Best Movies Released October 2012
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Funkytown
1976. Montreal. Eight people who wanted to see and be seen at the trendiest disco will be juggling fame and anonymity until they will be forced to make sober choices in an era when e… more »
Justin Chatwin, Daniel Roby, Patrick Huard, Sarah Mutch, Steve Galluccio, Heidi Hawkins
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Follows the unforgettable journey of a lost alien (known as E.T.) and the 10-year-old boy he befriends. Join Elliot (Henry Thomas), Gertie (Drew Barrymore) and Michael (Robert MacNau… more »
Steven Spielberg, Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Drew Barrymore, Robert MacNaughton
Lawrence of Arabia
One of the screen's grandest epics, this monumental story recounts the true-life experiences of T.E. Lawrence, better known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia. A young, idealistic Br… more »
Peter O'Toole, David Lean, Alec Guinness, Ant… more »
Pitch Perfect (10th Annivers...
Set in the world of collegiate a cappella competitions.
Elizabeth Banks, Paul Brooks, Rebel Wilson… more »
Frankenweenie
After being hit by a car, a pet dog is brought back to life by his loyal owner, a young boy, who creates elaborate machines which bring down a bolt of lightning that revives the anim… more »
Catherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder, Martin Landau, Mar… more »
Sister
Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) lives with his older sister (Lea Seydoux) in a housing complex below a luxury Swiss ski resort. With his sister drifting in and out of jobs and relationshi… more »
Martin Compston, Léa Seydoux, Gillian Anderson, Kacey Mottet Klein, Ursula Meier
The Paperboy
Jack, the slacker son of a backwater Florida newspaper editor and publisher, gets pulled into his older, big-city reporter brother's investigation of a rural sheriff's murder, and wh… more »
Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, Lee Daniels… more »
Wuthering Heights
Natalie Portman will portray the iconic Catherine Earnshaw.
Andrea Arnold, Kevin Loader, Nichola Burley… more »
The Oranges
Story centers on a man’s romantic relationship with the daughter of a family friend, which turns their lives upside down.
Alia Shawkat, Leslie Urdang, Adam Brody… more »
#holdyourbreath
Based on the urban myth that you can breathe in evil spirits when passing cemeteries, #holdyourbreath follows seven friends embarking on a weekend camping trip who pass a run-down ce… more »
Katrina Bowden, Randy Wayne, Jared Cohn
Trade of Innocents
In the back streets of a tourist town in present-day Southeast Asia, we find a filthy cinder block room; a bed with soiled sheets; a little girl waits for the next man to use her. Al… more »
Dermot Mulroney, John Billingsley, Christopher Bessette, Trieu Tran
Wake in Fright
Tells the story of a British schoolteacher's (Gary Bond) descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts (including a very inebriated "doctor" played… more »
Ted Kotcheff
The American Scream
Every Halloween, sleepy Fairhaven, Massachusetts erupts with the most ambitiously creative spookery in the world. Endless styrofoam tombstones and backyard beasts come courtesy of a… more »
Michael Stephenson
Escape Fire: The Fight to Re...
Tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: how can we save our badly broken healthcare system? Director/Producers Matthew Heineman (OUR TIME) and award-winning Susan Froemk… more »
Matthew Heineman, Susan Froemke
The Revisionaries
An urgent expose of the culture wars being fought within America's public school system, The Revisionaries is a behind-the-scenes look at the Texas State Board of Education's decade-… more »
Scott Thurman
Little Red Wagon
It all started during Hurricane Charlie. Zach Bonner, then just 6 years old, took his little red wagon door to door in his neighborhood to collect clean water for the victims. After… more »
Chandler Canterbury, Anna Gunn, Frances O'Connor, Dav… more »
Decoding Depak
Journalist and filmmaker Gotham Chopra spends a year traveling the world decoding his father Deepak Chopra, resolving the spiritual icon he is to the world vs. the real man known to… more »
Gotham Chopra, Emilio Diez Barroso, Darlene Caamano Loquet… more »
The House I Live In
ilmed in more than twenty states, The House I Live In captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels of America's War on Drugs. From the dealer to the grieving mothe… more »
Eugene Jarecki
Werewolf: The Beast Among Us
An original horror story although likely inspired by the 1941 film in which a man is attacked by a werewolf and infected.
