Cinema releases by week

Directed by Serge Bondartchouk
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors Franco Nero, Ursula Andress, Jorge Luke, Blanca Guerra, Sydne Rome
Rating58%

, 1h45
Directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Michel Piccoli, Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye, Madeleine Cheminat, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-François Balmer
Rating67%
Louis Coline (Gérard Lanvin) is an executive assistant in a declining Paris department store. While he is not ambitious and has little to do, he is content with his wife Nina (Nathalie Baye), visits to his mother and grandmother and nights out with his friends playing poker. However, the manipulative Bertrand Malair (Michel Piccoli) becomes the store's new manager, and arrives to shake up the company. Louis fears for his job, but Bertrand draws him into his inner circle of confidants. Bertrand starts to control Louis' life, while Louis is afraid of losing his privileged position. To maintain it Louis works overtime, accepts Bertrand's invitations to nightclubs and dinners with an androgynous woman, and places his house at Bertrand's disposal. Nina sees through her husband's behaviour and objects, but Louis cannot refuse Bertrand's demands, and she is unable to make him see how much his personality has changed. Desperate, she leaves her husband, which only draws him further under Bertrand's control. Bertrand soon disappears as mysteriously as he came, and Louis finds himself unable to revert to his previous self.

, 25minutes
Directed by James Scott
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Rupert Everett, Jenny Seagrove, Barbara Hicks, Tim Seely, Benjamin Whitrow, Richenda Carey
Rating71%

, 1h50
Directed by Adolfo Aristarain
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Federico Luppi, Ulises Dumont, Aldo Barbero, Enrique Liporace, Arturo Maly, Joffre Soares
Rating77%
Pedro Bengoa, an ex-union organizing demolition worker and Bruno Di Toro, a coworker friend of his, decide to blackmail the corrupt company they work for, setting up a fake accident in a copper pit. Di Toro was supposed to pretend to be Mute as a consequence of an explosion, and Pedro would corroborate his story. Things don't go as planned and Di Toro loses his life, leaving Pedro to continue the plan on his own, while pretending to be Mute. However, when the company finally agrees to an economical settlement, Pedro refuses to accept, searching justice primarily, and his case goes to the courts. This event changes Pedro's life for ever.

, 1h48
Directed by Hans Alfredson
Origin Suede
Genres Drama
Actors Maria Johannson, Stellan Skarsgård, Hans Alfredson, Per Myrberg, Lars Amble, Gösta Ekman Jr.
Rating74%
The story takes place in 1930's Skåne, Sweden, and focuses on Sven, who is hare-lipped and thus can't speak correctly. Most people consider him stupid, and call him an idiot.

, 1h37
Directed by David Burton Morris
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Peter Nelson
Rating70%
The film opens in Princeton University, 1968, where Matt Caulfield and his friends are watching television. There, they witness President Lyndon B. Johnson inform us of his plans not to rerun in the upcoming election. Upon hearing of his plans, Matt and the rest of the students celebrate by smoking marijuana. An uncool student from next door is disturbed by the boys' racket, and upon being pelted with junkfood by the boys for telling them to be quiet, he calls the police. Within minutes, Matt and his roommates are caught smoking, and are banned from college campus. Matt returns home to his family, where he is faced with various issues before being shipped off to Vietnam.

, 1h16
Directed by Ralph Bakshi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Animation
Themes Gangster films
Actors Richard Romanus, David Proval, Danny Wells, Larry Bishop, Philip Michael Thomas, Frank DeKova
Rating60%
Le film se déroule à New York dans le quartier de Brooklyn dans les années 1950 et met en scène les aventures de Vinnie, le chef d'un gang appelé les Stompers, en compagnie de son ami Crazy Shapiro et de leurs petites amies, Rozzie et Eva.

, 1h29
Directed by Paul Morrissey
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Orson Bean, Kevin Bacon, Mark Keyloun, Esai Morales
Rating54%
Un jeune prostituée essaye de trouver de l'argent pour s'acheter de la drogue en vendant un jeune garçon à un homme.

, 1h40
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Cecilia Roth, Imanol Arias, Helga Liné, Antonio Banderas, Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
Rating61%
Sexilia ("Sexi") is a pop star and sex addict; Riza is the gay son of the Emperor of Tiran (a fictional Middle Eastern country). Both are strolling around Madrid's flea market, aiming to pick up lovers. Sexilia takes two men for an orgy, where she is the only woman. In the hope of curing her nymphomania and her fear of the sun, she is undergoing psychotherapy. However, her psychoanalyst, Susana, is far more interested in sleeping with Sexila's father, Doctor de la Peña, a gynecologist specializing in artificial insemination. As the doctor is frigid, Susana does not have a chance with him. One of Doctor de la Peña's patients is Princess Toraya, the ex-wife of the former Emperor of Tiran. Flicking through a magazine, Toraya discovers that her stepson Riza Nero is also in town. Thanks to treatment by Sexilia's father, Toraya is now fertile for the first time in her life. Since the emperor's sperm is currently unavailable to her, she will settle for that of his son, Riza, whom she attempts to track down.

