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Ethel (2012)
on 20 january 2012 Origin USAGenres DocumentaryThemes Films about familiesActors Walter Cronkite,
Edward R. MurrowRating78%
The documentary shows the story of a normal family guided by parents who are aware of the need to improve the world around them, and encourage their children to acknowledge those needs and do something about it. Scenes include the early years of the family, when they lived in the country. We see episodes of the History of the United States, and realize that the Kennedy parents and children were there., 1h28
Directed by Christopher RayOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Action,
HorrorThemes Films about animals,
Films about magic and magicians,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Films about sharks,
Natural horror films,
Mise en scène d'un poisson,
Giant monster filmsActors Carmen Electra,
Charlie O'Connell,
Brooke Hogan,
Christina BachRating25%
A group of friends wakeboarding are attacked and devoured by a two-headed great white shark. Meanwhile, a Semester at Sea ship, called the Sea King, led by Professor Franklin Babish (O'Connell) and his wife, Anne (Electra) hits a dead shark, which becomes lodged in the boat’s propeller and damages the ship's hull, causing the boat to take on water. Soon after, the two-headed shark attacks the boat and breaks the radio antenna, preventing ship co-captain Laura (Thompson) from summoning help. The group then notices a deserted atoll nearby, so Laura drives the Sea King closer, before Professor Babish takes the students over to the atoll on a dinghy, while Anne remains on the Sea King with Laura and the ship's crew, Han (Webb) and Dikilla (Valentin)., 1h22
Directed by Matt RossOrigin USAGenres Drama,
RomanceActors Chris Messina,
Marin IrelandRating57%
A novelist and a corporate accountant conduct an affair over a period of several years, meeting only when they are each traveling for work in a city far from their homes. The film takes a minimalist approach: it consists entirely of scenes between the two of them in hotel rooms., 1h45
Directed by Roel ReinéOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
Action,
AdventureThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about magic and magicians,
Sports films,
Martial arts filmsActors Victor Webster,
Temuera Morrison,
Krystal Vee,
Selina Lo,
Billy Zane,
Ron PerlmanRating37%
A handful of years after giving Mathayus the prophecy that his peaceful kingdom wouldn't last forever, Cassandra dies. Mathayus allows his kingdom to fall apart in the aftermath of the deadly plague which claimed his wife's life and he believes his reign of nobility to be over. Mathayus then becomes a mercenary once more, just as he was prior to his war with Memnon. Talus who is the younger brother of Horus, a powerful king of Egypt wishes to conquer his brother's kingdom since Horus was made the king over him. In order to do so, Talus along with an army goes to the Far East to steal the Book of the Dead from Ramusan, a king who is an ally of Horus. To stop Talus, Horus hires Mathayus and pairs him up with the Scandinavian warrior Olaf. In turn, Talus kidnaps Ramusan's daughter, Silda. Ramusan then tells Mathayus that if he can save his daughter, he will have the right to wed her and once again raise a kingdom., 1h40
Directed by Michel HazanaviciusOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about animals,
Films about films,
Films about television,
Films about dogs,
Musical films,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors Jean Dujardin,
Bérénice Bejo,
James Cromwell,
John Goodman,
Uggie,
Penelope Ann MillerRating78%
In 1927, silent film star George Valentin is posing for pictures outside the premiere of his latest hit film when a young woman, Peppy Miller, accidentally bumps into him. Valentin reacts with humor to the accident and shows off with Peppy for the cameras. The next day, Peppy finds herself on the front page of Variety with the headline "Who's That Girl?" Later, Peppy auditions as a dancer and is spotted by Valentin, who insists that she have a part in Kinograph Studios' next production, despite objections from the studio boss, Al Zimmer. While performing a scene in which they dance together, Valentin and Peppy show great chemistry, despite her being merely an extra. With a little guidance from Valentin (he draws a beauty spot on her, which will eventually be her trademark, after finding her in his dressing room), Peppy slowly rises through the industry, earning more prominent starring roles., 1h36
Origin BresilGenres DramaActors Wagner Moura,
Lima Duarte,
Mariana LimaRating67%
