The Vortex

Marshal And Soidier

January 1981 •Chinese

A Green Wallet

January 1981 •Chinese

Principal of a reformatory school leads a lost boy back on the right direction.

A Regimental Commander and His Wife

April 1985 •Chinese

Hard Eight

May 1996 •English

A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

21

March 2008 •English

Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 tuition as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor to a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa to count cards at blackjack.

Buffalo Soldiers

October 2002 •English

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

Daskale ti didaskes?

January 1983 •Greek

Dimitris Thalassias is a single singing teacher at a senior high school in Athens and undertakes the care of a child abandoned by its mother at the door of the foundling hospital. He does everything required to raise it right, but he sees his life changing unexpectedly, since his fiancée leaves him, and his relations with his students go from bad to worse. While this is happening, the mother shows up to claim her child. In the end, everything is corrected, and a solution is provided through marriage.

Shedding Blood For China

January 1980 •Chinese

The Third Victim

January 1981 •Chinese

Ximen Family

December 1989 •Chinese

Return Home

December 1983 •Chinese

Bad Times at the El Royale

October 2018 •English

Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

Brick

March 2006 •English

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

Bugsy

December 1991 •English

New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.

Hunger

May 2008 •English

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.

Gangster No. 1

June 2000 •English

An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.

The Basketball Diaries

April 1995 •English

A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

In America

September 2003 •English

A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

Rounders

September 1998 •English

A young reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.

Byrd and the Bees

Invalid date •English

On an impromptu trip to Scotland, struggling author Rebecca Byrd lives the most romantic story she's NEVER written.