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25. 13 Assassins - Takashi Miike

13 Assassins Takashi Miike Genre: Action & Adventure Price: $6.99 Rental Price: $2.99 Release Date: September 25, 2010

Cult director Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan’s feudal era. 13 Assassins - a “masterful exercise in cinematic butchery” (New York Post) - is centered around a group of elite samurai who are secretly enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord to prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war torn future.

24. A Coffee in Berlin - Jan Ole Gerster

A Coffee in Berlin Jan Ole Gerster Genre: Foreign Price: $14.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: June 13, 2014

Niko is having a tough morning. He’s broken up with his girlfriend, been cut off from his monthly allowance, and was just declared “emotionally unstable” by a court-appointed psychologist. If only he could find a decent cup of coffee. Painting an eventful day-in-the-life of a twenty-something law school dropout, A Coffee In Berlin follows Niko as he drifts through a series of absurd, funny and, ultimately, life-changing encounters with the people and city around him. Photographed in timeless black and white and enriched by a snappy jazz soundtrack, Jan Ole Gerster’s vibrant and charming debut, which swept the German Film Awards in 2013, is a slacker comedy with a poignant center, and a love-letter to the city of Berlin and Generation Y. © © 2014 Southport Music Box Corporation d/b/a Music Box Films.

23. A Five Star Life - Maria Sole Tognazzi

A Five Star Life Maria Sole Tognazzi Genre: Romance Price: $14.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: July 18, 2014

Irene (Margherita Buy) is an elegant, single career woman in her forties with a job to die for: she’s a critic of luxury hotels, a “mystery guest” who visits the most glamorous resorts in the world’s most beautiful locales in the guise of a tourist, all the while meticulously assessing quality standards - from the plating of haute cuisine to the grade of silk in the bed sheets - down to the finest detail. But while her lifestyle affords the freedom to jet around the globe at a moment’s notice, Irene longs for personal fulfillment to match her professional life of luxury. With her ex-fiancé and married sister offering their own models of commitment, and a potential romance on her doorstep, can Irene chart her own path to happiness? © © 2014 Southport Music Box Corporation d/b/a Music Box Films.

22. Amelie - Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Amelie Jean-Pierre Jeunet Genre: Comedy Price: $12.99 Rental Price: $2.99 Release Date: April 25, 2001

Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay, this magical comedy met overwhelming acclaim nationwide. A painfully shy waitress working at a tiny Paris café, Amelie makes a surprising discovery and sees her life drastically changed for the better! From then on, Amelie dedicates herself to helping others find happiness...in the most delightfully unexpected ways! But will she have the courage to do for herself what she has done for others?

21. Blue Is the Warmest Color - Abdellatif Kechiche

Blue Is the Warmest Color Abdellatif Kechiche Genre: Drama Price: $14.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: October 25, 2013

The sensation of the Cannes Film Festival and the most controversial film of the year, Blue is the Warmest Color made cinema history as the first film ever awarded the Palme d'Or to both its director and its actresses. In a star-making role, Adèle Exarchopoulos is Adèle, a passionate young woman who has a yearning she doesn't quite understand until a chance encounter with the blue-haired Emma ignites a flame and brings her to life. Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris) gives a fearless performance as Emma, the older woman who excites Adèle's desire and becomes the love of her life. Abdellatif Kechiche's (The Secret of the Grain) intimate epic of tenderness and passion charts their relationship over the course of several years, from the ecstasy of a first kiss to the agony of heartbreak. Pulsing with gestures, embraces, furtive exchanges, and arias of joy and devastation, Blue is the Warmest Color is a profoundly moving hymn to both love and life. © © 2013 WILD BUNCH, QUAT’SOUS FILMS, FRANCE 2 CINEMA, SCOPE PICTURES, VERTIGO FILMS.

20. Delicatessen - Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro

Delicatessen Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro Genre: Comedy Price: $9.99 Rental Price: $2.99 Release Date: January 1, 1992

From the director of "Amelie" (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) comes a post-apocalyptic comedy that's both bitingly hilarious and absolutely one-of-a- kind. When meat becomes so rare that it is used as currency, residents living above a delicatessen must depend on a menacingly strange butcher (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) for their supply. But when a new tenant (Dominique Pinon) arrives and takes a job as the building's handyman, he unknowingly steps into the butcher's trap...to serve him as the next meal! © © 1991 StudioCanal. All Rights Reserved.

