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0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The campaign for student body president at Stuyvesant, perhaps the most prestigious public high school in the country, is almost as sophisticated as any presidential election. But unlike presidential candidates, they also have to do their homework, take their SATs and write their college applications. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The campaign for student body president at Stuyvesant, perhaps the most prestigious public high school in the country, is almost as sophisticated as any presidential election....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 32m | Horror Watch Trailer The cast and crew of a ghost-hunting reality show called Grave Encounters lock themselves inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital to perform paranormal investigation for an upcoming episode. They set up their equipment and cameras, hoping to find an explanation for the reported ghost sightings over the years. They soon find out that not only is the building haunted, but it has a life and mind of its own and has no intention of letting them leave....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Adding to his list of less-than-feature-length experimental films, director Hal Hartley offers up this mildly erotic, non-narrative fantasy starring his wife, Miho Nikaido. Presumably abandoned by her husband-to-be after an argument, Nikaido’s nameless character wanders through a lush forest in her wedding gown, sullying herself in the dirt, tree branches, and rivers of the landscape. As the ornate clothing eventually tears away from her body, she observes two nymphs spying on her; she comes upon a desolate cabin where, under the supervision of the nymphs, she cleans herself and re-dresses in the loose robe of the film’s title....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 8, 1975 (limited) PG | 1h 49m | Drama, Romance An ambitious beauty, rising from a Chicago ‘hood, becomes a rich, deliciously decadent international supermodel. But, she soon learns that la dolce vita isn’t what it’s cracked up to be from the likes of a twitchy bisexual photographer before finding redemption with straight- arrow politician. Director: Berry Gordy Producer(s): Jack Ballard Cast: Beah Richards, Marisa Mell, Anthony Perkins, Nina Foch, Billy Williams, Bruce Vilanch, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Diana Ross, Lenard Norris, Ira Rogers, Kristine Cameron, Ted Liss, Marvin Corman, Daniel Daniele, Princess Galitzine, Jacques Stany, Don Howard, Albert Rosenberg...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 48% 72% In Theaters: September 25, 1981 R | 2h 9m | Drama, Biography When her adoptive mother Joan Crawford died in 1977, erstwhile actress/author Christina Crawford and her brother Christopher were left out of Joan Crawford’s will, for reasons which are well known to them. Industryites have suggested that it may have been this posthumous act of rejection rather than an alleged lifetime of parental abuse that inspired Christina Crawford to pen her scathing autobiography Mommie Dearest....

36 votes and 17 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 73% 1h 25m | Drama On February 2, 1994, Omar Raddad, a Moroccan who spoke little French, was sentenced to 18 years in French prison for the brutal murder of Ghislaine Marchal, a wealthy woman who employed him as a gardener. Before dying, she took the time to write in her own blood, “Omar m’a tuer” (roughly translated as “Omar to kill me” due to a spelling error— it should have read “Omar m’a tué”)....

84 votes and 13 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 23% 46% In Theaters: October 11, 2013 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 58m | Drama, Musical, Romance Watch Trailer William Shakespeare’s classic tale of forbidden love, reimagined for the 21st century. Romeo (Douglas Booth) attends a ball at the Capulet house, where he meets and falls in love with Juliet Capulet (Hailee Steinfeld). However, Romeo is a Montague, and the Capulets and Montagues are sworn enemies....

4 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 37% 27% In Theaters: October 14, 2011 (limited) R | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer Detective Mike Souder (Sam Worthington), a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City police detective Brian Heigh (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims’ mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call The Killing Fields....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 97% 93% In Theaters: November 21, 1946 (limited) November 25, 1946 (limited) February 2, 1954 (limited) 2h 52m | Drama, Romance Movie Times It’s the end of World War II and three servicemen—a soldier, a sailor and an airman—have just returned to their hometown of Boone City. All three struggle with readjusting to their previous lives and getting over what they saw during the war....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 17, 1986 (limited) R | Action, Adventure, Fantasy Cinematographer Michael Chapman directed this John Sayles adaptation of Jean M. Auel’s best-selling ode to Cro-Magnon women. The story begins at the moment in pre-history when the last of the Neanderthal men were becoming extinct and the superior race of Cro-Magnons were starting to supersede them. Focusing on a tribe of wandering Neanderthals who adopt a young girl named, Ayla (played as an adult by Daryl Hannah)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 2, 2010 (limited) April 2, 2010 (limited) April 9, 2010 (limited) R | 1h 39m | Drama When their son Bennett (Aaron Johnson) is killed in a car crash, his parents, Allen (Pierce Brosnan) and Grace Brewer (Susan Sarandon), are left grief-stricken, with their family pushed to the breaking point. A young woman, Rose (Carey Mulligan), shows up a few months later on their doorstep....

