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W. (2008)
on 17 october 2008 , 2h9
Directed by Oliver StoneOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
Comedy-drama,
HistoricalThemes Films about alcoholism,
Medical-themed films,
Politique,
Films about drugs,
Political films,
White House in fictionActors Josh Brolin,
Elizabeth Banks,
James Cromwell,
Ellen Burstyn,
Richard Dreyfuss,
Toby JonesRating62%
The film opens with George W. Bush (Josh Brolin), dreaming of being a baseball player and is in the stadium with a empty crowd cheering for him. In 1966, Bush endures an alcohol-fueled initiation by his fellow Yale University students as a Delta Kappa Epsilon pledge. During the hazing, Bush successfully recalls the names and nicknames of many of the fraternity members, and states that his family's political legacy is one in which he has no interest. A little later, after Bush is jailed in New Jersey for rowdiness following a football game, his father, George H. W. Bush (James Cromwell), states that he will help Bush, but for the last time. Following his graduation from Yale, Bush takes a job at an oil patch back in his home state of Texas, but he quits after only a few weeks. In 1972, "Junior" reveals his real aspirations in a father-son talk: working in professional baseball, in some capacity. Soon afterwards, Bush is accepted into Harvard Business School with the help of his father. That night after drinking heavily, Bush crashes his car into his family estate and challenges his father to a fistfight. His brother, Jeb (Jason Ritter) intervenes and stops the fight., 1h35
Directed by Christian MolinaOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Belén Fabra,
Leonardo Sbaraglia,
Geraldine Chaplin,
Ángela Molina,
Antonio Garrido,
Natasha YarovenkoRating56%
Val, a young, middle-class woman with a strong desire for sex, finds herself destitute after an abusive boyfriend runs off with all her money, and begins to earn a living as a high-class call girl but finds herself enjoying this life more than she could have hoped – or feared., 2h
Directed by James A. ContnerOrigin USAGenres DramaActors Florence Henderson,
Michael Ensign,
Judith Baldwin,
Donna Mills,
Pam Grier,
Lance HenriksenRating59%
A house owned by a church to be sold to fund the day care center's need of major remodeling. The pastor enlists three women to take on the project: Birdie, Rose, and Elizabeth. Initially they want to hire someone to do it all, but as their budget is limited, they realize they must to do it themselves. As they remodel the decrepit house, Elizabeth (Donna Mills) discovers her marriage is over, Birdie (Pam Grier) deals with her husband's retirement, and Rose (Florence Henderson) copes with the news that her husband (Lance Henriksen), has been diagnosed with cancer. They also make unlikely friendships with men at the local hardware store, and their intimidating neighbor, Junior., 1h27
Origin USAGenres Comedy,
RomanceActors Zachary Levi,
Fran Kranz,
Sarah Shahi,
Bonnie Somerville,
Kathy Baker,
Brian GeorgeRating69%
American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. Ray's Nordic mother threw him out. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his girlfriend - who hasn't given him an answer. While trying to get his parents back together, Ray meets a South Asian girl of mixed descent, just like him, and must decide where his identity truly lies.Directed by Brian JunOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Horror,
CrimeActors Eliza Dushku,
Brian Krause,
Gabriel Mann,
Michelle Horn,
Michael Welch,
Brandon DeShazerRating54%
The story centers on around the mysterious death of repeat drunk driving offender Kevin Thacker and the discovery of his body in an alley behind the Marshalltown, Iowa, police department after his latest DUI arrest. , 1h20
Genres Comedy,
AnimationActors Jiří Lábus,
Miroslav TáborskýRating33%
The film features a comedic story about a friendship between the village-boy Kuba and his goat in medieval Prague. In Prague, Kuba falls in love with Máca, a worldly girl. The Goat begins to envy this relationship. Their story intertwines with that of the poor student Matěj Tale from Faust House and his contract with the Devil., 1h40
Directed by John MooreOrigin CanadaGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Films about computing,
