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Blood Ties

Blood Ties

📅 Release: March 21, 2014
🎭 Genre: ActionThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Clive Owen, Marion Cotillard, Zoe Saldana, Billy Crudup, Mila Kunis, Matthias Schoenaerts, James Caan, Domenick Lombardozzi, Austin Williams
📖 Synopsis: New York, 1974. Fifty year-old Chris has just been released on good behavior after several years in prison following a gangland murder. Waiting for him reluctantly outside the prison gates is his youn...
Maladies

Maladies

📅 Release: March 21, 2014
🎭 Genre: Drama
🎬 Starring: James Franco, Catherine Keener, Alan Cumming, David Strathairn, Fallon Goodson, Vince Jolivette
📖 Synopsis: A daring new film from internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Carter, "Maladies" charts the struggles of an unstable former soap opera star (James Franco) in 1960's New York as he tries to restar...
Divergent

Divergent

📅 Release: March 21, 2014
🎭 Genre: FantasyAdventure
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Kate Winslet, Ashley Judd, Tony Goldwyn, Jai Courtney, Ray Stevenson, Maggie Q, Zoe Kravitz, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Ben Lamb, Christian Madsen, Mekhi Phifer
📖 Synopsis: Based on Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times best-selling novel, "Divergent" is a gripping action thriller set in a futuristic world where society has been divided into five factions. As each person app...
Birder's Guide To Everything, A

Birder's Guide To Everything, A

📅 Release: March 21, 2014
🎭 Genre: DramaComedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alex Wolff, Katie Chang, James LeGros, Ben Kingsley, Ethan Cohn, Daniela Lavender, Briana Marin, Adam Barrie, Stephen Kunken
📖 Synopsis: After spotting what he thinks is an extinct duck, high school sophomore and bird enthusiast David Portnoy persuades his two dorky buddies and the "new girl in school" to join him on a quest to locate ...
Rob The Mob

Rob The Mob

📅 Release: March 21, 2014
🎭 Genre: DramaCrime
🎬 Starring: Michael Pitt, Nina Arianda, Andy Garcia, Ray Romano, Joseph R. Gannascoli, Frank Whaley
📖 Synopsis: "Rob the Mob" is the true-life story of a crazy-in-love Queens couple who robbed a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it... for a while... until they stumble upon a score bigger than they ...
McCanick

McCanick

📅 Release: March 21, 2014
🎭 Genre: ActionDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: David Morse, Cory Monteith, Ciaran Hinds, Maura Tierney, Mike Vogel, Tracie Thoms, Trevor Morgan, Aaron Yoo
📖 Synopsis: When narcotics detective Eugene "Mack" McCanick (David Morse, "16 Blocks," "The Green Mile") discovers that a seemingly harmless young criminal, Simon Weeks (Cory Monteith, "Glee"), has been released ...
Cheap Thrills

Cheap Thrills

📅 Release: March 21, 2014
🎭 Genre: Thriller
🎬 Starring: Pat Healy, David Koechner, Sara Paxton, Ethan Embry, Amanda Fuller
📖 Synopsis: "Cheap Thrills" follows Craig (Pat Healy, Compliance), a struggling family man who loses his low-wage job and is threatened with eviction. In an effort to delay facing the music at home, he heads to a...
Muppets Most Wanted

Muppets Most Wanted

📅 Release: March 21, 2014
🎭 Genre: ComedyFamily
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell, Tina Fey, Ray Liotta, Zach Galifianakis, Peter Linz, Steve Whitmire, Eric Jacobson, Dave Goelz, Bill Barretta, Tom Hiddleston, Christoph Waltz, Stanley Tucci, Danny Trejo, Chloe Moretz, Ross Lynch
📖 Synopsis: Disney's "Muppets Most Wanted" takes the entire Muppets gang on a global tour, selling out grand theaters in some of Europe's most exciting destinations, including Berlin, Madrid and London. But mayhe...
Grim Sleeper, The

Grim Sleeper, The

📅 Release: March 15, 2014
🎭 Genre: ThrillerCrime
🎬 Starring: Dreama Walker, Macy Gray, Ernie Hudson, Michael O'Neill, Brendan Fletcher, Chelah Horsdal, Murry Peeters
📖 Synopsis: "The Grim Sleeper" follows LA Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek (Walker) as she doggedly investigates the unsolved murders of dozens of women in Los Angeles and soon realizes one person is responsible...
Zero Theorem, The

