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Tag Archives: 2000s
North Sea Texas AKA Noordzee, Texas (2011) Bavo Defurne, Ben Van den Heuvel, Eva van der Gucht, Thomas Coumans
Pim, the emotionally abandoned and affection-starved young gay son of a small seaside town’s resident floozy Read More »
Bodyguard (2016) Ebrahim Hatamikia, Parviz Parastui, Merila Zare’i, Babak Hamidian
A government bodyguard protects a politician from a suicide bomber, and then begins to question his dedication to his job. Read More »
Sex Is Comedy (2002) Catherine Breillat, Anne Parillaud, Grégoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida
Jeanne is a director struggling with a difficult sex scene between two actors who can’t stand each other. Read More »
Love Life AKA Liebesleben (2007) Maria Schrader, Neta Garty, Rade Serbedzija, Tovah Feldshuh
Ya’ara prepares an outdoor picnic for the birthday of her father Leon. Read More »
The Island Tales AKA You shi tiaowu (2000) Stanley Kwan, Takao Osawa, Shu Qi, Michelle Reis
The story of seven people stuck on a remote island, quarantined by the government due to a viral outbreak. Read More »
Chelsea Walls (2001) Ethan Hawke, Paz de la Huerta, Vincent D’Onofrio, Bianca Hunter
In New York’s storied Chelsea Hotel, a novelist, a dancer, a painter, a poet, an aged jazz singer Read More »
Amen. (2002) Costa-Gavras, Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe
In World War II, the sanitation engineer and family man Kurt Gerstein Read More »
The Last Lullaby (2008) Jeffrey Goodman, Tom Sizemore, Sasha Alexander, Sprague Grayden
Price, a former hitman, is struggling to cope with retirement. He left the assassination business to live the “easy life.” Read More »
Circus (2000) Rob Walker, John Hannah, Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare
Bruno, a sadistic criminal, wants clever con man Leo out of the way. Leo and his equally clever wife, Lily, are up to something. Read More »
Man, Chicks Are Just Different AKA Baby sa jakies inne (2011) Marek Koterski, Adam Woronowicz, Robert Wieckiewicz, Malgorzata Bogdanska
Two middle-aged male friends are travelling together by car and expressing their thoughts and emotions connected with women. Read More »
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright (2005) David Beaird, Patrick Warburton, Marie Matiko, Simon Callow
After a series of bad relationships, a man orders a mail order bride and receives more than he bargained for. Read More »
Same Same But Different (2009) Detlev Buck, Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, David Kross, Jens Harzer
Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. Read More »
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine AKA S21, la machine de mort khmère rouge (2003) Rithy Panh, Khieu ‘Poev’ Ches, Yeay Cheu, Nhem En
Between 1975 and 1979, the communist inspired Khmer Rouge waged a campaign Read More »
Hobgoblins 2 (2009) Rick Sloane, Josh Mills, Josh Green, Chanel Ryan
The sequel of writer/director Rick Sloane’s campy cult classic, Hobgoblins (1988). Read More »