Mafia Inc. and The Tunnel top this weeks streaming movies at Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque – cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Just when you thought the exhausted mafia film genre had nothing new to offer, here comes the brand new Mafia Inc.

Set in Montreal and based on a true story, the Sicilian-mafia drama -- which stars veteran Italian actor-writer-director Sergio Castellitto -- has a 100 percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Beginning March 12, Cleveland Institute of Arts Cinematheque is offering the film through its virtual screening rooms.

Also beginning on March 12, the Cinematheque is screening a different type of disaster movie. Norways The Tunnel is a high-concept film following Christmas travelers, trapped in a tunnel due to a tank truck explosion, attempting to escape a fiery hell. Naturally, a raging blizzard hinders the arrival of first responders.

Virtual screening rooms continue to offer movie lovers a safe way to view first-run films online during a pandemic. Half the proceeds from the virtual films go back to the local theater. Costs vary for each film, which is accessible for either 48 or 72 hours.

Heres a look at new and current films streaming this weekend through Cinematheque and Cleveland Cinemas:

Brooklyn Castle

A decade after it was first released and perhaps capitalizing on The Queens Gambit popularity, Emmy Award-nominated Brooklyn Castle is getting re-released. The documentary features five chess team members from an inner-city junior high school, which has won the most national championships. (Cleveland Cinemas)

Lost Course

Chinese documentary Lost Course chronicles a fishing villages eight-year journey toward a grassroots democratic movement. While ousted local officials were illegally selling land, the newly elected officials turned out to be just as corrupt. (Cinematheque)

Mafia Inc

Despite the fact the mafia movie genre has been poked and prodded to death, every now and then theres a fresh take. This is the case with the brand new Mafia Inc, which is set in Montreal and based on a true story. The Sicilian-mafia drama -- which stars veteran Italian actor-writer-director Sergio Castellitto -- has a 100 percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. (Cinematheque)

Night of the Kings

Night of the Kings tells the harrowing story of a new arrival at an Ivorian prison who, in an attempt to stay alive, must spin an all-night tale. Director Philippe Lactes newest movie is Ivory Coasts official submission for this years Oscar for Best International Feature Film category. (Cinematheque)

The Inheritance

Based on his experiences in a West Philadelphia radical collective, filmmaker Ephraim Asilis newest project is The Inheritance. Honoring generations of pioneering Black writers, musicians and radicals, the comedy revolves around an African-American man who opens his recently inherited grandmothers house to artists and activists. (Cinematheque)

The Tunnel

For those folks looking for a different type of disaster movie, Norways The Tunnel could be the answer. The high-concept film followers Christmas travelers trapped in a tunnel due to a tank truck explosion. Naturally, a raging blizzard hinders the arrival of first responders. (Cinematheque)

Women Composers

After realizing her repertoire consisted almost exclusively of music composed by men, Leipzig pianist Kyra Steckeweh began searching for pieces written by women. The result is new documentary Women Composers, which is receiving an apropos release date during Womens History Month. Steckeweh discusses the music and lives of Frances Mel Bonis and Lili Boulanger, as well as Germanys Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel. (Cinematheque)

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Acas, My Home

Acas, My Home tells the poignant and poetic story of a Romanian family with nine children who after living off the grid for nearly two decades in the Bucharest Delta must move to the city after their home becomes part of a new nature preserve. Radu Ciorniciucs documentary has a 100 percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. (Cinematheque)

Another Round

Booze is good is the simplistic premise put to the test of four unhappy high school teachers in new film Another Round. Director Thomas Vinterbergs (The Celebration) comedy-drama finds the characters testing out a prominent psychologists theory that human beings would be more creative, happier and relaxed with a constant level of alcohol in their blood. (Cinematheque)

Blizzard of Souls

The horrors of war reach new depths in the Blizzard of Souls, which is Latvias official submission for this years Oscar for Best International Feature Film. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Aleksandrs Grns that was banned in the Soviet Union for 60 years, the detailed historical drama follows a wide-eyed teens journey from farm boy to hardened WWI soldier. (Cinematheque)

