The Big Bad City (2013)

Actors: Helene Udy (actress), Rich Bokides (miscellaneous crew), Vincent Duvall (actor), John Jopson (miscellaneous crew), Richmond Arquette (actor), Helene Udy (producer), Vincent Duvall (writer), Vincent Duvall (director), Amy Lindsay (actress), Redmond Gleeson (actor), Tyler Nimmons (actor), Stu Brumbaugh (actor), Mike Jerome Putnam (actor), Ali Costello (actress), Jackson Walker (actor),

Genres: Crime,
Taglines: Sometimes love is the crime.

Hot Guys with Guns (2013)

Actors: Alan Blumenfeld (actor), Vincent De Paul (actor), Steven Wallace (producer), Jossara Jinaro (actress), Craig Holt (miscellaneous crew), Lisa Norcia (costume designer), Kamar de los Reyes (actor), Mervyn Warren (producer), Mervyn Warren (actor), Carrie Genzel (actress), Mervyn Warren (actor), Mervyn Warren (composer), Jason Boegh (actor), Bob Koherr (producer), Brandon DeShazer (producer),

Genres: Action, Comedy, Thriller,
Taglines: Imagine Lethal Weapon if Mel Gibson and Danny Glover were ex-boyfriends.

Zombie Killstreak (2011)

Actors: Kyle Goleman (producer), Kyle Goleman (writer), Kyle Goleman (actor), Seng Varipath (editor), Seng Varipath (producer), Seng Varipath (writer), Seng Varipath (director), Corey J. Roberts (actor), Grady Justice (producer), Nathaniel Healey (actor), Luke Campbell (actor), Tre Ryan (actor), Justin Shover (actor), Justin Shover (producer), Austin Crow (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Shanghai (2010)

Actors: Steven Squillante (producer), Klaus Badelt (composer), Franka Potente (actress), Ken Watanabe (actor), Harvey Weinstein (producer), Mike Medavoy (producer), David Morse (actor), Hugh Bonneville (actor), Wolf Kahler (actor), Yun-Fat Chow (actor), Christopher Buchholz (actor), Bob Weinstein (producer), John Cusack (actor), Francie Brown (miscellaneous crew), Julie Weiss (costume designer),

Plot: An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

Keywords: city-name-in-title, crime-boss, dark-secret, dead-girl, death-of-friend, desperation, empty-world, escape-attempt, funeral, german-woman
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller,
Taglines: In a world filled with secrets, solving a mystery can be murder.

Quotes:

Paul Soames: The heart is never neutral.

The Venice Beach Hostel (2009)

Actors: Arthur Allan Seidelman (director), Arthur Allan Seidelman (producer), Madison Mason (producer), Madison Mason (actor), Marcella Bremond (miscellaneous crew), Willis Chung (actor), Nicholas Downs (actor), Joel Zwick (producer), Annie Abbott (actress), Gary Bisig (actor), Kevin Perez (actor), Edy Ganem (actress), Christina Myhr (actress), Patrick David (actor), Patrick Blakely (actor),

Plot: The hostel caters to young travelers moving through the Los Angeles area on their way to countries around the world. Some guests stay only a day or two, most times just overnight. The owner is a former world traveler herself, but at her age, she's now content to have the world come to her doorstep The transient aspect of The Venice Beach Hostel gives it the opportunity to swap out characters every week. This revolving door of characters keeps the show fresh with new personalities, new conflicts, and up-to-the-moment issues that affect young people around the world - religion, nationalism, fanaticism, love, sex, responsibility, politics... lost luggage. It's all rolled into one fast-paced show, packed with sharp dialog and characters. The young workers who manage The Venice Beach Hostel are themselves from various countries like England, Japan, Mexico, America, etc. Each character brings with them the baggage of their civilization. Though not deliberately metaphorical, The Venice Beach Hostel does seem like a microcosm of the world, albeit a comical one.

Genres: Comedy,

Da' Booty Shop (2009)

Actors: Gerald Webb (actor), Marcello Thedford (producer), Marcello Thedford (actor), Marcello Thedford (director), Marcello Thedford (writer), Jemal Draco (actor), Nancy Bellany (actress), Trina McGee (actress), Constance Reese (actress), Kaja Martin (actress), Taleia Gilliam (actress),

Plot: Tyrone Johnson is in jail. As a result his sister Yolanda, an exotic dancer, inherits Tyrone's struggling hair salon business. She first sees the shop as a burden and waste of her time and puts the shop up for sale. But Yolanda eventually sees that the beauty biz could be a better future than the stripping biz, and changes her mind, angering the buyer, who retaliates with a vengeance. Yolanda decides to get her exotic dancing girlfriends together in order to keep the shop open... with a twist.

Keywords: african-american, attitude, beauty-shop, booty, butt, exotic-dancer, ghetto, hair, hood, independent-woman
Genres: Comedy,

Jiu jiang feng (2008)

Actors: Eric Tsang (producer), Ju Feng Yeh (producer), Bo-Chieh Wang (actor), Hsiao-tong Chen (editor), Cho Li (producer), Rhydian Vaughan (actor), Tsung-han Tsai (writer), Teresa Daley (actress), Tom Lin (director), Tom Lin (writer), Chang Chea (actor), Blaire Ko (composer), Wei-Nian Sheng (actor), Jennifer Chu (actress),

Genres: ,

Zhi fa wei long (1992)

