0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama The rise and fall of Mobuto Sese Seko – the corrupt ruler of Zaire who robbed his country blind, plunging his own people into misery, poverty and despair. With Zaire’s diamond mines at his disposal, his personal fortune eventually surpassed Zaire’s billion dollar national debt – and he did it all with the support and encouragement of U.S. and European politicians who saw him as a bulwark against communism....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama One might consider this violent adaptation of the classical Greek tragedy as Sophocles with a South American twist. Set amidst the rebel wars (representing the Theban plagues) of contemporary Colombia, Mayor Edipo (Oedipus) must mediate a peace deal between conflicting guerrilla groups and the army. It is raining when he leaves. His journey is interrupted when he gets into a shoot out on a lonely bridge....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Thriller Wry and obsessive DI Buchan is a cop on the edge; suave and self-assured Jack Harvey is a best-selling crime novelist with the world at his feet. As Buchan probes a 100-year-old cold case, his investigation takes him on a journey into the Scottish capital’s literary past that will cause him to question his very existence and set him on a collision course with his onetime friend....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Other Powerful music, a gripping story and a tragic end: Puccini’s ever-popular Tosca performed at the Royal Opera House with a fabulous cast. Among the star singers in this revival are Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel. Jonathan Kent’s detailed production draws to the full on the historical backdrop of Rome in 1800, a political world of control and suspicion, beautifully evoked in Paul Brown’s lavish designs....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary South Africa’s charismatic king of exploitation cinema, Dirk de Villiers was often criticised for being a maverick who would turn his hand to anything from cowboy spinoffs to flatulent comedy, he was a cinematic glutton who adored Alejandro Jodorowsky and even made a stab at being a South African Ingmar Bergman. With Snake Dancer prepare for an eye-popping journey through swinging white South Africa with a young Afrikaans religious virgin, who liked to dance....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The first annual 48 Hour Music Festival is an event showcasing 30 of the finest local musicians Portland has to offer. The players are removed from their usual bands and randomly re-assembled into 5 new supergroups without concern for style or instrumentation. Their challenge is to overcome these obstacles and write a 25 minute set of original material within a 48-hour time frame, and finally perform on the third day, Saturday Feb 21st....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary In 2000, Agnès Varda travelled the French countryside to study the world of foragers and scavengers called The Gleaners. Describing herself as a gleaner of ideas and images from interior as well as exterior journeys gives the director a special connection with her subjects in this honest and intriguing documentary. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary In 2000, Agnès Varda travelled the French countryside to study the world of foragers and scavengers called The Gleaners....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Romance Johnston MacCulley’s 1913 adventure yarn The Curse of Capistrano was given its first filmization in Douglas Fairbanks’ 1920 The Mark of Zorro. Fairbanks plays the outwardly foppish Don Diego de la Vega, the son of wealthy Spanish Californian rancher. In reality, Don Diego is the dashed masked-and-caped Zorro, who wages a one-man war to rescue his fellow citizens from the tyranny Captain Juan Ramon (Robert McKim)....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man, Harold Fullmer, on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers Harold’s identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Persuaded by a large reward, Rosow is charged with bringing Harold back to his wife in New York City against his will....
0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 4, 1947 (limited) Drama Humphrey Bogart plays a psychotic killer who disposes of his wives through slow ingestion of poison in The Two Mrs. Carrolls, made in 1945 but shelved for two years because of its similarity to Gaslight. Bogart is Geoffrey Carroll, an artist who paints a portrait of his wife as The Angel of Death and then meets Sally Morton (Barbara Stanwyck), with whom he quickly falls in love....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 59% 72% R | 1h 52m | Action, Adventure, Drama Between making They Way We Were and Three Days of The Condor, Sydney Pollack directed this little-seen thriller from a script by Paul Schrader and Robert Towne. The Yakuza stars Robert Mitchum as Harry Kilmer, a former soldier who returns to Japan to help rescue the daughter of his friend George Tanner (Brian Keith)....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 64% 36% 1h 52m | Comedy, Documentary Laura, 24, has a rich and powerful father who is accused of embezzlement and a mother who looks younger than she does, thanks to a number of cosmetic surgeries. Although she doesn’t really know what she wants to do with her life, she knows one thing for sure: she wants to find her Prince Charming. Laura meets Sandro, an aspiring composer, at a ball....
0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama The story of a troubled teenage girl named Jessie, trapped by the conservative Baptist beliefs of her family and neighboring townspeople. Jessie hides her suffering with a litany of destructive behavior including liquor, drugs and kleptomania. In the wake of a drug and liquor fueled sexual encounter the unconscious Jessie wakes in the woods with no memory of what has just happened. In the days following Jessie is plagued by dreams in which God dictates that she is destined to carry the next Christ child....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance An incredibly long but never dull adaptation of the Rachel Field best-seller, All This and Heaven Too was based on a once-notorious European scandal. Star Bette Davis, playing Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, is first seen as a French schoolteacher in a 19th century American seminary. When her supervisor, Reverend Henry Mortyn Field (Jeffrey Lynn), has questions to ask about her tainted past, Henriette relates her story in flashback....
0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Drama In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportation to German territory. In this story, Paul (Christian Rist) is a teenager who tries to prevent this from happening. At first he attempts to save two elderly Jews, but they are resigned to their fate and comply with the order to assemble. For a short while, he is able to keep Jeanne (Christine Pascal) from joining them, but, after a long and strenuous day, she finally escapes from him he is too tired to chase after her....
0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama Based on the novel Farmer by Jim Harrison, this drama concerns Joseph Svenden (Dennis Hopper), a one-time farmer in his late forties who took up teaching when he permanently injured his leg in an accident. Joseph’s life is orderly, precise, and rather dull. He teaches with as much enthusiasm as he can muster, lives in the farmhouse where he grew up, and has been engaged for the last six years to Rosealee Henson (Amy Irving)....
558 votes and 194 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 36% 46% In Theaters: May 11, 2012 PG-13 | 1h 53m | Fantasy, Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer In 1752, Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) was living the good life as a wealthy English playboy, master to Collinwood Manor. However, when he broke the heart of vindictive witch, Angelique (Eva Green), he was turned into a vampire and imprisoned in a tomb for nearly 200 years....
0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Comedy Seenu runs away from his family when he is a kid. Seenu is a great fan of Amitab Bachchan and Don film. He fancies himself to become Don one day. There are two mafia kingpins in Hyderabad. Seenu wants to join one of these dons and grow up in the ranks. In the process, he is forced to go to Switzerland to seduce the sister of one of the dons....
18 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 83% 83% In Theaters: October 5, 2012 (limited) 2h 9m | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer Shashi (Sridevi), a traditional Indian housewife living in Pune, is continuously put down because she does not know English. In the Indian culture, even within India, people are judged based on their knowledge of English, among other things. Her own children and husband (Adil Hussain), even though they think they’re just being playful, constantly tease and belittle her....
0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Action, Adventure CIA Agent Marcus Jones is a professional hit man caught in a double-cross between his partners in the agency, a ruthless arms dealer and a powerful Wall Street broker worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Framed for a murder he didn’t commit and chased by expert assassins, Jones must clear his name before its too late. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...
