The Fairy

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 24, 2012 (limited) 1h 33m | Comedy, Drama An unusual love story develops between Dom, the night receptionist in a modest hotel in Le Havre, and Fiona, an escapee from a mental institution who claims to be a fairy who can fulfill three of his wishes. Meanwhile, a British hotel client smuggles three Africans into the country without papers to thank them for having found his missing dog....

August 13, 2022 · 2 min · 303 words · Shirley Lopez

The Little Star That Could

0 votes and 0 Reviews Other A story about Little Star, an average yellow star in search for planets of his own to protect and warm. Along the way, he meets other stars, learns what makes each star special, and discovers that stars combine to form star clusters and galaxies. Eventually, Little Star finds his planets. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Other A story about Little Star, an average yellow star in search for planets of his own to protect and warm....

August 13, 2022 · 1 min · 163 words · Frances Riffel

The Rose King

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Released in English-speaking countries as The Rose King, the German Der Rosenkonig is another of director Wern Schroeter’s self-indulgent studies of intense, artistically expressed human passion. The scene is a large Portuguese estate. Still-beauteous widow Magdalene Montezuma lives in empty luxury on the estate with her son. This close familial relationship is shaken up, but ultimately strengthened, by the arrival of a low-born laborer. Director Schroeter unfolds his tale with the slightly surreal logic of a midsummer daydream....

August 13, 2022 · 2 min · 216 words · Staci Crown

The Sons Of Tennessee Williams

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 7, 2011 (limited) Documentary Mardi Gras, drag balls and politics - where else could these elements come together but in New Orleans? Interweaving archival footage and contemporary interviews, The Sons of Tennessee Williams charts the evolution of the gay Mardi Gras krewe scene over the decades, illuminating the ways in which its emergence was a seminal factor in the cause of gay liberation in the South....

August 13, 2022 · 1 min · 173 words · Sherman Everhardt

The Virgin Of Lust La Virgen De La Lujuria

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Legendary Mexican director Arturo Ripstein explores the mundane and sexual obsession in 1940s Mexico in his 2002 film The Virgin of Lust. Introverted Ignacio Nacho Jurado (Luis Felipe Tovar) spends his days waiting tables at the Cafe Ofelia and his nights amongst his voluminous porno collection. His world is turned upside-down when a prostitute named Lola (Ariadne Gil) begins hanging out at the cafe. Nacho is immediately smitten with the whore, but Lola’s mind is focused on a very brutish wrestler who’ll have nothing to do with her....

August 13, 2022 · 2 min · 411 words · Jessie Phillip

Transparent

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 1, 2005 (limited) Documentary A moving portrait of the myriad experiences of FTM parents, exploring the major issues these parents face in their daily lives. Confronting questions of body, gender, parental roles, and family and societal acceptance, and effortlessly interweaving interviews with home-movie footage, director Jules Rosskam’s thought-provoking documentary reflects on the universal connections between children and parents, regardless of gender binaries....

August 13, 2022 · 1 min · 168 words · Tracy Harrison

Amir Al Bahar

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Amir, a student, fails to graduate from the Naval Academy, every year for 10 years. When he finally graduates, he takes his father’s boat and goes into the sea with his mother, his siblings, and his girlfriend Salwa. But, the boat runs out of fuel, and they are kidnapped by pirates who demand a large ransom. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Amir, a student, fails to graduate from the Naval Academy, every year for 10 years....

August 12, 2022 · 1 min · 181 words · William Otto

Bury Me In Kern County

0 votes and 0 Reviews Julian Nitzberg made his directorial debut with this low-budget 16mm white trash black comedy. The drug bust of speed-merchant Dean (Judson Mills) is taped by a reality TV show in the style of Cops. When this footage is telecast, Dean’s mom dies of a heart attack, so his wife Sandra (Mary Sheridan) has to raise money for both bail and a funeral. After Sandra and younger sis Amanda (Mary Lynn Rajskub) get wasted on pot and wine coolers, they don weird costumes to conceal their identities and exit to rob a local convenience store....

August 12, 2022 · 2 min · 342 words · Charles Yost

Exodus Fall

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Set in 1974 Texas, “Exodus Fall” tells the story of three teen siblings struggle with the death of their father and try to live with their abusive mother. When one of the teens is sent away because the mother can’t cope with his autism, the oldest of the siblings devises a plan to get their brother back and embark on a life changing adventure across the Southwest in their deceased father’s station wagon....

August 12, 2022 · 2 min · 257 words · Willie Russell

F X

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A man who simulates death for a living finds himself unwittingly tied into the real thing in this New York-based suspense drama. Special effects man Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown) makes his living simulating gory mayhem and photogenic violence for movies such as I Dismember Mama. Tyler is given a chance to expand his professional horizons when he’s approached by Lipton (Cliff DeYoung), who introduces himself as an FBI agent and makes an unusual proposal....

