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0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 50% 1h 36m | Drama Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions. He first works as a bellhop in Kansas City, but when he’s the passenger in a car that kills a little girl, Clyde fears he’ll be arrested and flees town. His wealthy uncle Samuel Griffiths (Frederick Burton) gets Clyde a job at a shirt factory in upstate New York where the young man soon becomes foreman of a department that employs only young women....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Travis Wilkerson makes his directorial debut with the experimental documentary An Injury to One. This austere project investigates the exploitation of the Anaconda Mining Company workers in the city of Butte, MT, during the early 20th century. The battle between management and labor led to the still-unsolved murder of Frank Little, organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World. Employing both video and filmed archive footage, the images are accompanied by superimposed intertitles and lyrics to traditional mining songs....

4 votes and 0 Reviews 2h 28m | Drama Egypt, 1949. At the age of 10, Claude Francois was already dreaming of a singing career, while his father, who worked for the Suez Canal Company, hoped Claude would follow in his footsteps. Expelled from the country in the wake of the nationalization of the canal by the Nasser government, the François family took refuge in Monaco, where Claude, always working on perfecting his musical training, was hired as a drummer in a jazz band....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 92% 67% 1h 25m | Documentary, Drama American documentary producer/director Lionel Rogosin followed up his Oscar-nominated film On the Bowery (1956) with another docudrama about the disenfranchised, Come Back Africa. Lensed for the most part in Johannesburg, the film follows a Zulu family that has been uprooted from its native environs and plunked down in the middle of a strange urban jungle. Due to the repressiveness of the South African powers-that-were, Rogosin was forced to shoot his film with hidden cameras, then obliged to smuggle the footage out of the continent....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 60% 43% R | Thriller Goa. Paradise on Earth. But every Paradise has a few snakes. Multiple lives collide brutally one day at Goa Airport… and change forever. Lorry (Prateik Babbar) A student on the verge of following his girlfriend to a US University. But when his scholarship gets rejected, his life threatens to spiral out of control, until he meets a smooth talking hustler who promises to get it back on track....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 3m | Documentary FISTS OF PRIDE follows Little Tiger and his fellow fighters as their Thai coaches prepare them for the annual Water Festival competition. In a boxing camp on the Thai-Burmese border the children of mostly illegal migrant workers fleeing Burma live and train for prize fights. In a region where combat sports have always been a matter of honor and money, the film reveals their daily struggles....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 7% 97% In Theaters: February 25, 2022 (limited) On DVD: April 26, 2022 On Digital/VOD: February 25, 2022 R | 1h 37m | Action, Thriller Watch Trailer Set in the underbelly of Los Angeles, a man is drawn into a high-profile triple murder. The two police detectives on his tail soon join him in attempting to uncover an explosive conspiracy. Director: Edward Drake...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Family In the Sorcerer’s Stone, rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In the Chamber of Secrets, Harry ignores warnings not to return to Hogwarts, only to find the school plagued by a series of mysterious attacks and a strange voice haunting him. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy The film revolves around burning issues of dowry and corruption. Muskaan is a lecturer, who stays with her brother, a school teacher and his wife. In spite of being eduacted, it becomes difficult for her to find the right match. Some how Muskaan gets engaged to a boy but this doesnt lead to marraige as the boys family demands a dowry of Rs 5 lakh, a week before the marriage....

