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0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary A mad journey: 77 mental patients along with 130 health care workers, psychiatrists, relatives and volunteers, take a train from Venice to Beijing, passing through Hungary, the Ukraine, Russia and Mongolia. Among these 200 passionate, pill-popping travelers, we meet a group of eight invincible–of different ages, roles, diagnoses–who are on a mission: they have to come up with a creative event that will involve the whole train and, once in Beijing, convey to the world the sense of this surreal but at the same time very concrete journey....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Action, Adventure, Drama Originally prepared for European release under the title Catchfire, Backtrack wasn’t given a wide distribution until 1991, and then only to capitalize on the Oscar win of Silence of the Lambs star Jodie Foster. In Backtrack, Foster plays a youngish innocent who witnesses a mob hit. Professional assassin Dennis Hopper is contracted to silence Foster for keeps. Instead, he falls in love with her....

4 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 38% 53% In Theaters: October 9, 2015 (limited) PG-13 | 1h 43m | Comedy, Romance Watch Trailer In a small town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, self-proclaimed spinster Ave Maria Mulligan (Ashley Judd) finds her life shaken up and forever changed after learning a long-buried family secret. Director: Adriana Trigiani Studio: Producer(s): Donna Gigliotti, James Spies...

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 22, 2016 (limited) PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Drama It is the story of Aggie Prejean, a grandmother on a desperate search to find her two granddaughters, Skye and Elle, who have been kidnapped by their sinister father. As the details behind the girls’ disappearance begin to unravel, it’s discovered he has taken them overseas to be sold into slavery to settle his drug debt....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: December 15, 1978 (limited) PG | Comedy, Drama Playwright Neil Simon turned to the hotel setting he used so successfully in his stage-play (later a movie) Plaza Suite to explore four more human dramas in his play California Suite, which was adapted into this quite successful movie. In the first episode, the divorced couple of Bill and Hannah Warren (Alan Alda and Jane Fonda) have rented a suite in a posh Beverly Hills hotel in order to have a discussion about who will get the custody of their child....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary Company Town is an investigative documentary following one man’s mission to save his town in Crossett, Arkansas, polluted by Georgia-Pacific, one of the nation’s largest paper and chemical plants, owned by Charles Koch and David Koch. They produce Brawny paper towels, Angel Soft toilet paper, and Dixie cups. Neighbors work for the mill and are sick with cancer. Company Town represents hidden towns across America battling illness and pollution by big business....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 75% 45% In Theaters: December 16, 2015 (limited) Documentary DREAMS REWIRED traces the desires and anxieties of today’s hyper-connected world back more than a hundred years, when telephone, film and television were new. As revolutionary then as contemporary social media is today, early electric media sparked a fervent utopianism in the public imagination - promising total communication, the annihilation of distance, an end to war....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 43% 1h 44m | Comedy, Drama In a poor suburb in southern France, Geronimo, a respected special education teacher, works to ease tensions between her young students of different ethnicities. However, everything changes the day Nil Terzi, a teenager of Turkish origin, flees an arranged marriage to join her lover, gypsy Lucky Molina. The rivalry between the two clans, which at first manifests itself in dance duels, turns violent when Nils’ brothers, eager to repair the family honor, swear to kill the two lovers on the run....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: October 7, 2016 (limited) R | Drama A thirteen-year-old boy is forced to live with his estranged brother after their father is sent to prison. Their relationship is soon tested when the older brother’s occupation as a marijuana dealer infringes on his ability not only to raise his brother, but to even take care of himself. However, through constant tribulation, they discover the only way to get through the difficulties of life, is to work together and try to beat the odds....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 14, 2019 (limited) PG-13 | Drama Hampstead Village, London. Famous for its beautiful and much-loved Heath - a piece of quiet countryside in a vast metropolis. Living on the edge of the Heath is American widow, Emily Walters (Diane Keaton), who can’t quite focus on the things that need attention, like her lovely old apartment, her finances and even her son. Despite encouragement from her close friend Fiona, she doesn’t want to admit that she’s drifting through life without much thought to her future....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In this original Indian adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet we see the story transposed to Banaras and its neigbouring areas that are witness to violence unleashed by sand mafia controlled by urban elite and equally violent retaliation by Naxalite armies. The sand mafia is run by two influential Banarasi families, Kashyaps and Mishras, who are at brutal feud with each other. Kashyap has an 18-year old, pretty and innocent daughter Bachchi from his first wife....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: September 1, 2017 (limited) Drama Jesús, 18, lives alone with his father Héctor in a flat where the TV covers up their inability to communicate. The rest of the time, he dances in a K-pop band, hangs out with friends and does drugs, watches trashy clips and has sex in public places, looking for a thrill. One night, he finds it with his friends, being involved in an irreversible misadventure....

