Cinema releases by week

, 1h50
Directed by Claude Zidi
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Michel Aumont, Marc Dolnitz, Amadeus August, Luis Rego
Rating62%
Young and dynamic, founded with power from the "20th Century Bank", Pierre Vidal regularly spies with his binoculars his partner Janet, who works in a hairdressing salon. Fed up of being constantly watched, she takes advantage to excite his jealousy. His boss having taken a few days of vacation, Pierre is in charge to replace him. More nervous than ever of this enormous responsibility, he will soon have to take to the coffer halls a certain Monsieur de Rovère, who came to bring the transfer of shares act of the Alcazar, the famous Parisian cabaret. But the famous briefcase containing the documents is stolen on their sight.

, 1h50
Directed by Sidney Poitier
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Buddy films
Actors Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos, Ossie Davis, Jimmie Walker
Rating66%
Set in Atlanta, it follows Clyde Williams (Poitier) and Billy Foster (Cosby) as a pair of blue-collar workers who are trying to raise funds for the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. They decide to rig a boxing match in New Orleans. They use hypnotism to convince underdog boxer Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker) that he is a highly skilled prize fighter. He fights and defeats the champion, 40th Street Black (Rodolphus Lee Hayden). Williams and Foster clean up after betting Farnsworth. The pair return home, and all is fine until the gangsters who lost money betting on the other guy figure out the scam and come to Atlanta, to get the pair to do it again...or be killed.

, 1h42
Directed by Ján Kadár
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Yossi Yadin, Marilyn Lightstone, Ted Allan, Bertrand Gagnon, Guy L'Écuyer, Diana Leblanc
Rating66%
The story tells of a six-year-old boy who would travel with his grandfather on an old horse-drawn cart through the alleyways in a Jewish ghetto of Montreal in the 1920s. The two would call out to residents asking to collect their old junk (a rag-and-bone man). The boy's grandfather was religious but his father was not. Eventually the grandfather dies, as does his horse Ferdeleh, leaving the boy feeling bitter toward his secular father.

, 1h33
Directed by Lee Philips
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Linda Blair, Martin Sheen, Jeanne Cooper, Lee de Broux, Bert Remsen, Dehl Berti
Rating67%
Leonard Hatch (Martin Sheen), a fugitive mental patient, kidnaps Doris Mae Withers (Linda Blair), a semi-illiterate farm girl, and takes her away to his remote mountain cabin. There the poetic Leonard becomes her teacher, friend, and lover.

, 1h43
Directed by Ken Russell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Biography, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas, Ringo Starr, John Justin, Fiona Lewis
Rating60%
Rather than a straightforward narrative, the film presents Liszt's life through a series of episodes. At the start of the film, Liszt is caught in bed with Marie d'Agoult by her husband the Count d'Agoult. The Count challenges Liszt to a fight with sabres but Marie begs the count to let her share Liszt's fate. The Count then orders his staff to trap Liszt and Marie into the body of a piano, nailing it shut, and then leaving it on railroad tracks.

, 1h49
Directed by Tony Richardson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes La mode, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Anthony Perkins, Beah Richards, Nina Foch
Rating60%
Tracy Chambers is a sassy industrious young woman living in the projects of Chicago who dreams of becoming a fashion designer. She has worked her way up from salesgirl to secretary and assistant to the head buyer at a luxury department store (modeled after, and filmed at, Marshall Field's on State Street, Chicago).

, 2h23
Directed by Yoshitarō Nomura
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Tetsurō Tanba, Gō Katō, Kensaku Morita, Shin Saburi, Yōko Shimada, Ken Ogata
Rating72%
Yoshitaro Nomura’s 1974 film of Seicho Matsumoto’s immensely popular detective story tells the tale of two detectives, Imanishi (Tetsuro Tamba) and Yoshimura (Kensaku Morita), tasked with tracking down the murderer of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a rail yard. When the identity of the old man can't be determined, the investigation focuses on the only other clue: a scrap of conversation overheard at a bar between the old man and a younger one. A witness recalls the cryptic phrases "Kameda did this" and "Kameda doesn't change."

, 1h29
Directed by James Algar
Origin USA
Themes Films about animals, Documentary films about nature, Children's films
Actors Winston Hibler
Rating68%
The film opens with a salute to Walt Disney, a pioneer of nature films and animal lover, then followed by a compilation of excerpted segments from the True-Life Adventures film series showcasing animals of all kinds depicted in dramatic, fascinating moments of habitats from the American prairie to the North American desert, to Africa, the Amazon jungle and to the Arctic.

Directed by Robert Kramer, John Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary
Rating69%
A many-faceted portrait of those individuals who sought radical solutions to social problems in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It cuts back and forth between six major story lines and more than fifty characters, and across a vast landscape, to explore the lifestyles and attitudes of the American left who faced both personal and historical transitions in the period following the Vietnam War."

Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Action
Actors Trina Parks, Shirley Washington, Roger E. Mosley, Zara Cully, Dick Miller, Milt Kogan
Rating48%

, 1h42
Directed by Richard Lester
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Actors Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Florinda Bolkan, Joss Ackland, Tom Bell
Rating62%
The film begins with Flashman making a patriotic speech to the boys of Rugby School framed by a giant Union Flag, in a scene which appears to be a parody of the opening sequence in the 1970 film Patton. There is a brief flashback to the events of the original Flashman, with the head of the Rugby School (Michael Hordern) recounting Flashman's exploits in Afghanistan.

, 1h35
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Anne Heywood, Mark Lester, Claudio Cassinelli, Monica Guerritore, Bruno Zanin
Rating60%

, 19minutes
Directed by Roman Katchanov
Origin Russie
Genres Animation
Actors Vassili Livanov
Rating76%
Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka decide to go to the sea on vacation. Shapoklyak steals their train tickets, and so they are kicked off the train. On their way home, the duo, with Shapoklyak's help, stops hikers from poaching and a factory from polluting a river.

, 1h33
Directed by Walter Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin, Bruce Glover, Margaret Blye
Rating71%
Chaney (Charles Bronson), a mysterious, down-on-his luck drifter during the Great Depression, arrives in town in the boxcar of a freight train. He comes upon a bare-knuckled street fight run by gamblers. After the bout, he approaches one of the fight's organizers, the fast-talking "Speed" (James Coburn), and asks Speed to set up a fight. Betting his few dollars on himself, Chaney wins with a single punch.

, 1h42
Directed by Howard Zieff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Themes Films about television
Actors Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasence, Blythe Danner, Alan Arkin, Richard B. Shull
Rating64%
Lewis Tater (Jeff Bridges), a 1930s-era aspiring novelist who harbors dreams of becoming the next Zane Grey, decides to leave his family home in Iowa to go to the University of Titan in Nevada so he can soak up the western atmosphere. He arrives to find that there is no university, only a mail order correspondence course scam run by two crooks out of the local hotel. He tries to spend the night at the hotel, and is attacked by one of the men. He escapes his attacker and steals their car, pulling over when it runs out of gas.

, 1h45
Directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Ian Bannen, Mona Washbourne, Guido Mannari, Maxence Mailfort, Andy Warhol
Rating58%
Elizabeth Taylor interprète une femme perturbée qui est assassinée par un psychotique.

, 2h
Directed by Marguerite Duras
Origin France
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière, Vernon Dobtcheff, Claude Mann, Didier Flamand
Rating61%
Anne-Marie (Delphine Seyrig) is the wife of the French ambassador in India in the 1930s. Growing bored with the oppressive lifestyle she leads, she begins to compulsively sleep with other men to alleviate her situation. Her husband knows of her indiscretions, but is tolerant of her promiscuity.