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0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama This East German youth film stars Renate Kroessner as Sunny, an ex-factory worker who sings in a band called The Tornadoes. As the title implies, Sunny wants to go solo, as both a musician and a woman, her independence having been compromised by her relationships with three troublesome men as well as by the restrictions of the band. Co-director Wolfgang Kohlhaase’s energetic script and plentiful views of Berlin nightlife made this film a big hit with German teens, and Stroessner’s performance won her a Best Actress statue at the 1980 Berlin Film Festival....

0 votes and 0 Reviews PG | 1h 35m | Action, Adventure, Comedy This third film in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series finds the amphibian ninjas traveling back in time to 17th-century Japan in order to save April O’Neil (Paige Turco). Once there, they also use their skills to help a rebel army battle an evil leader. Producer(s): David Chan, Kim Dawson, Thomas Gray Cast: Vivian Wu, Stuart Wilson, Tad Horino, Elias Koteas, Paige Turco, John Aylward, Mark Caso, Sab Shimono, Mark Hill, Jim Raposa, David Fraser, Henry Hayashi, Travis Moon, Glen Chin...

38 votes and 10 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 19% 22% In Theaters: January 13, 2017 On DVD/Blu-ray: April 11, 2017 PG-13 | 1h 36m | Horror, Thriller Watch Trailer When three college students move into an old house off campus, they find a Ouija board. While playing with it, they receive messages from “The Spirit of the Board” – an entity who claims it has never lived, but it acts as an interlocutor between other entities and the students....

4 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 40% 79% In Theaters: August 12, 2016 (limited) On DVD: December 6, 2016 PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Romance Logan Chandler, a young MMA fighter seeks to overcome a troubled past and build a new life based on his new faith and his new love, but is forced back into the fighting world by Hayden Dressler, a local MMA professional. 4 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: August 8, 2015 (limited) Other Fathom Events and Valve are thrilled to bring the Grand Finals of The International 2015 Dota 2 Championships to the big screen for a LIVE, epic one-day cinema event on Saturday, August 8. Now in its fifth year, and featuring a grand prize of over $15 million dollars, The International Dota 2 Championships return to Seattle’s KeyArena, where the world’s top Dota teams will battle it out to claim the Aegis of Champions....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 1m | Thriller Based in part on a novel by Vasily Grossman and on a previous stage production by director Frederick Wiseman, this film follows a Jewish doctor, Anna Semionova (Catherine Samie), who is awaiting her grim fate: the Nazis are about to storm her Ukrainian ghetto and ship its residents to concentration camps. Dr. Semionova devotes her final hours to composing a letter to her son expressing her love for him and her renewed embrace of her Jewish heritage, as well as her fear of dying....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: July 21, 2015 (limited) Documentary This documentary examines a growing shift in the birthing industry: the rise of Caesarean sections. With C-section rates dangerously over 30% in America, are midwives the solution? In recent years, the idea of a collaborative care practice where doctors and midwives manage women’s care together has begun to gain traction. Research has demonstrated that collaborative care models produce better outcomes for mother and baby, including fewer C-sections....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: May 4, 2018 (limited) Drama For 35 years Doña Flor has worked as a clerk in a government office. Each day she attends to dozens of people who sit across from her and hand her their documents. For 35 years she has been invisible to these people, a mere cog in the machine. She has grown so accustomed to this invisibility that she seems to have become invisible even to herself except for the brief pause at the pool each day where she watches the children swim and remembers her daughter....

