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0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This documentary profiles poet/performance artist Bob Flanagan, who was born with cystic fibrosis. Flanagan explains, with engaging humor, how his obsession with controlled, self-inflicted pain has helped him to deal with his uncontrollable suffering. His philosophy forces one to look at sado-masochism with fresh eyes. The film includes explicit scenes of genital self-mutilation. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This documentary profiles poet/performance artist Bob Flanagan, who was born with cystic fibrosis....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 88% 77% 1h 9m | Documentary Cinema verite reaches a new level of reality in this film-within-a-film as director William Greaves dares to break the accepted rules of cinema. It is 1968 and Greaves and his crew are in New York’s Central Park ostensibly filming a screen test. The drama involves a bitter break up between a married couple. But this is just the “cover story....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 69% Documentary Watch Trailer Every Halloween, sleepy Fairhaven, Massachusetts erupts with the most ambitiously creative spookery in the world. Endless styrofoam tombstones and backyard beasts come courtesy of a few supremely dedicated local “home haunters” who’ve devoted their lives to the art of handmade monster making. “The American Scream” follows three of these horrific households to uncover the triumphs and tragedies that come with carrying the blackened banner of true Halloween spirit....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | 1h 24m | Action, Adventure, Drama Billed as a heterosexual movie by Gregg Araki, The Doom Generation is the director’s self-styled bad-taste teen film. Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) is an obnoxious teenage speed freak and her boyfriend Jordan White (James Duval) is a passive, slow-witted poseur who won’t have sex with her because he’s terrified of AIDS (even though they both claim to be virgins)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Thriller Inspired by a series of brutal, true life murders that shocked citizens of Buenos Aires at the turn of the 20th Century, director/screenwriter Jorge Algora’s horrific thriller centers on a ten year old boy suspected of being a sadistic killer. The year is 1912, and the town of Buenos Aires is being held in the icy cold grip of fear. Ten year-old Mateo (Juan Ciancio) has been experiencing a disturbing series of extremely vivid visions that would seem to suggest that he witnessed the killings firsthand....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 86% 79% In Theaters: March 4, 1948 1h 36m | Drama Movie Times Attractive blonde model Jean Dexter is murdered in her apartment and homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran take on the case. Their investigation ties the model’s death to a string of apartment burglaries. Director: Jules Dassin Producer(s): Mark Hellinger Cast: Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Frank Conroy, House Jameson, Anne Sargent...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Former screenwriter for Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kunitoshi Manda makes his directorial debut with this understated drama about a woman who is defiantly happy where she is in life. A skilled employee at the local city hall, Mitsuko (Yuko Moriguchi) refuses to take the civil service exam that would advance her career – much to the chagrin of her boss and co-workers. Her work on a report catches the attention of a well-groomed owner of a wildly successful software company named Eiji (Toru Nakamura)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Drama The entire opposition of Andra Pradesh was fighting against the rao brothers for their activity of tax evasion in their granite business. The CBI is also taking steps to enquire about these allegations because of which the house and offices of rao brothers were searched by CBI. Rao brothers felt the action was initiated by one of the CBI officer Apsar Hussain. The rao wanted to take revenge on the cbi officer with the help of Mr....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 85% Documentary In 1965, documentary filmmaker Frank DeFelitta traveled to Mississippi to shoot a film on the subject of racism in the American South. As he went about observing life in Mississippi and interviewing the locals, Frank was introduced to an African-American waiter named Booker Wright. With utter candor and a brazen lack of concern for his own well-being, Booker appeared on tape in the documentary and spoke openly and honestly about the realities of living in a racist society....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Gong Li stars in this low-key drama about a single mother who will do anything to provide for her son. Sun Liying (Li) struggles to care for her hearing-impaired child Zheng Da (Gao Xin) after her taxi driver husband divorces her. After Zheng Da gets his hearing aid smashed in a fight with classmates, Sun Liying sets out to raise 5,000 yuan (a small fortune) to buy him a replacement....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Humor and tragedy mingle in this film, which examines the lives of a handful of people living in a large Mexico City apartment complex. Teresa (Lorena Rojas) has an unexpected encounter with a boy she knew from high school; where she once taunted him as a bookworm, she now finds herself attracted to him sexually. Horacio (Rafael Sanchez Navarro) loses his job, and his wife Eva (Veronica Merchant) responds by demanding a divorce....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Thriller Iron Maiden front-man Bruce Dickinson collaborates with veteran second-unit Monty Python director Julian Doyle to craft this horror-flavored supernatural thriller concerning the reincarnation of the occultist once dubbed the most evil man in Britain. Over sixty years after Aleister Crowley’s death, the mere mention of his name is still enough to strike terror in the hearts of God-fearing Christians. When a virtual reality experiment gone awry sends Crowley’s restless soul into the body of a soft-spoken university professor (Simon Callow), the newly empowered hedonist draws on his powerful black magick in order to unleash an occult event the likes of which this world has never witnessed....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: February 28, 2014 (limited) March 14, 2014 (limited) March 28, 2014 (limited) PG | 1h 20m | Action, Adventure, Animation The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine. Director: Benjamin Renner, Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar Studio: Métropole Films Producer(s): Didier Brunner, Henri Magalon, Philippe Kauffmann, Stéphan Roelants, Vincent Tavier Cast: Lambert Wilson, Pauline Brunner Writer(s): Daniel Pennac...

