Based on the novel by Anne Tyler, A Slippping Down Life is the story of the unusual courtship of an awkward young woman and a charismatic singer/songwriter, and the profound effect that their unlikely relationship has on each other's lives. (Lions Gate Entertainment)

Set in China in 1946, shortly after the withdrawal of Japanese troops, this is the story of a couple in a small town whose lives are interrupted by the visit of the husband's old friend from Shanghai.

In this satire, California wakes up one morning to find that one third of its population has disappeared. A strange thick pink fog surrounds the state and communication outside its boundaries is completely cut off. As the day goes by, we discover that the characteristic that links the 14 million disappeared is their Hispanic background. (Televisa Cine)

A comic series of short vignettes in which Jarmusch delves into the normal pace of the world from an extraordinary angle, showing just how absorbing the obsessions, joys and addictions of life can be. (MGM/UA)

Based on a true story, Carandiru is an adaptation of the book Carandiru Station by Drauzio Varella. Through the eyes of a doctor who worked in So Paulo's infamous Casa de Detneco, over twelve years, it tells stories of crime, revenge, love and friendship, culminating in the fateful massacre of 1992. (Sony Pictures Classics)

When their mother dies, two brothers (Arquette, Nelson) go on a "romance tour" of Russia to meet prospective brides.

A hardened ex-con falls for a severely disabled woman in this psychological drama.

This film chronicles the troubled existence of Duncan Mudge (Hirsch), a 14-year-old misfit who, while vying for the attention of his vacant father, struggles to fill the void brought on by his mother's sudden death. (Strand Releasing)

Why are Americans so fat? Find out in Super Size Me, a tongue in-cheek - and burger in hand -- look at the legal, financial and physical costs of America's hunger for fast food. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)

Gabriel Van Helsing (Jackman) is a man cursed with a past he cannot recall and driven by a mission he cannot deny. Charged by a secret organization to seek out and defeat evil the world over, his efforts to rid the world of its nightmarish creatures have been rewarded with the title that now follows him: murderer. (Universal Pictures)

Never before released in the U.S., this is the original, uncut Japanese version of Godzilla directed by sci-fi master Ishiro Honda.

A coming of age story told through the eyes of a precocious 10-year old boy who lives with his grandmother in turbulent 1969 Argentina. (Miramax)

For some athletes, the ultimate win comes through a stroke of luck, but for Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., "Bobby Jones," it was truly a stroke of genius. His natural skill and uncanny passion for the game of golf earned him the title of "The Best Golfer in the World." But it was his style that set him apart. A dashing smile. Impeccable integrity. Unrivaled intensity. Legendary wit and intelligence. An epic passion for life, born out of adversity. For a brief moment in time, this incredible man became an American hero. Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius tells the story of that man. (Bobby Jones Film Company)

A bittersweet tale of deception and affection about three Georgian women -- strong-willed matriarch Eka, her long-suffering daughter Marina and rebellious granddaughter Ada -- all live together in their stately-yet-crumbling apartment in contemporary Tbilisi, the capital of the former Soviet republic. (Zeitgeist Films)

Paul and Jessie Duncan (Kinnear, Romijn-Stamos) have lost their beloved eight year-old son Adam (Bright) in a tragic accident. As they are arranging for his burial, Dr. Richard Wells (De Niro) approaches with the incredible offer to clone, and bring back their boy. (Lions Gate Films)

A young student is torn between the worlds of Hindu and Muslim religions in this Bangladeshi film directed by Tareque Masud. (Milestone Films)

It's 1933 in Winnipeg and the Great Depression is in full bloom. Beer Baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Rossellini) announces a global competition to determine the saddest music in the world, and musicians from across the globe pour into town to vie for the whopping $25,000 prize. Part musical melodrama, part tongue-in-cheek social satire, Guy Maddin's expressionistic film achieves a level of lunacy rarely seen since the Marx Brothers. (IFC Films)

Daniel (Cuervo) is a middle-aged, gay man who comes from an established family and lives a charmed, middle-class existence. He is a "regular" of Madrid's gay bar scene sometimes hunting for good-looking, young foreigners. At one of these bars, he meets Kyril (Beba), a hunky 23-year-old Bulgarian. After a night of animalistic passion, Daniel is under his Eastern European spell. Wild, reckless and slightly dangerous, Kyril seems to turn Daniel's conservative and rather predictable life upside down. (TLA Releasing)

Raised in the African bush country by her zoologist parents, Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) thinks she knows about "survival of the fittest." But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when the home-schooled 15-year-old enters public high school for the first time and falls prey to the psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teenage girls face today. [Paramount Pictures]

A comedic drama about a maverick comic-book writer (Palladino) who uses his powers of creativity to create a new kind of superhero -- an enigmatic entity named Justice who embodies the heroism of everyday existence in the face of apathy, anarchy, and cynicism. (Two Boots Pioneer Theater)

A family drama set in the late nineteenth century Japan, as the feudal Shogun period was giving way to the Meiji Restoration. [Empire Pictures]

Denzel Washington stars as a government operative/soldier of fortune who has pretty much given up on life. In Mexico City, he reluctantly agrees to take a job to protect a child (Fanning) whose parents are threatened by a wave of kidnappings. He eventually becomes close to the child and their relationship reawakens and rekindles his spirit. When she is abducted, his fiery rage is unleashed on those he feels responsible, and he stops at nothing to save her. (20th Century Fox)

A coming-of-age story about a young, reclusive prop-house employee (Pitt) who falls in love with a detail-obsessed movie production designer (Turco).

Based loosely on a true story, Morlang is a chilling, psychological drama about jealousy, betrayal and revenge. (Film Movement)

Based on Scottish beat writer Alexander Trocchi's novel and inspired by the great Hollywood film noirs of the 40s and 50s, Young Adam is a highly original thriller set on the canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh. (HanWay Films)

Two outcasts who feel small-town Sandusky, Ohio closing in on them, Gypsy and Clive lose themselves in Gothic fantasies, soothed by the retro sounds of The Cure, Siouxie and the Banshees, and Bauhaus. When Gypsy and Clive learn about the annual "Night of 1000 Stevies" in New York City, their deep-seeded dreams are unleashed. With Clive's encouragement, Gypsy crushes her fears and vows to be the best Stevie Nicks impersonator Gotham has ever seen. (Small Planet Pictures)

Marvel's unstoppable vigilante hits the big screen. After losing his family in to mob violence, undercover FBI agent and former Marine Frank Castle (Jane) decides to dedicate himself fully to the eradication of crime from America.

A brother and sister escape from the Balkans and are illegally transported to America to start a new life in Chicago.

Gerardo, a gay teenager, roams the streets of Mexico City in search of someone able to reveal the secret hidden between the lines of a goodbye letter from his ex-lover. (Strand Releasing)

Eighteen-year-old Matthew Kidman (Hirsch) is a straight-arrow over-achiever who has never really lived life, until he falls for his new neighbor, the beautiful and seemingly innocent Danielle (Cuthbert). When Matthew discovers this perfect "girl next door" is a one-time porn star, his sheltered existence begins to spin out of control. (20th Century Fox)

Based on a true story, The Middle of the World is about a couple and their five children - ages ranging from 6 months to 14 years old - as they travel 3,200 km by bicycle across Brazil in search of a dream. (Buena Vista International)

Something sinister is lurking under the surface of 10 year old Michele's idyllic summer in 1978. While the days in his remote southern Italian village are filled with the familiar routines of childhood, a chance discovery leads to a shocking revelation. (Miramax)

Twentynine Palms is a small, remote American town deep in the desert of central California. It provides the unique setting for this darkly comedic chronicle of the romantic and sexual life of a young couple in love. (Wellspring Media)

The dramatic true story of one of the most momentous battles in American history, this is the tale of a handful of men who stood up for their passion and ideals against an overwhelming force. (Touchstone Pictures)

On an ordinary school day in California, a seemingly ordinary student named Leland Fitzgerald (Gosling) commits a devastating, inexplicable crime...and changes everything forever...not only for Leland but his family, friends and the teacher who becomes obsessed with trying to figure out why. (Paramount Classics)

In this extraordinary epic, Peter Lutsik creates an astounding chronicle of a country in violent transformation and vividly reveals Russia as alternately corrupt, melancholy, dogmatic, romantic, and spiritual. (Facets Multimedia)

A retired U.S. Special Forces soldier returns to his hometown to renew old relationships and make a new life for himself. But while he was away, his boyhood town wasted away to a dilapidated, crime-ridden shell of itself. (MGM)

A crossword puzzle addict challenges herself to complete 77 crossword puzzles in 24 hours.

