Lantouri is the name of a gang that mugs people in broad daylight on the streets of Tehran and breaks into homes in the city’s rich northern district.
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Tag Archives: 2000s
Pane e tulipani / Bread and Tulips (2000) Silvio Soldini, Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston, Comedy, Romance
Life is often just “for sake of” and we need to know about it and want to benefit when we are presented with the occasion to.
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Agein: 28-nenme no Koushien / Again (2015) Sumio Ohmori, Kiichi Nakai, Haru, Emi Wakui, Drama
A high school baseball team had to quit before the final because of the fact that one player was envolved in a student pregnancy and abortion. After twenty eight years, the daughter of the dismissed player found the old players of the team and persuaded them to play the baseball again.
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Signorina Effe (2007) Wilma Labate, Filippo Timi, Valeria Solarino, Sabrina Impacciatore, Drama
The film’s central love story is interwoven with the massive strike that blocked Fiat for 35 days in Turin in 1980.
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El rey del Once / The Tenth Man (2016) Daniel Burman, Alan Sabbagh, Julieta Zylberberg, Usher Barilka, Comedy, Drama
After years away, Ariel (Alan Sabbagh) returns to Buenos Aires seeking to reconnect with his father Usher, who founded a charity foundation in Once, the city’s bustling Jewish district where Ariel spent his youth.
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True North (2006) Steve Hudson, Peter Mullan, Martin Compston, Gary Lewis, Drama, Thriller
The skipper of the Scottish trawler PD-100 has worked for more than thirty-two years to buy his fishing vessel but is bankrupt and near to lose his ship to the bank.
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Lejos del mar / Far from the Sea (2015) Imanol Uribe, Elena Anaya, Eduard Fernández, José Luis García Pérez, Drama, Thriller
In 2009, and after 22 years in prison, a former ETA’s terrorist named Santi is released due to the Parot Doctrine (a polemic judicial resource to liberate activists and terrorists according their sentences and years in detention).
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Gang Tapes (2001) Adam Ripp, Darris Love, Darontay McClendon, Don Cambell, Crime, Drama
When a brutal carjacking yields a videocamera, a teenage boy decides to document his life and the lives of his fellow gangbangers.
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Cecilie (2007) Fabian Wullenweber, Sonja Richter, Anders W. Berthelsen, Claus Riis Østergaard, Horror, Thriller
Cecilie experiences a rape, but no traces are found. Her husband commits her to a psychiatric hospital. With the help of a psychiatrist she sees a frightening connection between her condition and a brutal murder dating more than 30 years back.
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Sto Hani / To The Inn (2003) George Bakolas, Dimitris Alexandris, Dimitris Xanthopoulos, Yiorgos Moroyiannis, Drama
Zissos and Apostolos are two Greeks who live in a city in the Ottoman Orient at the turn of the 20th century. Like some original sin, a load of gold sovereigns will lead them to travel and adventure and from there to their physical and spiritual deadlock.
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