Cinema releases by week

, 2h54
Directed by Dick Lowry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Action, Horror
Themes La fin du monde, Météorologie, Catastrophe climatique, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Nancy McKeon, Thomas Gibson, Chandra West, Randy Quaid, Dianne Wiest, Brian Dennehy
Rating52%
Andy Goodman (Brian Dennehy) is a week away from a forced retirement from his position as chief meteorologist at the National Weather Administration's Severe Weather Center. However, tornadoes level Las Vegas, an area normally not prone to the storms. Concerned and upset that the storm system formed unnoticed and that they were unable to warn the people, Goodman begins closely tracking the system. Goodman receives field reports from his friend "Tornado Tommy" (Randy Quaid) and assistance from new intern Sabrina Rogers (Alicia Johnston). As time passes, he realizes the system is heading towards Chicago, joined by an unusual warm storm coming from the south, which is already causing a record-breaking heat wave in the city, and an abnormally early cold front from the Arctic.

Directed by Lina Wertmüller
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Sophia Loren, F. Murray Abraham, Casper Zafer, Elio Pandolfi, Silvia Abascal
Rating41%

, 1h10
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Hip hop films
Actors Common, KRS-One, John Lurie
Rating79%
The documentary examines hip hop culture through interviews with hip hop artists such as Kool Herc, Jurassic 5, and Afrika Bambaataa. The interviews are interspersed with performance footage and archival footage from various periods of time in the history of hip hop.

, 1h25
Directed by Pierre Morel
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Martial arts
Themes La banlieue française, Sports films, Films set in the future, Martial arts films, Political films, Dystopian films, Arme nucléaire
Actors David Belle, Cyril Raffaelli, Dany Verissimo-Petit, Tony D'Amario, Larbi Naceri, Samir Guesmi
Rating70%
In 2010, social problems have overrun the poorer suburbs of Paris; especially Banlieue 13, commonly referred to as B13: a ghetto with a population of some two million. Unable to control B13, the authorities construct a high wall topped by barbed tape around the entire area, forcing the inhabitants within to survive without education, proper utilities or police protection behind the containment wall. Police checkpoints stop anybody going in or out. Three years later, the district has become overrun with gangs. Leïto (David Belle) is a fighter of such gangs. The beginning of the film depicts Leïto washing a case full of drugs down the drain, then escaping the gang who has come to collect the drugs. The gang's leader, Taha, kidnaps Leïto's sister Lola in retaliation; Leïto is able to rescue her and take Taha to the police station, but the police arrest Leïto and let Taha leave with Lola, stating that they're leaving the district.

, 2h40
Directed by Abbas-Mustan
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Priyanka Chopra, Kareena Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Amrish Puri, Annu Kapoor, Paresh Rawal
Rating65%
Raj Malhotra (Akshay Kumar) is employed by a telecommunications company, Air Voice. Priya Saxena (Kareena Kapoor), who is looking for a full-time job, goes to Raj's house for an interview, mistaking him for barrister Ram Chautrani (Annu Kapoor), a neighbour and Raj's friend. Raj and Priya fall in love, marry and are expecting their first child.

, 1h52
Directed by Pavel Tchoukhraï
Origin Russie
Genres Drama
Actors Igor Petrenko, Bohdan Stupka, Marina Golub, Andreï Panine, Alexandre Viktorovitch Dediouchko
Rating70%
The film is set during the Khrushchev Thaw in Soviet Crimea, Ukraine, and concentrates on a young cadet in the Red Army named Viktor (Igor Petrenko), who becomes a chauffeur for a general (Bohdan Stupka) and begins a relationship with the general's disabled and volatile daughter, Vera (Alena Babenko). Viktor becomes involuntarily involved in a plot by the KGB whereby KGB agent Saveliev (Andrei Panin) pushes Viktor to spy on the general for KGB purposes. As the action develops around Viktor's relationship with Vera and his conflicted reasons for pursuing it, contrasted with the raw sexual tension between Viktor and the maid, Lida (Yekaterina Yudina) and her scathing attack on his motives rel Vera, the KGB, using Agent Saveliev, plots to take down and ultimately kill the general. Nobody is safe.