A Japanese anime starring a karate-kicking feline super hero.

Italian porn icon Riki Kandinsky discovers the humanity burning beneath his legendary flesh.

Entirely set on and around a tree-lined lake where a tiny Buddhist monastery floats on a raft amidst a breath-taking landscape, this film is divided into five segments with each season representing a stage in a man's life. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Thomas and Luc are brothers. Thomas is straight; Luc is gay. Unable to accept his brother's homosexuality, Thomas distances himself. When Thomas contracts a terminal illness, he intrudes into Luc's contented life and asks him to be his caretaker. (Strand Releasing)

A comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own. (Guerilla Films)

A richly literate film noir about King David (DMX), a hard-boiled, stylish criminal who returns to his hometown seeking redemption and finding only violent death. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Lars von Trier explores the concept of goodness in this story of a fugitive hiding in a small town in the Rocky Mountains in the 1930s.

An honest, heartfelt and often amusing story about the man who wanted it all but got all that he needed. (Miramax Films)

Shot entirely in Morocco and Marrakech, Raja is the story of a beautiful young Moroccan woman living on the streets.

A sophisticated farce set at the posh Hotel Splendide in Bordeaux at the start of World War II.

This true-to-life drama, based on Drug Enforcement Agency and U.S. Border Patrol reports as well as countless first hand accounts of hopeful migrant struggles, depicts the current civil unrest occurring at the U.S. Mexican Border. (Gatekeeper Productions)

In this remake of George A. Romero's horror classic, a nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman, and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a Midwestern shopping mall.

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very (very) bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. (IFC Films)

Joel (Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine (Winslet) has had her memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. Out of desperation, he contacts the inventor of the process, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (Wilkinson), to have Clementine removed from his own memory. But as Joel's memories progressively disappear, he begins to rediscover his love for Clementine. (Focus Features)

An intelligent 17-year-old boy dreams of escaping from his hometown in the remote fjord regions of Northern Iceland.

The story of two brothers who inherit a used bookstore in Glasgow.

This political thriller stars Val Kilmer as career military officer working in a highly secretive special operations force that uncovers a white slavery ring.

An intimate and universal coming of age story set within a dysfunctional, mourning family. (Sony Pictures Classics)

A photographer who is haunted by the feeling that the gap between his ideals and his real life is growing finds himself obliged to put up in his apartment a young relative who has left behind his village looking for a job aboard a ship in Istanbul to go abroad.

In the imaginary village of Entshongweni, very far from western civilization, the young James is chosen to undertake a mission - a pilgrimage to holy Jerusalem. (Zeitgeist Films)

This murder mystery, set in the Middle Ages, is steeped in moral dilemmas about the power of art, the temptations of evil and the search for justice that continue to haunt us in modern times. (Paramount Classics)

Based on the story of long distance rider Frank T. Hopkins, Hidalgo is an epic action-adventure and one man's journey of personal redemption. (Touchstone Pictures)

A young woman's long-standing affair with her adoptive father is discovered.

A prostitute working the streets of Nice must leave town with her estranged daughter.

