Cinema releases by week

, 2h2
Directed by Fatih Akın
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Nurgül Yeşilçay, Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz, Hanna Schygulla, Yelda Reynaud, Erkan Can
Rating76%
Yeter's Death Retired widower Ali Aksu (Tuncel Kurtiz), a Turkish immigrant living in the German city of Bremen, believes he has found a solution to his loneliness when he meets Yeter Öztürk (Nursel Köse). He offers her a monthly payment to stop working as a prostitute and move in with him. After receiving threats from two Turkish Muslims, she decides to accept his offer. Ali's son, Alisan Nejat (Baki Davrak), a professor of German literature, does not have time to respond to the prospect of living with a woman of "easy virtue" before Ali is stricken with a heart attack. He softens to her: he learns that she sends shoes to Turkey for her 27-year-old daughter and wishes that her daughter could receive an education like his.

, 2h3
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life, Political films, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Arme nucléaire
Actors Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt
Rating61%
In 1957, Indiana Jones and his partner George "Mac" McHale are kidnapped in Nevada by Soviet agents under Colonel Dr. Irina Spalko. The Soviets infiltrate warehouse labeled "Warehouse 51" and force Jones to locate an alien corpse with a crystal skull, recovered ten years earlier. Upon its discovery, Mac reveals he is a double agent working for the Soviets. Jones escapes, unsuccessfully attempts to retrieve the skull, and in a fight with Spalko's sadistic henchman, Colonel Antonin Dovchenko, they both fall onto a rocket sled, which ignites and speeds them away. Jones staggers away and, still pursued, arrives in a model town at the Nevada Test Site, minutes before an atomic bomb test, and takes shelter in a lead-lined refrigerator. Jones is rescued, decontaminated, and arrested by FBI agents, who suspect him of working for the Soviets; and though freed on the recommendation of General Ross, who vouches for him, he is put on indefinite leave of absence from Marshall College.

, 1h24
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films, Political films
Rating75%
In 2003, the Iraqi heavy-metal band Acrassicauda was the subject of a Vice magazine article. With the magazine's help, they were able to stage a sell-out show in 2005 despite the recent ousting of Saddam Hussein. Filmmakers from Vice returned to Iraq in 2006 to track down the band. Upon their return they discovered the multitude of death and destruction, including rehearsing studios destroyed by bombs.

, 1h34
Directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Enfant soldat
Rating66%
Johnny Mad Dog follows a group of LURD child soldiers fighting in 2003, during the latter part of the Second Liberian Civil War. The actors are mostly aged 10 to 15. All were unknowns when cast; some were themselves child soldiers. The film follows their march towards the capital Monrovia, and follows them in a gritty realistic manner as they move through a series of towns and villages, where they terrify and often execute the populace.

, 1h36
Directed by Noboru Iguchi
Origin Japon
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror, Crime
Themes Ghost films
Actors Minase Yashiro, Honoka, Asami Sugiura, Noriko Kijima, Kevin Collins, Brina Palencia
Rating59%
Ami Hyūga is an average high school girl whose world comes crashing down when her brother Yu and his friend Takeshi Sugihara are killed by bullies, led by Sho Kimura. As Ami tracks down Sho, she discovers that the bullies are associated with a ninja-yakuza family. She goes after the clan for revenge, but they brutally overpower her, cutting off her left arm. Ami escapes and seeks out shelter from Takeshi's parents, Suguru and Miki Sugihara, two kindly garage mechanics who fit her with a multi-barrelled machine gun prosthetic. Ami and Miki (who uses a chainsaw) go after the clan, massacring them one by one. Their victims' families, meanwhile, band together to get revenge of their own.

, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Tony Luke, Jr.
Rating30%
Jeffrey leads a quiet existence. Living in constant fear of being labeled a psychopath, Jeffrey constructs a complex world of denial. He is haunted by the spirits of the vengeful dead, which he can see while no one else can. After meeting Dana, a beautiful young woman who shares his "sight", Jeffery finds comfort in knowing someone shares his affliction. But his comfort is short lived as Dana suddenly goes missing and Jeffrey is left alone to find the answers.

, 1h20
Directed by Kelly Reichardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Michelle Williams, Will Patton, Will Oldham, Larry Fessenden, John Robinson, Gabe Nevins
Rating70%
Wendy Carroll is a young woman who sets her sights on Alaska in hopes of starting a new life with her dog Lucy, travelling in her car with limited supplies and a straining budget of a little over $500 left for the trip. Stranded in Oregon when her car breaks down and lacking the funds to repair it, Wendy faces yet another challenge when she is apprehended for shoplifting and Lucy disappears while she is in police custody.

, 1h30
Directed by Amat Escalante
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Rating61%
A Los Angeles, comme chaque matin, Fausto et Jesus, deux travailleurs mexicains clandestins, attendent au coin d'un terminal de bus dans l'espoir d'être embauchés. Les tâches sont ingrates et très mal payées, mais la nécessité de gagner un peu d'argent leur met une pression intense. Aujourd'hui, ils ont trouvé un travail beaucoup mieux payé. Aujourd'hui, leur outil de travail est un fusil à canon scié.

, 1h33
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Fairuza Balk, Greg Bryk, Walter Learning, Zachary Bennett, Matt Gordon
Rating45%
Coupables de l’accident qui plongea leur fils dans un coma irréversible, Graham et Hannah ne supportent plus leur terrible fardeau. Avant de sombrer dans la folie, ils décident de s’isoler à la campagne. Ils ignorent que la vieille demeure qu’ils occupent renferme aussi ses secrets et que leurs nouveaux voisins ont des moeurs bien étranges…

Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films, Serial killer films
Actors Daryl Hannah, Leah Gibson, Luke Camilleri
Rating44%
The film begins with a young woman named Amy (Leah Gibson) fleeing a masked, black-clad man wielding a machete (Twan Holliday). Meanwhile a female driver named Carrie (Daryl Hannah) is pressured to stay the night at a local motel by a man named Jimmy (also Holliday), but refuses. She drives on and nearly hits Amy, who persuades Carrie to take her to the next town. While in the car, Amy reluctantly tells Carrie her story.

, 2h50
Directed by Armand Mastroianni
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films
Actors Dean Cain, Anthony Michael Hall, Ernie Hudson, Lea Thompson, Shailene Woodley, Sunny Mabrey
Rating48%
Jack Bender (Dean Cain) suddenly finds himself in a hostile situation as a group of highly trained and well-armed terrorists, led by Greg Gilliad (Anthony Michael Hall), seize the airplane on which he is traveling, a Lockheed L-1011 of Infinity Air Flight 732 from Newark International Airport to LAX. Bender must re-immerse himself into a world he thought he left behind forever.

Directed by Pierre Schoeller
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Guillaume Depardieu, Max Baissette de Malglaive, Judith Chemla, Aure Atika, Patrick Descamps, Alain Libolt
Rating66%
Paris, en 2008. Un enfant et sa jeune mère dorment dehors. Nina, est sans emploi, ni attaches, Enzo a 5 ans. Nina trouve un journal avec un article sur une association aidant les sans-emploi, elle décide d'aller les voir pour essayer de sortir de sa misère avec son fils.

, 1h40
Directed by Roel Reiné
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror
Actors Lance Henriksen, James Russo, D.C. Douglas, Jim Hanks
Rating38%
Secret U.S. military interrogations of suspected terrorists are being conducted on an American World War II-era ship in the Persian Gulf. After mysterious sounds are heard on the ship, an unexplained force kills the crew. When contact with the ship is lost, the army sends a team of Marines and two scientists to investigate. When they land on the ship, they discover that almost all the crew have been killed. The team, led by Col. John Willets (Lance Henriksen), cannot make contact with command, while the ship drifts toward Iranian waters. Willets interrogates one of the scientists and learns that the mysterious force is the ghost of a Nazi officer who was created to be a secret weapon. The ghost, which has strong psychic powers, is trapped on the ship and the two scientists were sent to try to capture it. Meanwhile, the supposed terrorist being interrogated onboard turns out to be an MIT-educated decoy (who was forced to impersonate a terrorist). He aids in the efforts to destroy the ghost, before being killed by it.

