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0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Comedy “White on Rice” is the comedic story of Jimmy, a misguided 40-year-old divorceé, trying to navigate his way through a new life in America and out of his sister Aiko’s basement. Disgraced by his disgruntled brother-in-law Tak, the immature yet adorable Jimmy spends his nights searching for a new wife who shares his love of dinosaurs and geology. Things go horribly wrong when Jimmy falls desperately in love with Tak’s niece, the beautiful Ramona, and vows to steal her away from his co-worker Tim....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Watch Trailer In Band of Sisters, two nuns advocate for the rights of immigrant detainees and deportees in and around a Chicago-area deportation center. It is 50 years since Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council to let a little fresh air into the church, and most Catholic nuns in the U.S. have never looked back. Fascinating scenes of convent life prior to Vatican II contrast with those of nuns in the tumultuous and exciting years after the Council, when sisters became engaged with the great social movements of our day....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 21, 2019 (limited) June 28, 2019 (limited) Documentary, Drama Fifty years after the riots gave birth to the modern lesbian and gay liberation movement, and with substantial progress made, LGBT Americans still find themselves fighting on many fronts for full equality, in the U.S. and around the world. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 21, 2019 (limited) June 28, 2019 (limited) Documentary, Drama...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama Desperate for a place to live and for his next fix, drug-addled nurse Eric Labudde lands a job in a ramshackle convalescent home, where he develops a mutually enabling relationship with jazz saxophone-playing resident Tharin Sanders. As Eric charms his way into the home’s drug cabinet, he inadvertently brings some light to the retirees’ grim lives. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 91% 91% In Theaters: August 24, 1946 (limited) 1h 26m | Drama, Romance Watch Trailer On a cafe at a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson meets Dr. Alec Harvey. Although they are already married, they gradually fall in love with each other. They continue to meet every Thursday on the small cafe, although they know that their love is impossible Director: David Lean...

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 24, 2007 (limited) PG-13 | Drama Expelled from high school in Los Angeles, 15-year-old Alyssa is forced to live with her father, a crusty dolphin research scientist in the Bahamas who has no time in his life for an unruly teenager. After their personalities clash, Alyssa feels like a prisoner on the isolated island–but when she forms an unexpected friendship with an orphaned wild dolphin, she finds that she and her special friend have the power to bring hope to the impoverished people of her new home....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 14, 2005 (limited) October 14, 2005 (limited) R | Drama, War Set in war-torn El Salvador in the mid-1980s, an eleven-year-old boy must decide between joining the army and fighting alongside the guerrillas. Director: Luis Mandoki 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 14, 2005 (limited) October 14, 2005 (limited) R | Drama, War Set in war-torn El Salvador in the mid-1980s, an eleven-year-old boy must decide between joining the army and fighting alongside the guerrillas....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 20m | Drama Recently divorced, Denise moves into a small apartment in the Montreal neighborhood where she grew up. Having retired from the investment firm she ran with her husband Michel, she now finds herself an object of contempt by not only him but her former colleagues and her son, who has taken her place as financial director of the company. Paul, her next door neighbor, invites her to play poker with him and a group of his friends....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Before he became world-famous for his sophisticated sex farces, Ernst Lubitsch was primarily a director of outsized German spectaculars. One such was Madame Du Barry, an operatic version of the life, loves and death of the legendary 18th-century French courtesan. Pola Negri plays DuBarry, who sleeps her way to the court of King Louis XV (Emil Jannings), ultimately becoming his mistress. Comes the revolution, and the rabble demands DuBarry’s head....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Drama Mappillai Movie is a remake of Super Star Rajini Blockbuster Mapillai. Mappillai is all about the tiffs between the hero and his mother-in-law. The hero(dhanush) will fall in love with the heroine(hansika motwani) and will marry her against the wish of the heroine’s mom(Manisha Koirala). Then a cold-war starts between the mom in-law and the son-in-law and who wins the fight is ‘Mappillai’....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Mr. Tree is at once an elliptical, offbeat character study about a village idiot who might just be a prophet, and a subtle but sly commentary on rampant urbanization in China. It is also an auspicious second feature from director Jie Han, whose distinctive voice is already more than clear. The vast and snowy landscapes of northern China form the striking backdrop to the story of Shu - whose name translates to “tree” in Mandarin - a clownish mechanic who resides in a small mining village in the province of Jilin....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 16, 2010 (limited) Drama Recently released from prison, two young musicians decide to form a band. Together they search the underworld of contemporary Tehran for other players. Forbidden by the authorities to play in Iran, they plan to escape from their clandestine existence, and dream of performing in Europe. But with no money and no passports, it won’t be easy… Director: Bahman Ghobadi...

