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0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Diminga (Bya Gomes) and her lover Sako (Tunu Eugenio Almada) are torn apart during their country’s struggle for independence over Portugal. The country is united against the Portuguese and hopeful they will be autonomous. Four years later, Sako returns crippled from battle as the nation suffers through a terrible drought and famine. With a left-wing government in power, the once-united country is divided again. Diminga and a crowd of followers pray for rain during a ceremony that celebrates the dead and the living....

106 votes and 25 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 89% 72% In Theaters: August 17, 2012 PG | 1h 32m | Action, Adventure, Animation Watch Trailer Norman has never quite been understood by anyone. To most—including his parents and teenage sister—the boy is a peculiar outcast. However, Norman is different thanks to one special skill—he can communicate with the dead. Unfortunately his family and peers just think he’s crazy....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 40m | Documentary As a living composite of Don Quixote, Peter Pan, the biblical Job and Charlie Chaplin, Winnipeg film animator Ed Ackerman straddles the twisting road of fate coping with poverty and fending off homelessness on the brink of alienation from friends, family, and peers. For Ed, like Sisyphus of Greek Mythology, it’s the struggle itself that fills his heart. Special Ed inspires and provokes us to think about the spark that keeps us going through the good times and the bad....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In this musical drama, a tango tribute set in Buenos Aires of the ’30s, factory worker Juanita (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) goes with musician Gustavo (Juan Echanove) who plays in a tango combo with singer Renzo (Dario Grandinetti), known for his resemblance to famed tango superstar Carlos Gardel (who died in a 1935 plane crash). Juanita ditches Gustavo for Renzo, and when Gardel is unable to do a radio commercial, a substitution by Renzo brings enough fame to propel the group on a Latin American tour....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer When the wedding of internationally famous film star Lara Tyler to tweedy English author James Arber is sabotaged by a paparazzo, they decide to relocate the event to the one place where the world’s press won’t find them: the sleepy Island of Hegg, as featured in James’ bestselling novel The Ornithologists Wife. But to the shock of Lara’s P.A Steve Korbitz, the reality of the island is different from the romanticised picture James has created (without ever visiting), and he has to transform this fantasy world before the superstar arrives....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Finally, it’s time to rediscover Michael Moorcock’s eponymous character. See a Cuban-heeled Jon Finch pimp-strutting through a pop-dystopian Britain; a land splattered with day-glo plastic pinball machine night clubs, vampiric seductresses, and an anarchic arms-dealing Sterling Hayden at his most bush-bearded and barmy. As subversive and angular as the rapturous pop Art Deco sets, The Final Programme dares you to bend that gender. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Horror, Thriller The wonderfully suspenseful psychological drama Spiral Staircase is the prototype of the old dark house, lady in distress thriller, full of dark corners, flickering candles and featuring a mysterious, menacing killer whose true identity remains hidden until the end. Helen Capel (Dorothy McGuire), mute because of a childhood trauma, cares for the owner of the house, the wealthy Mrs. Warren (Ethel Barrymore), a demanding, widowed invalid....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The pomp and savagery of the Belgian group hunt is exposed in this atmospheric, suspenseful and sometimes ironic piece of direct cinema. With the icy detachment of an ethnographer, Klass Boelen scrutinizes the rituals of a wily group of bourgeois weekend warriors as they compete to kill deer in a pastoral landscape. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The pomp and savagery of the Belgian group hunt is exposed in this atmospheric, suspenseful and sometimes ironic piece of direct cinema....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 82% 79% In Theaters: April 12, 2019 (limited) 1h 43m | Drama Watch Trailer Marcello (Marcello Fonte) is a small and gentle dog groomer who sells cocaine on the side in order to make enough money to treat his teenage daughter, Sofia, who lives with her mother, to a lavish scuba diving vacation. His best customer, Simoncino (Edoardo Pesce), is a former boxer whose coke habit has made him even more violent and unstable....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A bunch of hairy guys on Harleys are causing trouble again in this, one of the best-remembered examples of the biker flicks of the 1960’s. Poet (Jack Nicholson) is a moody gas station attendant who is looking for more excitement in his life. When a gang of bikers roars through town, Poet is intrigued, and after he pitches in to help the Hell’s Angels in a bar fight (and pulls a well-timed stick up), one of the gang’s higher-ups, Buddy (Adam Roarke) asks Poet to join....