Cinematic Era: 2009 Vintage

On May 30, 2005, on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, she disappeared without a trace.

Produced by Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine for MTV and Dickhouse Productions, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia is a documentary about the renowned West Virginia outlaw Jesco White and his eccentric backwoods family. In addition to getting in trouble with the law, the Whites, who live deep within Appalachia, uphold a time-honored dancing style, even as they contend with poverty, drugs and other issues. Alternately humorous and sad, the movie is an unflinching look at life on the criminal margins of rural mountain culture.

Set in war-torn feudal Japan, the Iga ninja make a final stand as the overwhelming armies of Warlord Oda Nobunaga and the deadly Koga ninja approach. This is the ultimate battle to the death where surrender is not an option. Blood-soaked, ninja-powered mayhem from cult director Seiji Chiba (ALIEN BVS NINJA). Stars Ben Hiura (ZATOICHI) & Kentaro Shimazu (TOKYO GORE POLICE).

Three friends, Simon, Nina and Dodo, travel to Mallorca but their flight is delayed in Frankfurt. Accidentally the get mugged and wind up at a restaurant called "Maison de la Petite Mort", a notorious venue where members of the Elite Class secretly meet in the basement for bloody games of perversion.

You say you’re interested in film and you’ve never been to the Moviemento? You are hereby put on cineastic probation – at least until you watch Bernd Sobolla’s documentary.

One year ago, Rui (Rio Yamashita) lost her eyesight after a hit & run accident. She's still traumatized by the accident and has yet to undergo rehab treatment. She then meets a young man named Wataru (Kento Hayashi) who is fascinated by paragliding. Rui slowly comes out her shell and finds a way to rise up again with the help of Wataru. Unfortunately, reality can sometimes be cruel. Can Rui and Wataru face each other again after facing this cruel truth?

The Farmer's Daughter is given a riddle to solve by the king: "Come to me, neither naked nor clothed, neither walking nor riding, nor driving, neither by day nor by night, neither with gift nor without gift." If she solves it, she had proved her cleverness, the king promises not only to release her father from prison, but also to marry her...

An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.

While going back to Kinmen island during summer, Ah Kwan (Bryant Chang) learns from the internet about a pretty girl called Chen Wen Qing (Shara Lin), who emerged champion in the National Piano Competition. One day he coincidentally meets up with her. For both this is the best summer holiday they ever had in their lives. Before going back Wen Qing promises to Ah Kwan she would email him everyday and coming next summer, she would find him in Kinmen again.

Reporter is the documentary film about Nicholas Kristof. The film tracks him on a harrowing reporting trip through the Democratic Republic of Congo.

When Hanna Herold from Namibia receives the news of her father's death, it is a double shock for her: she had previously lived in the belief that her father had died in Africa when she was three years old. Together with her husband Holger, Hanna flies to Lüderitz. She wants to find out who her father was. The notary's letter also announces that her father has left her an inheritance.

German Laura follows her husband and moves to Finland with their baby girl. Her days at home are lonely as her husband is constantly working.

Cid is dumped by his girlfriend on the evening of their 15th anniversary due to his failure to propose. One year later, Cid is still reeling from the break up & deals with the social stigmas of being in your 30's and single. In his struggle to find his identity outside of a relationship, Cid balances the influences of Myron and Shannon, a happy married couple, & Manolis, a devout anti-monogamist.

An involving, beautifully modulated yarn about a young intellectual's "war" with two equines in a mountain village during the Cultural Revolution. A young student, Ma Jie, who is sent to a tiny Beigao village in Shanxi Province and has the mundane task of watching over livestock during the Great Cultural Revolution. Surrounded only by the extreme boredom, he initiates a war against two donkeys. What ensues as a result, is an impressive feature debut by director Li Dawei who manages to infuse a believable quirky and black humorous universe within a realistically grim setting.

The Blue Mansion is a quirky murder mystery about a wealthy Asian tycoon who dies suddenly under mysterious circumstances. He returns as a ghost to try to uncover the secret of his death with the help of his family and the police.

Victor is a single father who falls in love with Elisa who turns out to be an Aswang. But even so, Victor love Elisa so much that he accepted who she is and even live with her as his second wife. But the problem comes when the leader of the Aswang clan finds out that Elisa and her mother are not eating humans anymore. She sends out other Aswangs to hunt down Elisa and her mother, and also for Victor and his family. Victor then will face the leader of the Aswang clan to save his beloved Elisa.

A couple are torn apart when a French woman enters their loves and pulls them into personal a game of lust and obsession.

A multi phobia-plagued single woman who hasn't left her apartment in six years finds her carefully organized existence disrupted by her hot new 'on-the-go' neighbor.

