0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The bizarre hallucinations of a heroin addict in withdrawal provide the basis for this unstructured, autobiographical film by director Conrad Rooks. It begins as he arrives strung-out in Paris for a sleep-cure. As the strange visions begin, the story jumps haphazardly between reality and his dream-world memories of growing up in Chappaqua, New York. The score was composed and played by sitarist Ravi Shankar....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Throwing instead of pulling its punches, this is the story of Isa (as he’s actually named, but who finds the nickname Chiko much cooler) who grows up in a Hamburg suburb. It might be one of the world’s richest cities but every beast has its belly and here, in the very underbelly, Chiko lives in a world where violence, staking and keeping a claim, and drug taking are the norm....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance Regis Wargnier’s epic about French Indochina – from the years of French colonial imperialism to the days when American presence made itself felt and the country became known as Vietnam – is a story of romance and separation told through the backdrop of a country in turmoil. The film centers on the relationship of the beautiful and imperious Eliane (Catherine Deneuve), a French rubber-plantation owner, and Camille (Linh Dan Pham), her adopted Indochinese daughter....
0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Drama Homer Hobbs, home after two years in jail, discovers that life on the outside can be crueler than the injustice of the chain gang. He returns to an urban town caught in the depths of the Great Depression where he is thrown together with four strangers, each struggling to survive as they scratch and scheme to dig their way out of poverty. Life is grim....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 93% 84% In Theaters: December 21, 1994 (limited) December 25, 1994 On Netflix: April 28, 2019 PG | 1h 55m | Drama Gillian Armstrong directed this adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel. The story follows the lives of four New England sisters – Jo (Winona Ryder), Amy (Kirsten Dunst), Meg (Trini Alvarado), and Beth (Claire Danes). When Meg announces her plans to get married, Jo decides to leave for New York City to become a writer....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama, Musical Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s Mon-Rak Transistor is part of a mini-wave of Thai films that have won acclaim on the film festival circuit in recent years. Pan (Suppakorn Kitsuwan), a young man with dreams of pop stardom, enjoys a simple life with his new wife, Sadaw (Siriyakorn Pukkavesa), in their country village. The two are separated, however, when Pan is drafted into the army. Unhappy on the front, Pan soon goes AWOL to join a pop music troupe and pursue his dreams of becoming a singer....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This documentary received both the L’Age d’Or award from Belgium’s Royal Film Archive and the Berlin Film Festival’s International Critics Prize. A six-hour chronicle of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital, it focuses on families, patients, doctors, nurses, religious advisors, and hospital staffers confronting personal, ethical, medical, psychological, religious and legal issues about death and the decisions that must be made about continuing the life-sustaining treatment of dying patients....
2 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 11, 2012 (limited) 1h 42m | Comedy Watch Trailer Born in Mouthe, a small town of 921 inhabitants, it didn’t take long for Martine Langevin, using the stage name Candice Lecoeur, to become a celebrity in the region. Her blonde hair and voluptuous figure landed her a job as a weather girl at a local TV station. She’s found dead, half buried under the snow....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train. The young man is arrested after he kills two Germans with his knife when they question his honor. The third part of the film follows his subsequent trial and deals with justice denied and the attitude of many Germans who resent the influx of foreign labor....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Drama Pork Chop Hill was based on the eyewitness essays of ex-soldier S. L. A. Marshall. The film is set during the Korean police action. While diplomats argue pointlessly over the shape of the negotiation tables at Panmunjon, United Nations troops bleed and die. Lieutenant Gregory Peck leads a 135-man unit on the attack of the Chinese-held Pork Chop Hill. When reinforcements finally arrive, only 25 of Peck’s men survive (and they aren’t the usual survivors we’ve come to expect from earlier, cliché-ridden war films)....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Experience a wondrous adventure from the dinosaur age with “Sea Rex: Journeyto a Prehistoric World. Join Julie, an imaginative young woman, as she travels from amodern-day aquarium to the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Explore anamazing underwater universe inhabited by larger-than-life creatures including thepowerful Liopleurodon, long-necked Elasmosaurus and gigantic Shonisaurus whichwere ruling the seas before dinosaurs conquered the earth. Thanks to state-of-the-artultra-photorealistic imagery, see science come alive in a unique and entertainingmanner....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 94% In Theaters: April 25, 2013 (limited) 2h 0m | Fantasy, Other, Sci-Fi Watch Trailer Fathom Events and CBS Home Entertainment are coming together again to celebrate Season 3 of the iconic series Star Trek: The Next Generation in a special one night big screen event. For the first time ever, The Best of Both Worlds will be shown bigger and better as a full-length presentation only on Thursday, April 25th at 7:00 PM (local time) in select cinemas nationwide....
24 votes and 7 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 92% 71% 1h 48m | Action, Adventure, Drama Watch Trailer When a young girl at a bullet factory dies under mysterious circumstances, two detectives must investigate the reasons for her deathand the strange occurrences that followas they themselves become the target of the phantom killer. Director: Lo Chi-leung Studio: China Lion Film Distribution Producer(s): Mandy Law-Huang, Yee Tung-shing...
0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 6, 2001 (limited) Drama The stories of three women enslaved by love in Iran. On the morning of the day she turns 9, Havva is kept from joining her friends to play outside of the house. She is warned by her mother and grandmother that she has become a woman. Learning that she was born at noon, Havva insists she should be given another hour to go out as a girl one last time....
0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 2, 1936 (limited) Comedy, Musical The Gay Desperado is a 1936 musical lampooning the then-popular gangster pictures. Leo Carrillo plays a genial Mexican bandit, Pablo Braganza, who gets nowhere until he and his amigos begin studying gangster techniques – courtesy of Hollywood movies. Selecting kidnapping as his crime of choice, Pablo snatches opera star Chivo (Nino Martini) simply because he likes his singing....
0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Comedy Watch Trailer John Thomas is an insurance salesman in his 50’s who suffers from serious health issues. Motivated by a misguided obsession with getting Barack Obama elected, John takes an overwhelming involvement in the Presidential campaign. While John becomes obsessed with the ideal of change that Obama represents for Americans, he has in turn neglected to create positive change in his own life, particularly with regard to his health and family relationships....
0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Comedy, Drama Caroline and Lloyd (Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey) are a married couple constantly at each other’s throats, masters at crafting acid-tongued barbs at the other’s expense. Indeed, they are so obsessed with belittling each other that they never stop – not even at gunpoint. Such is the premise of the acerbic comedy The Ref, which shows what happens when this quarrelsome duo is taken hostage....
0 votes and 0 Reviews 50m | Drama Based on Christopher Reid’s poem of the same name, The Song of Lunch tells the story of a London book editor who reminisces about a past love. The production features very little spoken dialogue between characters, with most of the plot being told through poetic monologues. The Song of Lunch was first screened during National Poetry Month in 2010. Director: Niall MacCormick...
0 votes and 0 Reviews Other AMC is giving Twilight fans the opportunity to let their voices be heard. To celebrate the release of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 1, which opens Nov. 18, AMC is inviting guests to choose which Twilight movie should play before the midnight opening of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 1 at select AMC locations around the country. Tickets for the Twilight Saga Experience, as well as the traditional midnight shows at AMC go on sale Saturday, Oct 1 at 12:01 a....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama This film is part of the nine volume Tous les Garcons et les Filles de Leur Age series which chronicles the adolescent eras of nine prominent directors. U.S. Go Home, set in 1965, chronicles 24 hours in the lives of three teenagers as they try to finally lose their virginity. Martine, Marlene, and Martine’s older brother Alain, live in a small town outside of Paris....
