Cinema releases by week

, 2h18
Directed by Karan Johar, Ayan Mukerji
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Ranbir Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Anupam Kher, Supriya Pathak, Rahul Khanna, Kashmira Shah
Rating75%
Siddharth "Sid" Mehra (Ranbir Kapoor) is the carefree son of wealthy businessman Ram Mehra (Anupam Kher). A resident of Mumbai, Sid's only interest is to have fun and spend his father's money. Thus, he spends little time at college and is not prepared for final exams. A day after the final exams, Sid's father tells him it is time to join his company, Flower Showers - a bathroom furnishings manufacturer - for 30 days, which Sid reluctantly does only after his father tempts him with the promise of a new car.

, 1h46
Directed by Frères Coen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Simon Helberg, Fred Melamed, Adam Arkin, Michael Lerner
Rating69%
In a prologue, a Jewish man in an unnamed Eastern European shtetl tells his wife that he was helped on his way home by Traitle Groshkover, whom he has invited in for soup. She says Groshkover is dead and must be a dybbuk. Groshkover (Fyvush Finkel) arrives and laughs off the accusation, but she plunges an icepick into his chest. Bleeding, he exits into the snowy night.

Directed by Clare Kilner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about virginity
Actors Rob Schneider, Jenna Dewan, Brianne Davis, Bo Burnham, Sarah Habel
Rating43%
Priscilla White (Jenna Dewan) is a prim and proper girl. She has a boyfriend, Brad (Ben Marten), but is "saving herself" sexually until marriage. She starts her freshman year at Pennington College as a scholar from her sexual abstinence group. In her dorm room she meets hallmates Chuck (Chase Ryan Jeffery) and Kevin (Elan Moss-Bachrach), Kevin's girlfriend Eileen (Ashley Schneider), and her own roommate, Natalie "The Naz" (Brianne Davis). Naz is Priscilla's polar opposite: she smokes cigarettes and pot, drinks alcohol, and is very sexually active.

Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about computing, Films about magic and magicians, Films based on science fiction novels, Wolves in film, Dracula films, Frankenstein films, Werewolves in film, Witches in film, Vampires in film, Cyberpunk films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Dustin Fitzsimons, John McGarr
Rating53%
Dr. Bela Reinhardt (Ron Chaney) is a mad doctor who has invited five people to his castle to determine which of them shall inherit his estate. He has arranged for a competition of sorts. The winner will be chosen by process of... elimination.

, 1h47
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Matthew Lillard, Brett Davern, Rachelle Lefèvre, Efren Ramirez, Tom Arnold, George Takei
Rating46%
After Alex Sperling, a Harvard-bound valedictorian, loses his summer internship, he heads to Los Angeles to work for his cousin Roger. Unfortunately, Roger isn't the successful businessman he's made himself out to be (having dropped out of Harvard and becoming a pool boy). After a series of mishaps force Alex and Roger to squat in the mansion of one of Roger's clients, they join forces with a local escort to start an escort business. As the business quickly grows, the boys find themselves trapped in the middle of outlandish situations.

, 1h51
Directed by Florent-Emilio Siri
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, French war films, La colonisation française, Films about terrorism, Algerian War films, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Benoît Magimel, Albert Dupontel, Aurélien Recoing, Mohamed Fellag, Marc Barbé, Abdelhafid Metalsi
Rating68%
The film is set in 1959 during the Algerian War. Lieutenant Terrien (Benoît Magimel), an inexperienced and naïve junior French Army officer, has volunteered for active service, rather than a safe staff post in Algiers. He is posted to Kabylie, a remote and mountainous region of Algeria, as a replacement for Lieutenant Constantin (Hicham Hlimi) who was killed during a ‘friendly fire’ incident commanding a counter-insurgency ambush operation – i.e. he was accidentally killed by his own side during a confused fire-fight. The war in Algeria is much more complicated than Lieutenant Terrien anticipated as he takes over command of his new platoon at the outpost "Mazel". Within hours of taking over his new command Terrien is ordered to lead a ‘locate and destroy’ mission into the zone interdite (the 'Forbidden Zone') to find a World War II French Army veteran named Slimane, now a local commander of Algerian rebels trying to win the independence of their homeland. Slimane is never seen in person during the film.