, 1h51
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Michael O'Keefe, Karen Allen, Peter Fonda, James Woods, Elizabeth Ashley, Brian Dennehy
Rating63%
Danny Stetson (Michael O'Keefe) is a clean-cut, all-American college student and gymnast with dreams of Olympic gold when he's lured into "Homeland," a youth-oriented religious commune, by a compellingly beautiful girl, Rebecca (Karen Allen). Here he is programmed by the charismatic leader, Neil Kirklander (Peter Fonda), to believe that his new life now has the true meaning that it previously lacked.

, 1h48
Directed by Julius Machulski
Origin Pologne
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Jan Machulski, Leonard Pietraszak, Witold Pyrkosz, Krzysztof Kiersznowski, Ewa Szykulska, Henryk Bista
Rating78%
L'histoire se déroule dans Varsovie des années 1930.

, 14minutes
Directed by Arthur Dong
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about immigration, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Lisa Lu
Rating68%

, 2h2
Directed by Aparna Sen
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about education
Actors Jennifer Kendal, Debashree Roy, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Geoffrey Kendal, Soni Razdan, Sanjana Kapoor
Rating75%
In post-independence India an Anglo-Indian teacher, Violet Stoneham (Jennifer Kendal), lives a quiet and uneventful life at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta, now Kolkata. Her brother Eddie (Geoffrey Kendal, Jennifer's father in real life) is senile and ailing in a nursing home. After the marriage of her niece Rosemary (Soni Razdan), she is alone except for her cat, Sir Toby. Her only joy in life is teaching Shakespeare, despite the lack of interest from her students.

Directed by Juraj Herz
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Jiří Menzel, Petr Čepek, Blanka Waleská, Juraj Herz
Rating58%
Doctor Marek (Jiří Menzel) is shocked when his beloved nurse, Mima (Dagmar Veškrnová), signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat to work as a rally-driver. Rumours abound that the Ferat sports car runs not on petrol, but on human blood.

, 2h4
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Erotic thriller films
Actors Michel Serrault, Charles Aznavour, Monique Chaumette, François Cluzet, Isabelle Sadoyan, Aurore Clément
Rating70%
Labbé, a hatter in a French provincial town, leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour Kachoudas, an Armenian tailor. After the hatter kills his own wife, he then kills six of her friends to stop them visiting her and prepares to murder a seventh when the intended victim dies naturally. As a substitute, he murders the maid. At the same time, Kachoudas is dying and Labbé confesses his crime to him. Then, after getting drunk he visits his favourite prostitute Berthe and kills her too, being found there in the morning by the police.

, 1h57
Directed by Colin Gregg
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Gary Oldman, Pete Lee-Wilson, John Altman, Timothy Spall, John Altman, Jesse Birdsall
Rating52%
Un groupe de soldats de la Royal Navy basés à Devonport, en partance pour les États-Unis pour un exercice avec l'OTAN de six mois, sortent en ville pour leur dernière nuit au port, et vont violemment découvrir la tristement célèbre Union Street du district de Plymouth.

Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Actors Edward Asnere
Rating75%

, 26minutes
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about nuclear technology, Documentary films about technology
Rating71%

, 5minutes
Directed by Tim Burton, Leonard Nimoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about children, Children's films
Actors Vincent Price, Leonard Nimoy
Rating82%
Vincent is the poetry story of a 7-year-old boy, Vincent Malloy, who pretends to be like the actor Vincent Price (who narrates the film). He does experiments on his dog Abercrombie in order to create a horrible ravenous Zombie dog. He is obsessed with the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and it is his detachment from reality when reading them that leads to his delusions that he is in fact a tortured artist, deprived of the woman he loves, mirroring certain parts of Poe's "The Raven". The film ends with Vincent feeling terrified of being tortured by the going-ons of his make-believe world, quoting "The Raven" as he falls to the floor in frailty, believing himself to be dead.

Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about racism, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors James Whitmore
Rating63%

, 1h48
Directed by Maroun Bagdadi
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Themes French war films, Political films
Rating60%
Au Liban en 1975, le père de Tolal est enlevé par des inconnus. Il doit alors assumer le rôle de chef de clan.

