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0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Acclaimed experimental filmmaker Jennifer Todd Reeves makes her narrative-feature debut with The Time We Killed. The film stars Lisa Jarnot as Robyn, an agoraphobic writer living in New York City. Robyn retreats into her apartment after 9/11 and keeps a running commentary on her interior life, discussing her decision to withdraw from the world, watching news of the so-called war on terrorism, reminiscing about her childhood and a multitude of former lovers (of both sexes), and reading aloud from a novel she’s been writing, about a promiscuous woman named Toni who travels the world looking for sexual partners while dying of some unnamed terminal illness....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 7, 1962 (limited) Action, Adventure, Animation This long, 135-minute feature is divided into four different segments, three highlighting fairy tales and the first introducing the two Brothers Grimm. Wilhelm (Laurence Harvey) is the dreamer, and Jacob (Karl Boehm) is the practical one, and between them, some marvelous fairy tales develop. Seguing into the first tale about the Dancing Princess, co-directors Henry Levin and George Pal – also the producer – allow their special-effects artists full rein....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Ebullient British music-hall comedian Norman Wisdom made his movie debut in Trouble in Store. The scene is a large department store, where the bumbling Norman (Wisdom) has somehow landed a clerical job. The rest of the film is a series of slapstick catastrophes, some hilarious, others less so. Along the way, Norman saves the store from falling into the clutches of gangsters – and wins the heroine besides....

68 votes and 20 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 19% 66% In Theaters: June 29, 2012 On Netflix: March 31, 2019 PG-13 | 1h 54m | Comedy Watch Trailer George Needleman (Eugene Levi), a high level New York CFO at the center of a Ponzi scheme, is accused of spearheading the entire thing and finds his life in serious danger at the hands of the mob. When he’s put in the witness protection program with his family (Denise Richards, Doris Roberts), he’s sent to the one place no mobster would ever look for him—Madea’s house....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Farmers have been raising crops in Junin, a community in the mountains of Ecuador, for many years, but in the early years of the 21st Century, a Canadian mining firm, Ascendant Copper, laid claim to a large section of farmland that they intend to use to bring precious minerals to the surface. The farmers insisted they have a legitimate right to their own land, and when a handful of the property owners protested the arrival of the miners by setting fire to some of Ascendant’s buildings, the company responded by hiring strong-arm men to run the farmers off their land using violence....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 30, 1963 (limited) 1h 50m | Comedy, Romance A man falls for an exotic bad girl, unaware he’s already met the nice girl lurking beneath the surface, in this romantic comedy. Samantha Blake (Joanne Woodward) works for a large department store in New York City as a sort of industrial spy; while ostensively a buyer, Blake’s greatest responsibility is to find out what the hot new fashions are going to be, so her store can have cut-price knockoffs on the racks once they hit the boutiques....

8 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 34m | Drama A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genova changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality. Director: Michael Winterbottom Studio: Entertainment One Producer(s): Andrew Eaton, Michael Winterbottom...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This film explores a small town on the coast of Costa Rica that relies on the harvesting of sea turtle eggs for survival. It is exemplary of our complex relationship with the environment, and how there is often a human story behind the environmental catastrophe. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This film explores a small town on the coast of Costa Rica that relies on the harvesting of sea turtle eggs for survival....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The complex and beautiful Maya hieroglyphic script was until recently the world’s last major undeciphered writing system. This is the story of the 200-year struggle, often hampered by misconceptions and rivalries, that has unlocked the secrets of one of mankind’s great civilizations and re-connected modern Maya with their extraordinary past. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The complex and beautiful Maya hieroglyphic script was until recently the world’s last major undeciphered writing system....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 9, 1991 (limited) Drama A young woman, obsessed with Buster Keaton, arrives at Nirvana House, a private asylum where Keaton allegedly underwent detoxification during the 1930s. Unfortunately, the once elegant institution has just been taken over by its inmates following the unexpected death of its chief physician. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 9, 1991 (limited) Drama A young woman, obsessed with Buster Keaton, arrives at Nirvana House, a private asylum where Keaton allegedly underwent detoxification during the 1930s....

