A man named Mr. Smith (Owen)
delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon
to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.
Concile de Pierre, Le (2006)
Diane Thiberge is a french
scientist who adopts a young thai boy. After a car crash, this one
falls into a coma and a mysterious german doctor asserts he can
heal him... through unconventional methods! It leads Diane to
Mongolia to find out the origin of the young boy.
N - Napoléon (2006)
Directed
by
Paolo Virzì
Writing credits
Francesco Bruni (screenplay)
Furio Scarpelli (screenplay)
Combien tu
m'aimes? (2006)
Directed
by
Bertrand Blier
Writing credits
Bertrand Blier
The
Brothers Grimm (2005)
Brothers Jake and Will Grimm,
renowned collectors of folklore, have made a career out of
traveling from village to village pretending to rid them of
"enchanted" creatures. Their bluff is called, however,
when they are forced by Napoleon's French government to
investigate a haunted forest where girls have been disappearing
mysteriously. What they discover leads to a series of adventures
involving an actual evil (and immortal) sorceress that mirrors
that of mythology and the fables that the Brothers Grimm would
eventually become famous for.
The
Passion of The Christ (2004)
2 hrs. 06 min. This film
tells the story of the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus (Caviezel),
on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem. This film's script is
based upon several sources, including the diaries of St. Anne
Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) as collected in the book, "The
Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ", "The
Mystical City of God" by St. Mary of Agreda, and the New
Testament books of John, Luke, Mark and Matthew.
Remember
Me, My Love (2004)
Art/Foreign, Comedy and Drama
2 hrs. 04 min. Carlos, once an aspiring novelist, now works at
a finance company. His wife, Guilia, traded in her dreams of being
an actress for a job as a teacher. With their own convictions
misplaced, the two have passed nothing on to their son and
daughter, now both in their late teens. While the kids struggle to
search for the meaning of life, Carlos and Guilia try to find
what's absent in their own.
She
Hate Me (2004)
Drama
2 hrs. 18 min. Harvard, MBA-educated biotech executive John
Henry “Jack” Armstrong (Anthony Mackie) gets fired when he
informs on his bosses and initiates an investigation into their
business dealings by the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Branded a whistle-blower and therefore unemployable, Jack
desperately needs to make a living. When his former girlfriend
Fatima (Kerry Washington), a high powered businesswoman and now a
lesbian, offers him cash to impregnate her and her new girlfriend
Alex (Dania Ramirez), Jack is persuaded by the chance to make
“easy” money. Word spreads and soon Jack is in the baby-making
business at $10,000 a tryst. Lesbians with a desire for motherhood
and the cash to spare are lining up to seek his services. But,
between the attempts by his former employers to frame him for
securities fraud and his dubious fathering activities, Jack finds
his life, all at once, becoming very complicated.
Irreversible
(2003)
Art/Foreign and Drama
1 hr. 34 min. After a fight with her coked-up boyfriend
Marcus, Alex leaves a party to go home. She never gets there;
instead she's raped in a desolate tunnel. Her angry boyfriend, and
her buddy Pierre decide to take justice into their own hands and
hunt down the rapist themselves.
The
Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Science Fiction/Fantasy and
Thriller
2 hrs. 18 min. Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, and the rest of their
crew continue to battle the machines that have enslaved the human
race in the Matrix. Now, more humans are waking up out of the
matrix and attempting to live in the real world. As their numbers
grow, the battle moves to Zion, the last real-world city and
center of human resistance.
The
Matrix Revolutions (2003)
2 hrs. 09 min. In the third
installment, the epic war between man and machine reaches a
thundering crescendo: the Zion military, aided by courageous
civilian volunteers like Zee and the Kid, desperately battles to
hold back the Sentinel invasion as the Machine army bores into
their stronghold. Facing total annihilation, the citizens of the
last bastion of humanity fight not only for their own lives, but
for the future of mankind itself. But an unknown element poisons
the ranks from within: the rogue program Smith has cunningly
hijacked Bane, a member of the hovercraft fleet. Growing more
powerful with each passing second, Smith is beyond even the
control of the Machines and now threatens to destroy their empire
along with the real world and the Matrix. The Oracle offers Neo
her final words of guidance, which he accepts with the knowledge
that she is a program and her words could be just another layer of
falsehood in the grand scheme of the Matrix. With the aid of Niobe,
Neo and Trinity choose to travel farther than any human has ever
dared to go - a treacherous journey above ground, across the
scorched surface of the earth and into the heart of the menacing
Machine City. In this vast mechanized metropolis, Neo comes face
to face with the ultimate power in the Machine world--the Deus Ex
Machina--and strikes a bargain that is the only hope for a dying
world. The war will end tonight, with Neo's destiny and the fate
of two civilizations inexorably tied to the outcome of his
cataclysmic confrontation with Smith.
