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0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A part-time security guard and taxi driver looking to leave the hypocrisy of the modern world behind finds that peace doesn’t come as easily as he suspected in Singapore-born director Djinn’s award-winning drama. Harry Lee has grown tired with the slick, status-driven society that dominates his homeland, and has chose to seek out his own personal paradise in the Western Australian city of Perth. But solving ones problems isn’t always as easy as simply running away, and when Harry finds his attempt to migrate becoming increasingly complicated, he accepts a job ferrying prostitutes....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Drama Inspired by the true story of an irrepressible survivor. She was genitally mutilated and sexually abused for years when, as a virgin girl, she was enslaved to become a victim of the Trokosi practice. The story is based on the biggest form of slavery that exists today in the world. 2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Drama...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary “Red, White and Green” focuses on Teheran in the three weeks prior to the Iranian elections in June, 2009 and the enormous sense of optimism felt by so many regarding the possiblity of change and reform for the Iranian Republic. How differently things would turn out is best indicated by how many of the political, social and cultural leaders interviewed during the film – including Jafar Panahi – have since been arrested or gone to ground....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 5, 2015 (limited) 2h 19m | Other Watch Trailer Frederick Ashton’s beloved production of La Fille Mal Gardée from the Royal Ballet. The story of Lise, her suitor Colas, and Lise’s mother, who tries to marry her off to the simpleton son of a rich neighbor is both funny and touching, and filled with glorious detailed movement. Starring Steven McRae, Roberta Marquez, Ludovic Ondiviela, Gary Avis and Philip Mosley, the acclaimed male dancer who inspired the film and musical Billy Elliot....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Family Based on the Newberry Award-winning novel by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, this heartwarming tale of a boy and his dog reaches for greater significance and depth than the typical entry in the kids’ movie genre. Blake Heron stars as Marty Preston, a kid who lives in a rural town with his mom and mailman dad (Michael Moriarty). One day, Marty finds an injured beagle that’s run away from its abusive owner, a hunter named Judd Travers (Scott Wilson)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 79% 78% 1h 35m | Drama The film journeys back to explore the lead-up to Charles’ (Antoine Monnier) death after his body is found in a cemetery, shot in the head. Increasingly frustrated by life and the world around him, Charles finds no respite in the work of his environmental activist friend, Michel, shown through mini-documentaries. He sleeps with Michel’s girlfriend, Alberte, finding a similar void....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation, Family Based on the classic children’s drama of the same name, this animation is about a magic flower that helps people who are brave. Recalling Chinese stories where hard work leads to happiness, it features hardworking Xiao Lan who is happily married to the god of flowers, Ma Lang. Then, greedy Old Cat tries to get the jealous sister Da Lan to kill Xiao Lan, in order to get the magic Malan Flower....

8 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 14% 22% In Theaters: December 5, 2014 R | 1h 29m | Drama, Horror Watch Trailer A team of U.S. archaeologists discover an ancient pyramid buried in the Egyptian desert. As they explore its dark catacombs, they come to realize they’re not only trapped—they’re being hunted. Director: Gregory Levasseur Studio: 20th Century Fox Producer(s): Alexandre Aja, Chady Eli Mattar, Mark Canton, Scott C....

