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0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 22, 1972 (limited) Drama, Romance Four Nights of a Dreamer is a loose adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s novella White Nights, with the action transposed from 19th century Russia to modern-day France. One night, Jacques (Guillaume Des Forets), a young man with artistic aspirations, sees a girl (Isabelle Weingarten) trying to commit suicide by jumping from a bridge. When he prevents her from jumping, Marthe tells him that she has become desperate waiting for her lover, who left her almost a year ago but promised to return....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 15, 2019 (limited) Documentary The writings of psychiatrist Frantz Fanon had tremendous impact on the European anti-colonialist movement. His books Black Skin White Mask and The Wretched of the Earth explore the effects upon colonialism on both the conquerors and the conquered. The latter book is considered by many to be the bible of anticolonialist activists. Fanon was born on the French-controlled Caribbean island of Martinique....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 29, 2004 (limited) 2h 4m | Action, Adventure, Fantasy Giant monsters are rampaging in cities across the globe, and as the Earth Defense Force struggles to find a way to defeat the malicious mutants, their only hope lies frozen in the Antarctic in Versus director Ryuhei Kitamura futuristic entry into the long-running kaiju series. In the near future, Earth is being decimated by monsters that have been mysteriously unleashed in every major city from New York to Sydney, and as the world population falls into a paralyzing state of panic, the Earth Defense Force must stage a daring initiative to save the human race....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review 2h 10m | Drama A talented rider, Pierre Durand began a promising show jumping career in the mid-1970s with encouragement and unconditional support from his parents. As a young adult, at one point he gave up competing to become a lawyer, but he couldn’t stay away from the sport. Especially when he came across Jappeloup, a small Warmblood horse with a strong character and exceptional scope....

228 votes and 65 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 26% 42% In Theaters: September 23, 2011 R | 1h 45m | Action, Adventure, Thriller Watch Trailer A retired British Special Air Service agent (Jason Statham) is forced out of exile when his former mentor, Hunter (Robert De Niro), is kidnapped and held for ransom in the Middle East. While trying to save Hunter’s life, Danny gets involved in a no-holds-barred confrontation with a renegade leader (Clive Owen) who is protecting a cell of soldiers and assassins operating within a secret government organization....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 25m | Documentary In August 2009, linguist and geographer Louis-Edmond Hamelin goes to Mushuau-Nipi, in northern Quebec, to attend a seminar on indigenous land protection. Filmmaker Serge Giguère tells the career of this remarkable man, born in 1923 in St-Didace, who has dedicated his life to indigenous rights. The author of the concepts of “nordicity” and “glaciel” and a critic of the Plan Nord proposed by Jean Charest’s Liberal government, has served the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories in Yellowknife since 1971....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 30, 2014 (limited) Drama, Other When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home too. Famine threatens the city, the citizens’ hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of an angry people....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Nouvelle Vague marks the beginning of a period in Jean-Luc Godard’s career in which he made films that looked back on his previous work. In these retrospective films, Godard asked himself whether it is possible to continue as a film director under the conditions imposed by international commercial cinema. Appropriately enough, Nouvelle Vague concerns the return of a man (Roger Lennox / Richard Lennox, played by Alain Delon, superstar of 60s and 70s international cinema) who may or may not have returned from the dead....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama, Romance Forty-eight hours before her wedding, Katrine is the typically stressed bride-to-be. There are the place cards to calligraphy for her over-bearing mother-in-law, the final dress fitting and the bachelorette party as well as finding the old, the new, the borrowed and the blue. And, then there’s how to tell her institutionalized suicidal sister she’s getting married and how to deal with the reappearance of charming rogue Thomsen, whose sudden disappearance two years earlier drove her sister mad....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 28% R | 1h 31m | Action, Adventure, Thriller In modern-day Russia, Ray Carver (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a skilled assassin, takes a job with a gang he was once hired to make a hit on. To make matters worse, another assassin has already been hired to take Carver out. The result? A full-blown mob war in the streets of Russia. Director: William Kaufman...

