Toe to Toe

2009

English

5.3

♡ 2

62%

Emily Abt Director

Charlotte Flyte as Baby's Mother

Ally Walker as Claire

Chris Riggi as Jason

Louisa Krause as Jesse

Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must work to overcome racial and other tensions in their classmates, and in themselves, if they hope to keep their friendship alive.

The Double Hour

2009

Italian

6.6

♡ 9

82%

Giuseppe Capotondi Director

Filippo Timi as Guido

Fabrizio Rizzolo as Hotel customer

Valentina Gaia as Jewelry shop-girl

Kseniya Rappoport as Sonia

A chambermaid and a former cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a turn for the worse when her mysterious past is revealed.

Finding Bliss

2009

English

5.2

♡ 6

30%

Julie Davis Director

Tim Bagley as Alan Balaban

Denise Richards as Bliss / Laura

Jamie Kennedy as Dick Harder

Leelee Sobieski as Jody Balaban

Jody Balaban, an aspiring filmmaker, is fresh to L.A. with New York film school accolades and the dream of making her movie. Unable to get a job where she can use the skills she so finely honed, Jody must edit adult entertainment to make ends meet. The uncompromising desire to make her movie, leads Jody to secretly film in the porn studio facilities at night - until she is caught in the act.

Letters to Father Jacob

2009

Finnish

7.3

♡ 4

69%

Klaus Härö Director

Heikki Nousiainen as Father Jacob

Kaarina Hazard as Leila

Kaija Pakarinen as Leilan sisko

Esko Roine as Vankilan Johtaja

With few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father Jacob spends his days answering the letters of the needy, which Leila finds pointless. But when the letters stop, the pastor is devastated and Leila finds herself cast in a new role.

Women Without Men

2009

Persian

6.3

♡ 8

73%

Shirin Neshat Director

Bijan Daneshmand as Abbas

Navid Navid as Ali

Essa Zahir as Amir Khan

Nader Farman as Babak

Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.

Soul at Peace

6.0

Vladimír Balko Director

Karol Simon as Dezo

Robert Wieckiewicz as Peter

Jaromír Hanzlík as Smejkal

Roman Luknár as Stefan

Set against the majestic mountains of central Slovakia, first time director Vladimir Balko explores the difficulties and challenges one former inmate must face upon his release from prison. Tono has just been released after a five-year stint in prison for lumber theft. Although attempting to stay on the straight and narrow, Tono is faced with many obstacles including building a relationship with his son, saving his now fragile marriage, and avoiding the tempting lure of his previous life of crime. A story of friendship and betrayal, SOUL AT PEACE was an official selection at the prestigious Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Uncharted

2009

English

2.1

♡ 10

17%

Action

found footage

Horror

Frank Nunez Director

Miguel Saldana as Cannibal #1

David Castillo as Cannibal #2

Elizabeth Cantore as Female boat passenger #2

Michael K. Lansing as Kevin, the boat captain

"Uncharted" is a story of a documentary film crew who crash on an island, when they were in hopes of finding a rare animal, a jaguar, that is believed to inhabit the jungle. Unfortunate circumstances arise when her charter plane goes down and crashes on a remote island.

Cracks

2009

English

6.6

♡ 37

47%

49%

Action

based on novel or book

Jordan Scott Director

Juno Temple as Di

María Valverde as Fiamma

Eva Green as Miss G

Imogen Poots as Poppy

Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.

Nymph

2009

Thai

6.1

♡ 1

husband wife relationship

photography

rape

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang Director

Chamanun Wanwinwatsara as Korn

Wanida Termthanaporn as May

Nopachai Chaiyanam as Nop

Porntip Papanai as Nymph

An urban husband and wife travel to the jungle and learn just how precious their relationship is.

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

2009

English

6.1

♡ 12

51%

Werner Herzog Director

Michael Shannon as Brad Macallam

Willem Dafoe as Detective Havenhurst

Michael Peña as Detective Vargas

Dave Bautista as Officer, San Diego Police Department S.W.A.T Team

Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.

Grey Gardens

2009

English

7.4

♡ 7

88%

Michael Sucsy Director

Arye Gross as Albert Maysles

Arnold Pinnock as Deputy

Drew Barrymore as Little Edie

Kenneth Welsh as Max Gordon

Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis raised as Park Avenue débutantes but who withdrew from New York society, taking shelter at their Long Island summer home, "Grey Gardens." As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did their grasp on reality.

