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Meek's Cutoff

Meek's Cutoff

📅 Release: April 8, 2011
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Michelle Williams, Zoe Kazan, Bruce Greenwood, Paul Dano, Shirley Henderson, Will Patton
📖 Synopsis: The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a short cut,...
Henry's Crime

Henry's Crime

📅 Release: April 8, 2011
🎭 Genre: RomanceComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Keanu Reeves, Vera Farmiga, James Caan, Judy Greer, Peter Stormare, Fisher Stevens, Bill Duke, Currie Graham, David Costabile
📖 Synopsis: Working the night shift as a toll collector on a lonely stretch of highway in Buffalo, New York, Henry (Keanu Reeves) is a man without ambition, dreams or purpose. He gets his wakeup call early one mo...
Ceremony

Ceremony

📅 Release: April 8, 2011
🎭 Genre: ComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Michael Angarano, Uma Thurman, Lee Pace, Reece Thompson, Jake Johnson, Rebecca Mader
📖 Synopsis: In the comedy-drama film [m=Ceremony], directed by [c=Max Winkler], a young man finds himself caught in a complicated web of love and ambition. The story follows the character as he navigates the ups...
Born To Be Wild

Born To Be Wild

📅 Release: April 8, 2011
🎭 Genre: Documentary
⭐ Rating: G
🎬 Starring: Morgan Freeman, Birute Galdikas, Daphne Sheldrick
📖 Synopsis: Narrated by the iconic [c=Morgan Freeman], this breathtaking IMAX documentary takes audiences on an extraordinary journey into the wilds of Borneo and Kenya. The film follows two remarkable women, [c...
Soul Surfer

Soul Surfer

📅 Release: April 8, 2011
🎭 Genre: DramaBiographySport
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: AnnaSophia Robb, Dennis Quaid, Carrie Underwood, Helen Hunt, Lorraine Nicholson, Sean Brosnan, Kevin Sorbo, Chris Brochu, Jeremy Sumpter
📖 Synopsis: "Soul Surfer" is the inspiring true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton. Bethany lost her left arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer ...
Arthur

Arthur

📅 Release: April 8, 2011
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Garner, Greta Gerwig, Nick Nolte, Geraldine James, Luis Guzman, Christina Calph, Scott Adsit
📖 Synopsis: Irresponsible charmer Arthur Bach (Russell Brand) has always relied on two things to get by: his limitless fortune and the good sense of lifelong nanny Hobson (Helen Mirren) to keep him out of trouble...
Your Highness

Your Highness

📅 Release: April 8, 2011
🎭 Genre: ComedyAdventure
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Danny McBride, James Franco, Natalie Portman, Zooey Deschanel, Justin Theroux, Toby Jones, Damian Lewis, Charles Dance
📖 Synopsis: Throughout history, tales of chivalry have burnished the legends of brave, handsome knights who rescue fair damsels, slay dragons and conquer evil. But behind many a hero is a good-for-nothing younger...
Essential Killing

Essential Killing

📅 Release: August 25, 2011
🎭 Genre: ThrillerWar
🎬 Starring: Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner, David L. Price, Nicolai Cleve Broch
📖 Synopsis: In an award-winning performance (Best Actor- Venice Film Festival), Vincent Gallo plays Mohammed, a Taliban fighter captured by the US military in Afghanistan after a violent desert attack goes awry. ...
Trust

Trust

📅 Release: April 1, 2011
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Liana Liberato, Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Viola Davis, Noah Emmerich, Brandon Molale, Jason Clarke, Nicole Forester
📖 Synopsis: In the gripping drama-thriller [m=Trust], directed by [c=David Schwimmer], the story delves into the complexities of trust and vulnerability in the digital age. The film features a compelling cast in...
Super

Super

📅 Release: April 1, 2011
🎭 Genre: ComedyAction
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon, Nathan Fillion, Linda Cardellini, Gregg Henry, Zach Gilford, Michael Rooker, Sean Gunn
📖 Synopsis: In the outlandish dark comedy SUPER, James Gunn has created what is perhaps the definitive take on self-reflexive superheroes. When sad-sack loser Frank (Rainn Wilson) sees his ex-addict wife (Liv Tyl...
Insidious