Directed by Mark Polonia
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Rating48%
A school janitor devises an evil scarecrow to exact revenge on those who have tormented him, but then loses control of his fiendish creation.

Directed by Anthony Waller
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Adrian Paul, Kate Nauta, Meredith Ostrom, Amanda Douge, Anthony Waller, Adrian Lukis
Rating53%
In the Sahara desert, a sandstorm batters a deserted drilling station. Thomas "Jack" Jackman a security patrolman, battles through the high winds to find out why all contact with the station has been lost. Originally built for gas exploration, and then abandoned, the site had recently been taken over by a multi-national research team intent on drilling deeper into the earth's crust than ever before.

, 1h37
Directed by Brett Sullivan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Rating67%
The pinball industry made more money than the American film industry during the 1950s through the 1970s. Special When Lit explores the former pop icon of the pinball machine, and through interviews with fans, collectors, designers and champion players from across the globe, traces pinball's history through to the present day.

, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Rating34%
The film follows Susan (Lira Kellerman) and Drake (Michael Holmes), a couple who has agreed to act as caretakers of a mansion based loosely on the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California. Susan and Drake are relentlessly tormented by ghosts who dwell in the house and finally turn to Harrison Dent (Tomas Boykin), a paranormal investigator whom they hope may be able to put the house's ghosts to rest.

, 1h36
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about pornography, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Chris Pratt, Brendan Hines, Shayne Lamas, Scott Caan, Denise Richards, Rachel Sarah Specter
Rating44%
Lester Watts (Chris Pratt) works at a liquor store, happily selling alcohol to minors while spending his spare money on his porno collection. His best friend since third grade, Carl (Brendan Hines) works a corporate job at his British fiancee's family's company. He wants to leave the job and work somewhere else, but she angrily tells him he has no choice and that he must stay; it is clear that she is completely in control of the relationship.

Directed by Adi Ezroni
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about slavery, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about pedophilia, Films about prostitution, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about prostitution, Documentary films about child abuse, Films about child abuse
Actors Lucy Liu, Reena
Rating73%

, 1h21
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Snuff films in fiction, Films about television, Serial killer films
Actors Sophie Monk, Tad Hilgenbrink, Janet Montgomery, Alex Wyndham, William Sadler, Ewan Bailey
Rating54%
Tyler is obsessed with the film, considered being the scariest movie ever made, with the deranged serial-killer Babyface in the lead role. However, the director, Wilson Wyler Concannon, and the movie vanished many years ago and there is no known copy. When Tyler discovers that Concannon's daughter Alexa works in a night club, he decides to meet her and ask about the lost film. Tyler's obsession with the film causes him to neglect his girlfriend Serena. He visits Alexa, who works as a stripper, and asks her about the project. As she gives him a nude lap dance, the audience sees Serena cheating on Tyler with their best friend Lalo. After Tyler helps Alexa with her addiction to heroin, she tells him that the movie might be in her father's home in the woods.

, 1h39
Directed by Ricky Gervais
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Alternate history films
Actors Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill, Louis C.K., Rob Lowe, Tina Fey
Rating63%
The film features a narrative set in an alternative reality in which there is no such thing as lying and everything said is the absolute truth. In this world people make blunt, often unintentionally cruel statements. Not being able to lie has resulted in this alternative reality having no religions. The absence of fiction results in a movie industry limited to lecture-style historical readings and advertisements as bluntly truthful as the people are.

, 1h51
Directed by Drew Barrymore
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, Roller derby, Children's films
Actors Ellen Page, Alia Shawkat, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Drew Barrymore, Juliette Lewis
Rating68%
Bliss Cavendar (Ellen Page) is a misfit in the small town of Bodeen, Texas, with no sense of direction in her life. Her mother, Brooke (Marcia Gay Harden), a former beauty queen, pushes her to enter beauty pageants despite her lack of interest. During a shopping trip to Austin with her mother, Bliss encounters three roller derby team members and finds herself intrigued by the sport in which teams and players are given pun names that highlight the violent aspect of the sport. Intrigued, she and her friend Pash attend a roller derby bout under the pretense of going to a football game, where they see the "Holy Rollers" defeat the "Hurl Scouts", a perennially unsuccessful derby team.

