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0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 92% 71% 1h 55m | Drama, Romance The MGM historical spectacular San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to producer B.F. Zeidman by studio troubleshooter Bob Hopkins. The story begins on the Barbary Coast on New Year’s Eve, 1906, as rakish but likeable political boss Blackie Norton (Clark Gable) hires demure young singer Mary Blake (Jeanette MacDonald) to perform at his rowdy Paradise gambling house....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Musical The film follows Jackie Powers as she recounts her tumultuous story of emotional and physical abuse as a former prostitute. In life, everybody deserves another chance and everybody gets a break; Jackie knows this to be true. Having been a former street walker for many years, Jackie recounts her story of emotional, verbal and physical abuse that ultimately produces a life of turmoil. Devastated by obstacles, in time, Jackie becomes desperate for change....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 1, 2016 (limited) PG-13 | Drama Based on true stories, this is the story of Lakshmi, who journeys from a pastoral, rural village in Nepal to a gritty brothel-prison called Happiness House in Kolkata, India. Through one extraordinary girl’s story, this film illustrates the brutality of child trafficking, which affects millions of children around the globe every year. Globally the average age of a trafficked girl is thirteen....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance, Thriller Gritty and realistic, this Spanish crime drama chronicles the events that led to the murder of a young Barcelona beauty. Before her brutal death, Susanna had been engaged to marry Moroccan immigrant Said. Before that, the confused recovering drug-addict had been involved with wine salesman Alex, an arrangement set up by her boss to repay a debt to him. After one night with Susanna, Alex falls passionately in love....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 1, 2013 (limited) May 3, 2013 (limited) May 3, 2013 (limited) May 10, 2013 (limited) 1h 38m | Documentary, Musical The Source Family’s outlandish lifestyle, popular celebrity hangout restaurant, rock band, and beautiful women made them the darlings of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip; but their outsider ideals, controversial spiritual leader Father Yod, along with his 13 wives, instigated local authorities. They fled to Hawaii, leading to their dramatic demise....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 71% 49% 1h 19m | Animation, Comedy, Musical Watch Trailer Le magasin des suicides (The Suicide Shop), a morbid version of a conventional pharmacy, has been the Tuvache family business since 1854. The store is stocked with rusty razor blades, nooses, swords and poison. Anyone who needs help ending their lives can get help from the Tuvaches. But when little Alan Tuvache is born, he’s a boy who likes to look on the bright side....

8 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 43% 1h 17m | Action, Adventure Watch Trailer BEFORE HE EVER LIFTED HIS MIGHTY HAMMER… Fantastic journeys beckon from the mysterious nine realms. Places of dark mists and fiery voids. Of winged creatures and giants in the ice. And of the most alluring quest of all—the search for the legendary Lost Sword of Surtur. Hungry for adventure, Thor secretly embarks on the journey of a lifetime, joined by his loyal brother Loki, whose budding sorcery equips him with just enough magic to conjure up trouble, along with the Warriors Three—a band of boastful travelers reluctant to set sail on any adventure that might actually be dangerous....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 22, 1999 (limited) Treasure Island is an astonishing film that both challenges viewers and satiates sensibilities. A psychosexual black comedy about two war strategists set on San Francisco’s Treasure Island naval base during World War II, it is part period piece, part experimental narrative, incorporating knowledge and ambition into an insanely original and expertly crafted film. Inspired by an actual counterintelligence ploy by two British officers, the film recreates the event around two American cryptographers, who have a dead body they are going to drop off the coast of Japan before the invasion....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 32m | Drama An Egyptian man who lives alone in Paris mysteriously disappears. His grandson, who was making a documentary about the old man, searches for him, accompanied by a Romanian prostitute, the old man’s neighbor and only friend. Director: Srinath c. Samarasinghe Studio: 1976 Productions Cast: Anamaria Marinca, Gamil Ratib, Tewfik Jallab, Antoni Hadzi Janev, Jean-Michel Correia, Claude Perron Writer(s): Srinath c. Samarasinghe...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 94% In Theaters: May 4, 2012 (limited) Drama, Thriller Vazhakku Enn 18/9 is a tamil drama thriller film which is directed by Balaji Sakthivel under Tirupathi brother’s banners. The movie is about present city teenagers who fAll in love, the problems they face & how they react to it. Cinematography is done by Vijay Milton & the music by guitarist Prasanna. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Documentary In 1980, a young scientist named Victor DeNoble was hired by a major tobacco company. Fourteen years later, he was testifying in front of Congress that, despite the sworn testimony of the industry’s chief executives, nicotine was addictive… and the research he did could prove it. 0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Documentary In 1980, a young scientist named Victor DeNoble was hired by a major tobacco company....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Romance Victor and Marie have never met before tonight. But several chaotic coincidences later they both find themselves in the same bathtub. Without any clothes on. On top of all that, the bathtub they are sitting in starts to glow and hum in very un-bathtub-like ways. You guessed it: Victor and Marie are sitting in an enchanted bathtub, one that will make their destiny – the bathtub to happiness!...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary James Dean walks down Broadway, his shoulders hunched against the drizzle. This iconic black and white photograph is the work of Dennis Stock (1928 - 2010), one of the most influential chroniclers of the late 20th century. More than a biographic documentary, this film brings us into Dennis Stock’s photography workshop shortly before his death while also delving into the meaning of photography, life and art....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Romance “Lie to Me” chronicles an attractive young couple’s open relationship as it is stretched to the breaking point when they find themselves falling in love with other people. This sexy, energetic, and provocative romance explores such universal issues as honesty, jealousy, commitment, maturity, understanding and ultimately our capacity for love. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Romance “Lie to Me” chronicles an attractive young couple’s open relationship as it is stretched to the breaking point when they find themselves falling in love with other people....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy When a business tycoon and confirmed bachelor announces his marriage out of the blue, his wellwishers begin to suspect something. When he goes off for the honeymoon, another man who looks just like him surfaces, unfolding a drama that has everyone confused. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy When a business tycoon and confirmed bachelor announces his marriage out of the blue, his wellwishers begin to suspect something....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Fighting not only the Germans, but rampant racism at home in the US and in the military, the brave Japanese Americans in the 100/442nd went on to be the most decorated unit for their size and time in battle in U.S. History. On this, the 75th anniversary of the Japanese Incarceration during WWII, this timely movie explores the complex emotional framework that allowed these young men to serve their country while their families were incarcerated or lived under martial law all in a bid to prove their loyalty and “Americanness” to those who doubted it....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 81% 83% In Theaters: February 28, 1997 R | 1h 41m | Drama, Crime Before his commercial breakthrough with Boogie Nights (1997), writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson made this low-key drama. John (John C. Reilly), a half-bright loser stranded in Reno, is down to his last few bucks when Sydney (Phillip Baker Hall), taking pity on him, buys him breakfast and offers him a few tips on making money in the casinos....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Raised in an orphanage run by Italian nuns, 10-year-old Awet is suddenly reclaimed by her father and forced to fight in the long and bitter Eritrean civil war. Awet is a tough, shrewd individual who learns how to survive without losing her humanity. Director: Luigi Falorni 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Raised in an orphanage run by Italian nuns, 10-year-old Awet is suddenly reclaimed by her father and forced to fight in the long and bitter Eritrean civil war....

14 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 76% 81% In Theaters: February 22, 2013 (limited) 2h 6m | Drama Watch Trailer Best friends Ishaan, Omi and Govind—young, ambitious and restless—are trying to make a mark in the India of the early 2000s. These are exciting times—a new millennium has just dawned, India is a nuclear power and ostensibly shining—a perfect place for the 3 Ahmedabad boys to start a business that could be their ticket to fame and riches....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 90% 71% Documentary Controversial Mikhail Khodorkovsky began as a socialist, rose to the highest level of Russia’s wealthy class as a successful capitalist when he was the owner of Yukos Oil, and became famous as a political prisoner when he was jailed in 2003. Officially, Khodorkovsky was sent to prison on tax and embezzlement charges, but his supporters believe that his only crimes were criticizing the Kremlin and the powerful Vladimir Putin....