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0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Other Go on an emotional journey through the rich, complex and often tragic history of the Northern Irish capital - accompanied by a powerful soundtrack by DJ and film composer David Holmes - and explore the poetic beauty of this controversial but inspiring city. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary, Other Go on an emotional journey through the rich, complex and often tragic history of the Northern Irish capital - accompanied by a powerful soundtrack by DJ and film composer David Holmes - and explore the poetic beauty of this controversial but inspiring city....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 84% 71% In Theaters: August 24, 2012 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 30m | Drama Watch Trailer Winner of a 2012 Audience Award at Sundance, comedian Mike Birbiglia wrote, directed and stars in this sincere and hilarious film, based on his off-Broadway show and bestselling book. It’s also the first movie co-written by Ira Glass and co-produced by “This American Life.” The story: when an aspiring stand-up fails to express his true feelings about his girlfriend and his stalled career, his anxiety comes out in increasingly funny and dangerous sleepwalking incidents....

336 votes and 56 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 91% In Theaters: August 14, 2015 R | 2h 37m | Documentary, Drama Watch Trailer STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON traces the meteoric rise and fall of N.W.A. – five young men who translated their experiences growing up in Compton, California in the mid-1980s into brutally honest music that rebelled against abusive authority, revolutionizing music and igniting a cultural war....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 90% 1h 35m | Documentary When a handful of West Virginia residents discover DuPont has been pumping its poisonous Teflon chemical into the air and public water supply of more than 70,000 people, they file one of the largest class action lawsuits in the history of environmental law. As the citizens of Parkersburg rise up against the forces that polluted their town, the story builds out to dozens of other American cities....

244 votes and 98 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 66% 81% In Theaters: August 8, 2014 PG | 2h 2m | Drama Watch Trailer After a tragic incident, the Kadam family, led by Papa (Om Puri), moves from their native India to make a fresh start in a safer place. Their van breaks down just outside the quaint village of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val in the south of France. They’re rescued by Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon), who takes them in and gives them an exquisite meal....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: May 27, 2016 (limited) May 27, 2016 (limited) 1h 38m | Drama Watch Trailer The Idol focuses on the childhood of Mohamad Assaf, a famous winner of the TV talent show Arab Idol, which is the Arab world’s answer to American Idol. Mohamad Assaf (Qais Atallah), 10, and his twelve-year-old sister Nour (Hiba Atallah) are both obsessed with music. After scheming to purchase instruments, they start a band with their friends Ashraf (Ahmad Qassim) and Omar (Abdelkarim Abu Baraka)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Film star Lylah Clare is dead, but her legend lives on. Movie-producer Barney Sheean (Ernest Borgnine) hires Elsa Brinkmann (Kim Novak), the living image of the late Lylah, to star in a film based on Ms. Clare’s life. Barney hires director Lewis Zarkan (Peter Finch), Lylah’s former husband, to transform the talentless Elsa into a facsimile of the deceased screen queen. Elsa not only learns to imitate Lylah but, at crucial junctures, becomes the dead woman....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | Drama, Romance Love of great literature is one of the outstanding features of South American culture. This Argentine drama, mixes imagination and reality and includes a film-within-a-film story about making a film about Kafka. The writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born to a German Jewish family in Czechoslovakia. In an uncanny way which prefigured the Holocaust, Kafka wrote about absurd, terrifying situations taking place in a nihilistic universe in which almost everyone can be considered a victim....

4 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 81% 48% In Theaters: September 26, 2014 (limited) PG-13 | Thriller Watch Trailer A glamorous American couple, the charismatic Chester MacFarland and his alluring younger wife Colette, arrive in Athens by boat via the Corinthian Canal. While sightseeing at the Acropolis they encounter Rydal, a young, Greek-speaking American who is working as a tour guide, scamming tourists on the side....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 1, 2004 (limited) R | Horror, Thriller It’s been said that truth is stranger than fiction, and when a menacing copycat killer begins emulating the murderous exploits of the Zodiac Killer, the citizens of Los Angeles quickly find out that the truth is much more terrifying than fiction as well. It’s been years since the Zodiac Killer stalked the streets of L.A., and in the years since those horrific crimes, the citizens have grown complacent in taking their safety for granted....