August 12, 2022 · 3 min · 588 words · Minerva Jablonski

Housekeeping

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | 1h 57m | Drama Housekeeping is the film in which Christine Lahti invites a guest into a living room half-submerged in water. This is hardly the oddest moment in this characteristically quirky Bill Forsyth film (his first American production). When their grandmother dies, Idaho pre-teens Sarah Walker and Andrea Burchill are watched over by their late mother’s sister (played by Ms. Lahti). This strange young woman has throughout her life made unconventionality a life form....

August 12, 2022 · 2 min · 417 words · Kevin Lewis

In The House Of Flies

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 57% Thriller Watch Trailer June 1988…Summer Was Never The Same. This film tells the story of young lovers whose lives are inadvertently changed forever. An innocent couple, Heather and Steve suddenly find themselves abducted. By whom? For what purpose? Alone, isolated and locked in an undisclosed, suburban basement, Heather and Steve find themselves pawns in a psychological, mind-game with their diabolical hosts. Surrounded by several mysterious and locked suitcases – each containing valuable clues to their very own survival - Heather and Steve must exploit what remains of their bruised intellect and depleting sanity, to escape the authority of their unidentified and brutal abductors (Ryan Barrett)....

August 12, 2022 · 2 min · 286 words · Sherryl Hammond

Madama Butterfly From San Francisco Opera

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 19, 2008 (limited) Musical The heroine of this beloved opera finds herself faced with a dreadful choice: life without dignity or death with honor. Hear some of Puccini’s most soaring and captivating music in this classic story of colliding hearts and cultures. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 19, 2008 (limited) Musical The heroine of this beloved opera finds herself faced with a dreadful choice: life without dignity or death with honor....

August 12, 2022 · 1 min · 145 words · Lisa Jones

Mrs Soffel

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 8, 1985 PG-13 | 1h 50m | Drama Pittsburgh, 1901. The wife of a Pittsburgh prison warden, Kate Soffel (Diane Keaton) visits inmates to read Bible scripture to them. She meets Ed Biddle (Mel Gibson) and his brother Jack (Matthew Modine), both of whom may be innocent of the crimes that brought them there. Kate falls in love with Ed and decides to help him and Jack escape....

August 12, 2022 · 2 min · 246 words · Jasmine Hall

My Name Is Harlequin Valery Rybarev

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A group of teens living in Minsk, Byelorussia, have formed a brutal gang which they call The Commuters, perhaps because this is the group they prey upon. Each of them considers their prospects in life without money or influence, and none of them, seemingly, has much to look forward to. Arlekino (Oleg Fomin), the leader, along with his mates who bear gang names such as Ghoul, Crutch and Crowbar, participates in a brutal gang-rape at the climax of the film....

August 12, 2022 · 2 min · 223 words · Emily Affolter

Pal Joey

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Musical, Romance Watch Trailer The John O’Hara/Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Broadway musical Pal Joey created quite a stir during its original theatrical run in 1940. Here we had a heel of a hero who sleeps with a wealthy older woman in order to realize his dream of owning his own nightclub, and who breaks the heart of the girl who truly loves him when she impedes his plans to get ahead....

August 12, 2022 · 4 min · 677 words · Paul Simonton

Reality 2013 On Dvd

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 15, 2013 (limited) March 22, 2013 (limited) R | 1h 55m | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer Luciano, a full-time Neapolitan fishmonger and his wife, Maria, supplement their income by defrauding the consumer electronics firm where she works. When his daughters come across auditions for the reality TV show Grande Fratello, the Italian version of Big Brother, they convince Lucian to audition. After getting a chance in front of the camera, he becomes increasingly obsessed with the possibilities of gaining fame and lifelong security for himself and his family and his perception of reality begins to change....

August 12, 2022 · 2 min · 338 words · Shirley Lustig

Scarlet Road

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression, Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton has become highly specialized in working with clients with disability. Rachel’s philosophy, that human touch and sexual intimacy can be the most therapeutic aspects to our existence, is making a dramatic impact on the lives of her clients. While Rachel’s clients give a glimpse into their sexual self-discovery, Scarlet Road follows Rachel as she strives to increase awareness and access to sexual expression for people with disability....

August 12, 2022 · 2 min · 260 words · Crystal Garnand

Self Helpless

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Simon, John Candy, Felix, and The Drake are jerks. They are stupid, scheming, self-regarding dudes who are convinced of their own greatness. They are also convinced that they can fix their pathetic lives with self-help books. Unfortunately for the guys, self-help is not moron-proof. The foursome’s idiotic attempts at bettering themselves lead to lost jobs, poorly timed acid trips, incarceration, and a wild trip to Mexico....

August 12, 2022 · 1 min · 181 words · Roger Kelley

Sergeant York On Dvd

2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 88% 87% In Theaters: September 27, 1941 2h 14m | Drama, War Young farmer Alvin York (Gary Cooper) is a cussin’ hell-raisin’ critter in Tennessee Valley. All of this changes when York is struck by lighting during a late-night rainstorm. Chalking up the bolt from the blue as a message from God, York does a complete about-face and finds Religion, much to the delight of local preacher Rosier Pile (Walter Brennan)....

August 12, 2022 · 4 min · 652 words · Rigoberto Holley