Havana in 1958 is a place of pleasure for many, but others are not happy under the rule of dictator Fulgencio Batista. As the revolutionary forces of Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara prepare to move on the city, Fico Fellove (Andy Garcia)-owner of the city's classiest music nightclub, El Tropico-struggles to hold together his family and the love of a woman (Inés Sastre), not knowing that his club will become more than just a stage for popular entertainment.
Observing all is The Writer (Bill Murray) an expatriate American who sees Fico being drawn into events as the revolution changes everything. Though Fico watches a culture vanish and a people transformed, it is his love of Cuban music that keeps his memories alive.
Andy Garcia (Modigliani) stars and makes his directorial debut in a passionate and historical tribute to his native Cuba. Co-starring Dustin Hoffman and Steven Bauer. Written by Cuban novelist Guillermo Cabrera Infante.
Cast: Andy Garcia, Inés Sastre, Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray
Directed by Andy Garcia
In English with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.
In 1914, "The Great War" - WWI - began in Europe. America chose at first not to fight, but some altruistic young Americans disagreed. A handful of volunteers decided to learn how to fly. The first of them - a squadron of only 38 - became known as the Lafayette Escadrille. In time, America joined their cause. The Escadrille pilots became legendary. Flyboys is inspired by their story.
Blaine Rawlings (James Franco) along with the other young Americans arrives in France, unable to speak the language and challenged by learning to operate a device that was only invented 10 years prior to the war-the airplane. At this point in time, France has been in battle for three years and has lost millions of men in battle.
Blaine and his squadron are trained under the command of the French Captain Thenault (Jean Reno). He and the other French pilots put the boys under vigorous training to prepare them for aerial combat. What they didn't realize was that they were about to embark on a great, romantic adventure, becoming the world's first combat pilots.
But it is when Rawlings falls in love with a local French woman named Lucienne he learns firsthand the costs of war as it has affected her and her family. When Lucienne finds herself behind enemy lines, Rawlings risks everything to save her and her family. Fighting a war that wasn't theirs, these young, na?ve adventure-seekers slowly learn the true meaning of love, brotherhood, heroism, courage, tolerance and, in return, gain a true reason to risk their lives.
Cast: James Franco, Jean Reno, David Ellison, Martin Henderson, Jennifer Decker
Directed by Tony Bill
English language with latvian and russian subtitles.
If hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, just think of the damage three teenage girls could to do if pushed to their romantic breaking points. Okay, now, take whatever you're imagining, and triple it. That's how much havoc a band of resourceful high school girls end up wreaking on the triple-timing campus stud in the comedy John Tucker Must Die.
The destruction begins when three gorgeous, popular girls from competing high school cliques discover that they've each been dating the same guy: the school's smooth and hunky basketball team captain, John Tucker (JESSE METCALFE). After comparing notes, the fuming trio - reporter-wannabe Carrie (ARIELLE KEBBEL), head cheerleader Heather (ASHANTI), and vegan activist Beth (SOPHIA BUSH) - conspire to teach Tucker a lesson he'll never forget. They decide to attack his game and make this guy, who is never without a date, "undatable." Unfortunately, every wacky, grossly embarrassing scheme they hatch to undermine "Tuck" backfires and only makes him more popular than ever.
Desperate, the girls realize they'll have to step up their assault. There's only one way left to take: to break his heart…the same way he's broken theirs.
Cast: JESSE METCALFE, ARIELLE KEBBEL, ASHANTI, SOPHIA BUSH
Directed by Betty Thomas
English language with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.
In the dizzying world of New York fashion, where size zero is the new 2, six is the new 8, and a bad hair day can end a career, Runway Magazine is the Holy Grail. Overseen with a finely manicured fist by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) - the most powerful woman in fashion - Runway is a fearsome gauntlet for anyone who wants to make it in the industry. To make Runway the fashion bible of New York and therefore the world, Miranda has let nothing stand in her way … including a long line of assistants that didn't make the cut. It's a job no self-respecting person can survive, yet it's an opportunity a million young women in New York would kill for.
A stint as Miranda's assistant could blast-open the doors for recent college graduate Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway). More college drab than haute couture, she stands alone among the small army of "Clackers" on staff at Runway - superslim fashion divas clacking their stilettos down the halls of the magazine's Manhattan headquarters. But when Andy comes in for the job, it dawns on her that making it in this industry will take more than drive and determination.
And her ultimate test stands before her in head-to-toe Prada.
Cast: Meryl Streep, Anna Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, Adrian Grenier
Directed by David Frankel
In English with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.
20 years old Lenya lives in ordinary country town - there are a lot of such tows in Russia: town, which has only one kinder garden, one school and one factory. Therefore while man is growing up, he doesn't have to choose nor kinder garden, nor school, nor factory: everything is already defined. Lenya is ordinary boy: like other boys of his age, goes to discos to dance with girls, after fights with local hooligans. Everything is fine, because everything is clear.
