filmmovement.com is an American

United States

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 film and DVD

DVD

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 distribution company. It is located in New York City

New York City

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 and was founded in 2003. The company specializes in foreign films and award-winning films, such as Munyurangabo

Munyurangabo

Munyurangabo is a 2007 feature film directed by Lee Isaac Chung. Filmed entirely in Rwanda with local actors, it is the first narrative feature film in the Kinyarwanda language...

, The Drummer

The Drummer (2007 film)

The Drummer is a 2007 Hong Kong-Taiwanese film written and directed by Kenneth Bi. It is Kenneth Bi's second film as a director.The film was released in Hong Kong on October 11, 2007. It features the Chinese Zen drumming group U-Theatre...

and Somers Town

Somers Town (film)

Somers Town is a 2008 film directed by Shane Meadows, written by Paul Fraser and produced by Barnaby Spurrier. It stars Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello, Kate Dickie, Perry Benson, and Elisa Lasowski...

.

The company is best known for its "DVD of the Month Club", a subcription service that sends one DVD each month to subscribers, usually several months ahead of the DVD being released to the general public. Each disc includes the feature film plus a short subject.

The company also provides films that are screened theatrically at locations in Chicago

Chicago

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, Los Angeles

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 and other cities. Recently they have also partnered with YouTube

YouTube

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 and Hulu

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 to provide online movies, and have received extensive praise from film critics such as Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

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. Several of their movies are also available on Amazon.com

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.

Selected Titles Distributed in North America by Filmmovement

The Drummer

El Bola

El Bola

El Bola is a 2000 Spanish film, directed by Achero Mañas. It won the Mejor Película Goya Award in 2001. It is available in the United States from Filmmovement.- Plot :...

Gigante

Gigante

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Munyurangabo

The Pope's Toilet

The Pope's Toilet

The Pope's Toilet is a 2007 Uruguayan film directed by César Charlone and Enrique Fernandez, starring César Troncoso, Virginia Méndez, Mario Silva and Virginia Ruiz.-Plot :...

Troubled Water

Somers Town

External links

• http://www.filmmovement.com/ - The company's website
• http://www.filmmovementcanada.com/ - The company's Canadian website
• http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/07/the_light_in_the_tunnel.html - An article by Roger Ebert about the site