Collective

Recently named Romanias official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 2021 Academy Awards, Alexander Nanaus gripping documentary Collective delves into the fallout from the Bucharest 2015 Colectiv nightclub fire, which killed or injured more than 200 people. Weaving together accounts from whistleblowers, newspaper reporters, government officials and burn victims, the impressive piece of investigative journalism uncovers deadly corruption within Romanias healthcare industry. (Cinematheque)

Coming Home Again

Director Wayne Wang (Chan Is Missing and The Joy Luck Club) based his new film Coming Home Again on a New Yorker essay about a first-generation Korean-American man who returns to his San Francisco home to care for his ailing Korean mother. (Cinematheque)

Days of the Bagnold Summer

Based on Joff Winterharts graphic novel, Simon Birds new film Days of the Bagnold Summer finds a bored, British teen deep into heavy metal who must spend his six-week vacation in England with his single and lonely librarian mom. Belle & Sebastian provide the soundtrack. (Cleveland Cinemas)

Dear comrades!

Russias official submission for this years Oscar for Best International Feature Film is Dear comrades! The black-and-white historical drama, which includes some dark humor, is about a 1962 massacre of striking factory workers in a small Russian industrial town. (Cinematheque)

Falling

Academy Award-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen makes his directorial debut in new film Falling, which finds a headstrong and independent father -- struggling with early stages of dementia -- forced to leave his rural farm and stay with his son in Los Angeles. The drama stars Mortensen, Lance Henriksen and Laura Linney. (Cleveland Cinemas)

A First Farewell

Featuring non-professional actors, A First Farewell exposes Chinas Muslim Uyghur minority. The story follows three Uyghur elementary school children in a rural farming community who are forced to adapt to Chinas Mandarin-language educational system. (Cinematheque)

Food Club

Foodies will enjoy Danish film Food Club, which follows three mature women -- girlfriends since elementary school -- who find their lives transformed when they take a cooking course in Italy. (Cinematheque and Cleveland Cinemas)

F.T.A.

Obscure documentary F.T.A. was the lefts answer to Bob Hopes USO tours. Filmed during the height of the Vietnam War protests, the recently-restored movie documents Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland and a troupe of entertainers traveling stateside and through Southeast Asia presenting an anti-war musical-comedy revue to soldiers. (Cinematheque and Cleveland Cinemas)

The Good Traitor

During WWII, Henrik Kauffmann was Denmarks ambassador to the U.S. Director Christina Rosendahl brings his story to life in new feature film The Good Traitor. When the Danish government surrendered to Nazi Germany in 1940, Kauffmann, who was living in Washington, D.C., declared himself the only true representative of a free Denmark. (Cinematheque)

Gustav Stickley: American Craftsman

Known as the father of the American Arts and Crafts movement, Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) designed and manufactured furniture, published The Craftsman magazine and founded Craftsman Farms, which is a forerunner to the farm-to-table movement. Herb Stratfords new documentary Gustav Stickley: American Craftsman includes interviews and archival materials. (Cinematheque)

Identifying Features

Director Fernanda Valadezs impressive film debut, Identifying Features, which won an Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, revolves around a Mexican mother trying to discover the fate of her adolescent son who left home to cross the U.S. border. The suspenseful drama has a 100 percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. (Cinematheque)

Just Dont Think Ill Scream

Director Frank Beauvais eclectic debut movie, Just Dont Think Ill Scream, is a collage film that strings together clips from B-movie and 70s horror flicks to create a tortured monologue to mirror the filmmakers post-breakup blues. (Cinematheque)

Keep An Eye Out

Cult director Quentin Dupieux (Rubber and Deerskin) is back with his own unique, bizarre and absurd take on 1970s police procedurals. The dark comedy Keep An Eye Out stars Benot Poelvoorde (Man Bites Dog). (Cinematheque)

