Cinema releases by week

, 1h29
Directed by George Miller, George Trumbull Miller
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about education
Actors Jimmy Smits, Naomi Watts, Shawn Ashmore, Sarah Chadwick, Alan Fletcher, Nicholas Bell
Rating53%
At an all-girls academy in Australia, a married philosophy professor, Justin Thorne, attracts a fervent admirer in one of his students, Jennifer Carter.

, 1h46
Directed by Bryan Singer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak
Rating82%
A deadly firefight and a fire aboard a ship docked in the San Pedro Bay leaves only two survivors: a Hungarian criminal named Arkos Kovaz hospitalized from severe burns, and a small-time con artist, Roger "Verbal" Kint (Kevin Spacey), a pathetic cripple. Separately, FBI agent Jack Baer (Giancarlo Esposito) and Customs agent Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) arrive in San Pedro, lured by reports of a large cocaine shipment, and Kujan's personal vendetta against Dean Keaton (Gabriel Byrne), a formerly corrupt police officer who has since given up his life of crime but who was supposedly involved in the massacre. While Baer is at the hospital attempting to get security for Kovaz, Kovaz begins yelling in Hungarian, and mentions the name Keyser Söze, which stops and stuns Baer. As Verbal later explains, Söze has a near mythical and vengeful reputation, having killed his own family when they were held hostage by a Hungarian gang and then killing all but one of the gang members before disappearing underground, keeping his true identity secret by insulating himself from his agents, who usually do not know for whom they are working.

, 2h51
Directed by Richard Colla
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Denise Alexander, Don Henderson, Diana Rigg
Rating65%
Zoya, jeune aristocrate Russe, échappe à la chute des Romanov et trouve refuge à Paris avec sa grand-mère. Elles ont tout perdu mais Zoya n'a pas perdu son rêve : devenir ballerine et elle fera tout pour y arriver. C'est aussi à Paris qu'elle va vivre ses premiers émois amoureux quand elle rencontre le séduisant capitaine Clayton Andrews…

Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors John Ritter, Mary Page Keller, Alexandra Picatto, Hal Linden, Marshall R. Teague, June Lockhart
Rating57%
Following a carjacking, a man and his family move into an Orellian-like gated community where the billionaire owner controls the residents lives. There are draconian rules, armed guards all over, and cameras in all the rooms. Then sinister things begin to happen.

, 1h33
Directed by Scott McGinnis
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Robert Patrick, Joanna Pacuła, Vyto Ruginis, Nan Martin, Alexander Enberg, Shashawnee Hall
Rating47%
En abattant de sang-froid le chef des sanguinaires indiens Totec, Leslie Chase pense s'être débarrassé d'un sérieux problème. Il peut enfin mener à terme ses travaux. Mais habité, hanté par l'esprit de l'homme qu'il a tué, il se transforme en véritable monstre à visage humain, invulnérable serial-killer que rien ne semble pouvoir arrêter, dévorant la chair, buvant le sang de ses victimes...

, 1h39
Directed by Lee Tamahori
Origin Nouvelle zelande
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about families, Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Films about domestic violence, Gangster films
Actors Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Cliff Curtis, Julian Arahanga, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, George Henare
Rating78%
Beth left her small town and, despite her parents' disapproval, married Jake "the Muss" Heke. After 18 years they live in an unkempt state house in an unnamed New Zealand city and have five children. Their interpretations of life and being Māori are tested. Their eldest daughter, Grace, keeps a journal in which she chronicles events as well as stories she tells her younger siblings.

, 1h35
Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on mythology, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Erotic thriller films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Woody Allen, Mira Sorvino, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Rapaport, F. Murray Abraham, Claire Bloom
Rating69%
The film opens on ancient Greek ruins where a chanting Greek chorus introduces and narrates the story of Lenny Weinrib (Woody Allen). Lenny is a sportswriter in Manhattan, married to ambitious curator Amanda (Helena Bonham Carter). The couple decide to adopt a baby, a boy they name Max. Lenny is awed by their son who, it becomes increasingly clear, is a gifted child.

, 1h36
Directed by Bill D'Elia
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Laura Leighton, Michael Hayden, Richard Crenna, Bonnie Bartlett, Todd Terry, Todd Duffey
Rating59%
Laurette Wilder (Laura Leighton) is a poor girl from the wrong side of the tracks who falls in love with Luke Constable III (Michael Hayden), the grandson of a rich farmer who has been crippled in an automobile accident. Against the wishes of his grandfather (Richard Crenna), who sees the girl as a gold-digger, young Luke and Laurette get married. The senior Mr. Constable, however, goes out of his way to make his new granddaughter-in-law feel unwelcome, which quickly causes a rift in her marriage. Following a brief breakup, Laurette encourages Luke to break away from his grandfather and relinquish his rights to the family fortune. Struggling in poverty, Luke contemplates murdering Mr. Constable, but he can't bring himself to do it. The couple divorce, reconcile, then separate again. Laurette finds Luke drunk and brandishing a gun; she goads him into shooting her - he kills her with one shot. He takes his wife's dead body into the woods and burns it. He is arrested and imprisoned.