Directed by David Dhawan
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Sushmita Sen, Govinda, Lara Dutta, Ritesh Deshmukh, Sohail Khan, Ranvir Shorey
Rating37%
The film is based on Raj (Govinda) who has a girlfriend, supermodel Dolly (Lara Dutta), and a wife, Kiran (Sushmita Sen). Raj fires Mangu (Rajpal Yadav), a cook, because of attempting to seduce the female staff. To take revenge, Mangu takes a picture of Raj with Dolly and gives it to Kiran. Kiran gets suspicious but then Raj says that Dolly is not his girlfriend. He says that there are three people in the picture, Raj, Dolly and Govardhan (Ritesh Deshmukh). Raj tells Kiran that the guy, who came into the picture as he was walking by, is Dolly's boyfriend and tells Govardhan to live with Dolly for a couple of days so Kiran's suspicions will go away.

, 2h7
Directed by Michael Moore
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Films about religion, Films about the labor movement, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about religion, Documentaire sur le monde du travail, Political films
Actors Thora Birch, Michael Moore, Robert Powell, Wallace Shawn, Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Rating73%
The film begins with a series of security footages of armed bank robberies (one of the robbers was on a crutch) accompanied by the song Louie, Louie. Moore then uses an Encyclopædia Britannica archive video to compare and view modern-day America with the Roman Empire, by juxtaposing depictions of the fall of the Roman Empire with similar modern-day American issues. The film then depicts home videos of families being evicted from their homes, as well as the "Condo Vultures," a Florida real estate agency whose business flourished with the increasing number of foreclosures.

, 2h35
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Cha Seung-won, Song Yun-ah, Kim In-kwon, Park Won-sang, Ryoo Seung-ryong, Oh Jung-se
Rating64%
Kim Seong-yeol is a young Detective in Homicide with the Seoul police. A year earlier, he'd had an affair with his colleague’s wife and, slightly drunk on his way back from meeting her, had caused his daughter's death in a car accident. Wracked with guilt but unable to explain what had happened on that day, he is no longer on speaking terms with his wife, Ji-yeon, who obviously blames him for their only child's death. One day, Ji-yeon goes out all dressed up but comes home unexpectedly disheveled and with blood spatters on her blouse but refusing to explain herself. Seong-yeol is called out to investigate the murder of a man with gang connections and is horrified to find trace evidence that hints at his wife's presence at the scene. He assumes that his wife is connected to the murder, and does all he can to keep her from being identified as a suspect. When a mystery man contacts him, claiming to know Ji-yeon is involved and asking for money, the situation is made worse by Ji-yeon refusing to tell him anything at all.

, 1h21
Directed by Alejandro Chomski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Jesse Garcia, Angela Sarafyan, Bai Ling, Debi Mazar, Rena Owen, Jonathan LaPaglia
Rating43%
A young woman, Maggie (Angela Sarafyan), is on the run from her abusive father. David (Jesse Garcia) is an illegal immigrant working as a dishwasher while searching for his mother in Los Angeles. The two meet, and fall in love.

, 1h34
Directed by Tamarat Makonnen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors James Russo
Rating63%
Billy (Shawn-Caulin Young), a teenage outcast drifts into his own vivid imagination to escape his bleak surroundings. His father (James Russo) is a paraplegic whose own dreams of happiness have faded away in an alcoholic haze. In a twisted attempt to find his purpose in life, the teen hatches a plot to seek vengeance on the man who allegedly crippled his father many years ago. However, he soon finds that things aren't always what they seem, as his mission for revenge may ultimately become one for his very own survival.

, 2h15
Directed by Lu Chuan
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Political films
Actors Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, John Paisley, Sam Voutas, Jiang Yiyan, Junichi Kajioka
Rating76%
City of Life and Death is set in 1937, shortly after the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing (or Nanking), capital of the Republic of China. What followed is historically known as the Nanking Massacre, a period of several weeks wherein massive numbers of Chinese prisoners-of-war and civilians were killed by the Japanese military.

