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APACHE

Apache Blood

Telling the story of his early life in flashback, a former prospector (Joel McCrea, with flashback sequences featuring son Jody) explains his brutal massacre of a tribe of Indians. The only survivor (Marie Gahua) agrees to lead him to a secret gold mine.


CATS

Shorts for Cats

USA (2008) Duel - A lone soldier stumbles upon an altercation forever changing their lives; No Menus Please - Ming and Carlos are two immigrant who embrace an ingenious solution while competing to distribute restaurant menus. When Ming learns that competition is tough, and his job is in jeopardy, he must break the truce to keep the American Dream alive.; The Big Break - An Actress's plan to sleep her way to the top swerves off course when she mistakes an inexperienced member of the Mafia for the powerful producer he was sent to kill. Competition arises when she realizes the hit man may have acting ambitions of his own.; The Fight - A talented painter chooses between painting and fighting; Little Wings - An abused boy is befriended by a kind stranger on the path to "joy".; Don't Leave Me - A psychological drama with a twist.


RAMCHAND

Ramchand Pakistani

Based on a true story about an 8 year old Pakistani Hindu boy and his father who accidentally cross the border into India.


MOULIN ROUGE (1952)

Moulin Rouge is the story of 19th century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, portrayed by José Ferrer. The film records his frustration over his physical handicap (the growth in his legs was stunted by a childhood accident), his efforts to "lose" himself in Paris' bawdy Montmartre district, and his career as a painter, which brought him money only when he turned out advertising posters--but what posters! Toulouse-Lautrec's drinking and debauchery lead to his early death, which in the hands of director John Huston is staged (brilliantly) in the manner of a musical comedy finale. This is the film in which Zsa Zsa Gabor actually acts, in the role of demimonde entertainer Jane Avril. As a bonus, the film's musical score (by Georges Auric) managed to hit the Top Ten charts in the U.S. When this immensely successful film was released to television in the late '50s, Moulin Rouge proved to be one of the strongest-ever incentives to purchase a color TV set.


DEVIL

Devil In A Blue Dress

Denzel Washington stars in this adaptation of the novel by African-American crime author Walter Mosley, the first of his stories to reach the screen. Ezekiel Rawlins (Washington), known to his friends as "Easy," has just lost his job at an aircraft plant in post-WW II Los Angeles, a time when good-paying jobs for black men are hard to come by. He's wondering how to make his mortgage payment when he's approached by De Witt Albright (Tom Sizemore), who describes his job as "doing favors for friends." It seems that a woman named Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals) has gone missing; Daphne is the former girlfriend of wealthy mayoral candidate Todd Carter (Terry Kinney) and a known habitué of the black jazz clubs and night spots on L.A.'s Central Avenue. Albright offers Easy $100 to help him find Daphne, and while he doesn't have any detective experience, the price is right, so Easy agrees. After a passionate affair with a friend of Daphne's, Coretta James (Lisa Nicole Carson), leads to that woman's murder, Easy enlists the help of his friend Mouse (Don Cheadle), who seems to know just a bit too well how to use a gun, which gives Easy all too clear a look at the lower depths of L.A.'s upper crust.


BROTHER

The Brother From Another Planet

Filmmaker John Sayles' first bonafide box-office success, Brother from Another Planet centers on a black escaped slave from a faraway planet (Joe Morton) who finds himself on the mean streets Harlem. Though the locals are put off by the slave's inability to speak, they are won over by his technical wizardry. He is adopted as a "brother" by his new friends, who protect him from pursuing white aliens played by director Sayles and David Strathairn.


HARDCORE

Hardcore

"Oh my God, that's my daughter." So read the advertising copy of Hardcore. George C. Scott plays Jake Van Dorn, a man of means and conservative values who discovers that his precious daughter is appearing in X-rated films. Desperately making his way through the sub-rosa world of pornography, Van Dorn talks to pimps, prostitutes, and other such sterling individuals in hopes of locating his daughter and dragging her home. At one point, he falsely advertises himself as a porn producer in hopes that his little girl will show up for an interview.


SIN

Sin in the suburbs

A lonely woman begins making new friends a little too easily in this mix of sex and sleaze from director Joe Sarno. Geraldine Lewis (Audrey Campbell) is a seemingly happy housewife who is married to a successful businessman and is raising a pretty teenaged daughter, Kathy (Alice Linville). However, Geraldine's hubby seems to be more interested in work than in keeping the home fires burning, and lately Kathy would rather spend time with her boyfriend than her mom. Bored and lonely, Geraldine begins spending more and more time with her decadent, man-hungry friend down the street, and eventually Kathy comes home one day to find her mother in the arms of another man. Before long, Geraldine meets mysterious Yvette Tallman (Dyanne Thorne) and her sinister brother, Lou (W.B. Parker), who are the leaders of a suburban mate-swapping ring, and she succumbs to the temptations of illicit sex, though her adventures in infidelity soon lead her to a shocking discovery. Sin in the Suburbs marked a rare onscreen meeting between two iconic stars of 1960s sexploitation films -- Audrey Campbell, of the notorious Olga's House of Shame, and Dyanne Thorne, who went on to the infamous Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS.


FOREIGN

Foreign Ghosts

http://viewster.com - watch MORE free movies on http://www.viewster.com A trilogy of interrelated stories about three young immigrant women in Montreal. May Li's mother arrives from China to live with her with preconceived ideas about all non-Chinese people. But after being rescued from a snowstorm by a black man she is forced to rethink her beliefs. Then there's Pepe, Anna's boyfriend, a hopeless womanizer who operates under a false identity. Tanya, a beautiful woman from the Dominican Republic, waits tables in a coffee bar hiding away from a disturbing, secret past. Their stories of pride, hope, fear, and desire collide in the melting pot of this big city.


END

The End of the Affair

Based on the novel by Graham Greene, this romantic drama stars Ralph Fiennes as Maurice Bendrix, a novelist who, during World War II, had an affair with Sarah Miles (Julianne Moore), the wife of his best friend Henry (Stephen Rea). Sarah abruptly broke off the romance in 1944, but two years later, after Maurice runs into Henry, he becomes obsessed with the affair and hires a man to investigate Sarah. He reads her diary of their forbidden romance in the midst of the London Blitz and discovers that, overwhelmed with fear and guilt, she pledged to God that she would end the affair if Maurice's life were spared. Maurice is determined to reintroduce himself into Sarah's life, but she fears that being near him would be too great a temptation. The End of the Affair was previously brought to the screen in 1955 by Edward Dmytryk; this version was written for the screen and directed by Academy Award-winner Neil Jordan.


PASSENGERS

Passengers

A grief counselor (Anne Hathaway) begins to suspect foul play when the six airplane crash survivors she is tending to mysteriously begin to disappear and the truth behind the tragedy grows ever more clouded in Nine Lives director Rodrigo García's conspiratorial supernatural thriller.


SUSPICION

Under Suspicion

When a powerful man is accused of murder, who tells the truth -- the man, or his estranged wife? Henry Hearst (Gene Hackman), an American attorney living in Puerto Rico, is called in to speak with police detective Victor Benezet (Morgan Freeman). A few days earlier, Hearst reported finding the body of a 12-year-old girl while taking his dog for a walk; however, investigators now believe that Hearst may have had a greater involvement in the crime than he's admitting. Under intense questioning by a confident young cop named Owens (Thomas Jane) and gentler but firm interrogation from Benezet, several cracks begin to appear in Hearst's story, but he's able to persuade the police to allow him to leave long enough to take part in a fund-raising function he'd promised to attend. However, upon his return, Hearst discovers that Benezet and Owens have been questioning someone else -- his wife Chantal (Monica Bellucci), who has been on poor terms with her husband for some time. Under Suspicion was based on the novel Brainwash by John Wainwright, which was previously filmed by French director Claude Miller as Garde a vue.


MEMORIES

Memories In March

This National Award winning film under the category Best English Film 2010 written by and starring internationally renowned director Ritupano Ghosh depicts the story of a bereaved mother, dumbstruck by the news of an accidental death of her 28-year-old son, who comes to Kolkata to carry out the last rituals and carry his belongings back to Delhi. Her three-day stay in Kolkata in her dead son's apartment laden with memories and her interaction with his office colleagues makes her realise that the ownership of her son's belongings, tangible or otherwise, which she claimed to be exclusively hers, is actually ubiquitous, distribution among all his friends and acquientances - so much so that it can't be packed and moved away. She also realises that she had been inhabiting their hearts and thoughts much before destiny brought them together. Won National Award for Best English Film 2010 Directed by: Sanjoy Nag Written by: Rituparno Ghosh Starring: Raima Sen, Deepti Naval and Rituparno Ghosh. Produced by Shree Venkatesh Films. Music by Debajyoti Mishra


LONELY

In a Lonely Place

A haunting work of stark confessionalism disguised as a taut noir thriller, In a Lonely Place -- Nicholas Ray's bleak, desperate tale of fear and self-loathing in Hollywood -- remains one of the filmmaker's greatest and most deeply resonant features. It stars Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele, a fading screenwriter suffering from creative burnout; hired to adapt a best-selling novel, instead of reading the book itself he asks the hat-check girl (Martha Stewart) at his favorite nightclub to simply tell him the plot. The morning after, the girl is found brutally murdered, and Steele is the police's prime suspect; however, the would-be starlet across the way, Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame), provides him with a solid alibi, and they soon begin a romance in spite of Gray's lingering concerns that the troubled, violent Steele might just be a killer after all. During production, Ray's real-life marriage to co-star Grahame began to crumble, and his own vulnerability and disillusionment clearly inform the picture; the brooding, bitter Steele -- a role ideally suited to Bogart's wounded romanticism -- is plainly a doppelganger for Ray himself (the site of his first Hollywood apartment is even employed as the set for Steele's home), and the film's unflinching examination of the character's disintegration makes for uniquely compelling viewing.