Welcome to Criticker: Home of insanely accurate recommendations!

Affluent and aimless, Conrad Valmont lives a life of leisure in his parent's prestigious Manhattan Hotel. In the span of one week, he finds himself evicted, disinherited, and ... in love. (imdb)

he emperor Constantine prefers Sultan Murat II to be replaced by prince Orhan. In fact, it is Mehmet II's turn to be the sultan. Kara Murat and his friends get into Byzantium. Murat becomes Orhan's raider alias Kosta. Orhan's love Princess Olimpia falls in love with him. She tells him about the plot to kill Mehmet II. In the meantime Sultan Murat dies. Olimpia goes to Manisa to attract Mehmet's attention and intends to kill him after wards. Murat and his friends set off for Manisa... (imdb)

A man, accompanied by a dog, struggles through snow on a mountain side. We see film stock blister; drawn square shapes appear. Then, we see an infant's face. The images of struggling climber, baby, blurred film stock, large snow flakes, and what may be microscopic details of matter are superimposed on each other, one dominating the frame briefly to be replaced by another. As the man falls in the snow and tries to regain his feet, the baby continues to appear, first with eyes closed. (imdb)

Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) masterfully explores the fall of the disgraced cycling champion following the 2009 Tour de France, making use of his extraordinary access to attain rare interviews with former teammates, alleged doping mastermind Dr. Michele Ferrari, and Armstrong himself. (tiff.net)

Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew... (imdb)

Cinema verite feature that follows presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin primary (imdb)

The film follows Selman Bulut, the Imam, who is the official at a mosque where a murder is committed. Finding the police not interested in the case as should be, the Imam takes the initiative to solve the mystery. His methods prove to be as extraordinary as himself! It turns out that the Imam and all the people around him are somehow related to this murder. Secrets kept for many years, lies, the money-lender's cash, a hungry dog and love are all part of the film. (iksv.org)

Set in a mysterious and exotic world which still casts a potent spell today, the story begins in the years before World War II, when a Japanese child is torn from her penniless family to work as a servant in a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha Saguri. Beautiful and accomplished, Saguri captivates the most powerful men of her day, but is haunted by her secret love for the one man beyond her reach. (Sony Pictures)

Ahmet, a prominent intellectual, lost his wife and daughter in a traffic accident which happened while he was spending the night with his lover. As a person who cares about nothing and bows to nothing, Ahmet is not much affected by this tragic event and goes on with his life. After a while, without any apparent reason, he experiences certain changes in himself and his life. (official website)

A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944. Having failed to join the resistance, the 18 year old Lucien Lacombe, whose father is a prisoner in Germany and whose mother dates her employer, works for the German police. He then meets France Horn, the daughter of a rich jewish tailor. (imdb)