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0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 2, 1969 (limited) October 3, 2008 (limited) Comedy, Drama A sextet of French filmmakers collaborated on Six in Paris (originally Paris vu Par…) Jean Douchet directed the film’s first episode, Saint Germain-des-Pres, the story of the up-and-down relationship between a male model (Jean-Francois Chappey) and an American coed (Barbara Wilkin). Jean Rouch’s Gare du Nord is a haunting twist-of-fate tale involving a suicidal handsome stranger (Gilles Queant)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Pascal Bonitzer’s heavily plotted comedy Petites Coupures (Small Cuts) opens with journalist Bruno (Daniel Auteuil) and his wife, Gaelle (Emmanuelle Devos), having it out over his affair with Nathalie (Ludivine Sagnier). After an invitation from Bruno’s uncle Gerard (Jean Yanne), Bruno and Nathalie travel to the town where Gerard is mayor. Bruno learns that his aunt is having an affair. Gerard is aware of his wife’s infidelity and asks Bruno to take a letter to the man who has cuckolded him, a doctor named Verekher (Hanns Zischler)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | 1h 52m | Drama, Thriller Movie Times Two-timing his girlfriend, Kitty (Moira Lister), con man Mark Bellis (Ray Milland) woos naive widow Olivia Harwood (Ann Todd), luring her into his latest criminal scheme. As directed by Mark, Olivia begins stealing from her employer, Susan Courtney (Geraldine Fitzgerald). Soon, Mark is after more loot from the Courtney household, and Olivia reluctantly agrees to blackmail Susan....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 7, 2014 (limited) R | Action, Adventure, Drama Zilong “Dragon” Chen is an undercover cop deep inside China’s most ruthless crime syndicate. The boss, Xiong swears to find every traitor and make them pay with their lives.Agents are turning up dead. His days are numbered. Desperate to protect his family and his life, Chen must risk everything to protect the SPECIAL IDENTITY he never wanted - before it’s too late....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Thriller Indications were that this action sequel was in trouble before production began, when the male lead from the first film, Keanu Reeves, declined a role in the follow-up. Sandra Bullock returns as Annie Porter, an accident-prone ditz who is thrilled when her boyfriend Alex (Jason Patric) presents her with two tickets for a cruise ship vacation to the Bahamas. The trip is a peace offering presented because Annie has just learned that Alex is a police officer who’s been lying to her about his choice of profession....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Released in Spain as Volver a Empezar, To Begin Again features Antonio Ferrandis as a celebrated Spanish author. Returning to his homeland after being more or less exiled during the 1937 Civil War, Ferrandis crosses the path of his former love, Encarna Paso. Alas, Ferrandis is suffering from one of those unnamed terminal illnesses that infest high-gloss movie weepers of this kind. To Begin Again won a 1982 Oscar for Best Foreign Film....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama Michael Cimino, the director of The Deer Hunter and the ill-fated Heaven’s Gate, helmed this bizarre New Age action picture in 1996. Based on a screenplay by Charles Leavitt, the film stars Woody Harrelson as Dr. Michael Reynolds, a rich, young L.A. physician who worries more about promotions and buying a $2 million home for his family than about his patients. Reynolds is assigned a 16-year-old convicted murderer, Brandon Monroe (Jon Seda), as his new patient....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 88% PG | 1h 48m | Documentary, Musical The classic rock group The Who are featured in this 1979 documentary about the career of the group. It is enhanced by rare footage of the performers, including a television interview with the later-deceased Keith Moon. Highlights include footage from many of the band’s early performances. Among the many songs featured are Magic Bus, Won’t Get Fooled Again, My Generation, Young Man’s Blues, Happy Jack, and excerpts from the innovative rock-opera Tommy....

