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'Beauty and the Beast' is the adaptation of a story by Madame de Villeneuve. Published anonymously in 1740, it paints a portrait of Belle, a young girl full of joy who falls in love with The Beast, a cursed creature in search of love and redemption. In 1760, a condensed children's version was published, and it was from this version that Jean Cocteau and then Walt Disney drew their famous adaptations. Overshadowed, the original version has never been adapted for the screen. Until now. (TMDb)

In this story the Blacksmith has captured the Devil and lives a life of hermit-like seclusion away from the prying eyes of the townsfolk. All is going well until a desperate little girl, Usue, accidentally stumbles across the devil and unknowingly releases him. It is then left to the Blacksmith to reclaim his bounty, but this is easier said then done as he also finds himself at the end of a lynch mob that have come searching for the missing Usue. (imdb)

A former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly. (imdb)

Amidst the rain in a singing city, two umbrellas-one blue, one not-fall eternally in love. (imdb)

A group of Special Ops Reservists on a mission in the harsh and hostile terrain of Afghanistan find themselves lost in a Middle Eastern "Bermuda Triangle" of ancient evil. (imdb)

The discovery of a bone and a gun send a husband and wife on separate adventures over the course of a weekend. (imdb)

Marianne is a theatre actress married to an orchestra conductor, Markus. She becomes involved in an affair with their director friend, David, which leads to a painful divorce and battle for custody of their daughter, Isabelle. Although all of them are merely fictional characters created by Bergman, their experiences become very real and traumatic for him. (imdb)

Europe's most daring and inventive writer/director, François Ozon, reunites with his two favorite leading ladies, Charlotte Rampling (of "Under the Sand") and Ludivine Sagnier (of "8 Women") in this deliciously sophisticated and sexy mystery. (Focus Features)

A girl brings home her latest boyfriend to meet her parents. This is done against the background of random shootings that had just begun in NYC. How the family's failings are magnified by the social confusion of the times is the crux of the plot.

A girl, sent by her parents to live with her two eccentric aunts, finds out on her sixteenth birthday that she is a witch. (imdb)