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0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary One of Spain’s leading chefs sets out to defend his nation’s honor on the field of culinary battle in this documentary from filmmaker Jose Luis Lopez-Linares. Jesus Almagro is a master chef who was named proclaimed Spain’s finest cook in a nationwide poll in 2006, and in 2007 he’s chosen to represent the country in the Bocuse d’Or, an international competition held in France which pits chefs from around the world against one another....

38 votes and 9 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 10% 22% In Theaters: January 8, 2016 PG-13 | 1h 35m | Documentary, Drama, Horror Watch Trailer Sara (Natalie Dormer), a young American woman, travels to Japan to search for her twin sister Jess, who has mysteriously disappeared in the Aokigahara Forest - a place where people go to end their lives. Admittance to the forest is not permitted, and Sara has no luck finding a guide with access....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary There’s a long tradition in Afghanistan of families with no sons choosing to bring up one of their daughters as a boy. For the girls this means growing up dressed in boy’s clothes, answering to a boy’s name and being allowed the freedoms and priviledges Afghan boys enjoy both within the family and outside. Girls can live like this until they are young adults, at which moment they are suddenly expected to revert to being girls, put on a dress and a scarf and conform to all the restrictions and rules imposed on Afghan girls....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Movie Times Queen Lili’uokalani, who was a prolific songwriter, inspired Kamae as a youth. His quest for traditional Hawaiian music and the stories behind them unfolds in this film. His adventures led him to cultural icons–the author and translator Mary Kawena Pukui; the poet and “Songwriter of Waipi’o” Sam Li’a Kalainaina; Pilahi Paki, the author of the “Aloha Chant”; and Hawaiian cultural resource Lilia “Mama” Hale....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama With barely anything to live for, Emman Toledo (Aga Muhlach), a former dancer, is just about to start his life all over again. He holds the good memories of his past dearly, knowing he will never be able to bring back his better days. An unlikely opportunity comes up when he is assigned to be the dance instructor for the upcoming Governor’s Ball of the powerful political family of the Evelinos, a chance for him to rekindle his lost passion....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama Actor and filmmaker Alfonso Arau stars in the period musical comedy about the last great days of burlesque in Mexico. In the early ’50s, Jesus Quijano (Pancho Córdova) is the manager of a struggling burlesque theater in a decaying part of Mexico City, where his star comedian, Tiliches (Alfonso Arau), shares the stage with a variety of musical performers, variety acts, and exotic dancers, among them bitter rivals Mimi Manila (Gina Morett) and Eva Candela (Lyn May)....

10 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 11% 22% In Theaters: October 14, 2011 (limited) 1h 25m | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer Kyle (Nicolas Cage), a real estate agent, lives in an isolated, museum-like mansion with his wife Sarah (Nicole Kidman) and their adoles­cent daughter Avery (Liana Liberato). The three are at home preparing to have a nice family dinner when unexpected visitors arrive, wearing masks, making demands and pack­ing heat, but Kyle refuses to cooperate....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 45m | Comedy In Isabelle’s (Diane Kruger) family, every first marriage has ended in divorce. To circumvent her family’s curse Isabelle devises a plan; marry and divorce a complete stranger before wedding her faultless fiancé Pierre. After her initial plan backfires she targets Jean-Yves, an adventurous yet quirky travel writer whom she tries to manipulate with her powers of seduction. A series of misadventures beset them as they take-on Africa and then Moscow in whirlwind succession, breaking Isabelle of her comfortable routine existence....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Romance Naresh is a youngster whose favorite pastime is acting in stage plays. During one of these stage plays, he pairs up with Yamaja who is none other than the daughter of Yama. She gets hooked to him and feels that he is her husband. Yama sends his son and his assistant Chitragupta to bring Yamaja back. She refuses. Then Yama comes down and takes his daughter back to Yamalokam....

