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A Bittersweet Life (2005)Dalkomhan insaeng
Sun-woo (Lee Byung-hun) is no ordinary hotel manager. He is also the ruthlessly efficient right hand man of underworld boss, Kang (Kim Yeong-cheol). But tough guy Kang has a weakness; his young girlfriend. Suspecting she's unfaithful, Kang orders Sun-woo to take care of the problem. When Sun-woo discovers her with another man, he uncharacteristically grants them mercy. Kang is furious and orders his gang members to hunt down Sun-woo. With nerves of steel, Sun-woo battles the gang alone. With each kill, he takes one step closer to his final confrontation with Kang. - Director:
- Jee-woon Kim
- Cast:
- Jung-min Hwang, Yu-mi Jung, Ku Jin
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Good Morning, Night (2003)Buongiorno, Notte
Good Morning, Night is based on the dramatic true story of the kidnapping of Italy's former Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978, a crime which stunned the nation. Maya Sansa is superb as Chiara, a young woman whose composed exterior masks her true identity as a member of the extreme terrorist underground group The Red Brigade, who plan to kidnap Moro for his supposed crimes. But the successful execution of the plan plunges the country into crisis and the formidable realities of holding captive an eminent politician creates tensions within the group. As the situation nears crisis point, Chiara begins to question her own motivations and convictions. Marco Bellocchio's riveting and thought provoking film sensitively explores complex moral issues that remain frighteningly relevant to the world today. - Director:
- Marco Bellocchio
- Cast:
- Maya Sansa, Fabio Camilli, Luigi Lo Cascio
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Pulse (2001)Kairo
Before 'The Grudge', before 'Dark Water', there was 'Pulse', one of the scariest films ever made from the master of Japanese horror, Kiyoshi Kurosawa. At Sunny Planet Sales in Tokyo, a group of friends are concerned about Taguchi, a colleague who owes them a computer disc for a project and hasn't been returning phone calls. When co-worker Michi (Kumiko Aso) visits Taguchi's apartment to check on him, he seems fine. But within minutes, Taguchi has hanged himself. Michi flees the apartment, taking the disc, which may contain the most deadly computer virus ever created... When Taguchi subsequently reappears as a ghostly presence on their computer and video screens, is he trying to contact his friends from beyond the grave or is there something more sinister afoot? Soon, there are more sudden deaths and disappearances within the group, terrifying rooms sealed in red tape, and the appearance of more ghosts as the city of Tokyo - and the world - is slowly drained of life. - Director:
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Cast:
- Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Asô, Koyuki
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The Holy Girl (2004)La Nina Santa
Lucrecia Martel's outstanding new film is an enigmatic and absorbing tale about the temptation of good and the evil it causes. Sixteen year old schoolgirl Amalia (Maria Alche) lives with her divorcee mother, the manager of a shabby hotel which is hosting a medical conference. When a stranger makes a crude pass at her in a crowded street, Amalia later discovers that it was in fact one of the distinguished conference attendees, Dr Jano (Carlos Belloso). Consumed by the heady combination of her fervent religious education and burgeoning sexuality, Amalia resolves to save the respected doctor from sin, a mission that brings both their works to the brink of collapse. - Director:
- Lucrecia Martel
- Cast:
- Mercedes Morán, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta
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Maggie Cheung stars as the conflicted and confused Emily Wang in writer/director Olivier Assayas' film. Her past riddled with drug use, crime and the recent death of her (once famous rock-star) partner, Emily begins a journey of self discovery to reconnect with the son she abandoned long ago. Co-starring Nick Nolte and Beatrice Dalle, Clean is an absorbing and haunting film about self discovery and redemption. - Director:
- Olivier Assayas
- Cast:
- Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle
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Dig! is the widely acclaimed, fascinating documentary that tracks the tumultuous rise and fall of two talented musicians and their bands; Courtney Taylor, leader of the Dandy Warhols and Anton Newcombe, leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre. Shot over seven years and culled from over 1500 hours of footage, Dig! dissects their star-crossed friendship and bitter rivalry as they battle between selling records and selling out. - Director:
- Ondi Timoner
- Cast:
- Anton Newcombe, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Joel Gion
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Welcome to Club Exotica, a place where fantasies can become reality but where illusion runs amuck. Here, in a murky underworld of lust and longing, a lonely accountant named Francis falls for Christina, one of the dancers. Although Christina is already involved with someone, the club owner pushes her towards Francis and a dangerous game of deceit and duplicity begins... A multi-layered and mysterious portrayal of lives shaped by desire and delusion, Atom Egoyan's bold erotic thriller is a stunning combination of directorial flair and keen philosophical insight... - Director:
- Atom Egoyan
- Cast:
