
Susan “Sue” Trinder is a fingersmith (British slang for thief) who lives in the slums of London Read More »
Tag Archives: 2000s
The Heart’s Root / A Raiz do Coração (2000) Paulo Rocha, Luís Miguel Cintra, Joana Bárcia, Isabel Ruth

A Raiz do Coração (A Root of the Heart) is a Portuguese film set in the Lisbon during the festivities Read More »
Food of Love (2002) Ventura Pons, Paul Rhys, Kevin Bishop, Juliet Stevenson

Paul, a handsome and talented music student is employed as the page-turner Read More »
Missing Johnny (2017) Xi Huang, Rima Zeidan, Lawrence Ko, Sean Huang

Hsu Zi Qi is a young woman who lives alone in the city. Lee is the autistic son of Zi Qi’s landlady Read More »
Savage Souls / Les âmes fortes (2001) Raoul Ruiz, Laetitia Casta, Frédéric Diefenthal, Arielle Dombasle

At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Read More »
The Night of the Sunflowers / La noche de los girasoles (2006) Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo, Carmelo Gómez, Judith Diakhate, Celso Bugallo

As the dead body of a sexually assaulted young woman rests hidden in a sunflower field Read More »
Warsaw / Warszawa (2003) Dariusz Gajewski, Agnieszka Grochowska, Lukasz Garlicki, Dominika Ostalowska

On an ordinary winter’s day, various people from outside Warsaw come to the Polish capital city for different reasons. Read More »
Hellsinki / Rööperi (2009) Aleksi Mäkelä, Samuli Edelmann, Peter Franzén, Kari Hietalahti

Set between 1966 and 1979, centers on the unscrupulous journey of a bunch of criminals from crime Read More »
Alexandra / Aleksandra (2007) Aleksandr Sokurov, Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva

An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya. Read More »
Zu Warriors / Shu shan zheng zhuan (2001) Hark Tsui, Ekin Cheng, Louis Koo, Ziyi Zhang

Between the heaven and the Earth exist the Zu’s mountain range, where live the immortals of Omei Read More »