Cinema releases by week

, 1h29
Directed by Larry Yust
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Kiel Martin, Mel Stewart, Vernee Watson-Johnson, Donald Symington, Don Fellows
Rating66%
“White Folks” (Kiel Martin) and “Blue” Howard (Mel Stewart) are two con men in Philadelphia. White Folks is the son of a black mother who is a prostitute and a white father, a customer (the reason why his enemies call him Trick Baby). Folks's complexion is light enough for him to pass as a white man. Blue is an older black hustler who raised White Folks and taught him “the con”. The pair pull off the biggest score of their lives but before they can collect the money a previous con is complicating things. Unbeknownst to them their previous victim had mob ties and now they have run afoul of the Mafia and a corrupt cop. They must decide whether to leave town or risk their lives to collect the $130,000 from their most brilliant con.

, 1h30
Directed by George Armitage
Origin USA
Genres Action
Actors Bernie Casey, Pam Grier, Roger E. Mosley, Don Diamond, Timothy Brown, Marilyn Joi
Rating57%
Oakland hitman Tyrone Tackett (Bernie Casey) comes home to southern California for the funeral of his brother Cornell. Cornell left behind his wild daughter Rochelle (Candy All), who rejects Tyrone's offer to live with him. Tyrone befriends his late brother’s business partner, Sherwood Epps (Sam Laws), and stays in town to investigate his brother's death. He is threatened by gangsters who tell him to leave town, but they've threatened the wrong man.

, 2h
Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Films about capital punishment
Actors Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Perkins, Victoria Principal, Ava Gardner, Tab Hunter
Rating67%
An outlaw, Roy Bean, rides into a West Texas border town called Vinegaroon by himself. The customers in the saloon beat him, rob him, toss a noose around him and let Bean's horse drag him off.

, 1h37
Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Jacobo Morales, Conrad Bain, Paul Benedict, Carl Gottlieb
Rating57%
Margaret Reynolds, a young wife and mother, severely bored with her day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, slowly slips into depression, finding refuge in her outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into her apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.

, 1h36
Directed by Robert Hartford-Davis
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Martin Landau, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., Brenda Sykes, Timothy Brown, Luciana Paluzzi, Stephen McNally
Rating58%
In Los Angeles, a nighttime robbery of an illegal mafia bookmaking operation is carried out by the militant African-American organization BAG (Black Action Group). Though successful, several of the bookmakers and one of the burglars are killed. The mastermind behind the robbery, a Vietnam veteran named Scott (Herbert Jefferson Jr.), is the brother of a prominent nightclub owner, Gunn (Jim Brown). Seeking safe haven, Scott hides out at his brother's mansion after a brief reunion.

, 1h20
Directed by Dimitar Petrov
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Georgi Partsalev
Rating85%

, 1h31
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Origin Suede
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Inga Gill, Erland Josephson
Rating79%
Cries and Whispers takes place in a lavish mansion in the 19th century, filled with red carpets and white statuary. It depicts the final days of Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is near death due to cancer. Her sisters Maria (Liv Ullmann) and Karin (Ingrid Thulin) have returned to the family home to be with her. However the two women remain distant and awkward, struggling to comfort their sister while dealing with the shock and the fear of mortality Agnes' death may bring. The deeply religious maid Anna (Kari Sylwan), whose own daughter died at an early age, is the only person in the house able to comfort the dying woman. At length Agnes dies and during her wake the priest (Anders Ek) declares Agnes' faith was stronger than his own. In a dream-like sequence that follows Agnes seemingly returns to life for a short moment and asks her sisters one last time for the love and care denied her during her lifetime. For a moment Karin, Maria and Agnes grow closer to each other, but this is short-lived when the two sisters realize that Agnes is actually dead, with Karin declaring such acts "morbid" and "disgusting." Once again only Anna is able to embrace and comfort Agnes.

, 1h40
Directed by Paul Newman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Joanne Woodward, David Spielberg, Nell Newman, Will Hare, Judith Lowry, Richard Venture
Rating73%
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer (Joanne Woodward) and her daughters Ruth (Roberta Wallach) and Matilda (Nell Potts) are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one which gives the film its title.

, 1h41
Directed by Robert Altman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about writers, Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Political films
Actors Susannah York, René Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi, Cathryn Harrison, Hugh Millais, Barbara Baxley
Rating70%
Wealthy housewife and children's author Cathryn (Susannah York) receives a series of disturbing and eerie phone calls in her home in London one dreary night. The female voice on the other end suggests mockingly to her that her husband Hugh (René Auberjonois) is having an affair.

