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, 1h49
Directed by Marleen Gorris
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Jeu, Sports films, Films about chess
Actors John Turturro, Emily Watson, Geraldine James, Stuart Wilson, Christopher Thompson, Kelly Hunter
Rating67%
It's the early 1920s and Aleksandr Ivanovich 'Sascha' Luzhin (Turturro), a gifted but tormented chess player, arrives in a Northern Italian city to compete in an international chess competition. Prior to the tournament he meets Natalia Katkov (Watson) and he falls in love with her almost immediately. She in turn finds his manner to be appealing and they begin to see each other in spite of her mother's disapproval.

, 1h27
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Marie-Josée Croze, Stéphanie Morgenstern, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Bobby Beshro, Pierre Lebeau, John Dunn-Hill
Rating66%
The story is told by a fish (with the voice of Pierre Lebeau). In Quebec during the autumn of 1999, twenty-five-year-old Bibiane Champagne (Marie-Josée Croze), head of three clothing boutiques, is being crushed by the expectations put on her for being the daughter of a celebrity, Flo Fabert. She resorts to drugs and alcohol in an effort to cope, while trying in vain to keep her problems from for example her colleague brother Philippe (Bobby Beshro) and a persistent magazine reporter (Marie-France Lambert). The early scenes of the film show her friends supporting her through her first abortion and her inability to function in her job.

, 1h33
Directed by Harald Zwart
Origin USA
Genres Erotic, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, BDSM in films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, Paul Reiser, John Goodman, Michael Douglas, Andrew Dice Clay
Rating61%
The majority of the film consists of Randy, Carl, and Dehling reciting their separate lovesick accounts of their experiences with Jewel, each narrating over what they consider to be the real version of the recent events. Scenes are often re-enacted twice, with different accounts contradicting each other for comedic effect. For example, when Dehling is narrating, he acts as if he were a completely fair, by-the-book police officer, and Randy is painted as a slimy, macho, abusive thug. When Randy is telling the story, he is the innocent victim and Dehling is shown as a suspicious, prying, hard-nosed cop; Carl is convinced that every woman is in love with him, and during his version of the tale, everyone acts accordingly.

, 1h30
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Patrick Ligardes, Ronit Elkabetz, Isabelle Sadoyan, Alexia Stresi, Atmen Kelif, Philippe du Janerand
Rating62%
Alors qu'il s'était déguisé pour une soirée costumée, un français est arrêté parce qu'il est confondu avec un travesti arabe, et reconduit à la frontière.

, 1h45
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Scott Baio, Kristin Minter, Rosemary Prinz, John Amplas, Shuler Hensley
Rating64%

, 1h37
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Gregory Harrison, Heidi Lenhart, Katie Volding, Rachel York, Robin Dunne, June Lockhart
Rating54%
A year after the events of Au Pair, Jennifer Morgan, Oliver Caldwell, and his kids Katie and Alex are back in Europe as the couple prepare for the merger of Caldwell’s company and another named Tek Hausen.

, 1h40
Directed by Carl Schenkel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Alfred Molina, Meredith Baxter, Leslie Caron, Amira Casar, Tasha de Vasconcelos, David Hunt
Rating51%
Né en Belgique à une date indéterminée, de religion catholique romaine, Hercule Poirot est retraité de la police belge, où il a occupé les fonctions de chef de la Sûreté à Bruxelles. Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, son pays est occupé par les Allemands ; blessé à une jambe, il est évacué avec d'autres réfugiés dans la petite ville anglaise de Styles St Mary, où il résout la première énigme connue du grand public (il en avait résolu d'autres auparavant mais non retranscrites par Agatha Christie) : La Mystérieuse Affaire de Styles. Il s'installe ensuite dans différents appartements à Londres et devient détective privé1.

