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0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A worker arrives at a factory in order to repair a machine before it is transported in director Alain Guiraudie’s low-key drama. With only half-dozen employees whose future employment remains in question, the new worker experiences an intense attraction to his elusive but alluring boss as his drab surrounding result in a strong bond among the hapless workers. With uncompromised, low-key eroticism fueling a sincere study in generational gaps and homosexual relationships, the mechanic gradually learns to function despite the delicate relationship with his boss and feelings of inability to take hold of one’s own fate....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In 1995, a Filipino maid was executed in Singapore for killing a young co-worker. This true-life drama from the Philippines tells her story. Flor Contemplacion, like many impoverished people, thought she might have a shot at a better life if she worked abroad as a domestic and so took her four much-loved children to Singapore to take a maid’s job. Unlike many other servants, Flor was well-treated by her employers....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In this gritty, hard nosed tale of honor, betrayal and making amends. Frank White returns to Richmond, Va., to solve the mystery of his parents death. With the help of some childhood friends, Frank is now ready to peel away the layers of deception and bring his parent’s killer to justice. 0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama In this gritty, hard nosed tale of honor, betrayal and making amends....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama Peter Greenaway directed this elliptical and visually intricate tale of the far side of erotic and intellectual attraction. As a girl, Nagiko would receive a special gift each year from her father: a calligrapher (Ken Ogata) who would carefully paint a poem on her face, as her aunt (Hideko Yoshida) read aloud from The Pillow Book, a classic Japanese text on the art of love....

8 votes and 3 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: October 15, 2017 (limited) October 18, 2017 (limited) Fantasy, Comedy, Other Fathom Events, Turner Classic Movies and Twentieth Century Fox are celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Princess Bride and bringing the iconic movie to select cinemas nationwide for a special two-day event, which also includes an introduction from a TCM host. When the beautiful maiden Buttercup (Robin Wright) hears that her true love Westley (Cary Elwes) is dead, she reluctantly agrees to marry the loathsome Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: June 26, 2015 (limited) Drama A year after his father’s death in Mexico, Victor returns to Buenos Aires with a twofold mission. On the one hand, he brings with him a new project for his former theater company. On the other, he abandons his part as The Princess of France and takes up a new role in front of five actresses who know him all too well, but who do not know that time to work will soon become a time to think again about lost loves....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Rotten Tomatoes® Score 100% 90% 1h 35m | Documentary This documentary tells the story of the ongoing crisis throughout the Egyptian Revolution. Following six different protestors, viewers get to see the days spent in the tents of Tahrir before the fall of Mubarak, as well as the journey through victory and the dangers of living under military rule. Director: Jehane Noujaim Producer(s): Amir Amer 0 votes and 0 Reviews...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama A reclusive female psychologist who has stopped practicing medicine, decides against her better judgment to take the case of disturbed Veronica de la Serna, a young woman whose previous therapist has mysteriously disappeared. As a condition of their cure agreement, the intrigued psychologist requires Veronica to stay with her in her remote country house for the duration of the treatment. But Veronica proves to be a stubborn patient trying to outsmart her doctor every chance she gets....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: January 11, 2002 (limited) January 18, 2002 (limited) Drama Hsiao-Kang sells watches in the streets of Taipei for a living. A few days after his father’s death, he meets a young woman, Shiang-Chyi, who as it turns out leaves for Paris the very next day. Troubled by the behavior of his mother who prays constantly for the spirit of her late husband to return, Hsiao-Kang takes refuge in the memory of his brief encounter with Shiang-Chyi....

10 votes and 2 Reviews | Write a Review Rotten Tomatoes® Score 21% 29% In Theaters: October 21, 2016 (limited) October 28, 2016 (limited) On DVD/Blu-ray: February 7, 2017 R | 1h 48m | Drama Watch Trailer In the 1960s postwar America, a family’s seemingly idyllic existence is shattered. Seymour “Swede” Levov (Ewan McGregor), a once-legendary high school athlete, is now a successful businessman married to a former beauty queen named Dawn (Jennifer Connelly)....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary An American Home tells the interweaving stories of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the B. Harley Bradley House - one of Wright’s earliest designs, and the community of Kankakee, Illinois where the home resides. Over the course of their lives, Wright and his Bradley House both experienced moments of tremendous hardship followed by great resurgences. The working-class city of Kankakee, Illinois is in the midst of its own resurgence, and Wright’s 116 year-old house is part of the town’s rebirth....