Is love an illusion? Is Love real? Is love a white knight on a horse dashing to the rescue or is it a soul-mate destined to be? Momoko is a girl into horror movies, which makes her visit the local video shop often. She just does not like paying for her rentals. She runs into a man who could be her prince charming. He is almost magical too because he keeps appearing.

Trouville-sur-Mer, Basse-Normandie, a quiet sea resort. Basile, a coastguard, is the witness of strange events. Simple coincidences? Not for Basile. King Crab Attack is the trailer of this disaster movie. Indefinite release date.

A sometimes fantastical love story set in Notting Hill, Perfect tells the story of what happens when Adam and Liberty's paths cross and how their worlds impact on each other.

Lacey Smithsonian is a stylish journalist who works as a television reporter. When interviewing a prestigious fashion designer Amanda Manville, it confesses that receives death threats from someone. Everything is complicated when the artist is shot dead during the program. Lacey will be involved in the case and launch an investigation to find the guilty.

Maradonna, an irresponsible young man, joins a group of drug dealers and suffers a financial loss. When he is about to commit suicide, a divine force intervenes.

This erotic comedy is a live-action adaptation of a manga by Seiji Matsuyama starring Yu Aine and other sexy actresses. Katsuta Chikuzen works under the tsundere boss Yuzu in the miscellaneous affairs section of Monosho Shoji, while being scolded by him. Late one night, Katsuta lines up at a game store in Akihabara, and meets Umina, who has super big...

BALD is the tale of Andrew Wood, a second year university student whose grades are receding faster than his hairline. He hits rock bottom when he finds out that hes been kicked out of school. In an effort to increase his own self esteem and erase his insecurity about losing his hair, Andrew and his best friend Max start an online internet business with all of the girls at college.

Monji has earned the title of second generation boss of the Black Black Black Skull Gang. He promised Takumi to conquer the country with the Black Skull Gang but in reality, he has trouble seeing it happen. While confused, he builds friendships with Aoyama and another transfer student, Rei.

Short experimental film by Andrey Pershin (Zhora Kryzhovnikov)

When a group of sexy, young pledges arrive at a secluded cabin for their initiation into the Gamma Kappa fraternity, they're met by a blood-thirsty lumberjack, who won't stop until every one of them is dead.

Nina travels to Venice to surprise her husband Stephan on his birthday. But when she gets at his hotel she discovers that he is not staying there. Desperately looking for him, Nina realizes he is cheating her with another woman, and also has a son with her. Nina then seeks consolation in an attractive guide with whom she will end falling in love

Nihal Singh from Chandigarh is a seemingly simple yet unconventional boy. He talks too much, questions everything and builds complicated gadgets in this spare time. He has a brilliant mind and an oddball sort of charm. He adores his mother, has dreams of studying in the most elite institute of science and always looks for big ideas in small things. But, there is a big but... Nihal has a secret.

One-off period comedy, peeping into the lives of a south Wales family's Christmases across the 1980s, written by comedian Mark Watson and inspired by a Dylan Thomas short story. Christmas in this household may be a less than poetic affair, but it is just as eventful. So much changes across a decade in any family, and yet so much manages to remain the same.

Young Fynn has one dearest wish - to liberate the Sleeping Beauty. His uncle August has told him the story of Princess Myrose and how she was cursed by the wicked Fate Fairy Maruna when she was a baby and causing her to prick her finger on a spindle on her 15th birthday

This Is Not A Test is a comedy/drama directed by Christopher Angel. The film is based around a man called Carl (Hill Harper) who's living his everyday life whilst trying to cope with his fear of terrorist nuclear attacks. However, with the threat so high he soon lets loose and jeopardizes his family and friends.

Marcus finds himself in love and married to not one woman, but two.

In July 1938, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China appointed Xiao Hua as commander and political commissar, and formed an eastward anti-Japanese advance column to arrive at the Hebei-Shandong border area to establish a base. Due to its rich natural resources and convenient transportation, this area has always been a chokepoint for military strategists. Xiao Hua used his keen political insight and unique wisdom to integrate the army's troops and recruit miscellaneous armed forces. Leading the army to raid the Japanese stronghold Denming Temple. The Kuomintang county magistrate Mou Yizhi, who had been wavering, sided with the Eighth Route Army, allowing the army to gain a firm foothold. Later, facing the Japanese and puppet troops, he once again attacked the Denming Temple by surprise and united the general Gao Shuxun. Xiao Hua eventually led his troops to capture the Denming Temple and established the famous Hebei-Shandong border anti-Japanese base area.

Just as doctors, lawyers and others strive to reach the top of their professions, Greek Pete longs to reach the pinnacle of his. The only difference is that he's a rent boy, and the recognition he seeks is a nod from the World Escort Awards.