19. Ernest & Celestine - Unknown

Ernest & Celestine Unknown Genre: Kids & Family Price: $12.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: March 14, 2014

Featuring the voices of Forest Whitaker, Mackenzie Foy, Lauren Bacall, Paul Giamatti, William H. Macy, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, and Jeffrey Wright! Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding tunnels, lives a tiny mouse named Celestine. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer, and has a hard time fitting in. When she nearly ends up as breakfast for a grumpy bear named Ernest, the two become fast friends and embark on an adventure that will put a smile on your face and make your heart glow. © © 2012 Les Armateurs / Maybe Movies / StudioCanal / France 3 Cinema / La Parti Production / Melusine Productions / RTBF (Television Belge)

18. For a Woman - Diane Kurys

For a Woman Diane Kurys Genre: Drama Price: $12.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: May 2, 2014

In her mid-thirties, Anne still knows practically nothing of her family's past. After her mother's death, Anne discovers old photos and letters that convince her to take a closer look at her parents' life after the concentration camps of World War II. Her research reveals the existence of a mysterious uncle everyone seems intent on forgetting entirely. As she closes in on a discovery she didn't expect, her father grows ever more ill, and may take the family secret to his grave. In a journey that stretches from post-war France and to the 1980s, Anne's destiny intertwines with her father's past until they form a single, unforgettable story. © © 2013 Film Movement

17. Headhunters - Morten Tyldum

Headhunters Morten Tyldum Genre: Thriller Price: $12.99 Rental Price: $2.99 Release Date: April 27, 2012

Roger is a charming scoundrel and Norway’s most accomplished headhunter. He lives a life of luxury well beyond his means and subsidizes his expensive lifestyle by stealing highly prized art. When his beautiful wife, an art gallery owner, introduces him to a former mercenary in possession of an extremely valuable painting, he decides to risk it all in order to obtain it, and in doing so, he discovers something that makes him a hunted man himself. © © 2011 Yellow Bird Norge AS, Friland Film AS, Nordisk Film AS and Degeto Film GmbH.

16. Iceman - Law Wing Cheong

Iceman Law Wing Cheong Genre: Action & Adventure Price: $12.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: September 19, 2014

Donnie Yen is a Ming Dynasty palace guard, wrongly accused of murder and hunted by three vengeful brothers. All four are accidentally buried, frozen at the height of battle. 400 years later, they are defrosted and resume their mortal struggle – while also adjusting to modern-day life. © © 2014 Zhongmeng Century (Beijing) Media Co., Ltd. Beijing Shengshi Huarui Film Investment & Management Co., Ltd. West Movie Group. All Right Reserved.

15. Ida - Pawel Pawlikowski

Ida Pawel Pawlikowski Genre: Foreign Price: $14.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: May 2, 2014

In 1960s Poland, a young novitiate nun encounters a long lost relative and discovers a dark family secret dating back to the terrible years of the Nazi occupation.On the eve of her vows, 18-year old Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska), a sheltered orphan raised in the convent, is tasked by the Mother Superior to visit her sole living relative, her estranged aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza). A worldly and cynical Communist judge, Wanda shocks the naïve and innocent Anna with a stunning revelation: Anna is Jewish and her real name is Ida. Struggling to make sense of this new information, the two women embark on a heart-wrenching journey to uncover the mystery and fate of Ida's birth parents, leading them to an old family home that holds buried secrets and regrets from the past.Beautifully directed by acclaimed filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski (My Summer of Love) and stunningly photographed in arresting black and white, IDA is a masterly and personal evocation of time and defining human moments. A vital and cinematic exploration of postwar Poland, the moral and human costs of survival, and the potential and necessity for progress, IDA eloquently encapsulates the haunting legacy of the Holocaust through Anna/Ida's personal dilemma of how best to carry on in the face of a painful shared history.

14. Kundo: Age of the Rampant - Yoon Jong-bin

Kundo: Age of the Rampant Yoon Jong-bin Genre: Action & Adventure Price: $12.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: August 29, 2014

1859. The last days of the Joseon Dynasty, where the wages of greed bring poverty and death. A pack of bandits – calling themselves KUNDO - rise against the tyrants, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. In an era where status is decided by birth, this band of thieves risks their lives for honor, in the name of the poor and oppressed. But for one man, a debt of bloody revenge is owed to the aristocrat that robbed him of his family and his name. © © 2014 SHOWBOX/MEDIAPLEX AND MOONLIGHT FILM ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

13. Mood Indigo - Michel Gondry

Mood Indigo Michel Gondry Genre: Romance Price: $14.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: July 18, 2014

