May 2016 Movies

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Jan. 15, 2023

Best Movies Released May 2016

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New York / Los Angeles

Set on the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria and centers on the politics of desire between man and woman where one plus one makes four.

Dakota Johnson, Luca Guadagnino, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Michael Costigan, David Kajganich, Matthias Schoenaerts, Aurore Clément

R Drama Crime Mystery

42%

  • 2
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Captain America returns to the big screen.

Scarlett Johansson, Anthony Russo, Tom Holland, Paul Rudd, Chris Evans, Kevin Feige, Jeremy Renner, Paul Bettany

PG-13 Action Sequel Superhero 3D 2 hrs, 26 mins

92%

  • 4.4
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Follows an aimless 18-year-old Charlie (Nick Robinson), who drifts in and out of rehab clinics for his drug addiction while his actor-turned-politician father (Cary Elwes) runs for governor of California. Charlie begins a relationship with fellow patient Eva (Morgan Saylor), and the two attempt the straight-and-narrow life.

Common, Nick Robinson, Susan Misner, Rob Reiner, Stephanie Rennie, Simon Goldberg, Johnson Chan, Nick Reiner

NR Drama Comedy 1 hr, 37 mins

80%

  • 4.2
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While on her bachelorette party getaway, Casey, the bride to be, gets a seemingly harmless bite from an unknown insect. After returning home with cold feet, Casey tries to call off her wedding but before she's able to, she starts exhibiting insect like traits. Between her physical transformation and her wedding anxiety, Casey succumbs to her new instincts and begins creating a hive that not only houses her translucent eggs, but feeds on the flesh of others. As her transformation becomes complete, Casey discovers that everything can change with a single bite.

Lawrene Denkers, Chad Archibald, Jayme Laforest, Elma Begovic, Annette Wozniak, Jordan Gray, Denise Yuen, Tianna Nori

NR Horror 1 hr, 28 mins

40%

  • 3
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Gaza. Synonymous to so many with conflict, destruction and despair but to Mohammed Assaf, and his sister Nour, Gaza is their home and their playground. It’s where they, along with their best friends Ahmad and Omar, play music and football and dare to dream big. Their band might play on secondhand, beaten-up instruments, but their ambitions are sky-high. For Mohammed and Nour, nothing less than playing the world-famous Cairo Opera Hall will do. It might take them a lifetime to get there but, as Mohammed will find out, some dreams are worth living for.

Sameh Zoabi, Hany Abu-Assad, Tawfeek Barhom, Qais Atallah, Hiba Atallah, Abd-Elkarim Abu-Barakeh, Teya Hussein, Dima Awawdeh

Drama 1 hr, 30 mins

62%

  • 5
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Photographer Rigby Gray captures uplifting stories of motherhood, inspiring a decision even she wouldn't expect.

Susan Sarandon, Eva Amurri Martino, Paul Duddridge, Sharon Stone, Courtney Cox, Christina Ricci, Mira Sorvino, Paul Wesley

PG-13 Romance 1 hr, 30 mins

33%

  • 3.7
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The film will tell Brazilian soccer Pele's life story, from humble beginnings through leading Brazil to its first ever world cup victory in 1958.

Jeff Zimbalist, Seu Jorge, Brian Grazer, Michael Zimbalist, Ivan Orlic, Dany Wolf, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rodrigo Santoro

PG Drama Biography Sports

43%

  • 3.9
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Based on James Franco’s “Palo Alto Stories” and “A California Childhood”, Ivan Cohen is a young boy living in Palo Alto, California. Unsatisfied by his slacker group of friends, his love for a girl who doesn’t know he exists, and a dysfunctional family life, he is struggling to find his place in the world. Memoria raises questions about the memories we choose to keep, the ones we try desperately to forget, and the ones we use as fuel to create our future.

James Franco, Ruby Modine, Bo Michell, Vladimir de Fontenay, Nina Ljeti, Sam Dillon, Thomas Mann, Keith Stanfield

Drama 1 hr, 10 mins

65%

  • 3
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New York / Los Angeles

Set in a former mining village in Wales, DARK HORSE is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men's club who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed themselves a racehorse. Raised on a slagheap allotment, their foal grows into an unlikely champion, beating the finest thoroughbreds in the land, before suffering a near fatal accident. Nursed back to health by the love of his owners - for whom he's become a source of inspiration and hope - he makes a remarkable recovery, returning to the track for a heart-stopping comeback.

