March 2012 Movies

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Jun. 14, 2020

Best Movies Released March 2012

John Carter Movie Poster
Action

72%

  • 3.9
Silent House Movie Poster
Horror

76%

  • 3.1
Detachment Movie Poster
Drama

74%

  • 3.8
Bully Movie Poster
Documentary

89%

  • 4.3
Project X Movie Poster
Comedy

56%

  • 3.9
Goon Movie Poster
Comedy

84%

  • 4.2
October Baby Movie Poster
Drama

77%

  • 4.1
Footnote Movie Poster
Drama

73%

  • 3.8
21 Jump Street Movie Poster
Action

85%

  • 4.3
Being Flynn Movie Poster
Comedy

79%

  • 2.7

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Despite warnings from the tree-loving Lorax, a greedy entrepreneur strips a forest of its stock of Truffula trees to manufacture clothing. The results are catastrophic as all the animals leave and nothing's left.

Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Chris Meledandri, Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Rob Riggle, Chris Renaud, Cinco Paul

PG Adventure Family Animation 3D Shot-In-3D CG 1 hr, 34 mins

92%

  • 4.1
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Said to be an outrageous college-age high concept. The filmmakers are intent that every actor cast in the film will be losing their screen virginity on the project.

Todd Phillips, Miles Teller, Andrew Rona, Nima Nourizadeh, Michael Bacall, Matt Drake, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown

R Comedy Teen 1 hr, 28 mins

56%

  • 3.9
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New York / Los Angeles

A man's estranged con-man father's self-destruction eventually drives him onto the streets and ultimately into the homeless shelter where his son works.

Paul Dano, Julianne Moore, Robert De Niro, Paul Weitz, Victor Rasuk, Michael Costigan, Olivia Thirlby, Lili Taylor

R Drama Comedy

79%

  • 2.7
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Limited

In 1920s China, a notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor.

Jiang Wen

Action Comedy Western

64%

  • 3.1
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Limited

Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, but squander every dime and the sinister Schlaaang corporation is pissed. Their lives at stake, the guys skip town in search of a way to pay the money back.

Will Forte, Will Ferrell, Eric Wareheim, Adam McKay, Tim Heidecker, Kevin Messick, Todd Wagner, Ben Cosgrove

R Comedy 1 hr, 32 mins

54%

  • 2.1
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New York

In The Salt of Life, Gianni Di Gianni plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation. He contends with an aristocratic, spendthrift mother (played by Valeria de Franciscis); a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner; a daughter (played by Di Gregorio's daughter Teresa) with a slacker boyfriend whom Gianni unwillingly befriends; and a wild young neighbor who sees him merely as her dog walker. Watching his "codger" friends snare beautiful younger women on the sun-kissed cobblestones of Trastevere, Gianni tries his polite, utterly gracious best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life--with both hilarious and poignant results.

Gianni Di Gregorio

Comedy 1 hr, 30 mins

38%

  • 2.4
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New York

Based on a true story involving Australian serial killer John Bunting, the film follows a 16-year-old who begins a friendship with a charismatic older man. As the relationship grows, the teen finds his world threatened by both his loyalty for, and fear of, his newfound father-figure.

Shaun Grant, Sarah Shaw, Justin Kurzel, Anna McLeish, Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris

Thriller 2 hrs, 0 mins

64%

  • 2.7
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New York

A raw touching portrait of cult metal legend Bobby Liebling, chronicling his bid to resurrect his life and career after decades wasting away in his parents' basement.

Don Argott, Demian Fenton

NR Documentary

19%

  • 3.8
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Three contemporary American artists and a master printer help explain the dynamic sequences of social reality and protest. While their graphics sweep by, the making of an etching, a woodcut and a lithograph unfolds, as the contemporary artists join their illustrious predecessors in creating art of social engagement.

Manfred Kirchheimer

Documentary

40%

  • 3.8
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New York

The year is 1984, and on the rural East Coast of New Zealand Thriller is changing kids lives.

