héctor arrives in New York from Ponce Puerto Rico. Success comes quickly. The more he grew as an artist Puchi says the more he sank as a person. Its a tale of talent - creating salsa with Willie Colón with the Fania...
HD 117
Director: Bruce Beresford
Stars: Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Christopher Kirby, Suzie Steen, Madeleine Eastoe, Aden Young, Wen Bin Huang, Shu Guang Liang, Ye Wang, Neng Neng Zhang, Wan Shi Xu, Shao Wei Yi, Hui Cong Zhan, Ji Feng Sun
Storyline: A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11 Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Maos cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979 during a cultural exchange to Texas he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a...
HD 109
Director: Darnell Martin
Stars: Joshua Alscher, Tim Bellow, Tony Bentley, Tammy Blanchard, Eric Bogosian, Marc Bonan, Adrien Brody, Cedric the Entertainer, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Douglas Crosby, Dexter Darden, Veronika Dash
Storyline: In this tale of sex violence race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago Cadillac Records follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of Americas musical legends including Muddy Waters Leonard Chess Little Walter Howlin Wolf Etta James and Chuck...
HD 117
Director: Jim Sheridan
Stars: 50 Cent, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joy Bryant, Omar Benson Miller, Tory Kittles, Terrence Howard, Ashley Walters, Marc John Jefferies, Viola Davis, Sullivan Walker, Serena Reeder, Bill Duke, Mpho Koaho
Storyline: A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion rap...
HD 98
Director: Sam Taylor-Wood
Stars: Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Threlfall, Josh Bolt, Ophelia Lovibond, Kerrie Hayes, Angela Walsh, Paul Ritter, Richard Syms, Anne-Marie Duff, James Johnson
Storyline: The story of John Lennons childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960 his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life- his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison their friendship their love for music and the birth of The...
HD 115
Director: Alain Corneau
Stars: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Guillaume Depardieu, Carole Richert, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Yves Gasc, Yves Lambrecht, Jean-Marie Poirier, Myriam Boyer, Violaine Lacroix, Nadège Teron , Caroline Sihol, Philippe Duclos
Storyline: Its late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into wich he moves to dedicate his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette avoiding the outside world. Rumor about him and his music is widespread and even reaches to the court...
HD 104
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Diane Kruger, Ralph Riach, Matyelok Gibbs, Ed Harris, Bill Stewart, Angus Barnett, Viktoria Dihen, Phyllida Law, Matthew Goode, Joe Anderson, David Kennedy, Nicholas Jones, Karl Johnson
Storyline: Vienna 1824. In the days before the first performance of the Ninth Symphony Beethoven needs help with copying out the charts so a promising student of composition Anna Holtz 23 is sent to assist him. She not only aids the transcription of the notes she provides guidance from the orchestra pit as Beethoven conducts the works debut. During the next two years the final ones of...
HD 140
Director: Oliver Stone
Stars: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley, Kevin Dillon, Michael Wincott, Michael Madsen, Josh Evans, Dennis Burkley, Billy Idol, Kathleen Quinlan, John Densmore, Gretchen Becker, Jerry Sturm, Sean Stone
Storyline: Oliver Stones homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the groups late singer the Electric Poet Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris in 1971 at the age of 27. The movie features a tour-de-force performance by Val Kilmer who not only looks like Jim Morrisons long-lost twin...
HD 158
Director: Luc Besson
Stars: Rab Affleck, Stéphane Algoud, Edwin Apps, David Bailie, David Barber, Christian Barbier, Timothy Bateson, David Begg, Christian Bergner, Andrew Birkin, Dominic Borrelli, John Boswall, Matthew Bowyer, Paul Brooke, Bruce Byron
Storyline: In 1412 a young girl called Jeanne is born in Domrémy France. The times are hard: The Hunderd Years war with England has been going on since 1337 English knights and soldiers roam the country. Jeanne develops into a very religious young woman she confesses several times a day. At the age of 13 she has her first vision and finds a sword. When coming home with it she finds the...
