Cinema releases by week

, 1h30
Directed by Richard Ciupka
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime, Slasher
Themes Films about television
Actors John Vernon, Linda Thorson, Samantha Eggar, Lynne Griffin, Lesleh Donaldson, William Horace Marshall
Rating55%
Samantha Sherwood, a beautiful actress and muse for director Jonathan Stryker, has herself committed to a mental institution as method preparation for the titular role of a mentally unstable woman in a film called Audra. Once finding out Stryker is letting a new group of girls audition for the role of Audra, she escapes the asylum for revenge.

, 2h30
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about suicide, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Josh Mostel, Robin Bartlett
Rating74%
In 1947, Stingo relocates to Brooklyn in order to write a novel and is befriended by Sophie Zawistowski, a Polish immigrant, and her emotionally unstable lover, Nathan Landau.

, 1h32
Directed by Carlo Vanzina
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Christian De Sica, Virna Lisi, Jerry Calà, Isabella Ferrari, Marina Suma, Karina Huff
Rating61%
The film is set in the Sixties, in the Tuscan beach of Forte dei Marmi. A group of young friends spends his holidays at sea. One of them has a girlfriend, but she loves another, while a peasant has a beautiful American girl, but prefers another woman. Finally, a shy student falls in love with an older woman. At the end of the film the same friends join together in the beach; however, they are sad because there are now the Eighties, and everything is different in their life.

, 1h28
Directed by Greydon Clark
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about video games
Actors Joe Don Baker, Scott McGinnis, Jon Gries, Corinne Bohrer, John Diehl, Logan Ramsey
Rating45%
Jefferson Bailey (Scott McGinnis) runs the most popular video arcade in town, much to the chagrin of local businessman Joseph Rutter (Joe Don Baker). With his two bumbling nephews, Rutter aims to frame Bailey and have his business shut down. Bailey, however, is wise to Rutter's plan and teams with best buds Eugene (Leif Green) and McDorfus (Jim Greenleaf) to stop this scheme, which also involves a video game duel with punker King Vidiot (Jon Gries).

, 1h26
Directed by Charles Band
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Robert Ginty, Robert Glaudini
Rating38%
In 1955, young waitress Lenora (Lucinda Dooling) finds herself inexplicably driving down the California highway to an unknown destination. This doesn't bode well for Cam (John Sanderford), the hitchhiker she picked up, because he has to endure her somnambulist driving. The duo eventually end up at a graveside in the woods and meet alchemist Aaron (Robert Ginty), who is just as shocked to see them as Lenora appears to be the reincarnation of his wife who was murdered nearly 100 years earlier.

, 1h20
Directed by Michel Vocoret
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Gérard Rinaldi, Jean Sarrus, Luis Rego, Gérard Filippelli, Paulette Dubost, Roger Carel
Rating42%
Les enfants de trois combattants de la Seconde Guerre mondiale écoutent bouche bée le récit des blagues et des aventures vécues par leurs parents, notamment celle d'un trésor caché par la Kommandantur...

, 2h15
Directed by Alain Corneau, Pascal Ortega, Gilles Katz, Laurent Ferrier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Lanvin, Michel Galabru, Christian Marquand
Rating68%
After escaping from prison, Mickey (Gerard Depardieu) and his elderly mentor Serge face a gangster hit squad and a shootout with the police.

, 1h32
Directed by Bruce Beresford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about religion, Musical films
Actors Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin, Lenny Von Dohlen
Rating72%
Mac Sledge (Robert Duvall), a washed up, alcoholic country singer, awakens at a run-down Texas roadside motel and gas station after a night of heavy drinking. He meets the owner, a young widow named Rosa Lee (Tess Harper), and offers to work in exchange for a room. Rosa Lee, whose husband was killed in the Vietnam War, is raising her young son, Sonny (Allan Hubbard), on her own. She agrees to let Mac stay under the condition that he does not drink while working. The two begin to develop feelings for one another, mostly during quiet evenings sitting alone and sharing bits of their life stories.

, 1h45
Directed by John Sayles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin, Frank Zagarino, Leora Dana, Fisher Stevens
Rating63%
The film is about a romance between an upper middle class Jewish girl named Jill Rosen (Arquette), who is bound for Sarah Lawrence College, and a blue-collar Italian boy nicknamed the Sheik (Spano) in late 1966 New Jersey, who aspires to follow in Frank Sinatra's footsteps.

, 1h40
Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ted Wass, Phoebe Cates, Pamela Bellwood, Efrem Zimbalist II, Thomas F. Duffy, Jill Jacobson
Rating55%
Annie Burroughs is a wild 19-year-old teenager who has just dropped out of college. Fearing to face her father, she packs her stuff and moves in with her older sister Marsha, who runs her own gallery in Los Angeles. Marsha is in a relationship with David Mitchell, a 31-year-old doctor who dreams of having his own private practice. Although they are very happy together, David isn't glad Marsha is spending so much time on work. Meanwhile, Annie immediately settles in the big city, landing a job as a receptionist at David's clinic. Although at first it is innocent and playful, Annie and David start flirting with each other.

, 1h37
Directed by George Bowers
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about virginity
Actors Matt Lattanzi, Caren Kaye, Kevin McCarthy, Crispin Glover, Clark Brandon, Kitten Natividad
Rating52%
The movie opens with scenes of an aerobics class juxtaposed with a classroom of students taking an examination. The movie's two protagonists are featured in these scenes, with Terry Green (Caren Kaye) participating in the aerobics and Bobby Chrystal (Matt Lattanzi) taking, not very well it turns out, his last high school final, in French.

, 3h
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Action
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors James MacArthur, Desi Arnaz Jr., Leslie Nielsen, Richard Gilliland, Eve Plumb, Barbara Rush
Rating54%
Engineer Cal Miller's unauthorized attempt to close off the dangerously unstable Madison Bridge is foiled by the police pursuit of a robbery suspect. The chase ends in a multi-car accident in the middle of the bridge, which begins falling apart during the confusion. Miller organizes a rescue operation for the handful of bystanders who find themselves stranded with the armed suspect and a wounded policeman on a short stretch of crumbling pavement high atop a single collapsing pylon.