dmb's - Rented List
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Times and Winds (2008)Bes vakit
This award-winning and critically acclaimed film follows the lives of three friends on the verge of adolescence in a remote Turkish mountain village. Struggling variously with deeply felt familiar rage and responsibilities, burgeoning sexuality and guilt-ridden desire, the children find themselves detached from the customs and traditions of their community and consumed by the ennui of daily village life. Featuring remarkable performances from the young cast and stunning visuals, 'Time and Winds' us a hypnotic and beautifully observed portrait of a parochial society, disaffected youth and the end of innocence. - Director:
- Reha Erdem
- Cast:
- Ozen Ozkan, Ali Bey Kayali, Elit Iscan
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The ingenious dual narrative exerts a powerful and emotional grip, as inspector Erlendur’s crime investigation reveals a far darker and more sinister case. Within the small Icelandic community Orn is mourning the death of his four-year-old daughter, lost to rare congenital disease with fierceness that borders on obsessions. These seemingly unrelated story lines wave tighter with calculated precision. - Director:
- Baltasar Kormákur
- Cast:
- Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
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The Chaser (2008)Chugyeogja
In a breathless race against time to find a ruthless killer, the survival of one woman depends on the quest of a fallen cop with a thirst for vengeance. Ex-detective-turned-pimp Jung-Ho's night is getting messy. Convinced his girls are running out on him, he sends one of his last remaining girls, Mi-Jin (Yeong-hie Seo), on a desperate last minute job. Too late, however, he makes a bone chilling discovery: this customer's home is where all his missing girls were last sent. Fearing the worst, Jung-Ho's relentless pursuit of Mi-Jin ends in a terrifying chase through the city streets after a car crash throws a blood spattered suspect into his path. Calling in old favours, Jung-Ho (Yoon-Seok Kim) is certain he has caught this ruthless killer. But despite a disturbing confession, the lack of evidence means this cold-hearted psychopath might soon be freed by the bureaucratic police force. If he is to find Mi-Jin still alive, Jung-Ho, armed with few dues but filled with street-smart and savage determination, has just 12 hours to find the killer's lair, before he is set free to end her life and continue his reign of terror. - Director:
- Hong-jin Na
- Cast:
- Yun-seok Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Yeong-hie Seo
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Wagner is an assassin. A contract killer. He's a professional who works by a strict set of rules, principles and ethics. But Wagner's getting old and wants to pass on all his skills and knowledge to a protege. So he chooses Max - a directionless young petty thief - to be his student in the art of murdering for money. - Director:
- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Cast:
- Michel Serrault, Mathieu Kassovitz, Mehdi Benoufa
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Import / Export (2007)Import Export
A tour de force journey through modern-day Europe, 'Import Export' tells two parallel stories: Olga (Ekateryna Rak) who leaves behind her mother and young child in the Ukraine to seek out a better life in Vienna; and a headstrong young security guard (Paul Hofmann) who leaves Vienna to accompany his stepfather on a trip delivering gumball machines in Eastern Europe. Hailed by critics as a startling and bold film, it is without doubt recent European cinema's most provocative and audacious investigation of the post-Soviet universe and the new relations between East and West. - Director:
- Ulrich Seidl
- Cast:
- Ekateryna Rak, Lidiya Oleksandrivna Savka, Oksana Ivanivna Sklyarenko
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Set within the gates communities of Mexico, La Zona follows three young men from the wrong side of the fence who manage to break into ‘The Zone’. After an attempted burglary goes badly wrong the boys flee for their lives, however, one gets left behind and hides. The members of La Zona decide to brandish their own form of justice and a group of vigilantes is despatched to ‘take care’ of the intruder. What follows is a dramatic cat-and-mouse game that incorporates family tensions and an impotent police force and poses the questions: ‘How far would you go to protect your home?’ - Director:
- Rodrigo Plá
- Cast:
- Daniel Giménez Cacho, Maribel Verdú, Daniel Tovar
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Fired from her job, broke and with her judgement clouded by too many vodka shots, Julia hits rock bottom and hatches a reckless plan to kidnap the 8 year-old grandson of a wealthy businessman and hold the boy to ransom. But she finds herself totally unprepared for life as a fugitive with a terrified child in tow, and events soon spiral wildly out of control. With both the authorities and a brutal criminal gang on her tail, a desperate Julia finds herself locked in a deadly fight for survival. - Director:
- Erick Zonca
- Cast:
- Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo
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Tokyo Sonata (2008)Tôkyô sonata
