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8 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 31% 61% R | 1h 35m | Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller In this sci-fi/horror scarefest, Dr. William Weir (Sam Neill) is a scientist who has designed a spacecraft called Event Horizon which will explore the outer reaches of space past the planet Neptune; the ship employs a special transport mechanism that, in effect, creates a black hole that the ship can pass through, allowing it to travel tremendous distances in a few seconds....

2 votes and 0 Reviews 2h 2m | Thriller Îles-de-la-Madeleine. Rosalie Richard, the daughter of the mayor of Cap-aux-wheels, is found dead, the victim of a brutal rape, at the foot of a cliff. Unaccustomed to this kind of investigation, André Surprenant, the sergeant of the Sûreté du Québec, goes over the evidence and finds that he’s very much suited to this type of work. This comes much to the displeasure of Detective Sergeant Gingras, who’s been brought in from Montreal to solve the case in his own way....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Comedy Watch Trailer A group of slackers living for free in a rock star’s mansion suddenly find their lives on easy street threatened when the musician decides to sell his pad. To stop the sale the gang comes up with a series of ludicrous and hilarious schemes to insure the house never sells. 0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Comedy Watch Trailer...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama On the run from the cops, bootleggers Frankie Madison (Burt Lancaster) and Noll Turner (Kirk Douglas), find themselves racing up to an enormous roadblock. The two split up, agreeing that if one was caught, the other would operate their nightclub and save half the profits for his partner. The unlucky Madison is caught and when released from prison 14 years later, he returns to claim his money....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 86% Comedy, Drama Envol, a reception centre for homeless women, is due to close following a municipal decision. Social workers are given just three months to reintegrate the women they care about at all costs: forgery, string-pulling, lies… From this point on, anything goes! 0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 86% Comedy, Drama Envol, a reception centre for homeless women, is due to close following a municipal decision....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary A childhood friend reconnects with a young painter who has been confined to a wheelchair. Old jealousies are rekindled but overcome. Lior was my role-model in high school. She was a wild but charmful punk, always surrounded with friends. I liked filming her. After being often repressed by her, I let the friendship fade…even when a rare disease left her paralyzed from the chest down....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary APPO (Oaxaca’s People Summit) goes through a profound self-organizational experience, which demonstrates that mass movements are capable of resolving critical issues such as the re-organization of the mass media. The Oaxacan Women’s Committee takes over a government radio station and Channel 9, an immense an important media complex that the former governor of Oaxaca, Ulysses Ruiz ran for his personal use. However, during the Oaxacan uprising these stations belonged to the people....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 14, 2004 (limited) May 28, 2004 (limited) PG | Drama In a mansion decimated during World War II, a frustrated, bored housewife, Yuwen, is torn between caring for her ailing husband and her longing for a former sweetheart, a doctor who has come to treat her husband. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 14, 2004 (limited) May 28, 2004 (limited) PG | Drama...

14 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 49% 56% In Theaters: April 1, 2011 (limited) R | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer When sad-sack loser Frank (Rainn Wilson) sees his ex-addict wife (Liv Tyler) willingly snatched by a seductive drug dealer (Kevin Bacon), he finds himself bereft and wholly unable to cope. But soon he decides to fight back under the guise of a DIY superhero called Crimson Bolt....