Louise Osmond

PG Drama Documentary 1 hr, 25 mins

84%

  • 3.9
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In 1976, during the hottest summer on record, Star Wars was shot in suburban North London. Nobody involved had any idea how big the film would become, many couldn't even remember the title.

Yet for the bit-part actors and extras, their faces hidden in masks and helmets, this seemingly insignificant job would go on to color their lives even four decades later.

ELSTREE 1976 is a portrait of a cross-section of these people; from the man inside the most iconic villain in film history to the guy whose character was completely cut from the final film. It tells the stories of their lives and explores the eccentric community they have formed, traveling the world, signing autographs for fans.

Jon Spira

Documentary

72%

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In a desperate attempt to save her husband’s life by accessing the medical treatment that he needs to survive, Sonia embarks on a chase against her corrupt and negligent insurance company and its complicit representatives — leading her son and herself into a vertiginous spiral of violence.

Rodrigo Plá, Jana Raluy, Hugo Albores, Sebastián Aguirre

NR Drama 1 hr, 15 mins

51%

  • 4.6
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Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone. Artists like Van Gogh, Bonnard, Pissarro and Matisse all saw the garden as a powerful subject for their art. These great artists, along with many other famous names, are featured in an innovative exhibition from The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Royal Academy, London.

From the exhibition walls to the beauty of artist gardens like Monet’s Giverny, take a magical journey to discover how artists used the modern garden to explore radical and wonderful new ideas.

David Bickerstaff

Event 1 hr, 30 mins

79%

  • 1
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No plot details known yet. See Blumhouse's in-development movies for possibilities.

Jason Blum, Kevin Bacon, Radha Mitchell, David Mazouz, Matt Walsh, Greg McLean, Lucy Fry, Gary Carter

PG-13 Thriller Horror Supernatural

75%

  • 3.9
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Follows Lee Gates a TV personality whose insider trading tips have made him the money guru of Wall Street. When Kyle, a viewer who lost all of his family’s money on a bad tip from Lee, holds Lee hostage on air, ratings soar as the entire country tunes in to this media frenzy to find out just how much a man’s life is worth.

George Clooney, Emily Meade, Jodie Foster, Alan DiFiore, Giancarlo Esposito, Daniel Dubiecki, Grant Heslov, Jim Kouf

R Drama

33%

  • 3.4
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A dire warning of a wake up call of what might be our future when a globalist terrorist organization aligned with the United Nations disables the United States' power grid and institutes martial law. It will take a dedicated family of patriots armed with strong survival skills and the remains of the Second Amendment to save America and reclaim its freedom.

Mike Norris, AnnaLynne McCord, Spencer Neville, Gary Heavin, Chase Hunter, Marshall Teague, Dina Meyer, Greta Norris

PG-13 Action

81%

  • 3.3
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Set on the Mediterranean island of Pantelleria and centers on the politics of desire between man and woman where one plus one makes four.

Dakota Johnson, Luca Guadagnino, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Michael Costigan, David Kajganich, Matthias Schoenaerts, Aurore Clément

R Drama Crime Mystery

42%

  • 2
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A love story set in the near future where single people, according to the rules of The City, are arrested and transferred to The Hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing and released into The Woods. A desperate Man escapes from The Hotel to The Woods where The Loners live and falls in love, although it is against their rules.

John C. Reilly, Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Léa Seydoux, Yorgos Lanthimos, Olivia Colman, Ben Whishaw

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 58 mins

62%

  • 2.9
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Two guys take a road trip to Mexico in order to rescue their friend.

Thomas Middleditch, Neal H. Moritz, Shannon Marie Woodward, Alison Brie, Jason Mantzoukas, Scot Armstrong, Ravi Nandan, Paul Brooks

R Comedy

11%

  • 3
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The film is a bold and dark new take on the classic Sleeping Beauty story.

Pearry Teo, Josh Nadler, Ethan Peck, India Eisley, Natalie Hall, Bruce Davison

NR Fantasy Thriller 1 hr, 25 mins

66%

  • 2.8
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When an undercover cop gets too close to revealing the mastermind of a drug syndicate, his cover is blown. Double-crossed and under a false identity, he's thrown into a Thai prison, where a guard discovers the inmate—claiming he's a cop—is a bone marrow match for his dying daughter... and his warden may have an even deadlier operation hidden within the prison walls.