, 1h49
Directed by James Keach
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn, Frances Fisher, Brian Dennehy, Billy Bob Thornton, Francesca Eastwood
Rating63%
The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox (Robert Duvall) finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day (Aidan Quinn) that there is oil on Day's land. The financially strapped Day puts everything into finding oil...but at what cost?

, 1h23
Directed by Paul Auster, Wayne Wang
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Keith David, Giancarlo Esposito, Roseanne Barr, Lou Reed
Rating65%
The film once again centers on the Brooklyn Cigar Store and manager Auggie (Harvey Keitel), although most of the other characters are different. The store owner's frustrated wife Dot (Roseanne) is one of them, and one of the plotlines follows her attempts to seduce Auggie. Madonna, Michael J. Fox, Lily Tomlin, and Lou Reed (as himself) also put in appearances. Blue In The Face was shot without a complete script and presents a unique combination of distinctive performances, oddball characters, improvisations, and raffish scenes.

, 2h8
Directed by Spike Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Hip hop films, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer, Isaiah Washington, Keith David
Rating68%
In a Brooklyn housing project, a group of "clockers" - street-level drug dealers - sell drugs for Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo), a local drug lord. Rodney tells Ronald "Strike" Dunham (Mekhi Phifer), one of his lead clockers, that another dealer, Darryl Adams (Steve White), is stealing from him and "got to be got", implying that he wants Strike to kill Darryl. Strike then meets with his brother, Victor Dunham (Isaiah Washington) and tries to persuade Victor to kill Darryl Adams.

, 1h42
Directed by Christophe Gans
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Crime, Martial arts
Themes Mafia films, Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Marc Dacascos, Julie Condra, Tchéky Karyo, Byron Mann, Yōko Shimada, Masaya Katō
Rating63%
One morning, while painting the landscape on a hill in San Francisco, California, a young woman named Emu O'Hara witnesses the murder of a Japanese Yakuza member. She notices that while the assassin stands emotionless in front of her, his eyes begin to shed tears. The assassin introduces himself to Emu as "Yo".

, 1h30
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Sports films, Surfing films
Actors Sean Pertwee, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ewan McGregor, Steven Mackintosh, Peter Gunn, Heathcote Williams
Rating50%
JC seems to have it all figured out. By day he runs a surf school, at night he lies down next to his beautiful girlfriend Chloe, his lifelong dream is to travel the world surfing. However, when old mates arrive from London unannounced it releases tensions which have long been simmering under the surface of JC and Chloe's seemingly perfect relationship. Chloe decides to buy the local surfer cafe and settle down, His friends, especially drug-dealer Dean are intent on causing mischief and sucking JC back into surfing a dangerous reef, which he had attempted before, seriously injuring his back.

, 1h47
Directed by Iain Softley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about computing, Sécurité informatique
Actors Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard, Fisher Stevens, Lorraine Bracco
Rating62%
In 1988, 11-year-old Dade "Zero Cool" Murphy is arrested and charged with crashing 1,507 computer systems in a single day and causing a single-day 7-point drop in the New York Stock Exchange. His family is fined $45,000 for the events and he is banned from using computers or touch-tone telephones until he is 18 years old. Seven years later, Dade (Jonny Lee Miller), is now living with his divorced mother in New York City. On Dade's 18th birthday, he receives a computer and uses social engineering to hack into a local television station's computer network, changing the current TV program to an episode of The Outer Limits. However, Dade's intrusion is countered by another hacker (handle "Acid Burn") on the same network, and they briefly converse, with Dade identifying himself by a new alias: "Crash Override".

