Divided into two chapters, director Bogdan George Apetri's Miracle begins with the young, beautiful Cristina Tofan sneaking away from an isolated convent. Working in the style of the Romanian New Wave, Apetri withholds key information about her motives as we follow her enigmatic journey, allowing tension to steadily build to a wavering precipice. The film's second part follows Marius Preda, a determined inspector retracing Cristina's steps days after...

To keep her parents from being evicted and fund her Clash-inspired punk band, Malika takes a job smuggling drugs over the mountains. Her partner in the run is a world-weary veteran drug mule, who unexpectedly wins Malika's sympathy.

Cameron Poe is a highly decorated U.S. ranger who is convicted of manslaughter after protecting his wife in a drunken brawl. Finally, after eight years, he's being paroled and is going home to his wife and daughter. His ride home, the Jailbird, is also transporting society's most vicious murderers to Feltham Penitentiary, Lousiana's toughest maximum security prison. A surprising escape is made on board the plane as the cons seize control of the plane,...

Swift, brutal, and blackhearted, Allen Baron's New York City noir film is a sensational surprise. This low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment in Manhattan during Christmastime follows its stripped-down narrative with mechanical precision, yet also with an eye and ear for the oddball details of urban living and the imposing beauty of the city. At once visually ragged and artfully composed, and featuring rough, poetic narration...

Two Los Angeles police officers with divergent personalities are unwillingly teamed in a fight against an international heroin ring; Los Angeles buddy-cops Riggs and Murtaugh are off and running again, as they try to keep a key witness and themselves alive; Murtaugh is days away from retirement, and is relectant to get involved with his partner's schemes; Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh are put on a hit list by the Chinese Triads and when blood thirsty...

The crowning achievement of Claude Chabrol's career is a riveting study of class dynamics and the psychology of crime, starring Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire as a pair of outsiders who form a mysterious alliance that gradually goes haywire.

"Caught up in a criminal enterprise, Ashley and her young daughter turn to her estranged father, Matt, for help. Retired and living a beach bum's life in The Caymans, her dad's secret past is revealed as the Mob tracks them down on the island"--

"The son of a devoutly religious mother, Chopper dreams of making a name for himself as a legendary figure of infamy. But the wisecracking, would-be criminal mastermind turns out to be a criminal failure who gets tossed in a maximum-security prison. Bowed but unbroken, Chopper manages to twist his life around with a fascinating and wickedly funny retelling ... and the press and the public can't get enough!"--

"In a city plagued with rampant poverty, violence and crime, a corrupt mafia-connected businessman runs for mayor and starts eliminating his opponents. A former police captain in jail for murder is secretly released and put in charge of a special task force in a desperate, last-ditch effort to take down the corrupt tycoon"--