Soi Cheang, Tony Jaa, Wu Jing, Simon Yam, Zhang Jin, Louis Koo

Action Thriller Martial Arts 1 hr, 58 mins

91%

  • 3.8
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Forced onto the streets in her 50s, Mimi found "home" at a Santa Monica laundromat. Taking shelter there for 20 years, Mimi's passion for pink, and living without looking back, has taken her from homelessness to Hollywood's red carpets. This is the fascinating and moving story of one incredibly strong woman’s survival against all odds.

Yaniv Rokah

Documentary

63%

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Two American expats, Jack and Sam, become the targets of a Southeast Asian gang's vengeance when they unwittingly steal a drug lord's money.

Steven Seagal, Michael Jai White, Daniel Zirilli, D. Glase Lomond, Ron Smoorenburg, Pim Bubear, Damon Whitaker, John Edward Lee

R Action 1 hr, 30 mins

78%

  • 2
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New York / Los Angeles

The Johansson family’s idyllic summer is brought to an abrupt halt as deaths stack up from a virulent strand of the flu. The authorities start off by cordoning-­‐off the neighborhood, but soon panic and force the inhabitants into quarantine in their hermetically- ­‐sealed houses. Isolated from the rest of the world, teen Gustav spies out and realizes that the situation is getting out of control. He breaks out, but soon the family of four comes under attack from the riotous, blood-­‐thirsty mob who forces them to the extreme to escape alive.

Troels Lyby, Bo Mikkelsen, Mille Dinesen, Benjamin Engell, Marie Hammer Boda

NR Horror 1 hr, 22 mins

73%

  • 3.7
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Follows Jesus in an imagined chapter from his 40 days of fasting and praying in the desert, including a battle with the Devil over the fate of an ordinary family in crisis.

Ewan McGregor, Ciaran Hinds, Ayelet Zurer, Rodrigo Garcia, Tye Sheridan

PG-13 Drama Adventure 1 hr, 38 mins

74%

  • 3
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The romantic comedy tracks two high school seniors as they embark on an epic and priapic Spring Break in Mexico’s Puerto Vallarta.

Teri Hatcher, Jordi Molla, John Michael Higgins, Camilla Belle, Devon Werkheiser, Fernando Lebrija, Karla Souza, Sean Marquette

R Comedy Romance

71%

  • 4
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Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter, a Tiger. In Sri Lanka, the Civil War is reaching its end, and defeat is near. Dheepan decides to flee, taking with him two strangers – a woman and a little girl – hoping that they will make it easier for him to claim asylum in Europe. Arriving in Paris, the ‘family’ moves from one temporary home to another until Dheepan finds work as the caretaker of a run-down housing block in the suburbs. He works to build a new life and a real home for his ‘wife’ and his ‘daughter’, but the daily violence he confronts quickly reopens his war wounds, and Dheepan is forced to reconnect with his warrior’s instincts to protect the people he hopes will become his true family.

Jacques Audiard, Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers, Marc Zinga

R Drama Crime 1 hr, 40 mins

67%

  • 4.3
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Set in an elegant forty-story tower block, affluent tenants are hell-bent on destruction. Cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on other floors and the once-luxurious amenities become an arena for mayhem.

Elisabeth Moss, Jeremy Thomas, Sienna Miller, Ben Wheatley, Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans, James Purefoy, Keeley Hawes

R Thriller Adaptation Sci-Fi 1 hr, 52 mins

74%

  • 3.3
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Set in the 1790s, Love and Friendship centers on beautiful widow Lady Susan Vernon, who has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica.

Kate Beckinsale, Xavier Samuel, Stephen Fry, Whit Stillman, Chloë Sevigny, Emma Greenwell

Comedy Adaptation Period 1 hr, 32 mins

83%

  • 4.3
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An epic of hope, tragedy and love at the dawning of the Great War.

Peter Mullan, Terence Davies, Agyness Deyn

Drama War Adaptation 2 hrs, 15 mins

40%

  • 1.5
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A feature-length movie based on the popular downloadable game in which birds try to attack pigs who stole their eggs.

