May 2011 Movies

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Jul. 26, 2018

Best Movies Released May 2011

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In 1957, former baseball player Cesar Faz returns home to Mexico as he is defeated by the racism of the Major Leagues. He coaches a local youth league team, leading them all the way to the Little League World Series.

William Dear, David Salzberg, W. William Winokur, Mark W. Koch, Daniel de Liege, Christian Tureaud, Clifton Collins Jr., Cheech Marin

PG Drama Biography Sports 1 hr, 58 mins

74%

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Just when Michael arrives in Berlin to visit his ex-girlfriend Gabi, a terrible virus starts spreading across the city at a rapid pace, turning people into mindless homicidal maniacs. Much to Michael's concern, Gabi's not home; instead, he meets Harper, a teenage plumber's apprentice at work in her apartment block. Together, they manage to barricade themselves when raging hordes of infected people swarm the building. Surrounded by these thirsty zombies, Michael and Harper have their hands full to survive - and it will take all of their ingenuity to make their way out to try and find Gabi.

Marvin Kren, Benjamin Hessler, Michael Fuith, Theo Trebs, Anka Graczyk, Brigitte Kren, Emily Cox

R Horror Foreign Zombies 1 hr, 4 mins

76%

  • 4.2
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Two African-American families from divergent backgrounds come together for a wedding on Martha’s Vineyard.

Angela Bassett, Julie Bowen, Curtis Wallace, Elizabeth Hunter, Arlene Gibbs, Mike Epps, Salim Akil, Tracey Edmonds

PG-13 Comedy

80%

  • 4
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Story of the mythological hammer-throwing Thor, the son of the Norse god Odin.

Avi Arad, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgard, Anthony Hopkins, Chris Hemsworth, Idris Elba, Ray Stevenson

PG-13 Action Adventure Superhero 3D Post-3D

87%

  • 4.3
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A Manhattan attorney becomes involved with her best friend's fiance following her 30th birthday.

Kate Hudson, John Krasinski, Molly Smith, Steve Howey, Ellen H. Schwartz, Luke Greenfield, Hilary Swank, Aaron Lubin

PG-13 Comedy Romance 1 hr, 50 mins

91%

  • 3.8
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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.

Michael Goldbach, Josh Lucas, Scott Speedman, Andie MacDowell, Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson

R Drama Comedy Romance

79%

  • 4.3
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Based on one of the fake trailers Jason Eisener created for "Grindhouse," pic follows a homeless vigilante on a mission to clean up the city.

Gregory Smith, Jason Eisener, Rutger Hauer

Action Crime

83%

  • 3.3
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A married couple is apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.

Scott Adsit, Keira Knightley, Eva Mendes, Sam Worthington, Massy Tadjedin, Nick Wechsler, Guillaume Canet, Griffin Dunne

R Drama Romance

75%

  • 4.2
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Examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.

Lee Fulkerson

PG Documentary 1 hr, 30 mins

65%

  • 5
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When a young man attempts to woo an older woman, he winds up befriending her adopted son.

Michael Amo, Gregory Smith, Brian Downey, Chaz Thorne, Fiona Highet

Drama Romance

100%

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Rehan visits Glen Manor to complete its sale, which his father had initiated, but he realizes that certain mysterious occurrences in the manor may jeopardise the sale.

Vikram Bhatt

Horror 2 hrs, 23 mins

86%

  • 4.1
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A man walks around with a beaver puppet on his hand, treating it as something close to a human creature with human feelings.

Mel Gibson, Steve Golin, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin, Keith Redmon, Kyle Killen, Michelle Ang, Jennifer Lawrence

PG-13 Drama Comedy

59%

  • 4.2
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During the Second Sino-Japanese War, a village woman is given the grueling task of looking after her quadruple-amputee husband, a decorated solider tortured by memories of his war crimes.

Kôji Wakamatsu

Drama

57%

  • 4.2
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New York

Clemente, a moneylender of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor, devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles. They're brought together over a new-born baby, fruit of Clemente's relationship with a prostitute who's nowhere to be found.

