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278 votes and 62 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 25% 30% In Theaters: August 19, 2011 On Netflix: August 5, 2020 R | 1h 53m | Action, Adventure Watch Trailer A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan (Jason Momoa) realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This cinematic tapestry of daily life inside a Benedictine monastery, filmed by Frederick Wiseman in 1972, prompted John J. O’Connor (New York Times) to write, Mr. Wiseman has given the viewer a superb human comedy – funny, pathetic, touching, absurd, moving. The 86-minute documentary explores the resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional, organizational priorities of the community. In the Order, where the focus of life is the relationship of individual work and worship to the community as a whole, the brethren must cope with the same issues that arise in any community – rules and regulations, work, worship, values, love, and play....

62 votes and 20 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: January 25, 2013 R | 1h 28m | Action, Adventure, Comedy Watch Trailer Fifteen years after they were nearly killed by a witch with a gingerbread house, Hansel and Gretel have become lethal bounty hunters who are devoted to hunting and eliminating all witches who make their hideouts in dark woods. As the notorious Blood Moon approaches, the innocent children of a familiar town on the edge of a forest face a nightmare....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A young woman is abandoned by her lover after she tells him she is pregnant. Deeply depressed and longing for home, she boards a train out of town. Unfortunately a terrible train wreck ensues. She survives and ends up taking on the identity of one of the dead passengers. Now comfortable and secure that her child will have some claim to legitimacy, the woman is happy....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Algerian filmmaker Tariq Teguia wrote and directed this impressionistic look at a man whose life takes an unexpected turn far away from home. Malek (Abdelkader Affak) is a surveyor from Algeria who is semi-retired, but at the urging of a friend he takes an assignment in Oran. The region in question was the site of frequent battles during Oran’s civil war, and an earlier survey that would make it possible to bring electrical utilities to the area was cut short by the fighting....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Drama Some 15,000 Holocaust survivors remained in Germany after WWII. How could they stay? Filmmaker Jordan Bahat begins this quest with a desire to understand the choices made by his own grandparents. In interviews with survivors, their children and other Germans, Bahat explores what it means for victims to live among perpetrators and for children of those perpetrators to deal with the guilt borne from the crimes of their parents....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Uncovering the postwar fate of the Jewish women, men and children who survived the Shoah in the Soviet Union, Poland and Eastern Europe and sought refuge in the Displaced Persons camps in Berlin - Jewish Transit Berlin preserves the memory of the last remaining eyewitnesses and enriches their testimonials with never seen motion-picture footage showing Berlin 1945 and the life inside the large Jewish Displaced Persons camps of Schlachtensee and Tempelhof....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 23% Comedy, Musical, Romance Watch Trailer Sid (R. Madhavan) is a break-up specialist, helping wronged parties out of bad relationships. He guarantees a quick, easy, final freedom to his clients. A chance encounter with the sharp Sonali (Bipasha Basu) takes his “business” to new levels. Both embark on a journey taking them through outrageous, hilarious cases that they solve with some wit and some vile… until love happens....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Thriller Hot new talent Joe Cole ignites a masterpiece of explosive intensity in this powerful action suspense thriller. For Tommy Nix, his girlfriend and unborn child were his entire life and his reason for living. That is until one cruel day when they were brutally torn away as the collateral damage for a ruthless gang who pulled off an armed robbery-murder during the chaos of the London riots....

