The Lighter Side

There are several foursomes in this light-hearted sex comedy. Two families live next door to each other in identical houses, and their closeness is more than geographic. The husbands work together at an electric utility. Vitek (Jirí Langmajer) and Marie (Marika Prochazkova) have two teenage daughters, while Ondra (Hynek Cermak) and Dita (Viktorie Cermakova) ... more

In a particularly rough neighborhood of the Motor City, young Lebanese-American Sami must postpone his college dreams to run the family gas station after his father dies suddenly. It is more or less love at first sight when sophisticated Arab looker Naj passes through, and the balance of this immensely likeable love story is a witty, cultural melting pot. ... more

The strong runner-up for the audience award a few months ago at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, writer-director Gauri Shinde's comedy-drama English Vinglish marks the welcome return, after 15 years away from the spotlight, of incalculably influential Indian film actress Sridevi, often called India's answer to Meryl Streep. Here, she ... more

A couple from Kathmandu has been trying unsuccessfully to have a child. The man travels to the mountains of eastern Nepal to seek help from a miracle healer, who gives him a potion and tells him he must return to his wife within 36 hours for the medicine to work. The bus that winds its way through Nepal is full of people who all urgently need to be somewhere ... more

Premiering at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, The Kings of Summer is a unique coming-of-age comedy about three teenage friends: Joe (Nick Robinson), Patrick (Gabriel Basso), and the eccentric and unpredictable Biaggio (the hilarious Moises Arias). In the ultimate act of independence, the boys decide to spend their summer building a house in the ... more

While clueless professionals Ben and Gail obsess over who has sacrificed more for their careers and who is actually responsible for getting their car repossessed, their cheerful nanny, Margarita (a winning Nicola Correia Damude), is busy keeping the McMansion running as smoothly as possible. Every day, Margarita makes healthy and cost-conscious meals, does ... more

No one does crisis like the Greeks. This topical feel-good comedy about a reversal of fortune and the meaning of home and family follows a rich Greek family in London that loses it all in the latest economic crash. Over-leveraged on his latest business venture, self-made millionaire Harry Papadopoulos reluctantly reunites with Spiros, his estranged freewheeling ... more

An equal opportunity offender, the laugh-out-loud, political comedy-drama The Parade follows the unlikely pairing of a gay rights march organizer and the prejudiced former soldier he hires to provide security for the Belgrade event. The hilariously intertwined plot finds gruff veteran Limun (Nikola Kojo) forced by ditzy fiancé Biserka (Hristina ... more

Septuagenarians Terence Stamp and Vanessa Redgrave costar in this touching crowd-pleaser, a sentimental comedy in the vein of Calendar Girls and The Full Monty. Marion (Redgrave) is a staunch member of the old folks choir at the local community center, but her hubby, Arthur, is adamantly opposed, not just because he's against seniors having ... more