Tears
of the Sun (2003)
Action/Adventure, Drama and
Thriller
1 hr. 58 min. In director Antoine Fuqua's (Training Day) new
action-adventure film, Bruce Willis stars as Lt. A.K. Waters, the
loyal veteran officer of a Navy S.E.A.L unit. When he's sent into
the heart of Africa, the usually hard-bitten Waters finds himself
deeply conflicted at having to choose between following orders and
the dictates of his own conscience. Though a fictionalization,
Tears of the Sun deals with the gritty realism of human conflict
as Lt. Waters travels to war-torn central Africa to rescue Dr.
Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci), a U.S. citizen who runs a
mission in the countryside. But when Lt. Waters arrives Dr.
Kendricks refuses to abandon the refugees under her care. She
implores Waters to escort them on a dangerous trek through the
dense jungle to the nearby border. During the journey the
S.E.A.L.s find themselves the unwitting guardians of a man sought
by the rebel militia. This further endangers their already
hazardous mission, but all the while strengthening Waters' resolve
to protect Lena and the refugees, and to deliver them safely
across the border.
The
Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des loups) (2002)
Action/Adventure, Art/Foreign
and Drama
2 hrs. 22 min. Set in 1765 during the reign of Louis XV, a
mysterious creature is laying waste to the countryside in a rural
province of France, savagely killing scores of women and children.
Unseen, possessed of enormous strength and a seemingly near-human
intelligence, the beast has eluded capture for years. Desperate to
end the growing unrest of the populace, the King sends in a
renowned scientist and his Iroquois blood brother, an
unconventional team whose combined methods and capabilities may
finally bring the beast down.
Franck
Spadone (2000)
The work of a deft pickpocketing
team forms the focus for the French thriller FRANCK SPADONE. Bruno
(Christophe Le Masne) and Franck Spadone (Stanislas Merhar) are
the team in question, running a seemingly infallible operation
that nets them a princely sum day after day. Things go awry when
Spadone falls for one of his victims, a radiant stripper named
Laura (Monica Bellucci). But stripping brings some ties which the
lusty libertine finds hard to deal with, most notably Laura's
overbearing boss, Ferdinand (Carlo Brandt). Suddenly embroiled in
Laura and Ferdinand's scheme to murder a local mobster, who takes
a hefty share of the club's profits, Spadone finds himself sailing
into deep criminal waters. Torn between his affections for Laura
and a longing for his former, simpler life, Franck Spadone has to
take a good, hard look at himself before deciding which course of
action to take.
Maléna
(2000)
Art/Foreign and Romance
1 hr. 30 min. With MALÉNA, Italian director Giuseppe
Tornatore (CINEMA PARADISO) spins out a romantic coming of age
yarn about love, loss, and courage. Set in 1941 in a tiny village
in Sicily, a group of 13-year-old boys fall madly in love with Maléna
(Monica Bellucci), the widow of a local soldier. Inspired by the
story, "Ma L'Amore No...," by Luciano Vincenzoni, MALÉNA
is a heartwarming and realistic film.
Under
Suspicion (2000)
Thriller
1 hr. 50 min. While jogging on a Caribbean island, a prominent
lawyer finds the body of a dead girl. A local chief police
inspector calls him into the station and spends all night
interrogating him. The police hope to prove that he's really a
serial killer.
Like a
Fish Out of Water (1999)
This fish caper involves a trio of
criminals combining forces to make off with an expensive
underwater creature. This unlikely threesome of a suave con
artist, a brutal hit man, and a hapless idiot find themselves in
deep water when their fish heist doesn't go off as planned. Yet
someone is primed to make out like a bandit when the grieving
owner of the stolen animal is willing to pay anything to get this
exceptional pet back.