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 81% 45m | Documentary In this warm, funny, and illuminating documentary, filmmaker Martin Scorsese interviews his parents, Catherine and Charles Scorsese, in their modest apartment in New York’s Little Italy. The casual and relaxed atmosphere of the film makes viewers feel as if they are eavesdropping on an intimate family evening. Catherine prepares tomato sauce and meatballs while explaining how she learned to cook from her mother and mother-in-law as a young woman....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance After spending the 1930s as the Third Reich’s principal cinematic chronicler, Leni Riefenstahl returned to fictional films with Tiefland. According to Riefenstahl, she had refused to make any more propaganda pictures–for good reasons, she explained enigmatically–choosing instead to direct a period romance, based on an old Spanish play and opera by Eugen d’Albert. Riefenstahl cast herself as the central character, Marta, a Spanish dancer who becomes the romantic bone of contention between humble shepherd Franz Eichberger and imperious marquis Bernhard Minetti....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | 2h 7m | Action, Adventure, Romance Richard Fleischer directed this lurid historical drama based on the novel by Kyle Onstott. The story begins on a run-down plantation lorded over by Warren Maxwell (James Mason) and his son Hammond (Perry King). Hammond travels to New Orleans where he buys a top-of-the-line slave, Mede (Ken Norton), at an auction. Hammond is proud of his purchase, hoping to bring in money by training Mede to fight his other slaves....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 24, 2011 (limited) June 24, 2011 (limited) 1h 33m | Documentary Watch Trailer Stefan Knupfer, chief technician and piano tuner employed by Steinway & Sons, works directly with the great pianists of the world as they prepare for important concerts or recordings. Among them: Pierre-Laurent Aimard, with whom he takes a year to prepare for the recording of “The Art of Fugue” by Bach....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama After her husband disappears in a sparsely populated area of Patagonia, Clara travels to the remote region and makes a startling discovery: a man with an uncanny resemblance to her husband, but with a different name and another wife. Obsessed with the mysterious, emotionally subdued man and his unaccountably sad spouse, Clara ignores the warnings of her sister, who arrives just as police discover a body that may be her husband’s....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 30m | Action, Adventure, Drama Inspired by the true story of the capture of Osama bin Laden, the movie follows a team of Navy Seals who are on a dangerous mission to capture or kill the terrorist. Leaving their family and friends behind, the extraordinary team sets out to brave one of the biggest manhunts in history. Director: John Stockwell Studio: Producer(s): Nicolas Chartier, Tony Mark, Zev Foreman...

78 votes and 32 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 59% 75% In Theaters: July 24, 2015 R | 2h 3m | Documentary, Drama Watch Trailer Boxer Billy Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal) has everything going for him - he’s just won a title fight, he lives in a mansion and has a loving and beautiful wife Maureen (Rachel McAdams) and an adoring daughter Leila (Oona Laurence). When Billy attends a charity function, a tragedy occurs....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary When Claude Gerstle, a surgeon and athlete, suffers a tragic bicycle accident that leaves him paralyzed from the neck down, he and his daughter, Jessica Gerstle, track down the scientists, ethicists, religious authorities, and politicians to understand the promise of stem cell research and why a political quagmire is stalling a cure. At the same time they embark on an emotional journey that celebrates the importance of family ties....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Horror An ambitious female television news intern on the verge of breaking the most famous haunted house case in the world leads a team of journalists, clergymen and paranormal researchers into an investigation of the bizarre events that will come to be known as The Amityville Horror … but in the process she unwittingly opens a door to the other side that she may never be able to close....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 38% In Theaters: October 26, 1996 (limited) 1h 25m | Drama Filmmaking siblings Nina and Tinka Menkes collaborate for this nonlinear psychological study of a traumatized Gulf War veteran inspired by a true life tale originally reported in the Los Angeles Times. As the first hints of pre-dawn sunlight come shimmering over the Mojave Desert, two military policemen on their regular patrol come upon a U....