Viswasam (2019)
Action | Drama
Viswasam delves into the world of Thooku Durai – a charismatic village chieftain who is beloved by his people and strikes fear in the heart of his enemies.
Starring: Ajith Kumar, Nayanthara
Director: Siva
Vinaya Vidheya Rama (2019)
Action
When the happiness of his family is held to ransom by a violent crime lord, Ram sets out on a quest to destroy his nemesis and his criminal empire.
Starring: Ram Charan, Kiara Advani, Vivek Oberoi, Prashanth, Sneha, Aryan Rajesh
Director: Boyapati Srinu
The 91st Annual Academy Awards 2019 (TV 2019)
Awards
The 91st Academy Awards, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2018. The ceremony was held on February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and produced by Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss, with Weiss also serving as director. It was the first ceremony in three decades, since the 61st Academy Awards in 1989, to be conducted with no host. In related events, the Academy held its 10th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 18, 2018. The Academy Scientific and Technical Awards were presented by host actor David Oyelowo on February 9, 2019, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Green Book won three awards, including Best Picture, and Bohemian Rhapsody won four awards, the most for the ceremony, including Best Actor for Rami Malek's portrayal of Freddie Mercury. Roma and Black Panther also received three awards, with the former winning Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón. Olivia Colman was awarded Best Actress for portraying Anne, Queen of Great Britain in The Favourite.
Starring: Ashley Graham, Maria Menounos, Elaine Welteroth, Billy Porter, Ryan Seacrest
Piercing (2018)
Horror | Thriller
A man kisses his wife and baby goodbye and seemingly heads away on business, with a plan to check into a hotel, call an escort service, and kill an unsuspecting prostitute.
Starring: Christopher Abbott, Mia Wasikowska, Laia Costa, Olivia Bond, Maria Dizzia, Marin Ireland
Director: Nicolas Pesce
Our Struggles / Nos batailles (2018)
Drama
Olivier is fighting with his comrades at work against injustices, but one night his wife Laura leaves him and the kids on 9 and 6. He must now meet another struggle and face up to his new responsibilities. Can he find a new balance?
Starring: Romain Duris, Laure Calamy, Laetitia Dosch, Lucie Debay
Director: Guillaume Senez
Girl (2018)
Drama
Lara is a 15-year-old girl, born in the body of a boy, who dreams of becoming a ballerina.
Starring: Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Oliver Bodart, Tijmen Govaerts, Katelijne Damen, Valentijn Dhaenens
Director: Lukas Dhont
O.G. (2018)
Drama
A maximum-security prison inmate named Louis, who, 24 years after committing a violent crime as a young man, finds himself on the cusp of release from prison, facing an uncertain future on the outside. He encounters Beech, a newly incarcerated young man who offers him much needed-friendship, though it's not without unfortunate complications. The younger inmate echoes of his older counterpart, stirring instincts within Louis that had long been buried beneath a tough exterior.
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, William Fichtner, Boyd Holbrook, Mare Winningham, David Patrick Kelly, Yul Vazquez, Bahni Turpin, Ryan Cutrona, Ato Essandoh, Kevin Jackson
Director: Madeleine Sackler
The Panama Papers (2018)
Documentary
A documentary feature film about the biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds of journalists who risked their lives to break the story.
Starring: Luke Harding, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer, Elijah Wood
Director: Alex Winter
Attrition (2018)
Action
When a Thai girl with mythical powers goes missing, Axe and his old team unite in attempts to bring her back.
Starring: Steven Seagal, Rudy Youngblood, Siu-Wong Fan, Vithaya Pansringarm, Kat Ingkarat, Sergey Badyuk, Kang Yu
Director: Mathieu Weschler
Ammore e malavita / Love and Bullets (2017)
Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
In order to avoid the death of the husband (the criminal boss Don Vincenzo, "King of the Fish"), Donna Maria sends her henchmen to kill a lookalike (a shoe-seller) and then she sets up a fake funeral, while the husband is hiding in a secret place. But a nurse saw Don Vincenzo alive in the hospital while he was supposed to be dead, as the TV says. To hush the witness up, Don Vincenzo orders to his best trained bodyguards, Ciro and Rosario, to find the nurse and kill her. Ciro finds the nurse: surprisingly she is Fatima, the only girl he ever loved, which he had abandoned when he began his criminal career. To save her, Ciro hides Fatima by his uncle Mimmo, and starts a bloody fight with all his clan, including his best friend Rosario.