Suddenly factory closed, and order leaves the main hero's life. For the first time he has to make choice - for the first time he seriously starts thinking, what he would really like to do in this world… Further life forms from sequence of meetings with different people. Lenya is seeking for a job, and without any difficulties gets the best variants, each of them provides future, prospects and new world: friends, teachers and geography.
But because of different, more casual, reasons Lenya doesn't agree to accept any of these jobs. Only a place of learner in the road worker brigade has interested him - too charming and unusual seemed brigadier Roslov. But idol appeared not so honest and fair proletarian…
Cast: Aleksandrs Jacenko, Darja Jekamasova , Jevģēnijs Sitijs, Pjotrs Zaičenko, Boriss Petrovs, Tagirs Rahimovs, Ņina Semjonova, Aleksejs Ošurkovs
Directed by Boriss Hļebnikovs
With the tragic demise of his twenties fast approaching, Michael gets a fistful of reality when his long-time girlfriend Jenna becomes pregnant. Toiling with the idea of settling in to a life of husbandry and fatherhood, Michael gets a surprise side order of confusion when an instant and irrefutable attraction forms between him and 18-year-old Kim. While Michael's best friends weigh their own responsibilities against the desire to take a trip to South America, Jenna's parents attempt to navigate the rough waters of their fatigued marriage. 'The Last Kiss' trails three generations of characters grappling with life's many ups and downs.
Cast: Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Casey Affleck, Rachel Bilson, Michael Weston, Eric Christian Olsen
Directed by Tony Goldwyn
Confident and cocky, headstrong and handsome, Max Skinner is a successful London banker who specializes in trading bonds. A financial barracuda on the banks of the Thames, Max devours the competition in his efforts to conquer the European market. His latest conquest has netted a tidy seven-figure profit, much to the chagrin of his Saville Row-draped rivals. Max's triumph is in perfect keeping with his philosophy: winning isn't everything, it's the only thing!
Soon thereafter, Max receives word from France alerting him to sad news: his elderly Uncle Henry has passed away. Max, Henry's closest blood relative, is the sole beneficiary of his estate, which includes a Proven?al chateau and vineyard, La Siroque, where Henry cultivated grapes for over thirty years.
Cast: Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hollander
Directed by Ridley Scott
A story about theft, both criminal and emotional, BREAKING AND ENTERING follows a disparate group of long-term Londoners and new arrivals whose lives intersect in the inner-city area of King's Cross. When a landscape architect's state of the art offices in a seedy part of town are repeatedly burgled, his investigations launch him out of the safety of his familiar world.
Cast: Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn, Martin Freeman, Ray Winstone
Directed by Anthony Minghella
Summer of 2006. The asphault melts down from an unexampled heat, exhausted townspeople hide under the trees. Four bosom friends, ex-classmates, meet with each other after a long separation. During those three years they lived their lives differently… But this hot day will become a lucky one for them. In 24 hours each of them would find what they have desired the most.
The crew and actors of Russian blockbuster "9th Company" present a new lyrical comedy "Heat". The film features Fyodor Bondarchuk, Aleksei Chadov, Tigran Keosayan, Konstantin Kryukov, Mikhail Porechenkov, Irina Skobtseva, Artur Smolyaninov, Timaty.
Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson and Jennifer Connelly star in "Little Children," the latest work from Oscar-nominated writer/director Todd Field. Based on the novel by Tom Perrotta, "Little Children" centers on a handful of individuals whose lives intersect on the playgrounds, town pools and streets of their small community in surprising and potentially dangerous ways.
Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Noah Emmerich, Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Kate Winslet, Gregg Edelman, Sarah Buxton
Directed by Todd Field
Two women caught up in a drama of need and betrayal are at the heart of this psychological thriller, NOTES ON A SCANDAL. The twists and turns of the story are noted in the acerbic diary of Barbara Covett (Dame Judi Dench), a domineering and solitary teacher who rules with an iron fist over her classroom at a decaying state-run secondary school in London. Save for her cat, Portia, Barbara lives alone, without friends or confidantes - but her world changes when she meets the school's new art teacher, Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett). Sheba appears to be the kindred spirit and loyal friend Barbara has always been seeking. But when she discovers that Sheba is having an incendiary affair with one of her young students (Andrew Simpson), their budding relationship takes an ominous turn. Now, as Barbara threatens to expose Sheba's terrible secret to both her husband (Bill Nighy) and the world, Barbara's own secrets and dark obsessions come tumbling to the fore, exposing the deceptions at the core of each of the women's lives.
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench
Directed by Richard Eyre
Thirty years old and single, Beatrix Potter lives in London with her social-climbing parents, who are exasperated that she has turned down any number of eligible young men. Her only real friends are the animals which since childhood she has lovingly drawn and made up stories about. She finally succeeds in selling a book of the stories, and it becomes Norman Warne's first project. He quickly falls in love with both the book and Beatrix and together they carefully arrange publication. This proves the first of many successes, offering her the possibility of escaping from both her parents' way of life and London.
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Barbara Flynn, Bill Paterson
Directed by Chris Noonan