Cinema releases by week

, 1h33
Directed by Danny Steinmann
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Auto-justice
Actors Linda Blair, Linnea Quigley, John Vernon, Sal Landi, Lisa Freeman, Bob DeSimone
Rating62%
Un gang ultra-violent sévit à Los Angeles. Menés par Jake (Robert Dwyer), ses membres torturent et violent Heather (Linnea Quigley), une jeune sourd-muette. La sœur de celle-ci, Brenda (Linda Blair) décide de faire justice.

, 1h30
Directed by Bertrand Tavernier, Jean Achache
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Peinture
Actors Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Sabine Azéma, Monique Chaumette, Geneviève Mnich, Jean-Roger Milo
Rating73%
The story takes place during a Sunday in the late summer of 1912. Monsieur Ladmiral is a painter without any real genius and in the twilight of his life. Since the death of his wife, he lives alone with Mercedes, his servant. As every Sunday, he invites Gonzague, his son, a steady young man, who likes order and propriety, accompanied by his wife, Marie-Thérèse and their three children, Emile, Lucien and Mireille. That day, Irène, Gonzague's sister, a young non-conformist, liberated and energetic woman, upsets this peaceful ritual and calls into question her father's artistic choices.

, 1h45
Directed by Michael Raeburn
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Karen Black, John Thaw, Patrick Mynhardt, John Moulder-Brown
Rating50%
The film takes place in Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s. Mary, a city woman, marries a farmer named Dick Turner. Mary is pulled from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced to live on Dick's unsuccessful farm. Mary slowly becomes insane and has a sexual affair with her black servant, Moses. When Mary and Moses' affair is discovered Mary asks Moses to leave the farm. Moses returns and murders Mary. The film deals with the issues of colonialism, the white man's role in Africa, and the relationships between the races and genders.

, 2h10
Directed by Nicolas Roeg
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, Joe Pesci, Jane Lapotaire
Rating58%
Au Canada, en 1925, Jack McCann, perturbé par le désespoir et entouré par la mort, devient subitement un homme riche en découvrant un filon d'or. 20 ans plus tard, désabusé et installé sur une île jamaïcaine, il vit reclus avec sa femme alcoolique, sa fille mariée à un homme qu'il déteste, et son associé qui essaie à son insu, via la mafia, de construire un casino.

, 1h38
Directed by Paul Morrissey
Genres Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Marília Pêra, Rodney Harvey, John Leguizamo, Linda Kerridge
Rating59%
Rita La Punta (Marília Pêra) leads a gang of underaged Brazilian kids in an attempt to seize control of New York's Lower East Side's drug trade from a Puerto Rican gang.

, 1h46
Directed by Márta Mészáros
Origin Hongrie
Genres Drama
Actors Mari Törőcsik, Anna Polony, Jan Nowicki, Lajos Balázsovits, Pál Zolnay, Ildikó Bánsági
Rating73%
1947. Une jeune Hongroise, Juli, orpheline (son père, communiste réfugié en Union soviétique après l'écrasement de la république des Conseils en 1919, a été fusillé lors des purges staliniennes), rentre dans sa patrie en ruines. Elle est confiée à une tante, Magda, une résistante antifasciste, fermement acquise au nouveau régime…

, 1h33
Directed by Danny Steinmann
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Rape and revenge films
Actors Linda Blair, Linnea Quigley, John Vernon, Sal Landi, Lisa Freeman, Bob DeSimone
Rating62%
After nearly being run down in the street by a gang known as the Scars, Brenda (Linda Blair) and her deaf-mute younger sister Heather (Linnea Quigley) and their friends trash the car of the gang leader, Jake. Jake exacts his revenge by getting his cohorts to gang-rape Heather. A fight between Brenda and her friends and the Scars at a local nightclub results in Brenda's pregnant, soon-to-be-married friend Francine being murdered by the Scars, who throw her off a viaduct. When Brenda learns who is responsible for Heather's rape, and that Francine is dead and the Scars are responsible, Brenda arms herself and sets out to avenge them. Finding them at a nearby warehouse, Brenda impales one of the gang members, Fargo, with an arrow; kills another, Red, by snapping a bear trap shut upon his neck; and then begins to torture Jake with arrows shot into his thighs and a hunting knife as he hangs by his feet from a gate. However, he then manages to free himself and attacks her. The showdown ends in a nearby paint store; as a burglar alarm blares, Brenda douses Jake in paint and then sets him on fire with a cigarette lighter that she has previously had difficulty getting to produce a flame, just before the police arrive.

