The Last Request (2006)
Comedy
Pop's last request is for his sons to continue the family name. When his brother dies trying, Jeff leaves the seminary and encounters crazy women and odd ball characters.
Starring: T.R. Knight, Danny Aiello, Mario Cantone, Vincent Pastore, Joe Piscopo, Frank Vincent, Sabrina Lloyd
Director: John DeBellis
We Bought a Zoo (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Family
Based on a true story, Benjamin Mee is a recently-widowed father who moves his family to a beautiful estate miles outside the city. The only catch is that the estate is also a dilapidated zoo replete with 200 animals, and the purchase of the home is conditional on the new owner keeping the zoo and its entire staff. The Mee family subsequently sets out to rebuild and refurbish the zoo to its former glory, making new friends along the way.
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Matt Damon, Thomas Haden Church, Elle Fanning, Angus MacFadyen
Director: Cameron Crowe
The Sitter (2011)
Comedy
Noah is a suspended college student, living at home with his single mom, who is talked into babysitting the three, young, misfit kids next door. When he's invited that night to have sex by a girl, he decides to take the kids along on the attempted sexual rendezvous, and the night takes a wild and dangerous turn for the worse for which he is totally unprepared.
Starring: Jonah Hill, Max Records, Ari Graynor, Sam Rockwell, J.B. Smoove
Director: David Gordon Green
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007)
Action | Comedy | Horror
After witnessing the brutal murder of his family, Jack Brooks is left with an unquenchable fury that he is constantly fighting to control. Now working as a local plumber and struggling in a relationship with his girlfriend Eve, Jack's life has become a downward spiral. One night, Jack attempts to fix Professor Crowley's old, rusted pipes, but unknowingly awakens an ancient evil. Lured by this demonic power, Professor Crowley discovers a monstrous black heart that quickly forces its way inside of him. Possessed by the heart now beating in his chest, the Professor starts a slow, gruesome transformation. It is at this moment that Jack realizes he can't run from his past, and quickly discovers the true purpose of his inner rage.
Starring: Robert Englund, Trevor Matthews, Rachel Skarsten, David Fox, Daniel Kash
Director: Jon Knautz
I Do / Wo Yuan Yi (2012)
Comedy | Romance
Beijing, the present day. Tang Weiwei (Li Bingbing) is a well-educated, high-earning career woman who works as sales director for an image design company. Now 32, she has had only one love affair in her life, which lasted from the age of 18 to 25, and since then she has been very, very single, devoted to her career. Pragmatically deciding it is time to find a husband, her best friend Jin Xiaoling (Xu Jianing) arranges some blind dates, all of which turn out to be useless. However, during one group blind date she meets Yang Nianhua (Sun Honglei), a divorced, former owner of a publishing company, who gradually insinuates himself into becoming her confidant and friend. Weiwei is devastated to discover that Jim Wang, CEO of her company's new client, NASDAQ-listed jewellery firm Jinxiu, is in fact Wang Yang (Duan Yihong), the boyfriend who suddenly disappeared seven years ago after she'd supported him through hard times. Now Wang Yang has returned from the US to China as a wealthy businessman and is looking to patch things up with Weiwei. She, however, still can't forgive him, and Wang Yang also has to deal with the persistent Nianhua, whom Weiwei has put on a "trial period" as a potential husband.
Starring: Bingbing Li, Honglei Sun, Yihong Duan
Director: Zhou Sun
Juno (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Juno (Ellen Page) is a teen facing an unplanned pregnancy by her classmate Bleeker (Michael Cera). With the help of her best friend Leah, Juno finds her unborn child a "perfect" set of parents: an affluent suburban couple, Mark and Vanessa (Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner), longing to adopt. Though she faces some tough decisions, Juno flirts with adulthood and ultimately figures out where she belongs.
Starring: Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney
Director: Jason Reitman
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A blind man and a deaf man are mistakenly accused of murder and must work together to find the real killers.
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Starring: Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Kevin Spacey, Joan Severance, Anthony Zerbe
Director: Arthur Hiller
Arme Riddere (2011)
Action | Comedy | Crime
Terrified and bloody, Oscar Svendsen awakes clinched to a shotgun in a strippers joint. Around him 8 dead men, and police aiming at him. To Oscar it's clear that he is innocent. It all started when four chaps won 1,7 million on the pools…
Starring: Kyrre Hellum, Henrik Mestad, Marie Blokhus, Mads Ousdal, Andreas Cappelen, Arthur Berning
Director: Magnus Martens
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Galaxy Quest (1999)
Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
They're not astronauts… they only played them on TV. For four seasons, from 1979 to 1982, the crew of the N.S.E.A. Protector donned their uniforms and set out on thrilling and often dangerous missions in space–then their series was canceled. Nearly twenty years later, the five stars of the classic sci-fi series "Galaxy Quest" are still in costume, making appearances at science fiction conventions for legions of faithful fans…but some of those fans have a little too much faith. The Thermians, a race of aliens from Klatu Nebula, have mistaken intercepted television transmissions of the show for historical "documents." Arriving on earth, they wisk "Commander Peter Quincy Taggart" and his crew into space to help them defeat an all-too-real and very deadly adversary. With no script, no director and no clue about real space travel, the actors have to turn in the performances of their lives to become the heroes the Thermians believe them to be.