Theo is a doctor that leads a good life in a wealthy Brazilian neighborhood. He always gave priority to work, leaving the family at second plan, but little by little Theo discovers that everything around him is collapsing. His mentor and father figure is dying and his wife wants to divorce him. But nothing could prepare him for the day that his 15-year-old son, Pedro, disappeared without a trace. Theo embarks on a quest that leads him through Brazil, discovering what really matters to him. Searching for his missing son, Theo finds himself., 1h24
Directed by Mikael SalomonGenres Drama,
CrimeActors Rob Lowe,
Kaley Cuoco,
Catherine Dent,
Cara Buono,
Danielle Savre,
Romy RosemontRating59%
Drew Peterson est un sergent de police d'une cinquantaine d'années apparemment irréprochable. Marié à sa troisième femme, Kathleen, avec qui il a eu deux enfants, il s'éprend de Stacy, 19 ans. Son mariage bat de l'aile et se termine par un divorce houleux. Peu de temps après, Kathleen est retrouvée morte dans une baignoire vide. Après son quatrième mariage avec Stacy et l'arrivée de deux autres enfants, Drew se révèle jaloux, possessif et autoritaire. Stacy lui demande de quitter la maison mais il refuse de perdre sa famille. Puis elle disparaît soudainement, en laissant les enfants. Grâce à l'intervention d'une voisine et à la mobilisation de la sœur de Stacy, l'affaire Drew Peterson attire l'attention de tous les médias., 1h51
Origin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes L'adolescence,
Films about children,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
Gangster films,
Teen LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors James Floyd,
Saïd Taghmaoui,
Bashy,
Letitia Wright,
Elarica Gallacher,
Michael-Joel StuartRating64%
Mo (Fady Elsayed) and Rashid "Rash" (James Floyd) are teenage brothers of Egyptian descent living with their parents in Hackey. Elder brother Rash is fiercely protective of Mo, giving him a TV when he does well and encouraging him to stay in school. However Mo begins to want to emulate Rash who works as a low level drug dealer and is able to use money from his job to pay for small luxuries to make their lives more comfortable., 1h37
Directed by Kirby DickOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Documentary,
Historical,
CrimeThemes Films about sexuality,
Rape in fiction,
Documentary films about law,
Documentary films about war,
Documentary films about historical events,
Documentaire sur une personnalité,
Documentary films about health careActors Kirby Dick,
Amy ZieringRating75%
The Invisible War features interviews with veterans from multiple branches of the United States Armed Forces who recount the events surrounding their assaults. Their stories show many common themes, such as the lack of recourse to an impartial justice system, reprisals against survivors instead of against perpetrators, the absence of adequate emotional and physical care for survivors, the unhindered advancement of perpetrators' careers, and the forced expulsion of survivors from service., 2h13
Directed by Jang HoonGenres Drama,
War,
ActionThemes Political filmsActors Shin Ha-kyun,
Go Soo,
Lee Je-hoon,
Ko Chang-seok,
Ryu Seung-soo,
Kim Ok-vinRating72%
Early in the Korean War in 1950 as the North is rolling through South Korea, South Korean privates Eun-pyo and Soo-hyeok are captured during a battle and brought to North Korean captain Jung-yoon. Jung-yoon declaims to the prisoners that the war will be over in a week and that he knows exactly why they are fighting this devastating war, brother against brother. Afterwards he lets the prisoners go free, so that they can help reconstruct the nation after the war., 1h33
Directed by Steven SoderberghOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Martial arts,
Action,
Spy,
Crime,
Martial artsThemes Spy films,
Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Kung fu filmsActors Michael Fassbender,
Gina Carano,
Ewan McGregor,
Bill Paxton,
Channing Tatum,
Antonio BanderasRating57%
Former Marine Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) goes to a diner in Upstate New York to meet Aaron (Channing Tatum). He tells her to get in his car, but she refuses and they fight. He pulls out a gun, but she disarms and pistol-whips him. Scott (Michael Angarano), a customer in the diner, intervenes and Mallory demands his car keys and that he get in the car. As they flee, she explains who she is and what has happened to her. The flashback sequences are intermixed with scenes of their flight., 2h5
Directed by George Lucas,
Anthony HemingwayOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political films,
Children's films,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Terrence Howard,
Daniela Ruah,
Bryan Cranston,
Nate Parker,
David OyelowoRating59%
