Cinema releases by week

, 1h44
Directed by Walter Salles
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Peter Coyote, Tchéky Karyo, Amanda Pays, Raul Cortez, Tonico Pereira, Paulo José
Rating59%
Peter Mandrake (Coyote), an American photographer in Brazil, is preparing an in loco essay for his new book, about the "Train Surfers" (groups of boys who court danger "surfing" on the roof of the trains) in the city of Rio de Janeiro. A local call girl he is friends with is murdered, and when the police can make no progress Mandrake decides to investigate himself. Subsequently, two hired thugs break into his apartment demanding a disk, and, when he doesn't produce it because he can't do so, they rape his girlfriend and stab him, leaving him to die. Vowing revenge, Mandrake enlists the help of Hermes (Karyo), a professional knife fighter who owes Mandrake a debt, to teach him the art of knife fighting. The obsession this develops into causes Mandrake's girlfriend to leave him, wanting the whole thing to simply go away, but Mandrake refuses to let go.

, 1h44
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jeff Fahey, Bridget Fonda, John Randolph, J. T. Walsh, Gabriel Damon, Rohn Thomas
Rating45%
Un japonais rachète toute une partie d'une ville aux États-Unis, mais est trouvé battu à mort dans les vestiges d'une usine d'acier qu'il veut transformer en parc de loisirs. Le shérif mène l'enquête, et les témoins ont de curieuses façons de rapporter les faits.

, 1h28
Directed by Tom Shadyac
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Frankenstein films, Comedy horror films, Teen movie
Actors William Ragsdale, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Larry Miller, De'voreaux White, Andrea Elson, Margaret Langrick
Rating46%
Jay et Mark, deux brillants étudiants en médecine, tombent sur les travaux de leur professeur défunt, Lippzigger, qui travaillait à la réanimation du monstre du baron Frankenstein. Les deux étudiants poursuivent son travail et réussissent à le réanimer. "Frank N. Stein" apprend à vivre comme un être normal, jusqu'à en faire tomber les filles de la fac.

Genres Comedy
Actors Richard Pryor, Reynaldo Rey, Joe Torry, Roy Fegan
Rating46%
Donna Bon Viant (Belaine) is a college student, who has to complete an assignment on the 14th century for her African American literature class. She chooses to base her writings on the famous novel of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père. Donna begins to read the novel and falls asleep in the process. She dreams a zany dream involving the adventures of "The Three Muscatels". The adventures include a number of people in Donna's life including students in her class, members of her family, and an alcoholic she met earlier in the day named Russell (Pryor).

, 1h31
Directed by Russell Mulcahy
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Environmental films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about terrorism, Time travel films, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Political films, Dystopian films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Christophe Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside, John C. McGinley, Allan Rich
Rating42%
In August 1994, news broadcasts announce that the ozone layer is fading, and will be completely gone in a matter of months. In Africa, millions have perished from the effects of unfiltered sunlight. Among the dead is Connor MacLeod's wife, Brenda Wyatt MacLeod. Before dying, Brenda extracts a promise from Connor that he will solve the problem of the ozone layer.

, 1h42
Directed by Robert Benton, Brian W. Cook
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Steven Hill, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi
Rating58%
Billy Behan is a poor teenage boy from the Bronx. One day he catches the attention of gangster Dutch Schultz. Changing his last name to Bathgate, after a local street, he goes to work for Schultz's organization, serving mostly as a gopher for Schultz. Billy is present when Schultz murders his former partner Bo Weinberg, who Schultz believes betrayed him. Schultz then begins a relationship with Weinberg's beautiful, married, girlfriend, Drew Preston.

, 1h51
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Andrew McCarthy, Sharon Stone, Valeria Golino, John Pankow, Mattia Sbragia, George Murcell
Rating55%
In 1978, David Raybourne is an American novelist who lives in Rome and works as a journalist in a small English-language newspaper. He is romantically involved with Lia, the estranged wife of an Italian Industrialist, and befriended by Italo Bianchi, a politically left-leaning lecturer at a Rome university.

, 1h28
Directed by Ken Russell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Prison films, Films about racism, Films about religion, Transport films, Films about capital punishment, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Richard Dreyfuss, Oliver Reed, Peter Firth, Jeremy Kemp, Brian Blessed, Peter Vaughan
Rating65%
The film documents the events that saw a French Captain, Alfred Dreyfus, sent to Devil's Island for espionage near the end of the nineteenth century. Colonel Georges Picquart (Richard Dreyfuss) is given the job of justifying Dreyfus' sentence. Instead, he discovers that Dreyfus (Kenneth Colley), a Jew, was merely a convenient scapegoat for the actions of the true culprit, a member of the French General staff. His attempt to right the wrong sees his military career ended and the famous French author, Émile Zola (Martin Friend), found guilty of libel.

, 1h42
Directed by Wes Craven
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Serial killer films, Comedy horror films, Heist films, Films about child abuse
Actors Brandon Quintin Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, Allison Joy Langer, Ving Rhames, Sean Whalen
Rating64%
Poindexter "Fool" Williams is a resident of a Los Angeles ghetto. He and his family are being evicted from their apartment by their landlords, the Robesons.

, 1h41
Directed by George Gallo
Genres Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Danny Aiello, Anthony LaPaglia, Lainie Kazan, Adam LaVorgna, Robert Forster, Ron Karabatsos
Rating71%
In 1976, Frank Pesce Jr. (Lapaglia) is a lucky man. His father, Frank Sr. (Aiello), is, however, very unlucky. One day, Frank Jr. buys a lottery ticket and finds that he has a good chance of winning. But Frank Sr. has some gambling debts to the mob and they are willing to take Frank Jr.'s ticket. Frank must decide what to do with the ticket. The plot is supposedly based on the true story of the first person to win the New York Lottery, but Frank Pesce Jr. never won the lottery.

, 1h36
Directed by Amir Shervan
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Robert Z'Dar, Matt Hannon, Gerald Okamura, Melissa Moore, Krista Lane, Warren Stevens
Rating46%
When a renegade Japanese gang known as the Katana take control of the cocaine trade in Los Angeles the LAPD transfer in a Samurai Cop from the SDPD to help tackle the problem. Joe Marshall has been trained by the masters in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese, but dresses like a commoner.