Cinema Directory

Comments: This is my story

Summary: In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living. Family friend Jacob encourages Dina's father to hire Lorch, a tutor who introduces her to the cello. When Dina is old enough, she marries Jacob and moves to Reinsnes, a port he runs with his mother, Karen, and his stepsons Niels and Anders. Niels doesn't like Dina's wild ways, or the fact that she has taken over accounting duties at Reinsnes. Dina's eccentric tendencies become even stronger, eventually leading Jacob into an accident of his own and bringing Tomas back into her life.

Languages: English,

Comments: love is all you need

Summary: A mentally retarded man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter, and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.

Comments: Find Yourself. In Love.

Summary: I COULD NEVER BE YOUR WOMAN is a romantic comedy about a mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) who falls for a younger man (Paul Rudd) and her daughter (Saoirse Ronan) who falls in love for the first time. Tracey Ullman plays the acerbic Mother Nature who meddles in their fates.

Languages: English

Summary: Stella and her friend Albert are twelve year-olds with ambitious intentions of creating an extremely spooky Halloween house. While checking for hints online they open up a web link that opens a doorway through which an annoying ghost leaves his ether world and enters theirs. They find they must help this ghost resolve his problems or put up with him forever more.

Summary: It is close to Christmas. In a snow covered landscape in the countryside of Norway we meet 12 year old CECILIE , her friend KLARA and Cecilie's family . They are all preparing for Christmas Eve. Cecilie, however, is seriously ill and spends most of her time in bed, daydreaming about the Spanish boy SEBASTIAN who she met on holiday last summer. One night ARIEL shows up in Cecilie's bedroom, a small strange looking fellow who claims he is an angel and starts talking to Cecilie about the wonders of life. Cecilie finds Ariel quite irritating, but they agree that if Cecilie tells Ariel how it feels to be a human being, Ariel will tell Cecilie about angels and the mysteries of the universe. "Through a Glass, Darkly" is a moving, magic and playful story about a young girl who, at the end of her life, learns to accept death and understands how wonderful life really is. The script is based on the novel "Through a Glass, Darkly" by world famous Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder ("Sophie's World").

Summary: Wynne (Jenny Agutter), an adopted 14 year oldwho lives in a bland Midlands town, has a schoolgirl crush on her foster brother George (Bryan Marshall) . But her life changes when a series of brutal sex murders is committed in the area and she finds one of George's discarded sweaters stained with blood. Teaming up with school friend Corinne (Clare Sutcliffe), she sets out to solve the mystery and becomes increasingly obsessed with George, even following him to a sexual rendezvous with his lover. Stripped of her romantic fantasies about George, she rushes to the family's abandoned former home where the real culprit has taken Corinne...

Summary: A touching story of a young girl who when she falls ill, no one is able to diagnose or cure her. But the girl magically recovers with the help of circus performers and an elephant named Bumba.

Summary: Moscow, Russia, the Stalin era, ca 1950. Based on contemporary Russian authoress Elena Kharkova's award winning romance novel, "I vse-taki ya lyublyu... (And Still I Love...)" (2005), this is a story of redemptive love between a mother and daughter. Vera (Tatyana Arntgolts), a simple girl from a small provincial town, falls in love with Vadim (Anton Khabarov), an educated boy from Moscow, the son of well-off, powerful, politically connected parents. Despite his parents' disapproval, Vera and Vadim marry. But, Vera does not fit into Vadim's world of Moscow's educated, rich, communist elite, finding it unreceptive, intimidating, and unforgiving. Vadim soon begins to grow distant, treating Vera both indifferently and cruelly. When Vera becomes pregnant and gives birth, Vadim disowns their daughter, and puts her away in a foster home after paying a bribe to have her registered as an orphan. After this, Vera loses hope. She begins to numb her pain with strong alcohol, and escape her loneliness in the arms of indiscriminately chosen lovers. But, the love between her and her mother will offer Vera redemption, and give a new hope for life to both her and her young daughter.

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Languages: English, French,

Comments: Big things happen to those who dream big.

Summary: With the help of her coach, her parents, and the boy who drives the Zamboni machine, nothing can stop Casey (Trachtenberg) from realizing her dream to be a champion figure skater.

Summary: The adventures of Julia Schiller, a TV journalist, and her family of two adolescent daughters and twin boys. After dumping her husband, for Julia it seems her kids are almost always in her way - her decisions, her life and her career. That the kids have a will of their own culminates into all kinds of disasters for Julia.

Summary: This is the summer that changes all for 14 year olds Ina and Katrein. The two girls pledge eternal friendship, until suddenly out of nothing, a irresistable boy appears. They both fall in love with him, and from then on, every summer day brings new and unexpected discoveries. How first love changes everything.

Summary: A local, talented rock musician decides to go to Moscow to enter a competition that will be broadcast on national TV. On the way, he becomes too convinced of his future success, and instead ends up in a series of misfortunes.

Summary: a film about love and other natural disasters...

For Selma, love is disastrous, a natural catastrophe that took her mother's life when Selma was born. But if love can't be trusted, the intellect can. Science is the solution and a Nobel Prize is the goal. Determined not to have any interest in boys, her world is rocked when she meets Andy, who is also interested in Science, or at least pretends that he is.

But is it even possible to meet on a purely intellectual level when you are 12 years old and all your hormones are going berserk? The Color of Milk deals with great existential questions with an undertone of black humour. And Selma's constantly furrowed forehead and serious inner monologue are in sharp contrast to the breathtakingly beautiful scenery and the relaxed images of summer and holidays.

Summary: France, 1940. German troops have just invaded the country, but in the rural idyll of the family chateau inhabited by 20-year-old Mellie with her impoverished aristocrat father Alexandre and adolescent cousin Robinson, the war still seems far away # apart from the fact that Mellie's rich and unpopular fiancé André has been drafted into the army. For Robinson and his friends the same age, including the temperamental Bertrand, the war is merely a game they play in the remoteness of the blue island in the lake. Fifteen-year-old Bertrand already feels quite grown-up: when Mellie, his great love, succumbs to his advances, he is introduced to physical love. Bertrand's romantic sense of honor is deeply offended, however, when France negotiates a cease-fire with the Germans. To save his country's honor, he decides to embark on the "military defense" of the blue island: he has finally seen an opportunity to get quits with the absent enemy and to risk his life for the glory of his country. With a few playmates, an old hunting rifle and a home-made flag, he prepares to defend his realm # the blue island # against the might of the German army. When the first German armored cars, under the command of Francophile German lieutenant Frantz von Pikkendorf, arrive on the scene, the children approach them with utter fearlessness. The lieutenant accepts their challenge, seeing it as a game, but then insists that the children "beat an honorable retreat". When Pikkendorf tries to take the rifle from Bertrand, the boy shoots him in the shoulder. This leads to catastrophe: Bertrand is reluctantly shot dead by Pikkendorf. The lieutenant then accompanies the dead Bertrand back home with full military honors. After the war, Pikkendorf returns to France and visits the heroic Bertrand's grave. Once there, he recognizes Mellie who came to bring some flowers to her former first love, who she also will never forget.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

Summary: As the film begins, Cathryn (Susannah York) receive a series of disturbing and eerie phone calls in her home one dreary night. The female voice on the other end suggests to her that her husband Hugh (Rene Auberjonois) is having an affair. Her husband comes home, finding her in complete disarray. Hugh attempts to comfort her, but then he is gone, and she sees a different man who is behaving as if he were her husband. She screams in horror and backs away, only to see her vision of the figure revert back to her husband.

Hugh attributes her outburst to stress, and decides to take a vacation to the countryside at an isolated house. But as she dwells there, Cathryn delves into darker delusions as the stranger returns, and she finds it difficult to determine what is reality and what is in her mind.

Summary: Suzanne knows that her seven-year-old stepdaughter Molly has been through a lot. The girl's mother had only died a couple of years ago, and her father had married Suzanne not too long after. So when Molly discovers an "invisible friend" named Candace after they move to a new house, Suzanne figures that it's just her way of dealing with everything that has happened.

Except that the details of "Candace's" life are just too detailed and dark. And that "Candace" tells Molly things that Molly couldn't know. And that there was actually a little girl named Candace who lived in their house 90 years ago, a girl with a tragic story whose remaining spirit longs for love-- and for revenge.

Comments: There is nowhere to hide in your mind...

Summary: The disturbed arts teacher Anna Veigh is hired by the busy Mr. Laing, the tutor of the orphan siblings Flora and her brother Miles, to work as governess and raise the children in their huge mansion in Bly with the support of his secretary Ms. Grose. Sooner, Anna believes that the ghosts of the former governess Miss Jessel and housekeeper Peter Quint are in the property haunting the children, and she decides to help them to face the spirits and get their souls free.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Commentary by director/writer Jim Sheridan, Unknown

Summary: An aspiring Irish actor and his family illegally immigrate in the United States with the dreams of the father breaking into the New York City theatrical scene. Once they arrive in the big city, they move into a flop house and try to make it truly their home. While they struggle to fit in their new country, the family finds new friends like the reclusive neighbor, Mateo, who provide help in the most unexpected ways in America.

Comments: Who you set out to be isn't always who you become.

Summary: A disillusioned war journalist's return home is blighted when he becomes implicated in the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl he has befriended.

Summary: An 11 year old talented soccerplayer, Remco, has one big dream: to be selected for the national team under 14 years. His father Erik coaches him and everything seems to work out fine, until Erik suddenly dies. Remco and mother Sylvia are shocked. Remco keeps working to fulfil his dream, being helped by his friends Anne and Winston.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

Comments: A Thousand Thrills, And Hayley Mills!

Summary: A young girl embarks on a perilous quest to the four corners of the world to rescue her sea captain father -- although her only clue to his whereabouts is a message in a bottle. Great Disney special effects add to the adventure. Based on Jules Verne's book.

