April 2012 DVD & Blu-rays

With Hossein Keshavarz

Using the subversive urgency of cinema verite, the lives of six young people unfold in present day Iran. Misunderstood by their families and oppressed by conservative Islamic society, they act out their personal desires behind closed doors.

With Scarlett Johansson • Matt Damon • Elle Fanning • Julie Yorn • Marc Gordon • J.B. Smoove • Thomas Haden Church • John Michael Higgins • Patrick Fugit • Aline Brosh-McKenna • Colin Ford • Angus MacFadyen • Cameron Crowe • Rick Yorn • John Fox

A single dad decides his family needs a fresh start, so he and his two children move to the most unlikely of places: a zoo. With the help of an eclectic staff, and with many misadventures along the way, the family works to return the dilapidated zoo to its former wonder and glory.

With Benedict Cumberbatch • Tom Hiddleston • Steven Spielberg • David Thewlis • Jeremy Irvine • Frank Marshall • Kathleen Kennedy • Peter Mullan • David Kross • Richard Curtis • Emily Watson • Niels Arestrup • Nicolas Bro • Lee Hall • Revel Guest

Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War. War Horse begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets--British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter--before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land. The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse--an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure.

With Giuseppe Capotondi

A former cop is a luckless veteran of the speed-dating scene in Turin, but much to his surprise, he meets a chambermaid at a high-end hotel and the two hit it off. After they leave the city for a romantic getaway in the country, things suddenly take a dark turn. As Sonia's murky past resurfaces, her reality starts to crumble.

With Lynn Collins • Mira Sorvino • Jeremy Piven • Thomas Dekker • Julian Domingues • Kate Walsh • Gaby Dellal • Colin A. Campbell • Rachel Clentworth • Chris Ippolito

The small working-class town of Angels Crest is a tight-knit community resting quietly in one of the vast and stunningly beautiful valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Ethan (Thomas Dekker), one of the town's residents, is a young father but not much more than a kid himself. He has no choice but to look after his three-year-old son Nate, since mom Cindy (Lynn Collins) is an alcoholic. But one snowy day, Ethan's good intentions are thwarted by a moment of thoughtlessness, resulting in tragedy. A local prosecutor (Jeremy Piven) haunted by his past goes after Ethan, and the ensuing confusion and casting of blame begins to tear the town apart.

With Olivia Colman • Paddy Considine • Peter Mullan

Joseph (Peter Mullan) is an unemployed widower with a drinking problem and a violent temper. When he meets Hannah (Olivia Colman), a devout Christian who works at a charity shop, the two form an unlikely bond where secrets are revealed and salvation is found in dark places.

With Tom Skerritt • Michael Clarke Duncan • Mario Van Peebles • Kiele Sanchez • Taryn Manning • Luke Perry • Morgan Simpson • George Richards

Two seemingly different men (Michael Clarke Duncan, Morgan Simpson) embark on a music-steeped journey through the American South, learning along the way that life isn't about where you end up - it's how you get there that matters. Somewhere along the 900 miles between Austin, TX and Huntsville, AL the two men become unlikely friends.

With Renaud Barret • Florent de La Tullaye

Documentary on a group of street musicians in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

With Randy Manis • Jeff Prosserman

The true-life tale of investigator Harry Markopolos' meticulous, decade-long fight to reveal Madoff's widely destructive Ponzi scheme.

With Whoopi Goldberg • Constance Marks • Philip Shane

Kevin Clash, the man behind Elmo of Sesame Street, as he chases and ultimately achieves his childhood dream of working with master puppeteer Jim Henson.

With Ryan Donowho • Anson Mount • David Pomes • Xander Berkeley

An absentee father returns home to a small town in East Texas and discovers a household of crystal meth addicts.

With Rachel Nichols • Linda Emond • Margaret Whitton • Jackson Hurst • Anjanette Comer

Lyman (Jackson Hurst) is a loner, working the graveyard shift for the Courtesy Patrol. When a green parrot flies in to his trailer he becomes obsessed with finding its owner, which leads him to Fiona (Rachel Nichols). She has been eyeing Lyman from a distance and decides to help with his parrot search, whether he wants her to or not. The pair set off on a search that doesn't always lead them where they think they're going, but gradually leads them to one another.