2 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 95% 82% In Theaters: December 28, 2011 (limited) December 28, 2011 (limited) December 28, 2011 (limited) R | 1h 26m | Drama Watch Trailer Movie Times Alike (Adepero Oduye) is a 17-year-old African-American girl who lives with her parents (Kim Wayans, Charles Parnell) and younger sister (Sahra Mellesse) in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood. A gifted student, Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Musical, Romance Skating star Sonja Henie and the Glenn Miller Orchestra share the spotlight in Sun Valley Serenade. Henie plays a Norwegian refugee adopted by band pianist John Payne, who mistakenly thought that the full-grown Miss Henie was a 10-year-old little girl. Payne’s girlfriend, Lynn Bari, is a soloist with the Miller band, and also a violently jealous sort. When Bari quits Miller out of pique, Henie stages an elaborate ice show as a substitute....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Filmmaker Michael Auder teams with Andre Neel to construct this patchwork retrospective detailing forty years in the life of himself and his closes friends. Assembled from over 5000 hours of footage, the film offers viewers a glimpse into Auder’s unique world. From conversations with Andy Warhol and other stars to run-ins with ex-wives Viva and Cindy Sherman as well as encounters with a whole host of family and friends, Auder’s autobiography gradually becomes a kaleidoscopic journey into the underworld told with idiosyncratic flair....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Horror A string of murders in a posh neighborhood has the police department stumped and the local press is breathing down their necks. Strangely, nobody notices that several victims share the same gardener, a bent, elderly man with a crippled arm named Caleb. Even though all of the murder weapons are lawn care tools, Caleb remains above suspicion. Of course, it isn’t Caleb doing the killing, but rather his second personality, a confident, handsome younger brother named Lester who Caleb turns into when he dons a toupee....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Musical, Other The Sleeping Beauty is the pinnacle of classical ballet: a perfect marriage of Petipa’s choreography, Tchaikovsky’s music and a glorious challenge for every dancer onstage. It is also The Royal Ballet’s signature work. Today’s Sleeping Beauty features additional choreography by Anthony Dowell, Christopher Wheeldon and Frederick Ashton, and stars Lauren Cuthbertson & Sergei Polunin. Mark Monahan of The Telegraph raves: “A one-stop history of the art form up to that point, it remains the apotheosis of regal Russian classicism and a thematic tapestry of unrivalled richness, all playing out to Tchaikovsky’s most opulent and ingeniously constructed score....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Watch Trailer ‘To Catch a Dollar’ is an inspiring documentary by Gayle Ferraro. The film follows Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Yunus as he brings his unique and revolutionary microfinance program to the US. Witness the birth of Grameen America and the compelling story of the first women borrowers; from the challenges they face to the successes they achieve, as they learn to sustainably rise from poverty by starting and growing their own businesses with the education, support, and non-collateral microloans they receive....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Horror Also released under the titles Sensuous Vampires, Cemetery Girls, and Night of the Bloodsuckers, this horror film revolves around a sinister vampire (John Carradine) who sends out a horde of undead beauties to bring back victims for his dinner. 0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Horror Also released under the titles Sensuous Vampires, Cemetery Girls, and Night of the Bloodsuckers, this horror film revolves around a sinister vampire (John Carradine) who sends out a horde of undead beauties to bring back victims for his dinner....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Comedy Watch Trailer Herbert & Henry are twin brothers with dreams to become the biggest rap stars in the game. Their chance at super-stardom comes after they buy a T-shirt with a winning golden tag allowing them to perform with Real Deal, the most legendary rapper in the World. The only problem is, Kevin, an equally sized Jewish kid with dreams of singing and blinging, manages to steal the prized White T and has his own plans to perform at the concert....

18 votes and 7 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 81% 72% In Theaters: December 13, 2019 (limited) On DVD/Blu-ray: March 17, 2020 On Digital/VOD: March 3, 2020 PG-13 | 2h 53m | Drama, War Watch Trailer The story of Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl), who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani (Valerie Pachner) and their children that keeps his spirit alive....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 90% 1h 53m | Comedy This second of MGM’s Thin Man films reteams William Powell and Myrna Loy as, respectively, bibulous private detective Nick Charles and his socialite wife Nora. The Charleses are sucked into another murder case via Nick’s lovely cousin Elissa Landi, whose husband Alan Marshall has vanished. Hubby has been conducting an affair with nightclub thrush Dorothy McNulty (later known as Penny Singleton) and is also blackmailing gangsterish Joseph Calleia....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 32m | Drama Pierre Leduc, a lecturer at Laval University who also spends his time translating the work of of the late Polish poet Edward Stachura, has built his lonely life around books, words and silence. Discouraged by the ignorance of his students, just as he decides to quit his job, his estranged father, a real estate mogul, announces that he’s suffering from terminal cancer and wants Pierre back in his life....