
Lazy girl Satomi is assigned a stint, against her wishes, to her school’s Robot Club. However, it’s not the premiere club that she got assigned to, but the “B” team where the team members are hardly cooperative, made up of a motley bunch of losers.
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Tag Archives: 2000s
Cheut ai kup gei / Exodus (2007) Ho-Cheung Pang, Simon Yam

A low-ranking cop often relegated to desk duty, middle-aged Tsim Kin Yip (Simon Yam) Read More »
L’Ora di Religione / Le Sourire de ma Mère (2002) Marco Bellocchio, Sergio Castellitto, Jacqueline Lustig, Chiara Conti, Drama

Marco Bellocchio’s My Mother’s Smile was deemed blasphemous by the Roman Catholic Church for what the Church referred to as Bellocchio’s “systematic destruction of family and religious values.” Contrary to the Church’s presumptions about Bellocchio, My Mother’s Smile is a fascinating portrait of a man (Sergio Castellitto as Ernesto) who is forced to reconcile with his own atheism after receiving a shocking appeal from the Church requesting his participation in the canonization of his “saintly” mother.
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Crimen ferpecto / The Perfect Crime (2004) Álex de la Iglesia, Guillermo Toledo, Mónica Cervera, Enrique Villén, Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Rafael is the best salesman in the biggest department store of Madrid. He is a fascinating man; all his colleagues fell in love with him. He tries to live a high-standard life. He is definitely ambitious and aspires to be the new head of sales on his floor. But he has to beat Don Antonio: the best salesman in the man wearing sector. