Cinema releases by week

, 1h36
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Prison films, Natural horror films, Films about snakes, Giant monster films, Reptile, Disaster films
Actors Dean Cain, Elizabeth Lackey, Mark Sheppard, Craig Wasson, Grand L. Bush, Dana Ashbrook
Rating34%
Paleontologist Robert Trenton (Dean Cain) is called to Northeastern Antarctica near the Indian Ocean to help the FBI build an underground maximum-security military base and prison for the world's most dangerous criminals and terrorists. The prison is dubbed "New Alcatraz" by the staff. While building the prison, the staff accidentally awaken and unleash a prehistoric Boa Constrictor from its 200 million year hibernation. The snake escapes unnoticed until the staff notice a massive hole chewed in the five-foot thick concrete walls. Soon, the staff, and prisoners begin disappearing as they are brutally hunted and eaten by the snake. The FBI agents, Trenton and the rest of the prisoners try to escape, but are hampered as they don't have many weapons. They begin to give up hope as most of the survivors die. However, Trenton manages to kill the snake by kicking it off the helicopter, which it had bitten into, and it is assumed the fall kills the snake.

, 1h58
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Assassinat
Actors Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Maura Lynn Tierney, Martin Donovan, Nicky Katt
Rating71%
In the small fishing town of Nightmute, Alaska, 17-year-old Kay Connell (Crystal Lowe) is found murdered. LAPD detectives Will Dormer (Al Pacino) and Hap Eckhart (Martin Donovan) are sent to assist the local police with their investigation, at the request of police chief Nyback (Paul Dooley), an old colleague of Will's. Also, an intense Internal Affairs investigation in Los Angeles is about to put Dormer under the microscope. Eckhart reveals that Internal Affairs has offered him an immunity deal in exchange for his testimony regarding one of Dormer's past cases. Eckhart says that he has no choice but to accept the deal, to Dormer's frustration.

Directed by Alfredo De Villa
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Tomás Milián, Manny Perez, Danny Hoch, David Zayas, Callie Thorne, Judy Reyes
Rating61%

, 1h20
Directed by Anthony Russo et Joe Russo
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors William H. Macy, Isaiah Washington, Sam Rockwell, Michael Jeter, Luis Guzmán, Patricia Clarkson
Rating62%
Cosimo (Luis Guzmán) is arrested when he and Toto (Michael Jeter) try to steal a car. In prison, he meets an old man who tells him of a “Bellini” - a perfect heist - that he could not carry out because of a life sentence. Cosimo asks his girlfriend Rosalind (Patricia Clarkson) to find a "Mullinski" (Clevelandese for someone willing to do a prison stretch in exchange for money) so that he can walk free and pull off the heist. Rosalind and Toto ask misfits Basil (Andrew Davoli), Leon (Isaiah Washington), Riley (William H. Macy), who babysits his infant son while needing £1,000 to pay his own wife’s jail fine, and Pero (Sam Rockwell), a boxer who agrees to confess to Cosimo's crime for $16,000 but ends up being jailed alongside him. While inside, Pero gets Cosimo to tell him what the Bellini is before revealing that his own sentence was suspended, leaving Cosimo still in jail. Returning home, Pero is met by Rosalind and the other four demanding a refund. He tells them he used the $16,000 to pay off debts but will share the Bellini details. The six then decide to carry out the heist themselves.

, 1h25
Directed by Ulrich Köhler
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Trine Dyrholm, Michael Abendroth, Lou Castel
Rating63%
Paul is a German soldier who goes AWOL when the truck he is riding in stops at a fast food restaurant. He then returns home to where his older brother Max lives. Paul is immediately attracted to Max's girlfriend, Lene, and tries to entice her into a sexual relationship, but she refuses. Paul is shown to be angry and loses his temper at those around him, including his brother, his old friend, and his ex-girlfriend.

Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Cary Elwes, Elaine Hendrix, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Gene Simmons, Sally Kirkland
Rating49%

, 3minutes
Directed by Pete Docter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Children's films
Actors John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Jacques Frantz, Éric Métayer, Denis Mercier, Alain Zouvi
Rating70%
Mike is obsessed with his new six-wheel drive car, and insists on showing it off to his pal Sulley. Unfortunately for Mike, everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Sulley plays with the ultra-adjustable seats until an annoyed Mike asks him to stop. Mike starts the engine and the seatbelt reminder tone sounds. Sully manages to get his seatbelt on easily, but Mike finds his seatbelt stuck and accidentally locks himself out of the car while trying to unstick it. Sulley, trying to be helpful but confused by the massive amount of buttons on the dashboard, pops the hood open. When Mike goes over to close it, Sulley ends up trapping Mike in the engine compartment. Mike manages to escape, re-enters the car, and is exasperated by the continuous seatbelt reminder tone. Sulley reaches for another button on the dash, as when Mike managed to put his seat-belt on, he turned the windshield wipers on by accident. Mike shouts, "Don't touch anything!" and pushes a button that launches the entire car into chaotic malfunction, including conga music playing loudly on the car's stereo system. Mike finally ends the chaos by pulling the key out of the ignition, and Sulley adds insult to injury when, in an attempt to realign the rearview mirror, he breaks it off. Mike gets angry, orders Sulley out of the car, and speeds away, wrecking the car completely. Sulley mutters, "Huh, that's weird, the airbag didn't go off." Right on cue, the airbag inflates, and its force sends Mike flying back up the street. Sulley catches Mike, who mourns for his old car before agreeing to walk to work while the credits roll.

, 1h45
Directed by Cristian Mungiu
Origin Roumanie
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Valeriu Andriuţă, Ioan Gyuri Pascu, Michael Beck, Dorel Vişan
Rating74%
En Roumanie, Luci et sa fiancée Sorina se retrouvent un jour dans la rue. Toutes deux se rendent sur la tombe du père de Sorina, espérant y trouver l'inspiration pour résoudre leurs problèmes. En guise de signe mystique, une bouteille tombe du ciel et heurte Luci à la tête. Par chance, Jérôme, un Français, les conduit à l'hôpital. Il devient pour Sorina le seul espoir de sortir de sa condition...

Directed by Henry Bromell
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Jeremy Irons, Neve Campbell, Sissy Spacek, Paul Hecht, Natalie Radford, Kathleen Munroe
Rating64%

, 1h24
Directed by Kelly Asbury
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Adventure, Animation, Romance, Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about horses, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors James Cromwell, Matt Damon, Richard McGonagle, Charles Napier, Zahn McClarnon, Michael Horse
Rating72%
The film starts with a brief introduction in the 19th-century American West featuring a bald eagle gliding over the homeland of the mustangs, showing several western US National Parks. There is then a scene showing the birth of a dun Kiger Mustang, Spirit. Spirit soon grows into a stallion, and assumes the role of leader of the herd, whose duty it is to keep the herd safe, demonstrated when he saves two foals from a mountain lion. Spirit is a courageous leader, but has great curiosity. Spotting a strange light one night not far from his herd, the stallion is unable to control his curiosity and moves towards it. To Spirit's surprise, he finds restrained, docile horses, and two-legs (possibly wranglers) sleeping around a campfire. They wake up, and seeing him as a magnificent specimen, chase and capture him, then drag him to a US cavalry post.

, 1h34
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about automobiles, Films about Islam, Road movies
Rating73%
The film is divided into ten scenes, each of which depict a conversation between an unchanging female driver (played by Mania Akbari) and a variety of passengers as she drives around Tehran. Her passengers include her young son (played by Akbari's real life son, Amin Maher), her sister, a bride, a prostitute, and a woman on her way to prayer. One of the major plots during the film is the driver's divorce from her (barely seen) husband, and the conflict that this causes between mother and son.

, 1h48
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, War
Rating73%
Mirza, a famous Kurdish musician, hears that his ex-wife Hanare is in trouble. He, accompanied by his two sons, embarks on an adventurous journey across the Iran-Iraq border to find her.