Taika Waititi

Drama Comedy

69%

  • 3.8
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A Civil War veteran retreats into a cave to avoid capture by Apache Indians. But this cave actually transports him via time portal to the planet of Barsoom and is taken prisoner by 12-foot-tall green men.

Lynn Collins, Bryan Cranston, Taylor Kitsch, Samantha Morton, Ciaran Hinds, Sean Daniel, Jim Jacks, Daryl Sabara

PG-13 Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-Fi 2 hrs, 12 mins

72%

  • 3.9
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Trapped in a nightmare, a young woman descends into madness.

Laura Lau, Elizabeth Olsen, Chris Kentis, Adam Trese, Haley Murphy, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Julia Taylor Ross, Adam Barnett

R Thriller Suspense Horror Remake

76%

  • 3.1
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Nationwide

A man finds out hat he has only 1,000 words left to speak before he dies.

Nicolas Cage, Eddie Murphy, Steve Koren, Cliff Curtis, Sharla Summpter Bridgett, Brian Robbins, Alain Chabat, Stephanie Danan

PG-13 Comedy

88%

  • 3.8
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New York

When the world's media descend on the remote Scottish island where a Hollywood actress is attempting to get married, a local girl is hired as a decoy bride to put the paparazzi off the scent.

Alice Eve, David Tennant, Sally Phillips, Sheree Folkson, Neil Jaworski, Kelly MacDonald, Maureen Beattie, Federico Castelluccio

PG Comedy Romance

91%

  • 4
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New York / Los Angeles

Follows a great rivalry between a father and his son, their need for each other and their need for respect and recognition in the world.

Lior Ashkenazi, Joseph Cedar, David Mandill, Shlomo Bar Aba

PG Drama 1 hr, 43 mins

73%

  • 3.8
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Limited

No plot details have been announced yet.

Jon Hamm, Jennifer Westfeldt, Anne Hathaway, Kristen Wiig, Megan Fox, Adam Scott, Mike Nichols, Jake Kasdan

R Comedy 1 hr, 53 mins

79%

  • 3.7
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Limited

About the ups and downs of a civil servant in the Middle Eastern country.

Emily Blunt, Lasse Hallstrom, Ewan McGregor, Steven Garrett, Paul Webster, Simon Beaufoy, Kristin Scott Thomas, Amr Waked

Drama Comedy Political Satire 1 hr, 47 mins

72%

  • 3.8
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A group of high school students make a film about a grisly crime that took place in their town 17 years ago. As they dig deeper, an ongoing horror possesses their souls and tears their lives apart.

Randall Emmett, Michael A. Nickles, Alessandra Torresani, John Bennett, Larry Robbins, Johnny Pacar, Brooke Smith, Toby Hemingway

R Thriller Suspense Horror 1 hr, 35 mins

69%

  • 3
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The journey of the tragically star-crossed Noah and Emily who are linked by a rare psychological disorder classified as ICD-10 F24, madness of two.

Olesya Rulin, Josh Danziger

NR Drama Thriller 1 hr, 25 mins

53%

  • 3.4
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In The Salt of Life, Gianni Di Gianni plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation. He contends with an aristocratic, spendthrift mother (played by Valeria de Franciscis); a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner; a daughter (played by Di Gregorio's daughter Teresa) with a slacker boyfriend whom Gianni unwillingly befriends; and a wild young neighbor who sees him merely as her dog walker. Watching his "codger" friends snare beautiful younger women on the sun-kissed cobblestones of Trastevere, Gianni tries his polite, utterly gracious best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life--with both hilarious and poignant results.

Gianni Di Gregorio

Comedy 1 hr, 30 mins

38%

  • 2.4
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Limited

Police officer Amadeus Warnebring was born into a musical family with a long history of famous musicians. Ironically, he hates music. His life is thrown into chaos when a band of crazy musicians decides to perform a musical apocalypse using the city as their orchestra... Reluctantly, Warnebring embarks on his first musical investigation...

Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson

R Comedy Crime 1 hr, 42 mins

39%

  • 3.8
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Limited

Follows Jiro Ono, the 85-year-old sushi chef at the tiny, prominent Tokyo restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro.