Daniel Vega Vidal, Diego Vega Vidal

Drama

50%

  • 5
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Tells the story of a Spanish journalist trying to mend his relationship with his dying father, a former fighter in the Spanish Civil War. He discovers his father was a close friend of Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, the founder of the Catholic prelature Opus Dei.

Roland Joffe, Wes Bentley, Guy J. Louthan, Ignacio Gomez Sancha, Ignacio Nunez, Charlie Cox, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko

PG-13 Drama Epic

61%

  • 3.8
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New York

"An Invisible Sign of My Own" is a coming-of-age drama based on Aimee Bender's quirky novel about a 20-year-old loner named Mona Gray (Alba) who as a child turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Gray now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises.

J.K. Simmons, Marilyn Agrelo, Pam Falk, Mike Ellis, Jessica Alba, Chris Messina

PG-13 Drama Comedy

86%

  • 4.3
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Vito Bonafacci is a successful businessman who enjoys his lifestyle and the riches he has accumulated, but all that changes when one night he dreams he is having a heart attack. In that dream his mother appears from her grave and pleads with him to abandon his pursuit of greed and materialism. When Vito wakes, he is deeply affected by this vision and this leads him on a soul-searching journey to understand his life’s purpose. In a series of encounters with family and friends, he questions and explores the meaning of faith and the role religion plays in tempering one’s soul.

John Martoccia

Drama 1 hr, 37 mins

67%

  • 3.7
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New York / Los Angeles

An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.

Mickey Rourke, Bill Murray, Mitch Glazer, Daniel Dubiecki, Jonah Hirsch, Megan Fox, Kelly Lynch, Rebecca Wang

R Drama Thriller

78%

  • 3.3
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The Russian submission for the 83rd Oscars is set in a Siberian gulag at the end of World War II.

Alexander Gonorovsky, Aleksei Uchitel, Konstantin Ernst

Adventure

58%

  • 4.8
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A story of love, sex... and high school tuition. Meet Sam Lowell. Friend, lover, student, teacher.....

Jim Belushi, Ryan Pinkston, K. Asher Levin, Henry Boger, Graham Larson, Jack Schuster, Kyle Gallner, Kathryn Morris

R Drama Comedy Romance 1 hr, 27 mins

89%

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Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Annie Mumolo, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Jill Clayburgh

R Comedy 2 hrs, 5 mins

60%

  • 3.9
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The vampire western concerns a warrior priest who disobeys church law by teaming with a young sheriff and a priestess to track down a band of renegade vampires who have kidnapped his niece.

Karl Urban, Paul Bettany, Cory Goodman, Maggie Q, Glenn S. Gainor, Scott Stewart, Michael De Luca, Sam Raimi

PG-13 Thriller Suspense Western Horror 3D

89%

  • 3.9
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New York

The director takes a world trip to discover the secrets to extending life.

Mark Wexler

Documentary

54%

  • 1
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Examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.

Lee Fulkerson

PG Documentary 1 hr, 30 mins

65%

  • 5
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Carmen, a young woman living in Chicago, struggles to overcome her fears and follow her dream to be a dancer.

Aimee Garcia, Jossara Jinaro, Carmen Marron, Al Bandiero, Gina Rodriguez

Drama Dance

81%

  • 4.2
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New York

In Make Believe, director J. Clay Tweel follows six adolescent outsiders who all share an extraordinary passion: the art of magic. Armed with great skill and a dazzling array of illusions, these teenagers embark from the varied hometowns of Malibu, California; Chicago, Illinois; Capetown, South Africa; Littleton, Colorado; and Kitayama, Japan to attend the annual World Magic Seminar in Las Vegas, where they each hope to be named Teen World Champion by master magician Lance Burton. The film's six subjects are remarkably assured and dedicated entertainers. Offstage, however, they face the diverse obstacles of adolescence: loneliness, high parental expectations, the pressures of impending stardom, abject poverty, and the deep desire to fit in. With great humor, honesty, and heart, Make Believe reveals an enduring world that audiences know little about while it also explores a time of life no one ever forgets.