4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Paul Bartel rips off his own Death Race 2000 in this mindless car-crash saga, containing more twisted metal than a bombed-out steel mill. The nominal storyline concerns an illegal auto race from Los Angeles to New York that promises the winner 100,000 dollars. David Carradine is Coy Cannonball Buckman, the race leader who drags his girlfriend, Linda (Veronica Hamel), along for the ride....

2 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Comedy, Family Directors Jaime and Tony Vallés’s Spanish-language, teen-oriented romantic comedy Casi, Casi unfolds in a Puerto Rican high school. Backward and introverted Emilio (Mario Pabon) nurtures a deep-seated infatuation for the class princess, Jacklynne Matos (Maite Canto) and views her through rose-colored glasses that utterly blind him to her jerk streak. He devises a wild scheme to attract her attention with a successful bid for president of the Student Council - but discovers, all too late, that she is running opposite him....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 24m | Drama Dirk Bogarde digressed from his usual lightweight image to portray a smarmy murderer in Cast a Dark Shadow. He kills his first wife (Mona Washbourne), hoping to claim her inheritance. Surprise! The inheritance is a myth. Thus Bogarde sets his sights on barkeeper Margaret Lockwood, whom he knows to be heavily insured. But Lockwood is possessed of a naturally suspicious nature, making Bogarde’s second murder plot a bit more delicate than his first....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 11, 2011 (limited) April 1, 2011 (limited) Documentary Watch Trailer Jonathan Winters, 85-year-old comic genius, is a gifted painter. He dreams of having his paintings hang in the Museum of Modern Art. When Jonathan’s art exhibitions in Beverly Hills and Las Vegas fail, a discouraged Jonathan is ready to abandon his dream. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 11, 2011 (limited)...

0 votes and 0 Reviews 2h 12m | Drama, War Nanjing, capital of China, December 1937. The Imperial Japanese Army launches a major offensive to enter the city. They manage to break the last defenses, leaving the Chinese soldiers weak and disorganized. Though much of the population desperately tries to flee, the Japanese troops have surrounded the city. Others hide but the Japanese begin a major massacre in which enemy soldiers are shot, civilians murdered and women, regardless of age, die after being raped non-stop....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 20% 61% 1h 39m | Comedy, Drama, Musical Elvis Presley plays Scott Heyward, the son of a Texas oil millionaire in this thin storyline. Scott changes places with the poor but honest water-skiing instructor Tom Wilson (Will Hutchins) to find out if women love him for himself or his money. Tom goes to the posh penthouse previously occupied by Scott, and Scott takes over as the instructor....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A circus performer uses his talents to inspire more than just laughter in this drama based on a true story from writer and director Marco Pontecorvo. Miloud Oukili (Jalil Lespert) is a French clown of Algerian heritage who has become weary of life in Paris. Miloud makes his way to Bucharest, where he discovers a gang of homeless children who have turned to crime to support themselves – the boys earn pocket money as thieves, the girls often work as prostitutes despite their tender age, and they blot out the misery of their lives sniffing glue in an unused stretch of sewer main they call home....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Romance The love story of an obese youth named Luke John Prakash. Luke comes from a wealthy family and is in love with a girl named Ann Mary Thadikkaran. The evolution of their relationship through various stages forms the crux of the story. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Romance The love story of an obese youth named Luke John Prakash. Luke comes from a wealthy family and is in love with a girl named Ann Mary Thadikkaran....

6 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 63% 69% In Theaters: July 24, 1974 R | 1h 33m | Action, Adventure, Drama This drama about a man who takes the law into his own hands was wildly controversial upon first release, sparking much debate about the perceived pro-vigilante stance of the story, and established Charles Bronson as a major box office draw in the United States....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Frida Kahlo was more than a mere Mexican artist. Crippled, Kahlo used her art to speak for other physically afflicted souls. She also was a controversial political figure, commiserating with the likes of Leon Trotsky and Diego Rivera. Directed by Paul Leduc and photographed by cinematographer Angel Goded, Frida features the artist portrayed by Ofelia Medina. In 2002, Kahlo’s story would again be told in another film called Frida, with Salma Hayek in the lead role....