Matthew Weaver, David Gelb, Tom Pellegrini, Kevin Iwashina

PG Documentary 1 hr, 21 mins

49%

  • 4.2
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Nationwide

An undercover police unit consisting of young looking officers infiltrate high schools to control youth crime.

Johnny Depp, Dakota Johnson, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube, Phil Lord, Rob Riggle, Dave Franco, Jake Johnson

R Action Crime Remake Based on TV 1 hr, 49 mins

85%

  • 4.3
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Limited

Described as being in the vein of "The Game" (1997).

Nicolas Cage, Guy Pearce, James Stern, Ram Bergman, Harold Perrineau, January Jones, Mark Ross, Roger Donaldson

R Drama Thriller Suspense

87%

  • 4.3
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The tragic modern state of the human condition is explored through the eyes of students and teachers at a failing high school.

Adrien Brody, Bryan Cranston, Nick Nolte, Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, Blythe Danner, Tony Kaye, Austin Stark

Drama

74%

  • 3.8
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Limited

A Spanish-language comedy starring Will Ferrell.

Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Darlene Caamano Loquet, Diego Luna, Matt Piedmont, Kevin Messick, Jessica Elbaum, Emilio Diez Barroso

Action Comedy 1 hr, 24 mins

77%

  • 2.7
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Limited

June is living with her much adored Uncle Henry and domineering, abusive father Murry, when she meets a penniless illegal immigrant Juan Diego, whose love gives her the insight and courage to finally break free and live her own life.

Brad William Henke, Oscar Guerrero, James Savoca, Samaire Armstrong, Jon Gries

Drama Romance 1 hr, 33 mins

68%

  • 5
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New York

An uptight lawyer, Lenny Rubins, (Timothy Spall), has to put his dream retirement on hold when his ailing mother (Honor Blackman) emotionally blackmails him into reuniting his estranged children for a holiday gathering. They may be peas from the same pod, but in Lenny's eyes, his grown-up children are certainly not even from the same planet: a ruthless control-freak and hard-nosed capitalist (James Callis), an outspoken, argumentative eco-warrior committed to the cause (Rhona Mitra), an outer-worldly Buddhist Monk; and to cap it all, a bible bashing born-again Rabbi! While they might quarrel, fight, and perhaps even be starting a war in Africa, they are still family.

Rhona Mitra, Blake Harrison, Yoav Factor, Timothy Spall, James Callis, Loo Brealey

PG Comedy Family 1 hr, 37 mins

67%

  • 1.8
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Limited

An adventure-comedy about a stoner on a quest for a bottle of wood glue.

Mark Duplass, Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Susan Sarandon, Jay Duplass, Jason Reitman, Helen Estabrook, Judy Greer

R Comedy 1 hr, 23 mins

70%

  • 3.3
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After the death of his parents Rockabilly Tejano Jesse Torres leaves his childhood cattle ranch for the Bright Lights of the Big City. His childhood friend Tom sets Jesse up in a squalid neighborhood of drugs, gangs and broken dreams. Jesse quickly finds out Tom is in deep to the local gangs and struggles to help his friend break away. He finds solace in local girl, Lil' Bit, but as the romance blossoms Jesse finds himself confronted by the neighborhood mobster, Capone (Danny Trejo) who owns Lil' Bit. Now faced with a drug addicted best friend, an angry mobster and his girlfriend’s freedom, Jesse must make some hard choices.

Roger Gutierrez, Richard Kaponas, Christina Woods, Brian Eric Johnson, Danny Trejo

Drama 1 hr, 38 mins

54%

  • 4.3
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Follows Jiro Ono, the 85-year-old sushi chef at the tiny, prominent Tokyo restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro.