300 votes and 81 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 95% 90% In Theaters: October 18, 2013 (limited) R | 2h 13m | Drama Watch Trailer In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty (personified by a malevolent slave owner, portrayed by Michael Fassbender), as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Other Back with a slightly different name, and a new batch of the best commercials from the around the world. From Apple to Volkswagen, from whiskey to banks, this annual compilation of award-winning ads from around the world is sheer commercial entertainment. Always a crowd pleaser here at the Princess, the year’s selection is sure to not dissapoint. Thousands of ads from all over the world were showcased and judged at the Festival....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Drama James Bond-flick director Guy Hamilton helmed this episodic, all-star World War II film. With Sir Laurence Olivier heading up an ensemble cast as flight commander Sir Hugh Dowdling, The Battle of Britain pays tribute to other nationalities instrumental in fending off the waves of Luftwaffe planes, notably the expatriate Polish and Czech pilots. Trevor Howard, Michael Caine, and Michael Redgrave also populate the cast....

8 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 7% 42% In Theaters: October 4, 2013 (limited) R | 1h 40m | Drama Watch Trailer CBGB follows the story of Hilly Kristal’s New York club from its origins as Country, Bluegrass and Blues (CBGB) to what it ultimately became: the birthplace of underground rock ’n roll and punk. Kristal, a fan of Country and Bluegrass dreamed of having a club in the lower Eastside that catered to that kind of music, when he had difficulty booking those bands he turned to other kinds of rock music....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 42m | Drama Movie Times An Italian police commissioner (Martin Balsam) tells the district attorney (Franco Nero) what he had to do to catch a crime boss. Director: Damiano Damiani Cast: Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Arturo Dominici, Claudio Gora, Calisto Calisti, Marilù Tolo, Michele Gammino, Luciano Lorcas, Giancarlo Prete, Adolfo Lastretti, Roy Bosier, Filippo De Gara, Giuseppe Alotta, Giancarlo Badessi, Dante Cleri, Nello Pazzafini, Gualtiero Rispoli, Adele Modica, Paolo Cavallina, Giovanni Palladino, Wanda Vismara...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Watch Trailer Doctors at the CDC and WHO rush to deal with the outbreak of a new virus, searching for a cure and tracking its source to Hong Kong, while trying to limit deaths, civil unrest, and the false rumors that feed them. Director: Steven Soderbergh 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Watch Trailer Doctors at the CDC and WHO rush to deal with the outbreak of a new virus, searching for a cure and tracking its source to Hong Kong, while trying to limit deaths, civil unrest, and the false rumors that feed them....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 91% 100% Documentary Creating provocative theatre carries great personal risks: emotional, financial and artistic. For the members of the Belarus Free Theatre, there are additional risks: censorship, imprisonment, and worse. Go behind the scenes with the acclaimed troupe of imaginative and subversive performers who, in a desolate country choked by censorship and repression, defy Europe’s last remaining dictatorship. The film picks up the story in 2010 when the KGB is cracking down on dissenters, sixteen years after Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko takes power during the breakup of the Soviet Union....

108 votes and 14 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 45m | Drama Watch Trailer The story of notorious Canadian bank robber Edwin Boyd (Scott Speedman), beginning with his return from duty in the Second World War. Dismayed by public indif­ference toward veterans, humiliated by his inability to provide for his children and his wife Doreen (Kelly Reilly), and seeing only disappointment in the face of his policeman father (Brian Cox), Eddie resorts to unlaw­ful activity....

236 votes and 78 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 50% 55% In Theaters: October 18, 2013 On Netflix: August 22, 2020 R | 1h 56m | Action, Adventure, Thriller Watch Trailer Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone), the world’s foremost authority on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called “The Tomb.” When he realizes he’s been the victim of a trick and has been wrongly imprisoned, he recruits fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 56% 57% In Theaters: November 20, 2009 (limited) R | Drama Watch Trailer Racing across Los Angeles, documentary filmmakers Bella and Milo go from Beverly Hills to Watts to get Milo’s brother Leo from jail to rehab before 8pm, or Leo goes to prison for three years. The trio documents their trip from a suburban police station in Calabasas through mansions in Beverly Hills, East LA chop-shops, rural wastelands, and housing projects in Watts as they attempt to raise the $5,000 required to get Leo into the rehab clinic....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 75% 82% In Theaters: November 16, 2012 (limited) November 16, 2012 (limited) Fantasy, Comedy, Drama Babylen Tatarsky, having rediscovered himself as an employee of an advertisement agency, is busy concocting marketing campaigns for western brands, adapting them to the “Russian mentality.” Packed with special effects and unexpected revelations, the film tells the complex story of how former Soviet Komsomol Youth turned into advertisers in the service of the Goddess Ishtar, and how the Pepsi Generation chose Coca-Cola....