10 votes and 0 Reviews 2h 2m | Drama Watch Trailer Recounting the erotic journey of self-diagnosed nymphomaniac Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg). After being rescued by a stranger following a beating in an abandoned alley, Joe shares her unlikely stories with her charming savior. Director: Lars von Trier Studio: Zentropa Entertainments Producer(s): Louise Vesth, Marie Cecilie Gade Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, Mia Goth, Sophie Kenney Clark, Connie Nielsen, Udo Kier, Jens Albinus, Nicolas Bro...

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Action, Adventure, Horror A wealthy businessman hires a crack team of seasoned soldiers to accompany him on a perilous journey into no man’s land, only to come face to face with an otherworldly enemy more vicious and powerful than any mortal foe. It was supposed to be an easy, forty-eight hour mission: Move in, scope out an abandoned military bunker, and move out. Once in the bunker, however, the fearless mercenaries begin to quake in their boots after happening across the remnants of some gruesome World War II experiments carried out by Nazi soldiers on their own men....

112 votes and 43 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 91% 89% In Theaters: November 22, 2013 (limited) November 27, 2013 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 35m | Drama Watch Trailer Philomena Lee (Judi Dench), along with many other unwed women, was forced by Catholic authorities in 1950s Ireland to give up her child for adoption. After 50 years of searching for her son without any luck, Philomena convinced a recently unemployed and unapologetically cynical journalist named Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) to help her....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 3h 30m | Musical, Other Watch Trailer A moving account of Mahatma Gandhi’s (Richard Croft) formative experiences in South Africa, which transformed him into a great leader. Sung in Sanskrit. Director: Phelim McDermott Studio: The Metropolitan Opera Cast: Richard Croft Writer(s): Philip Glass 0 votes and 0 Reviews 3h 30m | Musical, Other Watch Trailer A moving account of Mahatma Gandhi’s (Richard Croft) formative experiences in South Africa, which transformed him into a great leader....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer Charlie Rankin is out of prison, but not out of trouble. Indebted to the man who saved his life behind bars, Charlie must now carry out a murder to settle the score. But things start to change for Charlie when he meets Florence (Michelle Monaghan), a mysterious and beautiful lost soul who sees the good hidden beneath his tough exterior. When the hit goes bad, it’s Charlie’s life that is on the line, and he’ll have to figure out how to settle his debts - and keep Florence out of danger - before his past catches up to him....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 52% PG | 1h 36m | Fantasy, Musical, Sci-Fi When a collection of alien rock stars descend to earth, a young teenage couple finds themselves caught up in an unusual adventure. The film was shelved for quite some time, hence the presence of octogenarian Ruth Gordon, who died in 1985. Director: James Fargo Producer(s): Brian Russell, Micheline Keller Cast: Pia Zadora, Ruth Gordon, Craig Sheffer, Michael Berryman, Tom Nolan, Alison LaPlaca, Peter Stelzer, Wallace Merck...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Assigned to write and direct the John Wayne western West of the Divide, Robert N. Bradbury dug out the plotline he’d used so often and to such good effect in his son Bob Steele’s vehicles. Wayne plays frontiersman Ted Hayden, who spends most of the picture searching for the man who killed his parents. Along the way, he tames spoiled heroine Fay Winter (Virginia Brown Faire) and rediscovers his long-lost brother Spud (Billy O’Brien)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Horror Paranormal researcher Mary Florescu’s investigations lead her to Simon McNeal, a college student who appears to be channeling messages from the dead. As their erotic relationship develops, the line between the worlds of the living and the dead become blurred and finally collapse in a stunning and astonishing climax. 0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Horror Paranormal researcher Mary Florescu’s investigations lead her to Simon McNeal, a college student who appears to be channeling messages from the dead....