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0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, War On April 11, 1945, Buchenwald was liberated. Nearly 1,000 boys survived. Sixty-five years later, on April 11, 2010 several of the surviving boys from block 66 returned to Weimer and to Buchenwald. “Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald” is their story.This profoundly moving film provides a powerful look into the harrowing experiences and the lives of the Holocaust survivors from a children’s barrack, Block 66, at the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama An aging man in a dying town tries to sort out the loose ends of his life, with tragic results, in this drama. Nobuo (Ken Ogata) is an elderly man living in a remote village on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, known for its punishing winters. While the community was once prosperous thanks to the fishing trade, the harbors no longer yield many fish, and as a result the village has fallen on hard times....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 36m | Drama While rehearsing the role of Hamlet in Montreal, Dave, an Aboriginal actor in his twenties, receives a photo of Gertrude, his biological mother, about whom he knows nothing. The young man immediately leaves in search of the Kinoganish reserve, where he meets Chief Claude St-Onge, who is preparing a referendum on the cutting rights of a logging company. Without realizing it, Dave has stumbled on Gertrude’s future husband, and an old love triangle involving his dead father, the chief and his mother....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The documentary tells the story of Mustafa, a 16-year-old boy who works as a pastry shop apprentice in Gaziantep, the “Capital of Baklava”, in Eastern Turkey. His dream is to become a famous pastry chef in Istanbul. The journey he goes through leads him to find more than bright lights at his destination. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The documentary tells the story of Mustafa, a 16-year-old boy who works as a pastry shop apprentice in Gaziantep, the “Capital of Baklava”, in Eastern Turkey....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, War Another American Soldier Has Died. Who cares? The suffering of soldiers and their families is largely invisible to most Americans. But not to these Americans. Patriot Guard Riders is a documentary about a 200,000 strong motorcycle group who attend military funerals to honor the fallen, and to protect grieving families from hate groups that protest them. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, War...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 78% In Theaters: June 17, 2011 (limited) 45m | Documentary Watch Trailer RESCUE plunges audiences into the hard, but inspiring work of saving lives in the face of a natural disaster. Behind the scenes, the film follows a Canadian naval commander, two pilots, and a volunteer rescue technician as they train for action. When an earthquake strikes Haiti, creating one of the biggest humanitarian disasters of the century, the audience is swept along, joining with the massive effort that brings military and civilian responders and hardware from around the world....

214 votes and 79 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 43% 55% In Theaters: June 15, 2012 PG-13 | 2h 3m | Drama Watch Trailer It’s 1987, the height of the hair-metal craze. Drew Boley (Diego Boneta) has left his Detroit home to make it in Los Angeles as a rock star. At the same time, Sherrie Christian (Julianne Hough) has moved from her small Midwestern town to become an actress, but when they meet at the Bourbon Room, they begin a love affair far greater than their dreams of stardom....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Lily is a former stripper and manager of a seedy strip club. She is wise, but submissive, allowing herself to succumb to years of objectification and abuse. That will change in the course of 24 hours. During a series of events that involve her contemptuous and paranoid strip club owner husband, Larry, and a judgmental IRS agent, Francis, along with two strippers that haunt the distant memory of Lily’s past Cara, a ferocious and self-destructive hell-cat, and Wren, an innocent seduced into the decadent lifestyle - Lily will metamorphose into a new person....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama “Walkaway” mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City. Exploring the subtleties of the Indian mega-institution of marriage, from the now-veiled urban dowry system to the overwhelming compromises demanded of a cross-cultural couple, the film weaves through the lives of four friends who struggle to balance engrained values with modern environs in the fast-paced melting pot that is New York....

