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Foundation date 1 january 1962
Lionsgate Films (formerly known as Cinépix Film Properties) is a Canadian-American film production/distribution studio and a division of Lions Gate Entertainment. It is the largest and most successful mini-major film studio in North America. It focuses on foreign and independent films and has distributed various commercially successful film series, including The Twilight Saga (partially, via the firm's 2012 acquisition of Twilight distributor Summit Entertainment), The Hunger Games, The Divergent Series, Saw and The Expendables.
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(2013)Filmography of Lionsgate Films (183 films)
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Amores Perros (2000)
, 2h33Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs
Actors Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo, Vanessa Bauche, Jorge Salinas, Adriana Barraza
The film is constructed from three distinct stories linked by a car accident that brings the characters briefly together.
Beat (2000)
, 1h33Directed by Gary Walkow
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Courtney Love, Kiefer Sutherland, Ron Livingston, Norman Reedus, Lisa Sheridan, Kyle Secor
The film opens with Vollmer balancing a water tumbler on her head as Burroughs, her husband, aims a gun at her as she entices him to shoot her. The film then cuts to Joan and Burroughs in the months prior in Mexico City, as Burroughs is leaving on a trip to Guatemala to meet his male lover, Lee. Joan, despondent to William's affair and his disinterest in her, is left to take care of their two children while he goes on his vacation.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000)
, 1h18Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films about television, LGBT-related films, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about religion, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Tammy Faye Messner, RuPaul
Love & Sex (2000)
, 1h22Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Famke Janssen, Jon Favreau, Noah Emmerich, Ann Magnuson, Yvonne Zima, Will Rothhaar
Jeune et seduisante journaliste, Kate Welles a tout, semble-t-il, pour trouver l'amour. C'est pourtant loin d'etre le cas. Lorsque sa redactrice en chef lui demande de travailler sur le sujet "quelle difference entre une histoire d'amour et une aventure torride?", Kate se penche sur sa propre vie amoureuse, cahoteuse et a la limite du desastre avec un amant francais puis un homme marie. Elle fait bientot la connaissance d'Adam, un homme spontane et brillant. Mais leur histoire d'amour prend d'etranges tournures, chacun cherchant a rendre l'autre fou de jalousie.
Stardom (2000)
, 1h40Directed by Denys Arcand
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Documentary
Themes Films about television
Actors Jessica Paré, Dan Aykroyd, Macha Grenon, Joanne Vannicola, Charles Berling, Frank Langella
Le film raconte l'histoire d'une jeune fille qui essaie de faire face à sa célébrité après sa découverte par une agence de mannequin.
Steal This Movie (2000)
, 1h47Directed by Robert Greenwald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Vincent D'Onofrio, Janeane Garofalo, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kevin Corrigan, Kevin Pollak, Donal Logue
The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
, 2hDirected by Wim Wenders
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Smits, Peter Stormare, Amanda Plummer
A group of very different people live in a hotel in Los Angeles, California including the romantically involved Tom Tom (Davies) and Eloise (Milla Jovovich). The events that unfold are the result of the death of an important resident; the son (Tim Roth) of a billionaire media mogul. His father commissions an FBI agent (Gibson) to look into his death.
Dogma (1999)
, 2h10Directed by Kevin Smith
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Films about religion, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Films set in the future, Films about angels, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films, Buddy films, Disaster films
Actors Ben Affleck, George Carlin, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Salma Hayek, Jason Lee
Bartleby (Affleck) and Loki (Damon) are fallen angels, banished for eternity from Heaven to Wisconsin for insubordination after an inebriated Loki (with Bartleby's encouragement) resigned as the Angel of Death. When the trendy Cardinal Glick (Carlin) announces that he is rededicating his cathedral in Red Bank, New Jersey in the image of the "Buddy Christ", the angels see their salvation: Anyone entering the cathedral during the rededication festivities will receive a plenary indulgence; all punishment for sin will be remitted, permitting direct entry into Heaven. They receive encouragement from an unexpected source: Azrael (Lee), a demon, once a Muse, also banished from Heaven (for refusing to take sides in the battle between God and Lucifer); and the Stygian Triplets (Barret Hackney, Jared Pfennigwerth, and Kitao Sakurai), three teenage hoodlums who serve Azrael in Hell.
