Exorcismus

Title: Exorcismus

Genre: Horror

Directed by Manuel Carballo.

Script: David Muñoz

Stars: Sophie Vevasseur, Stephen Billington, Lazzaro Oertli, Richard Felix, Jo anne Stockham, Douglas Bradley, Tommy Bastow, Isamaya French, Emma Reynolds, Claudia Costas…

Nationality: Spain

STORYLINE

Emma is tired of studying at home instead of going to school. She is tired of baby-sitting her little brother and she is tires of his parents too.

Emma’s parents are overprotective, agnostics and too strict with their children’s education. It is just for that that Emma wants a different life; she wants to be free…

Inexplicably, Emma begins to suffer strange attacks. Her parents attributed these attacks to psychological problems, but she knows that these attacks have a very different origin. Emma knows that something terrible is inside her. Emma wanted to be free… There are some things that are best don’t desire ever.

The Tourist

Title: The Tourist

Genre: Thriller

Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Script: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Christopher McQuarri, Julian Feloowes

Stars: Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton, Steven Berkoff, Rufus Sewell, Christian De Sica.

Nationality: USA, France

STORYLINE

This movie is a remake of the French thriller Anthony Zimmer. (2005)

Frank (Johnny Depp), during an improvised trip to Europe for repair his broken heart, is unexpectedly flirting with Elise (Angelina Jolie). Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses in his way.

Paris and Venice are the fantastic and stunning background where both fall in love while they find themselves in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Gulliver's Travels

Title: Gulliver’s Travels

Directed by Rob Letterman

Producted by: Gavin Bocquet

Country: USA

Genre:  Comedy, adventures

Script: Joe Stillman, Nicholas Stoller

STORYLINE

Lemuel Gulliver is a writer who works like an email dealer in an important newspaper of New York. He dreams with become a travel editor. It is just for this that he decides to embark in an adventure towards The Bermuda Triangle. But, a horrible storm will drag him at a lost island, Liliput, which is habited by very small persons. The Giant Gulliver becomes an inspiration for his tiny friends. Gulliver must reach an agreement with his own flaws to finally leave his own little world while he leads to the Lilliputians to a victory over the nearby enemy island, fighting versus a mechanical giant.

Little Fockers

Title: Little Fockers

Directed by Paul Weitz

Country: USA

Genre: Comedy

Script: John Hamburg, Larry Stuckey

Stars: Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson

STORYLINE

This movie is the third part of a series of films called: Meet the parents (2000) Meet the Fockers (2004). Ten years later of the last film, Greg (Ben Stiller) achieves the confidence of his exigent father-in-law Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro). Greg applies for a job in a pharmaceutical company because of the bad economic situation that he and his family are passing. However the misgivings of Jack return towards his favorite nurse. Jack must demonstrate to the skeptic Jack that he is totally able to be the man of the house. But, with all the misunderstandings, the spy and the secret missions, will the circle of confidence be break up forever? or probably, Greg could pass the final exam oh Jack and became the next patriarch?

Three Meter Above the Sky

Title: Three Meters Above the Sky

Original title: 3 metros sobre el cielo.

Genre: drama

Directed by Fernando González Molina

Script: Ramón Salazar

Stars: Mario Casas, María Valverde, Álvaro Cervantes, Marina Salas, Pablo Rivero, Diego Martín, Luis Fernández

Nationality: Spain

STORYLINE

Baby is a young girl from a good family. She has been educated in innocence and goodness and always into the rules. Hache is a rebellious, impulsive boy. His lifestyle consists in the risk. He loves the illegal motorcycle races. They both are from opposite words, but they will live a wonderful impossible love which will drag them in a feeling’s spiral. At this situation, can you feel that you are flying three meters above the sky?

Tron Legacy

Title: Tron Legacy

Genre: Action, science-fiction

Directed by Joseph Kosinski

Script: Steven Lisberger

Actors: Olivia Wilde, John Hurt, Jeff Bridges.

Nationality: USA

STORYLINE

This movie is the second part of Tron. Tron is a high-technology adventure in 3D. It is placed in somewhere in a digital world. It doesn’t seem anything seen before in the screen. Sam Flynn (Garret Hedlund) is an expert on technology; he is Kevin Flynn’s son. When he investigated the disappearance of his father, he entered in the same world of violent programs and war games where his father has been living for 25 years. They both live an adventure of live or death through a cyber-universe that is becoming more and more dangerous, along their loyal confident.

