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Directed by Lajos Koltai
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy
Rating63%
The film alternates between two time periods, the 1950s and the present, in which a dying Ann Grant Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) reflects on her past. Her confusing comments about people she never mentioned before leave her daughters, reserved Constance (Natasha Richardson) and restless Nina (Toni Collette), wondering if their mother is delusional.

, 1h41
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Katrina Begin, Melonie Diaz, John Robinson, Amber Heard, Leighton Meester, Alexa Vega
Rating55%
The film takes place in a small suburban town in North Carolina in 1999. It's the last day of school and kids just want to have fun. That, at least, is the plan.

, 1h1
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Space adventure films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Fabrizio Rizzolo, Giorgia Würth
Rating56%
The story begins a few centuries after Episode VI, telling the story of a young Jedi apprentice, Hope, who lives during a period of great change in the balance between the force and the galaxy.

Directed by Pierre Aknine
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Elbaz, Tchéky Karyo, Heino Ferch, Grégori Derangère, Grégory Gadebois
Rating52%
Béarn, 1615. Un jeune homme, d'Artagnan, est le témoin involontaire d'une scène extraordinaire où une femme est pendue par un cavalier qui s'enfuit. Lorsque la corde cède, la femme reprend vie et disparaît. Les années passent. D'Artagnan file vers Paris, où il veut intégrer la célèbre compagnie des mousquetaires du Roi. En chemin, il surprend une rencontre entre Richelieu, ministre de Louis XIII, et son espionne, Milady. La beauté de Milady éblouit d'Artagnan au point qu'il ne reconnaît pas en elle cette femme pendue qui a hanté sa jeunesse. Il n'entend pas non plus la nouvelle dont elle est porteuse : la reine, Anne d'Autriche, s'apprête à recevoir en secret son amant, le duc de Buckingham. Richelieu voit là une occasion de perdre la reine. Il ordonne à Milady de tuer Buckingham pour que le scandale éclate.

, 1h28
Directed by Roschdy Zem
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films about Islam, Films about marriage
Actors Roschdy Zem, Cécile de France, Maïwenn, Pascal Elbé, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Leïla Bekhti
Rating60%
Clara et Ismaël vivent un amour heureux, sans se soucier du fait qu'elle soit juive et lui musulman. Mais lorsqu'elle est enceinte, les réactions de leur entourage changent la situation.

Directed by Eric Bross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Children's films
Actors Brandon Baker, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Robyn Lively, Yuji Okumoto, Mary Page Keller, Jonathan McDaniel
Rating55%
Johnny "Pono" Kapahala, a teen snowboarding champion from Vermont, returns to Oahu, Hawaii, for the wedding of his grandfather, local surf legend Johnny Tsunami. Johnny is excited for the marriage as he anticipates having an uncle to hang out with, but eventually realizes his "Uncle Chris" is a 12-year-old brat.

, 1h36
Directed by Tom Shadyac
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about families, Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism, Disaster films
Actors Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, John Goodman, Harve Presnell, John Michael Higgins
Rating54%
Newly elected to Congress, former local television news reporter Evan Baxter (Steve Carell) leaves his hometown of Buffalo, New York and moves to suburban northern Virginia, where his congressional campaign declares that he will change the world. Evan prays to God (Morgan Freeman) to give him this opportunity. On the other hand, his wife, Joan (Lauren Graham), expresses her concern about the new location and prays that she, Evan, and their three sons (Jimmy Bennett, Graham Phillips, and Johnny Simmons) will be closer together as a family. On the first day of his job, Evan is given a prime office space, where he is accompanied by his three congressional staffers, Rita, Marty, and Eugene (Wanda Sykes, Jonah Hill, John Michael Higgins), and invited to co-sponsor the Public Land Act bill with his boss, Chuck Long (John Goodman).

, 1h42
Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Jacques Dutronc, Marthe Keller, Nicolas Cazalé, Laura Smet, Pascal Elbé, Anne Caillon
Rating56%
Boris se présente comme un ami de Philip dans la villa de vacances de sa famille, mais celui-ci n'est pas là. Il s'installe en attendant.

Directed by Andrew Kazamia
Genres Comedy
Actors Ian Abercrombie, Craig Ferguson, Tony Curran, Shelley Long, Enn Reitel, Winter Ave Zoli
Rating58%
Take a smart young con man and a talented but reluctant impressionist, let them loose among the natives in Hollywood and the result will amuse and amaze. A satire on celebrity politics and the American Dream that proves you can fool all of the people all of the time.... Trust Me!

