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A magician/illusionist in decline and his assistant seek to re-invigorate his career.

Set in 1984, before Perestroika, main action is divided between Leninisk, a hideous industrial town where Capt. Zhurov (Alexei Poluyan) lives with his drunk-to-the-point-of-oblivion mother (Valentina Andryukova) and an isolated shack where Alexei (Alexei Serebryakov) and his wife Tonya (Natalya Akimova) sell grain alcohol. (Variety)

Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.

A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted. (imdb)

Examines the vapid life of a born to wealth New Yorker. After he spends all of what was left to him, his questing after more (without bothersome labor) changes him (imdb)

Wren's plan to attend a huge Halloween party thrown by the guy she likes goes awry when she's put in charge of her oddball little brother, who quickly wanders off on his own. (imdb)

Left overs from Jackass 3-D

Duvar is the last film of Yilmaz Guney. It was made in France under very bad conditions. But it is successful on describing the violence in prison without being too much 'political'. (IMDB Comments)

Martin Luther King, Lyndon Baines Johnson and the civil rights marches that changed America. (imdb)

Equal parts childhood reminiscence, Expressionist horror film, teen detectived serial, and Grand Guignol reverie, Brand upon the Brain! is a new cinematic spectacle from the unique mind of Canada's own Guy Maddin. (thefilmcompany.org)