Zero Theorem, The

📅 Release: September 19, 2014
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Christoph Waltz, Melanie Thierry, David Thewlis, Tilda Swinton, Lucas Hedges, Ben Whishaw, Matt Damon, Peter Stormare, Rupert Friend
📖 Synopsis: Directed by Terry Gilliam ("Brazil," "Twelve Monkeys," "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"), "The Zero Theorem" stars two-time Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained," "Inglorious Baste...
Right Kind Of Wrong, The

Right Kind Of Wrong, The

📅 Release: March 14, 2014
🎭 Genre: DramaRomance
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Ryan Kwanten, Sara Canning, Ryan McPartlin, Catherine O'Hara, Will Sasso, Jennifer Baxter, Kristen Hager
📖 Synopsis: Leo Palamino has dedicated his life to what some may call impossible dreams. At least his ex-wife Julie would call them that. But Leo is an expert at not listening to her criticism or anyone else's fo...
Single Moms Club, The

Single Moms Club, The

📅 Release: March 14, 2014
🎭 Genre: DramaComedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Nia Long, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Amy Smart, Zulay Henao, Cocoa Brown, Ryan Eggold, Terry Crews, William Levy, Tyler Perry, Eddie Cibrian
📖 Synopsis: When a school incident forces their children to work together, five very different women find their lives unexpectedly intertwined in [c=Tyler Perry]'s heartfelt comedy-drama. May, a stressed journal...
Uwantme2killhim?

Uwantme2killhim?

📅 Release: March 14, 2014
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
🎬 Starring: Jamie Blackley, Toby Regbo, Joanne Froggatt, Liz White, Jaime Winstone, Mark Womack, Amy Wren
📖 Synopsis: 16-year-old Mark (Jamie Blackley, And While We Were Here), a handsome and popular high school student, races home every day to chat with his online girlfriend Rachel. Besotted, he promises to do anyth...
Need For Speed

Need For Speed

📅 Release: March 14, 2014
🎭 Genre: ActionAdventure
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots, Dakota Johnson, Michael Keaton, Kid Cudi, Ramon Rodriguez, Rami Malek, Harrison Gilbertson
📖 Synopsis: Based on the most successful racing video game franchise ever with over 140 million copies sold, DreamWorks Pictures' "Need for Speed" captures the thrills of the game in a real-world setting. An exci...
Le Week-End

Le Week-End

📅 Release: March 14, 2014
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan, Jeff Goldblum, Olly Alexander, Xavier De Guillebon, Lee Michelsen
📖 Synopsis: Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent ("Iris", "Topsy-Turvy", "Another Year") and Lindsay Duncan (the forthcoming "About Time", "Alice in Wonderland", "Mansfield Park") give exquisite performances as Nic...
Dark House

Dark House

📅 Release: March 14, 2014
🎭 Genre: HorrorThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Tobin Bell, Luke Kleintank, Alex McKenna, Zack Ward, Lesley-Anne Down
📖 Synopsis: "Dark House" is the story of Nick Di Santo (Kleintank), who is tormented by his ability to touch someone and see exactly how they will die. On his 23rd birthday Nick is summoned by his mother (Leslie-...
Ernest & Celestine

Ernest & Celestine

📅 Release: February 28, 2014
🎭 Genre: AnimationDrama
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Forest Whitaker, Mackenzie Foy, Paul Giamatti, Lauren Bacall, William H. Macy, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Jeffrey Wright
📖 Synopsis: Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fello...
Bad Words

Bad Words

📅 Release: March 14, 2014
🎭 Genre: DramaComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jason Bateman, Rohan Chand, Kathryn Hahn, Allison Janney, Phillip Baker Hall, Ben Falcone, Rachael Harris
📖 Synopsis: Jason Bateman (Identity Thief) makes his feature directorial debut with the subversive comedy Bad Words. Mr. Bateman stars as Guy Trilby, a 40-year-old who finds a loophole in the rules of The Golden ...
Enemy

Enemy

📅 Release: March 14, 2014
🎭 Genre: Thriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Melanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, Isabella Rossellini, Stephen R. Hart, Jane Moffat, Joshua Peace, Tim Post
📖 Synopsis: Jake Gyllenhaal reteams with his "Prisoners" director, Denis Villeneuve, in this sexy and hypnotically surreal psychological thriller that breathes new life into the doppleganger tradition. Adam Bell ...
Veronica Mars

Veronica Mars

📅 Release: March 14, 2014
🎭 Genre: DramaMystery
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Krysten Ritter, Max Greenfield, Ryan Hansen, Enrico Colantoni, Christine Lakin, Chris Lowell, Ken Marino, Gaby Hoffmann, Francis Capra, Daran Norris, Tina Majorino, Percy Daggs III, Martin Starr, Jerry O'Connell
📖 Synopsis: In the film adaptation of the beloved series, "Veronica Mars," directed and produced by [c=Rob Thomas], we return to the life of the titular character, portrayed by [c=Kristen Bell]. The story unfold...
Hungover Games, The