Jon Vitti, Bill Hader, Kate McKinnon, David Maisel, Fergal Reilly, Clay Kaytis, John Cohen, Jason Sudeikis

PG Adventure Comedy Family Animation 3D 1 hr, 37 mins

53%

  • 3.7
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In The Nice Guys, a private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.

Ken Kao, Ryan Gosling, Shane Black, Anthony Bagarozzi, Russell Crowe, Beau Knapp, Alex Walton, Joel Silver

R Comedy Thriller Crime Mystery

42%

  • 3.5
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A sorority moves in next door to the home of Mac & Kelly Radner who have a young child. The Radner's enlist their former nemeses from the fraternity to help battle the raucous sisters.

Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Andrew Jay Cohen, Lisa Kudrow, Brendan O'Brien, Rose Byrne, Selena Gomez

R Comedy Sequel

84%

  • 3.5
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Story of a young woman and the joys and pitfalls of trying to make your own way in New York City.

Ethan Hawke, Greta Gerwig, Bill Hader, Julianne Moore, Rebecca Miller, Maya Rudolph

R Comedy 1 hr, 32 mins

61%

  • 4
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Hard Sell centers around Hardy Buchanan, a poor high school senior surrounded by affluence at an elite private school. Hardy struggles to support his unstable mom and her prized possession, Walter, the family dog. When Walter gets sick, Hardy has to come up with fast cash to pay for the surgery. Having no one to turn to, Hardy sides with Bo, a beautiful runaway he meets at community service. Hardy and Bo team up to discover ways of profiting off of the wayward teens at school. Hardy fights to save Walter and fix his broken family while Bo’s past comes back to haunt her. As things begin to spiral out of control, Hardy has to make a decision to rebuild his life or to walk away.

Skyler Gisondo, Sean Nalaboff, Kristin Chenoweth, Katrina Bowden

Comedy

48%

  • 4.3
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Follows a Manhattan tabloid writer (Adrien Brody), who is a dedicated husband and father. He meets a seductive stranger, who asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband. He accepts the assignment and finds himself sucked into a world of sexual obsession and blackmail.

Adrien Brody, Campbell Scott, Steven Berkoff, Brian DeCubellis, Yvonne Strahovski, Jennifer Beals, Linda Lavin

Drama Crime Adaptation 1 hr, 53 mins

76%

  • 3.9
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The film centers on the disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, whose career went off the rails twice, both times for public revelations about his sex life.

Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg

R Documentary Political

73%

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Features an enigmatic outsider living on a remote Scottish island who’s caught between her commanding minister husband and the vitality of a 17 year-old delinquent who is sent to live with them.

Corinna Villari-McFarlane, John Sessions, Damian Lewis, Andrea Riseborough, Ross Anderson, Kate Dickie, Barbara Broccoli, Michael Wilson

Drama Romance

71%

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Tells the story of Gennadiy Mohknenko, a Ukrainian pastor who has taken up the fight against child homelessness by forcibly abducting street kids and bringing them to his private rehabilitation center. Gennadiy’s ongoing efforts and unabashedly tough love approach to his city’s problems has made him a folk hero to some, and a lawless vigilante to others.

Steve Hoover, Terence Malick

Documentary

78%

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Set in both the late 80's and current day, "Back in the Day" is a gritty tale about Anthony Rodriguez, a half Italian - half Puerto Rican young teenager growing up on the streets of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn; a then very dangerous and racist neighborhood filled with bullies, big shots and social clubs where all of the neighborhood shots were called. Anthony had to endure an abusive, unemployed, alcoholic father but was blessed with a nurturing, hard-working mother. In spite of his bitterness, he struggles to uphold the morals his Mother taught him to retain his dignity in spite of being up against all odds. He is taken under the wing of a local mob boss, Enzo Agostino, who supports Anthony's wishes to escape his demons through the sport of boxing. Enzo connects Anthony with a trainer who means business and turns Anthony into a contender although his troubled life and loyalty to his friends, who seem to always get him into trouble, hinder his career. As he journeys into adulthood with the nearly impossible goal of achieving a successful professional boxing career, Anthony manages to not only go pro, but literally fight his way to the top and become a world champion middleweight boxer. But not without love, loss of love, humiliation, retaliation and revenge playing roles in his journey. But when he finally does make it, who will be left of the people Anthony has ever cared about, to share it with?