In 1944, as the air war over Europe enters a deadly phase with increasing losses of bombers, the 332d Expeditionary Operations Group (the Tuskegee Airmen) consisting of young African-American USAAF fighter pilots, after enduring racism throughout their recruitment and training in the Tuskegee training program, are finally sent into combat in Italy. Although flying worn-out Curtiss P-40 Warhawk aircraft and chafing at their ground attack missions, the Tuskegee Airmen recognize they may never fight the Luftwaffe. The tight-knit group of Capt. Martin "Easy" Julian, 1st Lt. Joe "Lightning" Little, 2nd Lt. Ray "Ray Gun" Gannon, 2nd Lt. Andrew "Smokey" Salem, and 2nd Lt. Samuel "Joker" George under the guidance of Major Emanuel Stance and Col. A.J. Bullard, face a white military bureaucracy still resistant to accepting black flyers as equals., 2h
Directed by Dante LamOrigin Hong kongGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Road movies,
Chase filmsActors Jay Chou,
Nicholas Tse,
Lin Peng,
Michelle Bai,
Andy On,
Carl NgRating59%
IDC (International Defense Commission) agent Sean Wong (Andy On) and his team members are in Jordan on a dangerous mission to escort a scientist named Kenner Osama Muhammad, who has stolen a copy of the smallpox virus, to Norway. On the way out of the country, the convoy were ambushed by a group of assailants. It was later revealed that Sean has betrayed the team for his own agenda and shot his colleagues Jon Man (Jay Chou) and his girlfriend Ice (Michelle Bai). Sean then escapes with Kenner and the virus. The failed mission left Ice dead while Jon has a bullet lodged in his brain with no safe way to remove it and only two weeks to live. Three months later, the crew of a freight ship on Malaysian water was found to have been infected and killed by the smallpox virus. Elsewhere, Sean contacts an arms dealer called Tyler (Jared Robinson), who suggests to mutate the virus into a biological weapon, develop a vaccine and sell it to a corrupt pharmaceutical company. In Beijing, Jon returns home to spend his remaining days with his mother (Elaine Jin), who tells him that he has a long lost brother, Man Yeung (Nicholas Tse) whom she left behind with his father, Man Tin (Liu Kai Chi).Escape (2012)
on 21 january 2012 , 1h30
Origin USAGenres Drama,
ThrillerActors C. Thomas Howell,
John Rhys-DaviesRating44%
After the unexpected death of their infant, doctors Paul (C. Thomas Howell) and Kim Jordan (Anora Lyn) decide to leave America and travel to Thailand on a medical mission. While they're adapting to their new life, Paul is kidnapped and taken to an isolated island by human traffickers, who need a doctor to save their wounded leader. Kim is left to find her husband on her own, unable to prove the reason for his disappearance. Paul is imprisoned with Englishman Malcolm Andrews (John Rhys-Davies), who is being held for ransom. The two men quickly discover that their philosophies are polar opposites: Andrews is a highly spiritual man, while Paul is a strict atheist. Paul later learns that he cannot save his kidnappers' leader without modern equipment, to which he has no access. Paul and Andrews decide to plan an escape as their last hope for survival., 1h33
Origin DanemarkGenres Drama,
Comedy,
RomanceThemes Sports filmsActors Kim Kold,
David Winters,
Barbara Zatler,
Patrick JohnsonRating70%
Despite his physique, Dennis (Kim Kold), a thirty-eight-year-old Danish bodybuilder, has never had a girlfriend and lives with his elderly mother, Ingrid (Elsebeth Steentoft), in a small town outside Copenhagen. On arriving home from a date gone south, Dennis undergoes his mother's interrogation on his whereabouts. He fabricates a story about going to the movies which hints at a possessiveness on her part that makes it difficult for him to form relationships. Things appear even more bleak when his uncle, Bent (Allan Mogensen), marries a younger woman from Thailand, making Dennis feel even more hopeless about his situation., 2h2
Directed by Ralph FiennesOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
ActionThemes Théâtre,
Political films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on works by William ShakespeareActors Ralph Fiennes,
Gerard Butler,
Vanessa Redgrave,
Brian Cox,
Jessica Chastain,
Paul JessonRating60%
In a contemporary day alternate version of Rome, riots are in progress after stores of grain are withheld from citizens and civil liberties are reduced due to a war between Rome and neighbouring Volsci. The rioters are particularly angry at Caius Martius (Ralph Fiennes), a brilliant Roman general whom they blame for the city's problems. During a march, the rioters encounter Martius, who is openly contemptuous and does not hide his low opinion of the regular citizens. The commander of the Volscian army, Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler), who has fought Martius on several occasions and considers him a mortal enemy, swears that the next time they meet in battle will be the last. Martius leads a raid against the Volscian city of Corioles and during the siege, with much of Martius's unit being killed, Martius gathers reinforcements and the Romans take the city. After the battle, Martius and Aufidius meet in single combat, which results in both men being wounded but ends when Aufidius' soldiers drag him away from the fight., 2h9
