Cinema releases by week

, 1h40
Directed by Gus Trikonis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Robert Hays, Art Carney, Barbara Hershey, David Keith, Tim Thomerson, Martin Mull
Rating49%
A corporate conglomerate called "The Ellison Group" acquired four breweries, all of them experiencing financial trouble. Enter Frank Macklin (Robert Hays), a young manager hired by Ellison to help reorganize one of the ailing breweries. The only thing, though, was that brewery was a major employer in his home town. Originally, his old friends, who were working at the brewery, gave him a cold welcome, as they thought he would be unable to revitalize the brewery. But when Frank informed them that the brewery was drowning in red ink, and that they may be losing their jobs soon, they welcomed him with open arms, and ramped up the brewery's sales and production. The brewery has improved so much, that The Ellison Group decided to sell it to a Texas oil millionaire, who doesn't know the first thing about running a brewery—or apparently—running a business.

, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Horror, Romance
Actors Maren Jensen
Rating47%
Tikoyo lives by the Bora Bora lagoon in the South Pacific, where he found a man-eating tiger shark when it was an orphaned baby, just a foot long. He named it Manidu, and it grew to be sixteen feet long. Tikoyo believes that his companion houses the soul of a wise old man, and helps him guard the sacred black pearls in the lagoon. In fact, Manidu does protect Tikoyo and his girlfriend Diana, only eating those who are their enemies, or who seek to destroy their environment, or steal the pearls.

, 1h45
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Hilmar Thate, Katharina Thalbach, Karin Baal, Ilse Pagé, Klaus Pohl, Hanns Zischler
Rating67%

, 1h41
Directed by Markus Imhoof
Origin Suisse
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Tina Engel, Curt Bois, Mathias Gnädinger
Rating70%

, 1h20
Directed by Abel Ferrara
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime, Slasher
Themes Feminist films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Political films, Auto-justice
Actors Zoë Lund, Abel Ferrara, Jack Thibeau, Jayne Kennedy, Kathleen Gati
Rating67%
While walking home from work, Thana, a mute seamstress in New York City's Garment District, is raped at gunpoint in an alley by a mysterious, masked attacker. She survives and makes her way back to her apartment, where she encounters a burglar and is raped a second time. Thana, her name an allusion to Greek god of death Thanatos, hits this second assailant with a small sculpture then bludgeons him to death with an iron, and carries his body to the bathtub. She goes to work the next day, and after encountering working with an iron, watching her boss Albert rip a shirt off a mannequin, she goes into shock, which worries her co-workers. However, when she looks at the trashbin at her office, she decides to dismember the burglar's corpse and throw the parts away in various locations of the city.

, 3h40
Directed by Michael Cimino, Brian W. Cook
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Films about immigration, Politique, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, La précarité, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Political films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Sam Waterston
Rating67%
In 1870, two young men, Jim Averill and Billy Irvine, graduate from Harvard College. The Reverend Doctor speaks to the graduates on the association of "the cultivated mind with the uncultivated" and the importance of education. Irvine, brilliant but obviously intoxicated, follows this with his opposing, irreverent views. A celebration is then held after which the male students serenade the women present, including Averill's girlfriend.

, 1h37
Directed by Lamont Johnson
Genres Western
Actors Burt Lancaster, John Savage, Redmond Gleeson, Rod Steiger, Diane Lane, Amanda Plummer
Rating60%
The outlaws the girls find are the demoralised remnants of the Doolin-Dalton gang, led by an historically inaccurate aged Bill Doolin (Burt Lancaster at sixty-seven). Anna Emmaline McDoulet, or Cattle Annie (Amanda Plummer), shames, and inspires the men, to become what she had imagined them to be. The younger sister (but historically not a relative), Jennie Stevens or Little Britches (Diane Lane), finds a father figure in Doolin, who in the story line coined her nickname "Little Britches". Doolin's efforts to live up to the girls' vision of him lead him to be carted off in a cage to an Oklahoma jail where he waits to be hanged. With the help of the girls, and the gang, Doolin escapes and rides off to safety with his men. The girls are triumphant, but they cannot escape Marshal Bill Tilghman (Rod Steiger), and are sent back East to the reformatory in Framingham, Massachusetts.

, 1h28
Directed by Ken Hughes
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Leonard Mann, Rachel Ward, Drew Snyder, Daniel Roebuck
Rating56%
Anne Barron (Meb Boden) is a teacher's aide at the Jack-N-Jill Daycare Center in Boston. It's the early evening and the last child has been picked up by her mother. Anne is relaxing on the playground carousel when someone pulls up on a motorcycle, wearing a black motorcycle helmet. She is startled as the stranger pulls out a kukri and starts spinning the carousel. The kukri is held up in the air and the terrified woman goes around until she's struck with it.

, 1h40
Directed by Diane Kurys
Genres Drama
Actors François Cluzet, Geneviève Fontanel, Christian Clavier, Henri Garcin, Patrick Chesnais, Marco Perrin
Rating59%
Anne aime Frédéric, mais ils sont de milieux différents. Elle prend les devants et l'entraîne dans une fugue vers Venise avec leur pote Bruno. Le pouce en l'air, ils traversent la France de 68. Tout va pour le mieux mais Frédéric, dont le père est malade, n'a jamais eu l'intention de quitter définitivement la maison. Le retour en stop sera pénible, tandis qu'Anne est enceinte… De Venise à Paris, ils courent après les barricades, curieux plutôt que concernés… Ils ont le sentiment de rater quelque chose sans réaliser qu'ils sont en train de "vivre" Mai 68.

, 1h37
Directed by John Guillermin
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors James Coburn, Kate Nelligan, Fionnula Flanagan, Lois Maxwell, Leslie Carlson, Jan Rubes
Rating55%
A film about a male nurse (James Coburn) working the night shift in a psycho ward who begins to lose his grip on reality. Directed by John Guillermin, responsible for the 1976 version of King Kong and The Towering Inferno, the film was released theatrically in Europe then recut and sold to television in North America.

, 1h15
Directed by Marie-Claude Treilhou
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Ingrid Bourgoin, Martine Simonet, Sonia Saviange, Michel Delahaye, Noël Simsolo, Max Amyl
Rating66%
Simone Barbès est ouvreuse dans un cinéma porno. Un soir, après son travail, elle se rend dans une boîte de nuit lesbienne. Puis elle rencontre un homme seul et désespéré.

, 1h44
Directed by Oliver Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes La bande dessinée, Serial killer films
Actors Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Annie McEnroe, Bruce McGill, Viveca Lindfors, Rosemary Murphy
Rating55%
Jon Lansdale is finishing up a famous work of his called "Mandro", a Prince Valiant/Conan The Barbarian type of character. (In the film the actual "Mandro" artwork was drawn by real life Marvel Comics Conan artist Barry Windsor-Smith.) Lansdale is married to a beautiful woman named Anne (Andrea Marcovicci) and they have a child named Lizzie (played by Mara Hobel). While they are driving, Anne and Lansdale end up behind a slow-moving truck and an impatient driver behind them. In the heat of argument, Anne, who is driving, gets distracted and pulls out from behind the truck. Another truck comes up in the other lane. Anne attempts to get back behind the other truck but the impatient driver has pulled up too far. Lansdale waves his hand to the impatient driver to move back, and when she does not and Anne has to slam on the brakes, his hand is caught behind the truck, which also stops. The hand is severed completely in a bloody, violent scene. Anne attempts to find the severed hand but it is too late.