With Jim Broadbent • Meryl Streep • Richard E. Grant • Anthony Head • Abi Morgan • Phyllida Lloyd • Damian Jones • Michael Hirst • Harry Lloyd

Story will focus on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the 17 days before the Falklands War in 1982.

With Angelina Maccarone

A biographical film of legendary actress Charlotte Rampling, told through her own conversations with artist friends and collaborators, including Peter Lindbergh, Paul Auster, and Juergen Teller.

With Joel Kinnaman • Timur Bekmambetov • Emile Hirsch • Olivia Thirlby • Jon Spaihts • Max Minghella • Chris Gorak • Tom Jacobson • Rachael Taylor • Les Bohem • Monnie Wills • M.T. Ahern

Follows five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack.

With Mandeep Kumar

A boy who kidnaps a girl but starts to fall in love with her.

With Werner Herzog

An examination of a horrible crime through intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry, scheduled to die eight days after his interview.

With Bipasha Basu • Ashwini Chaudhary

A romantic comedy musical which takes a peek-a-boo into dysfunctional romantic relationships that eventually lead to breakups.

With Emilio Portes

Chucho has always played the Devil in his town's Nativity Play, but the new pastor gives the role to someone else and the two men engage in a battle between good and evil.

With Xavier Durringer

The volatile right-leaning Sarkozy’s startling rise to become President of France and the emotional and psychological stakes involving the conquest of power.

With Carey Mulligan • Steve McQueen • James Badge Dale • Michael Fassbender • Abi Morgan • Nicole Beharie • Emile Sherman • Ian Canning

Michael Fassbender will play Brandon, a 30-something man living in New York, who is unable to manage his sex life.

With Tom Cruise • Jeremy Renner • J.J. Abrams • Paula Patton • Léa Seydoux • Simon Pegg • Ving Rhames • Brad Bird • Andre Nemec • Michael Nyqvist • Vladimir Mashkov • Paula Wagner • Josh Applebaum

This is not just another mission. The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated and Ethan Hunt and his rogue new team must go undercover to clear their organization's name. No help, no contact, off the grid.

With Milo Ventimiglia • Rosanna Arquette • Michael Biehn • Xavier Gens • Lauren German • Darryn Welch • Tony Krantz • Ross Dinerstein • Karl Mueller • Eron Sheean

Set in New York City as civilization collapses, eight survivors huddle in a bomb shelter and begin to turn on each other as they wait for a rescue.

With Jonathan Lee

Paul Goodman was once so ubiquitous in the American zeitgeist that he merited a cameo in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. Author of legendary bestseller Growing Up Absurd, Goodman was also a poet, 1940s out queer and family man, pacifist, visionary, co-founder of Gestalt therapy—and a moral compass for many in the burgeoning counterculture of the '60s.

With Grace Guggenheim

Exploration into the life of America's controversial former CIA Director William Colby told through the eyes of his wife and filmmaker son, Carl.

With Morgan Freeman • David Lickley • Drew Fellman

This film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them--saving endangered species one life at a time.

With Edmon Roch

A documentary about a Spanish double agent during World War II.

With Mark Wahlberg • Kate Beckinsale • Caleb Landry Jones • Diego Luna • J.K. Simmons • Giovanni Ribisi • Tim Bevan • Eric Fellner • Lukas Haas • Baltasar Kormakur • Michael Beasley • Ben Foster • Stephen Levinson • Aaron Guzikowski

Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris is forced back into doing what he does best— running contraband—to settle Andy’s debt. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian (Ben Foster), for one final run to Panama and back, hoping to return with millions in counterfeit bills. Things quickly fall apart and with only hours to reach the cash, Chris must use his rusty skills to successfully navigate a treacherous criminal network of brutal drug lords, cops and hit men before his wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and sons become their target.

With Timothy Spall • Rhona Mitra • James Callis • Loo Brealey • Yoav Factor • Blake Harrison

An uptight lawyer, Lenny Rubins, (Timothy Spall), has to put his dream retirement on hold when his ailing mother (Honor Blackman) emotionally blackmails him into reuniting his estranged children for a holiday gathering. They may be peas from the same pod, but in Lenny's eyes, his grown-up children are certainly not even from the same planet: a ruthless control-freak and hard-nosed capitalist (James Callis), an outspoken, argumentative eco-warrior committed to the cause (Rhona Mitra), an outer-worldly Buddhist Monk; and to cap it all, a bible bashing born-again Rabbi! While they might quarrel, fight, and perhaps even be starting a war in Africa, they are still family.