Stephen Rea, Ana Ularu, Ed Quinn, Steven Bauer, Louis Morneau, Guy Wilson, Nia Peeples
Here Comes the Boom
A physics teacher's school faces drastic cutbacks. In an attempt to save his best friend's job and the music program his students love, he moonlights in the octagon as a mixed martia… more »
Salma Hayek, Allan Loeb, Frank Coraci… more »
3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom
Frank Bartlett (Charlie Hunnam) has been tortured, embarrassed and humiliated by his brother Bruce (Chris O'Dowd) -usually on film- his entire life. Now that Bruce is finally off dru… more »
Ron Perlman, Lizzy Caplan, Chris Noth, Chris O'Dowd, Jordan Roberts, Whitney Cummings, Sam Anderson
Simon and the Oaks
Set in rural Sweden in the 1940s and tells the story of a boy from a working class family who befriends a Jewish boy whose family has fled from Germany.
Bill Skarsgard, Helen Sjoholm, Lisa Ohlin, Jan Josef Liefers
Special Forces
A kidnapping drama set in Afghanistan.
Diane Kruger, Djimon Hounsou, Denis Menochet, Stephane Rybojad, Benoit Magimel, Raphael Personnaz
War of Buttons
Two rival gangs of kids from different French villages engage in a play war.
Guillaume Canet, Christophe Barratier, Laetitia Casta, Jean Texier, Thomas Langmann, Ilona Bachelier
Nobody Walks
Martine, a 23-year-old artist from New York, arrives in Los Angeles to stay in the pool house of a family living in the hip and hilly community of Silver Lake. Peter, the father, has… more »
Olivia Thirlby, Jane Levy, Dylan McDermott… more »
Middle of Nowhere
A drama chronicling a woman’s separation from her incarcerated husband and her journey to maintain her marriage and her identity.
Ava DuVernay
Least Among Saints
Returning home to a broken marriage and an uncertain future, veteran Anthony Hayward (Martin Papazian) believes there is no hope for himself. Yet when a troubled ten year-old neighbo… more »
Tristan Lake Leabu, A.J. Cook, Martin Papazian… more »
A Whisper to a Roar
A Whisper to a Roar tells the heroic stories of courageous democracy activists in five countries around the world – Egypt, Malaysia, Ukraine, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. From student lea… more »
Alfred Molina, Ben Moses
Art Machine
A 18-year-old prodigy painter, suffering from bipolar disorder, needs to come up with an art show to end all art shows, but when he meets a group of artist-anarchists, his world turn… more »
Jessica Szohr, Joseph Cross, Doug Karr, Joey Lauren Adams
Seven Psychopaths
Story follows a screenwriter (Colin Farrell) struggling for inspiration for his script, Seven Psychopaths, who gets drawn into the dog kidnapping schemes of his oddball friends (Sam… more »
Olga Kurylenko, Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson… more »
Grave Encounters 2
Grave Encounters was a found-footage horror phenomenon that many people believed was just a movie. Film student Alex Wright is out to prove them wrong in Grave Encounters 2. Alex is… more »
Richard Harmon, Dylan Playfair, Leanne Lapp… more »
The Thieves
It's the score of their lives--if they can pull it off. Five thieves at the top of their game, and the crew is assembling for their biggest job yet. Popie's the muscle and brains, Pe… more »
Yun-seok Kim, Dong-hoo Choi, Gianna Jun, Hae-suk Kim
Atlas Shrugged Part II
The second part of a planned trilogy that continues the Ayn Rand story.
Patrick Fabian, D.B. Sweeney, Harmon Kaslow… more »
Holy Motors
From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life to the next. He is, in turn, captain of industry, assassin, beggar, monst… more »
Leos Carax
Led Zeppelin: Celebration Da...
