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Afr.S. 2024. Drama by Embeth Davidtz with Embeth Davidtz, Lexi Venter, Zikhona Bali. In the late 1970s in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the experiences of a white farmer's young daughter in the final hours of the war of independence.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 2023. Mores drama by Anna Kendrick with Anna Kendrick, Daniel Zovatto, Max Lloyd-Jones. In the 1970s, a contestant on a dating game show realizes that a serial killer has crept in among her three suitors.
Runtime: 89 min.
14A
U.S. 2024. Thriller by Zoë Kravitz with Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Alia Shawkat. While enjoying a peaceful vacation on a tech billionaire's private island, a young waitress is confronted with a very strange reality.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 2021. Drama by Maggie Gyllenhaal with Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson. While vacationing on vacation on a Greek island, a lonely literature professor meets a young mother who painstakingly reminds her of her younger self.
Runtime: 121 min.
U.S. 2020. Drama by Regina King with Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge. In 1965 Miami, activist Malcolm X summons boxer Cassius Clay, singer Sam Cooke, and football player Jim Brown to his hotel room.
Runtime: 114 min.
U.S. 2019. Comedy by Olivia Wilde with Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams. On the eve of graduation, two studious students decide to put their books aside to party.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 2018. Musical drama by Bradley Cooper with Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Sam Elliott. An alcoholic rock singer is replaced by his new wife, a talented songwriter with a powerful voice.
Runtime: 136 min.
U.S. 2017. Comedy by Greta Gerwig with Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts. A spirited student from a modest Sacramento family refuses to give up her dream of getting into a top East Coast university.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 2017. Thriller by Jordan Peele with Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford. While visiting his white girlfriend’s supposedly liberal parents, an African-American photographer becomes concerned about the presence of black employees who behave strangely.
Runtime: 104 min.
14A
U.S. 2012. Mores comedy by Joseph Gordon-Levitt with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore. A sex addict who has a string of one-night stands but prefers to relieve himself by looking at pornographic sites makes a bet for true love with a controlling upstart.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 2007. Crime drama by Ben Affleck with Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman. A young private investigator and his wife investigate the disappearance of a little girl from the poor Boston neighbourhood where they were born.
Runtime: 114 min.
Can. 2006. Sentimental drama by Sarah Polley with Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis. A woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease forgets her husband and their love.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 2002. Dramatic comedy by George Clooney with George Clooney, Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore. A game show producer and host works for the CIA as an assassin at the same time.
Runtime: 113 min.
U.S. 1996. Dramatic comedy by Tom Hanks with Tom Hanks, Tom Everett Scott, Steve Zahn.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 1993. Mores drama by Robert De Niro with Robert De Niro, Lillo Brancato, Chazz Palminteri. Raised by an honest bus driver, a boy from the Bronx is befriended by a local mobster.
Runtime: 121 min.
U.S. 1993. Melodrama by Mel Gibson with Mel Gibson, Nick Stahl, Margaret Whitton. Feeling rejected by his own people, a boy befriends a horribly disfigured teacher who lives like a loner.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 1991. Dramatic comedy by Jodie Foster with Jodie Foster, Adam Hann-Byrd, Dianne Wiest. On the advice of a psychologist, a young single waitress enrolls her seven-year-old son who is a prodigy in an institute for young geniuses.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 1990. Western by Kevin Costner with Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Mary McDonnell. In 1863, a soldier settles alone in a Sioux territory and gradually befriends the Natives.
Runtime: 181 min.
G.-B. 1989. History by Kenneth Branagh with Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Paul Scofield. A portrayal of the military campaign undertaken by the king of England Henry V to support his claims to the crown of France.
Runtime: 135 min.
U.S. 1983. Musical drama by Barbra Streisand with Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving. At the beginning of the twentieth century, a young Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to pursue her studies.
Runtime: 134 min.
U.S. 1980. Psychological drama by Robert Redford with Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton.
Runtime: 126 min.
U.S. 1971. Thriller by Clint Eastwood with Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills. A radio talk show host struggles with an unstable fan.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1969. Mores drama by Dennis Hopper with Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson. The meetings and experiences of two bikers who leave California to go to New Orleans.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1955. Thriller by Charles Laughton with Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish. A fanatical preacher terrorizes children in order to take their fortune.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1941. Mores drama by Orson Welles with Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore. A journalist investigates the private life of a deceased millionaire.
Runtime: 116 min.
14A

A Brother's Love

V.O.: La Femme de mon frère
Can. 2019. Dramatic comedy by Monia Chokri with Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Patrick Hivon, Evelyne Brochu. A doctoral student in philosophy, who has a codependent relationship with her psychologist brother, is distraught when he falls in love with a gynecologist.
Runtime: 117 min.
Can. 2016. Psychological drama by Yan England with Antoine Olivier Pilon, Lou-Pascal Tremblay, Sophie Nélisse. A bullied teenager decides to beat his main opponent on his own turf, by joining their school
Runtime: 105 min.
Can. 2012. Documentary by Brigitte Poupart. Under the director's eye, Quebec choreographer Dave St-Pierre, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, goes about his artistic projects while waiting for a lung transplant.
Runtime: 80 min.

I Killed My Mother

V.O.: J'ai tué ma mère
Can. 2009. Dramatic comedy by Xavier Dolan with Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément. The hard road to adulthood of a precious teenager at odds with his mother, an unusual woman who raised him alone.
Runtime: 110 min.

The Handyman

V.O.: L'Homme à tout faire
Runtime: 99 min.
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