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Easy Money

Easy Money

📅 Release: July 11, 2012
🎭 Genre: DramaCrime
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic, Lisa Henni, Jones Danko, Dejan Cukic, Fares Fares, Sasa Petrovic, Mahmut Suvakci, Lea Stojanov
📖 Synopsis: Directed by Daniel Espinosa ('Safe House'), EASY MONEY is a Swedish crime thriller based on the international best-selling novel Snabba Cash by Jens Lapidus. Lower-class business student JW (Joel Kinn...
Pact, The

Pact, The

📅 Release: July 6, 2012
🎭 Genre: Thriller
🎬 Starring: Sam Ball, Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, Haley Hudson, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Agnes Bruckner, Mark Steger, Anjini Taneja Azhar, Bo Barrett, Dakota Bright
📖 Synopsis: In the chilling thriller "Pact, The," directed by [c=Nicholas McCarthy], a young woman named Annie (played by [c=Caity Lotz]) returns to her childhood home after the sudden death of her mother, only ...
Crazy Eyes

Crazy Eyes

📅 Release: July 6, 2012
🎭 Genre: DramaComedy
🎬 Starring: Lukas Haas, Madeline Zima, Jake Busey, Rachel Hardisty, Tania Raymonde, Regine Nehy, Ray Wise, Valerie Mahaffey, Ned Bellamy, Jessica Elder
📖 Synopsis: Zach (Lukas Haas, "Inception", "Mars Attacks!") seems to be living the Hollywood bachelor dream - he's got a house in the hills, the phone numbers for dozens of beautiful women and a hard-partying lif...
Magic Of Belle Isle, The

Magic Of Belle Isle, The

📅 Release: July 6, 2012
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Morgan Freeman, Virginia Madsen, Madeline Carroll, Kenan Thompson, Fred Willard, Jessica Hecht, Boyd Holbrook, Emma Fuhrmann, Nicolette Pierini, Rosemary Howard
📖 Synopsis: In the picturesque lakeside community of Belle Isle, a reclusive and disillusioned novelist, Monte Wildhorn, played by [c=Morgan Freeman], arrives for a summer determined to drink his days away in qu...
Savages

Savages

📅 Release: July 6, 2012
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, Salma Hayek, Benicio Del Toro, John Travolta, Emile Hirsch, Demian Bichir, Shea Whigham, Joel David Moore, Trevor Donovan, Diego Catano
📖 Synopsis: Three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone returns to the screen with the ferocious thriller Savages, featuring the all-star ensemble cast of Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, John Trav...
Katy Perry: Part Of Me

Katy Perry: Part Of Me

📅 Release: July 5, 2012
🎭 Genre: Documentary
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Katy Perry, Rachael Markarian, Lucas Kerr
📖 Synopsis: In the vibrant documentary "Katy Perry: Part of Me," viewers are invited to experience an intimate glimpse into the life of pop sensation [c=Katy Perry]. The film chronicles her transformative journe...
Amazing Spider-Man, The

Amazing Spider-Man, The

📅 Release: July 3, 2012
🎭 Genre: SuperheroActionSci-Fi
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Sally Field, Martin Sheen, Denis Leary, Irrfan Khan, Campbell Scott, Annie Parisse, C. Thomas Howell, Julianne Nicholson, Chris Zylka, Miles Elliot
📖 Synopsis: "The Amazing Spider-Man" is the story of Peter Parker (Garfield), an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben (Sheen) and Aunt May (Fi...
Burning Hot Summer, A

Burning Hot Summer, A

📅 Release: June 29, 2012
🎭 Genre: Drama
🎬 Starring: Monica Bellucci, Louis Garrel, Celine Sallette, Jerome Robart
📖 Synopsis: On a burning summer's night, a sports car crashes headlong into a tree.The previous year... Paul meets the painter Frederic through a mutual friend. Frederic lives in Italy with Angele, the actress wi...
Madea's Witness Protection

Madea's Witness Protection

📅 Release: June 29, 2012
🎭 Genre: DramaComedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Tyler Perry, Denise Richards, Eugene Levy, Lil' Romeo, Doris Roberts, Devan Leos, Tom Arnold, Danielle Campbell
📖 Synopsis: Tyler Perry returns as America's favorite brash, no-holds-barred grandma in Lionsgate's "Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection", an outrageous culture clash comedy that also stars Eugene Levy, Deni...
Magic Mike

Magic Mike

📅 Release: June 29, 2012
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Joe Manganiello, Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Bomer, Cody Horn, Olivia Munn, Riley Keough, Gabriel Iglesias, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Adam Rodriguez, Betsy Brandt, Kevin Nash, Mircea Monroe
📖 Synopsis: In the vibrant and seductive world of male stripping, "Magic Mike" offers a glimpse into the life of Mike Lane, played by [c=Channing Tatum], a charismatic and ambitious dancer who juggles his day jo...
People Like Us

