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Immortals

The ruthless King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) leads his bloodthirsty army on a murderous rampage across Greece to find a deadly weapon that will destroy humanity. A mortal chosen by Zeus named Theseus (Henry Cavill) must lead the fight against Hyperion and his evil army with the fate of mankind and the Gods at stake.
Location: CA - Quebec

Completed

November 11, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Battle: Los Angeles

Meteors shoot into the ocean a couple of miles off the coast of Los Angeles. Minutes later, beachgoers witness a strange alien like army oozing out of the water. These aliens are nasty, they're fast, and they kill on site. Within seconds they're shredding the suntanning populace to pieces and moving into the city of Santa Monica. Marine Sgt. Nantz leads his new platoon against a surprise attack on Los Angeles, attempting to rescue civilians in Santa Monica and destroy the hub of the enemy's mysterious power grid, while similar epic battles are waged across the world in other cities.

Completed

March 11, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Limitless

The story centers on a down-and-out writer who gets his hands on a top-secret pharmaceutical drug that makes one smarter. He experiences sudden financial and social success but soon discovers that the drug has lethal and lasting side effects, including "trip-switching," a phenomenon in which time moves with a stop-motion quality. Before long, mysterious antagonists are pursuing him.
Location: US - Pennsylvania

Completed

March 18, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

The Girl with the Drago...

A journalist-investigator and a precocious computer hacker become embroiled in life-threatening mysteries as they attempt to expose institutions that pull the strings behind the scenes.
Locations: Sweden; US - California

Completed

December 20, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

London Boulevard

After release from prison, a South London criminal tries to give up the gangster life by becoming a handyman for a reclusive young actress.

Completed

November 11, 2011 Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD New York VOD / Digital

Martha Marcy May Marlene

The story centers on a young woman (Elizabeth Olsen) who is living with her older sister (Sarah Paulson) after escaping a cult.

Completed

October 21, 2011 Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD New York / Los Angeles

Snow Flower and the Sec...

Set in 19th century remote China, the movie revolves around the lifelong friendship of Lily and Snow Flower and their imprisonment by rigid cultural codes of conduct for women.

Completed

July 15, 2011 Limited Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Warrior

An ex-Marine haunted by a tragic past, Tommy Riordan returns to his hometown of Pittsburgh and enlists his father, a recovered alcoholic and his former coach, to train him for an MMA tournament awarding the biggest purse in the history of the sport. As Tommy blazes a violent path towards the title prize, his brother, Brendan, a former MMA fighter unable to make ends meet as a public school teacher, returns to the amateur ring to provide for his family. Even though years have passed, recriminations and past betrayals keep Brendan bitterly estranged from both Tommy and his father.

But when Brendan’s unlikely rise as an underdog sets him on a collision course with Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront the forces that tore them apart, all the while waging the most intense, winner-takes-all battle of their lives.

Completed

September 9, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Daydream Nation

A teenage girl moves to a small town, to find nothing in common with the stoner-hicks who populate her highschool. So she begins an affair with her teacher. But with a serial killer on the loose and townsfolk disappearing around them, their relationship takes a turn for the worse. She breaks off the relationship and the rejection makes her teacher crazy.

Completed

May 6, 2011 Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD New York / Los Angeles

Take Me Home Tonight

As the summer of 1988 winds down, three friends on the verge of adulthood attend an out-of-control party in celebration of their last night of unbridled youth

Completed

March 4, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

The Mechanic

Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) is a well-paid assassin who executes people at the request of the American government. But after assassinating a former close associate, Bishop does something that's unprofessional and out of control: he takes on a apprentice (Ben Foster), the son of the man he just killed.
Locations: US - Louisiana; US - Michigan

Completed

January 28, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray

J. Edgar

In 1935, J. Edgar Hoover forms the FBI and makes it an efficient crime-fighting organization — in part by harassing dissenters and building secret files on politicians. Hoover also fights the gangster wars in the ’30s and, later, the Mafia. He remains the FBI's director until his death in 1972.
Location: US - California

Completed

November 9, 2011 Limited Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

The Adventures of Tintin

A junior reporter follow stories to the ends of the earth, even though he often finds his own life in jeopardy. His able assistants include a white dog named Snowy, the lunatic Captain Haddock, the muddled genius Professor Calculus and the Thompson Twins.

Completed

December 21, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

The Help

Story follows a young white woman in the early 1960s in Mississippi who becomes interested in the plight of the African-American domestic servants that every family has working for them. She writes their stories about mistreatment, abuse and heartbreak, all just before the Civil Rights revolution.
Location: US - Mississippi

Completed

August 10, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Trust

A dark drama about the damaging effects an online sexual predator has on a family. Clive Owen and Catherine Keener will play the parents of a 14-year-old girl who are stunned to discover she has been victimized by an adult who gained her trust posing as a teenager on a chat room.
Location: US - Michigan

Completed

April 1, 2011 Limited Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

Another Earth

Rhonda, an ambitious MIT astrophysics student, kills a man's family in a car accident after leaning out of the window to catch sight of a newly discovered planet. After she spends four years in prison, she returns home compelled to meet the bereaved husband and father.

Completed

July 22, 2011 Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD New York / Los Angeles

Restless

In the film, two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love. Director Gus Van Sant will present a take on friendship and young love as engaging and true as it is provocative and stirring.

Completed

September 16, 2011 Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD New York / Los Angeles

Salvation Boulevard

A private detective investigates the killing of a professor and it becomes a clash of faiths: The detective is a born-again Christian, the dead man an atheist, the accused killer an Islamic foreign student and the D.A. is Jewish.
Location: US - Michigan

Completed

July 15, 2011 New York / Los Angeles

The Whistleblower

In Bosnia in 1999, Kathryn Bolkovac, a U.N. peacekeeper whose post with the Intl. Police Task Force was arranged by DynCorp Inc., is assigned to run the IPTF office that investigates sex trafficking, domestic abuse and sexual assault. She ultimately alleges that peacekeepers, U.N. workers and international police are visiting brothels and facilitating sex trafficking by forging documents and aiding the illegal transport of woman into Bosnia. DynCorp responds by firing Bolkovac, who returns to the U.S. and files a wrongful termination case. She wins the suit but says she's still blacklisted.

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August 5, 2011 Limited Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD

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September 23, 2011 Nationwide Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD