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, 3h40
Directed by Frederick Wiseman
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Rating72%
Vingt-six ans après avoir tourné High School à Philadelphie en 1968, Frederick Wiseman retourne à l'école avec High school II. La Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS) est une école alternative qui accueille principalement des élèves d'origine hispanique ou afro-américaine. La plupart de ces élèves sont diplômés après quatre années d'études. L'approche pédagogique met en avant des activités de classes dans le domaine scientifique ou littéraire, mais aussi des conférences pour les familles et des discussions autour des problèmes de discipline. L'école organise des conseils d'établissement réunissant les élèves. L'éducation sexuelle est enseigné en cours. Les problèmes de discrimination raciale ou de sexisme sont discutés entre professeurs et élèves.

, 1h24
Directed by Rose Troche
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Guinevere Turner, Mimi Weddell, Jamika Ajalon
Rating56%
Max is a young lesbian student in Chicago who has gone ten months without having sex. She and her roommate and college professor Kia are in a coffee shop when they run into Ely, a hippieish woman with long braided hair, whom Max initially dismisses. Max and Ely do end up going to a movie together. After the movie they return to Ely's place and, after some flirtatious conversation, they kiss. Suddenly a call comes in from Ely's (unseen on-screen) partner Kate, with whom Ely has been in a long-distance relationship for more than two years, which puts a bit of a damper on things.

, 1h51
Directed by Paul Weiland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Jon Lovitz, Jack Palance, Patricia Wettig, Noble Willingham
Rating55%
A year after the events of the first film, Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal) is a much happier and livelier man, having moved out of the city and become station manager at the New York radio station where he works, where he has employed his best friend, Phil Berquist (Daniel Stern). However, he is being plagued with nightmares about his deceased friend, Curly, and comes to believe that he may still be alive. On his 40th birthday, Mitch sees a man resembling Curly on the train, which does nothing to placate his worries, and later finds a treasure map belonging to Lincoln Washburn hidden in Curly's old hat, albeit with a missing corner. Mitch and Phil investigate the contents of the map in the public library and learn that Lincoln Washburn, Curly's father, was a train robber in the Old West and in 1908 infamously stole and hid one million dollars in gold bullion in the deserts near Las Vegas. With an impending trip to Las Vegas for a convention, Mitch decides to venture out to find the gold (which would now be worth twenty million) along with Phil and his estranged younger brother, Glen (Jon Lovitz).

, 1h34
Directed by Sam Irvin
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Documentary, Action, Adventure, Western, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Jackie Swanson, Andrew Divoff, George Takei, Julie Newmar, Isaac Hayes, Musetta Vander
Rating49%
The story has been described as a science fiction Western. It is, arguably, better termed a space Western, due to its extraterrestrial location.

, 1h36
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Mimi Rogers, Billy Zane, John Terry, Kurt Fuller, Lee Garlington, Nancy Fish
Rating49%
Regina, a death row prisoner, raises questions about her guilt when she recalls the murder of her husband, James, through a series of confessions and flashbacks. Colin, a prison guard, with a media interest, is intrigued by the beautiful Regina and her story. Colin questions Regina about her late husband's murder and receives conflicting answers, raising questions over the cause of James' death and whether or not Regina had intended to kill him. It also becomes clear to Colin that, during James and Regina's marriage, the former became possessive and abusive, struggling to deal with an earlier relationship of Regina's that she could not forget.

, 1h40
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Blanche Ravalec, Hippolyte Girardot, Patrick Jean Marie Bouchitté, Salomé Lelouch, Dimitri Rougeul, Antoine du Merle
Rating63%
Gil, a ten-year-old child, is in a 1950s French psychological hospital, "due to what he did to Jessica".

, 1h31
Directed by Graeme Clifford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Scott Glenn, Anthony LaPaglia, Lara Flynn Boyle, David Ogden Stiers, Sheree J. Wilson, Marita Geraghty
Rating58%

, 1h56
Directed by Jan de Bont
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée, Medical-themed films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Trucker films, Films about psychiatry, Road movies, Children's films, Chase films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, Jeff Daniels, Alan Ruck
Rating72%
Los Angeles SWAT officers Jack Traven and Harry Temple thwart an attempt by a bomber to hold an elevator full of people for a $3 million ransom. They corner the bomber, but he grabs Harry. Jack shoots Harry in the leg, forcing the bomber to release him. He turns and runs around a corner, apparently dying in an explosion. Jack and Harry are praised by their superior, Lieutenant "Mac" McMahon.