0 votes and 0 Reviews R | Comedy In this combined live-action and cartoon feature, Maurizio works with his brother at a movie-dubbing studio they own. His specialty is cartoon sound effects, and he travels all over Milan to capture special sounds on his tape recorder. While out and about, he encounters a delightfully kinky social assistant who is a kind of platonic love object for men with specialized sexual fixations....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: April 8, 2016 (limited) Drama Aspiring rock star Jude is stuck in a rut - relegated to recording commercial jingles and lost in a series of one night stands. When she is evicted from her Brooklyn apartment, she is forced to move into the Hamptons home of her wealthy - and selfish - father Paul Lombard, an over-the-hill, Sinatra-esque crooner angling for a musical comeback....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 45m | Comedy, Drama In this satire, workers from southern Italy relocate to Milan and adjust to life in the city, where they reside in a house together. Among the group are Gigi (Luigi Diberti) and Carletto (Nino Bignamini), two country boys who are overwhelmed by urban living. While some of the transplants find work at a hectic restaurant, others are employed at a grim slaughterhouse....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 25, 2016 (limited) November 25, 2016 (limited) Comedy, Drama When Ana finishes a job she hates as runner on a big film shoot in Belgium, she makes an impulse decision to change her plans. Over the course of a summer, during which a broken love affair briefly blossoms again and Ana’s grandmother has to go into hospital, Ana does her best to cope with life....

8 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 69% 66% In Theaters: March 1, 2019 (limited) On DVD: May 28, 2019 On Digital: May 7, 2019 R | 1h 35m | Drama, Horror, Musical Watch Trailer From director Gaspar Noé comes a hypnotic, hallucinatory, and ultimately hair-raising depiction of a party that descends into delirium over the course of one wintry night. In Climax, a troupe of young dancers gather in a remote and empty school building to rehearse....

4 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review 1h 18m | Horror A commercial cargo ship is found drifting off the coast of a small town on the Gaspé coast. On board, the Maritime police discovered the horribly mutilated bodies of the crew. Julie, an ambitious young local journalist, begins an investigation that leads her to question Armand Sauvageau, a wealthy collector of Maritime objects, followed by Alexander, the shy conservator of a small municipal museum....

58 votes and 25 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 18% 31% In Theaters: May 19, 2017 On DVD/Blu-ray: August 8, 2017 On Netflix: May 1, 2019 On Digital: August 8, 2017 PG | 1h 31m | Comedy, Family Watch Trailer Greg (Jason Drucker) feels that as a kid, he has no control over his own life. When his mother announces that the Heffley family is going on a road trip to attend their grandmother’s birthday party, Greg’s older brother Rodrick (Charlie Wright) is horrified....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: March 14, 2018 (limited) Drama, Other Commissioned to make a working-class family drama, up-and-coming director Rainer Werner Fassbinder took the assignment and ran, upending expectations by depicting social realities in West Germany from a critical yet far from cynical perspective. Over the course of several hours, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen (Gottfried John) and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves (Hanna Schygulla), his eccentric nuclear family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Based on a novel of the same title by Sándor Márai, this story, set in the lull between wars, has a timeless quality and a universal message. Eszter, a lady of a certain age, has her settled life turned upside-down when a married lover from her distant past seeks her out for a day, bringing his children and two strangers. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 55m | Musical, Other Movie Times Henry IV (John Gielgud) usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur (Norman Rodway). Henry’s heir, Prince Hal (Keith Baxter), is a ne’er-do-well carouser who drinks and causes mischief with his low-class friends, especially his rotund father figure, John Falstaff (Orson Welles). To redeem his title, Hal may have to choose between allegiance to his real father and loyalty to his friend....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary This provocative film anthology contains nine short fiction and documentary films believed to have had great influence on the development of New German Cinema. Each of the five was directed by a different German filmmaker and are set during the politically tempestuous summer of 1977 in West Germany when terrorism ran rampant. Filmmakers include Fassbinder, Boll, Schlondorff, Sinkel, Kluge (who narrates) and more. 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Three modern Parisian women form the basis of this epic musical comedy from famed director Jacques Rivette. The story is set in summer and follows the predestined path of each woman. Louise has just awoken from a five year coma and has been released from the hospital. She moves to a hotel where she learns from talking to her father on the phone that her late aunt has bequeathed her a large chateau in Paris....