Jeu,
Films about video games,
Films based on video games,
Children's filmsActors Mark Wahlberg,
Mila Kunis,
Beau Bridges,
Ludacris,
Chris O'Donnell,
Donal LogueRating53%
Detective Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) is a three-year veteran in the Cold Case Unit of the New York City Police Department (NYPD). He is consumed with investigating and finding the murderer of his wife Michelle and their infant child Rose. Max's snitch, Trevor, supplies information that leads Max to three drug addicts in an empty train station. They attempt to rob Max in a bathroom; instead, Max interrogates one of them about his family’s murder, with no results. While one of the drug addicts runs away he is attacked by shadowy, winged man-creatures and is hit by a train. At Trevor's apartment, Max meets Natasha Sax (Olga Kurylenko), who gets into an argument with her sister, Mona (Mila Kunis). When Natasha storms off, Max searches for her in the back where partiers are using the drug "Valkyr". Max is silently confronted by Jack Lupino (Amaury Nolasco), but Natasha takes Max back to the party. Max notices Natasha’s tattoos and wants information about them, so he invites her back to his apartment. However, when Natasha tries to seduce Max, she makes insensitive comments about his wife, and Max kicks her out. Natasha leaves through an alley, and is attacked by the winged shadow creatures., 1h35
Directed by Gregg BishopOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Horror comedy,
HorrorThemes Medical-themed films,
Comedy science fiction films,
Zombie films,
Films about viral outbreaks,
Comedy horror films,
Disaster filmsActors Jared Kusnitz,
Carissa Capobianco,
Randy McDowell,
Justin Welborn,
Mark Oliver,
Blair RedfordRating58%
A high school prom in Georgia is unexpectedly interrupted when a graveyard, next to a power plant, becomes the sudden source of resuscitated cadavers. As zombies march on the high school, a motley group of dateless teenage outcasts, among them Jimmy (Jared Kusnitz), Lindsey (Greyson Chadwick), Steven (Chandler Darby) and Kyle (Justin Welborn), take on the zombies and save the day., 1h54
Directed by Paul GrossOrigin CanadaGenres Drama,
War,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Political filmsActors Caroline Dhavernas,
Gil Bellows,
Paul Gross,
Joe Dinicol,
Adam Harrington,
Michael GreyeyesRating63%
The main character is Sergeant Michael Dunne (later reverting to his mother's maiden name McCrae for re-enlistment), introduced in the spring of 1917 after Vimy Ridge, a decorated veteran of the 10th Battalion, CEF., 1h43
Origin USAGenres Thriller,
HorrorActors Jeffrey Combs,
Timothy Bottoms,
Patrick Kilpatrick,
Sean Young,
Alison Brie,
Kathryn Leigh ScottRating51%
Danny Sloan (Dylan Purcell) is an art student who works in a record shop. He visits his friend Billy (Dov Tiefenbach), who is in drug rehab in hospital. Billy suggests Danny goes to see the "psycho ward" before he leaves, to see Byron Volpe (Patrick Kilpatrick), a serial killer kept in a padded cell after being convicted of murdering his wife Madeline (Sean Young) by hypnotizing her into jumping from a building. Volpe is explained to have extraordinary powers of hypnotism, and is kept restrained and hooded to stop hospital staff from seeing his eyes. During the visit, Danny sees Laura Baxter (Cherilyn Wilson) sleeping in the room next to Volpe. She suffers from a form of parasomnia in which she sleeps most of the time, and wakes occasionally for short periods of time., 1h44
Directed by Barry LevinsonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Films about filmsActors Robert De Niro,
Sean Penn,
Catherine Keener,
Stanley Tucci,
John Turturro,
Robin WrightRating55%
Ben (Robert De Niro), a veteran Hollywood producer, is suffering a number of professional and personal problems. His latest film, Fiercely, has a disastrous test screening, mostly because of its ending which features the murder of its main character (played by Sean Penn, who plays himself elsewhere in the film) along with his pet dog., 1h34
Directed by Derick MartiniOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Films about familiesActors Rory Culkin,
Emma Roberts,
Alec Baldwin,
Jill Hennessy,
Kieran Culkin,
Timothy HuttonRating67%
