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0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In this crime drama, an amiable, popular middle-age man (Bernard Blier) abruptly changes when he heads out for a nice picnic, sees a half-naked girl, makes a pass at her, gets rejected, and kills her. No one is the wiser and her lover ends up taking the rap. During the ensuing trial, the real killer finds himself on the jury. As he listens, his conscience begins to bother him and he helps get the defendant acquitted but the town community refuses to accept it....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 59% 82% R | 1h 35m | Comedy, Musical, Romance Movie Times A satiric romantic comedy, Martha Coolidge’s Valley Girl is a testimony to the short-lived Southern California ’80s craze. Julie (Deborah Foreman) is a good-natured teenager following a swarm of pastel pink valley girls, who utter gag me at every opportunity. To her friends’ dismay , Julie breaks up with her egotistical boyfriend, Tommy (Michael Bowen), while shopping at the mall....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 80% 39% R | Drama, Horror, Thriller Still grieving the death of their only child Alice at the jaws of a crazed dog, vet Patrick and pharmacist Louise relocate to the remote town of Wake Wood where a local pagan ritual gives them three more precious days with her. But, what will they do when it’s time for their new daughter to go back?...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 61% 70% G | 1h 18m | Action, Adventure, Animation This animated Disney feature is based on a popular afternoon television show. The story centers on Goofy’s teenage son, Max, who is terrified that he will grow up to be as dorky a dog as his daffy daddy. Just as shy Max has screwed up enough courage to ask his dreamgirl, Roxanne, on a date, Goofy stumbles in and announces that they need to spend some quality time together, and then drags Max off on a vacation....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama “Between the Canals” follows three small-time criminals from Dublin’s North Inner City as they each aspire to be somebody in a fast changing society. Liam is a small time dealer who wants to quit his life of crime to become an electrician and provide for his girlfriend and son. Dots, is a crazy, irresponsible thug with ambitions to become a big time dealer. Scratchcard, is a drug user with no ambitions but to stay on social welfare and watch the world go by....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy The Czechoslovakian Capricious Summer is based on a novel by Jan Libora. The plot focuses on three middle-aged vacationers at a summer resort. The tourist’s plans for rest and relaxation are messed up when a circus tightrope walker and his toothsome daughter arrive on the scene. Director Jiri Menzel (the man responsible for the international success Closely Watched Trains) appears as the circus performer. A valentine to lost innocence, Capricious Summer won the Grand Prix at Karlovy Vary, an East European film festival....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation, Family “Care Bears: Grizzle-ly Adventures” is a two-part feature. Part One, “Broken”: When the newest honorary Care Bear, the robot, Wing Nut, breaks, no one in Care-A-Lot can repair him, so Share Bear travels to ask Grizzle for help. Only when he puts Wing Nut back together, he adds an extra feature so he can control his former robot, and try to take over Care-A-Lot again....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 19, 2013 (limited) Action, Adventure, Drama 9 years ago Wali Khan was sent into Karachi, Pakistan by the Chief of RAW Ashwini Rao to report the activities of The Most Wanted Man in India. 9 days ago Rudra Pratap Singh Indian Armed Forces, MARCOS unit, Zoya Rehman RAW Explosives expert, and Aslam, a petty thief from the streets of Mumbai recruited by RAW, infiltrated Pakistan to join Wali Khan and carry out the mission to bring back The Most Wanted Man in India....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Family, Sci-Fi Quite possibly the most endearing Children’s Film Foundation entry, this low-budget charmer sees an alien left behind on a very 1970s Planet Earth, with only two young boys for company. While this alien comes in the very pocketable form of a little silver ball, it will eat through anything – which is why local thief Filthy wants to get his grubby hands on it!...

