Young and handsome Sergio works the night shift as a trash collector in Lisbon, Portugal. Read More »
Tag Archives: 2000s
Odete / Two Drifters (2005) João Pedro Rodrigues, Ana Cristina de Oliveira, Nuno Gil, João Carreira, Drama
Pedro and Rui kiss after a first-anniversary dinner; Pedro drives home, dying en route in a crash. Read More »
Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire) / Not for, or Against (Quite the Contrary) (2003) Cédric Klapisch, Marie Gillain, Vincent Elbaz, Simon Abkarian, Crime, Drama
“Ni Pour, Ni Contre” tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty, after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic leader, Jean. Read More »
Le voyage du ballon rouge / Flight of the Red Balloon (2007) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Juliette Binoche, Hippolyte Girardot, Simon Iteanu, Drama, Family
In Paris, Chinese cinema student Song Fang is hired to work as the nanny of Simon by his divorced mother Suzanne, who works voicing marionettes in a theater. Read More »
Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns (2000) John Tatoulis, Lakis Lazopoulos, Zoe Carides, John Bluthal, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Manos, a Greek school teacher, is forced to travel to Melbourne, Australia when the man who murdered his grandfather 57 years ago surfaces there. Read More »
Violette (2013) Martin Provost, Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet, Drama, Romance, Biography
Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Read More »
The Mother (2003) Roger Michell, Daniel Craig, Anna Wilson-Jones, Anne Reid, Drama, Romance
Toots and May’s marriage is one of Toots being dependent on his wife. Shortly after Toots and May arrive in London to visit with their grown children Bobby and Paula and their respective children, Toots falls ill and dies. Read More »
De andre (2012) Margreth Olin, Goli Mohammed Ali, Husein Ali, Khalid Faquiri, Documentary, Drama
In 2009 the Norwegian government introduced several measures to restrict immigration. One of the measures was to provide unaccompanied asylum seeking children temporary residence permits. Read More »
Yvy Maraey (2013) Juan Carlos Valdivia, Elio Ortíz, Felipe Román, Drama, Documentary
A filmmaker tracing the steps of Swedish explorer Erland Nordeskiold travels with a Guarani Indian from the highlands of La Paz to the swamps in the forests of South Eastern Bolivia, a place where uncontacted indigenous still exist. Read More »
Daisy Diamond (2007) Simon Staho, Noomi Rapace, Thure Lindhardt, Benedikte Hansen, Drama
A tragic story about Anna who dreams of one thing only: making it as an actress. She moves from Sweden to Copenhagen to pursue her dream. Read More »