Shannen Doherty, Paul Borghese, William DeMeo, Danny Glover, Michael Madsen, Alec Baldwin

Crime Sports

80%

  • 5
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New York

The tale of a rebel who never fit into today’s art world… yet has become one of its most provocative, rabble-rousing characters nevertheless. At once a portrait of the artist as a young troublemaker, an alternate history of modern art and a quintessential New York story, Art Bastard is as energetic, humorous and unapologetically honest as the uncompromising man at its center: Robert Cenedella.

Victor Kanefsky

Documentary

43%

  • 2.5
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New York

Ma ma follows Magda (Penelope Cruz) as she experiences tragedies and miracles alike. Just as Magda is diagnosed with breast cancer, she meets Arturo (Luis Tosar), a devoted husband and father in the midst of unspeakable loss. Their chance encounter leads both down a path of strength, grace, love, and rebirth.

Julio Medem, Penelope Cruz, Luis Tosar, Asier Etxeandia

Drama 1 hr, 51 mins

69%

  • 5
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Unlocking the Cage follows animal rights lawyer Steven Wise in his unprecedented challenge to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans. Arguing that cognitively complex animals such as chimpanzees, whales, dolphins and elephants have the capacity for limited personhood rights, Steve and his legal team are making history by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform a chimpanzee from a “thing” with no rights to a “person” with legal protections. Unlocking the Cage captures a monumental shift in our culture, as the public and judicial system show increasing receptiveness to Steve’s impassioned arguments. It is an intimate look at a lawsuit that could forever transform our legal system, and one man’s lifelong quest to protect “nonhuman” animals.

Chris Hegedus, DA Pennebaker

Documentary

62%

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No plot details have been announced. It's unclear whether Apocalypse will star the cast of X-Men: First Class or the original trilogy X-Men.

Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Michael Fassbender, Oscar Isaac, Ben Hardy, Kodi Smit-McPhee

PG-13 Action Sequel Fantasy Superhero 3D 2 hrs, 27 mins

83%

  • 3.8
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No plot details have been announced. The first film was inspired by Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and its sequel "Through the Looking-Glass," with Alice fleeing real-world pressures by returning to Wonderland.

Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Ed Speleers, Suzanne Todd, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joe Roth, Jennifer Todd, Stephen Fry

PG Adventure Sequel Fantasy Family 3D

69%

  • 3
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VOD / Digital

The life of a bank manager is turned upside down when a friend from his past manipulates him into faking his own death and taking off on an adventure.

Adam Sandler, David Spade, Kathryn Hahn, Renee Taylor, Paula Patton, Sean Astin, Nick Swardson, Matt Walsh

Comedy

80%

  • 3.3
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In 1985, recent film school graduate Will Allen became a member of The Buddhafield, a Los Angeles area spiritual group. Also acting as the group’s official videographer, he began to document their activities, which centered on the mysterious leader they called Michel, or The Teacher. Over time, the group’s dark side began to surface as total devotion turned to paranoia, until finally, unexpected truths about their enlightened leader were revealed – all in front of Allen’s camera. This incredible, 22-year archive of video footage became the basis for Holy Hell. Now, for the first time since he left the group, Allen turns the camera on himself and asks fellow ex-cult members to come to terms with their past and the unbelievable deceit they experienced

Will Allen

NR Documentary 1 hr, 50 mins

44%

  • 3.3
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A documentary about a star-crossed singer-songwriter and her crafty secret admirer.

Ido Haar

Documentary

48%

  • 5
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Los Angeles

Ma ma follows Magda (Penelope Cruz) as she experiences tragedies and miracles alike. Just as Magda is diagnosed with breast cancer, she meets Arturo (Luis Tosar), a devoted husband and father in the midst of unspeakable loss. Their chance encounter leads both down a path of strength, grace, love, and rebirth.

Julio Medem, Penelope Cruz, Luis Tosar, Asier Etxeandia

Drama 1 hr, 51 mins

69%

  • 5
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Eagerly awaiting their first child, a young couple in a tiny London suburb become involved in a psychological battle of wills with the tenants in the apartment downstairs.

Clemence Poesy, David Morrissey, David Farr, Stephen Campbell Moore, Laura Birn

Thriller 1 hr, 27 mins

64%

  • 5
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