Zero Year: 2009 Country: Poland Genre: Action /Drama Director: Pawel Borowski Mark: 1 to 5 [1] Plot: The day rises in a huge unspecified metropolis. A cell phone rings in a big manager’s cabinet on an international corporation’s building. A businessman looks at the cell’s screen for a while, and then he finally answers. It [...]
Continue Reading...Mamachas of the Ring Year: 2009 Country: USA / Bolivia Genre: Documentary Director: Betty M. Park Mark: 1 to 5 [2] Plot: The story of Carmen Rosa the Champion, a cholita and wrestler who struggles to make it on her own in the male-dominated world of Bolivian professional wrestling. In 2004, Carmen Rosa was at [...]
Continue Reading...I Killed My Mother Year: 2009 Country: Canada Genre: Biography/Drama Director: Xavier Dolan Mark: 1 to 5 [5!] Plot: Hubert Minel, a brash 17-year-old, dislikes his mother intensely. He gauges her with contempt, only seeing her out-of-date sweaters, her kitschy decor and the vile bread crumbs that lodge in the corners of her noisy mouth. [...]
Continue Reading...The Stoning Of Soraya M Year: 2009 Country: USA Genre: Crime/Drama Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh Mark: 1 to 5 [5] Plot: Stranded in a remote Iranian village, a French journalist is approached by Zahra, a woman who has a harrowing tale to tell about her niece, Soraya, and the bloody circumstances of her death the day [...]
Continue Reading...Dear Lemon Lima Year: 2009 Country: USA Genre: Comedy / Fiction Director: Suzi Yoonessi Mark: 1 to 5 [4] Plot: Vanessa Lemor, 13, a lonely Yup’ik girl, is dumped by her true love – intellectual Philip Georgey,14 – and spends the summer obsessing over the heartbreaking tragedy. She counts down the days to fall semester [...]
Continue Reading...Backyard Year: 2009 Country: Mexico Genre: Drama/Crime/Mystery/Thriller Director: Carlos Carrera Mark: 1 to 5 [3] Plot: Blanca Bravo is a policewoman trained at the Police Academy in Mexico City. She is young, strong stern and idealistic. Upon her arrival in Ciudad Juárez, she has to cope with the string of murdered women, two each month [...]
Continue Reading...Czar Year: 2009 Country: Russia Genre: Drama/History Director: Pavel Lungin Mark: 1 to 5 [2] Plot: 1565. While the Polish enemy is advancing into Russian territory, czar Ivan IV, known as Ivan the Terrible, is sinking into mystical madness. His personal militia is tormenting the people and the nobles, which causes the metropolitan, the head [...]
Continue Reading...Bananas! Year: 2009 Country: Sweden Genre: Documentary Director: Fredrik Gertten Mark: 1 to 5 [2] Plot: The world’s biggest fruit company – Dole Food Company – is on trial in the USA by the accusation of poisoning their workers. For the first time in history, a small US law firm represents Nicaraguan workers, who claim [...]
Continue Reading...The Dispensables Year: 2009 Country: German Genre: Drama Director: Andreas Arnstedt Mark: 1 to 5 [3] Plot: The tragic story being told in this movie is about an eleven year old child growing up in a lower working class family. The mother’s alcoholism reached a level that brought her in a psychiatry ward for detoxification [...]
Continue Reading...Persecution Year: 2009 Country: France Genre: Drama Director: Patrice Chéreau Mark: 1 to 5 [5] Plot: Daniel, 35, lives a busy but solitary existence that’s peppered by his troubled affair with Sonia, a woman he seems to both love and loath, but can’t get enough of. Out of nowhere, a mysterious man shows up in [...]
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