0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The world famous Centennial Light Bulb in Livermore’s Fire Station 6 has burned almost continuously since it was first lit in the year 1901. In that time, it has seen war and peace, depression and prosperity, and a countless number of human events. Since being acknowledged by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1972, the 4-watt dynamo has received on-going press about its extraordinary lifespan, as each passing year marks a new milestone....
0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Documentary, Drama Watch Trailer An epic tale about a bright young African-American male who rises from the ferocious and oppressive streets of North Philadelphia to being a shining star in the lucrative world of high finance at Wall Street’s most prestigious firm. However, he soon finds that the white-collar world is filled with crime and death just like the drug-filled hood he left behind....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The Oklahoma land rush of 1889 provides the starting point for this western drama, based on a novel by Edna Ferber. Yancey Cravet (Glenn Ford) is an impulsive, short-fused cowboy who has married an immigrant woman, Sabra (Maria Schell). Together, Yancey and Sabra claim a homestead, and Yancey starts a newspaper. While he doesn’t have much of a head for business, Sabra does, and when she takes greater control of the paper, it grows into a profitable and influential journal....
102 votes and 29 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 86% 67% In Theaters: August 26, 2011 (limited) September 30, 2011 (limited) R | 1h 47m | Drama Watch Trailer In a modern Iran rarely witnessed by outsiders: rife with playfulness and peril, two vivacious teenage girlswealthy Atafeh (Nikohl Boosheri) and orphaned Shireen (Sarah Kazemy)are discovering their burgeoning sexuality. Like 16 year-old girls anywhere, they are full of wild yearnings and imaginative fantasies....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer Brian lives at home. He has no job. He has no friends. He has no life. At the urging of his overbearing mother, he goes to work on a house with his eccentric uncle. Soon he finds himself in an unlikely friendship with an illegal Mexican laborer of the same age, Manuel. When Manuel finds himself out of options, the two embark on a dangerous adventure to retrieve his mother and sister who are being held captive in Tijuana....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This documentary looks back to the momentous events of Belgium’s general strike in 1960, focusing here on the efforts of Edmond G. and colleagues at the Cockerill steel plant in Seraing to organize and publish a workers’ newspaper in secret between 1961 and 1969. A stirring depiction of communal resistance, For the War to End? also offers an insightful portrait of the Dardennes’ own hometown, revisiting the sites of labor and tracing the routes of the newspaper’s circulation, providing a poetic tribute to Seraing’s industrial urban landscape....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Happy Tails: A Donkumentary tells the story of an animal sanctuary in Eastern Ontario. This is a sanctuary for donkeys. The donkey is an animal overlooked at the best of times, but neglected or worse in some cases. Fifteen years ago, Sheila Burns opened her barn doors to a couple of long ears without a home. Little did she know they would become her passion....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Drama This groundbreaking film – a blend of fictionalized accounts and documentary – chronicles the political oppression and systematic torture following the overthrow of the Brazilian government by a military coup on March 31, 1964. Director Lucia Murat, a survivor herself of imprisonment and torture, breaks the silence surrounding the violence that occurred under the dictatorship. Eight women who were also held as political prisoners during the dictatorship share their personal memories, and their stories are framed by the fictionalized experience of an anonymous character, played by Irene Ravache....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Congolese filmmaker Mweze Ngangura, who made the 1987 La Vie Est Belle with Benoit Lamy, directed this Belgian-French-Congolese comedy about a Congolese king in contemporary Brussels. The title refers to identity pieces worn under a business suit to signify regal traditions. Gerard Essomba (the actual grandson of a king) portrays Mani Kongo, King of the Bakongo. Arriving in Brussels on a search for his daughter Mwana-Mwata (Dominique Mesa), King Kongo is unaware that she did time in prison and now dates cabdriver Chaka-Jo (composer Jean-Louis Daulne)....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 85% 75% R | Comedy, Drama Alexandre Rockwell’s quirky autobiographical comedy stars Steve Buscemi as Adolpho Rollo, a would-be screenwriter who is obsessed with getting his 500-page script Unconditional Surrender produced. Desperate for money, he places an ad for financial backing, which is answered by con man Joe (Seymour Cassel). The film was shot in color, but was released theatrically in black & white....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Thriller Trapped in a maze of endless desert highways, bound by a vital deadline, and pursued by an unseen menace – Jeremy Stanton is about to take the longest ride of his life. He will learn that when you reach the crossroads of life you must be careful which way you turn. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Thriller Trapped in a maze of endless desert highways, bound by a vital deadline, and pursued by an unseen menace – Jeremy Stanton is about to take the longest ride of his life....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 74% In Theaters: August 23, 2013 (limited) Action, Adventure, Thriller This film is a political spy thriller, set against the backdrop of Sri Lankan Civil War of 1990’s. An Indian Intelligence agent is deputed into a war torn coastal island, to conduct covert operations and break a resolute rebel group. He deftly manoeuvres his resources to make significant breakthroughs, amidst a scenario where the enemy has no face and the only counsel is ‘Don’t get caught....
