Cinema releases by week

, 1h48
Directed by Dennis Gansel
Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about education, Psychologie
Actors Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Christiane Paul, Elyas M'Barek
Rating75%
High school teacher Rainer Wenger is forced to teach a class on autocracy, despite being an anarchist. When his students, third generation after the Second World War, do not believe that a dictatorship could be established in modern Germany, he starts an experiment to demonstrate how easily the masses can be manipulated. He begins by demanding that all students address him as "Herr Wenger", as opposed to Rainer, and places students with poor grades beside students with good grades—purportedly so they can learn from one another and become better as a whole. When speaking, they must stand and give short, direct answers. Wenger shows his students the effect of marching together in the same rhythm, motivating them by suggesting that they could really annoy the anarchy class, which is below them. Wenger suggests a uniform, to remove class distinction and further unite the group. Mona argues it will remove individuality, as well. Karo shows up to class without the uniform and is ostracised. The students decide they need a name, deciding on "Die Welle" (The Wave). Karo suggests another name, which ends up with one single vote cast by herself.

Genres Drama
Actors Luca Lionello, Chiara Caselli, Luciana Littizzetto
Rating68%

, 1h34
Directed by Douglas Jackson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Nicholle Tom, Gwynyth Walsh, Cameron Daddo
Rating49%
Lily Stanler (Nicholle Tom) works as a claims analyst for an insurance company in Philadelphia. She is an average woman living an average life. Unfortunately, her life gets interrupted by her mother, Inez (Gwynyth Walsh). Lily moved in with her mother to take care of her when she was ill. This creates more responsibilities for Lily. In the past, Inez's husband has left her, making her a lonely and bitter person. As time goes by, she becomes even lonelier and possessive, wanting her daughter to be home all the time.

, 1h27
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror
Actors Mike Vogel, Christina Cole, Jaime Murray, Andrew Buchan
Rating55%
Ian Stone is an average man. He loves ice hockey but lives for his girlfriend, Jenny Walker. Late one night while driving home from a painful loss on the ice, Ian thinks he sees a dead body near the railroad tracks. Investigating the grisly discovery, Ian is attacked by the "corpse", forced onto the tracks and run over by a train.

Directed by Declan O'Brien
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Actors Jon Polito, Chad Michael Collins, Natalie Denise Sperl, Alicia Lagano
Rating32%
A group of traveling college students arrive at an Eastern European village. One of the students, named Jason pulls a sword from a stone, unwittingly reviving a giant monster whose body is composed of rock. Soon, Jason learns that an ancestor of his had slain a similar monster before, using the same sword.

, 1h44
Directed by Patricia Riggen
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité, Children's films
Actors Kate del Castillo, Eugenio Derbez, America Ferrera, Jesse Garcia, Maya Zapata, Sonya Smith
Rating73%
The film tells the story of Rosario (Kate del Castillo), a mother who illegally immigrates to the United States, and her nine-year-old son, Carlitos (Adrián Alonso). Rosario and Carlitos have not seen each other in four years, since Carlitos was five. Rosario, now living in Los Angeles, California, calls her son, (still in Mexico), every Sunday at 10 A.M. from a payphone. Carlitos lives in a small Mexican village with his sick grandmother and his oppressive aunt and uncle, who try to take custody of him in order to get the money that Rosario sends to him. One day, while working for a woman named Carmen (Carmen Salinas), Carlitos encounters two American immigrant transporters (coyotes), Martha (America Ferrera) and David (Jesse Garcia), who offer to smuggle small children across the border.

, 1h25
Directed by C. Thomas Howell
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Mars in film, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Political films, Dystopian films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors C. Thomas Howell, Christopher "Kid" Reid, Fred Griffith, Dashiell "Dash" Howell, Sanaa Lathan, Darren Dalton
Rating20%
George Herbert explains that despite years of searching for extraterrestrial life, mankind never expected the invasion which devastated human civilization into anarchy, and that the aliens were killed by a lack of immunity to the bacteria in the human blood they consumed. Two years later, a town is seen, populated with silent refugees including characters Shackleford and Sissy. Suddenly, three Tripods land in the city. People are struck by a Heat-Ray. Shackleford takes a sample of Sissy's blood, with which he injects himself.

Directed by Hart Bochner
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Dylan Walsh, Tracy Middendorf, Danny DeVito, Justin Long, Anika Noni Rose, Will Rothhaar
Rating55%
This film is an offbeat romantic comedy about Ray Tuckby (Dylan Walsh), a decent guy with a dead-end life in the dead-end town of Trona, California. After discovering that his wife has had an affair with his brother Mark and that his son Eddie (Jonah Hill) is actually Mark's son, he decides to start his life all over again.

, 1h51
Genres Drama
Rating67%
A sensitive and ironic portrayal of life in a Chinese industrial town, where a law clerk contends with her clients’ litany of woes, her shady boyfriend’s gambling addiction, her estranged father and the threat of toxic pollution.

