For many centuries two competing races of extraterrestrial robots — the intrepid Autobots commanded by the Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen) and the evil Decepticons led by the Megatron (voiced by Hugo Weaving) – have been waging a war in which the fate of the Universe was at stake. Now, they have arrived on Earth to find the Allspark, a mystical cube which grants unlimited power. The intergalactic battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons heats up when the latter assault a U.S. military base in Qatar. The last hope for humanity's survival is a young earthman, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), who unexpectedly stumbles across the powerful cube.
This nail-biting thriller tells the story of Egyptian-born chemical engineer Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally) who has lived in the U.S. since he was 14, and is now married to Isabella (Reese Witherspoon). While returning home from a business trip to South Africa, he finds himself apprehended on suspicion of involvement in the terrorist act and transported to a secret detention facility in North Africa where he is brutally tortured. Unaware what's happened to him, his pregnant wife enlists her former college boyfriend Alan Smith (Peter Sarsgaard), a senator’s assistant, to help to track Anwar down.
Based on the popular video game series of the same name, the action-packed crime thriller follows Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant), a cold-blooded highly trained hitman who is hired by a group known only as 'The Organization' to assassinate Russian president Mikhail Belicoff (Ulrich Thomsen). But the hunter becomes the hunted when he unexpectedly finds himself involved in political intrigue. Pursued by both Interpol and Russian military officers, Agent 47 goes on the run across Eastern Europe to figure out who has betrayed him and why.
Based on Ron Hansen's novel, this action-packed western drama tells the story of Robert Ford (Casey Affleck), a seemingly insecure and quiet young man who has grown up worshiping America's most notorious outlaw, Jesse James (Brad Pitt). In 1881, he finds James and his older brother Frank (Sam Shepard) in Missouri and joins their gang for a final train robbery. One day the ambitious yet cowardly cowboy wants the fame that Jesse James gets and ventures to murder his idol.
When a four-year-old girl, Amanda McCready (Madeline O'Brien), goes mysteriously missing in Dochester, one of Boston's toughest neighborhoods, and the local police fail to solve the case, her aunt, Beatrice McCready (Amy Madigan), turn to two private investigators for help. Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan) reluctantly start an investigation as they have little experience with this type of case. But they succeed in getting on the trail of the girl's abductors due to criminal contacts. They discover that Amanda's drug-addicted mother, Helen (Amy Ryan), and her boyfriend cleaned out one of the local drug dealers who in revenge kidnapped the kid. They promise to pay him back in exchange for the girl; however, the switch goes horribly awry. Patrick and Angie come to realize that they have taken on the perilous job but their professional arrogance forces them to see it through.
Brooklyn, New York City, 1988, drug trade is thriving. Joseph (Mark Wahlberg) and Bobby Grusinsky (Joaquin Phoenix) are two brothers whose life paths split, one of them having become a good cop, following their father's steps, the other - a nightclub owner. Bobby wastes his nights on smoking, drinking, gambling and having fun with his girlfriend Amada (Eva Mendes) while Joseph is pursuing a Russian thug, Vadim (Alex Veadov).
This action-packed suspense thriller chronicles four very pivotal days in the life of Michael Clayton (George Clooney), an attorney who works as a fixer at one of the largest and most powerful New York City law firms. For 13 years he has been cleaning up messy situations for substantial clientele of the firm. Despite being burned-out and disgusted with his depraved clients, Clayton keeps doing his job to pay off his addicted brother's immense debt and his own one. Moreover, he experiences midlife crisis caused by his divorce and a failed personal business. To make matters worse, he is assigned to track down his former mentor, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson), the firm's top litigator who has a nervous breakdown while defending a shady agrochemical company from a complicated multi-million dollar class action suit. Clayton is faced with a moral dilemma of whether to help his partner or to capture him.
A biographic film. Based on the memoir Touching From A Distance by Deborah Curtis, Control is a cinematographic story telling us of the Joy Division band and its leader Ian Curtis (Sam Riley). It is also a skillfully and beautifully featured film about ravaging effects of love, fame and repentance, and the salvation we turn to art for. Formed as a rock band in 1976 in salford, Greater Manchester, originally named Warsaw, Joy Division quickly went off their initial punk rock influences and created a sound and style that shaped the tendencies of the post-punk movement of the late 1970s. Control, however, is virtually about Curtis’s difficult relationships with his wife Deborah (Samantha Morton) and the way his personal pain, epileptic sufferings, guilt and depression got manifested through Joy Division’s music. Playing all the instruments themselves, the actors must be given credit.
Three brothers - Peter (Adrien Brody), Jack (Jason Schwartzman) and Francis (Owen Wilson) – residents of the USA, all of them a kind of drug-addicted and more or less depressed, have not been in touch for a year and are now (after they learn about the accidental death of their father) trying to reunite the family bonds. So they set off on a train voyage across India and... eventually find themselves moneyless in the middle of the desert with eleven suitcases, a printer, and a laminating machine. From here for them starts a new, unplanned and totally unpredictable journey.