HD 101
Director: Philippe Mora
Stars: Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas, Terri Hanauer, Joel Carlson, John Dennis Johnston, Dee Dee Rescher, Aileen Fitzpatrick, R.J. Miller, Holly Fields, Paula Shaw, Juliet Sorci, Tifni Twitchell, Joshua Miller
Storyline: Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances are they UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a horrible dilema; was I abducted or am I going mad? He sees a psychiatrist who tries to use hypnotic regression to discover the...
HD 102
Director: Stephen Woolley
Stars: Leo Gregory, Paddy Considine, David Morrissey, Ben Whishaw, Tuva Novotny, Amelia Warner, Monet Mazur, Luke de Woolfson, David Walliams, David Williams, Gary Love, Ralph Brown
Storyline: Fact-based story about the drug-addled and sordid life of The Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones. Unfortunately the story moves so quickly into the sensationalized decadence and drug-induced state of Jones that the unknowing viewer has to wonder why anyone would care. There are only a few framing sequences with members of The Stones particularly Keith Richards that show they had a...
HD 94
Director: Steven Sawalich
Stars: Clint Jung, Melissa George, Marion Ross, Rebecca De Mornay, Janssen Van De Yacht, Ridge Canipe, Paul Michael, John Livingston, TyZhaun Lewis, Ron Livingston, Arlene Ancheta, Linda Burden-Williams, Hector Elizondo, Joel Bryant, Kevin Sage
Storyline: The True Story Of Richard Pimentel A Brilliant Public Speaker With A Troubled Past Who Returns From Vietnam Severely Hearing-Impaired And Finds A New Purpose In His Landmark Efforts On The Behalf Of Americans With...
HD 100
Director: Herman Yau
Stars: Yu-Hang To, Siu-Wong Fan, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Huang Yi, Rose Chan, Rose Chan, Ip Chun, Hins Cheung, Chen Zhi Hui, Suet Lam, Sire Ma, Kenya Sawada, Andy Taylor, Biao Yuen
Storyline: It is about around Yip Mans resistance against invading foreigners along with his romantic relations while under the tutelage of three Wing Chun...
HD 115
Director: Tom Shadyac
Stars: Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Josef Sommer, Irma P. Hall, Frances Lee McCain, Harve Presnell, Daniella Kuhn, Peter Coyote, James Greene , Michael Jeter, Harold Gould, Bruce Bohne
Storyline: Patch Adams is determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. Unfortunately the medical and scientific community does not appreciate his methods of healing the sick while the actual patients medical professors and hospital nurses all appreciate the work *he* can do because they are unable to do...
HD 162
Director: Cameron Crowe
Stars: Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee, Patrick Fugit, Zooey Deschanel, Michael Angarano, Anna Paquin, Fairuza Balk, Noah Taylor, John Fedevich, Mark Kozelek, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Liz Stauber, Jimmy Fallon
Storyline: William Miller is a 15 year old kid hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with and write about Stillwater an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life love and...
HD 180
Director: Milos Forman
Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay, Kenny Baker, Lisabeth Bartlett, Barbara Bryne, Martin Cavina, Roderick Cook, Milan Demjanenko, Peter DiGesu
Storyline: Antonio Salieri believes that Mozarts music is divine. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. But he cant understand why God favored Mozart such a vulgar creature to be his instrument. Salieris envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is set to take...
HD 135
Director: Todd Haynes
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Ben Whishaw, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Marcus Carl Franklin, Heath Ledger, Kris Kristofferson, Don Francks, Roc LaFortune, Larry Day, Paul Cagelet, Brian R.C. Wilmes, Pierre-Alexandre Fortin, Richie Havens, Tyrone Benskin
Storyline: Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor a folk singer an electrified troubadour Rimbaud Billy the Kid and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylans music behind their adventures soliloquies interviews marriage and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads the artist becoming someone else. Jack the son of Ramblin Jack Elliott finds Jesus;...
