Cinema releases by week

, 1h43
Directed by Greg Coolidge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Jessica Simpson, Dane Cook, Dax Shepard, Andrew Roane Dick, Brian George, Harland Williams
Rating55%
For years, Zack Bradley (Dane Cook) has been working at the local "Super Club" as a box-boy. Living with his grandmother, he spends his free time with his co-workers, Lon Neilson (Andy Dick), Iqbal Raji (Brian George), and Russell Porpis-Gunders (Harland Williams). Despite his "slacker" like ways he is actually kind-hearted, popular and supportive. His coworker Vince Downey (Dax Shepard) earns the Employee of the Month title for the 17th time in a row. Vince is egotistical and rude towards his co-workers, mainly his box boy Jorge Mecico (Efren Ramirez), whom he berates constantly. He is also disliked by his co-workers, but is oblivious to this. When new cashier Amy Renfro (Jessica Simpson) joins the staff, Zack and Vince fall for her and begin to compete for her affection. When Zack is told that Amy slept with the "Employee of the Month" at her last job, he decides to aim for the title. Although Amy had a dinner with Vince, she is repulsed by his attempt to put moves on her. However, Vince does not realize Amy's disgust of him, thinking that they had a good kiss, and continues pursuing her. Zack steps up his act and becomes a harder worker, giving Vince competition for the title. He also goes on a date with Amy, which takes place entirely in Super Club (they eat food court food, ride go-carts up and down the isles, watch Princess Bride in the television department, and listen to the overnight janitor sing opera), blindsiding Vince who is determined to give Zack a tough time.

, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Rating77%
Get Thrashed traces the impact of thrash metal. It is the story of the hardest metal music of the 1980s and 1990s as told by the bands who lived it.

, 1h21
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Sarah-Jane Redmond, Michael Eklund, C. Ernst Harth, Jerry Wasserman, Colin Cunningham, Hiro Kanagawa
Rating43%
The movie opens on a man, Ryan James, fleeing for his life in a parking ramp. With the assistance of a janitor, Joe, Ryan is able to escape. He makes his way to a police station and speaks with Detective Porhowski, to whom he explains the events that unfolded that night.

, 1h18
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business
Rating70%
The film focuses on the coffee growers of the Oromia Region of southern and western Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. It follows Tadesse Meskela, the General Manager of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, as he visits coffee-growing regions in Sidamo and Oromia (including the Kilenso Mokonisa Cooperative in the Bule Hora woreda in the Borena Zone of the Oromia Region), as well as a coffee processing center, a coffee auction house, and his union's headquarters in Addis Ababa. He also travels to England and the United States in an effort to promote Ethiopian coffee by eliminating the numerous middlemen. There is also a scene where coffee farmers pray to God for a higher price, which was filmed at the Negele Gorbitu Cooperative, located near Irgachefe in the Abaya woreda of the Borena Zone. The Ethiopian coffee farmers speak about their lives, with one explaining that he is cutting down his coffee plants and planting khat (a plant containing cathinone, an amphetamine-like stimulant) instead, due to the low price he is getting for coffee because of the explosion in the number of coffee farmers across the globe, and the comparatively higher price he can get for khat.

, 1h11
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Animation
Rating69%
L’histoire proprement dite débute dans le tronc d’un chêne. C’est là qu’habite un groupe de créatures à fourrure, affairé dans la confection d’une poupée en forme de femme. Dans un ruisseau voisin, ils récupèrent un œuf, le placent dans le ventre de la poupée, et crucifient cette dernière sur le chêne. Pendant leur sommeil arrive un trio de souris bourgeoises dans leur fiacre tiré par des tortues. Les souris détachent la poupée de l’arbre, et l’emportent. Les créatures à fourrure entreprennent donc un voyage hallucinatoire, dans le but de récupérer leur poupée chérie, tandis que les souris voleuses se soûlent au thé sanguin. Des tournesols poussent tout à coup avec des crânes en leur centre, et c’est là que les choses deviennent véritablement étranges.