On December 10, 2007, Led Zeppelin took the stage at London's O2 Arena to headline a tribute concert for dear friend and Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun. What followed was a t… more »
Dick Caruthers
Alex Cross
Early in his career detective Alex Cross tries to find his pregnant wife’s murderer.
Tyler Perry, Bill Block, Jean Reno… more »
Paranormal Activity 4
A continuation of the Paranormal Activity franchise. Paramount has not yet given an indication on the time period or characters.
Jason Blum, Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman… more »
The First Time
Focuses on the first weekend in the blooming love between a boy and a girl in high school.
Dylan O'Brien, Liz Glotzer, James Frecheville, Vic… more »
The Sessions
The life of Mark O'Brien, a poet and journalist who, after spending most of his life with an iron lung as a result of polio, decides to explore his sexuality. He hires a sex surrogat… more »
John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, Moon Bloodgood, William H. Macy, Ben Lewin, Stephen Nemeth
My Worst Nightmare
An uptight contemporary gallery owner falls in an unlikely relationship with a crass contractor who is in the process of remodeling her apartment.
Anne Fontaine, Isabelle Huppert, Benoit Poelvoorde, Andre Dussollier
Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tape...
Sean Reynolds, an eager Television Host, is on a mission to debunk famed Bigfoot hunter Carl Drybeck, who claims to possess the body of a dead Sasquatch. When the team arrives in Nor… more »
Corey Grant, Drew Rausch, Rich McDonald
Wake in Fright
Tells the story of a British schoolteacher's (Gary Bond) descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts (including a very inebriated "doctor" played… more »
Ted Kotcheff
That's What She Said
Bebe (Marcia DeBonis) is getting ready for the most romantic encounter of her life, and she needs her best friend Dee Dee (Anne Heche) to cheer her on. Too bad Dee Dee is so cynical… more »
Anne Heche, Carrie Preston, Marcia DeBonis
All Together
Five aging friends decide to move in together in Stephane Robelin's comedy, starring Jane Fonda, Geraldine Chaplin, and Claude Rich. Comfortably retired, they hire a handsome graduat… more »
Jane Fonda, Geraldine Chaplin, Claude Rich, Stephane Robelin
Brooklyn Castle
Tells the stories of five members of the chess team at a below-the-poverty-line inner city junior high school that has won more national championships than any other in the country… more »
Katie Dellamagiore
Birdemic: Shock and Terror
A platoon of eagles and vultures attack the residence of a small town. A young couple manages to fight back.
James Nguyen
Chasing Mavericks
Story centers on the late Jay Moriarity and his quest to ride the iconic Northern California break known as Mavericks, where winter swells bring in treacherous waves the size of five… more »
Gerard Butler, Scott Eastwood, Elisabeth Shue… more »
Cloud Atlas
Story is a time-shifting, kaleidoscopic – weaving six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the ne… more »
Ben Whishaw, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry… more »
Silent Hill: Revelations 3D
Sequel to the 2006 video game adaptation "Silent Hill". The original, based on the Konami game, centered on a woman who travels to a desolate town to seek help for her ailing daughte… more »
Kit Harington, Deborah Kara Unger, Radha Mitchell… more »
The Loneliest Planet
Alex (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Nica (Hani Furstenberg) are young, in love and engaged to be married. The summer before their wedding, they are backpacking in the Caucasus Mountains in… more »
Gael García Bernal, Hani Furstenberg, Julia Loktev
Sleep Tight
Toiling silently amongst the residents of an everyday Barcelona apartment building, doorman Cesar (Luis Tosar) harbors a dark secret: His sole desire in life is to make others unhapp… more »
Luis Tosar, Jaume Balaguero, Marta Clara, Alberto San Juan
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Enco...
Acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson’s 10-year quest to create a series of haunting, surreal, and stunningly elaborate portraits of small-town American life — filmed with unpreced… more »
Ben Shapiro
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