With Sara Paxton • Ti West • Pat Healy • Larry Fessenden • Peter Phok • Derek Curl

After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees -Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) - are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England's most haunted hotels. As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.

With Felicity Jones • Jessica Brown Findlay • Sebastian Koch • Julia Ormond

The story of Emelia Conan-Doyle (Jessica Brown Findlay), a cheeky force of nature and the 17 year old heir to the legacy of Arthur Conan Doyle. Harboring an ambition to follow in the literary footsteps of her grandfather, Emelia writes while working at a stuffy seaside hotel populated by another blocked novelist Jonathan (Sebastian Koch), his put-upon wife (Julia Ormond) and their daughter Beth (Felicity Jones). Befriending Beth, Emelia begins to inch her way into their family life before casually seducing the sexually-frustrated Jonathan, forcing all involved to confront some uncomfortable truths about their situation.

With Jiang Wen

In 1920s China, a notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor.

With Matt McCormick

A film that asks why the good times slip by so fast while the difficult times seem so sticky. It explores ideas of abundance, emptiness, human connection and abandonment while observing an interweaving web of awkward characters who maintain hope by inventing their own forms of communication and self-fulfillment.

With Christopher Lee • Henry Garrett • Graham McTavish • Robin Hardy • Peter Watson-Wood • Peter Snell • Brittania Nicol

Follows two evangelists from Texas who visit Scotland to spread the gospel. They encounter a local man practicing ancient magic with sinister motives.

With Michael Landes • Darren Lynn Bousman • Wayne Rice • Richard Heller • Timothy Gibbs • Denis Rafter • Wendy Glenn • Brendan Price

After the tragic death of his wife and child, famed American author Joseph Crone travels from the United States to Barcelona, Spain to reunite with his estranged brother Samuel and dying father, Richard. However, fate has a different plan for Joseph as his life becomes plagued with strange happenings, and the constant sightings of the number 11. Curiosity quickly turns to obsession, and Joseph soon realizes that this number holds a horrific meaning not only to himself but possibly to all of religion. Isolated in a foreign country with only the support of his companion, Sadie, Joseph soon realizes that 11/11/11 is more than just a date, it's a warning.

With Dee Rees

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

With Elia Suleiman • Saleh Bakri • Ali Suliman

An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.

With Philipp Stölzl

Germany 1772 – the young and tumultuous Johann Goethe (Alexander Fehling) aspires to be a poet; but after failing his law exams, he is sent by his father (Henry Huebchen) to a sleepy provincial court to mend his ways. Unsure of his talent and eager to prove himself, Goethe soon wins the praise and friendship of his superior Kestner (Moritz Bleibtreu). But then Lotte (Miriam Stein) enters his life and nothing is the same as before. However, the young lovers are unaware that her father has already promised Lotte’s hand to another man.

With Yoav Potash

Documentary on the legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, a woman imprisoned for over a quarter century due to her connection to the murder of the man who abused her. She finds her only hope for freedom when two rookie attorneys with no background in criminal law step forward to take her case.

With Kazuya Murata

In the lost holy land of Milos, the Elrics search for the truth behind an unknown form of alchemy.

With Halle Berry • Sukee Chew • Wyck Godfrey • Christopher Tuffin • Clark Johnson • Celine Rattray • Marty Bowen • Martin Shore • Amy Sorlie • John Baca

A female diving instructor returns to the deep after a near-fatal incident with a Great White shark.

With Tim Blake Nelson • Noah Harlan • Linda Cardellini • Michael Shannon • John Slattery • Meredith Vieira • Amy Rapp • Liza Johnson • Paul Sparks • Talia Balsam

When Kelli returns home from war, she expected to slowly but surely settle back into her life with her husband and kids in the small town she grew up in. But she gradually realizes that the life she left behind is no longer there waiting for her.

With Malcolm McDowell • Tom Sizemore • Corbin Bernsen • Timothy A. Chey • Shannen Fields • Bart Bronson • Rebecca St. James • Jeff Gannon

A down-and-out law student sues Satan for $8 trillion dollars. Satan appears to defend himself and the trial of the century takes place.