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0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In this independently produced drama, a timbermill owner is having great difficulty sustaining a livelihood due to overcutting and peculiarities of the international trade situation. Despite the damaging effect his mill has on the local environment, he appears to be someone who really enjoys the unspoiled wilderness, because he goes fly-fishing whenever he can. His troubled life edges veers into deeper waters when his daughter sends him a letter in which she accuses him of incest....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Family Laetitia Casta stars in director Gilles Legrand’s drama concerning an Edwardian-era woman whose fate becomes permanently intertwined with that of the last wolf pack on Mount Blanc. Angele is a young girl who lives in a French Alpine town with her father Leon (Patrick Chesnais), the local taxidermist. Shortly after Leon receives a slaughtered pack of wolves, young Angele notices an orphaned black cub descending from the mountains in search of his family....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 98% 89% 1h 45m | Drama Compulsive neatnik Felix Unger (Jack Lemmon) is thrown out of his house by his divorce-bound wife. He wanders aimlessly through the streets of New York, toying with the idea of suicide, before gravitating to the apartment of his best friend, incorrigibly sloppy sportswriter Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau). Worried that Felix will try something desperate, Oscar, himself in the process of being divorced by his wife, invites Felix to move in with him....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Thriller Based on a novel by Robert Hichens, The Paradine Case concerns Anna Paradine (Alida Valli), on trial for the murder of her wealthy husband. British barrister Anthony Keane (played by the aggressively American Gregory Peck) takes on the case-and in the process, falls in love with Anna, despite being married himself. Despite his client’s protests, Keane summons Anna’s lover, unkempt stableman Andre Latour (Louis Jourdan), hoping to prove in court that Latour was the killer....

24 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 32% 76% PG-13 | 1h 51m | Comedy, Drama, Romance Watch Trailer Wesley Deeds (Tyler Perry) is a successful, wealthy businessman who has taken over the helm of his father’s company. He patiently tolerates his brother’s misdeeds and copies with his restless fiancée, Natalie (Gabrielle Union). But when he meets Lindsey (Thandie Newton), a struggling single mother who works as an office cleaner, he offers to give her help after finding out she’s been recently evicted....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Drama Hilary Duff and Evan Ross star in this interracial teen romance about a waitress whose summer romance with an ambitious cook is threatened when her grandparents (Ellen Burstyn and Michael Murphy) voice concern about her new boyfriend’s criminal history. 0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Drama Hilary Duff and Evan Ross star in this interracial teen romance about a waitress whose summer romance with an ambitious cook is threatened when her grandparents (Ellen Burstyn and Michael Murphy) voice concern about her new boyfriend’s criminal history....

0 votes and 0 Reviews This gritty documentary chronicles the daily life of an 18-year old Cambodian immigrant living in San Francisco. It is literally a filmed diary for Sokly (Don Bonus) Ny who spent 12 months making the film as part of a homework assignment for a filmmaking class taught by director Spencer Nakasako. During the first few months of filming, Ny is seen living in a run-down, dangerous housing project....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 13, 1933 (limited) Comedy, Drama, Romance Jean Harlow is the bombshell of the title, a popular movie actress named Lola. Though she seemingly has everything a girl could possibly want, Lola is fed up with her sponging relatives, her work til you drop studio, and the nonsensical publicity campaigns conducted by press agent Lee Tracy. She tries to escape Hollywood by marrying a titled foreign nobleman, but Tracy has the poor guy arrested as an illegal alien....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 14m | Documentary, Musical Watch Trailer Filmmaker and atheist punk rocker Justin Ludwig takes an inside look at the explosive subculture of Christian hardcore music, which is surging across North America. He goes on tour with two evangelical hardcore bands—driven newcomers Messengers and Christcore superstars Sleeping Giant—culminating in the annual Christian Cornerstone Music Festival. These talented musicians and devoted evangelical Christians combine the trials of preaching from the stage with touring....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Drama The portrait of Fred Kress – a forty-six-year-old man within weeks of dying from terminal liver disease. After receiving the diagnosis, Fred has turned his room into a neon hallucination, covering the walls and ceiling with fluorescent alien masks, mannequin heads, skulls and animal carcasses, creating his final resting place. Fred’s work escapes the devastating reality of his disease while raising eternal questions of life, mortality and the true purpose of art....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Animation, Comedy Czech animator Jan Svankmajer gained acclaim and notoriety for his eerie, nightmarish stop-motion animated pieces fashioned out of discarded dolls, battered marionettes, and pieces of junk. His films such as Alice and Faust delved headlong into the subconscious and dredged up images that were imbued not only with a woozy sense of dread but with a savage sense of wit. Svankmajer’s third feature – and his first (mostly) live-action film – is an absurdist look at some very weird sexual adventurers....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure Mat works as a night cop in the criminal division of the Paris’ police force. His lifelong friend, Franck, works in the drug squad, doing some drug trafficking of his own on the side. When Franck gets in too deep, Mat must take matters into his own hands. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure Mat works as a night cop in the criminal division of the Paris’ police force....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure Director Lee Myung-se returns to the screen with his long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed 1999 policier Nowhere to Hide. Duelist takes place in Korea during the Chosun dynasty, where a large-scale counterfeiting scheme threatens to send the whole country into chaos. Two cops, Detective Ahn (Ahn Sung-kee, who played the killer in Nowhere to Hide) and his young protégé, Namsoon (Ha Ji-won of Phone), stumble upon the plot while they’re working undercover at a street fair....

