Plot: In this winner-take-all thriller, an unfortunate young man unwillingly becomes the thirteenth contestant in a high-stakes underground game of Russian roulette, with no way out save his luck.
Plot: When Tum finds a box full of money on her doorstep, she attempts to hold onto it, but soon finds herself at the center of a thrilling, high stakes caper between Thai boxing gangsters, corrupt executives, and the bungling authorities.
Plot: When a mobile TV news unit live broadcasts the embarrassing defeat of a police battalion by five bank robbers in a ballistic showdown, the police vow to capture the robbers at all cost, feeding live footage of their operation to the media.
Japan: 2003
Tadanobu Asano, Joe Odagiri, Tatsuya Fuji Drama
Plot: Mamoru is obsessed with his pet project of acclimating a jellyfish to fresh water by gradually changing its water. But after Mamoru dies, his friend Yuji continues the experiment--accidentally releasing the poisonous creature into the Tokyo canals.
Plot: From the team behind the Academy Award-nominated CITY OF GOD, including director Fernando Meirelles (THE CONSTANT GARDNER) and Kátia Lund, comes the hit Brazilian TV series CITY OF MEN. This 3-disc box set includes all 19 episodes from all 4 seasons.
Plot: After her husband dies of an overdose, heroin addict Emily relocates from Canada to France, leaving her son Jay to live with his grandparents. But she soon learns that her estranged son will be paying her a visit, whether she's clean or not...
Plot: Three stories delicately intertwined by the beauty of sadness. Inspired by the everlasting emotions expressed in Bunraku doll theater. Takeshi Kitano brings us a heart-warming poem with stunning photography capturing the colors of all four seasons.
Angelica Lee's unique beauty and organic acting style are the perfect complement to Centro's brilliant, understated digital effects. The Pang Brothers' direction is stunning--this film is as beautiful as it is terrifying.
Plot: Fighting star Emi Kurota stars as Sachiko, a woman working in an erotic club. One day she gets caught in a shooting, leading to an intriguing story of redemption.
Plot: Jeremiah is a kid who is bounced between foster homes, endlessly subjected to dangerous environments. After a succession of deadbeat surrogate fathers and his mother's descent into drug-fuelled madness, he is forced into a struggle to survive and grow.
Plot: A mysterious, obsessive-compulsive, suicidal Japanese man living in Bangkok, Thailand, is thrown together with a slovenly Thai woman through a tragic chain of events. Slowly and entertainingly, more is revealed about the man.
AKA: Cidade Baixa Brazil: 2005
Lazaro Ramos, Wagner Moura, Alice Braga Drama / Romance
Plot: From the filmmakers who brought you CITY OF GOD and THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, comes this sexy Brazilian drama chronicling a love triangle between two best friends, Deco and Naldinho and a sultry, beautiful young girl, Karinna (Alice Braga, CITY OF GOD).
Plot: Based on a true story. A woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders occurs under similar circumstances. And the dark whispers of a serial murderer grow louder in a town that hasd never known such crimes.
Plot: Working as a hostess in a trendy bar, a young beauty finds herself mercilessly torn between two men: Hao-hao, her neurotic and jealous live-in boyfriend, and Jack, the mysterious and enterprising gangster who may be her undoing.
Plot: 13-year-old Ernest Chin finds himself forever stuck at his family's sleazebag motel. But his life changes when charismatic Sam Kim checks into the motel and takes fatherless Ernest for a wild ride toward manhood, for better or worse.
AKA: Noi Albinoi; Nói; Nói Albinói Iceland: 2003
Tomas Lemarquis, Throstur Leo Gunnarsson, Elin Hansdottir Drama
Plot: Seventeen-year-old Noi dreams of escaping his white-walled Iceland home with Iris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control and end in complete failure...
Plot: After his van breaks down, Marc is taken in by a kindly innkeeper who offers to fix his van and give him shelter for the night. But the innkeeper soon prevents his new guest from leaving--it seems Marc reminds the lonely man of his long-lost wife...
Plot: After witnessing the death of her elder brother during an attack by the Japanese, Cynthia (Zhang Ziyi) changes her name and joins a secret resistance group code-named "Purple Butterfly"...but unforseen circumstances soon complicate matters.
China: 2002
Wu Jun, Xin Baiqing, Hu Jingfan, Lu Sisi Drama / Romance
Plot: Liyan is very ill; and his wife, Yuwen, has in effect become his nursemaid. Her existence is an unfulfilling one. But everything changes when Zhang --Liyan's old friend from college, and Yuwen's childhood sweetheart--arrives for a visit.
Plot: Lou Ye’s controversial SUMMER PALACE is the story of young lovers whose relationship plays out against the movement for political reform, its violent suppression and the years of disillusionment that follow.
AKA: Le Temps Du Loup France: 2003
Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Fourmet, Beatrice Dalle Drama
Plot: An extremely timely and prescient piece of social commentary, this film follows a family's difficult journey immediatly after an unknown apocalyptic event. As all social laws and codes are suddenly overturned, the director asks us to find our own way.
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