Rachel Wilcox (Lindsay Lohan) behaves like a typical teenage girl. She flaunts her sexuality, drinks and smokes, uses profanity and is rude to her weak-willed, long-suffering alcoholic mother, Lilly (Felicity Huffman). But the last straw comes when Rachel borrows the family car without permission and causes an accident. What can Lilly do with the regular hoodlum? She determines that the only means to tame her impulsive and uncontrollable daughter is to send her to spend a summer with her rigid, rule-obsessed grandmother, Georgia (Jane Fonda), who lives in a wretched, god-forsaken hole in Idaho.
David Cronenberg's thriller is set in London where Anna Khitrova (Naomi Watts), a regular midwife living with her aunt and uncle Stepan, a man of Eastern European origin, tries to help a child whose mother, a young Russian immigrant, died in childbed. She finds the girl's diary and asks her uncle Stepan to translate it. She also finds the Trans-Siberian restaurant card inside the diary and visits Semyon, its owner, to trace the baby's relatives. Semyon shows much interest in the diary too, because being the head of a Russian mafia brotherhood it was he who made the child's mother a sex slave. His son Kirill (Vincent Cassel) is to become Semyon's successor, but there is Nikolai Luzhin (Viggo Mortensen), the mafia's driver and killer with great veiled ambitions who seems waiting for the moment to take the whole power in his own hands. Anna has known too much about the criminals, the baby is in great danger and Nikolai has to play the double game to protect them and at the same time to get benefit from the situation.
Audrey Burke (Halle Berry) thinks her life has no sense since she lost the beloved husband who has been killed. To find some strength to live and bring up her two kids Audrey invites her husband's friend Jerry (Benicio Del Toro), who is addicted to drugs, to occupy a room in her house. The two lonely suffering souls try to meet the support among each other.
Royce (Wes Bentley) and Dexter (Scott Speedman) are two drug addicts living in the small town of Weedsville. One night Matilda (Taryn Manning), Royce's girlfriend, tastes their dope and gets overdosed accidently. Considering she's dead, they decide to bury her body in a deserted town theatre but suddenly the place turns out to be less empty than they thought. They stumble on a secret frightening ritual of the Satanists and have to escape.
In this drama, two men collide through the urge to revenge, fear and anger. Ethan (Joaquin Phoenix) lost his 10-year-old son Josh (Sean Curley), a talented musician, who died in a horrible car accident at a gas station when the whole family was on the way home from Josh's concert; Ethan was the only witness of the tragedy and now he starts searching for the driver who killed the boy. This luckless driver is Dwight Arno (Mark Ruffalo), a happy father of an 11-year-old son himself.
In this unconventional Christmas movie Angela Bridges (Rachel Nichols), an ambitious executive, stays in an empty office building till night on Christmas Eve. When she hurries home and goes down to the parking level P2, her car doesn't start and the office guard offers her some help but can't fix the problem either. Though, it was he who broke the car and worked out a paranoiac plan of catching Angela.
In the late 16th century, the British Empire faces a real threat: Spanish King Phillip II sends the greatest amount of ships, the Spanish Armada, to the British Isles. Queen Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) is torn into pieces: on the one hand, she must lead her country and prepare people for defense; on the other hand, she must cope with her own feelings firstly because she falls in love with Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen) who is likely to leave Britain and set up for a long travelling.
Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a man who made high school hell for generations of students.
With the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth in 2006, NIGHTWATCHING is truly a feast for the senses. Extravagant, suspenseful and sensuously beautiful, the mystery behind the extraordinary artist's infamous painting is perfectly explored by one of the most iconic Directors of our time - Peter Greenaway. The year 1642 marks the turning point in the life of the famous Dutch painter, Rembrandt, turning him from a wealthy respected celebrity into a discredited pauper. At the insistence of his pregnant wife Saskia, Rembrandt has reluctantly agreed to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later become to be known as The Nightwatch. He soon discovers that there is a conspiracy afoot with the Amsterdam merchants playing at soldiers maneuvering for financial advantage and personal power in, that time, the richest city in the Western World. Rembrandt stumbles on a foul murder. Confident in the birth of a longed-for son and heir, Rembrandt is determined to expose the conspiring murderers and builds his accusation meticulously in the form of the commissioned painting, uncovering the seamy and hypocritical side to Dutch Society in the Golden Age. Rembrandt's great good fortune turns. Saskia dies. Rembrandt reveals the accusation of murder in the painting and the conspirators plan revenge. They set out to discredit him at home and abroad. They plant a treacherous mistress, Geertje, to seduce him. They try to blind him. They plan his social and financial ruin, and to create the circumstances for his slide into penury, insult his young mistress Hendrickje, conspire to destroy his son, and bring Rembrandt to his knees. The bold and courageous painting of the Nightwatch, exceptional in aesthetics and content, is Rembrandt's most celebrated painting, it consolidated his reputation as a master-painter but it also destroyed him socially and financially.
Brick Lane is a long street in the East End of London. Today, it is the heart of the city's Sylheti Bangladeshi community, known as sometimes as Banglatown.
This charming film is the story of Nazneen (Chatterjee), a Bangladeshi woman living in London - where was sent to at the age of seventeen - with her husband Chanu (Kaushik) and their two daughters Shahana (Begum) and Bibi (Rahman). Married to a man much older than herself and whom she had never seen before their marriage, she longs for her home and her beloved sister. Seeking for a at least a bit of freedom, Nazneen talks her husband into giving her permission to sew for a local businessman, and that is how Karim (Sampson) enters her life. However choices are still difficult here...