6 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Drama, Horror The Civil War has just ended and the aftermath brings with it an outbreak of the Walking Dead. When Edward Young’s (Mark Gibson) wife is brutally killed and his son goes missing, Edward enters the plagued countryside where he not only has to fight off the undead but also the living who are struggling to survive. Director: John Geddes...

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 2, 1985 (limited) R | Comedy, Drama Using four famous but unnamed individuals to symbolize a notorious era in American politics, as well as to explore the nature of despair, director Nicolas Roeg has created an intriguing drama. Based on a play by Terry Johnson, the story begins with the blond Theresa Russell as a sex-goddess actress working on a scene over a subway grate, with her skirts billowing out in the updraft....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Musical, Other At the opera’s outset, Nabucco (in English, Nebuchadnezzar) and his Babylonian army are at the gates of Jerusalem, the defeat of the Jews imminent. Nabucco’s younger daughter, Fenena, is being held hostage by the Jews; but she has fallen in love with her jailer, Ismaele. The couple is preparing to escape when Fenena’s older sister Abigaille learns of their plans and threatens to expose them unless Ismaele becomes her lover....

0 votes and 1 Reviews In Theaters: April 12, 1985 PG-13 | 2h 1m | Action, Adventure, Romance In medieval France, a thief named Phillipe “The Mouse” Gaston (Matthew Broderick) escapes from the dungeons of the Bishop of Aquila through the sewers. He’s almost caught by the Bishop’s Guards, but is rescued by a knight named Navarre (Rutger Hauer), who needs his help. Navarre tells Phillipe he needs him to get back inside Aquila so he can kill the evil Bishop (John Wood)....

516 votes and 62 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 80% 58% In Theaters: March 21, 2014 On Disney+: November 12, 2019 PG | 1h 52m | Action, Adventure, Comedy Watch Trailer While the Muppets go on a world tour of the biggest cities in Europe, they find themselves in the middle of a conflict headed by none other than the biggest criminal in the world, Constantine, who’s a dead ringer for Kermit the Frog....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi Although there’d been doomsday dramas before it, Stanley Kramer’s On the Beach was considered the first important entry in this genre when originally released in 1959. Based on the novel by Nevil Shute, the film is set in the future (1964) when virtually all life on earth has been exterminated by the radioactive residue of a nuclear holocaust. Only Australia has been spared, but it’s only a matter of time before everyone Down Under also succumbs to radiation poisoning....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Return to Manila is the latest in French film critic Hubert Niogret’s series of documentary introductions to Asian national cinemas. Niogret talks to the new wave of Philippine digital cinema makers (Lav Diaz, Brillante Mendoza and Raymond Red) who are again getting international attention to the long tradition of Philippine cinema. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Return to Manila is the latest in French film critic Hubert Niogret’s series of documentary introductions to Asian national cinemas....