Matthew Weaver, David Gelb, Tom Pellegrini, Kevin Iwashina

PG Documentary 1 hr, 21 mins

49%

  • 4.2
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Audrey Tautou is Nathalie, a beautiful, happy, and successful Parisian business executive who finds herself suddenly widowed after a three-year marriage to her soul mate. To cope with her loss, she buries herself and her emotions in her work to the dismay of her friends, family and co-workers. One day, inexplicably, her zest for life and love is rekindled by a most unlikely source, her seemingly unexceptional, gauche, and average looking office subordinate, Markus (Francois Damiens). At first stunned by Nathalie's unexpected attention, Markus comes to gradually believe in her feelings and shifts into romantic high gear. As their relationship goes from awkward to genuinely loving, Nathalie and Markus will have to overcome a host of obstacles including everyone else's judgmental perceptions as well as their own self-doubts.

David Foenkinos, Stephane Foenkinos, Audrey Tautou, Francois Damiens

PG-13 Comedy Romance

65%

  • 4.1
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Katniss Everdeen, a 16-year old from a poor territory that was once Appalachia, becomes a gladiator in a reality-show that is a battle to the death against other teens from the 12 districts of the former United States.

Elizabeth Banks, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci, Gary Ross, Billy Ray, Josh Hutcherson, Dayo Okeniyi, Amandla Stenberg

PG-13 Action Thriller Suspense Teen 2 hrs, 22 mins

87%

  • 4.5
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New York / Los Angeles

A woman leaves her husband, a high court judge, and falls in love with a pilot traumatized from the war.

Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Terance Davies, Simon Russell Beale

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 38 mins

54%

  • 3.5
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A beautiful and naive college freshman discovers that her entire life is a lie and sets out on a road trip to discover herself and the answers she craves.

Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin

Drama

77%

  • 4.1
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As a rookie member of an elite special-forces team, Rama (Iko Uwais) is instructed to hang back during a covert mission involving the extraction of a brutal crime lord from a rundown fifteen-story apartment block. But when a spotter blows their cover, boss Tama (Ray Sahetaphy) offers lifelong sanctuary to every killer, rapist and thief in the building in exchange fortheir heads. Now Rama must stand in for the team's fallen leader (Joe Taslim) and use every iota of his fighting strength - winding through every floor and every room to complete the mission and escape with his life.

Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Doni Alamsyah, Joe Taslim

Action Thriller Crime 1 hr, 41 mins

85%

  • 4.6
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Set against the backdrop of competitive ballroom dancing, Musical Chairs is about Armando a Bronx-bred Latino who aspires to be a dancer but whose only way in is as handyman at a Manhattan dance studio, and Mia, an Upper East Side princess who is the studio's star performer.

Susan Seidelman, Leah Pipes, E.J. Bonilla, Priscilla Lopez, Jaime Tirelli, Laverne Cox

PG-13 Drama Comedy Romance 1 hr, 40 mins

68%

  • 2.3
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New York

Jeremy Reins (Stephen Dorff) is about to have a very bad day. He wakes up in total darkness, confused and disoriented. The only light comes from the blood-red digital numbers ticking away above his head. Jeremy quickly realizes he's in trouble. It's hard to breath. He can barely move. And no one will answer his cries for help. Then, he hears the sound of an engine and it all becomes clear...he's trapped in the trunk of a moving car. As his captors reveal themselves and their motives, Jeremy realizes he won't be set free until he gives up the whereabouts of "Roulette," a secret location where the U.S. President is taken in the event of a terrorist attack.

Stephen Dorff, Gabe Torres, Timothy Mannion, Chyler Leigh, JR Bourne, Tom Berenger

R Action Thriller 1 hr, 32 mins

51%

  • 3.5
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New York

Tells the story of 35-year-old Morris Bliss (Michael C. Hall), who is clamped firmly in the jaws of New York City inertia. He wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; and he still shares an apartment with his widowed father (Peter Fonda), who treats Morris with a mix of disdain and exasperation. When he finds himself juggling a bizarre relationship with the sexually precocious 18-year-old daughter (Brie Larson) of a former classmate and the advances of his very forward neighbor (Lucy Liu), Morris realizes that even though his life is unraveling, it's also opening up in ways that are long overdue.

