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0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama Alain Resnais’ Mon Oncle D’Amerique is presented in the form of a case history, replete with a pedantic narrator, played by real-life behavioral scientist Henri Laborit. Gerald Depardieu plays a plant manager whose behavior is inspired by the films of macho French film star Jean Gabin. Nicole Garcia portrays an actress who has patterned her conduct after stage and film luminary Jean Marais. And Roger-Pierre is a TV executive whose main influence in life is lovely cinema actress Danielle Darrieux....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 95% Documentary Watch Trailer Rise and Shine: The Jay DeMerit Story is the true story of a young American’s impossible journey - a journey never experienced or heard of in the soccer world. After college, Jay’s dream of playing pro soccer in Europe seemed unreachable. Sleeping in an attic, painting houses and eating beans and toast to survive, Jay took the most unlikely route to the top....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Musical, Other Hector Berlioz’s “Benvenuto Cellini, a French opera written in the 1830s, is so complex, richly detailed and prolifically imaginative that Berlioz’s contemporaries often considered it unplayable. However, this is resoundingly proven false in the 2007 Salzburg Festival production of director Philipp Stölzl, conductor Valery Gergiev (“the wild man of music”) and a high-caliber cast accompanied by the Vienna Philharmonic and its chorus. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

4 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 29% 41% PG-13 | 1h 33m | Drama, Horror, Thriller Mary Kee is tormented by sinister phone calls from a mysterious woman. When the stranger reveals she’s calling from the past, Mary tries to break contact, but the caller doesn’t like being ignored, and looks for revenge in a unique and terrifying way… Director: Matthew Parkhill Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films Producer(s): Amina Dasmal, Luillo Ruiz, Piers Tempest...

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 13, 2013 (limited) Comedy, Documentary Acclaimed comedians Negin Farsad and Dean Obeidallah lead a group of Muslim-American standup comedians as they go on the road to counter Islamophobia using the only weapon they have: jokes. THE MUSLIMS ARE COMING! follows these comics as they visit big cities, rural villages, and everything in between to do shows, meet locals, and counter the haters. Commentary from pop culture icons like the Daily Show’s host Jon Stewart and correspondent Aasif Mandvi, Rachel Maddow, Janeane Garofalo, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, David Cross, and Lewis Black pepper the film as the comedians travel through middle America....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 75% Action, Adventure, Drama Fai once a world champion in boxing - escapes to Macau from the loan sharks and unexpectedly encounters Qi, a young chap who is determined to win a boxing match. Fai becomes Qi’s mentor and rediscovers his passion to fight not only in the ring, but for his life and the ones he cares about. Director: Dante Lam...

