In 2004, director Zhang Yimou caused a sensation with his astonishing HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, and his CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER is yet another dazzling, visually stunning film.
Calling again upon the talents of the striking Gong Li, Yimou tells an epic tale of lust and power set in the opulent world of the Later Tang dynasty. The plot follows the story of the Emperor (Chow Yun Fat) and his Empress (Li) and the tragic disintegration of their royal family--whose problems go far beyond the merely dysfunctional. For starters, the ailing Empress has long been having an affair with her stepson, the Crown Prince Wan (Liu Ye). Unbeknownst to her, Wan has been dallying with the Imperial Doctor's daughter (Li Man), and has plans to escape the palace with her. Meanwhile, the Emperor himself has just returned from a long trip, and while relations with his wife are obviously icy, it becomes clear that his plans for her are far more ominous than she could ever imagine. Everyone involved has a secret plan for either escape or domination, resulting in an explosive ending wherein the darkest family secrets are revealed and horrifically bloody battles are waged both inside and outside the walls of the sparkling, gold-encrusted palace.
Cast: Yun-Fat Chow , Li Gong, Jay Chou, Ye Liu, Dahong Ni, Junjie Qin, Man Li, Jin Chen
Directed by Yimou Zhang
Special Agent Pete Garrison is convinced that a Neo-Nazi Aryan Disciple has managed to infiltrate the White House. When a White House Agent is murdered, Garrison is framed and blackmailed over an affair with the First Lady Sarah Ballentine. He is relieved of his duties, but Garrison won't stop in trying to prove his innocence, and save the life of the President. While attempting to uncover the person behind it all, he comes into confrontation with his protege, Agent Breckinridge.
Casting: Michael Douglas, Kim Basinger, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria
Directed by Clark Johnson
Script: George Nolfi
Producer: Bill Carraro
English language with latvian and russian subtitles.
Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion - dancing. Her dream is to appear on "The Corny Collins Show," Baltimore's hippest dance party on TV. Tracy (Nikki Blonsky) seems a natural fit for the show except for one not-so-little problem - she doesn't fit. Her plus-sized figure has always set her apart from the in-crowd, which she is reminded of by her loving but overly protective plus-sized mother, Edna (John Travolta). That doesn't stop Tracy because if there is one thing that this big girl knows, it's that she was born to boogie.
Cast: John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Queen Latifah, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Brittany Snow, Nicole Blonsky, Zac Efron, Allison Janney
Directed by Adam Shankman
A love story set against the backdrop of the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, mind exploration and rock 'n roll, the film moves from the dockyards of Liverpool to the creative psychedelia of Greenwich Village, from the riot-torn streets of Detroit to the killing fields of Vietnam.
The star-crossed lovers, Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), along with a small group of friends and musicians, are swept up into the emerging anti-war and counterculture movements, with "Dr. Robert" (Bono) and "Mr. Kite" (Eddie Izzard) as their guides. Tumultuous forces outside their control ultimately tear the young lovers apart, forcing Jude and Lucy -- against all odds -- to find their own way back to each other.
Cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturges, Bono, Salma Hayek, Joe Cocker, Max Carrigan
Directed by Julie Taymor
May 1944. A five-woman commando unit parachutes into occupied France on a daring and dangerous mission to protect the secret of the D-Day Landings and eliminate Hendrich, the head German counter-intelligence.
Female Agents is an action-packed tribute to the real-life espionage operatives whose exploits inspired the film.
Cast: Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Deborah Francois
Directed by Jean Paul Salome
Jake Green (Jason Statham) is a hotshot gambler, long on audacity and short on common sense… he's rarely allowed to play in any casino these days because he's dangerous. He's a winner. One night Jake and his two older brothers, Billy and Joe, are invited to sit in on a private game.
A game that is fixed for Jake to lose to Macha (Ray Liotta), a top dog crime boss and casino owner who can't play for squat, but always wins because people just aren't allowed to lose to him. But Jake isn't afraid of Macha. And not only beats him in a quick game of chance, but also takes every possible opportunity to throw insults. As Jake and his brothers leave the game, Macha puts out the order for a hit on Jake. And what Macha wants, Macha gets. However, a twist of fate gets Jake working for a pair of brothers who just have to have their own agenda for Macha…
Starring: Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, André Benjamin, Vincent Pastore, Warren Clark, Mem Ferda, Mercedes Grower, Andrew Howard
English language with latvian and russian subtitles.
A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin (Josh Hartnett) into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi (Ben Kingsley) and The Boss (Morgan Freeman). Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski (Stanley Tucci) as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat (Bruce Willis) and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get them before they get him.
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Stanley Tucci, Ben Kingsley, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Lucy Liu, Kevin Chamberlin, Oliver Davis, Victoria Fodor.
Directed by Paul McGuigan
English with Latvian/Russian subtitles.
Oscar® winner Julia Roberts and Clive Owen reunite for Duplicity, from writer/director Tony Gilroy (seven-time Oscar®-nominated Michael Clayton).
In the film, they star as spies-turned-corporate operatives in the midst of a clandestine love affair. When they find themselves on either side of an all-out corporate war, they discover the toughest part of the job is deciding how much to trust the one you love.
CIA officer Claire Stenwick (Roberts) and MI6 agent Ray Koval (Owen) have
left the world of government intelligence to cash in on the highly profitable cold war raging between two rival multinational corporations. Their mission? Secure the formula for a product that will bring a fortune to the company that patents it first.
For their employers—industry titan Howard Tully (Tom Wilkinson) and buccaneer CEO Dick Garsik (Paul Giamatti)—nothing is out of bounds. When the stakes rise, no one knows who is playing whom, and the trickiest secret for Claire and Ray becomes their growing attraction. As they each try to stay one double-cross ahead, two career loners find their schemes endangered by the only thing they can’t cheat their way out of: love.
Cast: Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson and Paul Giamatti
Written and Directed by: Tony Gilroy
Miley Stewart (Miley Cyrus) struggles to juggle school, friends and her secret pop-star persona; when Hannah Montana's soaring popularity threatens to take over her life – she just might let it. So her father (Billy Ray Cyrus) takes the teen home to Crowley Corners, Tenn., for a dose of reality, kicking off an adventure filled with the kind of fun, laughter and romance even Hannah Montana couldn’t imagine.
Cast: Miley Cyrus, Emily Osment, Margo Martindale, Vanessa L. Williams
Director: Peter Chelsom, Billy Ray Cyrus
Successful boxer Iegor „Rock Head” did not get better after injury he get in crash. Now he remember just present day and when he falls asleep, he forget everything. His manager, criminal person, wants him to fight again. To wheedle boxer, he hires a prostitute. She must play out Iegor’s deceased bride who died in that crash. Boxer hardly separates our time from past, dreams from reality. But man-mountain isn’t so stupid as everyone was thinking…
Cast: Oksana Fander, Nikolay Valuev, Egor Pazenko, Vitaly Kichenko
Directed by Filip Iankovsky
Scriptwriter: Aleksey Misgirev, Vladimir Fedorovich with Constantin Cinchaevsky
Producer: Sergey Seljanov
This is a modern story about two young guys from Murmansk, who arrived to conquer Moscow. Purposeful Kostya wants to become a clip maker. Crafty Oleg sees his success in financial prosperity. Both get the chance to make the dream come true, but love at first sight, that occurred between Kostya and young charming ballet dancer Alina, gets out so much skeletons from wardrobe, that film turns into the action movie.
Cast: Aleksandrs Limarevs, Konstantīns Krjukovs, Svetlana Hodčenkova, Ivans Židkovs, Aleksandrs Jefimovs
Directed by Pāvels Sanājevs