Starring: Giampaolo Morelli, Serena Rossi, Carlo Buccirosso, Claudia Gerini
Director: Antonio Manetti, Marco Manetti
Kung Fu League / Gong fu lian meng (2018)
Action | Drama
Fei Ying Xiong, an indigent comic book artist, is romantically interested in Bao'er, but the head manager of their company, who also has a interest in Bao'er, prevents that from happening. So, he summons four legendary Kung Fu masters to learn the highest level of martial arts and help him get his girl.
Starring: Wenzhuo Zhao, Andy On, Kwok-Kwan Chan, Yu-Hang To, Ashin, Madina Memet, Jay Chou
Director: Jeffrey Lau
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy
A young girl is transported into a magical world of gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice.
Starring: Keira Knightley, Morgan Freeman, Matthew Macfadyen, Mackenzie Foy, Helen Mirren, Sergei Polunin
Director: Lasse Hallström, Joe Johnston
Paris Is Us / Paris est à nous (2019)
Drama
Anna misses the flight she should have taken to find Greg in Barcelona. The plane crashes. Taken in the vertigo of a death that has been narrowly avoided, she moves away from reality and the present. As his couple breaks up, Paris becomes the mirror of his distress.
Starring: Noémie Schmidt, Grégoire Isvarine, Marie Mottet, Lou Castel, Alexandre Schreiber
Director: Elisabeth Vogler
Paddleton (2019)
Drama
An unlikely friendship between two misfit neighbors becomes an unexpectedly emotional journey when the younger man is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Starring: Ray Romano, Mark Duplass, Christine Woods, Jen Sung, Stephen Oyoung, Bjorn Johnson
Director: Alex Lehmann
1st Summoning (2018)
Horror
Four student filmmakers set out to explore an abandoned building famous for its connection with the occult, but as their journey becomes littered with strange behavior and unexplained phenomena, it becomes clear the horror they are attempting to document may already be lurking among them.
Starring: Hayley Lovitt, Jason MacDonald, Teddy Cole, Brook Todd, Ace Harney
Director: Raymond Wood
The Laplace's Demon (2017)
Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A team of researchers have developed a system to calculate seemingly random events. A mysterious professor invites them to his remote house on a rock in the middle of the ocean. All they have to do is survive the night.
Starring: Silvano Bertolin, Ferdinando D'Urbano, Duccio Giulivi, Carlotta Mazzoncini, Simone Moscato, Walter Smorti, Simone Valeri, Alessandro Zonfrilli
Director: Giordano Giulivi
Rock & Rule / Ring of Power (1983)
Animation | Fantasy | Music | Sci-Fi
A malevolent rock star kidnaps a female singer to force her to participate in the summoning of a demon and her band must help her stop him.
Starring: Don Francks, Gregory Salata, Susan Roman, Dan Hennessey, Chris Wiggins, Catherine Gallant
Director: Clive Smith
Serenity (2019)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A fishing boat captain juggles facing his mysterious past and finding himself ensnared in a reality where nothing is what it seems.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane, Jason Clarke, Djimon Hounsou, Jeremy Strong
Director: Steven Knight
Un peuple et son roi / One Nation, One King (2018)
Drama
The intertwining fates of the historical figures, the men and the women of the 1789 French revolution, as they meet at the newly established Assemblée Nationale.
Starring: Gaspard Ulliel, Adèle Haenel, Olivier Gourmet, Louis Garrel, Izïa Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky, Céline Sallette, Denis Lavant, Johan Libéreau, Laurent Lafitte
Director: Pierre Schoeller
Le locataire / The Tenant (1976)
Drama | Thriller
A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Starring: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Shelley Winters, Lila Kedrova, Jo Van Fleet
Director: Roman Polanski