J. Clay Tweel, Cleven S. Loham

NR Documentary

20%

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Dax Shepard tries to radically change the direction of his career. Known as a comedian, Dax is met with strong opposition while trying to secure financing for his martial arts film.

Jon Favreau, Dax Shepard, Tom Arnold, Bradley Cooper, Josh Temple, David Palmer, Nate Tuck, Michael Rosenbaum

Comedy 1 hr, 20 mins

44%

  • 3.2
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The public life of Yves Saint Laurent was an extravagant spectacle, as a design prodigy and then the grand coutourier of a fashion empire, he influenced fifty years of style and was an icon to millions -- but few are familiar with the private life of the legend. In Pierre Thoretton's L'Amour Fou, Pierre Berge, the man with which YSL shared four decades of his life, reflects on the equally extravagant history of their personal relationship.

Pierre Thoretton

NR Documentary Foreign

0%

  • 5
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"Hesher" is the story of a twenty-something long-haired tattooed metal-head who one day unexpectedly enters the life of a grieving family. Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is the most unlikely person to help 13-year-old TJ (Devin Brochu) cope with the death of his mother, but he proves to be the only one who can truly free TJ from his overwhelming sadness. The charismatic and dangerous Hesher drags TJ out of loss and confusion by sheer force of will and gives the young boy and his grieving father (Rainn Wilson) a chance to be a family again.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman, Piper Laurie, Spencer Susser, Rainn Wilson, Devin Brochu

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 40 mins

80%

  • 4.9
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Based on a true story, an 84-year-old Kenyan fights to go to school after the country introduces universal education.

Justin Chadwick, Ann Peacock

PG-13 Drama

76%

  • 4.3
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New York

Jack Cardiff's career spanned an incredible nine of moving picture's first ten decades and his work behind the camera altered the look of films forever through his use of Technicolor photography. Craig McCall's film about the legendary cinematographer reveals a unique figure in British and international cinema.

Craig McCall

Documentary 1 hr, 26 mins

67%

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New York / Los Angeles

Shiloh Fernandez will play Ritchie Wheeler, a teen forced out of a job when his small-town roller rink shuts down. He faces tough decisions about his future, his parents' divorce and complicated relationships with friends Brent (Heath Freeman) and Kenny (Taylor Handley), his sister Mary (Haley Ramm) and Brent's sister Michelle (Ashely Greene). James LeGros plays Brent and Michelle's father.

Heath Freeman, James LeGros, Ashley Greene, Justin Gilley, Victor Moyers, Nicholas Jayanty, Haley Ramm, Anthony Burns

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 38 mins

84%

  • 3.6
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A documentary about the world’s only comedic, singing, yodelling lesbian twin sisters, Lynda and Jools Topp, whose political activism and unique brand of entertainment has helped change New Zealand’s social landscape.

Leanne Pooley, Lynda Topp, Jools Topp

Documentary 1 hr, 24 mins

32%

  • 5
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New York / Los Angeles

The story on the burgeoning relationship between an unlikely pair. Nathalie (Isabelle Blais) is expecting her first child and Henry (Zach Braff) is on his way to his next drug deal. Their paths fatefully collide one night in an event that will irrevocably change their lives.

Deborah Chow, Zach Braff, Isabelle Blais, Patrick Labbe

NR Drama 1 hr, 32 mins

89%

  • 4
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Su Can’s (Vincent Zhao) respectable life is obliterated when his vengeful brother, Yuan (Andy On), returns from war armed with the deadly Five Venom Fists. Weakened but not destroyed, Su Can learns a never-before-seen form of martial arts: the Drunken Fist. Armed with this new power, he returns home to honor his family through retribution by taking on his brother in a battle to become the ultimate warrior.

Michelle Yeoh, Woo-ping Yuen, Man Cheuk Chiu

R Action Adventure 1 hr, 56 mins

88%

  • 3.6
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Antonio Banderas as a private detective searching for a former stripper who is supposed to exist but no one has ever seen in a mystery connected to a particle collider. She plays a meth addict who works at a medical center pretending to have different diseases for interns to react to.

