The Hunger Games (2012)
by Gary Ross

action, adventure, sci-fi

Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place
in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which
two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem
are chosen at random to fight to the death.



Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991)
by Alek Keshishian

documentary, music

Documentary following singer Madonna
on her controversial Blond Ambition tour in 1990.




Rome, Open City (1945)
by Roberto Rossellini

drama, thriller, war

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944,
the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased
by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.



Enter the Dragon (1973)
by Robert Clouse

action, crime, drama

A secret agent comes to an opium lord's island fortress
with other fighters for a martial-arts tournament.




West Side Story (1961)
by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins

crime, drama, musical

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs
fall in love, but tensions between their
respective friends build toward tragedy.




The Shining (1980)
by Stanley Kubrick

drama, horror

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister
presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son
sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.




Annie Hall (1977)
by Woody Allen

comedy, romance

Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship
with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended
abruptly just like his previous marriages.




Trans-Siberian Express (1977)
by Eldor Urazbaev

action, drama

An espionage thriller set aboard the train of the title.
A group of agents try to thwart the Japanese-Soviet
trade agreement by assassinating a Japanese businessman.




Psycho (1960)
by Alfred Hitchcock

horror, mystery, thriller

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client,
goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man
under the domination of his mother.




Amélie (2001)
by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

comedy, romance

Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own
sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and,
along the way, discovers love.



Forrest Gump (1994)
by Robert Zemeckis

drama, romance

The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the Vietnam War,
the Watergate scandal and other historical events unfold
from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75,
whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.


Cocoon (1985)
by Ron Howard

comedy, drama, sci-fi

When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool
containing alien cocoons, they find themselves
energized with youthful vigor.




Superman III (1983)
by Richard Lester

action, adventure, comedy

Synthetic kryptonite laced with tar splits Superman in two:
good Clark Kent and bad Man of Steel.




Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
by William Dear

comedy, family, fantasy

The Henderson family adopt a friendly Sasquatch
but have a hard time trying to keep the legend of "Bigfoot" a secret.




Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
by Elia Kazan

drama, romance

A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story
on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths
of bigotry and hatred.




A Perfect World (1993)
by Clint Eastwood

crime, drama, thriller

A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor,
an escaped convict on the run from the law,
while the search for him continues.



Mary Poppins (1964)
by Robert Stevenson

comedy, family, fantasy

In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and
adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.



Scrooged (1988)
by Richard Donner

comedy, drama, fantasy

A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits
bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.




Hang 'Em High (1968)
by Ted Post

drama, western

When an innocent man barely survives a lynching, he returns
as a lawman determined to bring the vigilantes to justice.





High Noon (1952)
by Fred Zinnemann

drama, thriller, western

A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his
newlywed bride and the townspeople around him,
must face a gang of deadly killers alone
at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw
he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon train.

My Fair Lady (1964)
by George Cukor

drama, family, musical

In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins
agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle,
presentable in high society.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
by L. Frank Baum

Dorothy thinks she's lost forever when a tornado whirls
her and her dog, Toto, into a magical world. To get home,
she must find the wonderful wizard in the Emerald City of Oz.
On the way she meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman
and the Cowardly Lion. But the Wicked Witch of the West
has her own plans for the new arrival...
will Dorothy ever see Kansas again?

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908)
by L. Frank Baum

When Dorothy recovered her senses they were still falling,
but not so fast. The top of the buggy caught the air like
a parachute or an umbrella filled with wind, and held them back
so that they floated downward with a gentle motion that was not
so very disagreeable to bear. The worst thing was their terror of
reaching the bottom of this great crack in the earth, and the natural
fear that sudden death was about to overtake them at any moment.

Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)
by L. Frank Baum

The fun begins in an isolated corner of Oz, in the small country
of Oogaboo. There Queen Ann Soforth musters an unlikely army and
sets off to conquer the rest of Oz. Meanwhile, Betsy Bobbin from
Oklahoma and her companion, Hank the mule, are shipwrecked and
washed ashore in the Rose Kingdom, a magical land of talking roses.
There they meet the Shaggy Man, who is on a quest to rescue his
brother from the clutches of the wicked Nome King. Betsy, Hank,
Rose Princess and the shaggy Man soon meet up with Polychrome,
the Rainbow's Daughter; Tik-Tok; and Queen Ann with her army.

