Things are going great for Tank as a rebound specialist until his professional ethics is put to the test, when his roommate and best friend Dustin, asks him to give Alexis, the girl he’s in love with but who only wants to be friends with him, a taste of his infamous “love potion”.

Dustin tries to stick to the plan and work his magic on Alexis but she sees right through his tricks. Moreover she treats him like a sex toy, which makes him want her even more. Eventually he falls in love with Alexis and gets caught up between his feelings for the girl and his friendship for Dustin.

Release Date: September 19th, 2008

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Alec Baldwin, Jason Biggs, Diora Baird, Lizzy Caplan

Director: Howard Deutch

Ciao

Mark and Jeff have been long-time best friends. After the sudden and unexpected death of his best friend Mark, Jeff (Adam Neal Smith) is absolutely devastated.

Later on he discovers that Mark had been having a very close relationship, a virtual one, with an Italian web designer called Andrea (Alessandro Calza); he wants to come to Dallas to meet Mark in person for the first time.

Jeff calls Andrea to inform him of the sad news, but he leaves the invitation open, if he is still willing.

Without realizing it, they soon start writing to eachother; they talk about their lives, their countries, their hobbies and very much about Mark.

Ironically, what started off as a tragedy ended in a very intimate and powerful friendship.

Release Date: 5 December 2008

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adam Neal Smith, Alessandro Calza, Charles W. Blaum, Ethel Lung

Director: Yen Tan

I Love You Man Scene

Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent, elegant, romantic and serious; who just asked his dream woman named Zooey to marry him and is preparing for their wedding with her.

Just as Peter has never had a close enough friend that you propose to be groomsman at the wedding, this is the reason he accepts to go to a bizarre series of meetings with male strangers in an attempt to find the right person to whom delegate this important mission.

After several failed meetings with gay men who wrongly interpreted his intentions, Peter Klaven knows the eccentric and charming nonconformist Sydney Fife, to whom feels instantly attracted spiritual and begins spending increasingly more time.

For Peter despair, as the relationship of friendship with Sydney becomes tighter, the love relationship with Zooey seems to deteriorate, when he is put in the unwanted situation of choosing between his new friend and his fiancee.

Release Date:  20 March 2009 (USA)

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Cast: Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Jon Favreau

Director: John Hamburg

Summer

Shaun is an over 40 Scottish, who lives in a town from northern England and whose life wasn’t to generous with him, all the attempts of improving his way of living were destined to fail.

His main responsibility is to take care of his paraplegic friend named Daz, who end up with a very bad physical shape due to the chronic alcoholism and who has only a few months to live.

Shaun is often haunted by the memories of a more happier adolescence, when he was playing with Daz and he was in love with Katy, a school colleague who was writing his homework to hide from the teachers that he suffering of dyslexia.

Learning difficulties which marked his childhood transformed Shaun in a violent and frustrated young man, being known as a brawler.

In the moment he finds out that Daz is going to die because of his illness, Shaun decides to look for his ex-girlfriend Katy to offer her the chance to say goodbye to their common friend.

The problem is that he lost the connection with the girl for more than 12 years and the lack of guts makes him hesitate to fulfill his plans faster.

Release Date: 5 December 2008 (UK)

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rachael Blake, Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets, Michael Socha, Joanna Tulej

Director: Kenneth Glenaan

What Doesn’t Kill You

Brian and Paulie are two young delinquents who action on the tough streets of South Boston.

Coming from different families, but both disunited, the two boys form such a deep friendship that it transforms them in brothers.

They do everything that is necessary to survive, living by the illegal and immoral rules of the neighborhood they live in.

While Brian and Paulie grow up, their little offences become crimes even bigger.

Those two end up in the hands of Pat Kelly, the boss of organized crime, who takes care of all the illegal businesses from the south region.

In time, they get arrested by detective Moran.

After they are released from prison, they think completely different: Paulie wants to get rid of this convict life through a last daylight rubbery, kind of dangerous; and Brian wants to get back to his family.

