The professional and personal life of actor and comedian Peter Sellers was a turbulent one. His early movie fame was based primarily on his comic characterizations, often of bumbling and foreign-accented persons, characters which he embodied.
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Tag Archives: 2000s
Chilgeup gongmuwon / My Girlfriend Is An Agent (2009) Terra Shin, Ha-neul Kim, Ji-Hwan Kang, Seung-ryong Ryu, Action, Comedy, Romance
Disguised as a travel agent, “Su-ji” is a government spy with six years’ experience who can’t reveal her career to her boyfriend “Jae-joon.” After she lies again, her boyfriend breaks up with her and leaves without notice, leaving her struggling alone with her sadness.
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Montanha (2015) João Salaviza, David Mourato, Maria João Pinho, Rodrigo Perdigão, Drama
Day breaks on the eighth floor in a suburban neighbourhood of Lisbon and 14-year-old Bruno’s grandfather is still in hospital. Doctors give him only a few days to live. The imminence of death and the void that it will leave force Bruno to become the man of the house, where he lives with his mother Mónica, who is in her 30s, and his three-year-old sister Érica.
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Probudím se vcera / I Wake Up Yesterday (2012) Milos Smídmajer, Jirí Mádl, Filip Blazek, Eva Josefíková, Comedy, Sci-Fi
This quirky student comedy tells the story of Petr Kovár (Filip Blazek), who gets the chance to return to the past for a while and he meets the love of his life, his classmate Eliska, again in June 1989. There is one hook: physically he is seventeen again (played by Jirí Mádl), but his mind remains that of a modern “forty-something”.
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Bulgarian Rhapsody / Raphsodia Bulgarit (2014) Ivan Nitchev, Kristiyan Makarov, Moni Moshonov, Tatyana Lolova, Drama
Summer of 1943. The Jews of Greater Bulgaria must adhere to the laws of Germany. Moni, (17) a Jewish youngster from Sofia and Giogio the son of the commissar for Jewish affairs’ driver, meet Shelly (17) a Jewish girl from Kavala (Greece). The two face the values and limits of friendship, as they both fall in love with her, while outside rages their conflicted world.
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Área de descanso / Rest Area (2011) Michael Aguiló, Jaroslaw Bielski, Emma Suárez, Ewa Kasprzyk, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Road movie in which a woman helps the Polish driver of a tourist bus waiting at the foot of the road, next to your disabled vehicle arrival of a replacement. Will hellish 14 days in which to find a stowaway who was traveling in the bus, and will meet truckers and law enforcement.
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Chorus (2015) François Delisle, Sébastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Geneviève Bujold, Drama
A separate couple meet again after ten years when we found the body of their missing son. During their forced reunion, they both handle the death of their child in their own way. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they haltingly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death and even the possibility of reconciliation.
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Szezon / Eastern Sugar (2004) Ferenc Török, Zsolt Nagy, Judit Rezes, Ervin Nagy, Comedy, Drama
Three young friends, from the Hungarian countryside, want more sex and excitement in their life. Together they undertake a journey to Lake Balaton, where they hope to find plenty of summer fun as well as a temporary job.
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Die Frau des Polizisten / The Police Officer’s Wife (2013) Philip Gröning, Alexandra Finder, David Zimmerschied, Pia Kleemann, Drama
Christine (Alexandra Finder) is married to police officer Uwe (David Zimmerschied) and together with their little girl Clara (played by Pia and Chiara Kleemann) they live in a small town near the Dutch border.
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Mad in Italy (2011) Paolo Fazzini, Gianluca Testa, Eleonora Bolla, Giovanni Maria Buzzatti, Crime, Horror
Story of a budding serial killer, who takes a young lady from a prominent family in the neighboring town, and holds her captive. The film examines the young girl’s plight as she faces a very human terror and fights for survival.
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