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 is a sloppy fat guy [...]
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 the forefront of a cholita [...]
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 He gauges her with contempt, only seeing her out-of-date sweaters, her kitschy decor and the vile bread crumbs that lodge in the corners of her noisy mouth. Below the surface of these [...]
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 before. As the journalist turns [...]
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 at Nichols School, a close-minded preparatory [...]
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 in average, all of them young [...]
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 of the Russian Church, to resign. [...]
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 to be infertile because of [...]
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 and the father, not really able [...]
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 his apartment. What Daniel believes [...]