, 1h30
Directed by Damjan Kozole
Origin Slovenie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Nina Ivanišin, Cédric Brelet von Sydow
Rating61%
Ljubljana 2008. The time of the Slovenian presidency of the European Union. Aleksandra (Nina Ivanišin) is a 23-year-old English language student. She comes from a small town. Her parents are divorced. No one knows that Aleksandra runs personal ads under the nickname, “Slovenka” (the Slovenian Girl) and that prostitution is her secret source of income. She’s very good at manipulating others (including her father and ex-boyfriend), is an accomplished liar and a bit of a thief. She resents her mother and regards her as being selfish. Her ambition is to escape the banality of her home town and settle in the big city, but her clandestine job leads her to a dangerous encounter with local criminals.

, 1h2
Directed by Robert Greenwald
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about terrorism, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films
Rating69%
Part 1: More Troops + Afghanistan = Catastrophe, questions the value of increasing the number of US troops in Afghanistan.

, 1h18
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about cities
Rating74%
In a Dream is a documentary about Philadelphia-based artist Isaiah Zagar that was filmed and directed by his son, Jeremiah. Isaiah is famous for his complex, highly detailed mosaics, which cover 50,000 square feet (4,600 m) of South Philly with elaborate designs made from tiles and mirror pieces. These mosaics chronicle his relationship with his wife, Julia, and make him a dominant figure in the city’s arts scene. Zagar reveals many personal details of his life during the film, including revelations about his childhood and the existence of an adulterous relationship that threatens to tear his family apart.

, 1h22
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Rating45%
Travis cares for his mentally disabled younger brother and works as a torturer for hire. He is also addicted to heroin; it is ketamine, however, that catapults him into the realm of a black-eyed demon called Morbius. Morbius informs Travis that his brother has been taken by another demonic troublemaker called Mister Skinny. Mister Skinny appears as a diaper-wearing fat caucasian butcher in a pig mask who first entices the boy to eviscerate his slumbering baby-sitter. If Travis helps Morbius exact vengeance then Morbius will allegedly help Travis find his dead brother.

, 1h23
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Documentary films about health care
Rating70%

, 1h7
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about children, Seafaring films, Transport films, Batman films, Superman films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Clancy Brown, Kevin Conroy, Timothy Daly, Xander Berkeley, Corey Burton, Ricardo Antonio Chavira
Rating71%
LexCorp's CEO, Lex Luthor, has been elected President of United States during a severe nationwide economic depression. Under his leadership, the economy begins to thrive, and he assembles a force of government-employed superheroes consisting of Captain Atom, Katana, Black Lightning, Power Girl, Starfire, and Major Force. Meanwhile, Superman and Batman maintain their distrust toward Luthor.

, 1h33
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Alex Frost, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Sumpter, Michelle Lombardo, Cynthia Watros, Andrew Wilson
Rating58%
Calvin Marshall is a charismatic student at Bayford City College. When he tries out for the baseball team for the third straight year, ex-minor leaguer Coach Little is exasperated by Calvin's persistence despite his lack of baseball skills. Determined to make the team, Calvin wins Little over with pure heart and love of the game. While rehabbing during an injury, Calvin announces games for the Lady Bisons volleyball team and is entranced by their star, Tori. Preoccupied with caring for her sick mother and more interested with meaningless flings, Tori is unsure what to make of Calvin's advances.

, 2h
Directed by Sérgio Rezende
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, Crime
Rating62%
The film portrays the fictional story of Lúcia, a widowed middle class piano teacher whose 18-year-old son Rafael is imprisoned before the riots because of his participation in a car accident which resulted in the death of a girl. While visiting her son at jail, Lúcia meets Ruiva (English: Redheaded), lawyer of "the Professor", leader of the PCC (referred in the movie as "The Command"). The two women soon bond, and Ruiva starts using Lúcia in tasks for the criminal organization. Lúcia needs the money so she ends up accepting the mission, putting herself in the boundary between legality and crime. Meanwhile, The Command is experiencing a turbulent internal dispute for power, while facing a common enemy: the prison system.