, 1h38
Genres Drama, Horror
Actors Jin Goo, Kim Tae-woo, Ko Joo-yeon, Kim Bo-kyung, Uhm Ji-won, Jeon Moo-song
Rating62%
Dr. Park Jung-nam finds a photo album dating back to his days as an intern at the Ansaeng Hospital. This triggers memories of his life. In 1942, as a young medical intern, Jung-nam's arranged marriage ended when his fiancée, whom he had never met, committed suicide. Later he was assigned to monitor the morgue late at night. There he fell in love with a corpse, which is later revealed as the body of his deceased fiancée. Soon other mysterious events take place in the hospital, involving a young girl haunted by ghosts and a serial killer targeting Japanese soldiers.

, 1h35
Directed by Gregori J. Martin, Darnell Williams
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ilene Kristen, Forbes March, Aiden Turner, David Fumero, Sophie Turner
Rating68%

, 1h38
Genres Comedy
Actors Şafak Sezer, Peker Açıkalın, Melih Ekener, Cengiz Küçükayvaz, Deniz Akkaya
Rating31%
After an unsuccessful bank robbery, as well as the failure of a spontaneous ambush upon the oil plant in Iraq, the clumsiest comedy heroes of Turkish Cinema finally decide to retire from their small criminal lives. However, the dignified career as exterminator suffers many infamous perils, as the lovable idiots inhale more insecticide than the insects themselves. Thus the doctor prescribes a vacation at the seaside. But then there is Rocky Selim, a wicked crook from the underworld, disguised as an honorable businessman, who is planning a perfect casino robbery in North Cyprus. His plan is flawless. Yet, he is desperately in need of a criminal gang, to carry out his plan. As a fortunate coincidence, the paths of the masked gang overlap with Rocky Selim, who hires them instantly. As usual, with no preparations at all, overzealous and bustling, the masked gang follows the call of the justice a bit too spontaneously, and starts implementing the plans of Rocky Selim. Surely, with the methods of complete madmen.

, 1h38
Directed by Liu Fendou
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy
Actors Liao Fan, Lam Suet, Simon Yam, Lawrence Cheng, Hui Shiu-hung, Bryan Leung
Rating60%
The film tells the story of a punk's entanglements with a pure young girl.

, 1h38
Directed by Hany Tamba
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Patrick Chesnais, Julia Kassar, Mahmoud Mabsout, Karine Lazard, Laurence Colussi, Denis Maréchal
Rating64%
Jamil, a rich business man in Lebanon, decides to bring a once famous French singer, Bruno Caprice, to his wife's birthday (Randa). Bruno, who was known namely for one song "Quand tu t'en vas" in the 70's, accepts the invitation and goes to Beirut. But things get complicated when Randa is kidnapped, and Jamil decides that the show must go on.

Directed by Yam Laranas
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Jesse Bradford, Kevin Durand, Amelia Warner, Iza Calzado, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Jayne Eastwood
Rating55%
After serving prison time for manslaughter, Bobby Reynolds is released on probation from Rikers, and moves to the old apartment in East Village, New York, where his lonely mother lived and died while he was incarcerated. He finds a job as a mechanic at the Houston Auto Repair shop owned by the supportive Hector Rodriguez and tries to rebuild his life.

, 1h21
Genres Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Vampires in film, Comedy horror films
Rating38%

, 46minutes
Genres Fantasy, Animation
Actors Māya Sakamoto, Kenichi Suzumura, Takako Honda, Jouji Nakata, Mamiko Noto, Soichiro Hoshi
Rating70%
Following the incident in the second movie, Shiki is being carried by ambulance to a hospital where she lies in coma (the cause will be revealed in the final movie). Mikiya visits her very frequently, leaving rose bouquets which garner him praises by the nurses for his commitment to visit Shiki all this time. Time passes, and Mikiya graduates from high school and then meets Toko Aozaki in a doll exhibition, who then hires him.

, 2h4
Directed by Patrick Huard
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Inspiré de l'univers des contes et légendes, Films about magic and magicians, Films about pigs
Actors Claude Legault, Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Paul Doucet, Julie Perreault, Violette Chauveau, Mahée Paiement
Rating69%
Two brothers (Legault, Lemay-Thivierge) discuss the positive and negative aspects of adultery as their mother lies beside them in a coma, while their brother Rémi (Doucet) attempts to discourage them. Their conversations become more explicit as time passes.