Set in 1979 Syosset, Long Island, New York, Lymelife follows two families, the Bartletts and the Braggs, who crumble when tangled relationships, real estate problems, and Lyme disease converge in the heart of suburbia. 15-year-old Scott Bartlett is a gentle boy, radically different from his blustery father Mickey and mother Brenda. An outbreak of Lyme disease, as well as the accompanying paranoia, hits their community hard.Origin USAGenres Drama,
ComedyThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about cancerActors Harry Connick,
Paula Cale,
Angie Harmon,
Amanda Bynes,
Bernadette Peters,
Regina KingRating67%
The film follows the true story of Dr. Dennis Slamon (played by Harry Connick, Jr.), who helped develop the breast cancer drug Herceptin, over the course of 8 years from 1988 to 1996. Dr. Slamon is a research doctor at UCLA Medical Center (Los Angeles), where he has developed the experimental drug Herceptin, which he believes will become a treatment for breast cancer. However, when the drug company stops funding for research, philanthropists, including Lilly Tartikoff (Angie Harmon) and Ronald Perelman help him continue tests of the drug. Funding was done with an initial donation from Perelman's Revlon charity, and continued over the years with the "Fire and Ice Ball" organized by Tartikoff. , 13minutes
Origin United-kingdomGenres Comedy-dramaActors Sally Bretton,
Thomas NelstropRating67%
In flashback, Niall (Thomas Nelstrop), a local news reporter, recalls visiting his mother's grave, as he smartens up in a toilet mirror. His colleague Tammy (Sally Bretton) knocks on the toilet door to hurry him up and as they walk to the car she instructs him on the art of the 'death-knock': knocking on the doors of the recently bereaved to obtain quotes and pictures of the deceased for the newspaper. Niall's poor track record has put his job on the line and Tammy has been detailed to improve his hit-rate. When they reach the house of Mrs Wright, who has lost her son in a car accident, Niall goes in first while Tammy waits outside. Before Niall can introduce himself and launch into his spiel that Tammy has prepared for him, Mrs Wright (April Nicholson) interrupts him - "I know who you are" - and ushers him into the house. There she ropes him into unstacking the dishwasher as Niall tries in vain to broach the subject of the bereavement against the sound of a fire alarm which has been set off by the cigarette Mrs Wright is smoking. Mrs Wright appears baffled by Niall's requests for pictures and instead offers him some soup telling him they will look at some pictures "in the morning", much to Niall's surprise. She then leads him upstairs to the bedroom and encourages him to get some rest. Trapped in the bedroom, Niall examines the dead boy's belongings and finds himself playing with his toys. Meanwhile, Tammy waits outside taking a phone call from her boss at the newspaper, to whom she explains that Niall "is still in there, so he must be doing alright". Whilst playing with a light sabre, Niall knocks off a shelf-load of items and as he picks them up, he finds a photo of the dead boy. Mrs Wright, alerted by the noise, appears behind him and embracing Niall, she tells him: "it's been a long day: time for bed." Tammy knocks at the door and attempts to talk to Mrs Wright about the accident in which her son was killed, but Mrs Wright replies that her son is in his room and that there must be some mistake. Closing the door, she is nonetheless shaken by Tammy's insistence that her son is dead and she climbs the stairs to the bedroom where she finds Niall tucked up fast asleep in her son's bed. She kisses him on the cheek and switches out the light., 1h34
Directed by Gary JonesOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
HorrorActors Chuck Hittinger,
Erin Cahill,
Mimi Michaels,
George Maguire,
Nikki Sanderson,
Matt RippyRating46%
The film begins with Dr. Mitchell Allen's (Tobin Bell) daughter, Audrey (Nikki Sanderson). Audrey proceeds to take a shower and while doing so sees a hand with a black glove. Scared, Audrey gets out and goes to her room to sleep. Her dog, however is up and wants to play ball. To get him away she throw the ball in the closet, After a while, she gets worried her dog hasn't come back yet. She walks to the closet and finds blood lining the closet. She backs away and, with a scream, gets pulled, under her bed., 1h49
