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0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Euro screen legends Gérard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil star, respectively, as French cops Denis Klein and Leo Vrinks, in Olivier Marchal’s tough-as-steel policier 36 Quai des Orfevres. The story unravels at the titular Parisian police headquarters, where Klein (who heads up the department’s anti-crime unit) and Vrinks (who manages the search and action squad) go head-to-head – competing with one another not only to succeed their boss, but to be the first to solve an ongoing series of security-van robberies....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 7, 2014 (limited) R | Comedy Watch Trailer Jack is a children’s author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by an irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent, and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in Jack’s script, what should be his ‘big break’ rapidly turns into his ‘big breakdown’ as Jack is forced to confront his worst fears; among them love, laundry and serial killers....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Action, Adventure, Drama A young woman’s grandmother is murdered by a vicious street gang. However, she is the one who is sent to prison for it. When she is finally released, she uses her martial arts skills to fight the gang and bring the real killers to justice. 0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Action, Adventure, Drama A young woman’s grandmother is murdered by a vicious street gang....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Drama Watch Trailer “Another Harvest Moon” is a sensitive drama about four elderly Americans coping with life in a nursing home. One morning Frank reveals to Ella that he no longer remembers his wife’s face and that he doesn’t want to live to endure another debilitating stroke. He persuades his son Jeffrey to give him his old gun because by holding it he finds a way to remember his World War II buddies....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama An international collection of well-known directors contributed to this compilation film, each fashioning a short film inspired by an aria from a famous opera. The approaches vary broadly, from the playful abstraction of Jean-Luc Godard’s segment, which illustrates Armide with exercising body-builders, to the more literal approach of Franc Roddam, who transports Tristan und Isolde’s story to modern-day Las Vegas. A particular stand-out is Julian Temple’s take on Rigoletto, which recasts Verdi as the accompaniment to a contemporary Southern California sex farce....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 7m | Documentary A journey along the Rupert River, which was once a majestic torrent, but is now just barely a big creek. Following the construction of a hydroelectric dam, director Nicolas Renaud looks at the paradoxes of economic development of the James Bay basin, which is home to both Hydro-Quebec workers and the Cree. Director: Nicolas Renaud Studio: Producer(s): David Pieropan, Isabelle Grégoire...

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 32m | Documentary Forty-six boys and girls aged 14 to 18 years from the city of Wuppertal, without any previous experience, agree to participate in Kontakthof, a contemporary play created in 1978 by Pina Bausch. These young people of different backgrounds and religious denominations are able to overcome their teenage inhibitions as they work on this emotionally and physically demanding play. Director: Anne Linsel...

8 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 92% 90% In Theaters: January 1, 1978 (limited) 2h 6m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy Director George A. Romero’s epic sequel to his legendary Night of the Living Dead has firmly established itself as the equal of its ground-breaking predecessor. Though shot in 1978 – ten years after the first films’ release – Dawn’s story begins as if the events in Night had happened only a few months before: after shambling armies of the recently-dead take over every major city – seeking warm human flesh for food – the U....

28 votes and 8 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: February 15, 2013 PG | 1h 28m | Action, Adventure, Animation Watch Trailer Astronaut Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser) is considered a national hero on planet Baab by the blue alien population. Scorch and his quiet, by-the-rules brother, Gary (Rob Corddry), head of mission control at BASA, pull off astonishing feats. When BASA’s strict chief Lena (Jessica Alba) tells the brothers about an SOS from a planet known to be dangerous planet, Scorch ignores Gary’s trepidation about traveling there and sets off on what he believes will be another exciting mission....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 25m | Drama Watch Trailer 300-pound Ken (Rodriguez)suffers from diabetes, hypertension, and wears a respiratory mask to bed to alleviate his apnea. He’s prone to fits of rage and bouts of severe depression, and is given to “eating his feelings,” a cycle of guilty binging triggered by grief at the death of his mother a year before, and being dumped by his girlfriend a while later....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama What happens when a spoiled child must become a gang fighter in the jungle? Baron was so upset when his parents moved form Jakarta to Balikpapan he chose to close himself off from his new surroundings and spend his time playing with toy cars. However, Baron must represetn his new school in the Boy Scouts, with new friends and new adventures… 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Drama Not a sequel to Richard Harris’ A Man Called Horse as is sometime alleged, 1971’s Man in the Wilderness nonetheless bears a marked resemblance to that earlier film. Star Harris plays a trapper who joins a Northwest Territory expeditionary group. Left for dead after running afoul of a grizzly bear, Harris struggles to regain his strength and exact vengeance against John Huston, the man who deserted him....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy In this offbeat comedy, 25-year-old Pia (Pia Tjelta) left her home in Norway to try her luck at a new career in London, but has come home after six months away to visit her family for the holidays. She soon discovers things are a good bit different since she left; her former boyfriend Kristoffer (Kristoffer Joner) has disappeared, and her friends don’t seem to be doing especially well – among them a guitar player whose record deal has fallen through and a hip-hop artist who thinks he’s run out of things to rap about....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 31, 1977 (limited) R | 1h 40m | Comedy Two misfits find love and support in each other’s company, in this show-business comedy with a twist. One of them, Robin Turner (Craig Russell), is a male hairdresser and a gifted female impersonator, who tries out his act in local gay nightclubs. His roommate is Liza Connors (Hollis McLaren), an old high-school friend who is now a mumblingly strange pregnant woman, recently released from a mental hospital where she was being treated for schizophrenia....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 88% 63% In Theaters: December 17, 2013 (limited) Drama The third film in Ulrich Seidl’s PARADISE trilogy tells the story of Melanie, an overweight 13 -year -old, and her first love. While her mother, Teresa, travels to Kenya (“PARADISE: Love”), and her aunt (“PARADISE: Faith”) does missionary work for Jesus Christ, the teenager spends her summer vacation with other adolescents in a strictly run diet camp in the Austrian countryside....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 49% 1h 29m | Fantasy, Sci-Fi Starship John A. Warden is stationed in Fort Casey, a Federation outpost in space, and when the area comes under attack by bugs, the ship Alesia is assigned with the task of evacuating the John A. Warden and bringing its military intelligence back home to Earth. Director: Shinji Aramaki Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Producer(s): Joseph Chou...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The events leading up to the death of a small-time Los Angeles hood provides the basis of this gripping crime drama. The doomed gangster is known as the key man because he manages several warehouses containing oodles of pilfered loot. They mobsters have stolen so much that they are running out of space and so desperately need more storage units. They send the fellow out to negotiate for more space, but this takes time....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama, Romance When he sees a motorcycle go over the side of the boardwalk at San Sebastian, crashing onto the beach, Jota goes to see what happened. He discovers that the vehicle was being driven by an attractive young woman. He calls an ambulance and gets onto it with her. When the emergency medical staff discover that she has amnesia, Jota takes advantage of the situation to claim that she’s been living with him for the past few years....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 50% 39% 1h 29m | Drama Following the death of his wife, retired art historian Max Morden (Ciarán Hinds)retreats to The Cedars, a cottage by the sea where he spent summers as a child, in order to get the peace and quiet needed to write a book about French painter Pierre Bonnard. While there, powerful memories from one fateful summer many years ago come flooding back....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 30, 1978 (limited) R | Comedy Four recent college graduates are terrified of the prospect of actually having to work hard for a living, so they come up with a plan to support themselves as graduate research students by getting a foundation grant to study sexuality in college-age women. Despite their success at getting paid to bed down pretty girls, the work-load becomes too great, so they open the “study” to businessmen who pay to participate....