Black Lightning

Original title: Balada triste de trompeta

Title: Black Lightning.

Genre: Comedy

Directed by Álex de La Iglesia

Script: Álex de La Iglesia

Actors: Antonio de la Torre, Sancho Gracia, Juan Luis Galiardo, Enrique Villén, Santiago Segura, Fernando Guillén Cuervo.

Nationality: Spain

1937. The monkeys stay in their cages while, outdoors, men are killing themselves in another circus: the Spanish Civil War. The silliest clown in the circus was forcibly recruited by militants. He perpetrates a butcher with a machete among the ranks of the National Bann without taking off his costume. Just like that, Javier and Sergio who were two terrifying and disfigured clowns, face the death by the ambiguous love of a dancer during the era of Franco.

Burlesque

Title: Burlesque

Genre: Music

Directed by Steven Antin

Script: Susannah Grant, Steven Antin, Keith Merryman.

Actors: Christina Aguilera, Kristen Bell, Cam Gigandet, Eric Dane, Stanley Tucci, Cher, Alan Cumming, Peter Gallagher.

Nationality: USA

STORYLINE

Ali (Christina Aguilera) is a girl who manages to escape of her life for pursuing her dreams in Los Angeles. She applies for a job in Burlesque Lounge. She works as a waitress. At this place, he met Tess (Cher). Thanks her friendships, he gets to the stage where her great voice can restore the majesty of Burlesque Lounge.

Home for Christmas

Title: Home for Christmas

Genre: Comedy

Directed by Ben Hamer

Script: Ben Hamer

Actors:  Arianit Berisha, Sany Lesmeister, Nadja Soukup, Nina Zanjani, Igor Necemer, Trond Fausa Aurvag, Fridtjov Saheim, Morten Ilseng Risnes, Sarah Bintu Sakor, Issaka Sawadogo, Joachim Calmeyer, Reidar Sorensen, Nina Andresen-Borud

Country: Norway

STORYLINE

Several characters are living in the little town of Skigli (Norway). These characters intersect their lives. They represent a wide range of ages and social classes, mixing humor with tragedy, despair, tenderness. They are open to forgiveness and hope. The different histories explore love at different ages and in all its phases, from birth to death

Biutiful

Title: Biutiful

Genre: Drama

Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu

Script: Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Armando Bo

Stars: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez and Hanaa Bouchaib

Country: Mexico

STORYLINE

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with another world, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two kids. He feels the danger of death. He struggle against a harsh reality and a destiny that goes against him in order to forgive.

Bruc

Title: Bruc

Genre: Adventures

Directed by Daniel Benmayor

Script: Patxi Amézcua, Jordi Gasull

Stars: Juan José Ballesta, Vincent Perez, Santi Millán, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Nicolas Giraus, Moussa Maskri, Jerome Le Banner, Francesc Albiol, Marcel Borrás, Albert Vidal, Justin  Blanckaert.

Nacionality: Spain

STORYLINE

When the Napoleon’s army discovers that their first defeat was caused by a mountain boy, a coal who caused panic among his troops, send six thousand battle-hardened mercenaries on a mission: catch Napoleon in the Montserrat’s mountains and cut his head. He wanted hang her head on the pace of the town. After killing their loved ones and frighten all the people with threats, they start looking for him in the Montserrat’s mountains.

                Bruc (Juan José Ballesta) must fight alone for the first time to keep alive and to avenge his family. He becomes in a symbol of liberty and hope for his country that differences him in a hero who got defeated the invincible army of Napoleon Bonaparte. 

The King's Speech

Title: The King’s Speech

Genre: Historic drama

Directed by Tom Hooker

Script: David Seidler

Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonhman, Jennifer Ehle, Guy Pearce, Derek Jacobi, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon, Anthony Andrews.

Nationality: U.K and AUSTRALIA

STORYLINE

After the death of his father, king George V (Michael Gambon) and the scandalous abdication of Prince Edward VII (Guy Perce), Bertie (Colin Firth), always affected by a harrowing stuttering, suddenly ascends to the throne like George VI of England. His country is on the bridge of the war and it urgently needs a leader, so his wife Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter), the future Queen Mother, puts her in contact with a known speech therapist Lionel Longue. (Geoffrey Rush) Despite the initial shock, both are immersed in an unorthodox therapy  which will take to establish an unbreakable bond. With the support of Logue, his family, his govern and Winston Churchill (Timothy Spall), the King overcomes her conditions and pronounces a radio argument that will inspire the town and joined it in battle.

Little King Macius

Title: Little King Macius

Genre: animation, fantasy

Directed by Sandor Jesse, Lutz Stutzner

Script: Hans-Werner Honert, Inès Keerl

Stars:

STORYLINE

Little King Macius receives the scepter and the king’s power after the death of his father. Macius will discover, slowly, that all children’s dream of sit down in a throne and lead is not easy as it seem. He will face up the General who will make the king’s life impossible to snatch him the throne.

                With a tune of humor, engine and enchant, his professor and friends of the city will help him to make his dream come true, the dream of form a children’s paradise.

Loose Cannons

Title: Loose Cannons

Original title: Mine Vaganti

Genre: Comedy, drama

Directed by Ferzan Ozpetek

Script: Ivan Cotroneo, Ferzan Ozpetek

Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimauso, Alessandro Preziosi, Ennio Fantaschini.

STORYLINE

Tommaso is the youngest member of the large and eccentric family Cantone. They own a pasta factory in Plugia. His mother Stefania is a lovely woman but she is stifled by bourgeois conventions. His father Vincenzo has some exorbitant expectations about his sons. His aunt Luciana is an eccentric woman. His sister Elena is a frustrated housewife. His brother Antonio works with Tommaso’s father in the pasta company. Finally, his grandmother is trapped in the memory of an impossible love.

                Tommaso is an aspiring writer. He returns to Rome for an important family dinner in which his father would deliver the direction of the factory to him and his brother. Tommaso plans to announce at dinner that he is gay. But this night, when he wants ask for silence, his brother advances him and reveals his own secret. Incenzo kicked him out of home, family and factory.

Mao's Last Dancer

Title: Mao’s Last Dancer

Genre: Drama

Directed by Bruce Beresford

Script: Jan Sardi

Stars: Bruce Green wood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, Chi Cao, Wang Shuang Bao, Chengwu Guo, Huang Wen Bin, Aden Young, Madeleine Eastoe, Camilla Vergotis, Penne Hackforth-Jones

Nationality: Australia

STORYLINE

This movie is based on the autobiography of Li Cunxin Mao’s Last Dancer.

It is an inspiring true story that tells how, in the middle of the chaos of the Cultural Revolution in China, Cunxin has to leave their family. He is from a family of farmers. He embarks on an amazing travel… which ended up moving toward freedom and personal triumph.

Li’s history unfolds when China was emerging from Mao’s great vision. It couldn’t be better time for Li Cunxin for discover the West, and for the West discovers Li Cunxin.  Mao’s Last Dancer tells us how Li’s get to overcome the adversity, and how he discovered ans esplored their natural abilities and talent as a classical dancer. To do this, he not only have to deal with their own physical limitations, but also with the punishment imposed by the Chinese suspicious government after his defection to the United States. In the USA, Li found a fascinating new world, in spite of the difficulty that he had never imagined. Although he had the support of many friends, she felt alone, and, despite his growing fame, he could still see their future with uncertainly.

Tales From the Golden Age

Title: Tales From the Golden Age

Genre: Comedy

Directed by Cristian Mungiu.

Script: Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Höffer, Razvan Marculescu, Constantin Popescu and Cristian Mungiu.

Stars: Alexandru Potocean, Teo Corban, Emanuel Pirvu, Avram Birau, Paul Dunca, Viorel Comanici, Vladimir Ivanov, Tania Popa, Liliana Mocanu, Ion Sapdaru, Virginia Mirea, Gabriel Spahiu, Diana Cavalioti, Radu Iacoban.

Nationality: Romania.

STORYLINE

                The last fifteen years of the Ceausescu’s regime were the worst in the history of Romania. However, the propaganda machine of the time inevitably referred to that period as “the golden age”.

                Before the visits of Ceausescu, the mayors of the towns have to work hard to highlight their villages and also the have to follow the orders of the most extravagant fanatic party activists that make pre-hearing inspection official. According to the international rules of the Communist Party in public images, the president Ceausescu cannot take his hat off to the representatives of the corrupt capitalist world, including President Giscard d’Estaing. A hens’ carrier decides to open his trailer trucked for the first time and discover a link between eggs, Easter and conjugal love. A policeman received a pig as a Christmas present and he decides that the best form of kill it, silently and without alerting his neighbors, is to poison it with gas. In the Romania of the 80sBughi and Crina dedicated to dupe people into believing that air of neighbors and sell them.

This is the perfect combination of several true stories that go back to a time when food was more important than money, freedom more important than love and survival more important than principles.

Magic Silver

Title: Magic Silver

Original title: Julenatt i Blafjell

Genre: Adventures, fantasy

Directed by Katarina Launing, Roar Uthaug

Script: Gudny Hagen, Thomas Moldestad

Stars: Simen Bakken, Sigve Boe, Nikoline Ursin Erichsen.

Nationality: Norwegian

STORYLINE

                This movie is based on the successful series of television.

                The princess Bluerose is a little gnome who lives in the mountains. There, a gnomes’ community is responsible for controlling the passage from night to day during magic hour, thanks to silver magic that only they possess. One day, a group of gnomes and humans steal the silver, condemning the world to live in darkness forever

Franklyn

Title: Franklyn

Genre: Drama, Thriller, Science fiction.

Directed by Gerald McMorrow

Script: Gerald McMorrow

Stars: Eva Green, Ryan Phillippe, Sam Riley, Bernard Hill, Susanna York.

Nationality: U.K, France.

STORYLINE

Jonathan Preest (Ryan Phillippe) is the masked vigilant of Middle City which is a world where religion is the only law and living in hiding of the Clergy while he is following the trail of a mysterious man known as “The Individual”. Nowadays, in London, there are three persons roam the streets, facing their own ghosts: Emilia (Eva Green) is a beautiful art student who filmed their suidicide attemps as an academic exercise, Milo (Sam Riley) is ayoung man whos looks desperately for revive the purity of the first love ans Esser (Bernard Hill) is a newcomer to the city, he is ready to find his rebellious son among the homeless of London.

Todas las canciones hablan de mi.

Title: Todas las canciones hablan de mí.

Genre: Comedy

Directed by Jonás Trueba

Script: Jonás Trueba, Daniel Gascón.

Stars: Oriol Vila, Bárbara Lennie, Ramón Fontserè, Bruno Bergonzini, Valeria Alonso, Ángela Cremonte, Miriam Giovanelli.

Nationality: Spain.

It is a romantic comedy but without the cliché boy meet girl. The premise would be rather “boy wants to forget a girl”, it is something much harder to bear, especially when the girls when the girl that you just splits up is the character if your memories and you start thinking that all the songs talk about you.

When You're Strange

Title: When You’re Strange

Genre: Musical Documental.

Directed by Tom DiCillo

Script: Tom Dicillo

Stars: Johnny Depp (narrator), John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison.

Nationality: USA

This is the first documental movie about The Doors. It tells us the story of one of the most obscure and dangerous band that have ever existed in the world of rock and roll.

                Using only original material, mostly unpublished and filmed in large part by the same Morrison between 1966 and 1971 –period of existence of the group -, the director, Tom DiCillo, lodged the band and its context at 1960 in America. The documental haven’t got present interviews. The movie promotes the immediacy and modernity of itself as a movie. Narrated by Johnny Depp, the film opens a window to the world of the excesses of fame, drugs and alcohol in a group that triumphed but always stood firm in his belief to be true to the music. Although the life of Jim Morrison, busy and full of excess, marked the film guide, in fact is the story of four musicians: Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore. The four, thanks to their insistence, their artistic freedom and their commitment to the fashions, managed to become the benchmark for a generation (and do many generations later), marking an epoch.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Genre: Adventures, fantasy

Directed by Michael Apted

Script: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Richard LaGravenese, Michael Petroni.

Stars: Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, Will Poulter, Eddie Izzard, Peter Dinklarge, Simon Pegg, Gary Sweet…

Nationality: USA

STORYLINE

This movie is the third part of a series of the adaptation of the book series created by CS Lewis.

                Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they will meet again with the old prince who now is King Caspian.