, 1h50
Directed by Dennis Law
Origin Chine
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Crime, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Gangster films
Actors Wu Jing, Miki Yeung, Cheung Siu-fai, Ken Lo, Andy On, Lam Suet
Rating64%
A young Chinese martial arts national champion, Kong, comes to Hong Kong on a short contract with a Chinese opera group. A small time gambling boss, Ma, is so impressed with Kong that he wants him to be his fighter in the underground all-contact boxing world. In need of money, Kong makes up his mind to enter the underground boxing scene with his girlfriend Tin, and together they are under control. Kong's fighting skills made him unbeatable in the arena, but after each win, he gets himself in too deep with the underground world.

, 1h44
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Mads Mikkelsen, Alexander Skarsgård, Samuel Fröler, Börje Ahlstedt, Johan Rabaeus, Kirsti Torhaug
Rating57%
Thomas Skepphult est un homme envié de tous : il a une famille adorable et une carrière florissante. Le jour où sa société est sur le point de conclure l'affaire du siècle tout va pourtant basculer...

, 1h59
Directed by Ana Kokkinos
Genres Thriller, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Tom Long, Greta Scacchi, Colin Friels, Anna Torv, Deborah Mailman, Nadine Garner
Rating53%
Daniel (Tom Long), a dancer, is drugged and abducted in an alley by three hooded women. They proceed to use him as a sex toy in an abandoned warehouse for about two weeks, before they take him in their car and dump him.

, 1h56
Directed by Chookiat Sakveerakul
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Krissada Terrence, Piyapan Choopetch, Alexander Rendell, Achita Sikamana
Rating65%
A Boy Scout is standing at the crosswalk of a busy intersection in Bangkok and sees an elderly woman carrying some bags, struggling to make her way across the street. The woman drops some of her belongings, and as the seconds tick away before the lights will change, the boy runs out to assist the woman. In the confusion, he drops his mobile phone, and leaves it in the street while he helps the woman to safety. Just as the light changes and traffic starts to rush forward, the boy runs out to retrieve his phone, where he is hit by a bus and killed.

Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about pornography
Actors Jim True-Frost, Laila Robins, Wes Ramsey, Danielle Ferland, Dan Fogler, Yolonda Ross
Rating49%

, 1h25
Directed by John Shiban
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Jaimie Alexander, Diane Salinger, Deanna Russo, Joseph Lawrence, Edmund Entin, Mikey Post
Rating46%
A girl named Nicole makes a rest stop. Little does she know that her convenience break will be fatal as she becomes the victim of a demented serial killer who drives a yellow truck. Nicole soon becomes aware that the rest stop is haunted by the killer's previous victims or they are simply delusions of Nicole's hysteria. The origin of the killer's psychopathy are unknown other than the fact it may have to do with a demented family in a Winnebago and soon enough things go horribly wrong.

, 1h30
Directed by James D. Stern
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Political films
Actors Steve Buscemi, Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser, Willie Garson, Paris Hilton, Larry King
Rating66%

, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Traci Lords, Paul Johansson, Sherilyn Fenn, Mariette Hartley, Aasha Davis, Tony Lee
Rating52%
The film follows Max Normane, a successful literary editor, who wants to have a child alone. She offers to publish Jake Buckley (Paul Johansson), a struggling writer, in exchange for his sperm for artificial insemination.

, 1h58
Directed by Emanuele Crialese
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, Seafaring films, Transport films, La précarité, L'émigration
Actors Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincent Schiavelli, Mohamed Zouaoui, Filippo Pucillo, Federica De Cola, Isabella Ragonese
Rating67%
At the turn of the 20th century, the poor Mancuso family (headed by the widowed Salvatore, Vincenzo Amato), from Sicily, Italy, emigrates to the United States. They dream of the land of opportunity, where giant vegetables are grown, people swim in milk, and coins fall from the sky. Salvatore takes his family, as well as his old mother, Fortunata (Aurora Quattrocchi). While on the ship to America, many men find the British Lucy (Charlotte Gainsbourg) attractive. For administrative reasons, Lucy wants to marry Salvatore on arrival on Ellis Island. He agrees; he understands that she is not in love with him yet, but expects that will come.