Snoop Dogg, Bill Duke, Tony Krantz, Erik Jendresen, Richard Rionda, Antonio Banderas, Rebecca Mader, William Fichtner

R Action Thriller 1 hr, 41 mins

77%

  • 3.1
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Mary Murphy, who wrote the book, "Scout, Atticus and Boo: A Celebration of 50 Years of To Kill A Mockingbird"—reflects upon the impact of Harper Lee’s classic masterpiece with such personalities as Tom Brokaw, Mary Badham, Oprah Winfrey and James Patterson.

Mary Murphy

NR Biography Documentary 1 hr, 22 mins

61%

  • 3.6
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Los Angeles

The true story of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar (The Arbor, Rita, Sue and Bob Too) and her daughter Lorraine.

Clio Barnard, Kate Rutter, Christine Bottomley

Biography Documentary

52%

  • 3.3
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A guy loses his job and gets locked out of the house by his wife. She deposits his belongings on the front lawn, and he spends the next four days trying to sell his possessions.

Michael Peña, Will Ferrell, Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Rebecca Hall, Laura Dern, Dan Rush, Christopher Wallace

R Drama Comedy

77%

  • 3.4
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Meet the Smiths - parents, Marilyn and Matt, and teens, Gloria, 16, and Quentin, 18 - a family full of secrets who keep themselves to themselves living on a back road outside a small Midwestern town. In this tightly wound and visceral horror/thriller, their lives are turned upside down when a sweet-talking Texan arrives on their doorstep on a mission for retribution. Will he succeed in his goal to bleed them of their sins or will the family's haunted past prove to be even more deadly than he bargained for?

Philip Gelatt, Patrick Breen, Alexandra Chando, Betsy Aidem, Richard Bekins, Charlie Hewson, Nina Lisandrello

NR Thriller Horror

73%

  • 3.2
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New York

Four Chicago high school poetry teams prepping to compete in the world's largest youth poetry slam.

Greg Jacobs, Jon Siskel

Documentary

41%

  • 3.4
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No plot details have been announced.

Johnny Depp, Ian McShane, Penelope Cruz, Keith Richards, Geoffrey Rush, Rob Marshall, Jerry Bruckheimer, Ted Elliott

PG-13 Action Adventure Sequel Fantasy Mystery 3D

94%

  • 4.3
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A man walks around with a beaver puppet on his hand, treating it as something close to a human creature with human feelings.

Mel Gibson, Steve Golin, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin, Keith Redmon, Kyle Killen, Michelle Ang, Jennifer Lawrence

PG-13 Drama Comedy

59%

  • 4.2
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The director takes a world trip to discover the secrets to extending life.

Mark Wexler

Documentary

54%

  • 1
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Examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.

Lee Fulkerson

PG Documentary 1 hr, 30 mins

65%

  • 5
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A gritty tale of two wounded veterans who return home to the ghetto they joined the military to escape. As they struggle for redemption, their own families become entangled in a web of crime, corruption and violence.

Judy Jerome, Maddie Morris Jones, Gregg Almquist, Sean Kirkpatrick, Chris Kerson, Will Blagrove, Mark Borkowski

R Drama Crime

50%

  • 4.6
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No plot details have been announced.

Adrien Brody, Rachel McAdams, Owen Wilson, Mimi Kennedy, Steve Tenenbaum, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hiddleston, Elsa Pataky

PG-13 Drama Comedy

79%

  • 3.9
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A romantic comedy which looks at a group of thirty-somethings trying to figure out life, love and marriage.

Kevin Hart, Clifton Powell, Tamala Jones, Nicole Ari Parker, Mike Epps, Russ Parr, Meagan Good, Wendy Raquel Robinson

R Comedy Romance

85%

  • 3.8
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A documentary about the world’s only comedic, singing, yodelling lesbian twin sisters, Lynda and Jools Topp, whose political activism and unique brand of entertainment has helped change New Zealand’s social landscape.

