Cinema Directory

Summary: Tanya's father decides to take law into his own hands when he finds that his daughter commited suicide after she had been raped by a rich man's son.

Summary: Gwen is a lonely single mother with an unusual passion for knitting and living with her young daughter Lola. When photography student Kirk asks if he can photograph Gwen in her home, Gwen only agrees after Lola's prompting. Kirk has ulterior motives though, and when Gwen finds out, she sets upon taking the upper hand in the situation.

Languages: English Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, French Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Comments: The story of a family on the edge, and a man who brought them back.

Summary: Ulee is called one day by his incarcerated son, Jimmy, asking for a favor. Jimmy will repay his debts if they save his wife, Helen, from hoodlums. Ulee must now risk his and his family's lives to save Helen.

Summary: Two women and a girl of about ten find themselves shipwrecked and living on a not-so-deserted island. After one of the inhabitants makes himself known, romance and passion result. Yet, what are the love-birds to do about a band of nasty pirates who decide to explore the area? Terribly silly. [summary by CVMC.net]

Summary: A girl steals a weather machine from Santa Claus, to make a snow day. The machine breaks, and causes an out of control snowstorm.

Languages: English

Comments: A life experience becomes a gift.

Summary: Jason thought his inheritance was going to be the gift of money and lots of it. Was he ever in for a big surprise. Based on the best-selling book "The Ultimate Gift" by Jim Stovall, the story sends trust fund baby Jason Stevens on an improbable journey of discovery, having to answer the ultimate question: "What is the relationship between wealth and happiness?" Jason had a very simple relationship with his impossibly wealthy Grandfather, Howard "Red" Stevens. He hated him. No heart-to-heart talks, no warm fuzzies, just cold hard cash. So of course he figured that when Red died, the whole "reading of the will" thing would be another simple cash transaction, that his Grandfather's money would allow him to continue living in the lifestyle to which he had become accustomed. But what Red left him was anything but simple. Red instead devised a plan for Jason to experience a crash course on life. Twelve tasks, which Red calls "gifts," each challenging Jason in an improbable way, the accumulation of which would change him forever.

Summary: A shepherd finds a young girl, Tinke, in wretched condition, and takes her in. But although she appears to be a homeless wanderer, it turns out that Tinke is from a wealthy family. Her dying mother once gave her a necklace that can prove her identity, but this valuable family heirloom has been mislaid...

Summary: A young girl becomes friends with a wolf and it's little puppy. She decides to save them from three local shepards.

Summary: A love story between two families who spend their holiday on the cote d'azur. A divorced, unemployed woman with three children, and a rich widower who also has three children. Despite the tricks the kids pull, and the many misunderstandings, love strikes on the beach of Corsica. Very cute and lighthearted feel-good ensemble piece like only the french can make 'em.

Summary: Camille, a mercurial César-winning actress, has seen better times. Estranged from her husband, she's with her children only every other weekend. It's her weekend, but her agent has booked her to MC a Rotary club dinner in Vichy. She takes them with her, and when her husband learns this, he demands to pick them up at once. She bolts in a rented car to the seaside, trying to improve her relations with the children, especially the precocious and distant Vincent. He loves astronomy. A rare meteor shower is due in a few days, so she suggests they go to a plateau in Spain hoping to see it. He agrees, but the relationship remains difficult, and her husband is on their trail.

Comments: Break Out December 8

Summary: A handful of minors traveling unaccompanied by parents or guardians are left under the supervision of an overworked and easily overwhelmed airport employee (Wilmer Valderrama, "That '70s Show"). At this airport, terrorism takes a back seat to the trouble caused by these little terrors. The kids are surprisingly good in roles that don't ask them to do much more than be cute, obnoxious, and cute again. Tyler James Williams ("Everybody Hates Chris") is particularly engaging as a brainy kid who's got some good dance moves to show off. As for the adult actors, none really stand out except for the "Kids in the Hall" trio (Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney), whose collective portrayal of bumbling security guards makes you laugh despite your better judgment. --Jae-Ha Kim

Comments: They prowl by night...lusting for human flesh!

Summary: Wilbur Gray (Cushing) visits Frank Richards (Milland) so he can get his book published. This book Gray has written are about cats. Cats watching everyone and controlling everything. He mentions the stories in the book are all true, and gives three examples. The first involves the murder of a cat-loving old woman (Greenwood) who gives her entire fortune in her will to her cats. Not everyone is happy about the wills, but would have to get past the cats to get the the will. The second story is a tale of black magic between two girls and the third story is a tale of murderous revenge...by a cat.

Languages: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish

Comments: He's crude. He's crass. He's family.

Summary: Bachelor and all round slob, Buck, babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister.

Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

Summary: Set in contemporary South, a dramatic thriller about two brothers, Chris and Tom, who are forced to go on the run in order to guard a secret following the death of their father--and the arrival of their greedy, troubled uncle.

Summary:

Summary: Since their father has left mother for a younger lover, daughters Vanessa and Laurence try to find a young lover for mum, in order to make daddy jealous, and hopefully, will return to his wife.

Summary: August, 1963; Alice, 14, an only child, and physically well developed, is home for vacation. She's moody, silent, keeps a diary, and explores tactile sensations with broken eggs, candle wax, ear wax, vomit, urine, blood, and, perhaps, if the summer goes in one very possible direction, semen. Without her underpants, she walks about, rides her bike, and sits on the shore as the tide comes in. She drifts to her father's sawmill and makes eyes at Jim, a 20-something hand with a lean body and a model's face. What will Jim do, and does Alice want to do more than stare and fantasize? Meanwhile, pop music fills the air and the TV screen, and Alice's parents have their own drama.

Summary:
The life and times of a unfabulous teenage girl!

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; Commentary by Director, producer and editor; French, Unknown

Comments: every secret takes on a life of its own

Summary: A down on her luck woman, desperate to provide care for her daughter, moves in with her father in-law from whom she is estranged. Through time, they learn to forgive each other and heal old wounds.

Summary: Nuuk is an 11-year-old boy who is receiving his first tattoo as the movie opens. He lives in the forest with his extended tribe and now that he is a man he is permitted to go on a hunt with his father. Unna is a young girl visiting her sick grandfather in the hospital and in order to save his life she must consult a Shaman. Through a sercet path she finds herself back in time to find Nuuk, the young boy Shaman. But Nuuk is in trouble and fleeing from a more aggressive waring tribe. The kids soon find themselves captive of this tribe. Through Unna's kindness and Nuuk's special Shaman abilities lives are saved. A children's film from Finland. (Synopsis from CVMC.net)

Summary: Corporate Boss Manfred Helmer has noticed a disturbing lack of energy in his
management. So he decides to send everybody back to the ground floor,
which means they have to really work for a living. This order is also directed
at his son, Max, who will one day take over the company, but right now is
focussing on champagne parties and beautiful women instead of any
business concerns. Only after his dad threatens him with revoking all his
privileges does he go out and find a job… as the housekeeper of single mom
and businesswoman Elena Gruber and her three children. They want to get
rid of the new minder as soon as possible, but Max is fascinated by his
attractive employer. Used to charming ladies easily, he finds his new role a
challenge, where Elena ignores his advances. She is concerned with another
problem: the fashion company she works for is headed for bankruptcy. As
Max watches her fight relentlessly to save her company, his entrepreneurial
spirit awakens. He secretly devises a plan to save her company, not without
hoping to impress the woman he has fallen in love with. As Elena finds out
who is behind this reorganisation plan, she is deeply hurt…

Summary: Sandra is camping in a tent on a remote camp site with her boyfriend Benni and her daughter Jule. At the site they make friends with a vagabond named Marco whose relaxed, spontaneous personality is like a breath of fresh air amidst the small family’s holiday routine. Marco persuades the family to take a trip to the Baltic coast in nearby Poland. The sun, sea and sand ushers in spate of happy, carefree days; gradually, what began as a casual holiday acquaintance begins to turn into a genuine friendship – a friendship, moreover, in which everything and anything seems possible. Just how close can they get? And – how much trust exists between them?

One night, Marco and Sandra cross the fine line between what is and what isn’t acceptable by taking off together on the motorbike. Before long, Sandra is faced with a decision: Benni or Marco? Benni’s jealousy on the one hand and Marco’s new-found Polish friends on the other throw Sandra into a quandry. In spite of her recent happiness, she begins to cast a critical eye over her present environment. It looks as though it’s too late to turn back the clock – or is it? Things come to a head at Jule’s birthday party. When the disastrous celebration comes to an end, Marco abducts Jule, taking her away into the nocturnal woods. However, the magic that worked so well before doesn’t appear to be around any more and, when Sandra and Benni find Jule the next morning, the summer holidays are well and truly over.

Summary: Drama centred around three generations of a family, plus their numerous pets. Set in the 1960's, the events concerning various members of the family are seen through the eyes of Nina, one of the five children of Anna and Giovanni. Also on the scene are four grandparents and an old great aunt.