Insidious

📅 Release: April 1, 2011
🎭 Genre: Horror
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye, Barbara Hershey, Angus Sampson, Johnny Yong Bosch, Kimberly Ables Jindra, Andrew Astor
📖 Synopsis: In the chilling horror film "Insidious," directed by [c=James Wan], the Lambert family finds themselves grappling with an unexplainable and terrifying phenomenon. When young Dalton, played by [c=Ty S...
Queen To Play

Queen To Play

📅 Release: April 1, 2011
🎭 Genre: DramaComedyRomance
🎬 Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Kevin Kline, Jennifer Beals, Valerie Lagrange, Francis Renaud
📖 Synopsis: Oscar winner Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda) and the luminous Sandrine Bonnaire (Vagabond) square off in this stylish and sophisticated dramedy of newfound passions and mid-life triumphs, set on the...
Cat Run

Cat Run

📅 Release: April 1, 2011
🎭 Genre: ActionComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Paz Vega, Janet McTeer, Christopher McDonald, Tony Curran, Scott Mechlowicz
📖 Synopsis: Anthony has always dreamed of being a famous chef. His best friend Julian only thinks about women. With neither ambitions really working out, the childhood best friends decide to start a detective age...
Wrecked

Wrecked

📅 Release: April 1, 2011
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Adrien Brody, Caroline Dhavernas, Ryan Robbins, Adrian Holmes, Jacob Blair
📖 Synopsis: A Man (Adrien Brody) awakens in a mangled car-wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff. He's injured, his legs are trapped, and he has no memory of who he is or how he got there. His only company - a crac...
Rubber

Rubber

📅 Release: April 1, 2011
🎭 Genre: ComedyDramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Stephen Spinella, Roxane Mesquida, Jack Plotnick, Wings Hauser
📖 Synopsis: RUBBER is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert, and suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert roams the bleak landscape, he discovers that he possesses...
In A Better World

In A Better World

📅 Release: April 1, 2011
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, Markus Rygaard, William Johnk Nielsen
📖 Synopsis: Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts t...
Source Code

Source Code

📅 Release: April 1, 2011
🎭 Genre: ActionThriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright, Russell Peters, Michael Arden, Cas Anvar, Brent Skagford
📖 Synopsis: When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. In an assign...
Hop

Hop

📅 Release: April 1, 2011
🎭 Genre: ComedyFamily
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Russell Brand, James Marsden, Kaley Cuoco, Hank Azaria, Hugh Laurie, Elizabeth Perkins, Gary Cole, Chelsea Handler, Tiffany Espensen, Veronica Alicino
📖 Synopsis: In the whimsical world of Easter Island, a young rabbit named E.B. dreams of becoming a drummer instead of following in his family's footsteps as the Easter Bunny. Voiced by [c=Russell Brand], E.B. e...
Limitless

Limitless

📅 Release: March 18, 2011
🎭 Genre: ThrillerAction
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel, Tomas Arana, Johnny Whitworth, Robert John Burke, Andrew Howard
📖 Synopsis: In the gripping thriller "Limitless," struggling writer Eddie Morra, portrayed by [c=Bradley Cooper], finds his life transformed when he stumbles upon a revolutionary drug that unlocks the full poten...
Lincoln Lawyer, The

Lincoln Lawyer, The

📅 Release: March 18, 2011
🎭 Genre: Thriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe, William H. Macy, Josh Lucas, Michael Pena, Trace Adkins, Katherine Moennig, John Leguizamo, Bryan Cranston, Michaela Conlin, Shea Whigham, Frances Fisher
📖 Synopsis: In a world where justice can be as murky as the motives behind it, "Lincoln Lawyer" thrusts viewers into the life of Mickey Haller, portrayed by [c=Matthew McConaughey], a charismatic defense attorne...
Paul

