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- DirectorAnna Rose HolmerStarsRoyalty HightowerAlexis NeblettDa'Sean MinorWhile training at the gym 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in she finds herself caught up in danger as the group begins to suffer from fainting spells and other violent fits.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogKatia KrafftMaurice KrafftAn exploration of active volcanoes around the world.
- DirectorTrey Edward ShultsStarsKrisha FairchildAlex DobrenkoRobyn FairchildKrisha returns for Thanksgiving dinner after ten years away from her family, but past demons threaten to ruin the festivities.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsTao ZhaoYi ZhangLiang JingdongThe life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
- DirectorStanley NelsonStarsBlair AndersonOmar BarbourJulian BondThis documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th century's most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world's attention for nearly 50 years.
- DirectorMathew Ramirez WarrenLatin boogaloo is New York City. It is a product of the melting pot, a colorful expression of 1960s Latino soul, straight from the streets of El Barrio, the South Bronx and Brooklyn. Starring Latin boogaloo legends like Joe Bataan, Johnny Colon and Pete Rodriguez, 'We Like It Like That' explores this fascinating moment in Latin music history, through original interviews, music recordings, live performances, dancing and rare archival footage and images. From its origins to its recent resurgence in popularity, 'We Like It Like That' tells the story of a sound that redefined a generation and was too funky to keep down.
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsEmily BluntJosh BrolinBenicio Del ToroAn idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsHarrison FordRutger HauerSean YoungA blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsJoseph Gordon-LevittShailene WoodleyMelissa LeoThe NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.
- DirectorLaurent CantetStarsJorge PerugorríaIsabel SantosNéstor JiménezSun is setting on Havana. Five friends are gathered to celebrate the return of Amadeo after 16 years of exile in Madrid.
- DirectorJorge Luis SánchezStarsRakel AdrianaUlyk AnelloRenny ArozarenaBased on the life of Benny Moré, the film concentrates on a period in the early 1950s when Moré leaves the orchestra of Duany and starts his own 'Banda Gigante'. In flashback we learn of his success in Mexico. Moré is caught in the events connected to Batista's coup in Cuba. Also, he tours Venezuela, where he suffers the machinations of a vengeful businessman. After collapsing and being hospitalised, Moré swears off alcohol. Some years later, he encounters his old band-mate Monchy, fallen on hard times.
- DirectorJared HessStarsJon HederEfren RamirezJon GriesA listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
- DirectorEla TroyanoStarsLa LupeAmerica FerreraA born rebel and innovator, Lupe Yoli aka La Lupe or La Yiyiyi was renowned for her emotional performances. Her renditions of classics such as "My Way," "Fever" and "Going Out of My Head" were known worldwide. But beyond her musicianship, celebrity and scandal, Lupe Yoli was also a single mother of two, a survivor of domestic abuse, a Santera who later became a Christian Evangelist speaker. Shot in New York City, Miami, La Habana and San Juan, this documentary evokes two groundbreaking cultural periods through rare archival footage -- pre-Revolutionary 1950's La Habana and the burgeoning Latin music scene in New York City in the 1960's and 1970's. The documentary begins with her funeral in 1992, attended by fans, family and the whole of New York's Latino music aristocracy and follows her from poverty to celebrity and back again. La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul tells La Lupe's story through character driven interviews in first person anecdotes, in an oral history much like those found in a folk ballad or a bolero. She was born in a small rural town in Cuba in 1936, one that La Lupe herself loved to describe as "so poor that no one knew it existed until I got famous". Her older sister Norma Yoli describes her as "just another black girl from Santiago", one who loved to imitating the singers she heard on the radio. One of these was Olga Guillot, Cuba's reigning bolero singer - our Latin Frank Sinatra. When the rebellious teenage Lupe wins a radio contest, much like our present day's American Idol, she gets to meet Olga Guillot in La Habana and to sing on the radio. By 1957 La Lupe was the rage in the thriving competitive nightlife in La Habana. Rare archival footage showcases Lupe's peers - Perez Prado, Beni More with Mongo Santamaria, a young Celia Cruz. Helio Orovio, the noted Cuban musicologists describes La Habana in the late 50's as having the most "intense" nightlife in the midst of the onset of Cuba's revolution. Lupe's gay following adores her, and the avant-garde follows. A newspaper headline appears: "La Lupe Divides Cuba in Two". While her inimitable style is described as one befitting the revolutionary times, the headline was a prescient one: like many artists at the time, she leaves Cuba: "there was no room in Cuba for me and the revolution." La Lupe arrives penniless in New York City in 1962. She befriends the world-renowned Afro-Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaria, and records with him. Mongo proudly recalls how he introduced La Lupe to "an American" jazz audience and how Tito Puente stole La Lupe from his band once she became the "hottest thing". La Lupe and Tito Puente went on to record a mayor hit in 1964, a Latin classic: "Que Te Pedi" (What Did I Ask of You). Fred Weinberg, La Lupe's favorite recording engineer recalls their collaboration and the early recording sessions. "She was like a hurricane coming in" with Tito urging him to just "start recording". For the next four years they recorded classics and toured the Latin music circuit at the time, in the US, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Panama and Spain. Ralph Mercado the Latin music impresario (who was also Tito Puente and Celia Cruz's manager) recounts their falling out with the hit "Oriente" where La Lupe herself sings: "Tito Puente kicked me out". La Lupe had gotten too big and Tito had begun to record with Celia Cruz. Striking out on her own in 1968 La Lupe appears on English language television shows. In a present day interview of Dick Cavett, her appearance on his show is put into context for an audience watching in 1973 - though her performance remains thoroughly contemporary. Johnny Pacheco the composer, arranger and music producer recounts the birth of Fania records and the origins of "salsa", the new Latin music sensation. By 1975 La Lupe's career is on the decline while Fania has a new rising star -- Celia Cruz. By 1985 Lupe Yoli has rebounded from a descent into homelessness. Having taken on the preacher's pulpit she recounts this period in her evangelical testimonials. Ahead of her time and often described as the first performance artist and a long-time gay icon, La Lupe's story is universal in its appeal; with the current boom in Latin pop music, it is also timely in trying to discover who Lupe was. The documentary is also a collective portrait of mid-20th century Latin musical history.
- DirectorTerrence MalickStarsJim CaviezelSean PennNick NolteAdaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
- DirectorTerrence MalickStarsRichard GereBrooke AdamsSam ShepardA hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsBernard NoëlMacha MérilPhilippe LeroyA superifical woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsJack NicholsonMaria SchneiderJenny RunacreUnable to find the war he's been asked to cover, a frustrated war correspondent takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms-deal acquaintance.
- DirectorNicholas RayStarsJoan CrawfordSterling HaydenMercedes McCambridgeAfter helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.
- DirectorBent-Jorgen PerlmuttStarsCarlos AlvarezMilton Díaz CanterHendy CobasChange is racing down the streets of Havana, where Cuba's top underground drag racers struggle to prepare their classic hot rods for the first official car race since the Revolution.
- DirectorMichael RadfordMassimo TroisiStarsMassimo TroisiPhilippe NoiretMaria Grazia CucinottaA simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
- DirectorJuno JakobStarsJuno JakobSophie OrmshawLonely Sam lives an unhappy life until he meets upbeat and lively Ellen and falls in love. But how long will their blossoming romance last as Ellen prepares for university in Paris.