10 votes and 5 Reviews | Write a Review In Theaters: March 7, 2008 (limited) PG-13 | 2h 1m | Drama Watch Trailer A widowed grandfather (Kevin Costner) is left to raise his biracial granddaughter after the deaths of his wife and daughter. When the little girl’s paternal grandmother (Octavia Spencer) decides to fight for custody, he becomes involved in a bitter custody battle. Director: Mike Binder Studio: Relativity Media...

0 votes and 0 Reviews Comedy, Drama, Romance Writer/director/producer James L. Brooks scores on all counts with this clear-eyed look at the television news business and the dysfunctional types who work in it. Brooks’ intelligent script introduces us to Jane Craig (Holly Hunter), an ambitious producer at the network news division’s Washington D.C. branch, who is calm under fire yet has a good cry at her desk every morning over her empty personal life....

16 votes and 6 Reviews | Write a Review Action, Adventure, Thriller Watch Trailer In a dystopian America, the new government regime has developed an annual competition used to pacify the masses with virtual-reality entertainment and to control overpopulation. Known as The Death Race, the event has drivers competing in a race across the country, where they score points for each person — from pedestrians to each other — they manage to kill with their vehicle....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Thriller Raul Ruiz directed this typically eccentric look at the nature of crime, the human mind, and life in the modern world. Solange (Catherine Deneuve) is a defense attorney with a reputation for taking on cases that can’t be won – and proving it by losing them. Her latest lost cause is Rene (Melvil Poupaud), a young man on trial for murdering his Aunt Jeanne (also played by Deneuve), a cruel psychiatrist who raised him as a child and was convinced from infancy that he was destined for a life of crime....

0 votes and 0 Reviews 1h 30m TheIHeartRADIO Much Music Video Awards 2017 took place in Toronto on June 18. Stars in attendance included Lorde, Iggy Azalea, Imagine Dragons, 4YallEntertainment, Bea Miller, Brandon Flynn, Carly Rae Jepsen, David Mazouz, Dove Cameron, Hedley, Jus Reign, Kat Graham, Keke Palmer, KJ Apa, Lights, Lilly Singh, Martha Hunt, Massari, Nikki Bella, Scott Helman, Serena Ryder, Shawn Hook, Shay Mitchell, Shenae Grimes-Beech, Tatiana Maslany, Torrance Coombs, Tyler Oakley and Tyler Shaw....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Documentary The launch of the band Interactivo’s album Cubans around the World provides the background for a musical and spiritual journey through Havana with its members. Melvis Santa is combative and socially conscious. Julito Padrón represents the voice of humble Cuban who loves and respects his country. We visit different scenes of Havana with Oliver Valdes. Francis del Rio, spiritual symbol of this project, is a tenacious fighter, and Roberto Carcassés, the creative head, presents an intellectual discourse that urges the reunification of all Cubans....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama McLean’s Money concerns a wealthy, ageing tycoon, Edward McLean, who has a serious health scare. It turns out to be a false alarm, but he becomes concerned that his three sons may be more focused on their potential inheritance, rather than his well-being. He decides to give them a test, by pretending that his diagnosis is one of terminal cancer, to see how they react....

0 votes and 0 Reviews Drama, Romance A young man from Germany (Klaus Grunberg) leaves home and travels to Paris. Hooking up with a group of hippies, he is enamored by an American girl (Mimsy Farmer) he meets at a party. The two leave for an island off the coast of Spain and become lovers. He becomes aware she is a heroin user and warns her about the drawbacks of narcotics....

0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 3, 2017 (limited) Comedy, Drama, Horror A hotel business partnership goes awry when the protagonist is blackmailed by his partner after the former fails to pay back his debt. The money-lender threatens that the customers of the hotel will die every day if he fails to repay what he owes. 0 votes and 0 Reviews In Theaters: November 3, 2017 (limited) Comedy, Drama, Horror...