, 1h55
Directed by Chung Mong-hong
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama
Actors Chang Chen, Kwai Lun-mei, Leon Dai, Chapman To, Jack Kao
Rating68%
On Mother’s Day in Taipei, Chen-Mo (Chang Chen) makes a dinner date with his wife (Gwei Lun-mei), hoping to improve their estranged relationship. While he is buying a cake on his way home, a car double-parks next to his, preventing his exit. For the entire night, Chen-Mo searches for the owner of the car and encounters a succession of strange events and eccentric characters: an old couple living with their precocious granddaughter who have lost their only son; a one-armed barbershop owner cooking fish-head soup; a mainland Chinese prostitute trying to escape her pimp’s cruel clutches; and a Hong-Kong tailor embroiled in debt and captured by underground loan sharks.

, 1h50
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Mafia films, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Political films, Gangster films
Actors Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Piera Degli Esposti, Anna Bonaiuto, Paolo Graziosi, Flavio Bucci
Rating72%
As the film opens, Giulio Andreotti gives an inner monologue observing how he has managed to survive his tumultuous political career while his various detractors have died. A montage shows the murders of various people connected to Andreotti, including journalist Mino Pecorelli, Carabinieri general Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, bankers Michele Sindona and Roberto Calvi, and former prime minister Aldo Moro.

, 1h36
Directed by Garth Jennings
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about films, Films about religion
Actors Bill Milner, Will Poulter, Jules Sitruk, Jessica Hynes, Adam Godley, Neil Dudgeon
Rating69%
Will (Bill Milner) is quiet and shy, and comes from a family that belongs to the strict Plymouth Brethren church. Will is forbidden to watch films or television and is made to leave his classroom when the teacher puts on a documentary. In the corridor, he meets Lee Carter (Will Poulter), the worst-behaved boy in school, thrown out of another class for bad behaviour. They accidentally break a fish bowl in the corridor; Lee volunteers to take the blame, pretending that the punishment is torture, in exchange for Will's watch, which belonged to his dead father. Moreover, Lee demands that Will performs the stunts in a film Lee is making with home video equipment owned by his bullying older brother, Lawrence (Ed Westwick), which Lawrence uses in his video pirating enterprise. He intends to enter the Screen Test Young Film-Makers' Competition.

, 1h10
Directed by Steven C. Miller
Origin USA
Genres Action, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Rating37%
In the early 1970s, when everyone in America was worrying about what was going on in Vietnam, the United States Army was secretly developing a way to resurrect and control the dead. Their intention was to have the dead fight instead of the living, but the experiments were shut down when the reanimated corpses were unable to control their hunger for human flesh.

, 2h47
Directed by James A. Contner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about sharks, Natural horror films
Actors Daryl Hannah, John Schneider, Armand Assante, F. Murray Abraham, Roark Critchlow, Heather McComb
Rating35%
Corporate real estate tycoon Hamilton Lux (Armand Assante) sets his sights on developing the quaint seaside town of Full Moon Bay into a prime getaway for the wealthy, but runs into some unexpected problems. Lifelong fisherman Daniel Wilder (John Schneider) and wife Brooke (Daryl Hannah) own property exactly where Lux wants to build high-priced condos, and isn't planning to sell. Lux secretly laces the local waters with a toxin deadly to marine life, decimating the fishing industry in an attempt to starve Daniel out. Alas, the chemical react differently on the area's sharks, drastically increasing their aggressive tendencies and transforming them into engines of pure destruction moving in coordinated swarms. Without fish to feed on, shark attacks on humans rapidly increase. Lux uses media contacts to paint the attacks as random incidents. Daniel, his marine biologist brother and a concerned E.P.A. agent must expose Lux's plan and rid the area of the chemically-altered sharks before the town's entire population is devoured by hungry sharks.

, 2h30
Directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Christmas films, Films about cancer
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny, Melvil Poupaud, Émile Berling
Rating69%
Junon Vuillard is Abel Vuillard's wife, and the iron-willed matriarch of the Vuillard family. Junon held her family together through many tough times, and although her willpower helped the family survive and prosper, it also has left many bad feelings among her children. Junon is still a handsome woman, and though her husband (who owns a small fabric dying plant) has become obese and clearly aged, he retains a remarkable clarity, acceptance, tolerance, and unconditional love for his family, and it is clear that he and their love for each other is the lynchpin that holds an otherwise fragmented family together, albeit uneasily.