Actors: Phillip Ko (producer), Ernie Zarate (actor), Yukari Ôshima (actress), Subas Herrero (actor), Val Iglesias (actor), Fui-On Shing (actor), Charlie Davao (actor), Robin Shou (actor), Waise Lee (actor), Jason Pai Piao (actor), John Regala (actor), Ronnie Ricketts (actor), Nick Romano (actor), Phillip Ko (actor), Chin Yung Shing (composer),

Plot: Tung/Torres ('Dion Lam' (qv)), a vicious Filipino-Chinese drug dealer in Hong Kong, is caught by Chief Inspector Leung ('Waise Lee' (qv)). Cynthia ('Yukari Ôshima') and Lung ('Robin Shou' (qv)) is tasked to deport him back to the Philippines for prosecution. But once they arrive, Dion is rescued by his boss/godfather, Tiger ('Subas Herrero' (qv)), leaving Cyntha and Lung with more than their responsibility to deal with Sgt. Franco ('Phillip Ko' (qv)), their Manila counterpart. Tiger, the coldly ambitious leader of the local gang, who builds an empire of crimes in Manila, has determined to eliminate anyone who will hinder his way of making money. They include Lung and Cynthia, Sgt. Franco and his partner, Billy ('Ronnie Ricketts' (qv)), and Tiger's rival gang leader Mr. Tang ('Franco Guerrero' (qv)). Between Lung and Sgt. Franco, it is a case of conflict at first sight; However, when Billy and Cynthia are brutally killed in the line of duty by the deadliest killers sent by Tung and Tiger, Lung and Franco finally get together and will stop at nothing to launch a mission against the baron and to fight for justice with unexpectedly violent results.

Keywords: balisong, baseball, bomb-squad, corrupt-police, criminal, drug-syndicate, hitman, hitwoman, hongkong-philippines, interpol
Genres: Action,

Lie ying ji hua (1988)

Actors: Cherie Chung (actress), Kar Wai Wong (writer), Kent Cheng (actor), Andy Lau (actor), Siu-Ming Lau (actor), Ray Lui (actor), Wai Shum (actor), Wai Shum (actor), Dick Wei (actor), Wing-Cho Yip (actor), Maria Cordero (actress), Norman Law Man (director), Mei-Ting Hoh (actress), Big Al (actor), Hak Chai (actor),

Genres: ,

The Last Emperor (1987)

Actors: David Byrne (composer), Ryûichi Sakamoto (composer), Ric Young (actor), Joan Chen (actress), Bernardo Bertolucci (writer), John Daly (producer), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (actor), Constantine Gregory (actor), Peter O'Toole (actor), Hideo Takamatsu (actor), Ryûichi Sakamoto (actor), Jeremy Thomas (producer), Vivian Wu (actress), Maurice Binder (miscellaneous crew), Bernardo Bertolucci (director),

Plot: A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

Keywords: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, abdication, actual-animal-killed, adultery
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,
Taglines: He was the Lord of Ten Thousand Years, the absolute monarch of China. He was born to rule a world of ancient tradition. Nothing prepared him for our world of change.

Quotes:

Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: Words are important.::Pu Yi, at 15: Why are words important?::Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.

Pu Yi, at 15: Where are your ancestors buried?::Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: In Scotland, your majesty.::Pu Yi, at 15: But then, where's your skirt? In your country, men wear short skirts, do they not?::Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: No, your majesty, Scotmen do not wear skirts. They wear kilts.

Pu Yi, at 15: Who is this George Washington?::Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: A famous American, your majesty. A revolutionary general, the first American president.::Pu Yi, at 15: Ah, like Mr. Lenin in Russia?::Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: Not quite.::Pu Yi, at 15: Does he have a car?::Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: He lived a long time ago, your majesty.::Pu Yi, at 15: *I* want a car.

Pu Yi, at 15: Is it true, Mr. Johnston, that many people out there have had their heads cut off?::Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: It is true, your majesty. Many heads have been chopped off. It does stop them thinking.

Reginald Fleming 'R.J.' Johnston: The Emperor has been a prisoner in his own palace since the day that he was crowned, and has remained a prisoner since he abdicated. But now he's growing up, he may wonder why he's the only person in China who may not walk out of his own front door. I think the Emperor is the loneliest boy on Earth.

Pu Yi, at 15: [in heavily accented English] I know that you know that I know that you know that that is a dialogue between Confucius and Chuang Tzu.

The Governor: [Confronting Puyi in the prison gardens, where Puyi works alone] Perhaps you think we're here to teach men to lie in a new way?::The Governor: [Puyi continues working as if trying to ignore the Governor] Why did you sign every accusation made against you? I didn't stop you from killing yourself to see you like this! Someone who will sign anything to please his enemies... to please me!::The Governor: [Puyi continues working] You knew about a lot of things in Manchukuo... even the secret agreements. But you couldn't possibly have known about the Japanese biological warfare experiments in Harbin! Could you? So why did you sign these papers?::Emperor Pu Yi: I was responsible for everything.::The Governor: You are responsible for what you do! All your life you thought you were better than everyone else. Now you think you're the worst of all!::Emperor Pu Yi: [sighs] Why can you not leave me alone? You saved my life to make me a puppet in your own play. You saved me because I am useful to you.::The Governor: Is that so terrible? To be useful?

The Governor: [bidding farewell to Pu Yi as he is released from reform camp] You see, I will end up living in prison longer than you!

The Governor: [setting a recurring theme of imprisonment throughout the film] Open the door! Open the door! Open the door!... Open the door!

Chen Pao Shen: [as Puyi is heading off to become the Emperor of Manchukuo] If you go you betray your country!::Emperor Pu Yi: [pause, at a distance] Which country?