When Paulie asks for his help, Brian has to make the hardest decision of his life: to help his friend or to save his marriage.

He can’t do both, can’t he?

Release Date: 12 December 2008 (USA)

Genre: Crime, Drama

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Richard Italiano, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Ace, Jean-Pierre Serret, Thomas Regan

Director: Brian Goodman

Garden Party

“Garden Party” is a drama about a group of confused teenagers from Los Angeles, who dream to become famous as dancers, musicians, photographers or models.

Unfortunately, they are tricked by the devilish Sally St. Clair, a woman who has built her business on her sex-appeal and on some well hidden secrets from her past.

She seems to have a sixth sense to identify the lost souls who are looking for a way in life.

Nathan, Sally’s assistant, moved from Nebraska to Los Angeles hoping to be a known dancer but, because to his lacks of confidence and guidance, he ended up taking porno photos for Sally’s devoted clients.

But hope comes in and even a relation that passes through the borders of friendship, when he meets Sammy, a street boy with music talent, who comes with him to have a roof over his head.

In their group enters April, a 15-year-old beautiful girl who hopes to find a solution without posing nude but, she become a model for Sally’s and Todd’s porn network.

Release Date: 11 July 2008 (USA)

Genre: Drama

Cast: Willa Holland, Vinessa Shaw, Richard Gunn, Erik Smith, Patrick Fischler.

Director: Jason Freeland

La Vie en Rose

From childhood to glory, from victories to sufferings, from Belleville to New York, “La Vie en Rose” presents the unusual life of Edith Piaf.

Along to a highly improbable destiny we discover the soul of an artist and the heart of a woman.

Full of life, fragile and, in the same time, indestructible she dedicated her life until sacrifice becoming an immortal singer.

“L`oiseau de Paris” was named by the press and public, the famous singer Edith Piaf (Marion Cotillard).

From the Paris’s pour neighborhoods to the New York’s dazzling lights, the life of the singer was a continuous struggle: to sing, to survive, to love, to live.

Grown in beggary, Edith’s salvation was her magical voice, her passionate romances and friendship that connected her to known names of that time: Yves Montand, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan etc, succeeding as one of the greatest musical figures all over the world.

Release Date: 2007

Genre: Biography, Drama, Music

Cast: Marion Cotillard, Jean-Pierre Martins, Gerard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Sylvie Testud.

Director: Olivier Dahan

Amexicano

This is an interesting movie which presents the friendship between an Italian-American, who thinks that English should be the only language accepted in the country, and a Mexican illegal immigrant, a competent and hard-working young man, who speaks little English.

An overweight average man, lazy, out of work and late with his rent, named Bruno (Carmine Famiglietti), is offered an off-the-books construction job by his friend Alex (Michael Aronov).

At first he is hesitant because he had to hire undocumented helpers from a corner of Northern Boulevard.

He is not feeling safe after hiring the first Hispanic worker, Diego (Manny Perez), a hustler who talks fast.

His attitude about the other nations changes after he hires Ignacio (Raúl Castillo) and meets his wife Gabriela (Jennifer Peña), who welcomes Bruno in their life.

Soon the two are teaching each other their languages, sharing lunches and becoming best friends.

Do not hesitate in watching this movie!

Release Date: 2007

Genre: Drama, Romance

Cast: Carmine Famiglietti (Bruno), Raul Castillo (Ignacio), Jennifer Pena (Gabriela), Manny Perez (Diego), Michael Aronov (Alex).

Director: Matthew Bonifacio

Little Ashes

‘Little Ashes’ is a United Kingdom-Spain co-production, set on the background of the city of Madrid in the 1920s.

It explores the great friendship that existed amongst three important figures of Spanish and international culture: Dali, Lorca and film maker Luis Buñuel; it talks about their friendship and about their loves, shared or not…

We can see the three young men of genius in the time they all lived in the Students Residence in Madrid and it is here where the supposed romance between Lorca and Dali took place; all the rumors and book subjects were born on accounts of what happened in that place.

