Tag Archives: 2000s
Les émotifs anonymes / Romantics Anonymous (2010) Jean-Pierre Améris, Benoît Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carré, Lorella Cravotta, Comedy, Romance
What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what happens to Jean-René, the boss of a small chocolate factory Read More »
Go for Sisters (2013) John Sayles, LisaGay Hamilton, Yolonda Ross, Edward James Olmos, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Fontayne is enlisted by Bernice – her estranged old friend and current parole officer – along with a disgraced cop to search for Bernice’s son, who went missing on the Mexican border.
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Bayou Maharajah (2013) Lily Keber, James Booker, Joe Boyd, Douglas Brinkley, Documentary, History, Music
Bayou Maharajah explores the life and music of New Orleans piano legend James Booker, the man Dr. John described as “the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced.” Read More »
Ranbô to taiki / Vengeance Can Wait (2010) Masanori Tominaga, Tadanobu Asano, Minami, Eiko Koike, Drama
Director Tominaga Masanori (Pandora’s Box) brings Motoya Yukiko’s offbeat play Ranbo to Taiki to the big screen in a juicy, neurotic tangle of love, hate and voyeurism. Read More »
La coupure / Torn Apart (2006) Jean Châteauvert, Jean-François Boisvenue, Manon Brunelle, Valérie Cantin, Drama
Two people are caught up in an all-consuming and forbidden love in this drama, the first feature from director Jean Chateuvert. Read More »
Die Schöpfer der Einkaufswelten / The Creators of Shopping Worlds (2001) Harun Farocki, Documentary
Shopping is an everyday cultural act; it is inevitable, taken for granted. Entering into the world of shopping – the world of shopping malls – can be a Dantean voyage into hell or a redeeming ceremony of Communion. Read More »
Chico (2001) Ibolya Fekete, Sasa Anocic, Gyula Bodrogi, András Fésös, War, Drama
The adventures of a young man as he moves from the Latin-American revolutions in the sixties and seventies, through Hungary in the eighties, to the Croatian war in 1991.
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Infinite Justice (2006) Jamil Dehlavi, Kevin Collins, Raza Jaffrey, Jennifer Calvert, Drama, Thriller
An American reporter is held hostage by Muslim fundamentalists in Karachi against the release of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
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Las olas / The Waves (2011) Alberto Morais, Armando Aguirre, Sergio Caballero, Pepe Galotto, Drama
After the death of his wife, Miguel decides to take a trip, postponed for many years, Argeles-sur-Mer, a small town in southern France, where thousands of refugees are concentrated for some time. Read More »