Hungover Games, The

📅 Release: March 11, 2014
🎭 Genre: Comedy
🎬 Starring: Jonathan Silverman, Tara Reid, Robert Wagner, Hank Baskett, Bruce Jenner, Jamie Kennedy, Rita Volk, Herbert Russell, Ben Begley, Ross Nathan, Kyle Richards, Brandi Glanville, Camille Grammer, Mark Harley
📖 Synopsis: After Doug's bachelor party in a rundown motel outside of Las Vegas, our hung-over partiers, Bradley, Ed, and Zach wake up in a strange room in an even stranger world - without Doug. After meeting the...
Trip To Bountiful, The

Trip To Bountiful, The

📅 Release: March 8, 2014
🎭 Genre: Drama
🎬 Starring: Cicely Tyson, Vanessa Williams, Blair Underwood, Keke Palmer, Clancy Brown, Arthur French
📖 Synopsis: Based on Oscar, Pulitzer Prize, and Emmy Award winning author Horton Foote's Tony Award nominated play, "The Trip to Bountiful" is a courageous and moving story of liberation, as well as a humor-fille...
Mr. Peabody & Sherman

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

📅 Release: March 7, 2014
🎭 Genre: AnimationAdventure
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Ty Burrell, Max Charles, Stephen Colbert, Lake Bell, Stanley Tucci, Allison Janney, Ariel Winter, Dennis Haysbert, Patrick Warburton, Stephen Tobolowsky
📖 Synopsis: Mr. Peabody, the most accomplished dog in the world, and his mischievous boy Sherman, use their time machine - The Wabac - to go on the most outrageous adventures known to man or dog. But when Sherman...
Haunt

Haunt

📅 Release: March 7, 2014
🎭 Genre: Horror
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jacki Weaver, Liana Liberato, Danielle Chuchran, Jan Broberg, Harrison Gilbertson, Kasia Kowalczyk, Brenden Whitney
📖 Synopsis: A family of five moves into a beautiful, sprawling dream home. One problem: it's cursed, having caused the deaths of the previous family to occupy it, leaving only one survivor (Jacki Weaver). The fam...
Grand Piano

Grand Piano

📅 Release: March 7, 2014
🎭 Genre: ThrillerDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Elijah Wood, John Cusack, Kerry Bishe, Tamsin Egerton, Allen Leach, Don McManus, Alex Winter
📖 Synopsis: Elite pianist Tom Selznick, played by [c=Elijah Wood], is poised for a triumphant return to the stage after a crippling bout of stage fright forced him into a five-year hiatus. However, his comeback ...
Gulaab Gang

Gulaab Gang

📅 Release: March 7, 2014
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
🎬 Starring: Madhuri Dixit, Juhi Chawla, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Priyanka Bose, Divya Jagdale
📖 Synopsis: Kajri, a battered & bruised woman living in North India enlists with the gang of pink, the Gulaab Gang, when she meets them after being thrown out of her married home when her parents weren't able to ...
Face Of Love, The

Face Of Love, The

📅 Release: March 7, 2014
🎭 Genre: DramaRomanceComedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Annette Bening, Ed Harris, Robin Williams, Amy Brenneman, Jess Weixler, Linda Park, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Kim Farris
📖 Synopsis: Five years after the death of her beloved husband Garrett (Ed Harris), Nikki (Annette Bening) meets a man who seems his exact duplicate. Not only does this stranger possess the same deeply lined face ...
Grand Budapest Hotel, The

Grand Budapest Hotel, The

📅 Release: March 7, 2014
🎭 Genre: DramaComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Tilda Swinton, Jude Law, Saoirse Ronan, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Adrien Brody, Lea Seydoux, Edward Norton, Harvey Keitel, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Tom Wilkinson, Jeff Goldblum, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric
📖 Synopsis: In the whimsical and visually stunning world of Grand Budapest Hotel, directed by [c=Wes Anderson], audiences are transported to the fictional Republic of Zubrowka during the interwar period. The sto...
Long Way Down, A

Long Way Down, A

📅 Release: July 11, 2014
🎭 Genre: ComedyDrama
🎬 Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Aaron Paul, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, Rosamund Pike, Sam Neill
📖 Synopsis: New Year's Eve on the top of a London skyscraper. Martin (Brosnan) is literally on the edge. A once-beloved TV personality, he's now desperate to jump. But he's not alone. Single mother Maureen (Colle...