Get Inside. It's Summertime!

In a rare dramatic role, Posey stars as a Manhattan hotel exec unlucky in love, until the night she meets and falls hard for a visiting Frenchman (Poupaud, who was so good in 2005's Time to Leave). For her feature debut, writer-director Zoe Cassavetes, daughter of the late John Cassavetes, cast her mother, the great Gena Rowlands, to play Posey's disapproving mom. (Magnolia) Opens in New York and Los Angeles June 22, with additional cities to follow.

Cast: Elisha Cuthbert, Daniel Gilles,

Pruitt Taylor Vince

Director: Roland Joffé

A fashion model (Cuthbert) and her chauffeur (Gilles) are kidnapped and tortured by one of her fans (Vince). Locked in a tiny room together, model and chauffer predictably fall in love and unite to defeat their captor. What's unexpected here is the presence behind the camera of Joffé (The Killing Fields, The Mission), who's either slumming for a buck or attempting to elevate the torture-horror genre to a higher plain. We'll see. (Lionsgate) Opens nationwide.

DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE

Cast: Jaime Pressly, Holly Valance,

Sarah Carter, Natasha Malthe,

Devon Aoki

Director: Corey Yuen

Scantily clad beauties fight evildoers in this live action version of a popular video game. (Weinstein) Opens nationwide.

EVAN ALMIGHTY

Cast: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman,

Lauren Graham

Director: Tom Shadyac

Morgan Freeman returns in what's shaping up to be the first talking deity series since George Burns started yakking to John Denver. In this not-quite-a-sequel variation on the Jim Carrey hit Bruce Almighty, God comes calling on an arrogant newsman, played by Carell, the new It-Man of Hollywood comedy (sorry, Jim). (Universal) Opens nationwide.

KLIMT

Cast: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Dillane

Director: Raoul Ruiz

Malkovich stars as the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, who's lying on his deathbed as the film opens, thinking back to the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris where he meets Lea de Castro (Burrows), a French dancer who became both mistress and muse. (Outsider) Opens limited, with additional cities to follow.

LADY CHATTERLEY

Cast: Marina Hands, Jean-Louis

Coulloc'h, Hippolyte Girardot

Director: Pascale Ferran

In this adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's second Lady Chatterley novel, John Thomas and Lady Jane, the Lady in question (Hands) has a tempestuous affair with the groundskeeper (Coulloc'h) at her paralyzed husband's country estate. (Kino) Opens limited July 6 and July 13.

SEPTEMBER DAWN

Cast: Jon Voight, Trent Ford, Tamara

Hope, Terence Stamp

Director: Christopher Cain

A bearded Stamp plays Mormon leader Brigham Young in this dramatization of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, when 120 settlers in the Utah Territory were murdered by a Mormon militia. Don't expect a Salt Lake City red carpet premiere. And sorry about the timing, Mitt. (Black Diamond Pictures) Opens nationwide.

YOU KILL ME

Cast: Ben Kingsley, Téa Leoni, Luke

Wilson, Philip Baker Hall, Bill Pullman

Director: John Dahl

A crime noir comedy from Red Rock West director Dahl about an alcoholic Polish mafia hit man (Kingsley) ordered to dry out in San Francisco, where he finds love and a part-time job as a mortician. (IFC) Opens nationwide.

JUNE 27

GHOSTS OF CITE SOLEIL

Director: Asger Leth

Set in the infamous Haitian slum of Cité Soleil, this documentary tracks the rivalry between two brothers who rule separate factions in the brutal gang that's said to have been the muscle of dictator Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Music by executive producer and native Haitian hero Wyclef Jean. (Think Film) Opens New York June 27, Los Angeles July 6 and additional cities July 13.

LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD

Cast: Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant,

Justin Long, Maggie Q.

Director: Len Wiseman

Twelve years and many flops after Die Hard With a Vengeance, Willis competes for box office gold as maverick cop John McClane, who takes on a cyber terrorist (Olyphant) with the help of a computer-geek sidekick who just happens to be played by Mac ad kid Justin Long. (Fox) Opens nationwide.

JUNE 29

DEATH AT A FUNERAL

Cast: Ewen Bremmer, Peter Dinklage, Matthew MacFadyen

Director: Frank Oz

A black comedy about a proper British funeral where the mourning family is slowly coming unhinged, thanks to accidental drug trips, unexpected trysts and the unnerving appearance of the dead patriarch's secret gay lover. Great trailer. (MGM) Opens nationwide.

EVENING

Cast: Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close

Director: Lajos Koltai

Novelist Michael Cunningham (The Hours) wrote the screenplay for this star-packed adaptation of Susan Minot's exquisite 1999 novel, in which a dying woman flashes back to a wedding 40 years earlier at which she fell madly, and tragically, in love. (Focus) Opens nationwide.

GYPSY CARAVAN

Director: Jasmine Dellal

Doc follows five renowned Gypsy bands as they travel four countries on a six-week concert tour. Additional footage finds the musicians in their native Macedonia, Romania, India and Spain, offering a rare glimpse of Roma life. (Shadow Distribution) Opens New York June 15, Los Angeles June 29, with additional cities to follow.

ONE TO ANOTHER

Cast: Lizzie Brocheré, Arthur Dupont

Director: Jean-Marc Barr and Pascal Arnold