, 1h30
Directed by David DeCoteau
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Mise en scène d'un ours, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Tyler Hoechlin, Graham Kosakoski, Kate Todd
Rating26%
Sean (Graham Kosakoski), Ritch (Brody Harms), Wes (Tyler Hoechlin), and Lauren (Kate Todd) celebrate their college graduation by breaking into Saranoc Grotto, a forest heavily marked with "No Trespassing" signs and surrounded by a tall fence. While speeding down a dirt road, they hit and kill a grizzly bear cub, sending their Jeep Cherokee into a tree and cracking the radiator. As they argue over whether they should bury the dead cub, they hear its mother coming and run. The vehicle overheats down the road so Wes and Ritch go into the forest to find water. The Grizzly Bear finds and attacks Ritch. Having heard Ritch's screams to run, Wes inadvertently runs into the bear and it attacks him. The other two arrive and rescue Wes, but are unable to help Ritch. The Bear kills him while the others flee to the Jeep.

, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Musical films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Kurt Loder
Rating75%

, 1h44
Directed by Zak Penn
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Jeu, Poker
Actors Woody Harrelson, Cheryl Hines, David Cross, Mike Epps, Chris Parnell, Richard Kind
Rating59%
Jack Faro (Harrelson) is a recovering drug addict who had so many relapses, he decided to move into rehab and just live there. Having been married 75 times, he is a serial husband and is always on the lookout for number 76. (He hits on a bartender who informs him that they had already been married, even though he has no idea who she is.). He enters The Grand: a huge Texas Hold 'Em poker tournament in Las Vegas created by his grandfather Lucky Faro (Barry Corbin). His main motivation is to win the $10 million prize to cover a loan he got to keep open his family's casino, The Rabbit's Foot, which his grandfather left him when he died and that he has mismanaged into the ground.

, 1h35
Directed by Eli Roth
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about psychiatry, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Lauren German, Roger Bart, Heather Matarazzo, Jay Hernández, Bijou Phillips, Richard Burgi
Rating55%
Shortly after the events of Hostel, Paxton (Jay Hernandez) is suffering from nightmares and lives in seclusion with his girlfriend Stephanie (Jordan Ladd). The two get into an argument where Stephanie denounces Paxton's paranoia as exaggerated and insufferable. She wakes up the next morning to find Paxton decapitated. An unmarked box (presumably containing Paxton's severed head) is then delivered to Elite Hunting boss Sasha (Milan Kňažko), as he relaxes at an outdoor cafe.

, 1h49
Directed by Rob Schneider
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films, Sports films, Martial arts films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Jennifer Morrison, Scott Wilson, Henry Gibson, Richard Kind, Jackson Rathbone, M. Emmet Walsh
Rating61%
A real estate con artist named Stan Minton (Rob Schneider) panics when he learns that he is going to prison for fraud. Stan's fear of jail-house rape leads him to hire the mysterious guru known as "The Master" (David Carradine) who helps transform him into a creative martial-arts expert. During his incarceration, Stan uses his new-found skills to intimidate his fellow prisoners and prevents the prisoners from hitting or raping each other.

, 9minutes
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, James Franco, Craig Robinson, Aziz Ansari
Rating54%

, 1h29
Directed by Richard Schenkman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy
Themes Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film
Actors John Billingsley, David Lee Smith, Tony Todd, William Katt, Richard Riehle, Alexis Thorpe
Rating77%
The film begins with Professor John Oldman (David Lee Smith) packing his belongings onto his truck, preparing to move to a new home. His colleagues show up to give him an impromptu farewell party: Harry (John Billingsley), a biologist; Edith (Ellen Crawford), an art history professor and devout Christian; Dan (Tony Todd), an anthropologist; Sandy (Annika Peterson), a historian who is in love with John; Dr. Will Gruber (Richard Riehle), a psychiatrist; Art (William Katt), an archaeologist; and his student Linda (Alexis Thorpe).