, 1h41
Directed by John Cameron Mitchell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Erotic, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, BDSM in films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, PJ DeBoy, Peter Stickles, Jay Brannan, Mary Beth Peil
Rating63%
Set in contemporary New York City, Shortbus revolves around Sofia Lin (Sook-Yin Lee), who is married to the handsome but unambitious and slightly dim-witted Rob (Raphael Barker). She works as a couples counselor/sex therapist. She comes into contact with a couple: A slightly egotistical former child star Jamie (PJ DeBoy) and former prostitute James (Paul Dawson), the film's other lead character. At the outset, James suggests to his boyfriend that they open up their relationship to sex with others. During their first consultation, Sofia snaps, slaps Jamie, and then apologetically reveals her "pre-orgasmic" status. The couple suggests she attend a weekly social/artistic/sexual salon in Brooklyn called "Shortbus," which is hosted by drag performance artist Justin Bond (playing himself). Sofia slowly opens up to new experiences; this includes a friendship with a dominatrix who goes by the name Severin (Lindsay Beamish). Sofia's inability to achieve orgasm begins to cause conflict with Rob, who in turn begins attending Shortbus with Sofia.

, 1h33
Directed by Geoffrey Sax
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films about children, Spy films
Actors Alex Pettyfer, Mickey Rourke, Alicia Silverstone, Bill Nighy, Sophie Okonedo, Damian Lewis
Rating51%
Alex Rider is a 14-year-old schoolboy who lives with his uncle Ian and their housekeeper Jack Starbright. Ian is supposedly a bank manager and is, much to Alex's regret, often away from home. One day, Alex is told that his uncle has died in a car crash, but quickly discovers that his uncle was in fact a spy working for MI6 and that he was killed by the assassin, Yassen Gregorovich.

, 1h29
Directed by Lance Henriksen
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Lance Henriksen
Rating46%

, 1h36
Directed by Jonathan Liebesman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Jordana Brewster, Taylor Handley, Matt Bomer, Diora Baird, Andrew Bryniarski, R. Lee Ermey
Rating58%
In 1939, a woman dies while giving birth in a slaughterhouse, and the manager disposes the baby in a dumpster. A young woman, Luda Mae Hewitt (Marietta Marich), finds the child while searching for food. She takes him back to the Hewitt residence, names him Thomas, and decides to raise him as her own.

, 1h32
Directed by Christophe Honoré
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Romain Duris, Louis Garrel, Guy Marchand, Joana Preiss, Marie-France Pisier, Alice Butaud
Rating62%
Paul (Romain Duris), trente ans, se sépare d’Anna (Joana Preiss) et retourne quelques jours chez son père pour passer ce moment difficile. Son jeune frère Jonathan (Louis Garrel), encore étudiant et insouciant, tente de sortir Paul de sa dépression. Au cours d'une seule journée ponctuée de rencontres et de scènes de vie familiales, les deux frères, le père, et la mère qui est partie refaire sa vie avec un autre homme depuis quelques années, se rapprocheront pour aider Paul à se projeter dans l'avenir et mettre fin à ses pensées suicidaires.

, 1h30
Directed by Steve Antin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Angie Harmon, Jordan Hinson, Bobby Coleman, Joel Gretsch, Jason London, Tasha Smith
Rating56%
The film tells the story of Abby (Jordan Hinson) and Ethan Snow (Bobby Coleman), who lose their parents in a tragic accident and are adopted by Eve (Angie Harmon) and Raymond Goode (Joel Gretsch), two seemingly-ideal parents who have recently lost a child of their own, David.