Dallas, Andrew, his girlfriend Taryn and Reese compose of the DNA Team in an Internet game where the objective is to find treasures in hidden caches. While searching the last treasure to beat the game's record score, they are chased by two psychopaths controlled by the sick owner of an underground site that is filming their movements and they have to fight to survive.

Rina Sakurai, a popular model of Koakuma Ageha, a hair and make-up magazine for gals, makes her actress debut. Abandoned by family and betrayed by her boyfriend, Haruka Ichinose comes to Tokyo with her pet turtle, Jimmy. With heaped up blonde hair, flashy fashion, beloved Jimmy, and no fixed address, she takes interviews. But she has no luck on job hunting and becomes a net cafe refugees. One day, she finds a flyer and she jumps into a cabaret. What kind of future is waiting for Haruka?

The biggest shake up of the regulations in recent times saw former champions struggle and less familiar faces leading the pack Witness the charging Red Bull lock horns with the mighty Brawn GP and watch as the title nearly slips through Jenson's fingers. When his critics thought he had lost his nerve, he produced the drive of his life to prove himself a worthy champion.

Veselchaki is a movie centered on a Moscow nightclub owned by Rosa; he performs as part of the drag revue in the club. The movie starts with five cross-dressing men sharing their stories with a reporter.

A school teacher and her wheelchair-bound sister purchase a house that seems to be haunted by a strange supernatural force. Father LeCleur and his son Raymond are called in to vanquish the demonic entities. But when the hell-spawn turn out to be much stronger than anyone thought, a bloody showdown ensues.

A film by Frederick Wiseman following the ins and outs of 7 ballets by the Paris Opera Ballet.

Born of a chance meeting in Venice, Silvestro and Camilla's rocky romance unfolds over 10 winters as new lovers come and go but they are eternally thrust back into one another's arms.

Rianti, a young painter, shuts out the outside world in her daily life, including the sincere attention given by Wisnu, a curator who always helps to sell Rianti’s paintings. Wisnu doesn’t know that Rianti is trying to conceal her ability to see the future. At the same time, a British professor, Anthony, is searching for the answer to the disappearance of his wife, Laras, and child, Mariah. They were kidnapped when he arrived late for his child’s birthday.

A contagious virus is turning everyone into zombies, and the only hope for survival lies in the hands of three couch potatoes.

The 51st film in the popular yakuza action series starring Takeuchi Riki and Sakakibara Toshihiko.

Bad Girls The Musical is an original British musical based on characters from the award winning and hugely popular television drama Bad Girls. Set in the fictional HMP Larkhall, it's the story of new idealistic Wing Governor Helen Stewart and her battles with the entrenched old guard of Officer Jim Fenner and his sidekick Sylvia Hollamby. It also follows the love story that develops between Helen and charismatic inmate Nikki Wade. Other featured characters include Shell Dockley and her runner Denny Blood, old-timer Noreen Biggs, The Two Julies and the ultimate Top Dog, King-of-Gangland's missus, Yvonne Atkins. A tragic death on the wing - in which Jim Fenner is implicated - leads to an angry protest from the women and forces Helen and Nikki to their opposite sides of the bars. But when it's clear that Helen stands to lose her job over Fenner's misdeeds, the race is on for the women to nail him once and for all.

A drug addict becomes a mother and has to deal with responsibility and self-respect.

40-year-old Jimmy is growing up, or at least he's getting older. While mooching the upper bunk of his ten-year-old nephew's bed, he enjoys the never-ending generosity of his sister Aiko, and dodges the wrath of his impatient brother-in-law Tak. He thinks that if only he could get married all his problems would be solved. But when he falls head over heels for Tak's niece things only go from bad to worse.

Deep behind-the-scenes into the strip-mined world of Alberta, Canada, where the vast and toxic Tar Sands deposit supplies the U.S. with the majority of its oil. Through the eyes of scientists, 'big oil' officials, politicians, doctors, environmentalists, and aboriginal citizens directly impacted by 'the largest industrial project on the planet today,' the filmmakers journey to both sides of the border to see the emotional and irreversible toll this 'black gold rush' fueled by America's addiction to oil is taking on our planet.

A wave of carnage is sweeping through Southern France, with locals blaming the return of wolves. However some begin talking of a werewolf, and Police Captain Adamsberg must investigate.

Shiva gets nostalgic thinking about his college life and friends and looks forward to meeting them all. But, there is a sombre mood at the reunion. Soon, Shiva is found almost strangled to death.

A 3-D documentary chronicling a sea turtle's journey across the oceans.

Based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, a Brazilian teacher and storyteller brought up in a state educational institution for poor children.