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama Anton, a mildly retarded man with a remarkable singing voice and a dream of becoming an opera singer, teams up with a wisecracking homeless man and a struggling pianist to entertain spectators in New York’s Washington Square Park. Through a series of misadventures, the trio gains the encouragement of one of the world’s greatest tenors. 0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Drama...

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 27m | Drama When Minou, an actress in her forties, is returning home to the McGill Ghetto of Montreal on Easter Sunday, she comes across Dave, a colleague she hasn’t seen in ten years, near the Mont-Royal subway station. As a consequence of a concussion he suffered a year earlier, the actor now suffers from impaired memory and concentration, which prevents him from being able to continue his acting career....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Jail Bait was the place where Edward D. Wood Jr.’s career as a director entered the mainstream. Having exposed the world of transvestism in Glen or Glenda, he now turned to less ambitious fare in an effort at commercial success. Loosely patterned after the television series Dragnet, Jail Bait tells the story of Don Gregor (Clancey Malone), the spoiled, arrogant son of a successful plastic surgeon (Herbert Rawlinson), who is out for some kicks and excitement and hooks up with Vic Brady (Timothy Farrell), a career criminal....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary One of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century, writer-composer Paul Bowles, now in his 88th year, is profiled by a filmmaker who has been obsessed with his genius since age 19. Candid interviews with Bowles in his Tangiers home touch upon his relationships with Gertrude Stein, Tennessee Williams, Ned Rorem, Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac, and wife Jane Bowles. Longtime friends Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs are recorded in a final rendezvous with Bowles in New York in 1995 for the Lincoln Center presentation of his music by the Eos Orchestra....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Movie Times After her father (Adolfo Celi) is exiled to an island off the coast of Italy for his anti-Mussolini politics, Libera (Claudia Cardinale) is increasingly incensed by the fascist government of Italy and makes a number of bold and very personal gestures against it. At first, these only result in her husband’s losing his jobs, but they are finally exiled to the same island that her father was sent to....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 46% 74% In Theaters: December 16, 1987 PG | 1h 52m | Comedy, Romance Movie Times Snobbish heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to construct a huge closet on her yacht for her lavish wardrobe. Dean completes the project, but when Joanna learns that he failed to use cedar as she wished, she refuses to pay him for the job....

56 votes and 18 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 23% 34% In Theaters: October 18, 2012 On Netflix: August 12, 2020 R | 1h 35m | Horror Watch Trailer The fourth installment of the bone-chilling series, Paranormal Activity 4 begins in October 2006 in Carlsbad, California as a family deals with being terrorized by a supernatural presence in their home. This time around Katie and Hunter are nowhere to be found....