, 30minutes
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror, Musical
Themes Musical films
Rating65%

Genres Drama
Actors Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Rating61%

, 1h36
Directed by Elliott Lester
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors John Patrick Amedori, Lizzy Caplan, Daryl Hannah, D. J. Cotrona, Jenny Wade, Will Rothhaar
Rating55%
Jonah Brand (John Patrick Amedori) is a scholarship student at a private school full of wealthy students. Poor and lacking the social confidence of his classmates, at graduation he finds himself attracted to Sara Weller (Lizzy Caplan), who is part of a close-knit quartet of drug users that includes her boyfriend Troy (Jonathon Trent) and their friends Lucas (D.J. Cotrona) and Erin (Jenny Wade). Sara returns his interest but the rest of her group discourage Jonah's attention. However, after the group learn that he works part-time at a pharmacy doing delivery, they bring them into his world for the summer, in exchange for his stealing prescription drugs for them. Jonah's mother, Sandra (Daryl Hannah), is too busy working multiple jobs to try to keep up appearances, to try to deal with her son's sudden change in behavior. As the group gets more experimental with their drugs of choice, Jonah unravels as he becomes more and more obsessed with Sara. After Troy dies under questionable circumstances, his parents hire private investigator Phil Hackwith (Bruce A. Young) to try to find out the truth. The investigator questions all four of the teens with little results. A few days later, Sara comes to visit Jonah at work, stating that she feels empty and doesn't know why she's there. Jonah asks her to come away to Tijuana with him for the weekend, she agrees. The next morning, the private investigator watches from his parked car as they pull out of the driveway together. They proceed to drink lots of tequila and drunkenly kiss in the hotel room, which leads to sex, during which Sara asks Jonah to stop and he does not. Afterwards, she is clearly distraught and demands to be taken home. They return to California that evening. The next day at work, Lucas storms in and informs Jonah's boss that Jonah has been stealing pills and selling them. Jonah is not able to deny this and is subsequently fired. He shows up in Sara's backyard uninvited later that night, ignoring her requests that he leave, and confesses that he was the one who bought the drugs for Troy. He asks her if she will run away to Mexico with him, saying he'll rob the pharmacy for pills and money. She says "okay", primarily to get him the hell out of her backyard. On the day they are scheduled to depart. Jonah loses his temper and physically abuses his mother. He later meets Sara in the bathroom of Lucas' house. He tries to convince her that she has feelings for him; she doesn't. Jonah attempts to give her drugs but she is reluctant to taking them. During this time the private investigator comes to Lucas' house and asks for Sara. Erin goes looking for her. After realizing that Sara will never love him, Jonah commits suicide by stabbing himself with a pair of scissors. The film is ended with Lucas, Erin, and the private investigator walking into the bathroom and seeing Jonah's dead body with Sara frightened in the corner.

, 1h27
Directed by Sebastian Schipper
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Buddy films
Actors Jürgen Vogel, Daniel Brühl, Sabine Timoteo, Oktay Özdemir
Rating67%
In the film Karl, a high-flying car insurance executive, is assigned menial work at a car rental agency by his boss Fernandez (Peter Kurth), ostensibly to do research but really to try and get a reaction out of Karl due to his depressive nature. There he meets Hans who is the complete opposite of him. Karl initially does not want anything to do with Hans due to his hyperactive nature and Karl's introverted lifestyle. He also does not want to get involved with Hans as Karl's time at the car rental agency is based on a lie. The two finally kick it off with Hans' perseverance to discover their common interest in fast cars which they are able to drive due to their job. Karl's lifestyle and depressive nature soon changes after he meets Hans' girlfriend Stelle (Sabine Timoteo), and they establish a kind of ménage à trois. Karl emerges from his shell thanks to Hans and the friendship they create based on fast cars and their love for Stelle.

, 1h44
Directed by Nicholas Hytner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about education, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Richard Griffiths, Clive Merrison, Frances de la Tour, Stephen Campbel Moore, Samuel Anderson, Samuel Barnett
Rating67%
In a boys' grammar school in Sheffield in 1983, students Crowther, Posner, Dakin, Timms, Akthar, Lockwood, Scripps, and Rudge have recently obtained the school's highest ever A-level scores and are hoping to enter Oxford or Cambridge, taking a seventh-term entrance exam in History. The General Studies teacher, known by staff and boys alike by his nickname "Hector" (Richard Griffiths), is their favourite, and works alongside their deputy head and regular History teacher, Mrs Lintott (Frances de la Tour). The Headmaster, known by all as Felix, appoints a temporary contract teacher, Tom Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore), who had been at Oxford, to help the boys along in their quest. Irwin is only a few years older than his students but proves to be a bold and demanding teacher, and particularly difficult to impress.