Neil Young's "musical novel" is a modern fairy tale about a family, the murder of a cop and the evolution of a young girl named Sun Green. Not a concert film, Young shot actors on locations in his native Northern California to create Greendale, a rural town in crisis. Told imaginatively through ten interlinking songs performed by Young and Crazy Horse, who never appear in the film, Neil's distinctive voice is heard singing the story as well as the dialogue of his lip-synching actors. (Landmark Theatres)

The story of over a dozen distinct characters who inhabit an apartment complex located in a rundown neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel. (Kino International)

Set against the decadent glamour and escalating danger of revolution-eve Cuba, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights re-imagines the 1987 film phenomenon from an exciting new perspective. This is a timeless story of a young woman's discovery of love, sensuality and independence - but with a sizzling style and rhythm all its own. (Lions Gate Films)

A human story of the reunification not only of an entire nation, but of a family living in East Berlin. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Newly promoted police inspector Jessica Shepard (Judd) is searching for a serial killer, and is shocked to discover that the men she has recently slept with are the victims. (Paramount)

A depiction of the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus Christ as he is crucified in Jerusalem.

Meet the last of the professional mourners of Manila's Chinatown. These are the crying ladies - three women who decide to accept a part-time job to be the professional mourners for a traditional Chinese funeral for the late George Washington Chua. A heartwarming comedy, Crying Ladies sheds light on the struggles and little dreams of ordinary people living in the back streets of Chinatown. (Unitel Films)

Meg Ryan stars as Jackie Kallen, the most successful female manager in boxing history. A smart, gutsy woman who wants to break out of a dead-end job, Kallen gets her chance when she sees Luther Shaw (Epps) in a brawl and knows he is a champion in the raw. (Paramount Pictures)

In the early '50s the Home Research Institute in Sweden sends 18 observers to the rural district of Landstad, Norway, with its surplus of bachelors, to study the kitchen routines of single men. (IFC Films)

Set in the sub-Saharan country of Chad, this is the story of two young brothers and their mother who are devastated when their father suddenly disappears.

Anxious to use artificial intelligent robots to improve the world, Rosetta Stone (Swinton), a bio-geneticist, devises a recipe through which she can download her own DNA into a "live" brew she is growing in her computer. She succeeds in breeding three Self Replicating Automatons ? S.R.A.'s that look human, but were bred as intelligent machines. (ThinkFilm Inc.)

A lovely, small film that exposes greed and pettiness while celebrating the most beautiful human themes: love, friendship and tolerance. (Milestone Films)

Four stories in which utterly human characters struggle to connect in a world of robot babies, robot toys, android office workers, and digital immortality.

The story of Freya, a beautiful woman who returns from America in 1953 to settle down with distant relatives in a small fishing village outside Reykjavik. [Cinema Guild]

Jacques Demy's 1964 musical fantasy stars Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo.

The twisted tale of Kenneth, socially insecure technical writer who forms an obsessive relationship with "Nikki," an anatomically accurate silicone sex doll he orders over the Internet.

Dris (Le Bihan) returns to a quiet life with his devoted fiancé after serving four years in prison. However, when Yanis, a childhood friend, lures him into one more heist, Dris can't refuse. (Sony)

This serious drama is the second segment of the unprecedented trilogy of films from Belgian actor/director Lucas Belvaux.

The inspiring story of the team that transcended its sport and united a nation with a new feeling of hope. Based on the exciting true story of one of the greatest moments in modern history, the film captures a time and place where differences could be settled by games and a cold war could be put on ice.

A 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother lose their jobs when the Taliban closes the hospital where they work. Feeling she has no choice, the mother disguises her daughter as a boy. Now called Osama, the girl embarks on a terrifying and confusing journey as she tries to keep the Taliban from finding out her true identity. (United Artists)

The tumultuous political landscape of Paris in 1968 is the backdrop as three young cineastes are drawn together through their passion for film. Matthew, an American exchange student, discovers in French twins Theo and Isabelle a relationship unlike anything he has ever experienced or will ever encounter again -- and he longs to be a part of it. (Fox Searchlight)

In contemporary Russia young brothers Vanya and Andrey have grown a deep attachment to each other to make up for their fatherless childhood. They are shocked to discover their father has returned after a twelve year absence. With their mother's uneasy blessing Vanya and Andrey set out on what they believe will be a fishing vacation with their taciturn father. [Kino International]

This film tells the story of two itinerant Chinese miners who risk their lives under dangerous working conditions and develop questionable morals in order to survive. (Kino International)