After 25 years of working at the Cinemateca Uruguaya film archive, Jorge (real-life Uruguayan critic Jorge Jellinek), still finds inspiration in caring for the films and audiences that grace the seats and screen of his beloved arthouse cinema. But when dwindling attendance and diminishing support force the theater to close its doors, Jorge, who has never worked anywhere else except in film, loses his job. Once faced with unemployment, the line between reality and fantasy becomes blurred.
Cast: Jorge Jellinek, Manuel Martínez Carril, Paola Venditto
Directed by: Federico Veiro
This is a romantic comedy set in Paris about a family that goes there because of business, and two young people who are engaged to be married in the fall have experiences there that change their lives. It’s about a young man's great love for a city, Paris, and the illusion people have that a life different from theirs would be much better. It stars Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates, and Carla Bruni among others.
Casting: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Michael Sheen, Marion Cotillard, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni
Directed by: Woody Allen
"You will go to sleep. You will wake up. It will be as if those hours never existed."
Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty Chamber old men seek an erotic experience that requires Lucy’s absolute submission. This unsettling task starts to bleed into Lucy’s daily life and she develops an increasing need to know what happens with her when she is asleep.
Cast: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie
Directed by: Julia Leigh
It's a comedy about a guarded woman who finds out she's dying of cancer, but when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death.
Cast: Kate Hudson, Peter Dinklage, Lucy Punch, Whoopi Goldberg
Directed by: Nicole Kassell
"New Year's Eve" celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year.
Casting: Sarah Jessica Parker, Halle Berry, Robert De Niro, Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hilary Swank
Directed by: Garry Marshall
A year later the men are still talking, but this time on the 31st of December and still about the women (there are more women now: Alena Babenko, Nona Grishajeva, Jekaterina Vilkova,), football, children, and, of course, about the approaching New Year’s celebration. But what can they do, if their beloved wives and girls are waiting for them at Kamil’s, busy with New Year tree decoration and cooking, and the husbands are accidentally got stuck in the advertising agency office? Will they manage to get home in time to celebrate the New Year together?
New brilliant New Year’s comedy from ‘Quartet I’ ( What Men Are Talking About, Day of the Radio, Election Day) – What Else Are Men Talking About. The same characters, more humour, more funny jokes! New New Year’s Comedy in the cinemas starting 30th of December!
Cast: Леонид Барац, Ростислав Хаит, Александр Демидов, Камиль Ларин
Directed by: Дмитрий Дьяченко
A legendary folk hero, Tadas Blinda is a romantic rebel - the Lithuanian equivalent of Robin Hood. His name is an inspiration to young and old alike.
The movie is a full-length adaptation of the legend of Tadas Blinda, and the action takes place in czarist Lithuania. Political intrigue circling the 1861 abolishment of serfdom unexpectedly turns into a battle in a remote village. A carefree peasant named Tadas Blinda unintentionally finds himself in the middle of the conflict, and is forced to take responsibility not only for his own actions, but for the lives of his loved ones as well. While searching for his place in this cruel reality, Tadas discovers values that are worth living – and dying – for.
The fight for freedom, justice and love begins… and the legend is born.
An unforgettable cast, a riveting story, and a wonderful mix of adventure, humor and passion intertwine to create a truly legendary story.
Russia is celebrating New Year again! This time, it’s 2012, probably, the last New Year in the history of mankind! And as it should be, Russia is celebrating even crazier!
This comedy is a mix of comic and heartfelt stories. Nastya the little girl is writing a letter to Santa Claus about how she wants to desperately meet with her farther, whom she never met before. Some teenagers are planning to ride the city in a bathtub, and an evil official is looking for another victim to spoil their New Year’s mood. And wealthy businessman Boris is trying to find the meaning of life, for which he would literally need to go through a total recall. And, as he always does, his best friend Zhenya will give him a hand with that task!
Story takes place in the 1880’s in England when many upper class women are being sent to the doctor because they are depressed. To ease these patients’ stress, doctor has developed a form of therapy that involves the careful manual stimula¬tion of a certain female body part. All these women needed is to have an orgasm and it was doctor's duty to satisfy rich women whose husbands couldn’t.“Intimate massage” cure was shockingly effective and when doctor's Mortimer (Hugh Dancy) forwardthinking friend Edmund (Rupert Everett) unveiled the plans for his new electric-powered feather duster, Mortimer came up with a compelling idea… The result?
Well, it was the beginning of the revolution for women.
A two-tiered romantic drama focusing on the affair between King Edward VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard.
Cast: Abbie Cornish, James D'Arcy, Andrea Riseborough
Directed by: Madonna
Les Misérables is the motion-picture adaptation of the beloved global stage sensation seen by more than 60 million people in 42 countries and in 21 languages around the globe and still breaking box-office records everywhere in its 27th year. Helmed by The King’s Speech’s Academy Award®-winning director, Tom Hooper, the Working Title/Cameron Mackintosh production stars Hugh Jackman, Oscar® winner Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and Eddie Redmayne, with further casting to be announced.
Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, Les Misérables tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption—a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. Jackman plays ex-prisoner Jean Valjean, hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert (Crowe) after he breaks parole. When Valjean agrees to care for factory worker Fantine’s (Hathaway) young daughter, Cosette, their lives change forever.
In December 2012, the world’s longest-running musical brings its power to the big screen in Tom Hooper’s sweeping and spectacular interpretation of Victor Hugo’s epic tale. With international superstars and beloved songs—including “I Dreamed a Dream,” “Bring Him Home,” “One Day More” and “On My Own”—Les Misérables, the show of shows, is now reborn as the cinematic musical experience of a lifetime.