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0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Conflict! Love! Alcohol! Hatred! Pathos! Alcohol! San Francisco, 1988: This TRUE STORY takes place in the roach-ridden Lower Haight, in a Pepto Bismal-pink dingbat apartment at 237 Steiner. Audio taped by the neighbors upstairs, these two grievously alcoholic middle-aged men fight and curse their nights away. Glenn Shadix’s portrayal is the heartbeat of the film and gives the film much emotional depth. A cult classic rarely screened in theaters....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama, Thriller Canadian filmmaker James Dunnison directs this campy horror flick about a guy and his mother. Scrawny, leather-clad Phillip (Max Danger) is a misfit living in the basement of his mother’s Toronto townhouse. Her bullying ways push him over the edge, and Phillip blows her away. Fortunately, he comes across an ancient ring that has the power to reanimate the dead. Unfortunately, his discovery provokes a horde of angry vampires....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Watch Trailer The story of two childhood friends who have grown apart and are suddenly thrust back into each other’s lives when a parent develops cancer. They join forces to find the cure but soon realize their lives are danger if they expose the truth. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Watch Trailer The story of two childhood friends who have grown apart and are suddenly thrust back into each other’s lives when a parent develops cancer....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | 1h 31m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy In this undistinguished parody of the sci fi genre, Robert Urich is Jason who leads a band of pirates in redistributing the wealth of the few to the coffers of the needy. He also joins up with Princess Karina Mary Crosby in searching for her father and a possible source of water in the next galaxy. Meant to be a campy romp through the sci fi genre, the film stops short of achieving a goal that should have been effortless....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 6, 1970 (limited) Comedy, Western This spaghetti western finds a despotic mine owner (Eduardo Fajardo) the target for revenge by the idealistic patriot Eufemio (Tony Musante). He hires Bill Douglas (Franco Nero) to incite a revolution that will oust the government and the greedy miner. Douglas agrees as long as his creature comforts are insured during the crossing of the unforgiving desert. Ricciolo (Jack Palance) is the mercenary working for the side of the mineowner....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Thriller In this well-regarded film noir thriller, Joe Barron (Glenn Ford) is a police detective whose wife Lisa (Elke Sommer) has inherited a stock portfolio from her father. Joe and Lisa go on a spending spree, but when their new holdings fail to pay dividends, Joe finds himself deep in debt. Dr. Horace Van Tilden (Joseph Cotten), a rich doctor who caters to high-society clientele, shoots an intruder in his home, and Joe is assigned to investigate; Joe discovers that Van Tilden has a lucrative sideline selling drugs, and that the shooting victim was actually an addict looking for dope....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 15, 2011 (limited) 2h 19m | Drama, Romance Against the backdrop of the savage Catholic/Protestant wars of 16th Century France, Marie de Mézières (Mélanie Thierry), a beautiful young aristocrat, finds herself married to a young prince (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) she does not love, haunted by a rakish suitor (Gaspard Ulliel) from her childhood, and advised by an aging nobleman (Lambert Wilson), harboring his own forbidden desire for her....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 91% 83% In Theaters: November 29, 2013 (limited) 1h 20m | Documentary Watch Trailer Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outspoken feminist icons, a cultural lightning rod. Her critics wished she would just shut-up, and her fans hoped she never would....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Based rather loosely on a novel by Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans concerns a writer (played by George Peppard) who moves to San Francisco and falls in with a crowd of beatniks after falling in love with a French girl (Leslie Caron). The woman was black, not French, in Kerouac’s novel, only the most obvious of the many areas in which this strays from the source material....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure Inspired by the novel The Viking by Edison Marshall, The Vikings was lensed on location in Norway under extremely adverse weather conditions. Adding to the difficulty was the fact that star Kirk Douglas and director Richard Fleischer never quite found a common ground, and for years thereafter would hold each other responsible for the film’s falling short of its potential. Still, the finished product is quite a feast for the eyes and ears....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Simone Signoret plays the title role in this dark melodrama from writer/director Pierre Granier-Deferre. The Widow Couderc is based on a novel by Georges Simenon. Here Signoret (who also starred in Le Chat, an earlier Granier-Deferre adaptation of a Simenon novel) plays a bitterly independent middle-aged widow; she is a farmer who takes in a handsome young drifter, Jean (Alain Delon), who turns out to be recently released from prison....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Thriller Tree Keeper tells the story of Doire, a man in his twenties who inherits a hundred acres of woodland when his father dies. A solitary and reclusive figure, Doire decides the best way to protect his inheritance is to make a home for himself deep in the woods. In his isolation in the woods Doire is unaware that his estranged mother has contested his father’s will and has been granted ownership of the woodlands....

0 votes and 0 Reviews For professional athletes, all aspects of life are viewed through the concentrated lens of their sport. Director Manon Briand brilliantly offers a glance through such a lens in 2 Seconds as she captures what it means for a champion mountain-bike racer to embrace life after she is forced to end her career. After discovering a gray hair, Laurence pauses at the start gate before hurtling down a mountain in an otherwise flawless run....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy A family of vampires, bored with immortality, lives in Belgium, eats illegal immigrants, children, handicapped folk, and takes every advantage they can suck out of the country’s social system. Samson, a seventies throwback, lives his 55th year like he’s forever 20. Grace, an eternal teenager bent on being human again, keeps committing suicide. George, the patriarch, manages as best he can, heading the eccentric family and its on-going squabbles with the neighboring vampires....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Veeraputhran is about the life of a freedom fighter, Mohammed Abdu Rehman, who fought hard against the British rule in India. Narain does the role of Mohammed Abdu Rehman.Life of Rehman from 1921 to 1945 will be depicted in this film. Veeraputhran is scripted and directed by P T Kunju Muhammed. Bollywood actress Raima Sen will portray the role of Mohammed Abdu Rehman’s wife ‘Kunji Beevathu’....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In 1963, director Michael Apted and then-partner Paul Almond chronicled the lives of 14 seven-year-olds for British television; they returned to the same group at intervals of seven years for updates, of which this is the fifth. It’s possible to watch this film without having seen the other chapters (28 Up and 42 Up are the only other installments in circulation), because Apted offers thumbnail flashbacks with each interview....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Venu Nagavally, the man who as a director gave us films like ‘Sukhamo Devi’, ‘Sarvakalasa’, ‘Lal Salaam’, ‘Kalipattom’, ‘Aayirappara’ etc and who has scripted many hits including ‘Kilukkam’, is also a well-known actor. It’s after a long gap of about a decade, that Venu Nagavally directs a movie. Earlier titled ‘Suhruththu’, the film is now set for release as ‘Bhaarya Swantham Suhriththu’. Kariyaachan had been in the Gulf for many years....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi A serial killer is transformed into a computer virus out to destroy more than your hard drive in this sci-fi thriller. Terry Munroe (Karen Allen), a single mother, is looking for a gift for her boss and visits a computer store, where one of the employees demonstrates a hand-held scanner than can transfer the information from her address book into a software program that will store the information on her PC....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 32m | Drama March 2067. Milana, 60, looks back at the time of her life when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life. A grade school student, Milana had no visa. When her friend Youssef and his family, also in Paris illegally, are arrested by police and deported, Milana, who lives with her mother and cousins, begins to fear for her future in France....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 65% 36% In Theaters: August 28, 1992 PG-13 | 1h 35m | Comedy, Romance, Thriller On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend. They finally decide to tie the knot in Vegas, but a wealthy gambler arranges for the man to lose $65K in a poker game and offers to clear the debt for a weekend with his fiancée....