British Cinema: Comedies

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: Known for their consistently quirky characters, plots and settings, British comedy films are legend in producing some of the most famous and memorable comic actors and characters in the last fifty yea... more>>>

Psychos in Love

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: Joe (Carmine Capobianco) is a bartender and a psychotic killer who falls in love with the woman of his dreams in this horror comedy. Kate (Debi Thibeault) is a manicurist who shares Joe'... more>>>

Two Tigers

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: Equally skilled with a rifle and in the art of seduction, high profile assassin Gilda fortuitously embarks on a journey with unlikely suspect in a high class call girl from China. The bond between tho... more>>>

Cargo 200

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: Brother director Alexei Balabanov takes the helm for this over-the-top black comedy concerning the clash between a sadistic police captain and an atheist university professor. The year is 1984, and po... more>>>

Cold Eyes of Fear

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: Stylish and extravagant, Cold Eyes of Fear is an excellent example of an Italian giallo thriller. Set in swinging 'seventies London, this movie brings you a dark and decadent world of corrupt cops, ve... more>>>

Deadly Sweet

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: This Italian-French co-production weds the giallo thriller with pop hipness in a manner akin to Blow-Up, but comes across as a less-inspired variant on the same year's La Morte Ha Fatto l'Uovo. Like t... more>>>

The Perfume of Yvonne

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: In this romantic French drama, an older man remembers a meaningful summer romance he had in 1958. It begins as Victor is seen staring into the flames of an apparent bonfire. He is remembering the day ... more>>>

The Wedding

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: Director Wojciech Smarzowski's nutty black comedy The Wedding plunges into the shenanigans that transpire when two Poles, bridegroom Janusz (Bartlomiej Topa) and bride Kaska (Tamara A... more>>>

Bride Wars

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: A clerical error tests the lifelong friendship of two brides-to-be by scheduling their respective weddings at the famed Plaza Hotel on the exact same date in this romantic comedy starring Anne Hathawa... more>>>

Synesthesia

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: Mari suffers from synesthesia, a rare disorder that mixes up the senses. She's lived a sheltered life, but when her adoptive parents die mysteriously, Mari's condition may hold the key to catching a d... more>>>

What's Up Scarlet?

Releases: 2009-04-28

Johnny Got His Gun

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: The author of the famous late 1930's antiwar book Johnny Got His Gun wrote and directed this film adaptation. It concerns a nameless young soldier (Timothy Bottoms) in a veteran's hospita... more>>>

In the Realm of the Senses (Criterion)

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: Based upon a true incident in 1930s Japan, Nagisa Oshima's controversial film effectively skirts the borderline between pornography and art -- making Bernardo Bertolucci's... more>>>

Stranded: I Have Come From A Plane That Crashed On The Mountains

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: The events that followed the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in 1974 are, by now, notorious. The survivors, members of a rugby team left to fend for themselves in the Andes, ultimately resorte... more>>>

What Doesn't Kill You

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: Inspired by his own tough childhood on the unforgiving streets of South Boston, director/co-screenwriter (along with Paul T. Murray and Donnie Wahlberg) ... more>>>

X-Men, Vol. 1

Releases: 2009-04-28

Synopsis: In a world that hates and fears them, several mutants (humans who are born with unique powers and abilities) have banded together to fight the hatred, and eventually fight for their very lives. Under ...

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X-Men, Vol. 2

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: In a world that hates and fears them, several mutants (humans who are born with unique powers and abilities) have banded together to fight the hatred, and eventually fight for their very lives. Under ... more>>>

H2 Worker

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: An "H-2 worker" is a foreigner who is issued a temporary (6 month) entrance permit in order to do farm labor. This documentary explores the situation these workers find themselves both in Florida, whe... more>>>

The Uninvited

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: Filmmaking duo Thomas and Charles Guard make their feature directorial debuts as the co-directors of this remake of Kim Jee-woon's 2003 Korean fil... more>>>

Au Bonheur des Dames

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: The legendary silent screen goddess Dita Parlo (L'Atalante; Grand Illusion), whose exotic look and glamorous mystique inspired Madonna, stars as Denise, an orphan girl who comes to Paris to work in he... more>>>

Hotel for Dogs

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: Adapted from author Lois Duncan's 1971 children's book of the same name, director Thor Freudenthal's Hotel for Dogs follows two mischievous orphans a... more>>>

Empire of Passion (Criterion)

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: Also known as Phantom Love, the French/Japanese co-production L'Empire de la Passion follows famed Japanese director Nagisa Oshima's multinational produc... more>>>

JCVD

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: Jean-Claude Van Damme plays himself in this meta-crime comedy that finds him garnering mores headlines than he's had in years after stumbling into an in-progress bank heist. Down and out, with only st... more>>>

The Booby Hatch

Releases: 2009-04-28
 

The Hairdresser's Husband

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: Erotic, funny, and very French, this film relies heavily on the critically-acclaimed performance of Jean Rochefort. As a child, Antoine (Rochefort) was obsessed with the ample beautician who cut his h... more>>>

The Hit (Criterion)

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: In this offbeat crime film, Willie Parker (Terence Stamp) an English mobster turned informant, has been given a new identity and has been living in a small, isolated village in Spain for 10 years. Unf... more>>>

Martyrs

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: The Brotherhood of the Wolf director Pascal Lauguier follows his 2004 thriller House of Voices with this relentlessly brutal tale of a girl who suffered unimaginable abuse as a young child, and the un... more>>>

Nothing But the Truth

Releases: 2009-04-28
Synopsis: Rod Lurie (The Contender) writes and directs this ripped-from-the-headlines tale of a jailed journalist (Kate Beckinsale) who refuses to divulge her so... more>>>