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Tag Archives: 2000s
Mécanix (2003) Rémy M. Larochelle, Stéphane Bilodeau, Julie-Anne Côté, Philippe Chabot
Mecanix tells the story of the last human beings who are forced to be the slaves of the strange Read More »
Grain in Ear AKA Mang zhong (2005) Lu Zhang, Lianji Liu, Bo Jin, Guangxuan Zhu
Cui, a young Korean mother living on the outskirts of Chinese society, has a husband in jail and a son to support. Read More »
Le masque de la Méduse (2009) Jean Rollin, Simone Rollin, Bernard Charnacé, Sabine Lenoël
A modern-day version of the Greek mythological tale of the Gorgon. Read More »
The Missing AKA Bu jian (2003) Kang-sheng Lee, Yi-Ching Lu, Chieh Chang, Tien Miao
A grandmother is looking for her grandson, a teenager for his grandfather. Read More »
Vengeance AKA Fuk sau (2009) Johnnie To, Johnny Hallyday, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Simon Yam
In Macau, a family is attacked by three killers and only the wife survives severely wounded. Read More »
The Great Water AKA Golemata voda (2004) Ivo Trajkov, Saso Kekenovski, Maja Stankovska, Mitko Apostolovski
An ailing communist reflects on his childhood in Stalinist Yugoslavia. Read More »
The Young Visiters (2003) David Yates, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, Lyndsey Marshal
Alfred Salteena is a slightly bumbling gentleman who meets a young lady on a train and invites her to his home in London. Read More »
Dusk AKA Schemer (2010) Hanro Smitsman, Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Gaite Jansen, Roos Netjes
After a group of teenagers discover one of their friends lying dead on a river bank on one of the hottest days of summer, Read More »
Smart Philip AKA Mazaný Filip (2003) Václav Marhoul, Tomás Hanák, Vilma Cibulková, Pavel Liska
Inspired by the stories of the American writer Raymond Chandler, the classical hero is private detective Phil Marlowe Read More »
A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth AKA Yôki na gyangu ga chikyû o mawasu (2006) Tetsu Maeda, Takao Ohsawa, Kyôka Suzuki, Shôta Matsuda
Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) Read More »
Frostbiten (2006) Anders Banke, Petra Nielsen, Carl-Åke Eriksson, Grete Havnesköld
After Annika, a medical doctor, gets work at the local hospital, she and her 17-year old daughter Saga Read More »
Foreign Parts (2010) Verena Paravel, J.P. Sniadecki
‘Foreign Parts’ portrays a hidden enclave of automobile shops and junk-yards fated for demolition Read More »
The Self-Destruction of Gia (2003) J.J. Martin, Gia Carangi, Janice Dickinson, Sandy Linter
In The Self-Destruction of Gia, filmmaker JJ Martin explores Gia Carangi’s life through rare home movies and photos Read More »
Bombshell Bloodbath (2014) Brett Mullen, Alex Elliott, Rob Springer, Jess Barbour
A young woman who appears to be a zombie sits with a gun in a room full of corpses. Read More »