, 1h58
Directed by Robert Favreau
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Luc Picard, Fatou Ndiaye, Vincent Bilodeau, Céline Bonnier, Geneviève Brouillette, Luck Mervil
Rating71%
L’action se déroule à Kigali au Rwanda au printemps 1994. Le journaliste québécois Bernard Valcourt qui réalise un reportage sur le Sida, assiste aux tensions croissantes entre les communautés Hutus et Tutsis. Logé à l’Hôtel des Milles Collines, il s’éprend de Gentille qui y travaille comme serveuse. Débutant après le début du génocide et leur séparation, le récit amène le spectateur à suivre la quête de Valcourt pour retrouver Gentille. Sous forme de retours en arrière, on découvre leur histoire. Valcourt cherchait des moyens de la sauver du génocide. Il n’a pas pu épouser Gentille de façon qu’elle bénéficie de la protection diplomatique. De son côté, Gentille voyait lucidement la situation à laquelle elle ne cherchait pas à se soustraire. Avant de devoir quitter le pays, Valcourt la cherche chez leurs amis communs, dans sa famille et dans différents lieux dévastés. Après avoir été bloqué plusieurs mois à la frontière, il revient à Kigali pour continuer de rechercher Gentille et découvrir ce que son amour est devenu dans la tourmente du Rwanda.

, 1h33
Directed by Savage Steve Holland
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Devon Werkheiser, Daniel Roebuck, Andrew Caldwell, Tim Meadows, Curtis Armstrong, Dave Coulier
Rating49%
Devon Werkheiser plays Nolan Byrd, a shy 9th grader who, along with many other kids, is bullied by Bubba Bixby (Andrew Caldwell) When his teacher, Mr. Green (Tim Meadows) announces that he wants his class to do a multimedia project, Nolan decides to do his project on Bubba. Nolan goes undercover, spies on Bubba, films him bullying kids at his school, and airs it on his new website www.shreddermanrules.com.

, 2h15
Directed by Olivier Dahan
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Circus films, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Marion Cotillard, Gérard Depardieu, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Pierre Martins
Rating75%
The film is structured as a largely non-linear series of key events from the life of Édith Piaf. The film begins with elements from her childhood, and at the end with the events prior to and surrounding her death, poignantly juxtaposed by a performance of her song, "Non, je ne regrette rien".

, 1h26
Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Animation
Themes Films set in Africa, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Time travel films, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Alistair Abell, Shun Oguri, Scott McNeil, Nolan North, Janyse Jaud, Romi Park
Rating67%
The story centers on characters who are immortal. The lead character, Colin MacLeod, became an Immortal after his first death in 125 AD in Roman Britain, when his village was attacked by the conquering Romans. Another Immortal, Marcus Octavius, was leading the Roman Empire's military forces in hopes of creating his dream of a utopian society. Octavius killed Colin's wife, but was not able to kill Colin whose unconscious body was dragged by a horse to within Stonehenge, a "holy ground" in the story, where Immortals are forbidden to fight.

, 1h29
Directed by Yves Simoneau
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Sam Shepard, Laura Bailey, Frank Whaley, Nicholas Pryor, Christine Belford, Louis Herthum
Rating70%

, 1h54
Directed by Miloš Forman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Peinture, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgård, Randy Quaid, Unax Ugalde, Michael Lonsdale
Rating68%
In 1792, Spain reels amid the turmoil and upheaval of the French Revolution. Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgård) is a renowned painter, who, among others, does portraits for the royal family as the Official Court Painter to the King and Queen.

, 1h33
Directed by Éric Lavaine
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Ghost films, Musical films, Comedy horror films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Clovis Cornillac, Julie Depardieu, Lionel Abelanski, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus, Michel Duchaussoy, Philippe Duquesne
Rating53%
Emma and Marc, two young lovers, move into a house which has been uninhabited for thirty years. What they don't know is that in 1979, in a cave under the house, there was a gay disco, which burned down when a foam machine short-circuited, and five bodies were never found. Today, the house is haunted by five gay ghosts. However, only Marc is able to see them, and his visions drive Emma away. The ghosts, touched by Marc's problems, do everything in their power to help him get his girl back.

Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Crime
Themes Children's films
Rating31%
Helen Hixon is a girl who just moved into a new town with her parents, Honey and Lubbock. When Helen first comes to her new house, she finds a girl tied up in her foyer. The girl introduced herself as Marie Meir, and then told the Hixons that her dog had been stolen by a bully named Dirk. After stealing her dog, Marie had confronted Dirk, and he tied her up in the house. Helen and Marie take a liking for each other and become friends. They decide to go after Dirk to rescue Marie's poodle. They find out that Marie's dog is not the only one missing, and pretty soon, Helen's dog Rufus gets stolen by Dirk too.