Directed by Sean AndersOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Adventure,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Transport films,
Erotic films,
LGBT-related films,
Road movies,
Teen LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related films,
Films about virginity,
LGBT-related filmActors Josh Zuckerman,
Amanda Crew,
Clark Duke,
Seth Green,
James Marsden,
Alice GreczynRating64%
Ian Lafferty (Josh Zuckerman) is an 18-year-old recent high school graduate. He searches for a girl online making it seem as if he is attractive and strong, although he's sweet and unassuming. He soon meets "Ms. Tasty" (Katrina Bowden) and agrees to meet her in person. She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, while he lives in Chicago, Illinois. With his best friends Lance Nesbitt (Clark Duke) and Felicia Alpine (Amanda Crew), he goes to Knoxville in a 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge borrowed without permission from Ian's arrogant homophobic older brother Rex (James Marsden).Origin USAGenres Drama,
WesternActors James McDaniel,
Saeed Jaffrey,
Frank John Hughes,
T. Max Graham,
Kelley HuntRating47%
Peter Salem, a former Wall Street executive recently released from prison, returns to his ex-wife and children in the small town of Bunker Hill, Kansas. Soon after he arrives, the town's electricity and power are shut off, and there is no way to communicate with authorities outside of town. The town's militant past is reawakened and forces coalesce to protect citizens from an unseen enemy. The town's fear leads to the creation of a posse of gunmen, resulting in torture, illegal searches and eventually, murder, against which Salem must stand. , 1h15
Directed by MadonnaOrigin United-kingdomGenres Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
MusicalThemes Musical filmsActors Eugene Hütz,
Ade,
Vicky McClure,
Richard E. Grant,
Stephen Graham,
Olegar FedoroRating53%
Described as a comedy/drama/musical/romance, the story revolves around a Ukrainian immigrant named A.K. (Hütz) who finances his dreams of rock glory by moonlighting as a cross-dressing dominatrix and his two female flatmates: Holly (Weston), a ballet dancer who works as a stripper and pole-dancer at a local club and Juliette (McClure), a pharmacy assistant who dreams of going to Africa to help starving children.Train (2008)
on 16 october 2008 , 1h34
Directed by Gidi RaffOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
HorrorThemes Medical-themed films,
Psychologie,
Transport films,
Rail transport films,
Serial killer films,
Films about psychiatry,
Film se déroulant dans un trainActors Thora Birch,
Gideon Emery,
Derek Magyar,
Kavan Reece,
Gloria Votsis,
Ivan BarnevRating47%
In Eastern Europe, a group of US college athletes unknowingly board a train that will become one deadly ride. The students are participating in a wrestling championship; they include Todd (Derek Magyer) and his girlfriend Alex (Thora Birch), Sheldon (Kavan Reece), Claire (Gloria Votsis), and young assistant coach Willy (Gideon Emery). After a hard match, they sneak away from their hotel to an underground club. However, the next morning, they return too late for their train to Odessa. , 1h54
Directed by Baillie WalshOrigin United-kingdomGenres DramaThemes Films about televisionActors Daniel Craig,
Harry Eden,
Claire Forlani,
Felicity Jones,
Eve,
Emilia FoxRating67%
Joe Scott (Daniel Craig) is a has-been actor, who seemed to have had great success at one time but who now just spends his time drinking, doing drugs and sleeping with random women. The only person he has in his life is his personal assistant Ophelia and even she is getting tired of him. He receives a call from his mother to say his childhood best friend, Boots, whom he has not seen in years, has died. He attends a disastrous meeting with an up-and-coming director and his agent, who has lost interest in Joe. Joe learns he will not get the part he had hoped would restore his flagging career. His agent tells him that he is washed up, no one wants to work with him and quits. This upsets Joe, who goes for a walk along the beach and walks into the waves. Floating in the sea, he remembers his teenage life.