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 [...]
Continue Reading...Tokyo! Year: 2008 Country: France, Japan, South Korea and Germany Genre: Drama/Fiction Directors: Michael Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-Ho Mark: 1 to 5 [5] Plot: Three directors examine the peculiar and unforgettable nature of the Japanese megalopolis that doesn’t stop growing. In Michel Gondry’s Interior Design, a young couple tries to adjust itself to Tokyo [...]
Continue Reading...Der Architekt – The Architect Year: 2009 Country: Germany Genre: Drama Director: Ina Weisse Mark: 1 to 5 [2] Plot: The successful Hamburg architect Georg Winter travels with his wife and two grown-up children to attend his mother’s funeral in a snowy mountain village where he grew up as a child. At the funeral, the [...]
Continue Reading...Darbareye Elly – About Elly Year: 2009 Country: Iran Genre: Drama Director: Asghar Farhadi Mark: 1 to 5 [4] Plot: After living in Germany for many years, Ahmad returns to Iran. His friend Sepideh organizes a trip with him and all his friends to spend three days by the shores of the Caspian Sea. Without [...]
Continue Reading...La Invencion De La Carne – The Invention of Flesh Year: 2009 Country: Argentina Genre: Drama Director: Santiago Loza Mark: 1 to 5 [2] Plot: The impossible relationship between María and Mateo is a trip with an uncertain destination. They move between large and inhabited spaces, but nobody seems to notice them. It`s like an [...]
Continue Reading...Alexander The Last Year: 2009 Country: EUA Genre: Drama/Romance Director: Joe Swanberg Mark: 1 to 5 [5] Plot: About a young married couple, she is an actress and her husband is a musician. At the beginning of the film he goes on tour and she gets cast in a play and starts to get feeling [...]
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