BLACK ORPHEUS (1959)

 




















Directed by: Marcel Camus
Based on the stage play "Orfeu da Conceicao" by: Vinicius de Moraes
Starring: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Marcel Camus, Fausto Guerzoni, Lourdes de Oliveira, Lea Garcia, Adhemar da Silva, Alexandro Constantino, Waldemar De Souza, Jorge Dos Santos, Aurino Cassiano

107 minutes
(NR - adult themes)
Country of origin: Brazil

PLOT:
In the heady atmosphere of Rio's carnival, two people meet and fall in love. Eurydice, a country girl, has run away from home to avoid a man who arrived looking for her. She is convinced that he was going to kill her. She arrives in Rio to stay with her cousin Serafina. Orfeu works as a team conductor and is engaged to Mira, as far as Mira is concerned anyways. As Eurydice and Orfeu get to know one another, they fall deeply in love. Mira is mad with jealousy and when Eurydice disappears, Orfeu sets out to find her.

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BACKROOMS (2026)

 




















Directed by: Kane Parsons
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell, Avan Jogia, Robert Bobroczkyi, Krista Kosonen, Patrick Baynham, Dana Mahmood, Rhiannon Roberts, Katharine Isabelle

110 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:
After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.

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THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA (2019)

 




















Directed by: Michael Chaves
Starring: Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez, Roman Christou, Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen, Marisol Ramirez, Sean Patrick Thomas, Tony Amendola, Irene Keng, Oliver Alexander, Aiden Lewandowski, Paul Rodriguez, John Marshall Jones, Ricardo Mamood-Vega, Jaydan Valdivia

93 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, disturbing images, scenes of terror)

PLOT:
Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm.

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WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE? (2015)

 




















Directed by: Liz Garbus
Starring: Nina Simone, Lisa Simone Kelly, Roger Nupie, Al Schackman, George Wein, Stanley Crouch, Dick Gregory, Ilyasah Shabazz, Attallah Shabazz, Gerrit De Bruin, Eleanor Belinfanti, Gregory Marlow, Elisabeth Henry

101 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:
A documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist and civil rights activist labeled the "High Priestess of Soul".

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THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND (2006)

Directed by: Kevin Macdonald
Based on the non-fiction book by: Giles Foden
Starring: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Simon McBurney, Gillian Anderson, David Oyelowo, Stephen Rwangyezi, Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga, Adam Kotz, David Ashton, Barbara Rafferty, Sam Okelo, Sarah Nagayi, Chris Wilson, Apollo Okwenje Omamo, Louis Asea, Joanitta Bewulira-Wandera, Consodyne Buzabo, Shabir Mir, Cleopatra Koheirwe, Michael Wawuyo, Martina Amati, Angela Kalule

123 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, disturbing images)

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Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.

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TERMINATOR - DARK FATE (2019)

 




















Directed by: Tim Miller
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna, Diego Boneta, Tristan Ulloa, Alicia Borrachero, Manuel Pacific, Enrique Arce, Fraser James, Tom Hopper, Stuart McQuarrie, Steven Cree, Georgia Simon, Stephanie Gil

128 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, intense action sequences)

PLOT:
An augmented human and Sarah Connor must stop an advanced liquid Terminator from hunting down a young girl, whose fate is critical to the human race.

FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982)

Directed by: Amy Heckerling
Based on the book "Fast Times at Ridgemont High - A True Story" by: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Brian Backer, Robert Romanus, Ray Walston, Scott Thomson, Vincent Schiavelli, Amanda Wyss, D.W. Brown, Forest Whitaker, Kelli Maroney, Tom Nolan, Blair Ashleigh, Eric Stoltz, Stanley Davis Jr, James Russo, James Bershad, Nicolas Cage, Reginald H. Farmer, Anthony Edwards, Pamela Springsteen, Stuart Cornfeld, Michael Wyle, Sonny Carl Davis, David E. Price, Patrick Brennan, Stu Nahan, Duane Tucker, Martin Brest, Taylor Negron, Nancy Wilson, Ellen Fenwick, Lana Clarkson, Roy Holmer Wallac, Jason Bernard, Hallie Todd

90 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, sexual situations, nudity, drug use)

PLOT:
A group of Southern California high school students ignore their studies in favor of indulging in their teenage distractions.

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