Cinema releases by week

, 53minutes
Directed by Ram Loevy
Genres Documentary
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Rating63%

, 1h34
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Teen LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Emile Hirsch, Tom Guiry, Richard Jenkins, Pablo Schreiber, Zachary Knighton, Ryan Donowho
Rating70%
Shy, isolated, sexually confused farm boy Duncan Mudge's mother has recently died, leaving him under the supervision of his stern, depressed father Edgar. Duncan seems somehow to have transferred his love for the deceased mother to his favorite chicken, which he takes everywhere, even to bed. He has developed the odd habit of putting the chicken's head in his mouth—to calm the animal, he says. Duncan also likes to dress in his late mother's clothing, much to the distress of his bewildered father. The small, insular band of conformist teens that comprise adolescent social life in Duncan's world initially ostracize him, then allow him in to their circle only reluctantly, and largely for their own amusement. Duncan is beset with a profound sense of grief while trying to reconcile himself to a world in which he is a sexual alien. His crush on a local boy, Perry Foley, leads to a violent resolution where Duncan relinquishes that which he loves.

, 1h30
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Arthur Dignam
Rating69%
La jeune Lena, issue d'une mère aborigène qu'elle méprise et d'un père irlandais qu'elle fantasme, va faire la rencontre de Vaughn, un jeune garçon échappé d'une prison pour mineur en Nouvelle Galles du Sud. Tous les deux se dirigent vers Sydney, où Lena cherche à retrouver son père, et où Vaughn entend retrouver sa mère mourante. Lena perçoit Vaughn comme l'incarnation de l'héritage aborigène qu'elle cherche à fuir, quand Vaughn entretient amertume et rancœur envers la société australienne blanche que représente Lena. Ils s'embarquent dans un voyage en stop à deux, entre conflits et rares moments d'intimité.

, 1h41
Directed by Chris Koch
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Jason Lee, Julia Stiles, Selma Blair, James Brolin, Shawn Hatosy, Lochlyn Munro
Rating56%
Karen (Blair) and Paul (Lee) are about to get married. During his bachelor party, Paul has a chat with one of the dancers at the party, Becky (Stiles) and they find that they have an affinity for each other. Paul wakes up the next morning and is terrified to see Becky in the bed next to him. Assuming they slept together, Paul rushes Becky out of his apartment and hopes never to see her again. He tries to cover up the connection for the few days before the wedding. Unfortunately, Becky unexpectedly shows up around town and turns out to be Karen's cousin. Even worse, Becky's ex-boyfriend cop Ray had Becky followed and photographed. Becky and Paul meet again to steal those pictures from Ray's apartment. Further problems arise with family and friends consistently showing up at the wrong times. Crabs, dirty underwear in the toilet tank, a horny best friend, and a best man/brother who is in love with the bride all provide for a week of wedding preparation hijinks. Through the snowballing of all his implausible lies and half truths, he receives corroboration and support from an unexpected corner: what seems to be a coordinated network of other men, including friends, complete strangers and to Paul's astonishment, Karen's own father; all who give the same explanation: "It's a guy thing".

, 1h23
Directed by Jonathan Karsh
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about disabilities
Rating82%
The documentary takes an in-depth at the Tom Family which mostly consists of children that were rejected by their birth families due to mental or physical disabilities. The film is broken up into seasons starting out with family taking part in Halloween in the fall and ending in the Summer of the upcoming year. The family's unconventional home-life becomes a foundation for the supports, challenges, and successes that they face daily.

, 1h45
Directed by Thomas Vinterberg
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Romance
Themes Sports films, Films set in the future, Sports d'hiver, Patinage artistique
Actors Joaquin Phoenix, Sean Penn, Claire Danes, Douglas Henshall, Alun Armstrong, Margo Martindale
Rating53%
Le film raconte l'histoire d'un jeune docteur en littérature polonaise qui doit se rendre au Canada pour donner un cours à l'université. Il fait une escale à New York pour signer les papiers du divorce avec sa très belle jeune femme. Cette dernière est une vedette de patinage artistique. Son activité est très lucrative et elle est jalousement protégée par sa famille.

, 1h33
Directed by John R. Cherry III
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Tim Curry, Seth Adkins, Charles Napier, Dee Wallace
Rating57%
Bobby, who lives on a farm in an unspecified area of Nebraska with his mother, Glenna (Dee Wallace), and grandfather (Charles Napier), is a typical eight-year-old boy with an overactive imagination. Often receiving punishment for his make-believe adventures, Bobby believes his imagination to be a negative trait. When Bobby's grandfather falls and breaks his arm due to an approaching storm, Bobby is left on the farm alone while his mother accompanies his grandfather to the hospital.

, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Adventure, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Yuki Matsuzaki, Heather Hunter, Michael Chance
Rating23%
Maliq Ali (Clayton Prince) is a defense attorney whose guilt over freeing guilty criminals, and the death of his family, leads him to become a costumed ninja vigilante who stalks these same criminals at night. After refusing to defend Tony Fanelli (Nicky DeMatteo), a small-time mobster accused of murder, he finds himself involved in protecting the only witness, Tracey Allen (Carla Brothers), from Fanelli's hired thugs. While protecting this young woman, he is confronted by The Red Ninja (Yuki Matsuzaki), a Japanese assassin, who years before killed his family rather than pay Ali for defending him.

, 2h10
Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Rating68%
The film follows a man going through an acute existential crisis. He leaves Mexico City to go out to the country and prepare for his death, staying with an old Indian widow in her ramshackle home overlooking a desolate canyon. In the vastness of a wild and impressive nature, he confronts the infinite humanity of the widow and oscillates between cruelty and lyricism. His senses become dull, arousing his desires and instincts for sexuality and life.

, 1h28
Directed by Tibor Takács
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Mise en scène d'un rongeur, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Bailey Chase, Ron Perlman, Sara Downing, Adam Gierasch, Carla Rahal
Rating34%
Admise comme malade suicidaire dans un hôpital psychiatrique privé, la journaliste Jennifer Lawrence n'y tient pas vraiment le scoop qu'elle recherchait, mais une situation bien plus grave encore arrive : des rats particulièrement agressifs présents dans les sous-sols de l'établissement, des véritables mutants cannibales nés d'expériences sur le cerveau humain. Et, loin de rester au fond de leur repaire, les rats montent à la surface, féroces, enragés et affamés.

, 1h28
Directed by Dennis Dugan
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Bill Duke, Eric Roberts, Colm Feore, Timothy Busfield
Rating56%
Two LAPD policemen, Hank Rafferty (Zahn) and his partner Charlie Reed (Timothy Busfield), investigate a warehouse break-in and discover a gang of thieves, one of which shoots Charlie dead before they escape.

, 1h35
Directed by Bent Hamer
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action
Themes Cooking films
Actors Bjørn Floberg, Reine Brynolfsson, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Leif Andrée, Lennart Jähkel, Trond Brænne
Rating72%
Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjørvik (Joachim Calmeyer). By the rules of the research institute, Folke has to sit on an umpire's chair in Isak's kitchen and observe him from there, but never talk to him. Isak stops using his kitchen and observes Folke through a hole in the ceiling instead. However, the two lonely men slowly overcome the initial post-war Norwegian-Swede distrust and become friends.

, 1h15
Directed by Jamie Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about families, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Autobiographical documentary films
Actors Jamie Johnson
Rating64%

, 2h30
Directed by José Padilha
Origin Bresil
Genres Documentary, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Films about hijackings
Rating77%
Sandro Rosa do Nascimento , un jeune homme d'un milieu pauvre, monte dans un bus le 12 juin 2000 et, sous la menace d'une arme, prend les passagers en otages pendant quatre heures. L'événement a été montré en direct à la télévision. Le film analyse l'incident et montre la vie dans les bidonvilles et les favelas de Rio de Janeiro ainsi que la façon dont les classes inférieures sont traitées par le système de justice pénale au Brésil.

, 2h6
Directed by Akihiko Shiota
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Yūko Takeuchi, Yuriko Ishida, Shō Aikawa, Kunie Tanaka, Misaki Ito
Rating65%
Set in the city of Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture, the film begins with scenes of individuals immediately after they have experienced unexplained and mysterious resurrection. One man and woman are uncovering long untouched musical instruments in a daze, and in one case a young boy finds himself alone in the forest, having suddenly reappeared after vanishing years earlier.

, 1h26
Directed by Éric Assous
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Charlotte de Turckheim, Patrick Chesnais, Élisa Tovati, Antoine Duléry, Jean-Noël Brouté, Véronique Boulanger
Rating55%
Dans l'idéal, une histoire d'amour devrait durer toute une vie. On est souvent loin du compte.

, 1h
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Musical films
Rating73%

, 1h20
Directed by Peter Hedges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Cooking films, Films about families
Actors Katie Holmes, Derek Luke, Sean Hayes, Alison Pill, Oliver Platt, Patricia Clarkson
Rating69%
April Burns, the eldest daughter in a highly dysfunctional family, lives in a small tenement apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with her boyfriend Bobby. Although estranged from her family, she opts to invite them for Thanksgiving dinner, probably the last for her mother Joy, who has breast cancer.