, 1h47
Directed by Mick McCleery
Genres Crime
Rating70%
The film opens as Terminal Assist "matches" a depressed man named Tom Taylor (Larry Schneider Jr.) with a killer. Tom waits downstairs for his all-too-willing executioner. Things go awry when the killer decides to murder Tom's wife, too, and the resulting double homicide is all over the local news.

, 1h38
Directed by Brett Ratner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Woody Harrelson, Don Cheadle, Chris Penn, Naomie Harris
Rating61%
Master thief Max Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) and his beautiful accomplice, Lola Cirillo (Salma Hayek), steal the second of three famous diamonds, known as the Napoleon diamonds, from FBI Agent Stanley P. Lloyd (Woody Harrelson). But Lloyd shoots Max before passing out from being gassed by the thieves. Max survives and tells Lola to get the diamond. She does, leaving in its place the one-dollar bill that she had received as a tip for washing the agents' windshield (while in disguise). Max and Lola then fly to Paradise Island in The Bahamas.

, 3h12
Directed by Yash Chopra
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee, Manoj Bajpayee, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini
Rating77%
Most of the story is revealed as a flashback from the prison cell of Veer Pratap Singh.

, 1h27
Directed by Quentin Lee
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Jun Hee Lee, Julia Nickson-Soul, Kevin Kleinberg
Rating60%
Ethan Mao (Jun Hee Lee) is an Asian gay teen who is kicked out of his house after his stepmother Sarah (Julia Nickson-Soul) finds a gay pornographic magazine in his room and shows it to his father. On the street, Ethan is forced to become a hustler for money. Soon, he meets Remigio (Jerry Hernandez), a teen hustler and drug dealer, and the two become friends and live together.

, 1h29
Directed by Roman Romanovich Kachanov
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Jerzy Stuhr, Juozas Budraitis, Alexander Isaakovich Gelman, Angelina Chernova, Vera Ivanko
Rating59%
Izrael (Izia) Arie, a Lithuanian Jew and a world-renowned Moscow heart surgeon, learns that he has only six months to live because of pancreatic cancer. He retires immediately and sets out to find his first love, Sonia Schworz, with whom he shared an attic on a Lithuanian farm while hiding from the Nazis for a large part of World War Two. Their re-union takes place in Israel, where Sonia settled after the war. Although the couple has not seen each other for sixty years, it turns out that in the meantime they have been following similar life paths, not unlike twins separated at birth. Both have achieved enviable prosperity and enjoy the company of much younger bedfellows. To get these youngsters out of the way, Sonia unceremoniously dumps her lover Chaim, while Izia's pregnant wife Olga is quickly persuaded to marry Sonia's grandson Yossi.

, 1h36
Directed by Bill Ewing
Origin USA
Themes Christmas films, Films about religion
Actors Steven Curtis Chapman, William R. Moses, Megan Follows, Juli Erickson, Dennis Letts, Muse Watson
Rating61%
Nine months after the death of his adoptive father, Jack Davenport, a Chicago journalist, obtains some of his possessions which lead Jack to discover his past. Jack receives an assignment to do a story in Dallas, Texas. Jack leaves days before Christmas Eve and decides to stay in Clearwater, Texas, his birthplace. One of the possessions left by his adoptive father was a mysterious photograph of Clearwater's oldest churches, taken in 1963. The church has a life-sized, wood carven nativity scene, that was carved by Joe Ottolman during the 1950s. He meets several townspeople along his search, such as Michael Curtis (the reverend of the church who has adopted a little girl from China, much like Steven Curtis Chapman did in real life); Naomi Williams, a Clearwater newspaper writer; Vanessa, a County Courthouse employee; Jimmy James, Clearwater's sheriff; the judge; and a maintenance worker at the church. Jack is told by the judge that releasing the identity of an adoptee's parents can cause suffering, as he points out that one adopted girl died three years earlier. Jack goes on to research the story of Joe Ottolman, who was in a car accident in 1945 that killed his wife, but his daughter survived. Joe worked for ten years on the Nativity carving. In 1963, Joe made the same mistake and was in a car accident again. His daughter Carmen Ana Ottolman, gave birth to a boy on December 24, 1963, but Carmen died two days later. Joe set his grandson up for adoption, then he disappeared from the presses and no one knew whether or not he was alive. Naomi, who helped Jack gather information from previous newspapers, tried to get Jack's birth records with the help of her friend, Venessa, who works there, but they are gone. When Jack finds this out, he discovers that the judge was trying to hide them from him. The judge then reveals that Carmen Ottolman was his mother. On his 40th birthday, Jack is still in shock of hearing this. He sleeps on the bench near the church, in front of the nativity scene. When the maintenance worker discovers him there, he brings him inside the church for some coffee. The maintenance worker then reveals himself to be Joe Ottolman, Jack's grandfather. That night, Jack's wife Megan arrives in Texas, and Jack tells her everything that happened. Megan reveals that they are going to be parents. On Christmas Night, the townspeople of Clearwater gather around the nativity scene while the reverend talks about it. After this, Jack tells his grandfather that he is going to be a great-grandfather.