, 1h42
Directed by Barry Shear
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa, Paul Benjamin, Antonio Fargas, Ed Bernard
Rating69%
This film is set in Harlem, of which 110th Street is an informal boundary line. By-the-book African-American Lieutenant William Pope (Kotto) has to work with crude, racist but streetwise Italian-American Captain Frank Mattelli (Quinn) in the NYPD's 27th precinct. They are looking for three black men who slaughtered seven men—three black gangsters and two Italian gangsters, as well as two patrol officers—in the robbery of $300,000 from a Mafia-owned Harlem policy bank. Mafia lieutenant Nick D'Salvio (Franciosa) and his two henchmen are also after the hoods. In one of many violent scenes, D'Salvio finds getaway driver Henry J. Jackson (Antonio Fargas) and brutalizes him in a Harlem whorehouse.

, 1h32
Directed by Richard Balducci
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Jane Birkin, Bernadette Lafont, Élisabeth Wiener, Emma Cohen, Carlo Giuffrè, Henri Virlogeux
Rating50%
Quatre compagnes de chambrée sur la Côte d'Azur, Bernadette (Bernadette Lafont), Christine (Jane Birkin), Frédérique (Elisabeth Wiener) et Martine (Emma Cohen), découvrent qu'un groupe de voleurs se sert d'un édifice voisin pour stocker le produit de leurs vols. Elles décident alors de voler les voleurs.

, 1h33
Directed by Norman Tokar, Christopher Hibler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Dean Jones, Nancy Olson, Harry Morgan, Keenan Wynn, Johnny Whitaker, Michael McGreevey
Rating63%
Johnny Baxter (Dean Jones) is at his corporate middle class job when a probate attorney (David White) tells him that his recently deceased uncle, Jacob Barnesworth, has left him sole ownership of the lucrative Grand Imperial Hotel in the fictional town of Silver Hill, Colorado. A letter written by Barnesworth claims that the hotel brings in more than $14,000 per month. Baxter, clearly chafing under the dehumanizing conditions at the office, views this as a golden opportunity.

, 1h38
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Carol White (actrice anglaise), John Mills, Stuart Wilson, Bernard Lee, Dudley Foster
Rating64%

, 1h26
Directed by Yves Robert
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Spy
Themes Spy films, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians
Actors Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort, Paul Le Person, Mireille Darc, Jean Carmet
Rating71%
Bernard Milan, the second-in-command of France's Counter-Espionage department, is out to discredit his chief Louis Toulouse so that he can supplant him. When a French heroin smuggler who has been arrested in New York claims that the drug smuggling was a secret mission on the orders of French Counter-Espionage (actually on Milan's orders), the resulting bad press reflects on Toulouse, who cannot prove that Milan was responsible. In retaliation, Toulouse hatches a plot to deal with his ambitious subordinate: in a room which he knows is filled with hidden microphones, he sends his assistant Perrache to Orly airport at 9:30AM the next morning, making Milan (who has been listening) believe that Perrache has gone to meet a master spy who will expose Milan's treachery. However, Toulouse secretly instructs Perrache to choose someone at random from the crowd of travelers arriving at that time.

, 1h34
Directed by Alfred Vohrer
Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Anita Lochner, Alain Noury, Wolfgang Reichmann, Eva Christian, Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Dirk Galuba
Rating68%
Christine, une étudiante, tombe amoureuse d'Alain, un Français qui apprend la germanistique à Lübeck. Le père sévère de Christine, l'industriel Luba, s'oppose à ce couple et réfléchit dans son lit. Toutefois, Christine et Alain passent beaucoup de temps ensemble. Ils vont sur la mer Baltique, rendent visite à Jens Brodersen, qui prédit au couple un long voyage. Christine est prise de plus en plus de la nature impérieuse de son père. Pour en savoir plus sur lui et le divorce des parents, elle rend visite à sa mère à Hambourg, laquelle ne veut plus entendre parler de son ancien mari.

, 1h48
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Actors Robert Redford, Will Geer, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Paul Benedict, Stefan Gierasch, Josh Albee
Rating75%
A jaded veteran of the Mexican War (1846–48), Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford) seeks solace and refuge in the West. He aims to take up the life of a mountain man, supporting himself in the Rocky Mountains as a trapper. His first winter in the mountain country is a difficult one; he has a brief run-in with Paints-His-Shirt-Red (Joaquin Martinez), a chief of the Crow tribe, who observes a starving Johnson futilely fishing by hand.