Leanne Pooley, Lynda Topp, Jools Topp

Documentary 1 hr, 24 mins

32%

  • 5
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It's been 40 years since E.F. Bloodworth (Kris Kristofferson) abandoned his loving wife and sons for a life on the road. Now at the end of the line, Bloodworth reappears, forced to reckon with the stale aftermath of his departure. With his ex-wife Julia (Frances Conroy) mentally destroyed, his three sons; Warren (Val Kilmer), Boyd (Dwight Yoakam) and Brady (W. Earl Brown) soured by years of anger, Bloodworth's only solace is a budding relationship with Fleming, the grandson he never knew. But when Fleming meets Raven (Hilary Duff), the woman of his dreams, will Bloodworth's presence force history to repeat itself?

Val Kilmer, Shane Dax Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, W. Earl Brown, Hilary Duff, Reece Thompson, Dwight Yoakam, Frances Conroy

R Drama Romance 1 hr, 45 mins

68%

  • 3.9
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In the days leading up to Christmas, a married man forces himself to choose between his wife and his mistress.

Radu Muntean

Drama Romance 1 hr, 39 mins

80%

  • 3.3
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Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, David Cross, Guillermo del Toro, Michelle Yeoh, Melissa Cobb, Charlie Kaufman

PG Action Adventure Sequel Family Kids Animation 3D

95%

  • 4.5
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Sequel to the 2009 box office hit "The Hangover".

Todd Phillips, Craig Mazin, Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper, Ken Jeong, Paul Giamatti, Nick Cassavetes, J.C. Spink

R Comedy Sequel

83%

  • 4
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An tale of a provocative gang of female vampires living large, making their own rules and leaving a merciless trail of blood. The film centers on a 20-year-old Berlin native Lena (Karoline Herfurth) who gets by as a petty thief. On one of her nightly job runs through an underground club, she meets 250-year-old Louise (Nina Hoss). Louise is a glamorous vixen, who is not only the owner of the club, but also the leader of an unusual all-female vampire trio - the other two members being wild child Nora (Anna Fischer) and elegant Charlotte (Jennifer Ulrich). Louise falls head over heels in love with the scruffy Lena and bites her during their first night together. Once bitten, Lena discovers the curse and the blessing of her new, eternal life. She revels in the glamour, parties and infinite freedom. But she quickly discovers that the endless blood thirst and murderous appetite of her new girlfriends come at a steep price. When Berlin police commissioner Tom Serner (Max Riemelt) begins investigating the women, it is just a matter of time before their day comes and events spiral out of control.

Max Riemelt, Dennis Gansel, Jan Berger, Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer

Thriller Horror Romance

77%

  • 2.9
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New York / Los Angeles

No plot details have been announced.

Jessica Chastain, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Terrence Malick, Tye Sheridan

PG-13 Drama

66%

  • 3.3
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Maria del Carmen (Maria Onetto) is a forty-something housewife from the suburbs of Buenos Aires, whom everyone, including her indifferent husband and teenage sons, takes for granted. When she discovers her extraordinary gift at assembling puzzles, Maria starts to secretly train with a magnetic millionaire bachelor (Arturo Goetz) for Argentina’s national championship, which, if she wins, would take her to Germany and the World Puzzle Championship. At the risk of alienating her family, Maria nevertheless pursues her new passion, as she gradually comes into her own and asserts her newfound independence.

Natalia Smirnoff, Maria Onetto, Arturo Goetz

NR Drama 1 hr, 28 mins

75%

  • 3
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The docudrama explores the political unrest of 1960s Japan, when mass student uprisings coincided with the beginnings of the far-left United Red Army group, which tortured and murdered its “deviant” members during a 1972 training session.

Kôji Wakamatsu

Documentary

69%

  • 4.5
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An aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life.

Ed Gass-Donnelly

R Thriller Crime 1 hr, 16 mins

0%

  • 4.2
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There Be Dragons Theatrical Trailer
We Are the Night International Trailer
Bridesmaids Theatrical Trailer
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