Based on George Crile's book about the CIA's largest and most successful covert CIA operation, the arming of the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan. The covert ops were engineered by Charlie Wilson (Hanks), a charismatic, wheeler-dealer, liberal Texas congressman who teamed with a rogue CIA operative (Hoffman). The two manipulated Congress, the CIA and a host of foreign governments in order to assist the Afghan rebels in their fight against the Soviets in the 1980s. Many of the men armed by the CIA went on to become the Taliban's enforcers and Osama bin Laden's protectors.
Cast: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Om Puri, Jud Tylor, Nazanin Boniadi
Directed by Mike Nichols
Corprate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. In the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman
Directed by Rob Reiner
Inge is a middle-class woman who reached the age of 50. Now she has to face a difficult question: is Werner, her partner of more than 30 years, her best match? Inge earns money by mending clothes, and when one of her clients looks deeper in her eyes, she understands that she is in love.
Cast: Ursula Werner, Horst Rehberg, Horst Westphal
Directed by Andreass Dresen
Scriptwriter: Andreas Dresen, Jörg Hauschild, Laila Stieler, Conny Ziesche
Producer: Dagmar Mielke
This French comedy is a story of a Parisian artist, who, being tired of the city, returns to his country home. Discovering that the beautiful garden has been neglected, he employs a gardener, which, much to his surprise, is his close school friend. They spend months in conversations, revealing their life stories.
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Directed by Jean Becker
Scriptwriter: Jean Cosmos
Producer: Louis Becker
Thadeous (McBride) has spent his life watching his perfect older brother Fabious (Franco) embark upon valiant journeys and win the hearts of his people. Tired of being passed over for adventure, adoration and the throne, he’s settled for a life of wizard’s weed, hard booze and easy maidens. But when Fabious’ bride-to-be, Belladonna (Zooey Deschanel), gets kidnapped by the evil wizard Leezar (Justin Theroux), the king gives his deadbeat son an ultimatum: Man up and help rescue her or get cut off.
Half-assedly embarking upon his first quest, Thadeous joins Fabious to trek across the perilous outlands and free the princess. Joined by Isabel (Natalie Portman)—an elusive warrior with a dangerous agenda of her own—the brothers must vanquish horrific creatures and traitorous knights before they can reach Belladonna. If Thadeous can find his inner hero, he can help his brother prevent the destruction of his land. Stay a slacker, and not only does he die a coward, he gets front row seats to the dawn of an all-new Dark Ages.
Starring: Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel, Justin Theroux, Toby Jones, Damian Lewis
Directed by: David Gordon Green
The story of a young couple, each of whose parents divorce and then marry other people. This leaves the newlyweds with four parental households to visit over the course of Christmas Day.
Director: Seth Gordon
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, Jon Voight, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Dwight Yoakam, Mary Steenburgen
Driven by Isabel Coixets visually assured and deeply observant direction, Elegy charts the passionate relationship between a celebrated college professor and a young woman whose beauty both ravishes and destabilizes him. As their intimate connection transforms themmore than either could imaginea charged sexual contest evolves into an indelible love story. With humanistic warmth, wry wit and erotic intensity, Elegy explores the power of beauty to blind, to reveal and to transform.
Starring Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley and Oscar-nominee Penelope Cruz, with extraordinary supporting performances from Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson and Peter Sarsgaard, Elegy is based on Pulitzer Prize-winner Philip Roths short novel The Dying Animal.
Casting: Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard, Dennis Hopper, Deborah Harry
Directed by Isabel Coixet
Set at the end of the eighteenth century, The Duchess is the story of the beautiful and, glamorous Georgiana Spencer, the most fascinating woman of the age.
While her beauty and charisma made her name, her extravagant tastes and appetite for gambling and love made her infamous. Married young to the older, distant Duke of Devonshire, intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana became a fashion icon, a doting mother, a shrewd political operator and darling of the common people. But at the core of her story is a desperate search for love.
Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling u.c.
Directed by Saul Dibb
Script: Jeffrey Hatcher
Nothing is hapenning correctly, especially if you are fourteen years old. Movie heroes teenagers must handle not only their own inside emotional experience, inferiority complexes and youth maximalism, but also fight with cold outness. Three absolutely ordinary girls Katia, Vika and Geanna are leraning in ninth class. They are normal girls from normal Moscow district. In Monday girls find out that in Saturday in scholl will be discotheque. All week long Katia, Vika and Geanna are preparing for that and feel nervous. It’s must be most important moment in their lifes. But Katia was rude to teacher so there is posibility that party can be canceled...
Cast: Polina Filonenko, Agnia Kuznecova, Olga Shuvalova, Donatas Grudovich, Iulia Alexandrova, Harold Strelkov, Inga Oboldina, Aleksey Bagdasarov, Olga Lapshina
Directed by Valery Gay Germanica
Scriptwriter: Alexander Rodionov, Yury Kladiev
Producer: Igor Tolstunov
Qiyao is a young Shanghai inhabitant who is destined to live through the historic twists of her city, from the post-war luxurious revelry of nationalists' highest society to Mao's Cultural Revolution and the new China of the 1970s. Several men enter her life, but eventually, Qiyao realizes that only the city is worthy of her loyalty.
Cast: Sammi Cheng, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Jun Hu
Directed by Stanley Kwan
Scriptwriter: Anyi Wang, Elmond Yeung
Producer: Jackie Chan
Mona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who, as a child, turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Mona now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises.
Cast: Jessica Alba, Bailee Madison and J.K. Simmons
Directed by: Marilyn Agrelo
Xavier Dolan's sexy and stylish HEARTBEATS is a comic exploration of a romantically obsessed menage-a-trois. HEARTBEATS was a hit at the Cannes Film Festival, winning the Youth Prize, and an official selection of the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. Part farce, part exploration of the complexity of love and desire, Heartbeats centers on two close friends, Francis and Marie, who find themselves fighting for the affections of the same striking young man. The more intimate the trio becomes, the more unattainable the object of their infatuation seems, sending the friends' obsession into overdrive.
Cast: Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider, Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval
Directed by: Xavier Dolan