In the role of Salvador Dali we see Robert Pattinson, in that of Luis Buñuel, Matthew McNulty and Javier Beltran plays Federico Garcia Lorca.

Release Date: 2009

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Pattinson (Salvador Dali), Matthew McNulty (Luis Buñuel), Arly Jover (Gala), Esther Nubiola (Adela), Simón Andreu (Fernando de Valle), Marina Gatell (Margarita),  Javier Beltran (Federico García Lorca)

Director: Paul Morrison

Half Nelson

Dan Dunne is a very idealistic and charismatic History teacher who works at a Brooklyn high school.

His teaching methods are not exactly the traditional ones and he wants to teach his students to learn to reflect on the historical and personal changes and to issue personal judgments on them.

Out of the classroom, Dan is a very disappointed man who has taken the wrong path due to his drug addiction.

When one of his more difficult students discovers his ‘passion’, they develop a somewhat strange friendship.

The expression ‘half Nelson’ refers to one of the most complex elements of free style fighting, and the authors have chosen this title in order to express the idea that complex problems can end up suffocating a person.

Release Date: 11 August 2006

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jay O. Sanders (Russ), Ryan Gosling (Dan Dunne), Anthony Mackie (Frank), Shareeka Epps (Drey), Monique Gabriela Curnen (Isabel), Tina Holmes (Rachel), Collins Pennie (Mike), Deborah Rush (Jo), Bryce Silver (Bernard), Sebastian Sozzi (Javier), Nicole Vicius (Cindy), Tristan Wilds (Jamal)

Director: Ryan Fleck

Appaloosa

Set in 1882, in the old West of New Mexico, the film tells the store of a federal sheriff called Virgil Cole and of his partner and assistant Everett Hitch.

They have earned their reputation as peace bringers in the cities without law of the Wild West.

In the small mining community of Appaloosa, a powerful rancher called Randall Bragg has allowed his workers to have their way in town. After the sheriff of Appaloosa was brutally murdered, Cole and Hitch are hired to deliver his assassin to justice.

While they use their guns to set things in order in Appaloosa, the two policemen meet the provocative Allison French, who has just arrived in town and whose unconventional tactics threaten the peace they have installed there and also their life time friendship.

Release Date: 3 October 2008

Genre: Crime, Drama, Western

Cast: Jeremy Irons, Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renee Zellweger

Director: Ed Harris

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He has no idea of what the Holocaust means, and the only thing he has noticed is that ever since he moved to an isolated neighbouhood of the city, he has nobody to play with.

One day, while he was watching on the field all those strange persons who

seemed to be wearing stripes pyjamas, he meets a young Jewish boy called Shmue; while they lose their childish innocence together, their friendship will have unexpected consequences.

The film is the screen version of a best-selling book with the same name, written by John Boyne. The film wants to be a fable that offers the image of that terrible phenomenon, seen through the eyes of a child.

In charge of the production was David Heyman, who also produced the ‘Harry Potter’ saga, but the director was Mark Herman.

Release Date: 14 November 2008

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asa Butterfield (Bruno), Jack Scanlon (Shmue)

Director: Mark Herman

Directed by Gary Winnick, who also directed “13 Going on 30″, the comedy presents Hathaway and Hudson in the roles of two young women, who besides being best friends, are also getting married on the same day.

So far so good….but the problem is

one of them has to change the date…..and since none of them will, they start competing for having the best wedding. They are trying to beat eachother at finding the best place, the best catering services and the best guests until one of them gives up and postpones her wedding. Which one will it be?

Along with Hathaway and Hudson also star Candice Bergen, Kristen Johnston, Bryan Greenberg, Steve Howey, Chris Pratt, Michael Arden, John Pankow y Paul Scheer.

Release Date: 09 January 2009

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Cast: Anne Hathaway (Emma), Kate Hudson (Liv)

Director: Gary Winick