3.8

Abduction

2011, USA

• Actors: Jake Andolina, Oriah Acima Andrews, Ken Arnold, Maria Bello, Steve Blass, Derek Burnell, Benjamin J. Cain Jr., Holly Scott Cavanuagh, Radick Cembrzynski, Richard Cetrone, Mike Clark, Lily Collins, Jack Erdie, Rita Gregory, Tim Griffin, Nathan Hollabaugh, Jason Isaacs, Taylor Lautner, Mike Lee, James Liebro, Frank Lloyd, Christopher Mahoney, Alfred Molina, Michael Nyqvist, Emily Peachey, William Peltz, Elisabeth Röhm, Nickola Shreli, Victor Slezak, Antonique Smith
• Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
• Director(s): John Singleton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Nathan, a teen, along with his friend, Karen finds a website that has photos of children who are missing or believed to have been abducted. They decide to age one of the photos and discover that is of Nathan as a child. He contacts the person who placed the photo to find out what's going on. The person on the other end only wants to know info about Nathan so Nathan hangs up. The person then contacts someone in Europe and shows him a photo of the one who called. He then heads for the U.S. Nathan then wonders is it true, was he abducted. He tells his "mom" who then tells him she and his "father" will tell him. But before they can, two men claiming to be cops show up wanting to talk to Nathan, and when he isn't found they pull guns and demand Nathan be given to them. His parents fight them but are killed. Nathan runs but remembers that he asked Karen to come over and one of them tries to get rough with her but Nathan saves and they escape just as the house blows up. They go to the hospital so that Karen can treated. Nathan calls 911 to report what happened but finds himself talking to a man named Burton who says he's with the CIA and that his parents were too. He tells Nathan to wait for some people he is sending to pick him. But Nathan's therapist shows up telling him that they have to go. She tells him that she and his parents were asked by his real father to take care of him. She warns him not to trust Burton. She tells him to go an apartment in Virginia. When he gets there, he sees the kind of person his father is. When Karen tries to call her relatives, her call is again intercepted by the CIA. Nathan decides to get out and sets out to find his mother whose address he found in his father's apartment.

  5.2

The Kreutzer Sonata

2008, USA

• Actors: Danny Huston, Elisabeth Röhm, Matthew Yang King, Julia Sandberg Hansson, Anjelica Huston, Stella Huston, Matthew Jacobs, Philip McGrade, Gina Moore, Annie Morgan, Daniel O'Meara, Kinsey Packard, Dave Pressler, Devon Sorvari
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Bernard Rose
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A film by Bernard Rose, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy with music by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Edgar Hudson meets Abby, a concert pianist, at a dinner party. Abby is involved with someone else but that doesn't stop the two from acting upon their strong attraction to one another. They start to sneak around but it's not long before they realize they should be together. Soon after Abby breaks up with her boyfriend, she becomes pregnant with Edgar's child - something that was not planned. Flash forward four years. Abby is now Mrs. Edgar Hudson, a resident of Beverly Hills and the mother of two children. In turn, Edgar is now the man who has everything; vast wealth, a gorgeous wife and two beautiful children. Unfortunately, the significant changes in Abby's life have made being a pianist, her true passion, a distant memory thus making her restless and unfulfilled. Her unhappiness is all too apparent, but instead of talking about it, Edgar chooses to ignore it. Edgar tries to cheer Abby up by suggesting she perform again at a charity benefit he is holding to aid children from Sierra Leone. Edgar introduces her to Aiden, a talented and attractive young violinist suggesting they play together. Abby and Aiden decide to play Beethoven's piano/violin duet, the "Kreutzer Sonata". It never occurred to Edgar that a simple suggestion would lead to hours and hours of his wife practising alone with Aiden. Edgar becomes convinced that they are having an affair - his only evidence, the music they make together. When he confronts Abby she denies it. This, of course, only intensifies Edgar's suspicions and it is not long before the "Kreutzer" sonata begins to drive Edgar into a terrifying state of morbid jealousy. One day, Edgar receives a call from his sister, Elinore. She'd like for him to come to San Francisco to discuss problems revolving around his handling of the family's foundation. Upon his arrival, Elinore comments on how much he's changed mentally and physically. She encourages him to talk to someone, but the suggestion falls on deaf ears - Edgar is too wracked with thoughts of Abby and Aiden taking advantage of his absence. An increasingly obsessed Edgar hurries back home while struggling against an uncontrollable rage.