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | 1h 52m | Animation, Comedy, Drama Renowned animation director Isao Takahata spins this tale about a pitched battle between Japanese folkloric figures and housing developers at the edge of the Tokyo sprawl. The tanuki – a badger-like creature often portrayed with big round eyes, a large Buddha-like belly, and long pendulous testicles resting by its feet – is a beloved figure in Japanese myth, viewed both as a fun-loving bringer of fortune and a shape-changing trickster....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy RID OF ME is a black comedy that follows Meris, an awkward young woman trying too hard to perfect her marriage, amongst a new group of friends. RID OF ME follows Meris’ rejection from the cool crowd down a path towards truth and salvation which includes a job at a local candy shop, a group of punk friends, community gardening and a newfound love for Cambodian rock music....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A city under siege. The truce has been recently signed, and the squad known as the “Blacks”, who used to do the dirty jobs, needs to be disbanded. Ivo, the squad commander who has lost three of his soldiers, prepares the action to retrieve their dead bodies from the forest and, despite the ceasefire, blow up the dam, thus causing a great damage to the enemy: The survived members of the squad, tortured by their personal doubts and guilt, move into action....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 44% 44% Comedy In this divinely bizarre and funny tale, wild characters infuse stories within stories until the lines between the Bible, Mark Twain, and campfire tales are hilariously blurred. Father Billy, an eccentric young priest, is forced to take a sabbatical by his superiors when he is discovered telling inappropriate parables to his flock. Billy tracks down his high-school idol Robbie, who begrudgingly agrees to a canoe trip....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 17, 2008 (limited) R | Drama, Romance “The Elephant King” is a provocative and stirring story of two American brothers, Oliver and Jake Hunt, adrift in an exotic world they don’t fully understand. When a domineering mother dispatches her young, introverted son Oliver off to Thailand to do everything he can to lure his reckless, older brother back home to the United States to face pending fraud charges, Oliver finds the intoxication of Thailand hard to resist–especially when it has a face as alluring as Lek’s....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama As if one Jerry Lewis wasn’t enough, The Family Jewels offers no fewer than seven Jerrys. Fans of Lewis will like the film. Others should be advised to steer clear of any and all French film festivals. The plot revolves around nine-year-old Donna Peyton (Donna Butterworth), who stands to inherit 30 million dollars. The catch: Donna must pick a new daddy from her late father’s six closest male relatives....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In this drama, a Korean war veteran, a victim of brainwashing while he was a POW, finally goes back to his home in Washington, DC, where he resumes his job at a public relations-opinion research firm. He soon discovers that his company is being run by communists after his partner mysteriously died. Now pro-communist propaganda seems to be their primary business. To stop them, the vet begins cooperating in a full-scale Senate investigation....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 52m | Drama Philippe, a wealthy widower, is paralyzed from the neck down as a result of a paragliding accident. He lives with his teenage daughter, Elisa, in Paris. Phillipe hires Driss to be his caretaker, despite a lack of qualifications. Director: Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache Studio: Weinstein Company Producer(s): Laurent Zeitoun, Nicolas Duval-Adassovsky, Yann Zenou Cast: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Clotilde Mollet...

26 votes and 6 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: August 3, 2012 (limited) August 3, 2012 (limited) R | 1h 50m | Drama, Romance Watch Trailer 360 is an exciting and dramatic thriller that weaves together the stories of an array of people from disparate social backgrounds through their intersecting relationships. Though separated across the globe, several characters are unknowingly bonded by their sexual choices. A British businessman (Jude Law) considers having a rendezvous with a prostitute to satisfy his loneliness....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Watch Trailer THE IRAN JOB follows American basketball player Kevin Sheppard as he accepts a job to play in one of the world’s most feared countries: Iran. With tensions running high between Iran and the West, Kevin tries to separate sports from politics only to find that politics is impossible to escape in Iran. Along the way he forms an unlikely alliance with three outspoken Iranian women....