From the creators of "Napoleon Dynamite" and "School of Rock" comes a wildly original, off-the-wall comedy about Nacho, a lowly slop cook at an orphanage who secretly dreams of becoming a famous Mexican wrestler. Moonlighting in disguise, he is ultimately exposed and excommunicated by the church. But when he defeats Mexico's most feared Luchador, and gives his winnings to the orphans, he becomes a local hero.
Cast: Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera, Héctor Jimenez, Richard Montoya, Peter Stormare
Directed by Jared Hess
English language with latvian and russian subtitles.
When rival figure skaters Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell) and Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder) go ballistic in an embarrassing, no-holds-barred fight at the World Championships, they are stripped of their gold medals and banned from the sport for life. Now, three-and-a-half years on, they've found a loophole that will allow them to compete: if they can put aside their differences, they can skate together - in pairs' figure skating.
Cast: Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, William Fichtner, Jenna Fischer, Romany Malco, Nick Swardson, Rob Corddry, Craig T. Nelson
Directed by Will Speck & Josh Gordon
"Nevalyashka" (a tumbler toy) is not only a story about sport, but almost a Christnas story about dream, love and aspiration for highest targets. Nevalyashka is a nickname of young light-weight boxer. He stands out from his competitors through incredible thinness and fantastic mobility. None of his contenders can knock him out, he always gets back on his feet (hence his nickname). But Nevalyashka himself is bored to compete with contenders who concede to him. He dreams of something greater!
Cast: Pāvels Derevjanko, Sergejs Makoveckis, Jeļena Nikolājeva, Artēmijs Troickis, Ivans Urgants
Directed by Romāns Kačānovs
Columbia Pictures’ Moneyball is based on the true story of Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) – once a would-be baseball superstar who, stung by the failure to live up to expectations on the field, turned his fiercely competitive nature to management. Heading into the 2002 season, Billy faces a dismal situation: his small-market Oakland A’s have lost their star players (again) to big market clubs (and their enormous salaries) and he is left to rebuild his team and compete with a third of their payroll. Driven to win, Billy takes on the system by challenging the fundamental tenets of the game. He looks outside of baseball, to the dismissed theories of Bill James, and hires Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), a brainy, number-crunching, Yale-educated economist. Together they take on conventional wisdom with a willingness to reexamine everything and armed with computer driven statistical analysis long ignored by the baseball establishment. They reach imagination-defying conclusions and go after players overlooked and dismissed by the rest of baseball for being too odd, too old, too injured or too much trouble, but who all have key skills that are universally undervalued. As Billy and Peter forge forward, their new methods and roster of misfits rile the old guard, the media, the fans, and their own field manager (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who refuses to cooperate. Ultimately this experiment will lead not only to a change in the way the game is played, but to an outcome that would leave Billy with a new understanding that transcends the game and delivers him to a new place.
Cast: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Directed by: Bennett Miller
Script: Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian
Producer: Michael De Luca
Labeled an outcast by his brainy family, a bouncer called Doug overcomes long odds to lead a team of under performing misfits to semi-pro hockey beats the crap out of everything that stands in his way. With a support and help of his best friend, Doug reaches amazing career, respect of the whole team and falls in love with the most beautidul girl in the world. From Doug’s point of view, of course.
Geneva, Switzerland 1935. Europe is struggling to be united as one yet the Woodrow- Wilson’s idea of a united Europe by the means of the League of Nations is being enforced. American missionaries since the 1920’s are trying to introduce the Europeans with the new sport called basketball.
The first European Championship in basketball is about to take place. The national teams are meeting each other for the first time. Each wants the honour of being the first champion.
Meanwhile in Latvia, the coach Baumanis is convinced that he can gather the team and take it to Geneva. However on his journey he quickly learns that triumph and defeat are a part of the game. Baumanis faces many difficulties, as well as unexpected help from those closest to him.
Cast: Jānis Āmanis, Inga Alsiņa, Vilis Daudziņš.
Directed by: Aigars Grauba, Andrejs Ēķis.