, 1h55
Directed by Michael Apted
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about families, Feminist films, Films about domestic violence
Actors Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Juliette Lewis, Dan Futterman, Fred Ward, Tessa Allen
Rating58%
The film begins in a Los Angeles diner where a waitress named Slim (Jennifer Lopez) works with her best friend, Ginny (Juliette Lewis). She receives romantic advances from a customer who teases her about her name. Another man in the diner, Mitch Hiller (Billy Campbell) reveals that the customer had made a bet that he would be able to convince Slim to sleep with him. Soon after, Slim falls in love with and marries Mitch, and they have a child named Gracie (Tessa Allen). Years later, Slim finds out Mitch has been cheating on her with a woman named Darcelle. She confronts him and he admits it, but also insisting Darcelle means nothing to him. Slim becomes angry and threatens to leave, which enrages Mitch who becomes violent, slapping and punching her in the face. He gives her a warning, saying that he makes the money and gets to do whatever he likes, implying he wants an open marriage. Mitch refuses to stop his affair unless she wants to fight him. The next day, Slim confides in Mitch's mother (Janet Carroll), she asks her what she did to make Mitch angry, implying he has a history of physical abuse. Ginny advises Slim to leave Mitch, but Slim doesn't want to hurt Gracie. She then goes to pick up Gracie from school, only to discover Mitch had already picked her up. Panicked that Mitch might have left town with her, she calls Mitch, who tells her that he took Gracie to the zoo.

, 1h46
Directed by Ken Loach
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children
Actors Martin Compston
Rating73%
In a few weeks, Scottish teenager Liam will turn 16. The film opens with him using his tripod-mounted telescope outdoors on a clear night to show other children the stars and planets. He and his friends exemplify the violent "ned" subculture; they no longer attend school, but instead, hang around isolated areas or wander about all day long. They get money by illicitly selling untaxed cigarettes in a pub, and defy the police. Liam's mother is currently in prison, for a crime she did not commit. She will be released in a few weeks, in time for her son's 16th birthday. She has a boyfriend named Stan, who works as a drug dealer with Liam's grandfather, Rab.

, 1h35
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Charlie Sheen, Christopher McDonald, Aimée Leigh, Michael McGrady, Geoffrey Lewis, Tia Carrere
Rating51%
Chris Martin (Charlie Sheen) is a bachelor who wants to marry his long-time girlfriend. Wanting to enjoy his last few days as a bachelor, Chris spends several nights hanging out with his old friends, as they drink, swap stories, and chase women. What began as a send-off, however, might be something more serious when Martin starts having second thoughts about matrimony.

, 1h55
Directed by Atom Egoyan
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, Political films
Actors Charles Aznavour, Christopher Plummer, Arsinée Khanjian, David Alpay, Eric Bogosian, Marie-Josée Croze
Rating62%
Mettant en perspective pointilliste l'histoire collective de haine recuite entre peuples, plus particulièrement le génocide arménien en 1915 et l'exil qui a suivi, mais aussi la situation actuelle qui forme des fantômes même pour les destins individuels des générations contemporaines et vivant ailleurs par le truchement d'une famille spécialiste de l'image. Cette histoire est à plusieurs tiroirs et vignettes, notamment pour montrer la difficulté de reconstituer une mémoire que l'on n'a pas pu imposer et d'intégrer la complexité d'une situation par différents points de vue.

, 1h27
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Penelope Ann Miller, Reed Diamond, Liisa Repo-Martell, Andrew Jackson, Matt Craven, Marnie McPhail
Rating57%
Kathy est heureuse auprès de son second époux, Doug Clifson, le chef de la police de Fremont, qui adore Brian, l'enfant né de son premier mariage. Mais un soir, Doug lui parle d'un nouvel adjoint du shérif, nommé John McCrane. En entendant ce nom, Kathy s'effondre. Le lendemain, elle annonce la nouvelle à son amie Carole. Les deux femmes décident de tout révéler à Doug : elles ont été violées par cet homme treize ans plus tôt.