, 1h47
Genres Drama
Actors Hill Harper, Billy Dee Williams, Obba Babatundé, Rae Dawn Chong, Marla Gibbs, Phylicia Rashād
Rating62%
Envoyé en prison pour un viol qu'il n'a peut-être pas commis, Alex revient sur sa vie et doit faire face à ses démons. A-t-il toujours bien agi avec ses proches ? Lors des fréquentes visites de sa famille, déchirée entre la défiance et l'amour qu'elle lui porte, il cherche sa rédemption...

Directed by Jane Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Tennis films
Actors Holly Hunter, Ron Silver, Matt Letscher, Bob Gunton, Jacqueline McKenzie, Fred Willard
Rating60%

, 1h26
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Hilary Howard
Rating47%

, 1h37
Directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Scott Cohen, Jennifer Westfeldt, Jackie Hoffman, Heather Juergensen, Tovah Feldshuh, Brian Stepanek
Rating65%
Twenty-eight-year-old Jessica Stein, a copyeditor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement containing a quote from Rilke that she had read and admired earlier. The advertisement has been placed by Helen Cooper, a thirtysomething bisexual art gallerist who is seeking a lesbian relationship to replace her unsatisfying and meaningless sex with men.

, 1h29
Directed by Tom Green
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Sports films
Actors Rip Torn, Tom Green, Marisa Coughlan, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Harland Williams, Anthony Michael Hall
Rating46%
Unemployed 28-year-old cartoonist Gordon "Gord" Brody leaves his parents' home in Portland, Oregon to pursue his lifelong ambition of obtaining a contract for an animated television series. His parents give him a car in which he drives to Los Angeles and starts work at a cheese sandwich factory. Gord shows his drawings to Dave Davidson, the CEO of a major animation studio; Davidson tells him that the artwork is not bad, but that the concepts depicted, including a vigilante "X-Ray Cat", are nonsensical. Disheartened, Gord quits his job and returns to his parents.

, 1h39
Directed by Kenji Kodama
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Animation
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Minami Takayama, Alison Viktorin, Akira Kamiya, Jerry Jewell, Megumi Hayashibara, Brina Palencia
Rating75%
Gin and Vodka, on a hunt for Shiho Miyano, sneak into Akemi Miyano's flat and listen to the messages on the answering machine. They discover that Shiho will attend a private viewing of two new skyscrapers in Tokyo. Gin and Vodka plan to end Shiho at the towers.

, 1h27
Directed by Wayne Wang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Peter Sarsgaard, Molly Parker, Carla Gugino, Pat Morita, Alisha Klass, Balthazar Getty
Rating57%
A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he's a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire (Peter Sarsgaard), she's a lap dancer at a club (Molly Parker). He's depressed, withdrawing from work, missing meetings with investors. He wants a connection, so he offers her $10,000 to spend three nights with him in Vegas, and she accepts with conditions: four hours per night of erotic play, and no penetration. During the days in Vegas, they get to know each other, have fun, meet a friend of hers, casino dealer Jerri (Carla Gugino); at night, at least after the first night, things seem to get complicated. When the three days are over, the stripper makes it clear that she was only there for the money and that the man she spent the time with was just a client. Upset that the feelings he had weren't mutual he then rapes her, which she makes no attempt to stop. She then masturbates for him to achieve orgasm. The next day he returns home heartbroken. The movie ends with his return to the strip club to see the woman he fell in love with again. She greets him fondly and says that she is glad to see him again. Because the movie is shown in a non-linear format, it is left to the viewer's interpretation of when this event occurred.

, 1h31
Directed by Simon Wincer
Origin Australie
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Jere Burns, Paul Rodriguez, Jonathan Banks, Clare Carey
Rating48%
At the beginning of the film, protagonist Michael "Crocodile" Dundee (Paul Hogan) is living in the Australian Outback with Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) and their young son Mikey (Serge Cockburn). Because crocodile hunting has been made illegal, Mick is reduced to wrestling crocodiles for the entertainment of tourists, having as his rival in the business another Outback survivalist named Jacko (Alec Wilson). When an opportunity arises for Sue to become the Los Angeles bureau chief of a newspaper owned by her father, Mick and his family cross the Pacific to California.