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0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 96% 74% In Theaters: November 1, 2013 (limited) November 29, 2013 (limited) 1h 11m | Documentary Watch Trailer A documentary that chronicles the lives of street children in Karachi, Pakistan. Filmed over a three-year period, the film places the spotlight on the stories of two individuals: a runaway boy and an ambulance driver (who was previously a street kid). The Edhi Home and Ambulance Centre is one of the few safe havens for these runaways....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The first film since the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war to deal seriously with the social problems left in the wake of that 26-year-long conflict, this is also one of the very few films to date made by a Sinhalese director in the Tamil language. A Tamil rebel soldier is rehabilitated and sent back to his village. Feared and resented by his neighbours, he becomes a security guard for a smuggler, while forming a strange bond with the wife of the previous holder of the job....

28 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 94% 78% In Theaters: March 1, 2013 (limited) March 15, 2013 (limited) 1h 30m | Drama Watch Trailer Komona, a 14-year-old girl, tells the child growing inside her the story of her life from the time she was forced into the war. It all started at age 12, when she was abducted. For the next two years, she fought using a Kalashnikov assault rifle in an army of rebel warriors....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 31% 94% In Theaters: February 25, 1994 PG-13 | 1h 45m | Drama Luke Perry stars in this biography of the late Lane Frost, a champion bull rider who in 1987 won a rodeo world championship at the tender age of 21. In Eight Seconds (the title refers to the minimum amount of time a rider must stay on a bull in competition), Lane Frost is a young man from Oklahoma who learns to ride, hoping to win the approval of his emotionally distant father....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Drama An action movie that revolves around a young guy who grew up in a poor family, struggling to overcome his poor origin and goes from being a casino bookie to a drug dealer, falls in love with a charming dancer. When the chips fall he has to flee the country or face the consequences. 0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Drama...

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 16, 2008 (limited) PG | Comedy, Musical, Romance Prepare for plenty of music, lots of dancing, and even a little magic in this reworking of the Cinderella legend featuring High School Musical star Drew Seeley as a young Prince Charming in search of the ideal girl. It’s never easy being the new kid in school, but young Joey (Seeley) is determined to make the most of his new surroundings....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A legal drama that follows the intersecting lives of a talented and struggling artist, Emma, and an ambitious and brash young lawyer, Henry. Henry’s client is Emma, an aspiring San Francisco painter who escapes from her domineering mother and tumultuous home life to follow her dreams and artistic aspirations. In her quest for freedom, she finds herself in a violently, intoxicating world of romance, wealth, and passion....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Drama Tom Kane (Kelsey Grammar), the mayor of Chicago, has recently been diagnosed with a degenerative neurological disorder but keeps it a secret to salvage his political career. Although some suspect something is wrong, the only person that knows the truth is Kane’s physician. Director: Jean de Segonzac, Jim McKay, Mario Van Peebles Studio: Alliance Producer(s): Peter Giuliano Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Connie Nielsen, Hannah Ware, Jeff Hephner, Kathleen Robertson, Martin Donovan, Troy Garity, Rotimi...

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | 1h 47m | Action, Adventure, Comedy Watch Trailer A high-end escort manages to get her hands on evidence that can unveil a major government scandal. To survive the gang of people out to silence her—including a ruthless assassin, the Mob and a corrupt US senator—she must rely on two bumbling private detectives to protect her. Director: John Stockwell Studio: Universal Studios Producer(s): Bill Perkins...

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Western Famed anonymous director Alan Smithee (in this case a hybrid of Richard Totten and Don Siegel), directed this turgid western drama concerning Marshal Frank Patch (Richard Widmark), who, even though he has kept the peace in Cottonwood Springs for over twenty years, is now considered a local joke by the town liberals who want some new blood in the Marshall’s Office. They get it when Patch shoots the drunken Luke Mills (James Lydon) in self-defense....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation Czech animators Aurel Klimt, Vlasta Pospísilová, Jan Balej, and Bretislav Pojar – all giants of the Czech puppet film movement – each helm one segment of the anthology film Fimfarum 2. A sequel to the original Fimfarum, this feature provides four additional animated episodes adapted from the short stories of Czech fantasist writer Jan Werich, in the same vein as the earlier film. The first segment, Three Sisters and One Ring, unfolds in Bohemia in the late ’20s....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: December 6, 2013 (limited) R | 1h 29m | Documentary Watch Trailer For No Good Reason is a documentary about Ralph Steadman, a British cartoonist best known for his work in collaboration with the American writer and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson. This visually creative film follows Steadman’s career, starting in the early 1970s up to today....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance This film is the story of a regular Australian guy, Joey.Joey is bored, he is bored with life, his job, his friends, everything. Until one day he meets Sofia, an exotic international student newly arrived in Australia. His boyish charms quickly breakdown Sofia’s reservations and the two spend the day together. They find that while they are from different backgrounds, with very different upbringings, they bond over their similar ideas and opinions on the world....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 25, 2012 (limited) 1h 18m | Documentary The life and work of British architect Norman Foster, who designed, among other projects, the Beijing International Airport, the Millau Viaduct and the Hearst Tower in London, in addition to orchestrating the complex renovation of the Reichstag in Berlin. Director: Carlos Carcas, Norberto Lopez Amado Studio: Cinéma du Parc Producer(s): Elena Ochoa Writer(s): Deyan Sudjic...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 83% 77% Drama, Thriller Based on the turn-of-the-century play Our Two Consciences by Paul Anthelme, Hitchcock’s I Confess is set in Quebec. Montgomery Clift plays a priest who hears the confession of church sexton O.E. Hasse. I…killed…a man whispers Hasse in tight closeup–and, bound by the laws of the Confessional, Clift is unable to turn Hasse over to the police. But police-inspector Karl Malden has a pretty good idea who the guilty party is: all evidence points to Clift....

84 votes and 21 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 38% 37% In Theaters: July 25, 2012 (limited) R | 1h 33m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy Watch Trailer In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 34m | Comedy François, a professional con artist hoping to marry a rich heiress who wants children, is devastated to find he’s infertile. Desperate, he returns to his Ontario hometown, Fort-Aimable, hoping that his recently deceased uncle has left him a substantial inheritance. But instead, François has inherited an old barn. Martine, a restaurateur, convinces François to help the local economy by reviving and marketing La Sacrée, a beer once brewed in Fort-Aimable....

48 votes and 16 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: December 27, 2013 (limited) January 31, 2014 PG-13 | 1h 51m | Drama Watch Trailer Henry Wheeler (Gattlin Griffith), 13, struggles to be the man of the house and care for his reclusive mother Adele (Kate Winslet) while dealing with the pangs of adolescence. On a back-to-school shopping trip, Henry and his mother encounter Frank Chambers (Josh Brolin) a man both intimidating and clearly in need of help, who convinces them to take him into their home....

132 votes and 41 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 59% 56% In Theaters: March 8, 2013 On Disney+: November 12, 2019 PG | 2h 10m | Fantasy, Sci-Fi Watch Trailer When Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he’s hit the jackpot—fame and fortune are his for the taking—that is until he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz), and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone’s been expecting....

510 votes and 196 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 66% 51% On Netflix: July 12, 2020 R | 1h 24m | Horror Watch Trailer In 1988, young sisters Katie (Katie Featherston) and Kristi (Sprague Grayden) befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home. Director: Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost Studio: Paramount Pictures Producer(s): Jason Blum, Oren Peli Cast: Katie Featherston, Sprague Grayden, Lauren Bittner, Christopher Nicholas Smith, Chloe Csengery, Jessica Tyler Brown, Dustin Ingram, Brian Boland...