22 votes and 4 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: July 28, 2017 (limited) 2h 6m | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer Jaggi, a bus conductor and Sarla is a passenger on his bus. They fall for each other and eventually decide to get married. Sarla’s father, who’s a fervent believer of Hindu astrology, says he’ll only accept Jaggi into the family if his horoscope matches with that of Sarla. They go to an astrologer, who says that since Jaggi is a strong Manglik and Sarla is not, if they get married, Sarla will either die or suffer ill health for the rest of her life....

62 votes and 25 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 67% 55% In Theaters: March 4, 2016 R | 1h 52m | Comedy Watch Trailer To get away from her job and her depressive boyfriend, Kim Barker (Tina Fey), an American journalist, volunteers to travel to Afghanistan and the Middle East to cover the wartime conflict during “Operation Enduring Freedom.” She immediately encounters discrimination against Americans, a bevy of other crazy foreign journalists, and finds herself in the middle of explosive situations....

4 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: May 8, 2015 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 32m | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer Over one crazy weekend, long-time married couple Ruth (Diane Keaton) and Alex (Morgan Freeman) discover that selling their Brooklyn apartment isn’t about winding down, but starting a new adventure. After living in their apartment for 40 years, Ruth and Alex have a hard time imagining living anywhere else....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama The plight of an English couple struggling to raise a disabled child is given a darkly humorous treatment in this English comedy. Based on the successful stage play by Peter Nichols, the film centers on the parents of Jo, nicknamed Joe Egg, a mentally challenged invalid subject to violent seizures. The couple (played by Alan Bates and Janet Suzman) attempts to maintain a stoic and occasionally cheerful facade in the face of their daughter’s condition, but they find themselves unable to cope with the strain....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Director Tony Richardson adapted the screenplay of A Taste of Honey from the kitchen sink stage play by Shelagh Delaney. Rita Tushingham plays a working-class British teenager, living with her drink-sodden, libertine mother Dora Bryan. Denied affection by her selfish mother, Tushingham is pushed further in the background when Bryan impulsively marries her latest boyfriend Robert Stephens. The girl takes a job at a shoe store, then moves in with her kindly homosexual employer Murray Melvin....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Horror, Thriller On a day that should be filled with joy and laughter, a wedding party bears witness to a shocking act of violence. For no apparent reason, the groom throws his bride from a high balcony, setting into motion a macabre chain of events. Overnight, brutal murders become everyday occurrences as friends turn on friends, brothers turn on sisters, and husbands turns on wives....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review Documentary The mission to protect and defend the world’s oceans has become far more complex and challenging in recent years, and naval aviation has become increasingly vital to success. One of the greatest engineering feats in the history of warfare, the modern Nimitz-class carrier is a masterpiece of technology, and the flagship of the fleet. With RIMPAC, the world’s largest and most comprehensive international maritime training exercise providing a stunning visual context for the story, find yourself aboard the USS Ronald Reagan alongside the 5,000 highly skilled sea and air personnel conducting flight operations in the midst of the simulated war exercises taking place there....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 18, 2016 (limited) Drama, Romance Ali Khan and Nino Kipiani live in Baku, the cosmopolitan, oil-rich capital of Azerbaijan, which, at the beginning of the twentieth century, is a melting pot of different cultures. Ali is a Muslim, with his warrior ancestors’ passion for the desert; and Nino is a Christian Georgian girl with sophisticated European ways. The two have loved each other since childhood and Ali is determined that he will marry Nino, despite their cultural differences, but there is not only the obstacle of their different religions and parental consent to overcome....

4 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: January 13, 2017 (limited) R | 1h 43m | Drama Watch Trailer It’s 1940 in Berlin and working class husband and wife Otto (Brendan Gleeson) and Anna Quangel (Emma Thompson) are doing their best to ride out the war. When they receive a telegram telling them that their only son has been killed fighting on the front, however, everything changes....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Most of us know someone who collects-30 percent of Americans do–and we love them anyway. But, what drives obsessions such as this? That is the beating heart and prime directive of this verité documentary that examines the relationship between people and their objet du désir. From KISS memorabilia to antique axes, from bobble heads to a giant ball of string, each collector tells their story, and each fascinating tale cumulatively suggests that our proclivity to collect often means more than meets the eye....