25 March, 2018

Ju Dou (1990)

Synopsis:
A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. This tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.

Starring:
Li Gong
Wei Li
Baotian Li

Directors: Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang (co-director)

Tales of the KamaSutra 2: Monsoon (1999)


AKA: Monsoon

Starring:
Richard Tyson
Helen Brodie
Doug Jeffery

Director: Jag Mundhra

22 March, 2018

Ashiqui II (2013)

AKA:
Ashiqui 2

Synopsis:
Rahul is a singer, who loses his career due to his drinking habits. He meets Arohi in a bar in Goa, where she works to earn a living. Impressed by her singing, he promises her to take her to Mumbai and make her a star, where they fall in love with each other. Aashiqui 2 is a musical love story of these lovers who goes through love and hate, fame and failure in their lives.
 
Starring:
Aditya Roy Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Shaad Randhawa

Director: Mohit Suri

21 March, 2018

John Day (2013)

Synopsis:
John Day is a bank manager and lives with his wife Maria Day. The couple has recently lost their only daughter. Maria is always depressed and never opens up with anyone. One day when John is away for office work, a courier-boy enters the house and takes Maria as a captive, then a series of misfortunes start to happen.

Starring:
Naseeruddin Shah
Randeep Hooda
Elena Kazan

Director:Ahishor Solomon

Chittagong (2012)

Synopsis:
Set in the turbulence of the 1930s British India, a 14 year old boy, Jhunku, and his journey to find where he belongs. For the first time in Indian history, the British army is defeated by a ragtag army of schoolboys and their teacher, Masterda. Called a traitor by his peers, and let down by a man he trusts, Jhunku impulsively joins the movement. As his world is turned upside down, Jhunku is forced to confront his self-doubts. As the leaders of the movement are progressively caught or killed, Jhunku battles against seemingly insurmountable odds to win a victory of his own. The film is an exciting action-drama, made more so by the fact that it is true.

Starring:
Manoj Bajpayee
Barry John
Delzad Hiwale

Director: Bedabrata Pain

Amu (2005)


Synopsis:
Amu is the story of an Indian American woman who returns to India. The film takes a dark turn as Kaju learns that a horrifying genocide that took place twenty years ago turns out to hold the key to her mysterious origins.

Starring:
Konkona Sen Sharma
Yashpal Sharma
Brinda Karat

Director: Shonali Bose

Haasil (2003)

Synopsis:
Aniruddh, a law-abiding college student, in love with Niharika, gets caught up in college politics and crime and must fight it out for himself when his friend becomes his foe.

Stars:
Jimmy Shergill
Hrishitaa Bhatt
Irrfan Khan

Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia

Chain Kulii Ki Main Kulii (2007)

Synopsis:
An orphan kid who goes on to achieve name, fame and above all self belief.

Starring:
Zain Khan
Rahul Bose
Kapil Dev

Director: Karanjeet Saluja (as Kituu Salooja)

Wah Taj (2016)

Synopsis:
Tukaram Marathe a farmer from Maharashtra comes to Agra with his family and claims that the land where Taj Mahal stands is his.

Starring:
Amitabh Bachchan
Krishna Bhatt
Yusuf Hussain

Director: Ajit Sinha

23 August, 2017

The Science of the Mind (2006)

AKA:
The Buddhist Science of the Mind

12 August, 2017

Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1974)

AKA:
Arabian Nights >> English
Flowers of the Arabian Nights >> English
A Thousand and One Nights >> English
Synopsis:
In this film inspired by the ancient erotic and mysterious tales of Mid-West Asia, the main story concerns an innocent young man who comes to fall in love with a slave who selected him as her master. After his foolish error causes their separation, he travels in search of her. Various other travelers who recount their own tragic and romantic experiences include stories of a young man who becomes enraptured by a mysterious woman on his wedding day, and a man who is determined to free a woman from a demon.

 Starring:
Ninetto Davoli
Franco Citti
Franco Merli

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

09 August, 2017

Under the Bed (2017)

Synopsis:
Inspired by true events, in which a stalker took up residence underneath the bed of his female target.

Starring:
Hannah New
Beverly D'Angelo
Alexis Krause

Director: Daniel Myrick

08 August, 2017

Running Away (2017)

Synopsis:
Sisters Maggie and Lizzie move in with mom Peg's new husband. Secrets and lies start immediately. Maggie cannot handle what follows and recruits a friend to help her plan to get out of town with her step father's secrets. When Peg discovers that her daughter has run away, she now has to find Maggie fast but must come to terms with the dark secrets that led to Maggie's fleeing and the secrets about her new husband.

Starring:
Holly Deveaux
Paula Trickey
Madison Lee Brown

Director: Brian Skiba

06 August, 2017

Assassin (2015)

Synopsis:
Ruthless killer for hire (Danny Dyer) breaks the rules of his profession and falls for a beautiful young woman. Discovering the notorious gangland brothers (Martin & Gary Kemp) had hired him to kill her father, his world breaks down and he must turn against his criminal employers and their gang to save the woman he loves.

Starring:
Danny Dyer
Gary Kemp
Robert Cavanah

Director: J.K. Amalou

Marauders (2016)

AKA:
El Plan Maestro

Synopsis:
When a bank is hit by a brutal heist, all evidence points to the owner and his high-powered clients. But as a group of FBI agents dig deeper into the case - and the deadly heists continue - it becomes clear that a larger conspiracy is at play.

Starring:
Bruce Willis
Christopher Meloni
Dave Bautista

Director: Steven C. Miller