2 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 1, 1975 On Disney+: November 12, 2019 G | Comedy, Family, Western The Apple Dumpling Gang stars Bill Bixby as Russell Donovan, a slick frontier gambler. In Runyon-esque fashion, he is compelled to look after three precocious oprhaned kids. He can’t handle the responsibilities alone, so he agrees to an in-name-only marriage to hoydenish stagecoach driver, Magnolia Dusty Clydesdale (Susan Clark). Fortuitously, they discover that a mine belonging to the kids’ late father is worth millions....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary In this tart and witty documentary, comedy writer Sue Perkins digs up the real dirt on Regency-era British lesbian, Annie Lister. Born in 1791, Lister lived in the same era as the Brönte sisters, but her writings were a far cry from Jane Eyre. Tagged as ‘The Rosetta Stone of lesbian history,’ Lister’s explicit diaries detail her sexual conquests with great panache. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews 2h 33m | Drama 1920s Rural Quebec. Francis, a brilliant but shy boy, lives in a shack in the woods with his mother Claudine, a misanthropic and strict disciplinarian. Isolated, their austere existence is punctuated by numerous physical beatings at her hand. She wants him to become a priest so that God will forgive her for bearing a child out of wedlock. At the age of 17, Francis voices his fierce opposition to her decision and in anger Claudine beats him so violently on the head that he loses his hearing....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 31m | Documentary Filmmaker Namir Abdel Messeeh, born in Paris to a family of Egyptian immigrants, is skeptical when presented with a video purporting to show Virgin Mary in Cairo. Namir sets off on a trip to Egypt to make a film about the truth behind this alleged appearance. With the endorsement of his producer, he flies to Cairo with a small crew to travel to places where the Virgin has appeared over the decades, and gather the testimonies of those present at these strange events....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: May 6, 2011 (limited) PG-13 | 2h 2m | Drama Watch Trailer Set against the backdrop of the horrific Spanish Civil War, a young journalist is investigating the life of Saint Josemaria Escriva but winds up discovering his own father’s deep, dark past. Director: Roland Joffé Studio: 20th Century Fox Producer(s): Roland Joffé Cast: Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott, Unax Ugalde, Rodrigo Santoro, Jordi Molla, Derek Jacobi, Golshifteh Farahani...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 89% 90% In Theaters: October 21, 1932 (limited) 1h 23m | Drama Ernst Lubitsch used Laszlo Aladar’s play The Honest Finder as a springboard for one of his most delightful early-’30s Paramount confections. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins play Gaston and Lily, a pair of Parisian thieves, both disguised as nobility, who decide to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet (Kay Francis); Gaston gets a job as Mariette’s confidential secretary, while Lily installs herself as the woman’s typist....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 5h 12m | Family Tori Vega (Victoria Justice) and her friends navigate life at their upscale Hollywood performing arts school. In season two, the students have to re-audition for their elite spots and get ready for their first prom. Studio: Nickelodeon Producer(s): Bruce Rand Berman, Joe Catania Cast: Victoria Justice, Leon Thomas III, Matt Bennett, Elizabeth Gillies, Ariana Grande, Avan Jogia 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Stevie endures a job he despises, and he can’t get a girlfriend, but at least he has music. With his mate Neil, he’s been kicking about in bands for a while, but it is not until the pair team up with Billy Dixon, a more experienced hand with drive and ambition, and Billy’s cute pal Emily that the possibility they might be on to something good suggests itself....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 18, 2013 (limited) Documentary Watch Trailer In 1968 a young college drop-out named George A. Romero directed “Night of the Living Dead,” a low budget horror film that shocked the world, became an icon of the counterculture, and spawned a zombie industry worth billions of dollars that continues to this day.This new documentary, shows how Romero gathered an unlikely team of Pittsburghers - policemen, iron workers, teachers, ad-men, housewives and a roller-rink owner - to shoot, with a revolutionary guerrilla, run-and-gun style, his seminal film....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 6, 2016 (limited) 2h 5m | Other During a harvest festival on a collective farm in the Russian steppes, a Moscow dance troupe arrives to entertain the workers, upsetting the apple cart to humorous effect. Director: Alexei Ratmansky Studio: Bolshoi Ballet 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 6, 2016 (limited) 2h 5m | Other During a harvest festival on a collective farm in the Russian steppes, a Moscow dance troupe arrives to entertain the workers, upsetting the apple cart to humorous effect....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy In this slapstick comedy, a bride and her groom and all their wedding guests become the victims of a swindle by the bride’s father. He has had a bunch of copies made of some very valuable paintings, and has hidden the real ones away. These paintings are heavily insured, and he wants to have the fakes stolen so that he can pocket the insurance money - and still have the paintings....