, 1h31
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Henry Czerny, Daniel Kash, David Sparrow, Peter Outerbridge, George Buza
Rating62%

, 1h32
Directed by James D.R. Hickox
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Serial killer films
Actors Jim Metzler, Nancy Lee Grahn, Daniel Cerny, Charlize Theron, Mari Morrow, Duke Stroud
Rating43%
Eli and Joshua are being taken into foster care with William and Amanda Porter of Chicago after the death of their father, who was killed by Eli. The two boys do not mix well with a home in modern Chicago; their formal, Amish-like clothes from Gatlin and Eli's fire-and-brimstone prayer at dinner, as well as his bringing a suitcase full of corn to Chicago, strike their new parents and neighbors as unusual. On his first night in Chicago, after everyone else has gone to sleep, Eli quietly leaves the Porter's house for an empty factory on the other side of a nearby cornfield. Taking with him the suitcase of corn, Eli prays to He Who Walks Behind the Rows and plants corn seeds on the grounds of the factory, causing rows of corn to appear almost instantly.

, 1h32
Directed by Wallace Wolodarsky
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Jason Priestley, Peter Riegert, Robert Loggia, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Janeane Garofalo, Michael J. Fox
Rating66%
Cosmo Reif, an affectless mob bookie who lives in the basement of a retirement home, is promoted to hitman against his will. He learns his new trade from Steve, a seasoned killer, and proves to be a natural marksman despite having no experience with firearms. He falls in love with a yoga teacher, Jasmine, and must figure out a way to leave the mob so they can be together.

, 1h33
Directed by Diane Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Andie MacDowell, John Turturro, Michael Richards, Maury Chaykin, Celia Weston, Jack McGee
Rating66%
Steven Lidz, jeune enfant de douze ans, est malheureux depuis que sa mère est malade. En effet, cette dernière vient d'apprendre qu'il ne lui reste plus qu'un mois à vivre. Sid, son mari, n'arrive pas à surmonter la nouvelle. Steven tente alors de trouver ce qui lui manque pour donner un sens à sa vie en partant vivre chez ses deux oncles. Ce sont deux hommes farfelus. Après quelque temps, Steven commence à changer, mais ses parents désirent qu'il revienne vivre à la maison. Néanmoins, Steven a beaucoup changé depuis qu'il est parti : il est maintenant heureux et populaire.

, 3h18
Directed by Michael Jenkins
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Richard Roxburgh, Tony Martin, Steve Bastoni, Gary Sweet, Peter Phelps, Steve Jacobs
Rating82%
Blue Murder consists of two ninety-minute episodes, which are each divided into three individual "chapters".

, 1h23
Directed by Michael McDonald
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Anthony Michael Hall, Will Ferrell, Justine Bateman, Shadoe Stevens, Sam Lloyd, Jennifer Coolidge
Rating48%

, 1h45
Directed by Sandor Stern
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Films about domestic violence
Actors Tiffani Thiessen, Eric Close, Gerald McRaney, Steven Eckholdt, Casey Sander, Alyson Hannigan
Rating60%
Jennifer Morgan (Tiffani Amber Thiessen) is a young painter who has secluded herself from the world since being raped two years earlier. At a family party she meets Chris Gallagher (Eric Close), who falls in love with her. She is reluctant to be intimate with him, but he convinces her to marry him, by which she hopes to let go of her tragic past. Shortly after the ceremony, Chris' 17-year-old cousin Dana (Alyson Hannigan) warns Jennifer that she will not be happy with him, but Jennifer does not listen. Because Chris has recently joined the Navy, Jennifer agrees to move with him to the seaside, where she befriends Nancy Halloran (Lorrie Morgan).

, 1h35
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Lisa Boyle, Ken Steadman, Cheryl Rixon
Rating50%
Michael (Ken Steadman) is looking for a woman who likes to play games, but when he finds Suzzanne (Lisa Boyle), she might just be more than he bargained for.

, 1h27
Directed by Patrick Read Johnson
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Charlie Talbert, Perry Anzilotti, George C. Scott, Kathy Bates, Chris Owen, Tony Denman
Rating66%
Angus Bethune (Charlie Talbert) is a teenage boy living in Minnesota, who, despite his talents as a football player and in science class, holds deep insecurities about himself. Since kindergarten, Angus has been regularly harassed by handsome Rick Sanford (James Van Der Beek), and his complacent cohorts, for not being "normal" due to being overweight and is, in their view, "named after a cow". His only friend is Troy Wedberg (Chris Owen), who is also a social outcast like him. Angus also had feelings for Melissa Lefevre (Ariana Richards), though is fearful of expressing it because she is dating Rick. Eventually, tired of the abuse from Rick, Angus applies for a magnet school where he hopes to be free of the constant humiliation. However, well aware of Angus's feelings for Melissa, Rick rigs an election so that Angus and Melissa will dance together in the upcoming freshman Winter Ball as King and Queen, respectively. While confronting Rick about the stunt, Angus is ordered by the principal not to lay a hand on Rick or he would be expelled and lose his chance to go to the magnet school.