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Foundation date 1 january 2003
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Roadside Attractions is a US film distributor based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2003 by Howard Cohen and Eric d'Arbeloff, specializing largely in independent films. Lions Gate Entertainment bought a portion of Roadside in 2007.
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(2010)Filmography of Roadside Attractions (98 films)
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Gimme Shelter (2013)
, 1h41Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Vanessa Hudgens, Brendan Fraser, Rosario Dawson, James Earl Jones, Emily Meade, Stephanie Szostak
Agnes "Apple" Bailey (Vanessa Hudgens) has never had an easy life. She's been in and out of foster care for years, and her mother June (Rosario Dawson) is an abusive addict who only wants her for the welfare money she provides. She decides to run away and go in search of her absent father, Tom Fitzpatrick (Brendan Fraser), whom she discovers is now a wealthy Wall Street broker with a family. He agrees to take her in, but she's quickly forced out again when he and his wife learn she's pregnant and don't agree with her decision to keep the baby.
Grace Unplugged (2013)
, 1h42Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Musical films
Actors Amanda Michalka, James Denton, Kevin Pollak, Shawnee Smith, Michael Welch, Emma Catherwood
"Grace Unplugged" is the story of an 18-year-old girl who leads worship on Sundays at church, but decides to leave her family and Christianity to pursue fame in the music industry.
Amazing Grace (2006)
, 1h58Directed by Michael Apted
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary
Themes Films about slavery, Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films about autism
Actors Ioan Gruffudd, Benedict Cumberbatch, Romola Garai, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell
In 1796 William Wilberforce is severely ill and taking a recuperative holiday in Bath, Somerset, with his cousin, Henry Thornton. It is here that William is introduced to his future wife, Barbara Spooner. Although he initially resists any romantic overtures, she convinces him to relate the story of his career.
The Puffy Chair (2005)
, 1h25Directed by Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Mark Duplass, Katie Aselton
The film concerns the relationships between men, women, brothers, mothers, fathers and friends. The protagonist discovers on eBay a replica of a lounge chair that was used by his father long ago. The resulting road trip to pick up and deliver the chair as a birthday present for the father in Atlanta takes interesting twists.
Lovely & Amazing (2002)
, 1h31Directed by Nicole Holofcener
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Brenda Blethyn, Catherine Keener, Emily Mortimer, Raven Goodwin, Jake Gyllenhaal, James LeGros
The story focuses on Jane Marks, her adult daughters Michelle and Elizabeth, and her pre-teen adopted African American daughter Annie, each of whom allows her personal insecurities to affect her life. Jane, longing to look younger and thinner, opts for liposuction, with near tragic results. When Michelle's artistic talents fail to produce any income for her family, much to the dismay of her husband Bill, she takes a job as a one-hour photo developer and finds herself falling for the attention of her teenaged co-worker Jordan. Aspiring actress Elizabeth, who bestows upon stray dogs the affection she finds difficult to offer her boyfriend Paul, questions her appeal when she's rejected for a role based on her looks, and she seeks reassurance from film heartthrob Kevin McCabe. Overweight Annie tries to fit in better with her white adopted family by having her hair straightened by black Big Sister volunteer Lorraine, who Jane hopes will put the young girl in touch with her heritage.
Trick (1999)
, 1h29Directed by Jim Fall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Chistian Campbell, John Paul Pitoc, Tori Spelling, Brad Beyer, Lorri Bagley, Will Keenan
Gabriel, an office temp by day and aspiring Broadway composer by night, becomes smitten with Mark, a go-go dancer, in a gay bar with whom he makes eye contact. The two meet again in the subway that very night, and go back to Gabriel's place to have sex. They're thwarted in the attempt, however, first by Gabriel's aspiring actress friend Katherine, who is obsessed with her role in an adaptation of Salomé set in a women's prison, and then by Gabriel's roommate Rich, who returns home with his girlfriend Judy, with similar (and conflicting) plans for the apartment.
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Touched with Fire (2016)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby, Christine Lahti, Griffin Dunne, Bruce Altman, Annie Golden
Deux maniaco-dépressifs se rencontrent dans un hôpital psychiatrique et commencent une histoire d'amour qui révèle toute la beauté et l'horreur de leur condition.
The Sea of Trees (2016)
, 1h50Directed by Gus Van Sant
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Films about suicide, Transport films
Actors Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Watts, Ken Watanabe, James Saito, Katie Aselton, Jordan Gavaris
An American man travels to the "Suicide Forest" (Aokigahara forest) to kill himself at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan, the site of numerous suicides. There he encounters a Japanese man, who wants to kill himself as well, and both men begin a journey of self-reflection and survival.