Eminently inventive auteur Michel Gondry finds inspiration from french novelist Boris Vian's cult novel to provide the foundation for this visionary and romantic love story starring Audrey Tautou (Amélie, Coco Before Chanel) and Romain Duris (The Beat My Heart Skipped). Set in a charmingly surreal Paris, Duris plays wealthy bachelor Colin, whose hobbies include developing his pianocktail (a cocktail-making piano) and devouring otherworldly dishes prepared by his trusty chef Nicolas (Omar Sy - The Untouchables, X-Men: Days of Future Past). When Colin learns that his best friend Chick (Gad Elmaleh - The Valet), a fellow acolyte of the philosopher Jean-Sol Partre, has a new American girlfriend, our lonely hero attends a friend's party in hopes of falling in love himself. He soon meets Chloé (Tautou) and, before they know it, they're dancing to Duke Ellington and plunging headfirst into a romance that Gondry rapturously depicts as only he can. Their whirlwind courtship is tested when an unusual illness plagues Chloe; a flower begins to grow in her lungs. To save her, Colin discovers the only cure is to surround Chloe with a never-ending supply of fresh flowers. © © 2013 Brio Films - Studio Canal - Scope Pictures - France 2 Cinema - Hérodiade

12. Nocturna - Unknown

Nocturna Unknown Genre: Kids & Family Price: $12.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: March 15, 2008

Explore the mystery of the night in an adventure full of Alice in Wonderland-like characters and dream-inspired landscapes. Have you ever wondered why your hair looks funny in the morning or where the sounds outside your window come from at night? A young boy named Tim finds out after an unusual discovery on the rooftop of his orphanage plunges him into the secret world of Nocturna, inhabited by curious creatures who control the night. There are hairdressers who specialize in bed-heads, dream writers and a vast herd of guardian cats led by the gigantic Cat Shepherd. Yet this world is in danger - the stars in the sky are disappearing, kids are becoming restless at night and a mysterious shadow creature is haunting the empty streets, extinguishing anything that gives off light. If Tim and the Cat Shepherd can't set things right, nighttime will never be the same. © © 2007 FILMAX ANIMATION - CASTELAO PRODUCTIONS - ANIMAKIDS PRODUCTIONS - BREN ENTERTAINMENT - GEBEKA FILMS

11. Omar - Hany Abu-Assad

Omar Hany Abu-Assad Genre: Foreign Price: $12.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: February 21, 2014

Omar, a young baker turned freedom fighter, is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. When Omar is captured after a deadly act of resistance, he falls into a cat-and-mouse game with the military police. As suspicion and betrayal jeopardize his longtime trust with accomplices and childhood friends, Omar must face painful choices about life, manhood and love.

10. Paris-Manhattan - Sophie Lellouche

Paris-Manhattan Sophie Lellouche Genre: Foreign Price: $14.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: May 3, 2013

Idealistic pharmacist Alice (the adorable Alice Taglioni - The Valet; Sky Fighters) is totally obsessed with the movies of Woody Allen. She continually quotes lines from his films, engages in imaginary conversations, and even prescribes her customers his classic works to help alleviate their ailments; it's a little wonder she's still single in her thirties! Alice's increasingly concerned Jewish parents hope to cure her fixation by setting her up with a handsome French gentleman (Patrick Bruel - Change of Plans; A Secret), but even he quickly realizes that he's no match for the man of her dreams... © © 2012 Vendôme Production - France 2 Cinema - SND. All Rights Reserved.

9. Patema Inverted - Yasuhiro Yoshiura

Patema Inverted Yasuhiro Yoshiura Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Price: $12.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: May 28, 2014

Time of Eve director Yasuhiro Yoshiura creates an unexpected world in Patema Inverted, a perspective-twisting, sci-fi adventure about two people separated by opposite gravities. Patema lives in an underground world and, although she is a princess, she is held back by the rules imposed by the elders of her clan. One day when she is exploring a forbidden zone she tumbles headlong into a void and out into the wide open world above the surface, a place with reversed physics where she could "fall up" into the sky and be lost forever. Age is a student on this surface world and a part of a society whose compliant population has been brainwashed against the "sinners who fell into the sky." When he spies Patema hanging upside down from a tree, he pulls her down to safety, struggling to keep her earthbound as she grips on to him for dear life. Together they master the art of navigating competing gravitational forces and set out to discover the secret that keeps their worlds apart. © © 2013 Yasuhiro YOSHIURA / Sakasama Film Committee

8. Starred Up - David Mackenzie

Starred Up David Mackenzie Genre: Independent Price: $12.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: August 29, 2014

Condemned to an adult prison, an explosively violent young man is forced to fight for survival as criminal forces attempt to control him for their own good. Help comes from the unlikeliest source, his estranged father also serving time.

