Cinema releases by week

, 1h35
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Linda Blair, John Vernon, Sybil Danning, Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens, Henry Silva
Rating50%
Linda Blair of The Exorcist stars as Carol Henderson, an immature and naive teenager who is sentenced to 18 months in a women's prison after killing a man by accident after driving drunk. Once she arrives, she meets the vicious and perverted Warden Backman (John Vernon). She also encounters the two kingpin prisoners, Ericka (Sybil Danning) and Duchess (Tamara Dobson), who are the leaders of factions in the facility's seething racial tensions. There are also the drug-dealing lesbian rapists and the prostitutes, who answer to the warden's assistant, Captain Taylor (Stella Stevens). In the meantime, Taylor's lover is clandestinely having an affair with Ericka. It's a whirlwind of dread and fury, but when the facility's corrupt administration goes too far, racial considerations are put aside as convicts of all colors and nationalities band together to fight them.

, 2h
Directed by Leon Hirszman
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships, Films based on plays
Actors Fernanda Montenegro, Carlos Alberto Riccelli, Bete Mendes, Milton Gonçalves, Paulo José, Nelson Xavier
Rating81%
The film revolves around a working-class family in São Paulo in 1980. Otávio, a syndicalist leader, and Romana are the parents of Tião, whose girlfriend, Maria, becomes pregnant. Fearing to be fired and thus cannot support his now fiancée, Tião does not participate on a strike, what starts a series of family conflicts.

, 1h15
Directed by Jon Stone
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Actors Caroll Spinney, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Jim Henson
Rating69%
The story starts in New York City's Chinatown, where Big Bird peeks at an old scroll with a picture of a beautiful phoenix on it. The shopkeeper explains that the phoenix is magical and lives in China. To find the phoenix, Big Bird will first have to find the four places pictured on the scroll. Big Bird thinks, "Well, what a good thing it would be if a great big American bird went to meet that beautiful Chinese bird! I mean, she could tell me everything about China, and then I could come home and tell everybody here!" He sets out with Barkley on a boat and makes it to China.

, 1h43
Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Isabelle Huppert, Daniel Olbrychski, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jeanne Moreau, Jacques Spiesser, Isao Yamagata
Rating59%
Traumatisée depuis son enfance, Frédérique (surnommée la Truite) se venge sur les hommes en les aguichant pour les exploiter, sans jamais se donner à eux. Elle épouse Galuchat, un homosexuel, et cohabite pendant un certain temps au Japon avec le riche affairiste Saint-Genis, rencontré en même temps qu'un couple aisé, les Rambert.

, 1h45
Directed by Robert Enrico
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Philippe Noiret, Michel Serrault, Dorothée, Pierre Arditi, Bernard Le Coq, Guilhaine Dubos
Rating65%
À Bordeaux, l'inspecteur Baroni enquête sur la mort d'une femme, M Morlaix, tombée par la fenêtre de son appartement après une dispute avec son mari. Persuadé de la culpabilité de celui-ci, Baroni s'acharne à vouloir le faire avouer bien que l'affaire soit rapidement classée et qu'une affaire de trafic de drogue secoue la ville et malgré la sympathie latente qu'il ressent malgré lui pour le veuf.

, 2h14
Directed by Richard Marquand
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Dans l'espace, Sur une planète fictive, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Robot films
Actors Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse
Rating79%
Luke Skywalker initiates a plan to rescue Han Solo from the crime lord Jabba the Hutt with the help of Princess Leia, Lando Calrissian, Chewbacca, C-3PO, and R2-D2. Leia infiltrates Jabba's palace on Tatooine disguised as a bounty hunter with Chewbacca as her prisoner. Lando is already there disguised as a guard. Leia releases Han from his carbonite prison, but she is captured and enslaved. Luke arrives soon afterward but after a tense standoff, he is captured. After Luke survives his battle with Jabba's Rancor, Jabba sentences him and Han to death by feeding them to the Sarlacc. Luke frees himself and battles Jabba's guards. During the chaos, Boba Fett, who has remained at Jabba's palace since delivering Han, attempts to attack Luke, but Han inadvertently knocks him into the Sarlacc pit. Meanwhile, Leia strangles Jabba to death, and Luke destroys Jabba's sail barge as the group escapes. While the others rendezvous with the Rebel Alliance, Luke returns to Dagobah where he finds that Yoda is dying. Before he dies, Yoda confirms that Darth Vader, once known as Anakin Skywalker, is Luke's father, and there is "another Skywalker". The spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi confirms that this other Skywalker is Luke's twin sister, Leia. Obi-Wan tells Luke that he must fight Vader again to defeat the Empire.

, 1h36
Directed by Peter Zinner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Themes Political films
Actors Franco Nero, Anthony Quinn, Martin Balsam, Christopher Lee, Sybil Danning, Cleavon Little
Rating55%
Policeman Dante Matucci investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. As the body count grows he sees a pattern that might point to a conspiracy to take over the Italian government.