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0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Comedy, Drama Eli is a piano prodigy. Today is the audition that will determine his future– will he launch a career and take off into the world? Or will he stay stuck, caring for his sister and mother who, despite her cheerful, loving disposition, is a drug addict. The only obstacle to a seamless transition into his future is dropping off Mom at the center where she will enter rehab, but a glitch in the system forces him to enlist the help of an unlikely ally, her drug dealer Sprinkles....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 19, 2011 (limited) Comedy, Drama, War During Spanish civil war in 1937, two circus clowns, Javier and Sergio, find that they are both enamored with the same female trapeze artist. They end up being forced to join the militia and the butchery starts while they are still in their costumes. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 19, 2011 (limited) Comedy, Drama, War...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Hilary Helstein’s documentary As Seen Through These Eyes travels back through the annals of history to witness an unusual, rarely-discussed, and deeply moving phenomenon: that of the Holocaust victims who clung tightly to their own sanity - and, in some cases, saved their own lives - by engaging in the act of raw creation (art, in other words, as a form of psychological and spiritual liberation)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A frustrated thespian tries to bring the joys of the theater to a group of convicts in this Swedish comedy. Reine (played by Bjorn Kjellman) is an out-of-work actor in dire need of a job; as a last resort, he takes a position at a high-security prison. He discovers the prison has a room that is set up like a theater, prompting a brainstorm – he can organize a prison theatrical troupe....

24 votes and 8 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 47% 52% In Theaters: August 8, 2013 (limited) 2h 21m | Action, Adventure, Comedy Watch Trailer Rahul embarks on a journey to a small town in Tamil Nadu to fulfill the last wish of his grandfather: to have his ashes immersed in the Holy water of Rameshwaram. En route, he meets a woman hailing from a unique family down South....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Comedy Writer/director Bill Forsyth’s follow-up to his best film, Local Hero, is another comic exploration of a man undergoing a personal crisis. In Local Hero, the American played by Peter Riegert finds himself enchanted by the people and ambience of a Scottish village he has been dispatched to purchase for an oil company. In Comfort and Joy, Alan (Bill Paterson) is a Glasgow radio disc jockey whose air name is the chirpy Dickey Bird....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 76% 56% R | Horror, Thriller Watch Trailer He’s back! From the filmmakers that brought you CHUCKY comes the terrifying return of the pint-sized doll possessed by the spirit of a notorious serial killer. When a mysterious package arrives at the house of Nica (Fiona Dourif), she doesn’t give it much thought. However, after her mother’s mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to the ensuing bloodshed and chaos....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Comedy When Santa Claus decides to retire, he appoints a washed-up kiddie show host (Douglas Seale) to take his place. Along the way, the real Santa ends up in the slammer on Christmas Eve, and it’s up to goonish, glad-handing Ernest P. Worrall (Jim Varney) to bust him out. Varney plays a handful of supporting characters, including a slick-talking attorney. This film was followed by Ernest Goes to Jail....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Middle-aged couple Miguel and Lina arrive in Manila, fleeing their impoverished existence. They end up taking refuge in a lean-to in a garbage dump. A relative secures Miguel a job at an ice-processing plant, but unable to take the extreme temperatures, he becomes sick and the couple is forced to become scavengers. Lina perseveres but Miguel is morti­fied by their compromised quality of life. When Lina suddenly become pregnant, Miguel decides to pull himself together....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 8, 2009 (limited) May 22, 2009 (limited) June 12, 2009 (limited) Drama Based on the childhood days of Teruyo Nogami, the film depicts the story of Nogami’s mother and her family surviving the turbulent days of the Showa era (1926-1989). 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 8, 2009 (limited) May 22, 2009 (limited) June 12, 2009 (limited) Drama Based on the childhood days of Teruyo Nogami, the film depicts the story of Nogami’s mother and her family surviving the turbulent days of the Showa era (1926-1989)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 9% 34% 1h 28m | Drama In the mid 1970s, a group of six young men left their homes in the West of Ireland, took the boat out of Dublin Bay and sailed across the sea to England in the hope of making their fortunes and returning home. Thirty years later only one, Jackie Flavin, makes it home - but in a coffin....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Other Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents a one-in-a-lifetime performance broadcast live from London to cinemas around the world. From Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The History Boys, from The Mysteries to Angels in America, from Guys and Dolls to War Horse - National Theatre’s current Director Nicholas Hytner will be directing a thrilling evening of live theatre, featuring many of the original actors who have performed on the National’s stages over the past five decades....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama Jackson is a struggling artist with a dead end job and a terrible love life. Lately his loneliness is getting the best of him and he finds himself desiring something more out life. But in the city of Los Angeles, the good girls are few and far between. And what do you do when the prospect of some quick lovin’ loses it’s appeal?...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Actor Joe Pantoliano steps behind the camera to direct this documentary exploring the devastating effects of mental illness, and the stigma that goes with it. In this film, JP attempts to shatter the stigma by speaking with researchers working towards a cure for such maladies as clinical depression and ADHD, and encouraging people affected by those disorders to speak out about their struggles and experiences....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Inspired by true events, Opal is the captivating tale of self-taught naturalist and cult icon Opal Whiteley. Raised in a logging camp at the turn of the twentieth century, Opal catapults to fame with the publication of her childhood diary, then to infamy when readers suspect a hoax. While the scandal has yet to be resolved, the film rides the tension between truth and fiction, and presents a character who embodies the possibilities of both....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Sci-Fi Watch Trailer A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race. Studio: 20th Century Fox Writer(s): Damon Lindelof, Jon Spaihts Official Site: www.projectprometheus.com 0 votes and 0 Reviews Fantasy, Sci-Fi Watch Trailer...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A film student is writing her thesis on prisoners’ wives. She meets a woman who asks her to visit her son in jail in exchange for an interview. Despite trying to get out of the situation, she finally enters the prison to find that their two worlds clash. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A film student is writing her thesis on prisoners’ wives. She meets a woman who asks her to visit her son in jail in exchange for an interview....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 83% 77% In Theaters: November 20, 1981 (limited) 2h 35m | Drama E. L. Doctorow’s novel Ragtime was a sprawling fictional account of American manners and mores in the years between 1900 and 1913. Among the mosaic of colorful factual and fictional characters in the novel were escape artist Harry Houdini and radical Emma Goldman. Both characters are all but eliminated in the film version, which only concentrates on three of Doctorow’s many plot threads: The story of an immigrant artist (Mandy Patinkin) who becomes a movie director; the saga of Gibson Girl Evelyn Nesbit Shaw (Elizabeth McGovern), for whose sake playboy Harry K....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 10, 2012 (limited) February 10, 2012 (limited) Drama Watch Trailer When Kelli returns home from war, she expected to slowly but surely settle back into her life with her husband and kids in the small town she grew up in. But she gradually realizes that the life she left behind is no longer there waiting for her. Director: Liza Johnson 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama When oddball auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa received an eccentric offer to make two films in two weeks, on a low budget and using the same cast, the result was the cinematic equivalent of fraternal twins. Though both Spider’s Gaze and Serpent’s Path are gangster films about the desire for revenge, and both films feature a protagonist named Nijima played convincingly by Sho Aikawa, the two movies are completely different in tone and plot....