Sarah Shahi, Michael Knowles, Michael C. Hall, Lucy Liu, Brie Larson, Peter Fonda, Rhea Perlman, Chris Messina

PG-13 Comedy 1 hr, 37 mins

72%

  • 3
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New York / Los Angeles

In a large apartment high above the city lives our couple. They're in love. She's a painter, he's a successful actor. Just a normal afternoon - except that this isn't a normal afternoon, for them or anyone else. Because tomorrow, at 4:44 am, give or take a few seconds, the world will come to an end far more rapidly than even the worst doomsayer could have imagined.

Abel Ferrara, Willem Dafoe, Natasha Lyonne, Paul Hipp

R Drama Sci-Fi 1 hr, 25 mins

78%

  • 2.8
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New York

Jon Shenk's The Island President tells the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced--the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable. The Island President captures Nasheed's first year of office, culminating in his trip to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, where the film provides a rare glimpse of the political horse-trading that goes on at such a top-level global assembly. Nasheed is unusually candid about revealing his strategies--leveraging the Maldives' underdog position as a tiny country, harnessing the power of media, and overcoming deadlocks through an appeal to unity with other developing nations. When hope fades for a written accord to be signed, Nasheed makes a stirring speech which salvages an agreement. Despite the modest size of his country, Mohamed Nasheed has become one of the leading international voices for urgent action on climate change.

Jon Shenk

Documentary

59%

  • 4.3
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Story is pitched as an edgy and modernized take on the classic fairy tale.

Armie Hammer, Brett Ratner, Ryan Kavanaugh, Jason Keller, John Cheng, Tarsem Singh, Bernie Goldman, Melisa Wallack

PG Drama Adventure Teen Fairy Tale 3D 1 hr, 46 mins

87%

  • 3.7
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A follow up adventure to the 2010 Greek-mythology action movie. Expect more adventures for Perseus, the mortal son of the god Zeus.

Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Rosamund Pike, Bill Nighy, Jonathan Liebesman, Basil Iwanyk, Sam Worthington, Danny Huston

PG-13 Action Adventure Sequel Fantasy 3D Post-3D 1 hr, 39 mins

83%

  • 4.1
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Follows "a year in the life" of America's bullying crisis through five kids and their families.

Lee Hirsch, Cynthia Lowen

PG-13 Documentary 1 hr, 40 mins

89%

  • 4.3
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The story centers on the world of semi-professional ice hockey.

Jay Baruchel, Eugene Levy, David Gross, Jesse Shapira, Liev Schreiber, Michael Dowse, Don Carmody, Evan Goldberg

R Comedy Sports

84%

  • 4.2
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A desperate teen tries to save himself and the girl he loves after discovering he's transforming into a vampire.

Adrian Slade, Chris Nolan, Lucas Grabeel, Drew Seeley

Musical Teen 1 hr, 31 mins

55%

  • 3.2
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A female diving instructor returns to the deep after a near-fatal incident with a Great White shark.

Halle Berry, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, Clark Johnson, Martin Shore, Christopher Tuffin, Celine Rattray, Amy Sorlie

PG-13 Action Thriller 1 hr, 34 mins

81%

  • 4.2
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An 11-year-old girl is forced to confront childhood demons.

Belen Atienza, Enrique Lopez Lavigne, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Jaime Marques, Nico Casariego, Clive Owen, Daniel Bruhl, Carice van Houten

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 40 mins

83%

  • 3.1
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New York

In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on.

Jannicke Systad Jacobsen

Comedy

67%

  • 3.6
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New York

The legacy of the American Beats in Paris during the heady years between 1957 and 1963, when Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso fled the obscenity trials in the United States surrounding the publication of Ginsberg’s poem Howl. They took refuge in a cheap no-name hotel they had heard about at 9, Rue Git le Coeur and were soon joined by William Burroughs, Ian Somerville, Brion Gysin, and others from England and elsewhere in Europe, seeking out the freedom that the Latin Quarter of Paris might provide.

Alan Govenar

Documentary

17%

  • 3.7
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A woman gives birth to a clone of her dead lover.

Eva Green, Benedek Fliegauf

Drama 1 hr, 47 mins

89%

  • 3
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Top March 2012 Movie Trailers

Wrath of the Titans Theatrical Trailer
Project X Theatrical Trailer
John Carter Theatrical Trailer
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