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0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance Political intrigue and romantic gamesmanship send an already torrid Caribbean community to the boiling point in this drama. Maxwell Fleury (James Mason) and David Boyeur (Harry Belafonte) are two men running for political office in a British-controlled island in the West Indies. Maxwell is the son of a wealthy and socially prominent white family, while David is a black labor leader with a groundswell of popular support but little money....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 87% Comedy, Drama Bill Forsyth’s whimsical tale of sweet-natured corporate rapacity features standout performances by Burt Lancaster and Peter Riegert. Lancaster plays Texas billionaire Felix Happer, who would rather gaze at the stars than worry about his multi-national oil company. Happer dispatches Mac MacIntyre (Peter Riegert) and Danny Oldsen (Peter Capaldi) to the small Scottish fishing village of Ferness to negotiate buying the entire town so Happer can drill for oil in the North Sea....

32 votes and 9 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 71% 50% In Theaters: November 1, 2013 (limited) R | 1h 45m | Action, Adventure Watch Trailer Linhu (Tiger Chen) lives in a Beijing tenement block. When he’s not working, he studies English and practices a form of tai chi called Ling Kong, which means “Empty your spirit.” Linhu is approached by a mysterious businessman, Donaka Mark (Keanu Reeves), with an offer to compete in an underground fight club....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 39m | Drama The moderate success of 1987’s Ngati (see entry 120359) enabled other filmmakers from New Zealand’s Maori population to get their projects off the ground. Mauri deserves mention as the first film ever produced, written and directed by a Maori woman (Merate Mita). The film stars Anzac Wallace, a Maori who has run into nothing but trouble in white society. Picking up a hitchhiker, Wallace inadvertently kills the man in a car accident, then assumes the dead man’s identity in order to escape a bank-robbery charge....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Set in America’s most segregated city, where black men are disproportionally the targets of unemployment and incarceration, this documentary profiles some of the creative and resourceful voices from Detroit’s underground economy. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Set in America’s most segregated city, where black men are disproportionally the targets of unemployment and incarceration, this documentary profiles some of the creative and resourceful voices from Detroit’s underground economy....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary “Orphans of Apollo” chronicles the dramatic adventure of the boldest business plan the Earth has ever seen. At the center of the film is MirCorp – the very first entrepreneurial company to have a sole focus on the privatization of space with a fantastic vision of transforming the Russian Mir space station into an outpost for what was intended to be the first phase of a trillion dollar business, including mining of asteroids, gravity free laboratories and a space hotel....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 36m | Drama Tuscany, 1970. Mirco, 10, is passionate about movies. One day while playing with a rifle, the gun goes off and Mirco is shot in the head. He survives, but is blind. His parents send him to a Catholic boarding school for the blind in Genoa. Mirco has a difficult time adapting to the harsh and oppressive regime established by the school principal....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 67% 50% R | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer Mitchell (Josh Duhamel) and Carter (Dan Fogler), life-long friends who have drifted apart, are on a road trip when their old pickup breaks down, leaving them stranded on an isolated desert road. Nobody can pick apart a man like his best friend, and as the relentless elements of the desert grind them down, they start to attack each other’s life decisions with unwavering brutality....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Steve McQueen stars as the Cincinnati Kid, a crackerjack New Orleans stud poker player. Tired of chicken feed, the Kid decides to challenge The Man (Edward G. Robinson), the reigning poker champ, who is in town for a private game. The Shooter (Karl Malden), another gambling pro, arranges a game between the Kid and the Man, with the Shooter dealing. The game is compromised by the intervention of Slade (Rip Torn), an old foe of the Man’s who tries to fix the outcome....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama Terminally unemployed, dating challenged Rebecca thinks she’s scored her big break on Broadway by landing a job with the fickle Ian helping him manage the darling diva Simone. Instead of a dream job, Rebecca finds herself scrubbing floors while careening from one disastrous relationship to the next. When Simone confronts her, she “accidentally” shoves her down a flight of stairs. Suddenly a star is born as Rebecca takes over, but then a bigger Diva is brought in, The Great Greta....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Aging and death are not the absolutes we once thought they were. “To Age or Not to Age,” tracks the pioneers in the field of anti-aging research at Harvard, MIT, Cambridge and other research centers. The scientists featured in the film have found the means to postpone and possibly mitigate diseases tied to aging and even get rid of and reverse aging itself. That this can be done no longer seems in doubt....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 48% 36% R | 1h 39m | Action, Adventure, Thriller Watch Trailer When Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong) escaped following a robbery, detective Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy) was angry that the criminal had gotten away and vowed that if he ever got another chance, he would nab Sternwood and put him behind bars. That proved difficult, because in the wake of his success, Sternwood left London and gave up his life of crime....