0 votes and 0 Reviews With suspense in the De Palma tradition, this thriller from Michael Steinberg (Bodies, Rest & Motion) hinges on the killer of cheating Karen Christianson (Chelsea Field), survived by her husband Ben (William R. Moses), troubled teen daughter Ellie (Julia Stiles), and little sister Inger (Vanessa Zima). At the gated tract-house community where they live, homicide detective Boland (Michael Parks) keeps his eye on a variety of suspects – prissy Mrs....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Drama, Romance When New York City architect Amy Benic falls in love with blind, charismatic masseur Virgil Adamson, she convinces him to undergo experimental surgery that will allow him to see the world as she sees it – in all its chaotic, colorful glory. In this new, exciting time together, they soon learn that all gifts come with a price and vision is comprised of a multitude of senses....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Shot mainly with excellent non-professional actors in the stony-broke post-industrial town of Seraing, this critically-acclaimed study of shattered lives finds unexpected shafts of lyricism among the gritty gloom. An unemployed dad, his single-parent daughter and tearaway teenage son negotiate a hostile world, their stories combining into perhaps the most pressingly topical feature in this year’s festival. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Shot mainly with excellent non-professional actors in the stony-broke post-industrial town of Seraing, this critically-acclaimed study of shattered lives finds unexpected shafts of lyricism among the gritty gloom....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Greta Garbo enjoyed one of her greatest triumphs in this glossy adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ oft-filmed romantic tragedy. Here, Garbo stars as Marguerite Gauthier, who is born into humble circumstances but in time becomes Dame aux Camille, one of the most glamorous courtesans in Paris. Camille is kept by the wealthy and powerful Baron de Varville (Henry Daniell), but after many years of earning a good living from her beauty without finding true love, Camille’s heart is stolen by Armand (Robert Taylor), a handsome but slightly naive young man who doesn’t know how she came by her fortune....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Watch Trailer Ricky Jay is a world-renowned magician, author, historian and actor (often a mischievous presence in the films of David Mamet and Paul Thomas Anderson) – and a performer who regularly provokes astonishment from even the most jaded audiences. DECEPTIVE PRACTICE traces Jay’s achievements and influences, from his apprenticeship at age 4 with his grandfather, to such now-forgotten legends as Al Flosso, Slydini, Cardini and his primary mentors, Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 84% 74% 1h 30m | Documentary Watch Trailer Following investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, Dirty Wars goes behind the scenes of the many unpublicized wars in which the United States of America is involved. The documentary takes on the feel of a mystery novel, as Scahill delves further and further into the United States government and travels all over the world to expose the military action that they are trying to keep silent....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 11, 2021 (limited) 1h 18m | Drama One of the first films to confront the horrors of the Holocaustremains one of the most powerful. Suffused with the visceral dread ofa waking nightmare, Distant Journey draws from director and Holocaustsurvivor Alfréd Radok’s own experiences to tell the story of a Czechoslovak Jewish family whose lives are torn apart bythe terrors of the Nazi occupation, leading them inexorably to a grimfight for survival in the Theresienstadt concentration camp....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi Eight space cargo-ships disappear without a trace within three days. And the orbit station “Margot” has suddenly fallen silent. The space council is faced with a mystery and the scientist in charge, Maria Scholl, sees no other solution than ordering a total flight stop to this mysterious sector of space. Her colleague, Prof. Tal seems to be suspicious since he knows things before they are even released....

24 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 87% 70% In Theaters: October 5, 2012 On Disney+: November 12, 2019 PG | 1h 27m | Animation, Comedy, Horror Watch Trailer If there’s one thing young Victor Frankenstein loves more than anything, it’s his dog Sparky. After his beloved friend unexpectedly dies, Victor turns to science to bring his best friend back to life—it turns out Sparky returns but he’s not exactly the same as he was before....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Hamedullah has just turned 18. Like many other young asylum seekers in the UK, upon his birthday he is arrested in a terrifying and brutal dawn raid. First held without trial, he is then flown out on a secret ‘ghost flight’ where he is dumped in his native home country, Afghanistan. Taking with him a camcorder, he recollects his penniless arrival in the war zone he fled as a child, alone and scared; with no friends, family or home....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 62% 55% Documentary Watch Trailer The life and times of Theodor Herzl, father of the modern state of Israel. How Herzl, a well known journalist and playwright, an assimilated, Budapest born Jew, horrified by the Dreyfus trial in Paris and the antiSemitism he saw spreading across Europe, took upon himself the task of attempting to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine against all odds....