Summary:

Laura Benussi, 13 years old, is a young girl with a strong personality, bright for her age who will do anything to appear more grown up. She is in love with her art teacher, Stefano Malavesi, a placid agreeable fellow who has a warm and friendly rapport with his pupils. Laura has ambitions to become a velina, Family problems, the daughter of separated parents, living with her mother and her boyfriend.
The girl tried to attract the attention of the teacher behaving in a way more suited to a grown woman than an adolescent of her age, but the teacher, realizing what she was up to, sought to adhere to his proper role as teacher. Stefano is a 35 year old married man with a young son (Lorenzo). Living with his wife, Silvia, not an easy-going woman, created more than a few matrimonial difficulties.
Mr Malavesi finds in a colleague, Anna, a PE teacher, a confidant in whom he can confide his conjugal problems. Laura, jealous of the rapport between the two teachers, started a rumour about the two teachers having a relationship which Silvia was bound to hear about. This caused a great row in the household. Mr Malvasi knew all about the made-up stories created by the young pupil and pressed Laura to own up which she finally did. However she was not to be stopped. In fact, having been found out and because of the attitude of the man, she plotted revenge.
With the help of Sara, a young girl of little character and easily led, they accused Mr Malvasi of a number of sexual molestations. In no time at all, Mr Malvesi found himself embroiled in a huge scandal accused as he was by a torrent of accusations for which there seemed little defence.
The press and TV spoke of nothing other than the "teacher and the assaulted pupil". Stefano realised that there was only one way out of this nightmare: to convince Sara to tell the truth. The girl, under pressure from the teacher and the sense of blame she felt for the level that the events had already reached, broke down and confessed the truth of the matter.
Everything seemed to be settled and for Stefano to return to a normal life.
But he quickly realised that things had irredeemably changed. The glances, the attitude of people was not as before. Despite the passing of several months since his reinstatement in the public eye, his reputation has been ruined. He remains in the eye of the community a depraved paedophile.

Summary: A man walks with his child on the grass of a hill. He reaches an old country house, where years before he had spent his childhood during World War II. The deserted and desolate rooms make him travel back in memory to the time when the war was ending. Episodes of family life pass before his eyes: father, mother, grandmother and six children, of which he, Silvano, the youngest, was made mute by the shock of a bomb exploding. He remembers the meetings with Crimen, an old man who lived alone on the mountain. People said that when he was young he ate his wife out of love for her. Fascism has crumbled. In the chaos of the Liberation, Silvano's father is threatened. The boy, returning home from a stay in the hospital, hears that Crimen is dead. After a fight with his father, Silvano runs away to the mountain to find Crimen, but after the long road there it's not the boy who arrives, but Silvano as an adult. He observes the refuge in which the old man lives, and is moved by the human words of solidarity that the old man used to whisper to him.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; Commentary by David Schwimmer, Leelee Sobieski, Jon Avnet and others, Unknown

Comments: They did the one thing the Nazis never expected. They fought back.

Summary: Using radically refashioned archival footage of the Warsaw ghetto, this interview with Jon Avnet the director of Uprising talks about Marek Edelman who is an evocative memoir of his role in the rebellion that held back the Nazis for almost a month in 1943. The film begins with the growing list of prohibitions and regulations leading to the virtual imprisonment of about half-a-million Polish Jews in an old slum district of Warsaw with inadequate space and plumbing. An overhead tracking shot shows the number of people assembled in the first months of the relocation. The daily struggle against hunger and disease, especially among the dispossessed arrivals seen in their pitful rags, is aggravated by the German demands for "deportations to the east" that many begin to suspect are camouflaged mass murders. By the close of 1942, people living in the ghetto realize they are doomed, and the rudiments of resistance are planned by a handful of the young, including Edelman. Following some sporadic, spontaneous fighting at the ghetto railhead, the Umschlagplatz, in January, led by Moredecai Anielewicz, the scene is set for the more famous and prolonged battle that will begin on 19 April 1943. In the intervening time, many of the ghetto residents construct hidden shelters or bunkers in the basements and cellars of the buildings, often with tunnels leading to other buildings. The handful of fighters who have weapons take to these shelters, giving the uprising the advantage of defensive positions.

Languages: English, Spanish, French

Comments: They're about to teach each other how to act their age.

Summary: A grown-up woman (B.Murphy) ,who kept her childish instincts and behavior,start working as a nanny of a 8-year-old girl (Fanning),who actually acts like an adult.But in the end everything turns to its right places

Summary: After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.

Languages: Russian, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Comments: For those who were burnt by the sun of the revolution

Summary: Col. Sergei Kotov, his wife Maroussia and daughter Nadia are enjoying life at their idyllic country estate when a mysterious man arrives, shattering their hopes for a peaceful existence. Mitia, who once was Maroussia's lover, seems perfectly charming at first -- but it soon becomes clear he has a sinister agenda. Nikita Mikhalkov's powerful portrait of viciousness during the Stalin era won the 1994 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.