Rinkitink in Oz (1916)
by L. Frank Baum

A tale of high adventure beginning in the islands of the Nonestic Ocean
and eventually culminating in the darkness of the Nome King's Caverns.
Rinkitink is the fun-loving runaway king of his eponomous land who
accompanied by his beast of burden, a surly talking goat named Bilbil,
makes his way to the beautiful and peaceful island of Pingaree. His
timing, however, is poor for soon after his arrival the island is overrun
by a marauding band of warriors who loot and pillage the entire island
and carry all its inhabitants off to slavery on the twin islands
of Regos and Coregos.

The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
by L. Frank Baum

When Dorothy awakens one morning to discover that the beloved
ruler of the Land of Oz has disappeared, all of the Emerald City's
most celebrated citizens join in the search for the lost princess. But
Ozma isn't all that's gone missing. The magical treasures of Oz have
disappeared, too, including the Magic Picture, the Wizard's black bag,
and even Glinda's Great Book of Records. With no clues to guide them,
Ozma's friends separate into four search parties and spread out across
their vast country in a desperate quest for their absent ruler.

The Little Prince (1943)
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see,
standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow.
"Please," asks the stranger, "draw me a sheep." And the pilot
realizes that when life's events are too difficult to understand,
there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries. He pulls out
pencil and paper... And thus begins this wise and enchanting fable
that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life,
has changed forever the world for its readers.

Confessions of a Mask (1949)
by Yukio Mishima

Tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by
his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be “normal.”
Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more
athletic activities of his classmates. He begins to notice his
growing attraction to some of the boys in his class, particularly
the pubescent body of his friend Omi. To hide his homosexuality,
he courts a woman, Sonoko, but this exacerbates his feelings
for men. As news of the War reaches Tokyo, Kochan considers
the fate of Japan and his place within its deeply rooted propriety.

The Analects
by Confucius

A collection of Confucius’s sayings brought together by his pupils shortly
after his death in 497 BC. Together they express a philosophy, or a moral
code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time,
believed everyone should live. Upholding the ideals of wisdom,
self-knowledge, courage and love of one’s fellow man, he argued that
the pursuit of virtue should be every individual’s supreme goal.
And, while following the Way, or the truth, might not result in immediate
or material gain, Confucius showed that it could nevertheless bring
its own powerful and lasting spiritual rewards.

The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
by Ernest Hemingway

Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story
of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme
ordeal - a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin
far out in the Gulf Stream.






The Wind Rises (1937)
by Tatsuo Hori

The male leading character accompanied his seriously ill wife-to-be,
Setsuko, to go to the deep mountain to treat her illness.






The Innocence of Father Brown (1911)
by G.K. Chesterton

The main hero of the stories is the priest who strives not only to take
a criminal red-handed and clean a crime, but also to set him in the
right way, to save a person’s soul. In spite of a religious component,
the book is not congested with moralizing, but imbued with unique
English humour. It is incredibly engrossing and contains everything
for the readers of crime fiction to enjoy it.

An Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde.

An English writer Virginia Woolf.

A German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

An American professor and writer Dan Ariely.

An American comedian, actor, singer, director,
producer, writer, and humanitarian Jerry Lewis.

An American filmmakers and actors Samuel M. Raimi
and George A. Romero.

An American actress, singer, dancer
and diplomat Shirley Temple.

TV shows: Looney Tunes, Columbo,
Harry and the Hendersons, Gundam.

Star Trek American science fiction media franchise.

A short story by Akutagawa Ryunosuke Two Letters.

A Jidaigeki novel by Ryōtarō Shiba Warrior of the Wind.

A Japanese children's book Higeyo, Saraba.

Grimms' Fairy Tales.

Polyanna, either an original book or movies based on it.

Nancy Drew, a fictional character appearing in several
mystery book series, movies, video games, and TV shows
as a teenage amateur detective.

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