28 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 77% 86% In Theaters: December 11, 1992 On Disney+: November 12, 2019 G | 1h 25m | Comedy, Family, Holiday Watch Trailer Crotchety Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine) is an old miser who couldn’t care less about Christmas and the joy the season brings. Working for the skinflint is his faithful employee Bob Cratchit (Kermit the Frog), who begs Scrooge for a day off for Christmas....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama This mellow comedy is the third entry in filmmaker Anja Breien’s Wives series and stars the same three actresses who appeared in the first two. This episodic film begins with flashbacks to the 1975 film Wives in which the trio were having lively debates of marriage vs. Free love and scenes from 1985’s Wives: Ten Years Later where all three coped with the realities of aging....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Blurring the edges between reality and fiction, and in an era where we all live in public to a certain extent, “A Love Affair of Sorts” is a modern twist on a love affair in the digital age. Its narrative follows two lonely strangers in modern day Los Angeles, during the holiday season. The film begins with David, a painter, and Enci, a Hungarian nanny, who meet in a bookstore when he catches her shoplifting on his ever-present flip camera....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 18, 2000 (limited) R | Comedy, Drama In 1993, while a war rages in Bosnia, the conflict manages to spill over into London. A Croat and a Serb, originally from the same village but now sworn enemies, meet by chance on a London bus. A BBC reporter sets out to Bosnia, only to return with his leg amputated. A nurse falls for her refugee patient, while a recently singled obstetrician goes out of his way to help a pregnant Bosnian woman....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Crooked Beauty is a poetic documentary that chronicles artist-activist Jacks McNamara’s transformative journey from childhood abuse to psych ward patient to pioneering mental health advocacy. It is a portrait of her personal quest to live with courage and dignity, and a critique of standard psychiatric treatments. Poignant testimonials connect the fissures and fault lines of human nature to the unstable topography and mercurial weather patterns of the San Francisco Bay Area....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 50% 80% 1h 54m | Documentary, Drama Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr began his career making social realist domestic dramas, similar to the work of John Cassavettes. The feature before Damnation, Almanac of Fall, showed Tarr moving toward a more visually stylized form of filmmaking. With Damnation, the first of his collaborations with novelist Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Tarr adopts a formally rigorous style, featuring long takes and slow tracking shots of the bleak landscape that surrounds the characters....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Romance Watch Trailer Dan Topler is a rich, smart, suicidal twenty-something who dropped out of medical school to pursue his own drug habit. After a suicide attempt on the George Washington Bridge lands him in an upscale rehabilitation clinic, Dr. Jacob Bernstein takes him under his wing. The doctor issues these commands: obey the no-drugs rules, and join the geriatric temple men’s group he leads or face incarceration....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Fight Life is a new groundbreaking documentary that gives the audience an intimate look into the real life of the modern day professional fighter. From paying dues starting out at the smaller shows to the championship fight on prime time TV, Fight Life chronicles the daily lives of professional fighters from all different levels over the course of one year. Directed by award-winning indie filmmaker James Z....

20 votes and 7 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: February 24, 2012 (limited) February 24, 2012 (limited) PG | 1h 43m | Drama Watch Trailer Uriel (Lior Ashkenazi) and his father Eliezer (Shlomo Bar Aba) are both professors in Talmudic Studies at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. But while Uriel is often recognized for his broader approach to teaching, Eliezer’s only real recognition is a footnote hidden somewhere within the pages of an old obscure tome....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 21% 77% In Theaters: June 22, 2012 (limited) R | 2h 23m | Drama, War Watch Trailer The story of the 1926-29 Cristeros war, touched off by a rebellion over the Mexican government’s moves in 1917 to seculiarize the country and remove the influence of the Catholic Church. Director: Dean Wright Studio: ARC Entertainment Producer(s): Pablo José Barroso Cast: Andy Garcia, Oscar Isaac, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Santiago Cabrera, Ruben Blades, Bruce McGill, Eva Longoria, Peter O’Toole...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Comedy A movie depicting the lifestyle of the younger generation with a love triangle thrown in the mix. Afiq is a rich kid who fancies motorbike racing and dancing while Lisa is a shy, reserved young girl that comes from a modest upbringing. Lisa’s older brother, Haikal, is very protective and constantly watches over her. While in college, Afiq falls in love with Lisa....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy Based on one of author Phillip Roth’s shorter works, Goodbye Columbus stars Richard Benjamin as Neil, a young man of humble means who falls in love with Jewish-American-princess Brenda (Ali MacGraw). Their romance is out of the question so far as Brenda’s suburbanite parents are concerned, so Neil and Brenda rendezvous in some of the sleaziest motels ever seen in a 1960s film (and that assessment includes The Bates Motel)....