When Ryuhei Sasaki (played by Teruyuki Kagawa) is unceremoniously dumped from his 'safe' company job, his family's happy, humdrum life is put at risk. Unwilling to accept the shame of unemployment, the loyal salaryman decides not to tell anyone, instead leaving home each morning in suit and tie with briefcase, spending his days searching for work and lining up for soup with the homeless. Outstanding performances; serene, elegant direction; and Kurosawa's trademark chills are evident as he ratchets up the unsettling atmosphere and the grim hopelessness of Sasaki's unemployment. - Director:
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Cast:
- Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi
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The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom
Set in the 1930's Manchurian desert where lawlessness rules, three Korean men fatefully meet each other on a train. Do-Won (Jung Woo-sung) is a bounty hunter who tracks down dangerous criminals. Chang- yi (Lee Byung-hun) is the leader of a group of tough-as- nails bandits. Tae-goo (Song Kang-ho) is a train robber with nine lives. The three strangers engage in a chase across Manchuria to take possession of a map Tae-goo discovers while robbing the train. Also on the hunt for the mysterious map are the Japanese army and Asian bandits. In this unpredictable, escalating battle for the map, who will stand as the winner in the end? - Director:
- Jee-woon Kim
- Cast:
- Kang-ho Song, Byung-hun Lee, Woo-sung Jung
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Police, Adjective (2009)Politist, adjectiv
A cop suffers from a crisis of conscience when he is assigned to gather evidence against a college student dabbling with soft drugs. An intelligent satire of bureaucracy, 'Police, Adjective' is the acclaimed new film from the director of the award winning '12:08 - East of Bucharest'. Arguing for leniency to be shown towards what he regards as youthful irresponsibility, he finds his superiors have a very different interpretation of morality and the law. - Director:
- Corneliu Porumboiu
- Cast:
- Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Ion Stoica
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Following a mass layoff at a clothing factory, ex-con Louise (Yolande Moreau) inspires her dejected colleagues to pool together their redundancy cheques to 'whack' their callous former boss. While 'security specialist' Michel (Bouli Lanners) seems like the perfect candidate to carry out the hit, his ineptitude is so great that he attempts to sub-contract the job to a series of inexperienced - and highly inappropriate - assassins. - Director:
- Gustave Kervern
- Cast:
- Yolande Moreau, Bouli Lanners, Benoît Poelvoorde
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Thomas Dekker stars as Smith, a permanently horny 18 year-old college freshman who hangs out with his sardonic lesbian best friend Stella (Hayley Bennett), lusts after his straight roommate Thor (Chris Zylka) and gets it on with free-spirit London (Juno Temple). But one fateful night, Smith believes he's witnessed a murder whilst tripping on some hallucinogenic cookies and gets drawn deep into a mystery that will not only change his life forever, but the destiny of the entire world. - Director:
- Gregg Araki
- Cast:
- Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Chris Zylka
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With traffic accidents in Argentina on the rise, bodies become currency and a flourishing black market strives to get rich from the personal tragedies that litter the streets. Sosa (Ricardo Darin) is an ambulance-chasing personal injury lawyer with questionable ethics. Lujan (Martina Gusman) is a young, idealistic country doctor new to the city. As their lives become intertwined, they form an unlikely romance that becomes threatened by Sosa's turbulent past. - Director:
- Pablo Trapero
- Cast:
- Ricardo Darín, Martina Gusman, Carlos Weber
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Carlos the Jackal (2010)"Carlos"
For two decades, Carlos was the most wanted terrorist on earth. In various disguises and under numerous pseudonyms he headed a worldwide organisation responsible for ruthless killings, hijackings and bombings. Professional revolutionary, playboy, dandy and assassin, he left a trail of destruction and broken hearts in his wake as he went about his lethal travels across the world. This is the story of Carlos the Jackal. - Director:
- Olivier Assayas
- Cast:
- Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Fadi Abi Samra
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Beautiful scenery, exquisite gourmet cuisine and inspired, free-flowing, improvised comedy from two of the finest comic actors around. Steve Coogan has been commissioned by a Sunday newspaper to review half a dozen restaurants in the North of England. When his food-loving American girlfriend backs out, Steve is faced with a week of meals for one. Reluctantly, he calls Rob Brydon, the only person he can think of who will be available. Heading north in a stylish black Range Rover, the pair begin a journey of bickering, jokes and reflection. Across the dinner tables of the North's best restaurants, the neurotic and sardonic Coogan and the genial, eager-to-entertain Brydon spar on anything from Coleridge or career insecurities to which of them does the best Michael Caine impression. Out of a relationship between two friends spending more time in one another's company than they might wish, emerges sparkling dialogue, real poignancy and great laugh-out loud comedy. - Director:
- Michael Winterbottom
- Cast:
- Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Paul Popplewell
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