, 1h39
Directed by James McTeigue
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films
Actors Rain, Naomie Harris, Ben Miles, Sho Kosugi, Lee Joon, Rick Yune
Rating63%
Raizo is raised by the Ozunu Clan to become the most lethal ninja assassin in the world. As an orphaned child, Raizo was taken in by Lord Ozunu and is enrolled in severe brutal training to become the next successor of their ninja clan. The only kindness he was ever shown was from a young kunoichi named Kiriko, with whom he eventually develops a romantic bond. As time goes on, Kiriko becomes disenchanted with the Ozunu's routine and wishes to abandon it for freedom. One rainy night, Kiriko decides to make her escape and encourages Raizo to join her; however he decides to stay. Branded as a traitor, Kiriko was caught and later executed in front of Raizo by their elder ninja brother Takeshi, impaling her through the heart. As a result of Kiriko's death, Raizo begins to harbor resentment and doubt towards the Ozunu; however, this is shown to be in the past.

, 1h29
Directed by Jared Hess
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action
Actors Michael Angarano, Jemaine Clement, Jennifer Coolidge, Sam Rockwell, Halley Feiffer, Héctor Jiménez
Rating60%
Benjamin Purvis lives with his mother Judith, who designs tacky clothes and makes rock hard popcorn balls. Judith and Benjamin make ends meet by working at a women's retail clothing store. Benjamin spends his spare time writing science fiction stories, and he has recently completed a story called Yeast Lords, which centers on a hero named Bronco, modeled after his long-dead father.

, 1h34
Directed by H.P. Mendoza
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors H.P. Mendoza
Rating56%
Fruit Fly is a musical comedy about Bethesda, a Filipina performance artist finding home in the unlikeliest places. She moves into an artist commune in an attempt to workshop her latest piece which deals with finding her lunch. In the process, she finds an artistic family, clues of her lunch’s whereabouts, and the startling possibility that she just might be a fag-hag.

, 1h18
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Films based on works by H. P. Lovecraft, Giant monster films, Disaster films
Actors Kyle Davis, Sujata Day, Todd Duffey, Richard Riehle, Martin Starr
Rating54%
Jeff Philips is working a dead end job at a call center. One day, an old man arrives at his apartment to tell him he is the last descendent of H.P. Lovecraft and must guard a relic to keep it from being reunited; if the pieces of the relic are united while the stars are in alignment, the sunken city of R'lyeh will rise from the sea and the demonic creature Cthulhu will be released upon an unsuspecting world.

, 1h37
Directed by John Hyams
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about computing, Medical-themed films, Sports films, Films about terrorism, Martial arts films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films
Actors Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Corey Johnson, Kerry Shale, Aki Avni, Zachari Baharov
Rating53%
A group of terrorists led by Commander Topov (Zahary Baharov) kidnap the Ukrainian prime minister's son and daughter and hold them hostage, demanding the release of their imprisoned comrades within 72 hours. In addition, they have taken over the crippled Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and threaten to detonate it if their demands are not met. It is revealed that among the ranks of the terrorists is an experimental Next-Generation UniSol (NGU) (Andrei "The Pit Bull" Arlovski), who was smuggled in by rogue scientist Dr. Colin (Kerry Shale). U.S. forces join up with the Ukrainian army at the plant, but quickly retreat when the NGU slaughters most of them effortlessly. Dr. Porter (Garry Cooper), Dr. Colin's former colleague on the Universal Soldier program, revives four UniSols to take down the NGU, but they are systematically eliminated.

, 1h24
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Rating44%
After giving up on ever finding a mate, 40-year-old Joe (Randy Ryan) meets his dream girl, Amanda (Ariana Dubynin), and marries her. But when his new wife reveals a very deep, dark secret, Joe begins questioning the true meaning of love. Steve Marra writes and directs this unconventional romantic comedy that boldly challenges prevailing viewpoints on gender and affection. Amy Esacove, Doug Johnson and Faith Marie co-star.