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This stunning first feature by 25-year-old director David Gordon Green captures one hot summer in the lives of a group of children in a poor rural North Carolina town. When an innocent game goes horrifically wrong, the kids find themselves caught up in a tragic lie, catapulted into a world of adult choices. A hauntingly beautiful, warm, compassionate and humorous film that lingers in the mind long after the closing credits. - Director:
- David Gordon Green
- Cast:
- Candace Evanofski, Donald Holden, Damian Jewan Lee
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The Golden Dream (2013)La Jaula De Oro
Three teenagers jump 'The Beast' - the infamous train that illegal immigrants board to take them from Guatemala, through Mexico, to the American border. The journey to a better life is fraught with danger. Facing exploitation at every turn, the only people they can trust on this perilous journey are each other. - Director:
- Diego Quemada-Díez
- Cast:
- Ramón Medína, Karen Martinez, Brandon Lopez
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The Bridesmaid (2004)La demoiselle d'honneur
Philippe Tardieu lives with his mother, Christine, and two sisters, Sophie and Patricia, in the suburbs of Nantes and works as a salesman. Christine does hairdressing at home to earn some spare change. Sophie, the eldest sister, is getting married to Jacky. As for Patricia, the youngest sister, she tries as best she can to escape she's not sure what. At the wedding Philippe falls in love with Senta, one of the bridesmaids. It is love at first sight and, soon, Philippe spends all his nights with Senta, neglecting his mother and his younger sister. Senta's love is very exclusive and demanding. One day, she tells Philippe that, if he really loves her, he should kill a man, any man, for her. The next day, in order to please Senta and as a joke, Philippe says to her that he's responsible for the murder of a down-and-out. Senta believes him and says that she will do the same for him. When the corpse of another man is found, a panicking Philippe starts to wonder. - Director:
- Claude Chabrol
- Cast:
- Benoît Magimel, Laura Smet, Aurore Clément
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Budding poet Amy (Emma Roberts) is young, beautiful and top of her class. She's also single, unemployed and saddled with a monstrous student debt. Between drunken frat boys, creepy flatmates and an endless stream of rejection letters, her prospects look grim. Desperate to make ends meet, Amy takes a job cleaning toilets in an adult bookstore. Dealing the shops eccentric customers leaves little time for writing, but there are bright spots among the madness, including affable young manager Alex (Evan Peters). Determined to win the heart of notorious celebrity poet Rat Billings (John Cusack), Amy offers to become his protege. But crusty, reclusive Rat is more interested in the whisky bottle and a series of disastrous encounters leaves Amy more disillusioned than ever. Will she ever be able to find her authentic voice, join the adult world and win the acclaim of her idol? Or has true love been staring her in the face all along? - Director:
- Scott Coffey
- Cast:
- Emma Roberts, Evan Peters, John Cusack
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Sparrow (2008)Man Jeuk
Daily proceedings of a band of pick-pockets are disrupted by the sudden appearance of a beautiful and mysterious lady, who turns the tables on them. Following her trail, the pick-pockets are led to a face-off on the streets of Hong Kong with a rival pick-pocket gang, with both gangs vying for the possession of this enigmatic lady. - Director:
- Johnnie To
- Cast:
- Simon Yam, Kelly Lin, Ka Tung Lam
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Robert Scott (Val Kilmer) is a US government secret agent A man hardened by years of brutal service, he is feared by his peers and enemies alike. His newest assignment is to find Laura Newton (Kristen Bell), the teenaged daughter of a high government official, who appears to have been kidnapped. The pressure is on for Scott and his novice partner Curtis (Derek Luke), to find the girl fast, before the story leaks. Working with a special task force, Scott and Curtis stumble upon a plot more sinister than expected. With a white slavery ring and Stoddard (William H. Macy), a corrupt political operative to contend with, the pair find themselves at the centre of a dangerous conspiracy. - Director:
- David Mamet
- Cast:
- Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy
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Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013)Nugu-ui Ttal-do Anin Haewon
After her mother leaves for Canada in the hope of starting a new life, film student and aspiring actress Haewon begins to sink into a deep depression. In the hope of finding solace, she re-ignites an affair with her ex-lover, a much older married professor. But within the kaleidoscopic inner world of her emotions, her dreams slowly begin to interweave with her reality and evolve into something that will change her life forever. - Director:
- Sang-soo Hong
- Cast:
- Jeong Eun-Chae, Sun-kyun Lee, Joon-sang Yoo
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Bleak Night (2010)Pasookkoon
"Bleak Night" is the story of a grieving father (Jo Sung-ha) over the death of his son Ji-tae (Lee Je-hoon) and trying to make sense of it all. After going through Ji-tae's things and stumbling on a few pictures of him and his friends, Ji-tae's father attempts to track them down to inquire just what could possibly lead to his son committing suicide. His journey leads him to Hye-jun (Park Jung-min) and Dong-yoon (Seo Jun- young) who were once Ji-tae's best friends, but Hye-jun transferred schools a few weeks before Ji-tae's death and Dong-yoon dropped out of school and skipped out on the funeral. As one troubled man chews over everyone continuously giving him answers to everything other than the questions he finds himself repeatedly asking, the delicate and yet intricate boundaries of companionship are pushed to their limits. - Director:
- Sung-Hyun Yoon
- Cast:
- Je-hoon Lee, Jung-min Park, Jun-Young Seo
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A Touch of Sin (2013)Tian Zhu Ding
Inspired by four shocking (and true) events in modern-day capitalist China, 'A Touch of Sin' focuses on four people, living in four different provinces, who are driven to violent ends. An angry miner, enraged by the corruption of his village, decides to take justice into his own hands. A rootless migrant discovers the infinite possibilities of owning a firearm; a receptionist working at a local sauna is pushed to the limit by a wealthy client; and a young factory worker goes from one discouraging job to the next, only to face increasingly degrading circumstances. - Director:
- Zhangke Jia
- Cast:
- Wu Jiang, Baoqiang Wang, Tao Zhao
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When a bus is violently hijacked in a small Japanese town, only three people survive: the guilt wracked driver Makoto (Koji Yakusho), and young brother and sister, Kozue and Naoki. Two years on, each of them, still traumatised by their ordeal, struggle to reengage with life. But then one day Makoto impulsively buys a bus, and sets off with Kozue and Naoki on a long journey across Japan, which becomes a cathartic odyssey of spiritual self-discovery. Shinji Aoyama's beautifully shot drama is a serene and resonant mediation on the psychological scars wrought upon the victims of terror and violence and of the courage and inner strength they must find to survive. - Director:
- Shinji Aoyama
- Cast:
- Kôji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Masaru Miyazaki
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Exiled (2006)Fong Juk
1998. Macua. Every living soul jumps at any chance to make quick money. In this ruthless environment, for jaded hit-men wonder when the violence will end. After being sent to take out a renegade member of their gang, trying to go straight with his wife and newborn baby, they soon find themselves in the throes of a moral dilemma: whether to carry out their orders or defy their criminal boss and protect the life of their old friend. - Director:
- Johnnie To
- Cast:
- Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Libby Brien, Philip Hersh
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Of Horses and Men (2013)Hross í oss
Winner of the Best New Director award at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Benedikt Erlingsson's critically acclaimed debut feature 'Of Horses and Men' is a darkly comic country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Set in the stunning Icelandic countryside, love, death and sex become interlaced in this playful, affectionate yet unflinching portrait of a remote valley community as seen from the horses' perspective. - Director:
- Benedikt Erlingsson
- Cast:
- Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Charlotte Bøving, Steinn Ármann Magnússon
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Academy Award nominee Edward Norton heads an amazing all-star cast in the critically acclaimed Spike Lee film 25th Hour. In 24 short hours, Monty Brogan (Norton) goes to prison for seven long years. Once a king of Manhattan, Monty is about to say goodbye to the life he knew - a life that opened doors to New York's swankiest clubs but also alienated him from the people closest to him. In his last day on the outside, Monty tries to reconnect with his father (Brian Cox), and gets together with two old friends, Jacob (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Slaughtery (Barry Pepper). And then there's his girlfriend, Naturelle (Rosario Dawson), who might (or might not) have been the one who tipped off the cops. Monty's not sure of much these days, but with time running out, there are choices to be made as he struggles to redeem himself in the 25th hour. - Director:
- Spike Lee
- Cast:
- Edward Norton, Barry Pepper, Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Ilo Ilo (2013)Ba Ma Bu Zai Jia
Set in Singapore during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, 'Ilo Ilo' chronicles the day-to-day drama of the Lim family - troublesome grade-schooler Jiale and his over-stressed parents, Heck and Leng. Comfortably middle-class and with another baby on the way, they hire Teresa, a Filipino immigrant, as a live-in maid and nanny. An outsider in both the family and Singapore itself, Teresa initially struggles to manage Jiale's antics and to find her footing in her new community. However, the two eventually form a unique bond, but just as Teresa becomes an unspoken part of the family, unforeseen circumstances in an uncertain economy will challenge the new normal yet again. Touching and beautiful, the film takes the viewer on a life affirming journey through strife, love and loss. - Director:
- Anthony Chen
- Cast:
- Yann Yann Yeo, Yan Wei Tan, Wenhong Huang
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Franck, a business school student in Paris, returns to his parents' family home for an internship at the local factory where his father has been employed for the past 30 years. After years of independence, Franck renews his ties with his family, much to the joy of his proud father and mother. At the factory, Franck is assigned to the Human Resources department where he is convinced that he can bridge the differences between the management and union over the introduction of a 35 hour week. He approaches the task with enthusiasm until he discovers that his approach is serving to accommodate a plan to restructure the company and fire several of the employees. The furious confrontation that ensues will oblige father and son to ponder their relationship while confronting the reality of their own lives, past and future. - Director:
- Laurent Cantet
- Cast:
- Jalil Lespert, Jean-Claude Vallod, Chantal Barré
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