, 1h30
Directed by Illeana Douglas, Deborra-Lee Furness, Mark Palansky
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Josh Hartnett, Jason Acuña, Hugh Jackman, Cate Blanchett, Jacqui Maxwell, William Ash
Rating53%
Un film à sketches centré autour de six histoires de conquête et de persévérance : "Standing Room Only" de Deborra-Lee Furness, "A Whole New Day" de William Garcia, "New Year's Eve" de Colin Spector, "Euston Road" de Toa Stappard et "Bangers" de Andrew Upton.

, 1h19
Directed by Darrell Rooney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Action, Animation, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about families, Feminist films, Films about magic and magicians, Films based on mythology, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films about insects, Films about dragons, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Ming-Na Wen, B.D. Wong, Mark Moseley, Lucy Liu, Harvey Fierstein, Sandra Oh
Rating57%
A month after the events of the first film, General Shang asks Mulan for her hand in marriage and she happily accepts. Hearing about their engagement, Mushu is thrilled for them until the leader of the ancestors informs him that if Mulan gets married he will lose his job as a guardian dragon and have to leave Mulan and his pedestal, which is his place of honor as a guardian. The ancestors are happy with this because Mulan would be getting married to Shang, and would become a part of his family, which would require her to have his family ancestors and guardians. Wanting to keep his job and his friend, Mushu attempts to tear the couple apart, having noticed that they are not very compatible, while Cri-Kee tries to foil his attempts and keep the couple together. Meanwhile, the Emperor calls upon Mulan and General Shang to escort his three daughters, Princesses Mei, Ting-Ting and Su, across China to be betrothed to three princes so that an alliance can be formed with the kingdom of Qui Gong. If the task is not completed within three days, the alliance will crumble, and the Mongols will destroy China.

, 1h41
Directed by Marc Forster
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Documentary, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Inspiré de l'univers des contes et légendes, Films about writers, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Radha Mitchell, Freddie Highmore, Julie Christie, Dustin Hoffman
Rating76%
The story focuses on Scottish writer J. M. Barrie, his platonic relationship with Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, and his close friendship with her sons named George, Jack, Peter, and Michael, who inspire the classic play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Never Grew Up.

, 2h3
Origin Turquie
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Comedy science fiction films, Space opera
Actors Cem Yılmaz, Özge Özberk, Şafak Sezer, İdil Fırat, Naz Elmas, Özkan Uğur
Rating79%
The film is about a used carpet salesman Arif (played by Cem Yılmaz) who is abducted by aliens from the planet G.O.R.A. There he becomes involved in thwarting a diabolical scheme being advanced by the planet's security chief Logar (also played by Cem Yılmaz) and saves the planet. The film spoofs various science fiction films such as Star Wars, The Fifth Element and The Matrix.

, 1h38
Directed by Étienne Chatiliez
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Vincent Lindon, Cécile de France, Pierre Vernier, Éric Berger, Anne Brochet, Martine Chevallier
Rating49%
À Mulhouse, Chrystèle et Christophe s'aiment mais elle est infidèle et il est idiot. Ces antihéros prolétaires, dont l'un a un père incestueux, se font engager comme domestiques et chapardent dès qu'ils en ont l'occasion.