Comments: Get ready to fall

Summary: For as long as he could remember, Carter Webb had been falling in love with women. And for as long as he could remember, he’d been searching for the right one. He found everything he was looking for in Sophia and for a little while he was happy. Unfortunately, it wasn’t meant to be.

When Carter is dumped by Sophia in a North Hollywood coffee shop, he sees his entire life flash before his eyes. Heartbroken and depressed, Carter escapes Los Angeles, heading across the country to suburban Michigan to care for his ailing grandmother. An eccentric and complicated personality, Grandma offers Carter a uniquely different perspective on life and especially death. Soon after his arrival, Carter stumbles into the lives of the family living directly across the street, Sarah Hardwicke, the mother of two daughters: Paige, a precocious, effervescent eleven-year-old and her older sister Lucy, an angst ridden teenager.

While Sarah faces her own personal crisis, Lucy wrestles with the fears that define her. Through his relationships with these women, as well as his grandmother, Carter begins to discover that what felt like the end was really only just the beginning of his adventure.

Comments: Every story ever written is just waiting to become real.

Summary: Mo has the special talent to bring characters out of books. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn and Basta, two villains, and Dustfinger, a fire-eater. Now, 10 years later Meggie discovers the truth and it's up to her to escape Capricorn's evil grasp.

Summary: Confused yet curious, six-year-old Iris is taken in hand by Bianca, the leader of a group of girls who live in one of five houses that make up a kind of boarding school. The only adults are old servants and two authoritarian teachers. Obedience is paramount. Those caught trying to escape are either swallowed up by the horrors of the outside world or condemned to serve the other girls within the school walls for the rest of their lives. The girls suffer various indignities of school life, longing to get outside. However, the eldest girls disappear each night for several hours under orders not to reveal their whereabouts to the others. In the end, we learn how these girls step into adulthood in this familiar, but clearly alternate, universe.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish, Dolby Digital 1.0

Comments: Apparitions? Evils? Corruptions?

Summary: A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.

Summary: Eric, a twelve year old in care and up for adoption, and his close friendship with the older Petia, who has dreams of joining the circus. One weekend Petia is blamed for the misdeeds of Momo and Graf, two other teenagers in care.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; English, DTS; French, Dolby Digital 5.1; French, DTS; Commentary by director Neil Jordan, Dolby Digital 2.0

Comments: Drink From Me And Live Forever

Summary: It hadn't even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis had lost his wife in childbirth, both his wife and the infant died and now he had lost his will to live. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire. Louis accepts, and Lestat drains Louis' mortal blood and then replaces it with his own turning Louis into a vampire. Louis must learn from Lestat the ways of the vampire.

Summary: Marco Sperelli is a teacher, he is divorced and he is sent to work in Corzano, a town near Naples. The first day of work he finds in the school only the school-caretaker and few girls and boys in the class-room. He goes out looking for them and he discovers then a wretched life led by the boys and the girls of Corzano. A life in which only power and violence are worth respecting. Sperelli tries to teach something different but he gets their respect only by slapping Raffaele, on the way to became a camorrist. His presence and his work, however, disturb too many persons and he will be transferred.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: A secret is not safe if the truth has a witness.

Summary: Sophie Hartley (Susan Sarandon) is convinced that she is being stalked. She becomes increasingly certain that her husband's (Sam Neill) beautiful co-worker, Mara (Emily Blunt), wants her children, her husband and her life. But no one believes Sophie. Forced to prove her sanity, Sophie grows increasingly paranoid - but is she imagining things? Sophie becomes completely caught up in her obsession, turning stalker herself - and makes a discovery more frightening than her worst fear.

Summary: In a remote Norwegian mountain-area in the thirties, two 12 year old girls Siss and Unn meet. They are friends, but has a confession, she admits to have secret and indecent fantasies about her girlfriend...

Summary: A coming of age story of a boy, Turi (Ernandes) and his younger sister, Teresa (Guarrasi) on an island off the coast of Sicily. Using mostly non professional actors in a neorealist style, this film creates a charming and seemingly authentic slice of village life.

Summary: Klamski is a stateless United Nations refugee. He is on his way to Istanbul. Right after his arrival in Ostend, he meets Willy (27), who is a student. They decide to go to Istanbul together. While travelling across Belgium, a friendship develops between the two men. However, the day Willy discovers a press clipping revealing Klamski's real identity, their friendship gets a little troubled. On their way, they are picked up by Joseph, a strange and sad used cars dealer. His wife has left him for an Italian, taking their little daughter Corinne (8) with her.. Klamski and Willy kidnap the child. They take her to a place in Luxemburg, previously arranged with the father, and receive the money which enables them to get to Istanbul from him There will be a happy ending - not for everybody, though.

Summary: A husband brings his wife and two children to the countryside to stay in his father's old house. In contrast to their urban home, the new setting is all about nature. It is all about rolling hills, a prehistoric sea, and fertile land, all lying in the ruins of dislike. It does not let on but it will demand great sacrifice.