Chi-Raq (2016)
, 1h58Directed by Spike Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors John Cusack, Nicholas Cannon, Jennifer Hudson, Jeremy Piven, Samuel L. Jackson, Common
Après la mort d'un enfant tuée par une « balle perdue », un groupe de femmes mené par Lysistrata s'organise contre la violence dans les quartiers de South Side à Chicago.
Love & Mercy (2015)
, 2h1Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti, Kenny Wormald, Brett Davern
In the 1960s, young songwriter and recording savant Brian Wilson (Paul Dano) finds himself in the midst of extraordinary success after scoring numerous hit records with The Beach Boys. Following a panic attack, he resigns from concert touring and ventures into the studio intent on creating "the greatest album ever made", Pet Sounds. Meanwhile, his grip on reality slowly loosens as he attempts to cope with the overwhelming voices in his head. Later, in the 1980s, a middle-aged Wilson (John Cusack) is shown to be a broken, confused man under the pharmacological and legal thrall of his abusive therapist Dr. Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti). After meeting Wilson, Cadillac saleswoman Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth Banks) is determined to save him from Landy's manipulation.
Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015)
Directed by Michael Showalter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Sally Field, Max Greenfield, Stephen Root, Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Reaser, Wendi McLendon-Covey
Une femme qui a la soixantaine a une relation amoureuse avec un jeune salarié de l'entreprise où elle travaille.
Maggie (2015)
, 1h35Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes La fin du monde, Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson, Laura Cayouette, John Evermore, Jodie Moore
In the present-day American Midwest, society struggles to function in the aftermath of a zombie pandemic barely under control. Maggie Vogel (Abigail Breslin) calls her father from a broken city under curfew; her voicemail urges that he not seek her and that she loves him. Her arm was bitten. Knowing she has only weeks before the "necroambulist virus" turns her cannibalistic, she left home to protect her family. Maggie's father Wade (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has searched two weeks, despite her warning. Finding her in a hospital for the infected, he brings Maggie home to care for her until she must eventually be quarantined. During their return, a zombie attacks Wade at an abandoned gasoline station and he breaks its neck.
Z for Zachariah (2015)
, 1h35Directed by Craig Zobel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Romance, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Disaster films
Actors Margot Robbie, Tobey Maguire, Chris Pine, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Nuclear apocalyptic survivor Ann Burden ekes out an agrarian life on her family's valley farmstead, sheltered from radioactive contaminants by rocky hillsides, favorable weather patterns, and an abundant ground-fed water supply. One day Ann encounters fellow survivor John Loomis, a highly-skilled engineer, who, aided by medicines and a radiation suit, has traveled from a distant military bunker to the safe confines of Burden's valley. Loomis bathes in contaminated water, and immediately sickens, but is nursed back to health by Ann, who welcomes him into her farmhouse.
Stonewall (2015)
, 2h9Directed by Roland Emmerich, Joe Wright
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Joey King, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Ron Perlman, Jeremy Irvine, Caleb Landry Jones, Karl Glusman
The drama is a coming-of-age genre film, and centers on fictional Danny Winters (Jeremy Irvine), a young gay white man from Indiana, who flees the conservative countryside in the late 1960s and moves to New York City. Before leaving, he comes out to his parents, who are horrified. He leaves behind his younger sister. After reaching Greenwich Village, he is befriended by a multiracial group of young, gay and genderfluid street kids and drag queens. He meets older men Trevor (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), who soon becomes his lover and roommate, and Ed Murphy (Ron Perlman), the manager of the Mafia-owned Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the Village. Ed colludes with corrupt policemen and exploits homeless gay youth to his own advantage. Danny gradually learns about gay culture from his new friends.
Mr. Holmes (2015)
, 1h43Directed by Bill Condon
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Roger Allam, Patrick Kennedy
In 1947, the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, aged 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper, Mrs Munro, and her young son Roger. Having just returned from a trip to Hiroshima, he starts to use jelly made from the prickly ash plant he acquired there in an effort to improve his failing memory. Unhappy about his ex-partner Watson's fictionalisation of the story of Holmes's last case, the fictitious “The Adventure of the Dove Grey Glove”, he hopes to write his own account but is having trouble recalling the details. As Holmes spends time with Roger, showing him how to take care of the bees in the farmhouse's apiary, he comes to appreciate Roger's curiosity and intelligence and develops a paternal liking for him.