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Drama, Family “War Eagle, Arkansas” is about a young man’s choice of whether to leave his family and friends for a career in baseball or to stay and redeem his struggling community. The story takes place over a few pivotal weeks in the summer after Enoch Cass’s senior year and is set against the backdrop of Arkansas’ beautiful Ozark Mountains. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Having travelled their happily ramshackle film festivals from pillar to post in the last couple of years, Mark and Tilda are now spreading love for world cinema amid the younger generation. All will be revealed at this event, which will also include a special screening of a film close to both their hearts. And maybe there’ll be a surprise – suitable for citizens of the world aged 8 or 80, and even journalists!...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The story of the fall of the Soviet Union as lived and experienced by the Soviet people. The film shows what it meant to construct an entire state on the basis of a false idea and how truthful information led to the Soviet Union’s rapid and unstoppable collapse. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The story of the fall of the Soviet Union as lived and experienced by the Soviet people....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Autograph hound Al Babson (Eddie Cantor) accidentally disrupts the filming of a movie about Ali Baba, and is injured in the process. The filmmakers try to buy him off, but nurse Dinah (Virginia Field) suggests he be hired as an extra. He takes an overdose of painkillers, and his Arabian Nights dreams combine with the plot of the movie. His name leads the populace to think he’s the son of Ali Baba, and he’s taken to the palace of Sultan Abdullah (Roland Young), who’s so impressed by Al that he makes him prime minister....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Musical It’s hard to imagine what a sensation the “King of Swing” was in his time until you see screaming fans dancing in the aisles to his big-band sound. Here’s the whole story, beautifully told, from Goodman’s Chicago beginnings as a child of Russian Jewish immigrants through his rise to the status of cultural icon. Including early performance footage, rare rehearsal scenes, home movies, and a rich array of interviews....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 16, 2010 (limited) April 16, 2010 (limited) April 16, 2010 (limited) R | 1h 34m | Comedy, Drama A star-studded comedy of manners set against the backdrop of contemporary London and the international art scene, “Boogie Woogie” casts an eye over the appetites and morality of some of its major players. Dealers, collectors, artists, wannabees vie with each other in a world in which success and downfall rest on a thin edge....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 1, 2013 (limited) PG-13 | Drama, Thriller Sam Doonby, a mysterious and handsome drifter, steps off an interstate bus and quickly becomes the talk of a small Texas town. After finding work at Leroy’s Country Blues bar, his musical talents make him a small-town star, attracting the attention of Laura, the beautiful but spoiled daughter of local doctor Cyrus Reaper. Sam seems to always be in the right place at the right time to prevent disasters from happening in the town....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy This unofficial Czechoslovakian remake of Alexander Payne’s blockbuster seriocomedy Sideways (2004) concerns Jirka and Honza, two friends who check in as complete opposites on every level; Honza is a polished urbanite, Jirka a nickel-and-dime crook with a flair for wooing women. The men’s friendship is characterized by an unending series of wild schemes and escapades. When Honza learns of his grandfather’s impending death, it brings him face-to-face with his own mortality and encourages him to fulfill his long-held dream, while he still has the opportunity: to embark on a dream vacation to the vineyards of Morovia, with buddy Jirka in tow....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama In 1958, a pair of recently orphaned girls are left in the care of Ruth Chandler, a woman slowly going mad. Ruth decides that she must discipline the girls, and encourages her three young sons to share in the girls’ punishments. David, their 12-year-old neighbor, has developed an innocent crush on the older sister. As the summer progresses, he finds himself a witness to her sadistic torture....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Camelot is closed, King Arthur is dead and the Round Table is no more. Trainee knights Gilbert (a highly-strung hypochondriac) and Edgar (an up-beat Christian) find themselves wandering the land in the company of a Mysterious Knight in search of money, adventure and comfortable underwear. When the mysterious knight dies (mysteriously) Gilbert and Edgar find themselves in possession of a letter addressed to him from a certain King Kendrick, entreating him to help rescue his recently kidnapped daughter Katrina and a bag of gold they spend....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 31m | Drama Prague, summer 1610. German astronomer Johannes Kepler, the protégé of Emperor Rudolf II, is loaned, for ten days, one of the first telescopes invented by Galileo. Transforming the terrace of his house into an observatory, he scans the sky to prove his theory that the planets move in an elliptical motion around the sun. However, several members of the court and the clergy challenge his research....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Set in Germany shortly before the collapse of the Weimar Republic, this romantic drama chronicles the travails of an impoverished newlywed couple who leave their home village and move in with the groom’s stepmother in bustling Berlin to find success. The husband gets a small job in a department store and things are okay until they discover that the stepmother is really a notorious madame and runs an exclusive brothel....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Islamabad, Pakistan. A group of privileged and westernised twenty-something friends while away their days and nights driving around town, partying, surfing the internet and smoking shisha pipes. As the country outside their world starts to crack, Hasan and his friends must face up to relationships, internal angst and life choices before it is too late. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Islamabad, Pakistan. A group of privileged and westernised twenty-something friends while away their days and nights driving around town, partying, surfing the internet and smoking shisha pipes....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 36% 1h 31m | Drama Actor Paul Henreid made his directorial debut with the well-intentioned So Young, So Bad. The scene is a correctional home for delinquent girls, where sadistic warden Riggs (Cecil Clovelly) and head matron Beuhler (Grace Coppin) rule with an iron fist. Compassionate psychiatrist Dr. Jason (Paul Henreid) and assistant superintendent Ruth Levering (Catherine McLeod) disagree with the brutal disciplinary methods advocated by Riggs and Buehler....