Paul

📅 Release: March 18, 2011
🎭 Genre: ComedySci-FiAdventure
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Jane Lynch, Sigourney Weaver, Jeffrey Tambor, Blythe Danner, David Koechner, John Carroll Lynch, Jesse Plemons, Joe Lo Truglio, Mia Stallard
📖 Synopsis: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America's UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally...
Elektra Luxx

Elektra Luxx

📅 Release: March 11, 2011
🎭 Genre: ComedyDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Carla Gugino, Timothy Olyphant, Malin Akerman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Adrianne Palicki, Justin Kirk, Lucy Punch, Marley Shelton, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Christine Lakin
📖 Synopsis: Recently retired from the adult film industry, superstar Elektra Luxx (Carla Gugino) is pregnant with the child of late rock star Nick Chapel. She is trying to make ends meet by teaching a community c...
Certified Copy

Certified Copy

📅 Release: March 11, 2011
🎭 Genre: Drama
🎬 Starring: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carriere, Agathe Natanson
📖 Synopsis: Juliette Binoche won the Best Actress prize in Cannes for her performance in this playful and provocative romantic drama from legendary auteur Abbas Kiarostami ("Taste of Cherry", "The Wind Will Carry...
Red Riding Hood

Red Riding Hood

📅 Release: March 11, 2011
🎭 Genre: ThrillerHorror
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons, Julie Christie, Gary Oldman, Lukas Haas, Virginia Madsen
📖 Synopsis: In "Red Riding Hood," Seyfried plays Valerie, a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to ...
Mars Needs Moms!

Mars Needs Moms!

📅 Release: March 11, 2011
🎭 Genre: Animation
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Seth Green, Joan Cusack, Dan Fogler, Mindy Sterling, Elisabeth Harnois, Kevin Cahoon, Tom Everett Scott
📖 Synopsis: Take out the trash, eat your broccoli-who needs moms, anyway? Nine-year-old Milo (Seth Green) finds out just how much he needs his mom (Joan Cusack) when she's nabbed by Martians who plan to steal her...
Monogamy

Monogamy

📅 Release: March 11, 2011
🎭 Genre: Drama
🎬 Starring: Chris Messina, Rashida Jones, Meital Dohan, Sarah Burns, Zak Orth, Ivan Martin
📖 Synopsis: In the intimate drama [m=Monogamy], directed by [c=Dana Adam Shapiro], a Brooklyn-based wedding photographer named Theo (played by [c=Chris Messina]) finds his seemingly stable relationship with his ...
Battle: Los Angeles

Battle: Los Angeles

📅 Release: March 11, 2011
🎭 Genre: ActionSci-Fi
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Pena, Bridget Moynahan, Ne-Yo, Ramon Rodriguez, Taylor Handley, Cory Hardrict, Jadin Gould, Bryce Cass, Joey King, Lucas Till
📖 Synopsis: In the gripping action-packed film "Battle: Los Angeles," humanity faces an unprecedented threat as extraterrestrial forces descend upon Earth, wreaking havoc in major cities. Set against the backdro...
Kill The Irishman

Kill The Irishman

📅 Release: March 11, 2011
🎭 Genre: ActionCrime
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken, Val Kilmer, Linda Cardellini, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vinnie Jones, Paul Sorvino, Fionnula Flanagan, Laura Ramsey, Mike Starr, Jason Butler Harner, Robert Davi, Tony Lo Bianco, Steve Schirripa, Bob Gunton
📖 Synopsis: Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, "K...
3 Backyards

3 Backyards

📅 Release: March 11, 2011
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Edie Falco, Elias Koteas, Rachel Resheff, Peyton List (II), Dana Eskelson, Embeth Davidtz, Kathryn Erbe
📖 Synopsis: The story of three residents of the same suburban town over the course of one perfect, glittering Autumn day. Mixing the mundane with the mythic, the film peers into the interior lives of its characte...
Bereavement

Bereavement

📅 Release: March 4, 2011
🎭 Genre: HorrorThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Alexandra Daddario, Michael Biehn, Peyton List (II), John Savage, Nolan Gerard Fun, Spencer List, Valentina de Angelis, Kathryn Meisle
📖 Synopsis: In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing hi...