, 1h53
Directed by Fernando León de Aranoa
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, Aida Folch, Fernando Tejero, Serge Riaboukine, Antonio Mourelos
Rating74%
After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers – Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina – keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and the unofficial leader of the group. A court case hangs over him relating to a shipyard lamp he smashed during protest against the closure. José is bitter that his wife, Ana, is employed when he is not. The gap between them is widening and he is fearful that she will leave him for a co-worker. Despite arthritic legs, Ana endures night shifts at a fish factory and thinks her looks are now lost. Not everyone seems to agree including her boss. Lino, an aging family man, doggedly pursues positions beyond his qualifications. The oldest member of the group, Amador, has degenerated into alcoholism after being abandoned by his wife; maintaining an increasingly transparent pretense that his wife will soon return from holiday. Reina has managed to find a job as a watchman at a football club, smuggling his friends into a game. Lino attends job interviews despite applicants being nearer his son's age. Sergei claims his career as an astronaut was forestalled by economic measures in the Soviet Space program.

Origin USA
Genres Drama
Rating66%

, 11minutes
Directed by Angela Robinson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance
Themes Spy films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Alexandra Breckenridge, Tammy Lynn Michaels, Shanti Lowry, Jill Ritchie, Meagan Good, Clare Kramer
Rating62%
A narrator explains that there is a test hidden in the SATs which measures an applicant's ability to fight, cheat, lie and kill. Female students who score well on this hidden test are selected to become members of the secret paramilitary group D.E.B.S. which stands for Discipline, Energy, Beauty and Strength.

, 1h24
Directed by Nelson McCormick
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Actors Adam Baldwin, Elizabeth Berkley, Tony Todd, John Neville, Greg Benson, Anthony J. Mifsud
Rating51%
After a mysterious, disheveled man nearly kills him, insurance salesman Lance Bishop hears a voice in his head urging him to murder his wife. When he discovers he has become part of a government mind-control project, he and others similarly being experimented on fight back.

, 2h6
Directed by Aleksi Mäkelä
Origin Finlande
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Vesa-Matti Loiri, Peter Franzén, Jasper Pääkkönen, Jenni Pauliina Banerjee, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Outi Mäenpää
Rating61%

, 2h17
Directed by Yōjirō Takita
Genres Drama, Action, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors Kiichi Nakai, Koichi Sato, Yui Natsukawa, Ryō Kase, Miki Nakatani, Hideaki Itō
Rating73%
The film tells the story of two Shinsengumi samurai. One of them is Saitō Hajime (played by Kōichi Satō), a heartless killer and the other is Yoshimura Kanichiro (played by Kiichi Nakai), who appears to be a money-grubbing and emotional swordsman from the northern area known as Nambu Morioka. The main storyline is set during the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate, but it is told in a series of flashbacks as two characters reminisce. The themes include conflicting loyalty to the clan, lord, and family.

, 1h29
Directed by David McNally
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime, Politic, Animation, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Buddy films
Actors Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, Estella Warren, Michael Shannon, Christopher Walken, Dyan Cannon
Rating45%
In 1982, a boy named Charlie Carbone (Jerry O'Connell) is about to become the stepson of a mobster named Salvatore Maggio (Christopher Walken). On that same day, he meets his new best friend, Louis Booker (Anthony Anderson), who saves him from drowning, and the mobster's apprentice Frankie Lombardo (Michael Shannon), who was recently released from juvenile hall and tried to drown Charlie intentionally.

, 1h42
Directed by Jean-Marie Poiré
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Transgender in film, Films based on plays, LGBT-related film
Actors Alice Evans, Régis Laspalès, Philippe Chevallier, Götz Otto, Anémone, Martin Lamotte
Rating39%
Georges, un agent immobilier infidèle qui a des soucis conjugaux, décide de faire appel à un certain Maurice Lappin (bénévole dans une association caritative, et employé à mi-temps à La Poste) pour se faire passer pour sa femme dans l'espoir de se débarrasser de sa maîtresse, reconquérir son épouse et éviter la confrontation entre elles.

, 1h32
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Gael García Bernal, Natalia Verbeke, James D'Arcy, Tom Hardy, Charlie Cox, Michael Elwyn
Rating66%
Carmen, a young Spanish woman who is engaged to be married, has her hen night at a French restaurant in London. She is invited to participate in the observance of an old custom which allows her to kiss the stranger of her choice before the marriage, symbolically "kissing her single life goodbye" and bringing luck for the future. The man she chooses is Kit and both enjoy the kiss far more than they have intended. They fall in love, which creates a "love triangle" among Carmen, her fiancé Barnaby, and Kit.

Directed by Stanley Nelson Jr.
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about racism, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about historical events
Actors Andre Braugher
Rating78%

, 1h40
Directed by Mikael Salomon
Origin USA
Themes Political films
Actors Aidan Quinn, Kelsey Grammer, Flora Montgomery, John Light, John Kavanagh, Tom Murphy
Rating64%

, 1h48
Directed by Matthew Ryan Hoge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about education, Films about families, Prison films
Actors Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein, Ryan Malgarini, Jena Malone, Lena Olin
Rating69%
The film begins with a flashback narrated by Leland P. Fitzgerald, describing how he couldn't remember the details of the day that he killed an intellectually disabled boy named Ryan Pollard. Leland is arrested. Ryan's parents, Harry and Karen, sisters Becky and Julie, as well as Julie's live-in boyfriend Allen grieve the loss of their loved one. Leland's divorced mother, Marybeth, is desperate to see her son, while his father, famous writer Albert Fitzgerald, discovers his son's fate in a newspaper and returns home to be there for the trial.

, 1h50
Directed by James Wallace Fields
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Rob Zombie, Conan O'Brien, Debbie Harry, Andy Richter, Rick Rubin, Andy Warhol
Rating78%
En 1974, le milieu musical underground de New York reçoit une claque en découvrant un groupe de marginaux du Queens : les Ramones. En jouant dans des bars minables, ils ébranlent les fondations de l’univers musical de l’époque. Par la suite, ils parcourent le monde et créent un mouvement qui résonne sur deux générations. Sans battre des records de ventes, ce groupe punk légendaire a fait des tournées qui ont attiré les foules pendant 22 ans. Ce documentaire raconte leurs hauts et leurs bas.

, 1h57
Directed by Simon Wincer
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Tom Selleck, Isabella Rossellini, Keith Carradine, George Eads, Robert Carradine, Barry Corbin
Rating70%
Montelius "Monte" Walsh (Tom Selleck) is an aging cowboy facing the final days of the Wild West era. He and his friend Chet Rollins (Keith Carradine), another long-time cowhand, work at whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse". Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. Camaraderie and competition with the other cowboys fill their days. They seek work and take a job at the ranch of Cal Brennan (William Devane), where they meet an old friend, Shorty Austin (George Eads), another ranch hand.

, 1h31
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Origin Danemark
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors John Turturro, James Remar, Deborah Kara Unger, William Allen Young, Gene Davis, Nadia Litz
Rating59%
A security guard's wife is killed in a seemingly random incident. Prompted by mysterious visions, he journeys to discover the true circumstances surrounding her murder.

, 1h39
Directed by Oliver Stone
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Actors Oliver Stone, Santiago Segura, María Eva Duarte de Perón
Rating68%

, 1h20
Origin Espagne
Genres Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about dragons
Rating52%
L'histoire se passe dans un monde merveilleux où vivent les dragons et qui est protégé par quatre portes : le feu, l'eau, la terre et l'air. Kevin, un jeune garçon, se lance dans une aventure à haut risque : aider Ethelbert, le grand-père de son ami Elfy le dragon, à empêcher le maléfique magicien Septimus d'ouvrir les portes de la Colline du dragon.

, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Rachael Leigh Cook, Shawn Hatosy, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Estella Warren, Lorraine Bracco, Dwayne Hill
Rating55%
The movie opens with David (Shawn Hatosy) being wheeled into the emergency room following an accident. Claiming that he and his girlfriend have been kidnapped, a frantic David is interviewed by police detectives, Andersle and Nagle (Lorraine Brocco and Dwayne Hill). Because David claims memory loss, the police ask him what time he remembers waking up the day before.

, 28minutes
Directed by Gustavo Hernández Pérez
Origin USA
Actors Gina DeVettori
Rating68%
The Mexican dream is a tragic comedy about the longings and delusions of Ajileo Barajas, a naïve, impulsive, but above all else passionate man, who will stop at nothing to live the dream of becoming a movie star, and to give his family a better life.

, 1h40
Directed by Aisling Walsh
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about education, Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen, Marc Warren, Dudley Sutton, Stuart Graham, Andrew Simpson
Rating74%
The film is set in 1939, on the brink of World War II, in the St. Judes Reformatory School, a ruthless Irish school for boys. Grey, gloomy and ruled by the sadistic Brother John (Iain Glen), the school prefers punishment to rehabilitation. But new lay teacher William Franklin (Aidan Quinn), fresh from the frontline of the Spanish Civil War, fights to liberate the boys from their oppressors.