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0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 31m | Drama One night Vincent, a solitary man, decides to release Gaëlle, the girl he kidnapped eight years earlier, imprisoning her in his basement. Having spent half her life in captivity, the 16-year-old no longer knows how to interact socially. She finds refuge at a center for people with mental disorders, where she talks to a sympathetic psychiatrist and, with a certain coldness, welcomes the attentions of her parents, who divorced following her disappearance....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Sci-Fi This average Canadian sci-fi actioner concerns the exploits of an intergalactic policeman named Abraxas (Jesse The Body Ventura). The space cop comes to Earth to track a rogue alien, Secundus (Sven-Ole Thorsen), who is looking for a woman to bear his child – a Comator with the power to destroy the universe. The sole point of interest may be the method of impregnation – a single touch....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Singer/songwriter Judy Collins and filmmaker Jill Godmilow were the creative forces behind Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman. This 58-minute documentary zeroes in on the life and work of symphony conductor Antonia Brico. The film traces Brico’s struggle to overcome the good old boy sexual bias in her profession. Her uplifting story is enhanced tenfold by precious backstage footage of Brico in action. Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman was well distributed on the college campus circuit, then became a staple of arts-oriented cable TV services....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Horror, Thriller Bay Area digital-effects wizard David Lee Fisher offers an enticing visual remix of the 1920 German expressionist classic with this innovative updating that places contemporary performers against scanned backdrops of the original and offers a detailed new script to create an exciting new vision. As the annual fair descends upon the sleepy burg of Holstenwall, Germany, Francis and his best friend Alan are unwittingly enticed into attending an exhibition by malevolent hypnotist Dr....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance An aging couple decide to make the most of the time they have left in this lighthearted but poignant drama. Thornier Kristmundsson (Gisli Halldorsson) has spent most of his life working a farm in the northern part of Iceland. Thornier decides to retire, so he relocates to Reykjavik, where he moves in with his daughter and her family. However, the younger members of the family don’t get along with Thornier, and in time his daughter sends him off to a retirement home....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 86% 82% In Theaters: July 6, 2012 (limited) August 19, 2022 (limited) Comedy, Drama Movie Times Vera Chytilová’s absurdist farce follows the misadventures of two brash young women. Believing the world to be spoiled, they embark on a series of pranks in which nothing food, clothes, men, war is taken seriously. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 86% 82% In Theaters: July 6, 2012 (limited)...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 86% 70% In Theaters: January 20, 2012 (limited) January 27, 2012 (limited) 1h 40m | Drama The happiness of Romeo and Juliet, a young Parisian couple with a promising future, is dramatically compromised by the terrible news that their 18-month-old son Adam is suffering from a brain tumor. A renowned surgeon manages to remove most of the mass, but the residue forms an aggressive rhabdoid tumor, leading them to begin chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The subjects broached by this fast-paced film with lurid, emotive, or just plain tabloid-level events involve both drugs and the actions of the Civil Guard, or Spanish national police. Two young men have been trapped into selling drugs to support their cocaine habit, the father of one is a Civil Guard and the father of other, a Basque separatist. Even though the young addicts successfully go cold turkey, the prostitute they live with gets them back into the habit again and this time, the results are much more serious....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Documentary, Drama Watch Trailer “GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and Ho’s Please Stand Up!” examines the interplay between Pimps and Ho’s and how that dynamic is the simplest expression of how power is wielded in the world. The film utilizes documentary footage, animation, satire and dramatization to illustrate examples culled from the Hood to Wall Street – be the players real-life pimps or corporate executives repeating the same power dynamics....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Drama Until its last 10 minutes or so, this filmed biography of controversial recording star Jerry Lee Lewis plays like a live-action cartoon. As played by Dennis Quaid, the killer is a very mixed-up individual: a saintly sinner, a world-wise naif, a skilled performer with zero sense of discipline, a loving husband who uses his wife for a punching bag. The story takes place during the years 1956 through 1958, as Lewis rises to the top of the charts with such hits as Crazy Arms, A Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On, and the title tune....