, 1h32
Directed by Alain Berberian
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Caterina Murino, Didier Flamand, Juliette Poissonnier, Albert Dray
Rating58%
Le détective Jack Palmer (Christian Clavier) a pour mission impossible de retrouver Ange Léoni (Jean Reno), un caïd indépendantiste recherché par toutes les polices de France, en Corse afin de lui remettre un titre de propriété issu d'un héritage. Il se heurtera dans cette comédie policière à la loi du silence d'une société traditionnelle de culture corse.

, 1h30
Directed by Yann Moix
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Paul Rouve, Julie Depardieu, Dominique Besnehard, Dominique Collignon-Maurin, Marie Guillard
Rating63%
Bernard Frédéric (Poelvoorde) is a mediocre bank executive, married and with a son. He used to have another profession: to be French star Claude François. Now, with the "Imitators Gala Night" coming up, he must choose between his wife or the only thing that makes him fully happy: the applause.

, 1h40
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Christmas films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Musical films, Children's films, Santa Claus in film
Actors Tom Hanks, Daryl Sabara, Josh Hutcherson, Nona Gaye, Peter Scolari, Eddie Deezen
Rating66%
On Christmas Eve in the late-1950s, a boy witnesses a train called the Polar Express that is about to embark to the North Pole. When the boy examines the engine, the conductor lets him board the train. The boy meets other children, including a girl and a know-it-all kid. When the train picks up Billy, the hero boy applies the emergency brakes. Billy initially declines to board but changes his mind. The conductor summons a waiter team, who give the children hot chocolate, and the girl stows away one cup under her seat to give to Billy, who is alone in the observation car. The girl and conductor deliver the hot chocolate cup to Billy until the hero boy discovers the girl’s ticket is unpunched. He loses it before he can return it. After the ticket is abused by the wind and animals, it slips back in the train. The girl explains her lost ticket, and the conductor considers ejecting her before taking her for a walk on the top of the train instead. The hero boy locates the lost ticket and pursues them.

, 45minutes
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films
Actors Ewan McGregor
Rating73%
Debbie Escalante and her partner, the Cowboy, haunt a skate park, until a group of female skaters leave their dance class to combat Debbie.

, 1h27
Directed by Don Mancini
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Romance, Slasher
Themes Pregnancy films, Jeu, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Child's Play (film series), Serial killer films, Films about toys, Comedy horror films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, Billy Boyd, Redman, Hannah Spearitt, John Waters
Rating49%
Six years after the events of the previous film, Glen, the kind and gentle son of Chucky and Tiffany, has a nightmare in which he murders a little girl's parents. In reality, he is living a life of embarrassment and abuse as a ventriloquist's dummy from his own point of view. Desperate to know his parents, Glen tracks Chucky and Tiffany down to Hollywood, where they are first shown killing a man who is dressed as Santa Claus for a movie. Upon tracking down his mom and dad, who are now dummies in one of Jennifer Tilly's films, Glen uses a voodoo amulet to bring them back to life. When Chucky (voice of Brad Dourif) finds out that Glen is his child, he faints, while Tiffany is ecstatic and hugs her child. Tiffany and Chucky argue over whether Glen is male or female, due to his lack of genitals (though he is clearly a male). Chucky decides to continue labeling him as a boy, whereas Tiffany labels him as a girl, calling him "Glenda".

, 1h38
Directed by Roman Balaïan
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, La sexualité des mineurs, Films about disabilities
Actors Irina Kouptchenko, Vladimir Gostioukhine
Rating66%
Deux jeunes enseignants, Alexeï et Lika, travaillent dans un internat pour handicapés. Ils sont amoureux l’un de l’autre mais voudraient savoir si leurs élèves peuvent éprouver un sentiment d’amour aussi. Ils décident de se livrer à une expérience.

, 1h34
Directed by Vladimir Machkov
Genres Drama
Actors Vladimir Machkov, Egor Beroïev, Andrey Smolyakov, Artur Smolyaninov
Rating74%

Origin USA
Genres Drama, Erotic, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Misty Mundae, Anoushka, A. J. Khan, Julian Wells, Darian Caine, Ruby Larocca
Rating55%
Au collège, l'étudiante Misty, ne peut contenir plus longtemps ses pulsions sexuelles, et transforme son journal intime en un journal ultra-érotique contenant ses pensées lesbiennes les plus secrètes.

Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors John Zorn

Avec la sortie de Masada Live at Tonic 1999, Zorn et le réalisateur Antonio Ferrera visent à remédier à cela en sortant un set particulièrement chaud d'une nuit particulièrement chaude dans l'un des principaux terrains de jeu de Zorn, Tonic à New York. L'un des attraits de Tonic est sa petite taille. L'amplification est complètement inutile, et bien qu'il n'y ait pas de détails techniques répertoriés sur le DVD astucieusement emballé, le soupçon est qu'il s'agissait d'un enregistrement très simple - un certain nombre de micros de salle stratégiquement placés au-dessus de la scène et trois caméras à partir desquelles Ferrera capture comme autant que possible de l'énergie vivante qu'est Massada.

, 1h36
Directed by Chazz Palminteri
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Christmas films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Susan Sarandon, Alan Arkin, Paul Walker, Penélope Cruz, Chazz Palminteri, John Doman
Rating60%
The film centers on five strangers who are linked together – and who meet each other at separate times – by a series of events that take place on Christmas Eve in New York.

, 1h53
Directed by Samuel Fuller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Marthe Villalonga, Bobby Di Cicco, Kelly Ward
Rating70%
The film begins in black and white in November 1918 at the end of World War I. A private (Marvin), using his trench knife, kills a German soldier who was approaching with his arms raised and muttering in German. When he returns to his company's headquarters, the private is told that the "war's been over for four hours." The 1st Division patch is shown in color.

, 1h45
Directed by Shinobu Yaguchi
Origin Japon
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Juri Ueno, Yūta Hiraoka, Yuika Motokariya, Nagisa Abe, Noriko Eguchi, Fumiyo Kohinata
Rating74%
On a hot summer's day, 13 schoolgirls are bored in a remedial math class. One girl, Tomoko, watches the school's brass band leave to perform at a baseball game, but they have forgotten their bento lunches. Tomoko and the other girls persuade their teacher, Mr Ozawa, to let them deliver the lunches. On the train, Tomoko eats a lunch, and the girls fall asleep and miss their stop. By the time they deliver the lunches to the swing band, they have spoiled, and all 42 band members become sick. Only the cymbal player, Nakamura, whose lunch Tomoko ate, is unaffected.

, 2h23
Directed by Katsuhito Ishii
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Tadanobu Asano, Tomokazu Miura, Anna Tsuchiya, Rinko Kikuchi, Tomoko Nakajima, Kenichi Matsuyama
Rating75%
The film is concerned with the lives of the Haruno family, who live in rural Tochigi Prefecture, the countryside north of Tokyo. Nobuo is a hypnotherapist. He teaches his son, Hajime, Go. Hajime becomes an excellent Go player, but he has a rough time with girls and puberty. Yoshiko refuses to be an average housewife and works on animated film projects at home. She uses assistance from grandfather Akira, an eccentric old man who is a former animator and occasional model.

Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Allison Lange, C. Thomas Howell, Nicholas Turturro, Jennifer Tisdale, Kent Masters King, Aimee Brooks
Rating53%
In the end of the 70's, the dysfunctional Kenneth Bianchi lives with his mother and is obsessed with joining the police force. When his application is refused, his mother sends him to Los Angeles to live with his sadistic cousin Angelo Buono. Kenneth unsuccessfully tries to join LAPD, and Angelo convinces him to start a prostitution business with him. They force two girls from Tucson to work for them, but their competitors destroy their business and steals their money. The frustrated Kenneth and Angelo decide on revenge against a prostitute, and Kenneth strangles her, feeling a great pleasure with her death. The two cousins become addicted to death, initially killing prostitutes and then attacking single women, dumping their bodies on the hill.

, 1h32
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Lance Henriksen, Shannon Lucio, Al Sapienza, America Young, Steffany Huckaby, Keir O'Donnell
Rating46%

, 1h28
Directed by Nicolas Boukhrief
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Albert Dupontel, Jean Dujardin, François Berléand, Claude Perron, Julien Boisselier, Philippe Laudenbach
Rating64%
Petite société de transport de fonds, Vigilante est en pleine crise, victime de trois violents braquages dans l'année qui n'ont laissé aucun survivant, et dont le passage imminent sous le contrôle d'une société américaine va entraîner des suppressions d'emplois.