- Bruce Greenwood, Elias Koteas, Don McKellar
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"Primer" is set in the industrial park/suburban tract-home fringes of an unnamed contemporary city where two young engineers, Abe (David Sullivan) and Aaron (Shane Carruth), are members of a small group of men who work by day for a large corporation while conducting extracurricular experiments on their own time in a garage. While tweaking their current project, a device that reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it by blocking gravitational pull, they accidentally discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next. - Director:
- Shane Carruth
- Cast:
- Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden
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The Child (2005)L'Enfant
A powerful, gripping and suspenseful drama that packs a devastating emotional force, 'The Child' stars Jeremie Renier, who is outstanding as Bruno, a young petty thief who has fathered a baby with his 18 year old girlfriend Sonia. But when the temptation of easy money leads him to commit an act of shocking recklessness, its grave repercussions force a remorseful Bruno into a desperate and dangerous attempt to make amends. - Director:
- Jean-Pierre Dardenne
- Cast:
- Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Jérémie Segard
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"The summer I was 8 years old, five hours disappeared from my life. Five hours... lost... gone without a trace" Ten years later, Brian Lackey is still tormented by the black hole in his life - the five missing hours that have left him convinced he was abducted by aliens. In the same small Kansas town, another teen has no such worries. A hustler wise beyond his years, he has only one thing on his mind; sex and the path his urges are going to take. Searching for answers, both boys separately head for New York City, where a twist of fate brings them together to realize that their future happiness lies in exorcising the collective demons of their past. - Director:
- Gregg Araki
- Cast:
- Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue
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Kings and Queen (2004)Rois Et Reine
Arnaud Desplechin's stunning new film interweaves two stories, that of Nora (Emmanuelle Devos), a single mother about to marry for the third time, with the tale of her eccentric ex-husband Ismael (Mathieu Amalric), committed to a psychiatric ward by mistake and convinced of his own tragic destiny. Their lives intersect once more when Nora, troubled by her young son's uneasy relationship with her new fiance and the failing health of her father, visits Ismael with an unusual proposition that she hopes will solve her problems. - Director:
- Arnaud Desplechin
- Cast:
- Emmanuelle Devos, Geoffrey Carey, Thierry Bosc
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King's Game (2004)Kongekabale
The film tells the story of a young, ambitious journalist Ulrik Torp who is assigned the job of parliamentary reporter for a top Danish newspaper and uncovers a ruthless conspiracy that involves the country's incumbent Prime Minister. He becomes obsessed with bringing the truth to light, but neither his colleagues nor the politicans are willing to listen to him as he finds himself battling against the people in power. As election day draws nearer, Ulrik has to face the power elite on his own. - Director:
- Nikolaj Arcel
- Cast:
- Anders W. Berthelsen, Søren Pilmark, Nastja Arcel
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3-Iron (2004)Bin-Jip
"3-Iron" is an enchanting and ghostly love story set in modern day Korea. Tae-suk (Hee Jae) is a young drifter who enters strangers' houses - and lives - whilst their owners are away. He spends a night or a day in each house, repaying the owner's unwitting hospitality by doing their laundry or small repairs. His life changes when he enters the mansion of a wealthy businessman. Inside, he discovers that he's not alone - Sun-hwa (Seung-yeon Lee), a former model, is quietly crouching inside her bedroom, her face badly bruised. When Sun-hwa's abusive husband (Hyuk-ho Kwon) returns, Tae-suk takes her away and the two begin living a ghostly existence in strangers' empty homes. - Director:
- Ki-duk Kim
- Cast:
- Seung-yeon Lee, Hyun-kyoon Lee, Hyuk-ho Kwon
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Francois Ozon's highly acclaimed latest film focuses on the five key moments in the life of a modern couple. 5x2 examines Gilles (Stephane Freiss) and Marion's (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) turbulent marriage, but the story is told in reverse order beginning with the divorce and ending with their very first meeting. - Director:
- François Ozon
- Cast:
- Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Stéphane Freiss, Françoise Fabian
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Inheritance (2003)Arven
Christoffer, heir to a vast industrial fortune, has abandoned the family business for an idyllic life with wife Maria, a beautiful stage actress. When his father commits suicide, Christoffer must return to Denmark to face the life he left behind. What he finds is a business on the brink of bankruptcy, a brother-in-law scheming for control and a domineering mother who insists Christoffer take control of the family business. His decision will force him to choose between two colliding worlds, between loyalty to his family and the woman he loves. - Director:
- Per Fly
- Cast:
- Ulrich Thomsen, Lisa Werlinder, Ghita Nørby
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