, 1h53
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy García, Don Cheadle, Bob Einstein
Rating68%
Reuben Tishkoff is conned by Willy Bank, his former business partner, by being forced to sign over the ownership rights of the new hotel-casino they were building together, "The Bank". Reuben suffers a heart attack and becomes bedridden. Daniel Ocean offers Bank a chance to set things right, given his long history in Las Vegas and the fact that he "shook hands with Sinatra," though Bank refuses. To avenge Reuben, he gathers his partners-in-crime and plans to ruin Bank on the opening night of the hotel.

, 1h25
Directed by Ash Brannon, Chris Buck
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Surfing films, Films about birds, Films about penguins, Children's films
Actors Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel, Jon Heder, James Woods, Mario Cantone
Rating66%
A documentary crew follows the events of Cody Maverick, a 17-year-old rockhopper penguin who lives in Shiverpool, Antartica with his mother Edna and his older brother Glen. Cody has wanted to be a professional surfer ever since a visit from legendary surfer Ezekiel "Big Z" Topanga several years ago. When a talent scout shorebird named Mikey (Mario Cantone) arrives to find entrants for the "Big Z Memorial" surfing contest, Cody jumps at the chance despite the lackluster support from his family. En route to the contest, Cody befriends another entrant, Chicken Joe.

, 2h
Directed by Bruce Weber
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Michael Peter Balzary, Chris Isaak, Lisa Marie, Rodney Harvey, Robbi Chong, Scott Coffey
Rating77%
A group of Baker fans, ranging from ex-associates to ex-wives and children, talk about the man. Weber’s film traces the man’s career from the 1950s, playing with jazz greats like Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, and Russ Freeman, to the 1980s, when his heroin addiction and domestic indifference kept him in Europe. By juxtaposing these two decades, Weber presents a sharp contrast between the younger, handsome Baker — the statuesque idol who resembled a mix of James Dean and Jack Kerouac — to what he became, “a seamy looking drugstore cowboy-cum-derelict,” as J. Hoberman put it in his Village Voice review.

, 1h47
Directed by John Boorman
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, Sinéad Cusack, Seán McGinley, Ciarán Hinds, Angeline Ball
Rating58%
Liam O'Leary (Gleeson) is a successful real estate developer in Dublin. He lives in a magnificent house with his unhappy wife (Cattrall) and rebellious son. One day, his pleasant life takes a dramatic downturn. The city council turns down his request to build a stadium, toward which he has taken out cripplingly large bank loans, and a doppelgänger, with his identical body and facial features, begins appearing around town, ordering suits and automobiles on Liam's credit account and behaving in a scandalous manner. Liam desperately attempts to pull his life out of its tailspin, but he must return to his dirtpoor roots and the old friends he has long abandoned to find the answers.

, 1h26
Directed by Tibor Takács
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Natural horror films, Giant monster films, Disaster films
Actors Patrick Muldoon, Vanessa Williams, Thomas Calabro, David Millbern, Noah Bastian, Stephen J. Cannell
Rating32%
Dan "Dash" Dashiell (Patrick Muldoon) is a retired Olympic skier who works at a ski resort in the mountains of Utah. On a restricted side of the mountain, Dr. April Sommers (Vanessa A. Williams) is working on creating a new breed of spider with several others. When a group of teen skiers arrives at the mountain, Chad (Noah Bastian) challenges Dash to a race. The two show some impressive moves as the others look on. When Dash reaches a large rocky slope, he turns back and goes down another way rather than risk a leg injury like the one that ruined his career. As Dash makes it to the bottom, he meets Dr. Sommers. While they talk for a while, Frank (Stephen J. Cannell) takes the teens inside the resort. After a brief discussion, Dr. Sommers returns to the lab, where she finds dead scientists everywhere. She finds the sole survivor cocooned in a spider web. He warns Dr. Sommers about the spiders escaping and then slowly dies. When she turns to leave, the last spider remaining at the lab, a mutated Black Widow, attacks her and forces her into a locked office. She finds an alarm and engages it, which alerts Professor Marks (David Millbern) and Army Captain Baker (Thomas Calabro), who are elsewhere on the mountain, to her location.