Gerard Butler is going to be playing the field in the funny rom com Playing For Keeps. The story follows George Dryer (Gerard Butler), who goes back to try and patch things up with his son (Noah Lomax) and estranged wife (Jessica Biel) – who is engaged to remarry someone else – and ends up coaching the boy’s soccer team. He becomes the subject of fascination and desire by every bored house wife in town, especially the gorgeous Patti (Uma Thurman) who sets out on a mission to seduce the coach. Dryer must try to survive the extreme temptations of Patti and advances of the other soccer moms, as well as revive his relationship with his son.
By explanation of the legendary Olympic victories - Ilya Kovalchuk (hockey), Nikolay Kruglov (biathlon), Catherine Ilyuhina (snowboard), Svetlana Zhurova (skates), Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze (figure skating).
Five real-life stories of Olympic medals. Where is love, betrayal, friendship. These are the stories of these victories.
In "Grudge Match," De Niro and Stallone play Billy "The Kid" McDonnen and Henry "Razor" Sharp, two local Pittsburgh fighters whose fierce rivalry put them in the national spotlight. Each had scored a victory against the other during their heyday, but in 1983, on the eve of their decisive third match, Razor suddenly announced his retirement, refusing to explain why but effectively delivering a knock-out punch to both their careers. Thirty years later, boxing promoter Dante Slate Jr., seeing big dollar signs, makes them an offer they can't refuse: to re-enter the ring and settle the score once and for all.
But they may not have to wait that long: on their first encounter in decades, their long-festering feud erupts into an unintentionally hilarious melee that instantly goes viral. The sudden social media frenzy transforms their local grudge match into a must-see HBO event. Now, if they can just survive the training, they may actually live to fight again.
3 Academy Award nominations! Best cinematography, Best sound editing, Best mixing.
Academy Award® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis "Louie" Zamperini (Jack O’Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII—only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Adapted from Laura Hillenbrand’s ("Seabiscuit: An American Legend") enormously popular book, Unbroken brings to the big screen Zamperini’s unbelievable and inspiring true story about the resilient power of the human spirit.
Starring alongside O’Connell are Domhnall Gleeson and Finn Wittrock as Phil and Mac—the airmen with whom Zamperini endured perilous weeks adrift in the open Pacific—Garrett Hedlund and John Magaro as fellow POWs who find an unexpected camaraderie during their internment, Alex Russell as Zamperini’s brother, Pete, and in his English-language feature debut, Japanese actor Miyavi as the brutal camp guard known only to the men as "The Bird."
Based on true events, "Foxcatcher" tells the dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers.
When Olympic Gold Medal winning wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) is invited by wealthy heir John du Pont (Steve Carell) to move on to the du Pont estate and help form a team to train for the 1988 Seoul Olympics at his new state-of-the-art training facility, Schultz jumps at the opportunity, hoping to focus on his training and finally step out of the shadow of his revered brother, Dave (Mark Ruffalo). Driven by hidden needs, du Pont sees backing Schultz's bid for Gold and the chance to "coach" a world-class wrestling team as an opportunity to gain the elusive respect of his peers and, more importantly, his disapproving mother (Vanessa Redgrave).
Set in the mountains of North Carolina in the 1920s, "Serena" is a passionate love story about George Pemberton and his young wife Serena who is an outsider to his world of land and wood exploitation. Her strength and command surprise his male labourers as her ambitions for their company grow and she prepares to battle the state government to keep their land instead of selling to the National Parks. Tragedy strikes their home as after a miscarriage she can no longer have a child. She can no longer bear the site of his illegitimate son and hires one of her employees to murder his illegitimate son from before they met. Like Gone with the wind, this film mixes fated love, tragedy, drama and tension against a historic backdrop.
"Serena" for the third time brings together star and Academy award winner Jennifer Lawrence ("The Hunger Games", "American Hustle" and "Silver Linings Playbook") and Academy award nominee Bradley Cooper ("Hangover", "American Hustle" and "Silver Linings Playbook") The film is directed by Susanne Bier ("Things We Lost in the Fire").