, 25minutes
Origin USA
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
Rating23%

Directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Bibiana Fernández, Victoria Abril, José Sacristán, Fernando Fernán Gómez, León Klimovsky, Juanjo Puigcorbé
Rating55%

, 1h47
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Ralph Macchio, Judd Hirsch, Richard Mulligan, Morgan Freeman
Rating60%
The film opens with a typical Monday morning at John F. Kennedy High School; "typical" events including a fight between teachers, a student with a stab wound and talk of an upcoming lawsuit. We meet haggard Vice Principal Roger Rubell (Judd Hirsch) and clueless Principal Eugene Horn (William Schallert), as well as stuffy lawyer and JFK alumna Lisa Hammond (JoBeth Williams), who is in charge of taking depositions for the Calvin case, in which a recent graduate is suing the school for granting him a diploma despite his illiteracy.

, 1h30
Directed by Rob Epstein
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Historical
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about cities, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Harvey Fierstein
Rating81%
The Times of Harvey Milk documents the political career of Harvey Milk, who was San Francisco's first openly gay supervisor. The film documents Milk's rise from a neighborhood activist to a symbol of gay political achievement, through to his assassination in November 1978 at San Francisco's city hall, and the Dan White trial and aftermath.

, 1h40
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Victor Lanoux, Anny Duperey, Xavier Deluc, Michel Galabru, Valérie Mairesse, Roland Blanche
Rating58%
En enquêtant sur le meurtre d'un homosexuel, Morane, l'inspecteur Verta, marié et père de famille, rencontre un jeune musicien, Bernard, dont il tombe amoureux…

, 1h26
Directed by Vincent Ward
Genres Drama
Actors Frank Whitten, Bill Kerr
Rating67%
11 year old Toss lives on a remote farm in a valley somewhere deep in rural New Zealand with her father, mother and grandfather Birdie. When she witnesses her father’s death while out herding sheep, she is shocked to see another man present, who then carries her father’s body out of the bush. When the new man, Ethan moves onto the farm and begins a relationship with her mother, Toss sees him as an invader into her isolated world.

Genres Documentary
Themes Documentaire sur une personnalité
Rating74%

, 1h50
Directed by Krzysztof Zanussi
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Maja Komorowska, Scott Wilson, Vadim Glowna, Ewa Dałkowska, Danny Webb, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Rating70%
Ouest de la Pologne, 1946. Emilia et sa mère invalide tentent de survivre dans une terre dévastée, autrefois allemande avant d'être intégrée à la Pologne. Emilia rencontre Norman, soldat américain, venu là pour enquêter sur des crimes de guerre. C'est bientôt l'amour, mais le temps est compté et Norman est rappelé à Berlin. Pour permettre à sa fille de suivre son amant, la vieille femme décide de se laisser mourir.

, 2h2
Directed by James Ivory
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy, Madeleine Potter, Nancy Marchand, Wesley Addy
Rating61%
À Boston, à la fin du XIX siècle, Olive, femme mûre et fortunée, austère et timide, célibataire, militante féministe, tente de s'approprier Verena, jeune femme ravissante et vive, possédant de remarquables dons d'oratrice, dons exploités par son père lors de soirées mondaines vouées à la cause des femmes. Olive accueille Verena chez elle, l'éduque, lui permet de vivre dans un cadre luxueux tout en l'y maintenant prisonnière. Olive est clairement et secrètement amoureuse de Verena. Mais celle-ci n'est pas insensible au charme d'un cousin d'Olive, journaliste ambitieux, épris d'elle au premier regard mais peu favorable aux idées d'émancipation des femmes. Verena va longtemps hésiter entre son penchant pour son soupirant tenace et sa reconnaissance envers Olive. Mais l'amour des deux jeunes gens l'emporte et Olive reprend avec un succès inattendu le flambeau de la cause des femmes.

Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about virginity
Actors Michael Zorek, Jill Schoelen, Deborah Richter, Monique Gabrielle, Kerry Noonan, Roger Rose
Rating47%
Four friends, annoyed at how almost everyone else they know is having sex but them, agree to do what they can to help each other lose their virginity before the end of the summer. Most of their opportunities are foiled by their inexperience and bad planning. Michael, the most sensible boy of the foursome, really just wants to stay with his long-time girlfriend and take their relationship to an intimate level, but after putting him off for six months he grows impatient and splits up with her to seek his fortune elsewhere.

, 1h31
Directed by Maximilian Schell
Origin German
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Films about television, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, David Hemmings
Rating75%