                Together they will embark on the search for the seven missing Lords of Narnia. This is a voyage that will take them to cross the seas on the ship “The Dawn Treader”.

                On the way, they will meet with dragons, dwarves, magical islands and a band of lost warriors before reaching the end of the world.

Megamind

Title: Megamind

Genre: Animation, comedy

Directed by Tom McGrath

Script: Alan Schoolcraft, Brent Simons

Stars: [Voices] Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, Ben Stiller.

Nationality: USA

STORYLINE

Megamind is the brighter super villain that the world has ever known but also the least successful. During some years, he has been trying to conquer Metro City in any imaginable way. Megamind always failed, because the action of a superhero with a cape called “Metro Man”. Metro Man is an invincible hero until the day when Megamind kills him during one of his wicked and devious plans. Suddenly, Megamind ran out objectives. He is a super villain without a super hero. He realizes that having accomplished the dream of his live is the worst thing that ever happened to him. Megamind decides that the only way out of his stagnation is to create a new opponent hero called Titan. Titan is bigger, better and stronger than Metro Man. Quickly, the new hero began to think that it’s funnier being a bad guy than a good one. Titan doesn’t want to conquer the world; he only wants to destroy it. So Megamind have to decide: Will he defeat his evil creation? Will the smartest man in the world have an intelligent decision once for all? Will the evil genius become the unlikely hero of their own history?

From the producers of: “Shrek”, “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda”. 

Mystikal

Title: Mystikal

Genre: Adventures, Fantasy.

Directed by Ángel Alonso

Script: Joan Álvarez

Stars: Iban Garate, Savitri Ceballos, Ramón Agirre.

Nationality: Spain

STORYLINE

                In a past edge, in an imaginary world dominated by the shadows, three wizards manage to defeat the evil and put him in three Pandora’s boxes. Each wizard must save and protect with their own life one of the boxes: war, pest and hunger. If the spectra manage to free oneself, gates’ hell which drive to the death will open.

                An act of stupidity of Eldyn, she released to the warlord who moves up to join his brothers, plague and hunger. The desperation and the horror takes hold of its inhabitants. The end of times is near.

                Eldyn is a dwarf magician’s learner. Fira is a fary.  Both together with Evaristo and the dragon must save the world. They undertake an adventure that will change their lives forever. Their mission is to return the spectra to their boxes. They will enter into the magical forest where they meet colorful characters and they face up many dangers.

Neds

Title: Neds

Genre: Drama

Directed by Peter Mullan

Script: Peter Mullan

Stars: Steven Robertson, Martin Bell, Marcus Nash.

Nationality: United Kingdom

STORYLINE

Glasgow, 1973. John McGill is going to start high school. He is a smart, sensitive boy.  He has a desire to learn, but nothing seems to favor him. His family is really poor, and his father, whom he hates, is a drunkard brute guy. Teachers are against him since the begginig. He was punished for the “sins” of his older brother, Benny.

The Neds, “Non-Educated Delinquent”.  They are armed bad guys: cheap drugs, glam rock, sex, violence and camaraderie. They are the local monsters and heroes. The protection of his brother Benny is protecting him. John, frightened and resentful, makes a decision. If anyone wants to give him a chance, fuck them! He plunges in the wild life of the street.

The ranger and frustration lead him farther and farther, until being alone against a blank wall. There isn’t future. Then, an unexpected and extraordinary opportunity comes to redeem him.

El idioma imposible

Title: El idioma imposible.

Genre: Drama

Directed by Rodrigo Rodero

Script: Michel Gaztambide, Rodrigo Rodero

Stars:  Andrés Gertrudix, Irene Escolar, Helena Miquel, Karra Elejalde, Roger Pera, Isabel Ampudia, Natalia Mateo, Pau Cólera, Toni Álamo, Raquel González.

STORYLINE

Fernando is living in the middle of red light district of Barcelona. He seeks his life peddling amphetamines and alternating with a peculiar gallery of sinister characters. In one of those stolen sunrises of the live, Fernando will meet Elsa. Elsa is a sweet teenager with a strange and self-destructive personality. She will become the grater addiction of Fernando’s life.

They together will try to survive in a shadowy Barcelona which at the end of the day is taken by the society’s renegades and their particular codes.