, 1h31Directed by Errol Morris
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Prison films, Films about racism, Films about religion, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Films about Jews and Judaism, Documentary films about World War II, Documentary films about law enforcement, Négationnisme
Actors Errol Morris
Using film made at American prisons, Leuchter talked about his upbringing where his father was a corrections officer. Through his family associations, young Leuchter claimed he was able to witness an execution performed in an electric chair. Leuchter's impression of the event was that the electric chairs used by American prisons were unsafe and often ineffective. The event led him to design modifications to the device that were adopted by many American states.
8 ½ Women (1999)
, 1h58Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors John Standing, Vivian Wu, Toni Collette, Annie Yi, Amanda Plummer, Natacha Amal
After the death of his wife (Claire Johnston), wealthy businessman Philip Emmenthal (John Standing) and his son Storey (Matthew Delamere) open their own private harem in their family residence in Geneva (they get the idea while watching Federico Fellini's 8½ and after Storey is "given" a woman, Simato (Shizuka Inoh), to waive her pachinko debts). They sign one-year contracts with eight (and a half) women to this effect.
All the Little Animals (1999)
, 1h52Directed by Jeremy Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure
Actors John Hurt, Christian Bale, James Faulkner, Daniel Benzali, Amy Robbins
The story centers on an emotionally challenged man named Bobby (Christian Bale). He runs away from home in order to escape his abusive stepfather (Daniel Benzali), nicknamed "The Fat", who had killed Bobby's pet mouse and, as Bobby puts it, screamed at his mother until she died as a result. He finds himself in woodlands near Cornwall in England, eventually meeting an old man after being involved in a car accident (John Hurt). Mr. Summers, as the man calls himself, spends his time traveling and giving burials to animals that have been killed by cars, a task he refers to as "The Work". Bobby, also having an affinity for animals, becomes friends with the old man and aids him in his task.
Affliction (1998)
, 1h54Directed by Paul Schrader
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Brigid Tierney, Willem Dafoe, Jim True-Frost
The film begins with a voice-over narration by Rolfe Whitehouse, announcing the story of his brother Wade's "strange criminal behavior" and subsequent disappearance.
Buffalo '66 (1998)
, 1h50Directed by Vincent Gallo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about families, Psychologie, Transport films, Road movies
Actors Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, Anjelica Huston, Ben Gazzara, Mickey Rourke, Rosanna Arquette
Having just served five years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Billy Brown (Vincent Gallo) kidnaps a young tap dancer named Layla (Christina Ricci) and forces her to pretend to be his wife. Layla allows herself to be kidnapped and it is clear she is romantically attracted to Billy from the start, but Billy all the while is compelled to deal with his own demons, his loneliness and his depression.
, 1h34Directed by Richard Kwietniowski
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Sheila Hancock, Harvey Atkin, Gawn Grainger, Maury Chaykin
Giles De'Ath (John Hurt) is a British writer who doesn't use or understand anything modern. One day, he forgets his keys and locks himself out of his flat. It begins to rain, so he goes to see an E. M. Forster movie but, instead, accidentally enters the wrong theatre and sees the teen flick Hotpants College II starring Ronnie Bostock (Jason Priestley). He becomes instantly infatuated with Ronnie's beauty and obsessed with the young actor. He goes to his movies in the cinema, buys teen magazines and cuts out pictures of him, and buys a VCR and TV in order to play rented video tapes of his movies. He lets his housekeeper come into his office less and less, so that he can do these things undisturbed.
Déjà Vu (1998)
, 1h57Directed by Henry Jaglom
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Stephen Dillane, Vanessa Redgrave, Glynis Barber, Michael Brandon, Vernon Dobtcheff, Rachel Kempson
Dana (Foyt), a young American woman, is told a story of lost love by a stranger while on vacation in Jerusalem. The stranger clearly pines for her former American lover but both subsequently married different partners. After a trip to Paris with her fiancée Dana has a chance encounter with a British man, Sean (Dillane), at the White Cliffs of Dover. Although both are in relationships, they develop passionate feelings for each other that threaten to destroy their established relationships. Dana begins to reflect that Sean is her true love and feels as if her situation will reflect that of the sad stranger in Jerusalem if she does not act.