8 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: April 26, 2013 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 58m | Action, Adventure, Drama Watch Trailer In 1947, explorer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl gathered an inexperienced crew to embark on a voyage across the Pacific on a wooden raft. His goal was to try and prove his theory that Polynesia was populated by South American settlers and not people from Asia, as the scientific community had presumed....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 2h 32m | Drama Arriving in Taiwan in the 1950s, Kueimei enters a disadvantageous marriage to a widower with three unruly childrenand a bad gambling habit. Beautifully portrayed by celebrated actress Yang, she confronts pregnancies, her husband’s infidelity, her daughter’s resentment, a stint as servant in Japan, divorce, and illness while struggling to keep the family restaurant business afloat. Cast: Wen Ying, Hui San Yang, Lichun Lee...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 56% In Theaters: December 4, 2015 (limited) R | Comedy, Drama Workaholic Kevin goes home with the beautiful train-wreck Madeline for a drunken one night stand, but he’s horrified to discover she’s actually his boss’ jilted ex-mistress. After she takes a bottle of sleeping pills, Kevin is forced to keep her awake all night. As Madeline and Kevin banter through the night, they begin to fall for each other....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 11, 2014 (limited) PG-13 | Drama, Thriller When a series of package bombs show up on the doorsteps of prominent politicians and businessmen in the summer of 1919, U.S. Bureau of Investigation Agent William Flynn (Strathairn) is assigned the task of finding those responsible. He becomes immersed in an investigation that uncovers an anarchist plot to destroy democracy. Inspired by true events of the 20’s the film sets the stage for a timely drama with resoundingly similar parallels to the contemporary war on terrorism and the role government plays to defeat it....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 8, 2013 (limited) 1h 30m | Documentary Watch Trailer Featuring groundbreaking footage from seven winters in the Arctic, PEOPLE OF A FEATHER takes you through time into the world of Inuit on the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay. Connecting past present and future is a unique cultural relationship with the eider duck. Eider down, the warmest feather in the world, allows both Inuit and bird to survive harsh Arctic winters....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 89% 72% 1h 27m | Thriller Engineer Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) is at a seedy midtown Manhattan bar early one evening, drowning his sorrows over a failed marriage, when he strikes up a conversation with a woman (Fay Helm). She’s well dressed, with a very ornate hat topping off her ensemble, and also seems even sadder and more lost than he is. Henderson persuades her to join him in taking advantage of the two theater tickets he has....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 17, 1987 (limited) May 8, 1987 (limited) Comedy, Drama This unadorned biography of playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) charts his bawdy, dangerous relationships. Alfred Molina plays Orton’s brutish lover, Kenneth Halliwell, a pathetic figure who becomes horrific and then tragic before the film is over. The hilarity of scenes from such Orton plays as Loot and What the Butler Saw is evenly balanced by the bleakness of the playwright’s tormented (and tormenting) off-stage existence, which ended suddenly at age 34 with half a dozen blows to the head from a hammer....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary “In Seven Songs for Malcolm X,” archival footage is combined with interviews and re-creations to evoke the impact of Malcolm X on American politics and culture. The film includes interviews with Spike Lee; Malcolm X’s wife, Betty Shabazz; and essayist Greg Tate, with narration by novelist Toni Cade Bambara. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary “In Seven Songs for Malcolm X,” archival footage is combined with interviews and re-creations to evoke the impact of Malcolm X on American politics and culture....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Horror Watch Trailer When a zombie plague infects Camp Special Dude, a dude ranch for the mentally handicapped, a ragtag band of campers and counselors struggles to survive the night. Led by the indifferent, nun-chuck-wielding head counselor, Mac, and his wheelchair-bound sister Dale, the unlikely heroes fight their way off the mountain as, one by one, they’re picked off and join the ranks of the walking dead....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama For this Finnish drama, writer-director Markkku Polonen (The Last Wedding) recaptured the mood and charm identified with Scandinavian films of the ’50s. Widower Tenho (Pertti Koivula) takes his ten-year-old son Topi (Simo Kontio) to eastern Finland while he tackles grueling and exhausting hard work as a logger during a mid-’50s summer. Tenho’s logging blunders and mistakes bring jeers and harassment from his tough co-workers, but he finds romance after a local attractive blonde takes an interest in him....

4 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 61% 52% In Theaters: October 19, 2012 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 35m | Action, Adventure Watch Trailer TAI CHI ZERO tells the story of Yang Luchan, a young genius who, tired of being picked on, travels to Chen Village to learn the art of Tai Chi. Luchan finds out the hard way that it is forbidden for a villager to teach an outsider....