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0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The central character in this Kenji Mizoguchi film is Utamaro, the famed 18th-century Edo artist. Somewhat inarticulate, Utamaro expresses his love for five women through his paintings. The director uses this plot contrivance to articulate his plea for fairer and more equitable treatment of women. And, as in such earlier Mizoguchi films as Sisters of Gion, prostitutes figure prominently into the scheme of things. Mizoguchi’s second postwar effort, Utamaro and His Five Women was originally titled Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 30, 2012 (limited) 1h 34m | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer In reaction to her rigid upbringing via her evangelist parents, Daniela, 17, creates a sexually charged blog under the pseudonym “Young and Wild,” in which she tells about her multiple sexual experiences. When Daniela is expelled from school after being accused of having had sex with a boy, her mother threatens to take her on a year-long religious boat cruise....

14 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 72% 69% In Theaters: December 4, 2015 (limited) R | 1h 58m | Drama, Other Watch Trailer Fred (Michael Caine), an acclaimed composer and conductor and his best friend Mick (Harvey Keitel), a renowned filmmaker, go on a vacation in the Swiss Alps with Fred’s daughter (Rachel Weisz). While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he believes will be his last important film, Fred relaxes, with no intention of going back to his musical career....

90 votes and 24 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 15% 48% In Theaters: December 25, 2013 PG-13 | 1h 59m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy Watch Trailer In 18th-century Japan, Oishi (Hiroyuki Sanada) leads a group of Samurai whose master has been killed by the treacherous villain, Lord Kira (Tadanobu Asano). Joined by a talented outcast named Kai (Keanu Reeves), the Ronin (Samurai without a master) seek to avenge the death of their beloved and respected master....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 9, 2012 (limited) R | 2h 17m | Drama Watch Trailer In the 18th century, young Queen Caroline Mathilda (Alicia Vikkander) is married to mentally ill King Christian VII of Denmark (Mikkel Følsgaard), but falls in love with her physician Struensee (Mads Mikkelsen). The two begin a torrid love affair, which ignites a revolution that changes the nation forever. Based on the novel “Prinsesse af blodet” by Bodil Steensen-Leth....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama, Romance Katharine Hepburn stars as Booth Tarkington’s would-be society belle Alice Adams. The product of a family of modest means, Alice nonetheless dreams of being accepted by the better people. Luck of luck, she meets well-to-do young Fred MacMurray at a social gathering; he is charmed by her pathetic attempts at putting on airs and accepts her invitation to dine at the Adams home....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A group of seemingly ordinary citizens with superhuman mental and physical abilities take the law into their own hands while working within the government to help investigate crimes. Director: Nick Copus Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Producer(s): Julie Siege, Kevin Lafferty, Nick Copus Cast: David Strathairn, Ryan Cartwright, Warren Christie, Azita Ghanizada, Laura Mennell 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A group of seemingly ordinary citizens with superhuman mental and physical abilities take the law into their own hands while working within the government to help investigate crimes....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Documentary In 2008 my friend Michael and I hitchhiked from San Fransisco to New York. That trip forced me to challenge many of my perceptions of this country. This film follows me as I decide to go hitchhiking again, to help work out exactly what it is about hitchhiking that I found so useful and enjoyable in 2008. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 44m | Drama, Thriller When Sally Matthews (Susan Sarandon) leaves her Canadian home to relocate to Atlantic City, she aspires to a prosperous career in the gambling industry. With her criminal husband (Robert Joy) on her trail, however, it appears that she can’t escape from trouble, until she finds an unlikely savior in Lou Pascal (Burt Lancaster), an aging small-time mobster. By becoming involved with Sally, Lou finds a way to achieve the success he’s dreamed of, but his plan may endanger both their lives....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 17, 2013 (limited) May 17, 2013 (limited) Drama Watch Trailer In Belle Epoque Paris, 19-year-old kitchen maid Augustine suffers an inexplicable seizure that leaves her partially paralyzed and is shipped off to an all-female psychiatric hospital specializing in the then-fashionable ailment of ‘hysteria’. Augustine captures the attention of renowned neurologist Dr. Charcot after she has another attack that appears to give her intense physical pleasure....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Thriller Plainfield, Wisconsin. The kind folks here think Ed Gein is just a shy, eccentric farmer. But Ed knows differently. Haunted by visions of his late mother Augusta - a devout woman whom he considers a saint - Ed has already become a prolific grave robber and amateur anatomist. Now, with the ghost of his mother compelling him, Ed can no longer resist the allure of Plainfield’s women, and his fierce desire to experience a real, live kill or two....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama With a screenplay by the Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez and noted Mexican director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, who also directed this film, there are several inventive and whimsical facets to this story about an ill-fated love. When Hector (Hector Bonilla) comes back from his usual night of burglarizing houses, he is surprised to find his former love María (María Rojo) in his apartment, dressed in a wedding gown....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A White Army (anti-communist) platoon, led by the devious general Denikin, lays siege to a southern city during the civil war. Refusing to be trapped – and with some important business elsewhere – communist cadre Zavarzin (the dynamic Igor Savkin) leads a ragtag group of resisters, including a nurse and a disguised White Army officer, in a daring escape attempt involving rolling machine gun carts....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 1, 1943 (limited) Drama Unseen for decades because of its pro-Communist slant, this fascinating and stirring “$3 million love letter to Joe Stalin” (as one critic put it) is the most lavish (and unabashedly misleading) propaganda film of Hollywood’s Golden Era. Director: Michael Curtiz 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 1, 1943 (limited) Drama Unseen for decades because of its pro-Communist slant, this fascinating and stirring “$3 million love letter to Joe Stalin” (as one critic put it) is the most lavish (and unabashedly misleading) propaganda film of Hollywood’s Golden Era....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The beautiful mountains of South Korea’s Kangwon Province provide a popular getaway for stressed-out residents of Seoul. The first segment of this two-part drama centers on a trio of young women, one of whom, Ji-sook (Oh Yun-hong), is very sensitive about the recent demise of her latest love affair. During their trip, she has a heated argument with her two companions. Later, she returns to the mountains to be near a handsome young cop they encountered there (Kim Yu-seok)....

142 votes and 52 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 74% 60% In Theaters: August 24, 2012 PG-13 | 1h 31m | Action, Adventure, Thriller Watch Trailer It takes a special breed to be a bike messenger in New York—dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians. Each day, riders who are equal part skilled cyclists and suicidal nutcases, risk becoming a smear on the pavement when they hit the streets with another delivery....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | 1h 35m | Comedy, Family A purposely outlandish cartoon created in 1953, Harvey Comics hero Richie Rich finally came to the big screen in 1994, when a boy billionaire was not quite as fanciful an idea. Richie Rich (Macaulay Culkin) is the wealthiest boy in the world, but even though he loves his doting parents, Richard (Edward Herrmann) and Regina (Christine Ebersole), he’s not happy....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama In SHATTERED IMAGE, Jesse appears to be living a double life. A ruthless hit woman who preys exclusively on men, she has recurring dreams in which she is a newlywed whose husband is preying on her. The problem is, it is equally possible that Jessie, in reality, is the new bride, and that she is having recurring nightmares in which she is a killer....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 22, 1999 (limited) Documentary With its four operas, seventeen-hour running time, and required rehearsal time of a full month once the sets have been built, staging Wagner’s Ring Cycle is a daunting undertaking for any opera company. Jon Else goes backstage at the San Francisco Opera to capture this rare event from a unique perspective: firsthand from the stagehands. “While the gods are out onstage singing about the great problems in the world, we are doing all the hard stuff,” says one stagehand in the middle of his eighty-five-hour work week during dress rehearsals....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy It’s 1936, two bowling teams from opposite sides of the globe compete in a world bowl off. The match is held in a small Midwestern town. Before it’s over FBI agents, Nazis, famous crime photographers, and Albert Einstein show up.The two teams, one a girls team from Tel Aviv, and a men’s team from Joliet come together for a match. They are helped by the use of scientific bowling from Maxwell....