2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 79% 80% On Disney+: November 12, 2019 1h 17m | Animation, Family Wendy Darling (Kathryn Beaumont) enjoys telling her younger brothers, Michael and John, stories about the mythical Peter Pan (Bobby Driscoll), the little boy who never grew up. One night, much to everyone’s surprise, Peter flies into the Darling nursery, in search of his shadow, which Wendy had previously captured....
0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 1, 2019 (limited) February 15, 2019 (limited) Comedy, Drama Hasan is full of rage. As a blacklisted director, he hasn’t been allowed to make a film in years. His favorite actress, Shiva, is impatient and wants to work with other directors. His wife Goli seems to have fallen out of love with him. His daughter Alma is all grown up and independent. His old loving mother is slowly losing her mind....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This quietly powerful documentary details the lives of the few remaining inhabitants of Pripyat, a once thriving town located five miles from Chernobyl. Shooting in stark black-and-white, Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s camera wanders the town’s unnerving moonscape of empty apartment buildings, weed-choked soccer fields, and rings of barbed wire fences as it follows the lives of Pripyat’s autonomous returnees. Though most fear that long-term exposure to nuclear fallout will affect their health, the largely elderly population wishes to remain in their homes, eking out scant existences....
0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama, Thriller Before making their Oscar-winning film The Usual Suspects, director Bryan Singer and writer Christopher McQuarrie made their first film – this low-budget independent feature and Grand Jury Prize winner at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival. Public Access examines the power and dangers of mass media consumption upon a small-town community. Ron Marquette plays Whiley Pritcher, a stranger in the small community of Brewster, who lands a job as the host of a local public access call-in show....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Thriller The story centers around the Chandragiri family whose head Madhava Menon is liked by all in the village. His only son Arjun Madhav is a student in Manipal. As Madhava Menon’s popularity rises and spreads to other parts, so does the number of enemies who feel that he is stealing the limelight from them. The constant struggles between Madhava Menon and Arjun Madhav on one side and their enemies on the other side is the main theme in the story....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 96% 75% In Theaters: October 5, 2012 (limited) October 19, 2012 (limited) Drama Watch Trailer Simon lives with his older sister in a housing complex below a luxury Swiss ski resort. With his sister drifting in and out of jobs and relationships, twelve-year-old Simon takes on the responsibility of providing for the two of them. Everyday, he takes the lift up to the opulent ski world above, stealing equipment from rich tourists to resell to the local kids down in the valley....
0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 30, 2013 (limited) R | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi Watch Trailer In 2010 “Skinwalker Ranch” gained media attention after experiencing a wide range of unexplained phenomena. Reports ranged from UFO sightings to livestock mutilation, but maybe most notable was the disappearance of ranch owner Hoyt Miller’s eight year old son, Cody on November 11, 2010. Close to a year later, Modern Defense Enterprises (MDE) has sent a team of experts to document and investigates the mysterious occurrences, which only escalate upon their arrival....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The French film Quelque Part, Quelqu’un takes a close look at the lives of a number of very ordinary people as they try to handle the small dramas in their lives. One segment takes us into the life of a woman who is trying to rescue a man from alcoholism. Another looks at an old couple being evicted from their home, and yet another shows how a young daydreamer responds to the call of a real adventure....