, 1h40
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about immigration, Films about marriage
Actors Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Jerzy Stuhr, Janusz Gajos, Aleksander Bardini, Juliette Binoche
Rating75%
After opening with a brief, seemingly irrelevant scene of a suitcase on an airport carousel, the story quickly focuses on a Paris divorce court where Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski) is pleading with the judge — the same legal proceedings that Juliette Binoche's character briefly stumbled upon in Blue. The immigrant Karol, despite his difficulty in understanding French, is made to understand that his wife Dominique (Julie Delpy) does not love him. The grounds for divorce are humiliating: Karol was unable to consummate the marriage. Along with his wife, he loses his means of support (a beauty salon they jointly owned), his legal residency in France, and the rest of his cash in a series of mishaps, and is soon a beggar. He only retains a 2 franc coin.

, 1h23
Directed by Alan Metter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Actors George Gaynes, Michael Winslow, David Graf, Leslie Easterbrook, Claire Forlani, Ron Perlman
Rating35%
Russian mafia boss Konstantine Konali (Russian: Константин Конали, Ron Perlman) is laundering money under the guise of a legitimate business.

, 1h29
Directed by Jan Bucquoy
Origin Belgique
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, La sexualité des mineurs, Films about automobiles, Road movies, LGBT-related film
Actors Jan Bucquoy, Noël Godin, Morgan Marinne
Rating57%
Enfance : le film parle au début de la vie de famille flamande mais après il parle du petit Jan en ville de province et le Jan adolescent à l'encontre d'aventures sexuelles : il est témoin à l'école des tracasseries de son premier amour sale culotte. Sa tante Marta l'emmène voir le western Johnny Guitare (1954) avec Joan Crawford qui restera pour lui l'emblème de la femme parfaite. Johnny Guitare est une allusion à François Truffaut. Il ne sera tenté ni par le nationalisme flamand, ni par l'homosexualité: ceci est expliqué dans la scène au camping dans les champs de Dixmude avec le petit film de Laurel et Hardy Cavale en série. Là il refusera les attouchements d'un copain plus âgé, avec la tour d'Yser à l'arrière plan qui fait figure de symbole du Flamingantisme. Il fait sa première conquête amoureuse lors d'un bal de village pendant lequel Will Tura chante : Ik ben zo eenzaam zonder jou (Je me sens si seul sans toi).

, 1h31
Directed by Harry Hurwitz
Genres Thriller, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Martin Kemp, Martin Kemp, Tim Thomerson, Graham Armitage, Lise Cutter
Rating47%
A painter plays erotic games over the telephone with a woman. Her body is found mutilated but it may not be hers after all.

Directed by Rick Jacobson
Genres Science fiction
Actors Steven Bauer, Emma Samms, Brenda Bakke, Cliff De Young, Ming-Na Wen, Alan Rachins
Rating41%
In 2035, the Earth population is on the verge of extinction because of global warming. The Earth Federation sends a space ship to the distant planet Trion which could be inhabitable for humans. The crew-members come from Russia, USA, China, the United Kingdom, France, and Saudi Arabia. The crew has spent 80 years in hibernation while their ship traveled at the speed of light. When they wake up, they find out that the Captain has been dead in his capsule for the last 75 years.

Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Adrienne Shelly, Alastair Duncan, Kim Huffman, Scott McNeil, Gary Jones, Gabrielle Rose
Rating59%
A popular actress (Shelly) and a rock star (McNeil) come to a small Canadian town with two competing hotels next door to each other. The rock star is escorted into one of the hotels and the actress checks into the other. Daniel (Duncan), the owner of one of the two hotels, is trying to stay afloat. The other hotel owner, Mark (Thompson), is trying to steal away Daniel's business and his fiancee (Huffman). The paparazzi arrives in town and makes everybody wonder, who is sleeping with whom?

, 1h35
Directed by Yves Simoneau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Diane Keaton, Rutger Hauer, David Cross, Bruce Dern, Paul Guilfoyle, Paul Guilfoyle (acteur, 1902-1961)
Rating59%
In 1928, Amelia Earhart (Diane Keaton) gains fame by undertaking a transatlantic flight, albeit as a passenger. Her marriage to media tycoon George Palmer Putnam (Bruce Dern) and a series of record-breaking flights propel her to international fame as a long-distance flyer. With help from a close friend and adviser, Paul Mantz (Paul Guilfoyle), Earhart and her navigator, the hard-drinking Fred Noonan (Rutger Hauer), plan her longest flight ever: a round-the-world attempt in 1937. The interest in Japanese-held islands may lead to her disappearance, and a massive search effort is unsuccessful, but solidifies Earhart as an aviation icon.