Directed by Stephen DaldryOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Films based on the September 11 attacks,
Films about children,
Films about families,
Medical-themed films,
Films about terrorism,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilities,
Dans un avion,
Films about autism,
Disaster films,
Films about hijackingsActors Tom Hanks,
Sandra Bullock,
Thomas Horn,
Max von Sydow,
Viola Davis,
John GoodmanRating69%
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn) is the son of German American Thomas Schell (Tom Hanks). Thomas would often send Oskar on missions to do something involving one of his riddles. The last riddle he ever gives Oskar is proof that New York City once possessed a Sixth Borough. In a flashback, Thomas and Oskar play a scavenger hunt to find objects throughout New York City. The game requires communication with other people and is not easy for the socially awkward Oskar who is told "If things were easy to find, they wouldn't be worth finding"., 1h19
Origin USAGenres Comedy,
Action,
AdventureActors John KarnaRating45%
On a normal day at a private high school, three teenagers, Andrew Edwards, John Woo, and Luke Locktin find themselves suspended from school after graffitiing a bathroom stall, in response to The Catcher in the Rye being banned at the school, a book which Andrew favors. After being suspended for the rest of the week, Andrew calls up Luke and John and tells them of his plan to hit up the city, living a life similar to that of The Catcher in the Rye. Throughout the course of the week many events occur, such as John ending up drunkingly having sex with a homeless woman after finding out that his teacher, whom he was infatuated with, was a lesbian. Andrew hires a prostitute, Caramel, (played by Adelaide Lummis) who has pretend sex with Luke as he gets nervous, but they later have consensual sex later., 1h19
Directed by Katie AseltonOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
HorrorActors Lake Bell,
Kate Bosworth,
Katie Aselton,
Jay Paulson,
Anslem RichardsonRating48%
Sarah (Kate Bosworth) invites her childhood friends, Abby (Katie Aselton) and Lou (Lake Bell), to a remote island that they once spent time at in their youth, in hopes of bringing their distant group back together. Though Abby and Lou are reluctant, they go with Sarah to the island. While there, they use a hand drawn map to try and find a time capsule they had buried as kids. They give up after Abby picks a fight with Lou over Lou having slept with her boyfriend years ago, something Abby has never gotten over and which ruined their friendship., 1h19
Origin USAGenres Documentary,
HistoricalThemes Documentary films about citiesRating74%
The film begins with a former resident of the Pruitt–Igoe public housing complex returning to the site of the buildings in the north side of St. Louis, and noting that in spite of the decades since the planned demolition of the buildings, the site remains largely vacant. It continues by detailing the decision by the city to replace 19th century tenement housing with high-rise public housing, ultimately designed by Minoru Yamasaki (later the famed designer of the World Trade Center) in the modernist style as thirty-three 11-floor buildings. , 1h51
Origin JaponGenres Science fiction,
Fantasy,
Action,
Adventure,
AnimationActors Rie Kugimiya,
Māya Sakamoto,
Shin-ichiro Miki,
Fumiko Orikasa,
Romi Park,
Toshiyuki MorikawaRating68%
The movie begins with a young girl, Julia Crichton, waking up from a dream about the day her family was forcibly taken from her home by soldiers beside her older brother Ashley, who is currently studying their parents' alchemy books. Ashley then shows his sister some pages and explains that with the alchemy in the book, he hopes to make a world that no one's seen before. Soon after discovering two strange rubbed-out pages, the siblings hear some strange noises and Ashley goes ahead to investigate, but a worried Julia follows to a room where she finds the bodies of her parents hung up and dripping blood. She watches in horror as her brother is attacked and presumably murdered to which she faints., 1h28
Directed by Måns MårlindOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
Action,
HorrorThemes Films about animals,
Films about magic and magicians,
Medical-themed films,
Wolves in film,
Werewolves in film,
Vampires in film,
Films about viral outbreaks,
Mise en scène d'un mammifère,
Disaster filmsActors Kate Beckinsale,
Sandrine Holt,
Theo James,
Michael Ealy,
India Eisley,
Stephen ReaRating63%
Six months after the events of the second film, humans have captured Selene during "The Purge", a global military crusade to exterminate vampires and lycans. Vampires have waged guerrilla warfare against the government, but the humans have overrun them, forcing the survivors to hide underground and resist the humans on their own.