Cadavres

2009

French

5.3

♡ 3

44%

Action

based on novel or book

Erik Canuel Director

Heidi Bureau as Angèle enfant

Marie-Josée Godin as Lucette

Christopher Heyerdahl as Paolo

Marie Brassard as Paulette

Raymond is a jealous, misanthropic, couch potato. Angèle is a sexy TV star, childish and disillusioned. One Halloween, their mother, Solange, suddenly dies. Raymond calls his sister for the first time in 10 years. She agrees to meet him and begins to investigate their mother's death, all in keeping with her TV role of police commissioner. But nothing is simple with the Marchildons. Between a dithering Raymond, the ghost of Solange who continues to haunt her children, and Angèle who's going crazy interviewing suspects, one more bizarre than the next, and the bodies that are filling up the basement, it's hard to keep their love straight. But then, love was always a little twisted in the Marchildon household.

Paju

2009

Korean

6.5

♡ 5

60%

Action

Drama

woman director

Chan-ok Park Director

Jin-su Park as Insurance company worker

Sun-kyun Lee as Kim Joong-sik

Ye-ri Han as Mi-ae

Min-su Kim as Waiter 2

A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.

Enigma

2009

English

4.9

♡ 7

Action

Sci-Fi

Jason Shumway Director

D. Grigsby Poland as General Rothman

Regina Palian as Lead Scientist

Nathan Mobley as Lieutenant

Harry Williams Jr. as Security Officer

Floating dead in space, transport ship Genesis become an unsolvable mystery. All hands on board have been killed. What began as a simple transport mission for the crew of the Genesis, ends with not only their bloodshed, but the loss of an important military prisoner. The people of earth are in a time of crisis. They are waging war against a far superior opponent, an alien race called the Cnidarians. After a bloody assault on a military ship, the Vendetta, USSM special forces were able to capture their first Cnidarian prisoner, code named 71099. But commonly known through out the fleet as Ediolon, the phantom. Realizing that a military transport would be too obvious of a target to their enemy, the USSM enlisted the freelance ship Genesis, commanded by Nathaniel J Rhys to secretly transport the prisoner to the high security prison located on Mars' moon Demos. The ship never arrived.

Rapt

2009

French

6.7

97%

Lucas Belvaux Director

Alex Descas as Maître Walser

Françoise Fabian as Marjorie

Yvan Attal as Stanislas Graff

Sarah Messens as Véronique Graff

A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.

Deadtime Stories: Volume 1

2009

English

4.0

♡ 3

Tom Savini Director

Antone Pagan as Miguel

Edwin Vazquez as Native

George A. Romero as Self - Host

Nick Mancuso as Swan

An anthology of three horror stories presented by George A. Romero. In "Valley of the Shadow," a woman searches for her missing husband in the jungles of South America, only to be in great danger herself. In "Wet," a lonely man finds an empty box on the beach and opens it, with disastrous results. In "House Call," a doctor is called to a rural farm house to diagnose a strange ailment. This segment is a short film directed by Tom Savini in 2004 as a failed television pilot.

Dear Doctor

2009

Japanese

7.0

♡ 3

71%

Miwa Nishikawa Director

Takashi Sasano as

Yutaka Matsushige as

Kimiko Yo as Akemi Ohtake

Kaoru Yachigusa as Kaduko Torikai

Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make an equally strong impression on his reluctant medical intern, Keisuke Soma. But, Soma and the villagers reconsider their opinion when they learn about a shameful incident from Dr. Ino's past. Now the once-respected doctor must account for his past actions.

Cole

2009

English

6.7

♡ 4

86%

Action

Drama

Romance

Carl Bessai Director

Brandon Jay McLaren as Clay

Sonja Bennett as Maybelline

Rebecca Jenkins as Mrs. Chambers

Stephen E. Miller as Professor Jackson

A small town youth finds fulfillment and romance in a big city's creative writing course, but feels obliged to sacrifice them when his sister's home life deteriorates in his absence.

Into the Storm

2009

English

7.0

♡ 5

63%

political negotiations

Thaddeus O'Sullivan Director

Terrence Hardiman as Captain Pim

Robert Pugh as General Ismay

Iain Glen as King George VI

Brendan Gleeson as Winston Churchill

This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the war years--even as his marriage was encountering its own struggles.