Lapsis

Examining modern life in a gig economy, Lapsis is about a middle-aged man who in order to earn money to care for his sick brother takes a job laying fiber-optic cable through remote, dangerous terrain for an advanced new computer network. The film, which is written and directed by Deborah Winger and Timothy Huttons son Noah Hutton, is nominated for a 2021 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. (Cinematheque)

M.C. Escher: Journey To Infinity

Robin Lutzs new documentary M.C. Escher: Journey To Infinity delves into the life and legacy of Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher, whose surreal, psychedelic bland-and-white drawings bridged the worlds of art and mathematics. The film includes surviving family members with Graham Nash providing voice over. (Cinematheque)

Meeting the Beatles In India

In 1968, Paul Saltzman -- who was studying transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -- unexpectedly crossed paths with the Fab Four. Now the Emmy Award-winning Canadian filmmaker has turned this experience into new documentary Meeting the Beatles In India, which is narrated by Morgan Freeman and includes never-before-seen personal photos. (Cinematheque)

Minari

Director Lee Isaac Chungs Minari, which stars Steven Yeun (Walking Dead), is a touching, tender, semi-autobiographical work about a Korean immigrant family that relocates from California to a farm in rural Arkansas during the 1980s. Currently boasting a 99 percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the film is the winner of both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at last years Sundance Film Festival. (Cinematheque)

My Darling Supermarket

Grocery store employees -- better known as essential workers in 2020 -- are featured in new documentary My Darling Supermarket. Filmed prior to the pandemic, the Brazilian movie follows the joys, struggles and dreams of employees working in a large Sao Paolo supermercado. (Cinematheque)

My Little Sister

The official Swiss submission for this years Oscar for Best International Feature Film is My Little Sister, which has a 100 percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The drama finds a once brilliant playwright -- who no longer writes -- returning to her craft when her famous stage actor twin brother is diagnosed with leukemia. (Cinematheque)

My Rembrandt

Both discriminating art lovers and neophytes will enjoy the entertaining -- and amusing -- new film My Rembrandt. Boasting a 100 percent critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the documentary not only tells a series of entertaining true stories about the recent acquisition and disposition of Rembrandt paintings, but also exposes a hidden world of elite European art dealers, art museums and art collectors. (Cinematheque)

Nasrin

Jeff Kaufmans new documentary Nasrin spotlights Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is currently a political prisoner serving a 38-year sentence. The portrait of the Iranian human rights lawyer -- who has fought for the rights of women, children, LGBT prisoners, religious minorities, journalists, artists and death row inmates -- is narrated by Olivia Colman and features interviews with filmmaker Jafar Panahi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi and journalist Ann Curry. (Cinematheque)

Notturno

Selected as Italys official submission for this years Oscar for Best International Feature Film, Gianfranco Rosis documentary was filmed over three years on the borders between Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon. The movie tackles everyday lives impacted by civil wars, dictatorships, foreign invasions and ISIS. (Cinematheque)

The People vs. Agent Orange

New documentary The People vs. Agent Orange explores how the toxic chemical was employed as a defoliant during the Vietnam War, as well as how it continues to be used by the American timber industry today. The film focuses on the crusade of two women -- an American and French resident -- trying to stop the use of Agent Orange, which causes deformities, disabilities, disease and death. (Cinematheque)

Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time

A romantic drama that gets turned on its head, director Lili Horvts Preparations To Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time tells the story of a successful stateside Hungarian neurosurgeon who after starting a relationship with a doctor at conference returns to Budapest to continue the relationship. The movie is Hungarys official submission for this years Oscar for Best International Feature Film. (Cinematheque)

The Reason I Jump

Winner of the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, The Reason I Jump follows five autistic people from around the globe who lack the ability to speak. Jerry Rothwells documentary is based on the acclaimed book by Naoki Higashida. (Cleveland Cinemas)