7. The French Minister - Bertrand Tavernier

The French Minister Bertrand Tavernier Genre: Comedy Price: $14.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: March 21, 2014

Doors slam and papers fly in this off-the-wall comedy about French politics directed by master filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier (The Princess of Montpensier). Tavernier's blistering assault - based on the award-winning graphic novel by Abel Lanzac, a former government speech writer - zeroes in on fictional Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexandre Taillard de Vorms (a tour-de-force comic performance by Thierry Lhermitte). A human whirlwind and a man confident in France's importance on the world stage, de Vorms takes on American neo-cons, corrupt Russians and the opportunistic Chinese while his hapless speech writer (Raphael Personnaz) endures the eccentricities of his megalomaniacal boss and his sycophantic entourage. In the vein of recent political comedies such as In the Loop, The French Minister is a hilarious send-up of diplomacy and international politics with rapid-fire dialogue and a brilliant ensemble cast. © © 2013 - LITTLE BEAR - PATHÉ PRODUCTION - FRANCE 2 CINÉMA - CN2 PRODUCTIONS – ALVY DÉVELOPPEMENT

6. The German Doctor (Subtitled) - Lucía Puenzo

The German Doctor (Subtitled) Lucía Puenzo Genre: Drama Price: $12.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: April 25, 2014

Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor (Alex Brendemühl) meets an Argentinean family and follows them on a long desert road to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. Eva (Natalia Oreiro), Enzo (Diego Peretti) and their three children welcome the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter, Lilith (Florencia Bado), to his care, not knowing that they are harboring one of the most dangerous criminals in the world. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring the German doctor to justice. Based on filmmaker Lucía Puenzo’s (XXY) fifth novel, the story follows Josef Mengele, the “Angel of Death,” a German SS officer and a physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp, in the years he spent “hiding,” along with many other Nazi’s, in South America following his escape from Germany. Mengele was considered to be one of WWII’s most heinous Nazi war criminals.

5. The Girl Who Played With Fire (Swedish With English Subtitles) - Daniel Alfredson

The Girl Who Played With Fire (Swedish With English Subtitles) Daniel Alfredson Genre: Thriller Price: $12.99 Rental Price: $2.99 Release Date: July 9, 2010

Based on the international best-selling novel, The Girl Who Played With Fire is the explosive follow-up to the literary and cinematic hit The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. In this second installment of Stieg Larsson’s phenomenal “Millennium” trilogy, Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered and Salander’s prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and violent behavior makes her an official danger to society. Mikael Blomkvist, Salander’s friend and Millennium’s publisher, is alone in his belief of Salander’s innocence. Digging deeper, Blomkvist unearths evidence implicating highly placed members of Swedish society – as well as shocking details about Salander’s past. He is desperate to get to her before she is cornered – but no one can find her anywhere. © © 2010 Music Box Films, LLC

4. The Great Beauty - Paolo Sorrentino

The Great Beauty Paolo Sorrentino Genre: Drama Price: $19.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: November 15, 2013

In this breathtaking, Oscar-winning journey to Rome, a reporter begins to take stock of his life on his sixty-fifth birthday, looking past the lavish nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find the city itself, in all its monumental glory. This transporting experience, created by the brilliant Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, is a breathtaking Felliniesque tale of decadence and lost love. © © 2013 Indigo Film, Babe Films, Pathé Production, France 2 Cinéma

3. The Night Porter - Liliana Cavani

The Night Porter Liliana Cavani Genre: Drama Price: $19.99 Rental Price: $2.99 Release Date: January 1, 1974

In Liliana Cavani’s scintillating drama, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her ex-torturer/lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as a night porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, The Night Porter deftly examines the cruelty and decadence of Nazi culture. © © 1973 Lotar Film Srl

2. The Suspect - Won Shin-Yeon

The Suspect Won Shin-Yeon Genre: Action & Adventure Price: $12.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: January 10, 2014

Dong-chul (Gong Yoo) is the best field agent in North Korea – until he is abandoned during a mission, his wife and daughter murdered. Hunted and on the run, torn between grief and vengeance, he takes a job as a night driver for the CEO of a powerful corporation. The chairman is brutally assassinated – but gives Dong-chul a pair of glasses before he dies. Now, he’s on the run again. Accused of murder, wanted for treason, and desperate to uncover the volatile national secrets hidden inside the glasses. Dong-Chul wants the truth. And he’ll start a war to get it. © © 2013 SHOWBOX/MEDIAPLEX AND GREEN FISH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

1. Young & Beautiful - François Ozon

Young & Beautiful François Ozon Genre: Drama Price: $14.99 Rental Price: $3.99 Release Date: April 25, 2014

Acclaimed director François Ozon (Swimming Pool, 8 Women) helms this erotic tale of sexual awakening. After losing her virginity, 17-year-old budding beauty Isabelle (Marine Vacth) takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her older gentlemen clients for erotic hotel room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes, while Ozon slyly refrains from offering easy answers. As the enigmatic Isabelle, Marine Vacth is magnetic, delivering a star-making breakout performance in this sleek and sexy coming-of-age drama.