, 2h30
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone
Rating82%
As a child, Colin Sullivan (Damon) had been introduced to organized crime by Irish-American mobster Frank Costello (Nicholson) in the Irish neighborhood of South Boston. Over the years, Costello grooms him to become a mole inside the Massachusetts State Police, until Sullivan is accepted into the Special Investigations Unit, which focuses on organized crime.

, 1h57
Directed by Otar Iosseliani
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Otar Iosseliani, Michel Piccoli, Jean Douchet, Pascal Aubier, Pascal Vincent, László Szabó
Rating63%
Un ministre, démissionné sous la pression des manifestations de rue, retrouve son quartier, ses amis, et redécouvre la vie et la liberté loin du pouvoir.

, 1h40
Directed by Tanuja Chandra
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about terrorism, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Anupam Kher, Amit Sial, Mahima Chaudhry, Suhasini Mulay, Hugh Dillon
Rating68%
Ali (Amit Sial) is a photographer and bike messenger who lives in New York. He develops a friendship and falls in love with a married woman, Saloni Oberoi (Mahima Chaudhry). When her husband, Harry Oberoi (Vikram Chatwal), is killed during the September 11 attacks, Harry's father, a retired Colonel (Anupam Kher), begins to take his aggressions out on Ali for being a Muslim. Although Mrs. Oberoi (Suhasini Mulay) tries to stop the Colonel's behavior, the situation escalates as the Colonel, himself, becomes the target of social post-9/11 aggression directed towards him because he is a Sikh.

, 1h28
Directed by Michael Graham Landon, Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Films about religion
Actors Erin Cottrell, Logan Bartholomew, Frank McRae, Irene Bedard, William Morgan Sheppard, James Tupper
Rating70%
Missie's (Erin Cottrell) surprise discovery - her pregnancy - sets her on a new course that's at once thrilling and terrifying. After all the planning and dreaming, she and her husband, Willie (Logan Bartholomew), have headed west in a covered wagon, leaving behind the prairie home of Missie's parents. Later on they meet Jeff Huff and his older brother Sonny. They later make new friends and spend Christmas together.

, 2h
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Lluís Homar, Paz Vega, María Valverde, Ángela Molina, Katy Saunders, Antonio Valero
Rating60%
L’accession au pouvoir du cardinal espagnol Rodrigue Borgia (né à Xàtiva, Royaume de Valence, Espagne) et de son clan, qui s’efforcèrent d’instaurer une dynastie pour exercer leur domination sur le monde. Bien qu’étant un homme de foi, Rodrigue était aussi esclave des plaisirs charnels. Il devait non seulement déjouer les complots et les conspirations de ses collègues cardinaux et des représentants des grands pouvoirs, mais aussi mener une lutte pour contenir les rivalités qui menaçaient de déchirer sa famille.

, 1h48
Directed by Sönke Wortmann
Origin German
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Documentary films about sports, Association football films
Rating69%
S'inspirant du film Les Yeux dans les Bleus, le réalisateur et son caméraman ont filmé de l'intérieur le quotidien de l'équipe au cours de l'épreuve. Le film couvre une période qui va du stage préparatoire à la compétition jusqu'à la fête finale avec les supporteurs allemands à Berlin après le match pour la troisième place remporté contre le Portugal. On y retrouve ainsi les scènes typiques du quotidien des footballeurs telles que les discours des entraîneurs ou la déception après la défaite face à l'Italie en demi-finale. Dans le documentaire, on découvre de manière plus intime les différents joueurs de la sélection. On y apprend par ailleurs que le sélectionneur Jürgen Klinsmann délègue la partie tactique à son adjoint Joachim Löw pour se consacrer à la motivation des joueurs lors de ses « causeries » avant les matchs et pendant les mi-temps.