Black's Game

Beach Read

Invalid date •English

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.

How I Taught Myself to Be a Child

March 2019 •German

Paul Silberstein, youngest son of an urbane but deeply strange old Austrian dynasty of confectionery millionaires, discovers the power of love and humor - and also his own extraordinary ability to shape his realities. Based on the motives of the short story with the same name by André Heller.

Cookers

April 2001 •English

After stealing a huge stash of drugs, speed freaks Hector and Dorena plan to cook up an enormous batch of crystal meth and get rich quick. Hector's old buddy Merle has the perfect hideout/meth lab: an old, abandoned farmhouse in the woods where no one will ever find them. Unfortunately, no one will hear their screams either. Turns out, they may not be alone after all. It seems this farmhouse is the site of a horrific urban legend. Now, holed up together with nothing to do but snort, smoke and shoot up, the strung-out "cookers" fall prey to paranoia, private demons and terrifying visions which, whether they are hallucinations or hauntings, are equally terrifying and just as deadly!

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

March 1967 •English

To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold Rush. When their very proper butler gives chase, all roads lead to nonstop adventure, wild and woolly characters, and a lucky punch that leads to a bonanza of belly laughs!

Extreme Prejudice

April 1987 •English

A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...

Rush

December 1991 •English

Undercover cop Jim Raynor (Jason Patric) is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his next case with him: a deep cover assignment to bring down the notoriously hard-to-capture drug lord Gaines (Gregg Allman). While their relationship turns romantic during the assignment, they also turn into junkies, and will have to battle their own addictions if they want to bring down Gaines once and for all.

Never Die Alone

March 2004 •English

A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

February 1970 •Italian

An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.

The Road

November 2009 •English

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.

Chandni Bar

September 2001 •Hindi

The gritty life of the Mumbai underworld, including prostitution, dance bars and gun crime.

Broken

October 2007 •English

A waitress confronts all the wrong turns she has made in her short life and ultimately ends up facing the biggest wrong turn of all: her dangerous ex-boyfriend who's determined to win back her love or die trying.

Novocaine

November 2001 •English

A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him into prescribing her drugs.

Yield to the Night

June 1956 •English

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

The Handmaid's Tale

February 1990 •English

In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.

Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS

October 1975 •English

Ilsa, a warden at a Nazi death camp that conducts experiments on prisoners, strives to prove that women can withstand more pain and suffering than men, and therefore should be allowed to fight on the frontlines.

8 Million Ways to Die

April 1986 •English

Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage.

Diner Noir Istanbul

March 2015 •French

A nature-hating aesthete, Jean des Esseintes attempts to furnish and decorate a country home where he will be able to live without ever again having to deal with the outside world.

Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiri

January 1987 •Finnish

Mothers' Instinct

January 2024 •English

Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly bond.

The Endless

November 2017 •English

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.