Cinema releases by week

, 1h42
Directed by Gabriel Axel
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Cooking films
Actors Stéphane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle, Bodil Kjer, Bibi Andersson, Ghita Nørby
Rating77%
The elderly and pious Protestant sisters Martine (Birgitte Federspiel) and Philippa (Bodil Kjer) live in a small village on the remote western coast of Jutland in 19th-century Denmark. Their father was a pastor who founded his own Pietistic conventicle. With their father now dead and the austere sect drawing no new converts, the aging sisters preside over a dwindling congregation of white-haired believers.

, 1h33
Directed by David Beaird
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about religion, Films about television
Actors Bill Paxton, Annie Potts, Tim Curry, Linda Kozlowski, Dennis Burkley, Anthony Geary
Rating57%
Curry is the Rev. Ray Porter, who runs a Pentecostal faith healing and televangelism empire based in Arkansas. A small group of stereotypical rednecks, one of whom was bilked out of her inheritance by Rev. Porter's ministry and another of whom just got out of prison, try to rob Porter's ministry. A series of wrong turns inside the church during the robbery leads the robbers onstage right in the middle of a broadcast, and the three robbers turn what was supposed to have been "just" a robbery into a hostage situation. During the hostage negotiations, a series of snowballing scandals involving the ministry come to light. The robbery, hostage taking, and scandal revelations are all broadcast live over satellite television as locals gather in bars to watch. Rev. Porter and the robbers develop a rapport during the hostage situation that resembles shop talk among thieves, as they discuss the best ways of investing stolen money. One comic subplot involves the Christian network's producer, a drug-addled electronics wizard named Stonewall who decorates his workspace with Pink Floyd posters, but was hired by the network because "he has found the Lord...he told us so himself." Another subplot involves a local sheriff, himself also an archetypal redneck whose duck hunting trip was interrupted by the incident, who seems to sympathize with the would-be robbers. The film is partly about his moral struggle in trying to enforce the law when his sympathies lie elsewhere. He just wants to see the situation end with nobody getting hurt, and butts heads with the network's owner and federal agents who demand harsher action. The owner of the satellite network, whose character is based on Jerry Falwell, demands that the National Guard be called in leading to a siege and climactic ending.

, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror
Themes Films based on science fiction novels, Comedy science fiction films, Frankenstein films, Comedy horror films
Actors Mark Blankfield, Leslie Jordan, Jonathan Farwell, Kathy Shower, Irwin Keyes, Hamilton Mitchell
Rating37%
Bob, chirurgien, arrière-petit-fils du Baron Frankenstein, a dissimulé son laboratoire dans le sous-sol de l’hôpital pour continuer les travaux de son illustre ancêtre. Avec son fidèle Iggy, il essaie de rassembler des morceaux de corps humains en vue de créer son propre “monstre”.

, 1h41
Directed by Peter Yates
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Political films
Actors Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin, Jessica Tandy, James Rebhorn, Jonathan Hogan
Rating60%
Emily Crane (Kelly McGillis), a picture editor for Life Magazine, is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy argument being conducted in a neighbouring house. She eavesdrops through an open window, seeing that one of those involved is her main senator prosecutor, Ray Salwen (Mandy Patinkin). His opponent is an elderly man who speaks only German; a younger man named Stefan (Christopher Buchholz), whom Emily had earlier asked for directions, is interpreting their confrontation.

, 1h42
Directed by Renny Harlin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Prison films, Ghost films
Actors Viggo Mortensen, Chelsea Field, Lane Smith, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Tom Everett, André De Shields
Rating57%
In 1964, inmate Charlie Forsythe swallowed 60,000 volts of electricity for a murder he did not commit.

, 1h35
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Cliff De Young, Roxanne Hart, Joseph Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence, Charles Tyner, Robert Romanus
Rating54%
A highly aggressive, paranormal intelligence thriving within the electrical grid system of Los Angeles, California is moving from house to house. It terrorizes the occupants by taking control of the appliances, killing them or causing them to wreck the house in an effort to destroy it. Once this has been accomplished, it travels along the power lines to the next house, and the terror restarts. Having thus wrecked one household in a quiet, suburban neighborhood, the pulse finds itself in the home of a boy's divorced father whom he is visiting. It gradually takes control of everything, injuring the stepmother, and trapping father and son, who must fight their way out.

, 1h50
Directed by Fei Xie
Genres Drama
Actors Naren Hua
Rating70%
A Girl from Hunan tells the story of a willful young girl (initially played by Lin Qing and played as an adult by Naren Hua) who, at the start of the film, is about to enter into an arranged marriage with a two-year-old child, Chun Guan. Xiao Xiao, the girl in question, is only twelve.

, 30minutes
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about families, Films about immigration, Prison films, Films about racism, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, Autobiographical documentary films
Actors Keith Hamilton Cobb
Rating23%

, 1h45
Directed by Federico Fellini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary
Themes Films about television
Actors Anita Ekberg, Marcello Mastroianni, Federico Fellini, Antonella Ponziani, Lara Wendel, Eva Grimaldi
Rating69%
Interviewed by a Japanese TV crew for a news report on his latest film, Fellini takes the viewer behind the scenes at Cinecittà. A nighttime set is prepared for a sequence that Fellini defines as “the prisoner’s dream” in which his hands grope for a way out of a dark tunnel. With advancing age and weight, Fellini is finding it difficult to escape by simply flying away but when he does, he contemplates Cinecittà from a great height.

, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors George Kennedy, Billy Jayne, Michelle Bauer
Rating47%
The film begins with Kennedy's character talking to his daughter inside their cabin. Suddenly a Bigfoot-like animal breaks in and takes away the girl. Some teenage campers arrive and they too eventually meet the Bigfoot, with many of them being killed or captured. It is later discovered that one of the campers came there to find his uncle. His uncle is later found to be the Bigfoot, and that a bigoted Catholic priest used him for his own evil plans. Actually, the priest thinks an alien who arrived from an unknown planet 100 years ago is an angel who is here to be served by him. After unearthing such alien conspiracy and a horde of mindless zombies, the hidden spacecraft is destroyed inside the cave they used to hide it.

, 1h34
Directed by Paul Schneider
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Steven Eckholdt, Daphne Ashbrook, Gabriel Olds, Patrick Duffy, Irene Tedrow, Harry Morgan
Rating61%
14-year-old Danny O'Neil (Gabey Olds) is madly in love with his teacher, Miss Peggy Noble (Daphne Ashbrook). Given the fact that she is engaged to the cold-tempered and vicious gym teacher, Roy Kelton (Rick Rossovich), who is nicknamed Jackjaw for his constant threat of breaking his pupils' jaws, Danny goes through his school days somewhat uninspired and suffers in silence.

, 1h38
Directed by Roger Vadim
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Rebecca De Mornay, Vincent Spano, Frank Langella, Donovan Leitch, Judith Chapman, Gary Goetzman
Rating43%
Robin Shea (Rebecca De Mornay) is a convict in a New Mexico prison. She manages to escape, but mistakenly hitches a ride in the limo of James Tiernan (Frank Langella), a politician who was visiting the prison as part of his campaign for governor. He returns her to the prison in secret. While changing back into prison clothes, Robin meets Billy Moran (Vincent Spano) a carpenter and handyman who is doing work in the compound under supervision that is supposed to keep him isolated from the female inmates. Billy helps Robin temporarily hide from the guards, and they have sex.

, 1h45
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about television, Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson, George Newbern
Rating59%
Sullivan (Reynolds) is the operations manager of Satellite News Network, a fictitious cable TV news channel. He tries to prevent the impending marriage of Colleran (Turner), his best reporter and ex-wife, by keeping her on the job during the critical news coverage of an upcoming execution and prison break.

, 1h40
Directed by George Schaefer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Karen Austin, Brenda Forbes, Joel Higgins, Lee Richardson, Janet Wright
Rating62%

, 1h17
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror
Actors Kristin Davis
Rating46%
Mitch Hansen and his fiancée get into a car wreck in which she gets killed. During Hansen's autopsy, he wakes up and kills the medical examiners. Ten years later, a group of friends have a picnic near the asylum where Hansen got held. A punk band is using the asylum to practice some songs. However, Hansen still inhabits the asylum and plans to go after any perceived intruders.

, 2h1
Directed by Juan Luis Buñuel, Luigi Comencini
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Rape in fiction, Films about automobiles
Actors Annie Girardot, Ugo Tognazzi, Alberto Sordi, Marcello Mastroianni, Stefania Sandrelli, Miou-Miou
Rating68%
In a main thoroughfare on the outskirts of Rome, thousands of motorists are stuck in terrible traffic jam for twenty-four hours. In a stretch of road there is a variety of characters whose behaviour becomes strange. There is a selfish and hypocritical entrepreneur in a luxury car; a young hippie girl harassed and then raped by some dandies and a family from Naples on the way to Rome to abort their daughter. There is also an old couple that argues constantly; a patient that dies in the ambulance; an old actor staying in a small country house near the road; a female globetrotter who is hitch-hiking to the stopped cars and some young members of Far Left Wing among others. The day the traffic jam clears, the entrepreneur hires the girl from Naples for a record company in exchange for a sexual service. The girl is raped and then comforted by a man who wants to avenge her but then gives up. The rapists leave quietly once more.

Directed by Karl Zwicky
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Actors Ray Barrett
Rating51%
Une vie de luxe et de plaisirs est une proposition alléchante pour le commun des mortels. Pour obtenir une telle vie, c'est simple mais diabolique : il faut vendre son âme ! Malgré le prix, un homme se laissera tenter et pour le pouvoir, la beauté et la richesse : il va laisser son âme. Et maintenant, face au diable, peut-il réagir ?

Directed by Virgil W. Vogel
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Daphne Ashbrook, René Auberjonois, Diedrich Bader, Lee de Broux, John Dennis Johnston, John Laughlin
Rating50%

, 1h29
Directed by Alan Metter
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Beverly Todd, Richard Pryor, Stacey Dash, Randy Quaid, Gordon Jump, Jason Marin
Rating60%
Arlo Pear (Pryor) is a transportation engineer living in the New Jersey suburbs. One day he goes to work and meets a new female co-worker, and when both of them attempt to enter their keys in the same office doorknob, Arlo guesses what has happened and confronts his boss, Roy Hendersen. He learns that his company has merged with another, and now Arlo is out of a job. He ends the meeting by telling off his boss and in his state of anger, he flips Roy off using his index, rather than his middle finger.

, 1h30
Directed by Fred Olen Ray
Origin USA
Genres Erotic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Comedy horror films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Linnea Quigley, Gunnar Hansen, Michelle Bauer, Dukey Flyswatter, Christopher Ray
Rating53%
When private detective Jack Chandler (Richardson) tries to track down a teenage runaway (Linnea Quigley), he runs into a cult of Egyptian chainsaw-worshipping prostitutes led by "The Master" (Gunnar Hansen).