  4.7

Ghost Image

2007, USA

• Actors: Elisabeth Röhm, Stacey Dash, Waylon Payne, Roma Maffia, Matthew Del Negro, David E. Webb, Lily Rains, Griff Furst, Joel Lewis, Srikant Chellappa, Annalise Basso, Jack Snyder, Daniel Byington, Susie Wall, Robert Nolan Clark, Mike Ketcher, Natalie Bram, Marcie Basso, Lou Stemmler, Jeff Most, Stuart Allen, Jalisa Davis, Jeanie Dawson, Casey Delf, David DuPree, Rob Grayson, Chenier D. Griffith, Amanda Jackson, Stephanie Keysacker, M. Jones
• Genre: Thriller
• Director(s): Jack Snyder
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When a young female video editor loses her boyfriend in a car crash, she finds solace in watching video of him taken the night before he died. When he starts to communicate with her through that video, she must decide if he has broken through the barrier between this world and the next, or has she slipped off into madness.

  4.7

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

2004, USA, Australia

• Actors: Sandra Bullock, Regina King, Enrique Murciano, William Shatner, Ernie Hudson, Heather Burns, Diedrich Bader, Treat Williams, Abraham Benrubi, Nick Offerman, Eileen Brennan, Elisabeth Röhm, Leslie Grossman, Lusia Strus, Molly Gottlieb, Susan Chuang, William O'Leary, John DiResta, Audrey Wasilewski, Marjorie Lovett, Michelle Page, Faith Minton, Eve Gordon, Kim Morgan Greene, Rachel Iverson, Regis Philbin, Joy Philbin, Thomas McGoldrick, Esteban Cueto, Octavia Spencer
• Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
• Director(s): John Pasquin
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Because of the notoriety she gained from the Miss United States pageant, Gracie Hart's life as an undercover FBI agent is over. In addition, Agent Eric Matthews broke off their relationship which she did not take well. Begrudgingly on the advice her boss Director Harry McDonald, Gracie decides to become the FBI's media relations officer. Ten months later with the assistance of style coach Joel Meyers and a best selling book behind her about her experience, Gracie becomes a designer-clad media darling and the made-up face of the FBI. The new Gracie is the exact opposite of Agent Sam Fuller, a woman who, like Gracie before her pageant experience, has deep seated anger issues. The two do not get along, but that doesn't stop McDonald from assigning Sam to be Gracie's bodyguard. The two are sent to Las Vegas when Gracie's friend, reigning Miss United States Cheryl Frasier, and the long time Miss United States pageant host Stan Fields are kidnapped there. At the FBI's Las Vegas field office, Assistant Director Walter Collins wants Gracie solely to be the media spokesperson on the case, but Gracie wants to be back in the field, especially when she uncovers some leads Collins dismisses. Despite their antagonistic relationship, Gracie and Sam have to work together to follow these leads. Along with them are Joel and insecure FBI Agent Jeff Foreman, the foursome who in addition to finding Cheryl and Stan, have to elude Collins' other agents, Collins who wants Gracie and Sam back on a plane to New York and who wants the glory of solving the case for himself.

  7.3

Deconstructing Harry

1997, USA

• Actors: Woody Allen, Richard Benjamin, Kirstie Alley, Billy Crystal, Judy Davis, Bob Balaban, Elisabeth Shue, Demi Moore, Robin Williams, Caroline Aaron, Eric Bogosian, Mariel Hemingway, Amy Irving, Julie Kavner, Eric Lloyd, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tobey Maguire, Stanley Tucci, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Dan Frazer, Joel Leffert, Lynn Cohen, Joe Buck, Jane Hoffman, Annette Arnold, Frederick Rolf, Elisabeth Kieselstein-Cord, Lortensia Hayes, Alicia Meer, Victoria Hale
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
• Director(s): Woody Allen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Harry Block is a well-regarded novelist whose tendency to thinly-veil his own experiences in his work, as well as his un-apologetic attitude and his proclivity for pills and whores, has left him with three ex-wives that hate him. As he is about to be honored for his writing by the college that expelled him, he faces writer's block and the impending marriage of his latest flame to a writer friend. As scenes from his stories and novels pass and interact with him, Harry faces the people whose lives he has affected - wives, lovers, his son, his sister.