, 1h22
Directed by Guillaume Ivernel
Origin France
Genres Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Films about dragons, Children's films
Actors Vincent Lindon, Patrick Timsit, Philippe Nahon, Amanda Lear, Jérémy Prévost, Marie Drion
Rating65%
Zoe is a little girl who believes in fairy tales. Not because she is naive, but because she likes fairy tales. So in order to help her uncle Lord Arnold gets rid of a terrible dragon, Zoe decides she has to find some heroes. And when she meets Gwizdo and Lian-Chu – a couple of two-bit, fly-by-night dragon hunters – well what the heck, she decides that she’s going to believe in them anyway!

, 1h48
Directed by Tyler Perry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films based on plays
Actors Tyler Perry, Angela Bassett, Lance Gross, David Mann, Tamela Mann, Lamman Rucker
Rating45%
Brenda (Angela Bassett) is a single Chicago mother of three who has been struggling for years to keep her kids off of the streets. Suddenly let go from her job with no warning to speak of, the eternally optimistic mother begins to experience a suffocating sense of hopelessness for the very first time in her life. When Brenda receives a death notice claiming that the father she has never met has died, she quickly gathers up the kids and sets out for Georgia to attend the funeral. Upon arriving in the Deep South, the once fretful mother is pleasantly surprised to discover that there is a whole side of the family she never knew existed. A crass but good-natured clan that welcomes Brenda and her children with open arms, the Browns' lazy summer afternoons and frequent trips to the county fair offer a much-needed contrast to the stress of surviving in inner city Chicago.

, 1h57
Directed by Katsuhide Motoki
Genres Drama
Actors Rena Tanaka, Mayuko Fukuda, Etsushi Toyokawa, Ryō Kase, Chizuru Ikewaki, Reiko Takashima
Rating68%
Akari is neglected by her father, a top surgeon who works long hours and puts his career before family. Her mother is hospitalized because of an incurable disease. Therefore, Akari longs for a dog who can keep her company. One day, a Golden Retriever puppy unexpectedly appears in the garden of Akari's house, and Akari immediately decides to adopt it. At her mother's suggestion, Akari christens it "Socks", because the puppy's white paws made it look like it was wearing white socks. Her mother also made Akari promise that she will follow The Ten Commandments of Dog Ownership when she takes care of Socks. Akari also has a friend, Susumu, who is groomed by his family to become a professional guitarist. Susumu soon forms an attachment with Socks as well.

, 1h42
Directed by Steven Brill
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about school violence
Actors Owen Wilson, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, David Dorfman, Alex Frost, Josh Peck
Rating57%
On the first day of high school, Wade and Ryan witness two bullies, Filkins and Ronnie, attack a geek, Emmit, by stuffing him into his locker. Wade intervenes. Filkins and Ronnie begin endlessly targeting Wade, Ryan and Emmit.

, 1h41
Directed by Benson Lee
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Rating75%

, 1h25
Directed by Masayuki Ochiai
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Transport films, Rape in fiction, Ghost films, Rape and revenge films, Children's films
Actors Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, Megumi Okina, John Hensley, David Denman, James Kyson
Rating52%
Ben Shaw (Joshua Jackson) and his new bride, Jane (Rachael Taylor), leave New York for Tokyo, Japan, where Ben has a job as a photographer. While traveling, Jane hits a girl in the middle of the wilderness, running over her. They find no body or even a trace of blood and decide to leave, thinking the victim was all right. They later start to find mysterious lights in their photos, which are later identified as spirit photography by Ben's assistant, Seiko Nakamura (Maya Hazen). Jane begins to have eerie dreams and visions as if they are trying to tell her something, and senses a haunting presence stalking them. Ben begins to complain of severe shoulder pain, and his friends begin to comment he's looking bent and hunched over, though the doctor can find no cause. Seiko takes Jane to her ex-boyfriend, Ritsuo (James Kyson Lee), whose career is to investigate paranormal activities, and he tells them that the lights are spirits, manifestations of intense emotions trying to communicate. At a subway station, Jane spots the ghostly presence of the girl she hit, causing her to believe that she killed the girl. Ben later also has a similar terrifying encounter. They go to a medium, Murase; however, Ben refuses to translate what Murase says, claiming he is a fraud.

, 1h26
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films set in the future, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Films based on plays
Actors Corin Nemec, Nancy Allen, Bruce Weitz, Meredith Salenger, John de Lancie, Gail Strickland
Rating58%
My Apocalypse is the surrealistic story of Stewart Savage (played by Nemec), who is actually the notorious serial killer known as the North City Stalker. Stewart still lives with his parents, Jack (played by Weitz) and Linda (played by Allen), in an overcrowded future world where the polar ice caps have melted and the military controls all aspects of everyday life. The Savages only have their apartment for half a day. At 6 p.m., they must turn it over to Nathan Eastman (played by de Lancie), his wife Victoria (played by Strickland), and their son Victor (played by Harper).

, 1h55
Directed by Philippe Claudel
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Frédéric Pierrot, Laurent Grévill, Catherine Hosmalin
Rating75%
When Juliette Fontaine, formerly a doctor, is released from prison, her younger sister Léa invites her to stay with her family – including her husband, his mute father, and their two adopted Vietnamese daughters – in their home in the university town of Nancy in Lorraine. Why Juliette was in prison is revealed slowly throughout the film: first, that she was in prison for 15 years, then that her crime was murder, then that the victim was her 6-year-old son Pierre, and finally the reason why she killed him.