44 votes and 17 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 39% 32% PG-13 | 1h 57m | Comedy Watch Trailer Straight-laced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan (Tina Fey) is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by her former college classmate, the free-wheeling John Pressman (Paul Rudd). Pressman has surmised that Jeremiah (Nat Wolff), his gifted yet very unconventional student, might well be the son that Portia secretly gave up for adoption many years ago....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Romance The story is set on the holy ghats of Ganges Banaras where Kundan sees Joya much before his adolescent and falls in love with her head over heels… Circumstances force Zoya to go to Delhi for further education. A wannabe politician steals her heart, but be aware this is not a run of the mill triangle and just when you expect that now the feel good regular Bollywood romancer will take charge....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 1m | Family In these stories, Angelina and her friends uncover a secret admirer, learn about the importance of helping a friend, and start their very own friendship club—all while skating, singing, dancing, and much more. Director: Davis Doi Studio: Lyons Producer(s): Helen Craig, Katharine Holabird Cast: Charlotte Spencer, Naomi McDonald, Leah Zabari Writer(s): Laura Beaumont, Paul Larson 0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 1m | Family...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Drama Peter Hyams made his feature-film directing debut with this clumsily paced crime film concerning two Los Angeles vice-squad detectives. Michael Keneely (Eliott Gould) is the swaggering non-conformist and Patrick Farrel (Robert Blake) is the cocky follower. The two cops live for their work and spend most of their time busting call girls, massage parlor employees, and homosexuals. Keneely and Farrel eventually come to the conclusion that every criminal act in Los Angeles is due to the efforts of crime lord Carl Rizzo (Allen Garfield)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 2, 2007 (limited) Documentary Jeff Smith is 29 years old. He’s short, scrappy and lisps when he speaks. He has no money, no previous political experience and no support from his family. But Jeff believes in the political process. He believes in the power of ideas to bring people together, and he believes in himself. A white, former African-American studies major, he is a man of surprising contrasts....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 34m | Drama In this heartwarming 1949 film, Sister Margaret (Loretta Young) and Sister Scholastica (Celeste Holm) arrive unannounced and determined to build a children’s hospital in the small New England town of Bethlehem. They seek to fulfill a promise they made to God when he saved a similar infirmary in war-torn Normandy. To build it, the sisters recruit various townspeople, negotiate with a bookie (Thomas Gomez) for the land and contend with a songwriter (Hugh Marlowe) who’s set against the project....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In this cops and robbers film, a raid on a jewelry store staged by a band of amateur hold-up artists goes horribly wrong, leading to a shoot-out. The elite Organized Crime Bureau team, headed by Captain Ching King Gen, is poised to go into action at a moment’s notice. Working as a unit, they bring law and order to Hong Kong streets, where they must rely on their courage and skills to survive....

8 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 8, 2013 (limited) R | Horror This fall, Compass International Pictures, Trancas International Films and Screenvision have teamed up to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the 1978 classic, “John Carpenter’s Halloween,” with a series of HALLOWEEN films on the big screen. The celebration begins in October with the nationwide release of “John Carpenter’s Halloween” and continues through the month with “Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers” and “Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers” in select theaters....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Morad - a teenager from an Arab village in the north of Israel disconnects himself from humans following a violent attack that he experienced. As a last resort before hospitalization in a Mental Institution, he is taken by his devoted father to be treated with Dolphins in Eilat. Morad starts speaking again after months of silence, but he erases his past and refuses to go home to his awaiting mother....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Anne and Amir are an unlikely pair. Amir is an escalator attendant by day and aspiring sculptor by night. Even though he has never sculpted anything before, he hopes to one day fulfill his lifelong dream of making a marble bust of Charles Barkley. Anne comes from a well-to-do family and just started law school where she spends most of her days studying. Against the odds they decide to move into a shabby 300 square foot apartment and try to start a life together....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 2h 48m | Other An evening of four contemporary dance masterpieces: “Left Right Left Right” (choreography by Alexander Ekman), “Silent Screen” (Sol Léon & Paul Lightfoot), “Secus” (Ohad Naharin), and the world premiere of “Shine A Light,” a new work by Leon and Lightfoot. Studio: 0 votes and 0 Reviews 2h 48m | Other An evening of four contemporary dance masterpieces: “Left Right Left Right” (choreography by Alexander Ekman), “Silent Screen” (Sol Léon & Paul Lightfoot), “Secus” (Ohad Naharin), and the world premiere of “Shine A Light,” a new work by Leon and Lightfoot....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Irish writer J.S. Le Fanu’s creation, the female vampire Carmilla, has established a fascinating lineage through filmic adaptations, arguably inspiring a more radical and transgressive creative wellspring than her literary successor Dracula. Outliving Dracula explores the radical influence of Carmilla on generations of filmmakers – from Carl Dreyer’s extraordinary Vampyr to Roger Vadim’s Blood and Roses, from the Gothic kitsch of Hammer through to films produced within a visual art context....