32 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: February 12, 1988 (limited) R | 2h 24m | Action, Adventure, Comedy Watch Trailer A Detroit cop teams up with a beautiful singer to trap a powerful businessman who had framed him for murder. Director: Prabhu Deva Studio: Eros International Cast: Ajay Devgn, Sonakshi Sinha, Yami Gautam, Kunaal Roy Kapur Writer(s): A.C. Mughil, Prabhudheva 32 votes and 4 Reviews...

6 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: September 8, 2012 (limited) 1h 33m | Action, Adventure, Comedy Watch Trailer Aging couple Stella (Olympia Dukakis) and Dot (Brenda Fricker) have been together for 31 years through life’s ups and downs. Now in their seventies, Stella is going deaf and Dot has trouble with her vision. Dotty’s prudish granddaughter, Molly (Kristin Booth), decides the best place for Dot is a nursing home....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 19m | Drama, Short As everything is going completely wrong for Ritchie, he gets a call from the daughter he never sees asking him to watch his nine-year-old niece for the evening. Director: Shawn Christensen Producer(s): Andrew Napier, Damon Russell, Mara Kassin Cast: Fatima Ptacek, Shawn Christensen, Kim Allen, Dana Segal, Kirsten Holly Smith Writer(s): Shawn Christensen 0 votes and 0 Reviews 19m | Drama, Short...

142 votes and 53 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 74% 44% In Theaters: November 30, 2012 R | 1h 37m | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer Frankie (Scoot McNairy) and Russell (Ben Mendelsohn), two not-too-bright ex-cons, are hired by John “The Squirrel” Amato to disrupt a high-stakes backroom poker game, rob the players and frame someone else for the job. That someone else is the card game’s manager Markie Trattman (Ray Liotta), who’s suspected of staging a previous poker robbery....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 9, 2010 (limited) R | Drama Watch Trailer Growing up in the Mission district of San Francisco, Che Rivera has always had to be tough to survive. He’s a powerful man respected throughout the Mission barrio for his masculinity and his strength, as well as for his hobby building beautiful lowrider cars. A reformed inmate and recovering alcoholic, Che has worked hard to redeem his life and do right by his pride and joy: his only son, Jes, whom he has raised on his own after the death of his wife....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Animation, Drama, Family Based on a wildly popular Japanese comic strip, master animator Isao Takahata directs this loosely structured work about that wacky household, the Yamadas. The family consists of laid-back, rice cracker-addicted mother Matsuko; the bland businessman father Takashi, who has illusions of machismo; the fearless, acid-tongued grandmother Shige; the slacker teenaged son Noboru; the younger sister Nonoko, who has a freakishly voracious appetite; and Pochi, the misanthropic family dog....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Thriller Lu Jie has no idea her husband is leading a double life until one day she sees him entering a hotel with a young woman. However, a few hours later her world will truly be turned upside down when the young woman dies beneath the wheels of a car and the police refuse to believe her death was an accident. Director: Lou Ye 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 33% 21% In Theaters: January 6, 2012 (limited) Action, Adventure, Drama A Bollywood remake of The Italian Job. Director: Abbas-Mastan Studio: Viacom 18 Motion Pictures Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Bipasha Basu, Bobby Deol, Sikander Kher, Omi Vaidya Writer(s): Rohit Jugraj, Sudip Sharma Official Site: www.playersgoforgold.in/ 2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review...