Ruth: Justice Ginsburg In Her Own Words

For those fans of Ruth Bader Ginsburg who dont feel its soon after her death last year, Freida Lee Mock has a documentary for you. Ruth: Justice Ginsburg In Her Own Words tells the improbable story of how Ginsburg -- who couldnt get a job despite tying first in her graduating law class and making Law Review at Harvard and Columbia Law Schools -- became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. (Cleveland Cinemas)

Safer at Home

Heres a thriller that maybe hits a little too close to home during a pandemic. Director Will Wernicks Safer at Home explores what can happen when friends decide to have a socially-distant friendly Zoom party. However, it turns out COVID-19 isnt the scariest thing during a pandemic when a night of music, games, drinking and drugs goes terribly wrong. (Cinematheque)

Songs My Brothers Taught Me

While director Chlo Zhaos third feature film Nomadland is currently attracting Oscar buzz, her 2015 debut, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, is worthy of viewing. Shot on location in South Dakotas Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the film provides insight into troubled Native American life while following two teens who react differently to the death of their rodeo father. (Cinematheque)

Stray

Elizabeth Los imaginative new film Stray is a mostly wordless documentary that follows a stray dog living in Istanbul alongside other homeless canines, as well as Syrian refugees. In addition to the feature, theres an exclusive Q&A with Lo. (Cinematheque and Cleveland Cinemas)

Test Pattern

Shatara Michelle Fords debut feature, Test Pattern, taps into the zeitgeist touching upon everything from health care inequities, the #MeToo movement, policing and race in America. The award-winning feature focuses on the relationship between a young Black woman and her white boyfriend as he drives her in search of a rape kit after she is sexually assaulted by another man. (Cinematheque and Cleveland Cinemas)

Til Kingdom Come

Director Maya Zinshteins new documentary Til Kingdom Come explores the unlikely ties between an impoverished coal-mining town in Kentucky and Israel. Specifically, the film follows the Bluegrass State pastors and their Evangelical congregants who believe the Jews are crucial to Jesus return. (Cleveland Cinemas)

To the Ends of the Earth

Director Kiyoshi Kurosawas (Cure and Pulse) latest project is the black comedy To the Ends of the Earth, which stars J-pop icon Atusko Maeda. A Japanese TV reporter takes her travel show to Uzbekistan, where while searching for a mythical fish her life quickly unravels into a self-discovery journey. (Cinematheque)

Two of Us

Frances official submission for the 2021 Oscar for Best International Feature Film is Two of Us, which follows two elderly women who have been neighbors -- as well as secret lovers -- for decades. Their decision to relocate to Rome and live openly is met with unexpected consequences. Viewers can view a pre-recorded, post-film discussion between writer/director Filippo Meneghetti, star Barbara Sukowa and international film icon Isabelle Huppert. (Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque)

True Mothers

Japans official submission for this years Oscar for Best International Feature Film is True Mothers, which is a heart-wrenching story about a married couples struggle to keep their adopted child after his birth mother arrives in the picture. (Cinematheque)

Un Film Dramatique

French filmmaker ric Baudelaire gave 21 suburban Paris middle schoolers a video camera to capture not only trials and tribulations associated with their maturation but also their perspectives on current socio-political concerns such as ethnicity, discrimination, immigration and elections. The result is new documentary Un Film Dramatique, which was produced via the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize. (Cinematheque)

Variety Lights

Newly-restored classic Variety Lights, which was co-directed by Federico Fellini and Alberto Lattuada, finally makes its Cinematheque debut. The 1950 film -- featuring plenty of small-time performers -- shows what happens to a traveling vaudeville troupe when a beautiful and ambitious young dancer joins the fun. (Cinematheque)

What Happened Was

Tom Noonans directorial debut, What Happened Was, which won the top prize at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, was recently restored. The film depicts the awkwardness associated with first dates when two lonely co-workers spend an uneasy Friday night together. (Cinematheque)

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Mafia Inc. and The Tunnel top this weeks streaming movies at Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque - cleveland.com