People Like Us

📅 Release: June 29, 2012
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mark Duplass
📖 Synopsis: From DreamWorks Pictures comes "People Like Us," a drama/comedy about family, inspired by true events, starring Chris Pine ("Star Trek") as Sam, a twenty-something, fast-talking salesman, whose latest...
Ted

Ted

📅 Release: June 29, 2012
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Mila Kunis, Giovanni Ribisi, Jessica Stroup, Joel McHale, Patrick Warburton, Laura Vandervoort, Melissa Ordway, Aedin Mincks
📖 Synopsis: In a world where childhood dreams can come to life, a young boy's wish for a talking teddy bear becomes a reality, leading to an unconventional friendship that lasts into adulthood. As John Bennett, ...
Bending The Rules

Bending The Rules

📅 Release: March 9, 2012
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Jamie Kennedy, Adam Copeland, Jennifer Esposito, Alicia Witt, Phillip Baker Hall, Jessica Walter, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Kevin Weisman, Elena Lyons
📖 Synopsis: In this comedic drama directed by [c=Artie Mandelberg], straight-laced New Orleans district attorney Nick Brady, played by [c=Jamie Kennedy], finds his carefully ordered life turned upside down when ...
Best Laid Plans

Best Laid Plans

📅 Release: February 3, 2012
🎭 Genre: Drama
🎬 Starring: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Stephen Graham, Maxine Peake, David O'Hara, Lee Ingleby, Peter Wight
📖 Synopsis: David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel "Of Mice and Men". Set in Nottingham, the film revolves around the relationship between the thuggish Danny (...
Teri Meri Kahaani

Teri Meri Kahaani

📅 Release: June 22, 2012
🎭 Genre: DramaRomance
🎬 Starring: Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Prachi Desai, Neha Sharma, Atiqa Odho
📖 Synopsis: This story takes us through a journey of eternal love between a couple who have vowed to love each other not only in this life but in every life to follow. The story starts in 1960 Bombay with Govind ...
Lay The Favorite

Lay The Favorite

📅 Release: December 7, 2012
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall, Laura Prepon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vince Vaughn, Frank Grillo, Joshua Jackson, Jo Newman, Corbin Bernsen, Wendell Pierce, Joel Murray
📖 Synopsis: Set in the wild, extremely funny and lightning-paced world of legal - and illegal - sports gambling, "Lay the Favorite" follows unpredictable dreamer Beth as she goes from in-home stripper in Tallahas...
Stella Days

Stella Days

📅 Release: June 22, 2012
🎭 Genre: Drama
🎬 Starring: Martin Sheen, Gail Fitzpatrick, Trystan Gravelle, Tom Hickey, Amy Huberman, Ruth McCabe, Joey O'Sullivan, Marcella Plunkett, Stephen Rea, John Shevlin,
📖 Synopsis: A small town cinema in rural Ireland in the 1950s becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between Rome and Hollywood, and a man and his conscience. Martin Sheen ("The Way," "The Departed," "The We...
Last Ride, The

Last Ride, The

📅 Release: June 22, 2012
🎭 Genre: DramaBiography
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Henry Thomas, Jesse James, Kaley Cuoco, Fred Dalton Thompson, Ray McKinnon, Stephen Tobolowsky
📖 Synopsis: Hank Williams pioneered and pretty much invented what we know today as country music. At the peak of his career, he was acknowledged to be the greatest singer-songwriter in American history. But after...
Grassroots

Grassroots

📅 Release: June 22, 2012
🎭 Genre: DramaComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jason Biggs, Joel David Moore, Cobie Smulders, Christopher McDonald, Cedric the Entertainer, Tom Arnold, Lauren Ambrose, Emily Bergl, Todd Stashwick
📖 Synopsis: It's 2001, before Twitter, before the flash mob and before Obama. A political unknown named Grant Cogswell (Joel David Moore) decides he must take down Seattle City Councilman Richard McIver (Cedric t...
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

📅 Release: June 22, 2012
🎭 Genre: ThrillerHorror
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jimmi Simpson, Robin McLeavy, Rufus Sewell
📖 Synopsis: In a gripping twist on history, "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" reimagines the life of one of America's most revered presidents, portrayed by [c=Benjamin Walker]. Set against the backdrop of a nati...
Beasts Of The Southern Wild

Beasts Of The Southern Wild

📅 Release: June 27, 2012
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Quvenzhane Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Jonshel Alexander, Marilyn Barbarin, Lowell Landes, Jimmy Lee Moore, Hannah Holby, Kaliana Brower
📖 Synopsis: In a forgotten bayou community known as the Bathtub, a fierce and imaginative six-year-old girl named Hushpuppy lives with her ailing, volatile father, Wink. As portrayed by the remarkable [c=Quvenzh...
Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World

Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World

📅 Release: June 22, 2012
🎭 Genre: RomanceComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, William Petersen, Adam Brody, Rob Corddry, Derek Luke, Connie Britton, Patton Oswalt, Rob Huebel, Gillian Jacobs, Melanie Lynskey, Martin Sheen, T.J. Miller, Melinda Dillon
📖 Synopsis: In a world facing imminent destruction from an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World" explores the poignant journey of two unlikely companions. Starrin...
Brave

Brave

📅 Release: June 22, 2012
🎭 Genre: AnimationAdventureAction
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Craig Ferguson, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Kevin McKidd, Robbie Coltrane, John Ratzenberger
📖 Synopsis: Since ancient times, stories of epic battles and mystical legends have been passed through the generations across the rugged and mysterious Highlands of Scotland. In "Brave," a new tale joins the lore...
Not Suitable For Children

Not Suitable For Children

📅 Release: July 12, 2012
🎭 Genre: RomanceComedy
🎬 Starring: Ryan Kwanten, Bojana Novakovic, Alice Parkinson, Ryan Corr, Lulu McClatchy, Laura Brent, Clare Bowen, Andrew Johnston, Daniel Henshall, Sarah Snook, Kathryn Beck
📖 Synopsis: Not Suitable for Children is an epic comedic and romantic journey centered on the life of Jonah (Ryan Kwanten) who is surviving on the profits of the infamous parties he hosts every weekend with his r...
To Rome With Love

To Rome With Love

📅 Release: June 22, 2012
🎭 Genre: DramaComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Penelope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page, Judy Davis, Alison Pill, Roberto Benigni, Isabella Ferrari, Sergio Rubini, Antonio Albanese, Fabio Armiliata, Alessandra Mastronardi, Ornella Muti, Flavio Parenti
📖 Synopsis: In the enchanting backdrop of Rome, "To Rome with Love" unfolds a series of intertwining stories that explore the complexities of love, ambition, and identity. Directed by [c=Woody Allen], the film f...
Jersey Shore Shark Attack

Jersey Shore Shark Attack

📅 Release: June 9, 2012
🎭 Genre: Action
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Melissa Molinaro, Jack Scalia, Paul Sorvino, Tony Sirico, Joey Russo, William Atherton, Dylan Vox, Al Sapienza, Jeremy Luc, Daniel Booko
📖 Synopsis: With summer in full swing and a record-breaking Fourth of July crowd soaking up the boardwalk sun, Seaside Heights is the place to be in New Jersey! But when an illegal coastal drilling operation inad...
Blue Lagoon: The Awakening

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening

📅 Release: June 16, 2012
🎭 Genre: DramaRomance
🎬 Starring: Indiana Evans, Brenton Thwaltes, Denise Richards, Christopher Atkins, Frank John Hughes, Carrie Wampler
📖 Synopsis: In "Blue Lagoon: The Awakening," overachieving high school student Emma Robinson (Evans) and slacker Dean McMullen (Thwaites) find themselves on the same class trip to Trinidad. Though they have littl...
Fast Girls

Fast Girls

📅 Release: June 15, 2012
🎭 Genre: DramaSport
🎬 Starring: Noel Clarke, Lenora Crichlow, Bradley James, Lily James, Rupert Graves, Lashana Lynch, Philip Davis, Lorraine Burroughs, Dominique Tipper, Hannah Frankson
📖 Synopsis: In a world where speed and determination collide, "Fast Girls" captures the exhilarating journey of a group of young female sprinters striving for glory on the track. The film centers around the fier...
Rock Of Ages

Rock Of Ages

📅 Release: June 15, 2012
🎭 Genre: DramaMusical
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise, Malin Akerman, Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Alec Baldwin, Will Forte, Mary J. Blige, Paul Giamatti, Bryan Cranston, Eli Roth
📖 Synopsis: Set against the vibrant backdrop of 1980s Los Angeles, "Rock of Ages" is a high-energy musical that captures the rebellious spirit of rock 'n' roll. The story follows Sherrie, played by [c=Julianne H...
Tortured, The

Tortured, The

📅 Release: June 15, 2012
🎭 Genre: Thriller
🎬 Starring: Bill Moseley, Erika Christensen, Jesse Metcalfe, Chelah Horsdal, Fulvio Cecere, Alfonso Quijada, Thomas Greenwood, Bill Moseley, Bill Lippincott
📖 Synopsis: Craig and Elise had all the ingredients for an ideal life: a great marriage, a wonderful five-year-old son, a charming home and a bright future.Then, on one sunny day, their perfect world is irrevocab...