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Tag Archives: 2000s
My Generation / Mai jeneoreisheon (2004) Dong-seok No, Byeong-seok Kim, Jae-kyeong Yu, Seong-jin Choi

A film about the troubles of Korean youths teetering on the edge of poverty Read More »
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 / 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 »
Vengeance / 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 / 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

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 »
Smart Philip / 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 »
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 »