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Amour (French): Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple who have retired from teaching music. One day Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Everybody knows (Spanish): Laura and her children travel from Buenos Aires to the small Spanish village where she was born to attend her sister's wedding. Unexpected events soon lead to a crisis that exposes the family's hidden past. Suspicions mount, loved ones begin to turn...
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When Sreykeo, a Phnom Penh bar-girl, meets Ben, a European seeking adventure in Cambodia, the chemistry is immediate and they fall in love. After Ben returns home to Germany, Sreykeo reveals that she is HIV-positive; Ben immediately feels he must help her. In doing so he quickly discovers a world where not everyone is dealt the same cards and where motivations are not always pure.. Starring David Kross (War Horse, The Reader) and newcomer Apinya Sakuljaroensuk,...
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Sisters Jin (Hee-yeon Kim) and Bin (Song-hee Kim) must fend for themselves when their mother abruptly packs her things, leaving the girls in the care of their alcoholic aunt without a word as to when she'll return. In a tale of innocence lost, the sisters try to make sense of their mother's absence. But in the meantime, 6-year-old Jin will be forced to mature far beyond her tender years.
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Winner of more than 25 top honors at film festivals worldwide, revered Chinese director Wu Tianming's THE KING OF MASKS is a poignant tale about a lonely old magician and a luckless child bound together by fate and suffering, and redeemed by the power of love. THE KING OF MASKS is an elderly master of the Sichuan opera art of changing silk masks so quickly that it appears to be magic. Bereft from the loss of his family many years ago, the old man...
5) Violent Cop
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In his explosive directorial debut Japanese renaissance man-cum-comedian-extraordinaire Takeshi "Beat"Kitano plays vicious rogue homicide Detective Azuma who takes on a sadistic crime syndicate only to discover widespread internal corruption in the police force. Facing criminal charges for his unorthodox "Dirty Harry"type methods, Azuma finds himself caught in a web of betrayal and intrigue that sends him on a bloody trail of vengeance. But when his...
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Le France of the collection of films - Tales of Ordinary People. These two now classic shorts, Le Franc and La petite vendeuse de Soleil (The Little Girl who Sold the Sun) by the iconoclastic Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambety were originally intended as a trilogy under the title, Tales of Ordinary People. Mambety’s untimely death in 1998 prevented the completion of the third film.. Mambety had a genius for constructing allegories or fables...
7) Riding Bean
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Bean Bandit is the top courier in the Chicago area, and a man who isn't shy about operating on the wrong side of the law. Of course, his clients must also pay a pretty penny for his speedy services. Unfortunately, Bean's reputation catches up with him when he is framed for kidnapping a 10 year-old girl, whom he doesn't realize is in trouble, by a group of shady criminals.
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Banned in its native Philippines, Midnight Dancers tells the story of three brothers who work as exotic dancers and prostitutes in a Manila gay club. Joel has been selling himself for seven years and at 23 is ready to quit. Dennis has joined a violent street gang and deliberately flirts with danger. Sonny, the youngest brother, returns from the University to find work, but soon is forced to join his brothers on the stage and in the back rooms. As...
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An attractive and successful doctor places a personal ad in a newspaper to try to meet (and eventually marry) Mr. Right. A succession of blind dates ensues, featuring men who are lonely, desperate, dangerous, perverted or all of the above. From a tightfisted businessman to a shy writer who brings his mother to a shoe fetishist and a pimp looking for call girls, the woman meets them all and patiently listens to their stories. What they don't know is...
10) Otaku No Video
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An outrageous mockumentary that combines animation with strange interviews of animation fans.
11) Captive
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In this relentless thriller, French star Isabelle Huppert brings passion and courage to her portrayal of a hostage caught in a seemingly hopeless situation. At a beach resort in the Philippines, 20 guests are kidnapped by an Islamic separatist group fighting for their independence. French social worker Therese Bourgoine is among those taken to a jungle island, with the Filipino army in pursuit. As the captors and their hostages journey through dense...
12) The Hidden Blade
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The Hidden Blade concerns Yaichiro, a warrior who must leave his family in the care of two other samurai after he answers a request for his services in another town. Muenezo and Samon do their best to protect the family when they come under attack during Yaichiro's absence.
13) Boiling Point
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Ono Masahiko is an unlucky gas station attendant who belongs to a losing junior baseball team. When the local yakuza threaten and capture his coach, he and a friend get more than they bargained for when they travel to Okinawa seeking revenge. This is the second feature film from renowned action auteur Takeshi "Beat"Kitano.
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Based on the best-selling novel set during China's cultural revolution, this acclaimed film is about two young men, university students, who are sent to a remote mountain village for a Maoist re-education, to purge them of their decadent Western education. Amid the back-breaking work and stifling ignorance of the community, the local beauties are the only respite from their miserable life. But none compare to the granddaughter of the region’s tailor....
15) Electric Shadows
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From one of China's most nuanced cinematic voices comes a charming tale set into motion by a disastrous encounter: delivery man Dabing crashes his bike into the mysterious Ling Ling. From her hospital bed, Ling Ling asks Dabing to go to her home and feed her fish; while there, Dabing discovers an astonishing diary. In its pages he reads stories of a little girl’s passion for the movies, which re-ignites his own longing for the days when the cinema...
16) LouLou
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One evening Nelly meets Loulou, a down-and-out young man. After her husband kicks her out, she goes off to live with Loulou. She is soon with child, but Loulou doesn't change his wayward life, spending time with his pals and pulling off small-time robberies. Deeply hurt by his attitude, Nelly decides not to keep the baby.
17) Alleluia
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A murderous womanizer and his latest paramour, herself unhinged by desire, embark on a deadly odyssey amplified by wild sex, unbridled jealousy, and passionate forays into the dark arts in this smart, chilling tale from Fabrice du Welz...Festivals:..Austin Fantastic Fest - Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Film, Best Director..Magritte Awards, Belgium - Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Production Design
18) Little England
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Set on the picturesque Greek island of Andros, Little England is the name of a pre war shipping enterprise. The opening scene of crashing surf is a forbearance of the story‘s turbulent and tragic events. 20 year-old Orsa is passionately in love with second mate Spyros, which she dares not reveal to anyone, least of all her domineering mother, Mina, herself the wife of a captain who prefers the seas over Andros. Without considering the girls desire...
19) Concrete Night
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A stunning, dream-like odyssey through a beautiful and otherworldly Helsinki over the course of one evening, CONCRETE NIGHT follows the impressionable 14-year-old Simo as he keeps his soon-to-be incarcerated brother company. The official Finnish submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film captures the pain and joy of youth through exquisite, eye-popping black-and-white cinematography.
20) L'Iceberg
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Fiona is the manager of a fast-food restaurant. She lives comfortably with her family in the suburbs. In other words, Fiona is happy. Until the day she accidentally gets locked into a walk-in freezer. She escapes the next morning, half frozen and barely alive, only to realize that her husband and two children didn't even notice she was missing. But when Fiona develops an obsession for everything cold and icy - snow, polar bears, refrigerators, icebergs...