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Comedy Sentenced to hang in a backwater western town, horse thief Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) is saved when frontierswoman Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) agrees to marry him. Taking advantage of the town law that prohibits the execution of married men, Moon follows Tate back to her ranch, planning all the while to escape at the first possible opportunity. But Tate insists that he honor his end of the bargain at work on the ranch....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 43% 66% In Theaters: July 28, 1974 PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Drama Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double-lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one, a 1973 Ford Mustang, are in the bag. As Pace prepares to rip-off the fastback, codenamed “Eleanor”, in Long Beach, he is unaware that his boss has tipped off the police after a business dispute....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Filmmaker Gonçalo Tocha documents life on the island of Corvo, the smallest of the Azores, with a population of only 440. Gaining the trust of the people of Corvo, Tocha persuades them to unfold for his camera the hidden traditions and histories of the island. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Filmmaker Gonçalo Tocha documents life on the island of Corvo, the smallest of the Azores, with a population of only 440....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 1, 2000 (limited) R | Drama, Horror, Thriller Spanish director Jaime Balaguero brings us this jet-black horror thriller. Claudia (Emma Vilarasau) and Marc’s beloved six-year-old daughter Angela dies under mysterious circumstances. Flash forward five years, and Marc has left while Claudia wiles away her time watching family videos of happier times. Angela suddenly inexplicably calls saying, They wanted you to believe I was dead....

4 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 82% 2h 10m | Drama Lowell, Massachussets, late 19th century. Louis Cyr, a French-Canadian laborer working in a textile factory, is convinced by an Irish promoter to leave his family in order to demonstrate his immense physical strength at fairs across the country. His girlfriend, Mélina Comtois, also comes along on the trip that lasts six months and ends when the promoter takes off with all the money....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance The time is the late 1930s and a pending war with the Japanese forms a part of the epic setting for a fashionable and old-fashioned love affair between a once-wealthy widow and divorcée (Cora Miao) newly arrived in Hong Kong and a rich Chinese playboy educated at Cambridge. The epic treatment of their romance is provided by background music in the form of Chinese opera or contemporary love songs and dazzling, opulent settings along the seashore or in tourist spots....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation, Family Once a year, thanks to the power of his “Magic Crystal”, Santa Claus multiplies into millions of himself and leaves his super high-tech headquarters in Scandinavia to distribute presents to all children in the world. But this year, Santa’s evil twin, the bitter and envious Basil, has a diabolical plan : he will steal the crystal right before Christmas and use it to control the minds of kids everywhere....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 25, 2008 (limited) Drama What happens when you throw two guys who hate each other together? One is a cool call center executive, Jimmy Cliff, and the other a desi wannabe gangster, Bachchan Pande. Add, for good measure, a beautiful girl, Pooja, who can’t be trusted. Set them on a journey across spectacular India–a journey which will alter the course of their lives in more ways than one; a journey where even enemies need to trust each other if they want to stay alive....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Urban paranoia gets played for laughs in the black comedy The Basement and the Kitchen. Writer and director David Frickas also stars as Lloyd, a young man who is thoroughly convinced that everyone is out to get him; as a result, he almost never comes out of his basement. But when Lloyd finally works up the courage to find his way into the kitchen, he finds out that a group of government agents is posing as his family and that he hasn’t been paranoid after all....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Concert The program includes excerpts from Russian operas such as A Life for the Tsar (Ivan Susanin) by Glinka, Prince Igor by Borodin and Betrothal in a Monastery by Prokofiev. Excerpts from famous Russian ballets will also be part of the program: The “Appian Way” from Spartacus (Khachaturian) and extracts from Don Quixote (Minkus), Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky), The Golden Century (Shostakovich), The Flames of Paris (Asafiev)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The director of Strange Girls (EIFF 2008) delivers a savage, insightful and thoroughly original modern anti-romance, centred on a dazzling lead performance. Levi (Guy Whitney) is a washed-up academic who uses his genetic disorder - ectrodactyly, or lobster claw syndrome - as an excuse for across-the-board bitterness and rage. Hope surfaces when he meets sophisticated professor Jane; but Levi’s love, like his rage, can err on the side of intensity....