Starring: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman
Director: Dean Parisot
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Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a rundown theater.
Starring: Julianne Moore, Lynn Cohen, Larry Pine, Brooke Smith, Wallace Shawn
Director: Louis Malle
Le concert / The Concert (2009)
Comedy | Drama | Music
Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He decides to gather together his former musicians and to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. As a solo violin player to accompany his old Jewish or Gypsy musicians he wants Anne-Marie Jacquet, a young virtuoso. If they all overcome the hardships ahead this very special concert will be a triumph.
Starring: Aleksey Guskov, Mélanie Laurent, Dmitri Nazarov, François Berléand, Miou-Miou
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)
Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Music
Playing around while aboard a cruise ship, the Chipmunks and Chipettes accidentally go overboard and end up marooned in a tropical paradise. They discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.
Starring: Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Jason Lee, David Cross, Jenny Slate
Director: Mike Mitchell
The Artist (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods / Wickie auf großer Fahrt (2011)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family
Continuity: Near the beginning when Wickie and the Eskimo-slaves are in the slave-carriage the carriage hits a tree-root the lantern at the back of the carriage falls off. In the next shot it is back in place.
Starring: Jonas Hämmerle, Waldemar Kobus, Valeria Eisenbart, Nic Romm, Christian Koch, Olaf Krätke
Director: Christian Ditter
Vicky the Viking / Wickie und die starken Männer (2009)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family
The story of a young Viking boy who accompanies his father, the chief of their village, and his men on their adventures — and often is the person who uses his wit and instincts to help the men in their times of need.
Starring: Jonas Hämmerle, Waldemar Kobus, Nic Romm, Christian Koch, Olaf Krätke
Director: Michael Herbig
OSS 117: Lost in Rio / OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (2009)
Adventure | Comedy
Sent to Brasil to retrieve a microfilm containing the names of Frenchmen who assisted the Nazi regime, OSS 117 joins forces with sexy lieutenant Dolores to track down an underground group of escaped Nazis.
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Louise Monot, Rüdiger Vogler
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Nicostratos, le pélican (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Yannis is 14 and lives on a small Greek island that has managed to remain sauvage.Depuis death of his mother, the relationship between the group with his father, Demosthenes, has hardened. On a trip to Athens, he saves a probable death a young pelican named Nicostratos. Forced to raise it secretly to evade paternal anger, Yannis despite himself becomes a star on his island, which is transformed by tourism with this gorgeous white pelican, the largest bird in Europe! It's been a single one who is remembered for the rest of his life. Yannis will discover the love he bears his father and he never knew him testify.
Starring: Emir Kusturica, Thibault Le Guellec, François-Xavier Demaison, Jade-Rose Parker, Gennadios Patsis
Director: Olivier Horlait
Click (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
A harried workaholic, Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) doesn't have time for his wife (Kate Beckinsale) and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty (Christopher Walken), a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results. But as Michael gleefully mutes, skips and scans past his family and his friends, the remote gradually takes over his life and begins to program him, in this fast, funny and out-of-control comedy adventure.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, Henry Winkler, David Hasselhoff
Director: Frank Coraci
Bienvenue à bord (2011)
Comedy
Isabelle (Valerie Lemercier), HR of a large cruise company, made the mistake of choosing her boss as a lover. Before embarking on the maiden voyage of the new flagship of the fleet, though, he decided to disembark from their relationship! Some women take their revenge by poison, firearm, or slander. Isabelle chooses Remy (Franck Dubosc), a flamboyant, unemployed ne'er-do-well who flunked out in life on land, but after all is said and done, might have better luck at sea… She recruits him as leader of her plot and on this Palace of the Seas, Remy will first prove to be the worst nightmare of the CEO and Richard (Gerard Darmon), the Cruise Director…then, little by little, he will change his life and that of all those who cross his path…
Starring: Franck Dubosc, Valérie Lemercier, Gérard Darmon
Director: Eric Lavaine
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies / OSS 117: Le Caire, nid d'espions (2006)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
It's 1955 and OSS 117 is sent to the Egyptian capital to execute a whole shopping list of items for the French Secret Service, including investigating the death of his friend and erstwhile Cairo-based spy, controlling the Suez Canal and establishing peace in the Middle East. OSS 177 is just the man for these missions: he does not have a clue but is very lucky in getting what he wants.
Starring: Francois Damiens, Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