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Documentary, Musical Filmed over a period of two years, “The I Heart Revolution: We’re All in This Together” follows the worship band, Hillsong United, as it travels across six continents 42 nations and 93 cities in a cross-cultural journey of music, animation, interviews and live action documentary as they realise every story of hope, love, loss and sacrifice ultimately points to the one story....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 4h 20m | Comedy Ben (Bryan Greenberg) and Cam (Victor Rasuk) are an enterprising duo caught up in the relentless pursuit of the American Dream. After a business trip to Japan, season two sees them as aspiring fashion magnates trying to get ahead in New York City. Along the way, they also have to deal with other characters in their already hectic lives—like an ex-girlfriend, an old high school acquaintance, another friend with his own “entrepreneurial” business and an ex-con....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Drama The legend of Bruce Lee continues in this exciting, action-packed kung fu thriller! Bruce Li is an admirer of the legendary master who immerses into the deadly disciplines of Kung Fu, as he searches for the real reasons behind Bruce Lee’s untimely death. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Drama The legend of Bruce Lee continues in this exciting, action-packed kung fu thriller!...

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 1, 1983 (limited) Drama Set during the Algerian war for independence in the 1950s and early ’60s, this undistinguished drama centers on Jean (Maurice Garrel) who works covertly for the FLN, the Algerian independence fighters, and although he does not know it, the woman he loves (Mouche, played by Emmanuelle Riva), is also a covert operative for the FLN. When Jean sees the SAO (the Algerian Secret Army Organization) assassinate Mouche, his world disintegrates....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Other Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and disturbing classic gothic tale....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 27, 1924 (limited) 1h 23m | Action, Adventure, Drama When the wrong people find out about the illegal activities being conducted by yakuza big shot Otaguro (Hiroshi Tanaka), he calls in master street fighter Terry Tsugury (Sonny Chiba). Tsugury’s assignment is to kill the would-be informants, a task he initially accepts. However, when Tsugury realizes that one of his intended targets is a friend (Masafumi Suzuki), he finds himself facing a dilemma: Should he carry out his orders or fight back against the yakuza?...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Musical Described as both “dignified and disarming” by author Bill Friskics-Warren, the new film “Seven Signs” focuses on the music, mythology and faith that persist, despite heavy modernization, in the American South. The documentary also marks the directorial debut for J.D. Wilkes, the artist/musician lauded by “Alarm” magazine as “the closest thing there is to the Ambassador of Genuine, Traditional Southern Culture.” 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Flamenco is a passionate and improvisational, but highly rigorous style of music, song and dance which originated, some say, among the gypsies of southern Spain. Whatever its origins, it captures the essence of the typically Spanish duality of intense feeling wrapped closely in proud self-discipline. In the first half of the 1980s, director Carlos Saura directed three films devoted to the art of flamenco and those who perform it....

4 votes and 0 Reviews R | Comedy, Thriller The feature film debut of Scottish director Danny Boyle was a dark, hip, Generation X comedy about a trio of Edinburgh roommates whose narcissistic greed fuels murder and betrayal. Boisterous journalist Alex (Ewan McGregor), flirtatious doctor Juliet (Kerry Fox), and meek accountant David (Christopher Eccleston) possess very different personalities, but the roommates are bonded in mutual, self-absorbed cynicism. Seeking a fourth boarder to share the rent for their stylish flat, they cruelly dismiss several candidates before settling on Hugo (Keith Allen), whose air of detachment meets the roommates’ standard of coolness....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Set in rural Palestine in 1939 at the end of the Palestinian revolt against the British Mandate, “Swesh Swesh” follows a Palestinian farmer and his family whose traditional and stagnant lives get turned upside down when a Palestinian resistance fighter decides to hide out in their small farm home and brings revolutionary ideas into the family and challenges their traditional way of life. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...