132 votes and 0 Reviews 2h 0m | Drama, Romance Watch Trailer A big-talking Non-Resident Indian (Harman Virk) returns to Punjab and finds himself falling in love with a local village girl (Yuvika Chaudhry). Punjabi w/ English subtitles. Director: Bhupinder Sayan Studio: Wonderland Productions Cast: Nirmal Rishi, Yuvika Chaudhry, Harman Virk, Gurinder Rai 132 votes and 0 Reviews 2h 0m | Drama, Romance Watch Trailer A big-talking Non-Resident Indian (Harman Virk) returns to Punjab and finds himself falling in love with a local village girl (Yuvika Chaudhry)....

2 votes and 1 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 20m | Comedy, Drama Watch Trailer Out-of-work actors Raphael (Ivan Martin) and Dominic (Michael Godere), looking for their big break, head upstate to the country home of Dominic’s sister Gigi (Marisa Tomei) to work on a movie script they conned a producer (Natasha Lyonne) into believing they’ve written. With only 10 days to deliver the goods, their writer’s retreat is interrupted when Gigi’s hostile boyfriend Wayne (Sam Rockwell) and his younger brother unexpectedly show up....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 33m | Drama, Thriller Watch Trailer Family man Sandu witnesses the prelude to a murder in the apartment downstairs. Determined to mind his own business, he’s unnerved when the possible killer shows up at his door one day and begins to work his way into the lives of his wife and son, testing Sandu’s resolve to remain silent. Director: Radu Muntean Studio: Producer(s): Dragos Vilcu...

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 4, 2015 (limited) November 13, 2015 (limited) Comedy, Documentary, Thriller Paris, April 13th 1970. Two theater groups each rehearse avant-garde adaptations of plays by Aeschylus. A young deaf-mute begs for change in cafés while playing the harmonica. A young woman seduces men in order to rob them. As a conspiracy develops, the protagonists’ stories start to intertwine… 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama Long before he gained fame for winning the 1983 Cannes Golden Palm award for The Ballad of Narayama, director Shohei Imamura created this superbly crafted, sardonic drama about the yakuza (Japanese Mafia) and the modernization of Japan after World War II. Kinta (Hiroyuki Nagato) is caught in the mesh of poverty and opts out by joining the local yakuza gang. His greed draws him into the drug dealing, pimping, and racketeering that fill the gang’s coffers....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG-13 | Comedy Mel Brooks directed and co-wrote this satiric comedy which lampoons a number of cinematic treatments of the legend of Sherwood Forest, including Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Adventures of Robin Hood. Robin Hood (Cary Elwes) comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard (Patrick Stewart) is in exile and that the despotic King John (Richard Lewis) now rules England, with the help of the Sheriff of Rottingham (Roger Rees)....

0 votes and 1 Reviews In Theaters: April 8, 2016 (limited) Documentary, Drama The SAKA (demonstration) constitutes the core of the Gurudwara reform movement started by the Sikhs in early twentieth century. This film highlights the unprecedented discipline, self-control and exemplary patience displayed by the peaceful Sikh protesters, even in the face of extreme barbarism. Even the national leaders, such as Mahatama Gandhi, had to acknowledge the glory and the prestige which the peaceful resistance of the Sikhs brought to the India’s struggle for freedom....

26 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 22m | Family Watch Trailer To amuse themselves during the winter school break, the kids in a small village decide to have a massive snowball fight. Luke and Sophie, both 11 years old, become the leaders of the opposing sides. But what starts out as pure youthful fun and enthusiasm deteriorates into a more serious conflict. Joy is restored when all the children decide to attack the fort rather than each other and happily destroy every last bit of the snow fort....