, 1h36
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Dominique Dunne, Katharine Ross, Ben Johnson, Geoffrey Lewis
Rating65%
Two brothers, Mac (Tom Selleck) and Dal (Sam Elliott) Traven, who fought on opposite sides in the Civil War, make their way back to Texas when the war ends. They learn that a band of confederate rebels has kidnapped their two sisters and a brother, as well as Dal's sweetheart (Katharine Ross). Thus, the chase is on.

, 1h34
Directed by Alan J. Levi
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Frankie Avalon, Richard Jaeckel, Donna Wilkes, Dane Clark, Antoinette Bower, Ben Cross
Rating48%
Set in a small town on the Oregon coast, a crippled young woman (Wilkes) witnesses the murder of a hospital attendant by a psychopath (Avalon) during his escape from a mental institution. The young woman, who once was given a blood transfusion from the killer, proves to be his potential next victim.

, 1h45
Directed by Frères Taviani
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Fantasy
Themes Political films
Actors Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli, Massimo Bonetti, Renata Zamengo, Paolo Hendel
Rating72%
The film follows several inhabitants of an Italian town during the end of World War II. Defeat is certain for the Germans, and the front is retreating back to Germany, leaving a path of destruction in their wake. The Germans plan to bomb several buildings in the town, and have told all the villagers to congregate in the town's church. Approximately half of the town decides to stay, and place their trust in the church. The rest of the town dresses in dark clothing, and go out to seek the Americans, who are rumored to be nearby, liberating towns as they come to them.

, 1h42
Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Franciszek Pieczka, Wojciech Pszoniak, Liliana Komorowska, Szymon Szurmiej, Gołda Tencer, Ernestyna Winnicka
Rating67%
Premier jour de la Première Guerre mondiale. Des hassidim, venant en charrettes d’une petite ville de Galicie sont accueillis par le vieux Tag, esprit frondeur, et sa famille dans son auberge (austeria signifie auberge). En carrosse, arrive une Juive fréquentant les milieux aisés de Vienne. Elle fuit et essaie de persuader l’aubergiste de venir avec elle. Il refuse et reste avec sa belle-fille et sa petite-fille qui craignent un pogrom. La servante ukrainienne Jewdocha informe que les Cosaques approchent (nous sommes à proximité de la frontière russe). Une bataille se déroule non loin de l'auberge. D'autres fuyards qui étaient passés auparavant reviennent finalement s'abriter à l'auberge le soir. Parmi eux, le jeune Bum qui porte dans ses bras le corps de sa bien-aimée Asia. Les parents d'Asia et de Bum sont là aussi. Un tzadik (« juste » en hébreu) de Zydaczewo s'arrête lui aussi à l'auberge. Les hassidim se mettent à danser.

, 1h27
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Diane Lane, Peter Donat, Laura Dern, Ray Winstone, David Clennon, Cynthia Sikes
Rating66%
Corinne Burns is a seventeen-year-old girl whose mother has recently died from lung cancer. Working in a fast food restaurant to help support herself and her younger sister, Corinne is interviewed by a local television station for a story about her town's dwindling economy. During the interview, Corinne becomes angry and belligerent towards the reporter, eventually lashing out at her boss and getting fired. The segment resonates with the station's teenage viewers, who see Corinne as a kindred spirit. The station does a follow-up interview, which primarily consists of Corinne acting flippant and making sarcastic remarks to the journalist. However, she does manage to slip in a plug for her garage band "The Stains", which consists of her, her sister Tracy, and their cousin Jessica.

, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Karen Valentine, Jamie Lee Curtis, Linda Purl, Christopher Lloyd, Richard Masur, Gary Graham
Rating54%
Janice Vernon (Karen) is married to traveling salesman Nelson (Richard Masur), and has a son with special needs. The couple are experiencing severe financial hardships, and Janice lists her home for sale by Karen's Gordon's realty firm. When her house doesn't sell, Karen offers Janice a way to become a prostitute. Janice feels she can't do it, but eventually the need for money overcomes her feelings and she begins working as an "escort" for Karen.

, 1h
Directed by Chris Marker
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Actors Alan Adair
Rating69%
Le regard du cinéaste sur la jeune nation israélienne alors âgée de douze ans.

, 1h59
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, George Martin, Marianne Faithfull
Rating81%

, 1h39
Directed by Tom DeSimone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Jill St John, Tracey Elizabeth Bregman, BarBara Luna, Sean O'Kane, Sondra Currie, Peter Brown
Rating49%
A woman's boyfriend unsuspectingly uses her to carry a stash of cocaine in her skis and she is caught by airport security. She is tried, convicted and sent to prison where she quickly learns to toughen up if she wants to survive.

Directed by Peter Markle
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Paul Eiding, Michael Laskin, Patrick Thomas O'Brien
Rating67%
A man whose wife has left him starts dating again by putting ads in the personals.