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"New York Times opinion writer and best-selling author Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger, where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence. In Shit, Actually, Lindy returns to those roots, reexamining beloved and iconic movies from the past 40 years with an eye toward the big questions of our time: Is Twilight the horniest movie in history? Why do the zebras in The Lion...

Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentine family and follows them to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. The family welcomes the doctor into their home and entrusts their young daughter to his care, unaware that he is a notorious war criminal. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring "the German doctor" to justice.

Cinema devotee Mort Rifkin accompanies his publicist wife Sue to the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, worried that her fascination with her young film director client, Philippe, might be more than professional. In addition, Mort hopes the change of scenery will provide a respite from his struggle to write a first novel that lives up to his impossibly exacting standards.

Based on the true story of The Bell Witch of Tennesee. In 1818, slight, unexplained noises were heard. As the spirit grew, it singled out the father, John, and his daughter, Betsy. The family tried to search for the cause of the spirit in the hope of finding a way to defeat it. The spirit developed voices and began speaking to the family, but refused to say why it was there. Finally it pronounced a death sentence on John and within a year, he was...

"Carcel de carne" is a documentary by Mexican director Roque Azcuaga Varela, posing difficulties disease "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis". Illustrates the brightest moments of several people with this rare disease.

Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, the bride emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback ... with a vengeance. Having been gunned down by her former boss and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight. She didn't start this deadly series of events, but she is determined to finish the business.

Papa Panda and Little Pan-Chan just escaped from the zoo will meet Mimiko, and stay to live with her in her house surrounded by a beautiful bamboo forest together now form a new family and live many adventures.

"Eric es contratado como el nuevo director de orquesta de la Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México y se muda a la ciudad con Carolina, su mujer. Todo es perfecto hasta que un día ella desaparece. Eric, sumido en el doolor por el aparente abandono de Carolina, conoce a Fabiana, la camarera de un bar que suele frecuentar. Comienzan una relación llena de misterio, sexo y pasión, pero Fabiana se hace preguntas sobre la misteriosa desaparición de Carolina."...

Daniela, a nineteen-year-old girl with braces achieves what she always dreamed of, but never imagined: a date with the man of her dreams (and that of many other girls), the irresistible, famous, God of music, Gabo Gabeau.

After the death of his mother, Lucas, a loner who lives in a rundown home with his brother Tom, regularly seeks solace in the nearby woods. With his only "friends" being a group of female bullies, he keeps to himself most of the time. But, after a strange encounter with an inhuman monster, Lucas begins to withdraw from others. When the two reach a tentative trust, a bizarre friendship is born, and Lucas is swept up in a series of primal adventures....