In this tense thriller an everyday Joe, laid off from his job, finds a freelance gig that involves nothing in the way of pay but plenty in the way of murderous pleasure! A tense and twisted tale of life and death in modern South Korea...
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.
Baptiste is a loner. He is a gifted primary teacher living in the south of France but never remains in the same job for more than a term, rejecting any offer for permanent employment. When he is left unwittingly in charge of a pupil one weekend by the child's negligent father, the boy takes Baptiste to his mother Sandra, a dazzling but fragile woman who works on the beach near Montpellier. An erratic parent who longs to make amends, she welcomes Baptiste and her son into her bungalow. For one enchanted day, a powerful spell unites them, sparking the beginnings of a family for those who do not have one. But it won't last. Sandra owes money and her creditors are moving in. She is forced to flee again. To help her, Baptiste will have to confront his troubled past and the darkest, most painful secrets within him...
Time Traveller (2010)Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time / Toki o kakeru shôjo
In 2010 pharmaceutical researcher Kazuko Yoshiyama (Narumi Yasuda) is injured in a car accident. Her daughter Akari (Riisa Naka) uses Kazuko's newly completed time-travel potion to leap back in search of a mystery man from her mother's past... but misjudges the date and arrives two years late, in the year 1974. There, she enlists the help of reluctant student filmmaker Ryota (Akiyoshi Nakao), in a race against time to find a man that nobody remembers.
Summer in Berlin. Jonas is planning a trip through the little know area of the Uckermark In preparation for a photography project. He invites his best friend, Phillip, to come along. They've only seen each other a few times since their time together in London. So they pack up their Mercedes camper and take off across uncharted territory, stopping when they see something nice, taking pictures and generally enjoying a laid-back road trip. That Phillip's gay is not an issue for either of them. When they pick up a hitchhiker named Boris who shows Jonas interesting spots and starts to make moves on Phillip. The friendship of the two starts to fray. Maybe three's a crowd after all? By the end of the summer, things between Jonas and Phillip will never be the same. "You and I" is a road movie across an unknown area of Germany, a romantic comedy about friendship, with little baggage, but spontaneous humor and wit. In short: images of a summer you're not likely to forget.
A sailor, Farrel, leaves his ship and begins a lengthy journey to wintry Tierra del Fuego's interior, to an isolated village and family that he hasn't seen in years. The route seems familiar to him, and we gradually piece together his relationship with the people and community he finds there. From the opening sequences on Farrel's ship, to the spectacular harshness of his destination, Alonso is meticulous in mapping the sights and sounds of the landscape and Farrel's personal journey into the past.
A border post on the Macedonian-Albanian is thrown into disarray when it's commander discovers he has syphilis, creating chaos in his bid to avoid his wife and admitting his infidelity.
Set in an alternate 1999 it presents a world living under the threat of quiet annihilation as a nuclear satellite spirals out of its orbit and back to Earth. As human beings seem to put their lives on hold, a young woman is chased across the globe with a mysterious fugitive who has absconded with a secret government project that might perhaps alter the fate of mankind itself.
In this terrifying apocalyptic horror, a mysterious epidemic like no other has swept across the globe, leaving chaos in its wake. With the world's population unable to go outside for fear of an inexplicable and painful death, the population is now forced to live like savages in the darkness. Terror and famine take hold and, despite gruesome reports of cannibalism, survivors Marc and Enrique embark upon a treacherous journey to be reunited with their loved ones in the hope they too are still alive. Battling unimaginable horror at every turn, the two men soon become caught in a conflict far worse than they could ever have imagined...
Extinction tells the story of a disparate group of people who must struggle to survive in a suddenly hostile environment after a retrovirus has plunged the world into an undead apocalypse. Within a week of the retrovirus being released, 90% of the world's population has been infected. Soon the survivors realise that their nightmare has only just begun, as the people they once knew are now the monsters they must fight.
Long distance lorry driver Ruben (German de Silva) agrees to drive'Jacinta (Hebe Duarte) and her 5 month old child en route from Paraguay to-Buenos Aires. As the miles slowly melt the two damaged souls, LAS ACACIAS grows into a heart rending tale about a passing encounter between two strangers and the unlikely bond that grows between them.
In 1960, a post-Nazi world, a travelling Doctor strikes up a relationship with a local Argentinian family, in particular their daughter Lilith, a lonely 12-year-old girl who unknowingly becomes close friends with one of the world's most terrifying Nazi war criminals, Josef Mengele A.K.A . 'The Angel Of Death', who is on the run for his crimes in Auschwitz.
When unemployed teacher and single mother Magda (Penélope Cruz) is diagnosed with breast cancer, she begins to doubt everything around her. While watching her son play football she meets talent scout Arturo (Luis Tosar) who takes a shine to both Magda and her son. When Arturo receives a phone call with news that his wife and daughter have been in a car accident, Magda goes with him to the hospital. As she has told no-one else of her illness, Magda decides to confide in Arturo and the two grow closer, bonding over ill fate. When she discovers that she is pregnant Magda realises that she has something to live for and changes her ways to ensure she is around to see her daughter grow up.
French Kisses (2016)Herculanum / Apollo / Body of Angels / In Return / Ruptures (ou André et Gabriel) / Electric July
Be seduced by the best gay stories France has to offer, in this exquisite collection of sexy shorts. From tales of teenage sexual awakening, to searing studies of complex adult relationships, these six films are both quintessentially French and undeniably Universal.
French Kisses Include:
- Apollo (2016)
- Herculaneum (2016)
- The Body of Angels (2016)
- In Return (2013)
- Ruptures (2016)
- Electric July (2014)
Tbilisi, 1992: Civil war is raging in the capital of the newly independent Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Amidst the mayhem, two inseparable fourteen-year-old friends, Natia and Eka, find their childhood coming to an end, with dysfunctional families, broken relationships and volatile politics all coming to a head. But the problems of disillusioned love, early marriage and oppressive male dominance will suddenly be thrown into sharp relief when one of the girls is given a gun...
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