28 votes and 5 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: October 18, 2013 (limited) 1h 23m | Documentary Watch Trailer Danish architect and professor Jan Gehl has recognized that modern cities repel human interaction, through research he conducted on human behavior in cities throughout 40 years. Despite this, 50 per cent of the global population lives in cities and by the year 2050, it will be 80 per cent. Gehl has discovered a way in which cities can be built to take the human need for inclusion and intimacy into account....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 44m | Thriller, Western Anthony Mann directed this brilliant psychological Western reminiscent of Shakespeare’s King Lear. James Stewart plays Will Lockhart, who is obsessed with finding the man who sold automatic rifles to the Apaches, resulting in the death of his brother. Will enters the town of Coronado, NM, ruled by the blind and aging patriarch Alec Waggoman (Donald Crisp). Unaware that he is trespassing on Waggoman’s land, he finds himself accosted by Alec’s sociopathic son, Dave (Alex Nicol), who brutally beats Will and is ready to kill him....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation, Comedy, Documentary “The Seventh Python” is a nonfiction musical feature film based on the life, work and unplanned career of musical satirist Neil Innes. The film traces one man’s winding path of whimsy as he flirts with destiny at the edge of fame with incredibly influential and unusually lasting work that keeps one foot each planted in the worlds of comedy and rock ’n’ roll....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Comedy Watch Trailer After the tragic death of a newly arrived Ex-pat, ESL kindergarten teachers Simon and Darin, steal the corpse in order to perform the final rites for the fallen stranger. Their quest for the perfect burial spot becomes a quixotic odyssey along Taiwan’s picturesque East Coast Highway, where they encounter welcoming families, violent gangsters, personal demons, and Nikita, their traveling companion. The duty, transport, and dementia fueled by frequent substance abuse, ignites an internalization in all three characters as they define their personal feelings concerning mortality, purpose, burial rites and the concept of legacy....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 40% 34% In Theaters: February 21, 2014 (limited) R | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer Therese, a sexually repressed beautiful young woman, is trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille, by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. Therese spends her days confined behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with and eclectic group. After she meets her husband’s alluring friend, Laurent, she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences....

2 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 14, 2015 (limited) 1h 43m | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer Grief-stricken Tom (Xavier Dolan) travels from Montreal to the country to attend the funeral of his lover Guy. When he meets Guy’s mother Agathe (Lise Roy) and older brother Francis (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), it becomes clear to him that they didn’t know Guy’s sexual orientation or about his relationship with Tom. Based on a play by Michel Marc Bouchard....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 25m | Drama, Thriller Down-and-out family man Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy), in need of a break, falls under the charm of Jerry Slocum (Lloyd Bridges), a small-time criminal. Tyler and Slocum begin their partnership by pulling robberies at local gas stations, but Slocum wants to take the stakes higher by kidnapping a wealthy man for a hefty ransom. When the plan is botched and turns into murder, the two are caught and face the wrath of a bloodthirsty mob, stirred into action by a sensationalist reporter....

4 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: February 3, 2012 (limited) R | 1h 59m | Comedy, Drama, Romance Watch Trailer Wally (Abbie Cornish) is stuck in a abusive, loveless marriage, which serves as the basis of her fascination and obsession with Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough), the woman who Edward the VIII (James D’Arcy) renounced the King of England throne for. Wallis, as the Duchess of Windsor, spent most of her life in social exile because of her pursuit of love and inspired by her sacrifice, Wally escapes her marriage to find real love in the arms of another man....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 18, 2013 (limited) Drama What makes a man step into a cargo container that is going to be sealed for days? Why does he step into a flimsy overloaded boat to face a stormy sea? Or dart across international borders dodging bullets? What are the compulsions faced by men in Pakistan, which make them take extreme risks to chase a mirage of a secure future in alien lands?...