Some Days are Better Than Others is a poetic, character-driven film that asks why the good times slip by so fast while the difficult times seem so sticky.
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Tag Archives: 2000s
Snackbar (2012) Meral Uslu, Ali Cifteci, Nazmiye Oral, Dilara Horuz, Drama
This snackbar, owned by Ali, in a suburb of Rotterdam is a refuge for the local Moroccan youth. They are wild, violent and criminal. To them Ali is like an old, trustworthy Turkish uncle, understanding, funny but also strict. But what if Ali, with his addiction to gambling jeopardizes their habitat? SNACK BAR is a film, which is as hard, funny, tragic, wild and unpredictable as life itself.
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Scherzo Diabolico (2015) Adrián García Bogliano, Francisco Barreiro, Daniela Soto Vell, Jorge Molina, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A bored accountant can’t win for losing. He is passed over for promotion at work, has a nagging shrew of a wife, and is generally disrespected by all he comes in contact with. He devises a scheme to get what he feels he is owed. After executing his well thought out plan of kidnap and ransom, things soon go straight to hell.
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Imerologia katastromatos – Giorgos Seferis (2001) Stelios Haralambopoulos, Dimitris Katalifos, Documentary
A documentary made for the centennial of Giorgos Seferis’ birth. The movie was filmed in places where the great poet lived, both in Greece and abroad, with numerous references to his life and work.
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Dupa dealuri / Beyond the Hills (2012) Cristian Mungiu, Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriutã, Drama
Alina and Voichita have been friends since their orphanage days. And they have been lovers since they became sexually mature. But despite their oath of mutual fidelity, Alina, who could not bear poverty any more, emigrated to Germany where she became a barmaid.
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Les États-Unis d’Albert / The United States Of Albert (2005) André Forcier, Éric Bruneau, Émilie Dequenne, Andréa Ferréol, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Albert Renaud, a young Quebec actor with aspirations to become the next Rudolph Valentino, sets off by train for Hollywood with a letter of recommendation from his drama teacher who is Mary Pickford’s aunt.
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Conception / A Concepção (2005) José Eduardo Belmonte, Juliano Cazarré, Milhem Cortaz, Murilo Grossi, Drama
A group of bored well-off young adults come up with anarchic concept of Conceptionism, that promotes absolute looseness when it comes to sex and drugs, but total rejection of money and ego. However, their movement won’t last long.
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On the Old Roman Road (2003) Don Askarian, Sylvia Gelton, Pavel Khachatrian, Stepan Shahinyan, Drama
Also Wano, carpet-seller, will receive his second, secret life, as light-footed dead-angel for the Turkish politician, as charming terrorist, as loner and successful lover. He prepared the “liquidation” of the Turkish consuls in Rotterdam, and executed them.
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The Devil Went Home And Puked (2009) Robert Pollard, Documentary, Musical
As one of the most respected and enduring alt-rock bands of all time, indie rock group Guided by Voices (of which Pollard was the creative voice) almost single-handedly kicked off the decade s ”low fi” craze of the 1990 s on the strength of such classics as Propeller and Bee Thousand making fans out of such renowned artists as Eddie Vedder and the Strokes in the process.
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Dead Men Walking (2005) Peter Mervis, Brandon Stacy, Griff Furst, Chriss Anglin, Horror
After killing four persons in his home with a shotgun, Dee Travis claims that he had accidentally ingested an experimental biotoxin that the company Blackthorn where he worked was researching. Travis is sent visibly ill to the Harwood Maximum Security Prison and the Security Officer Sweeny sends the inmate to the infirmary.
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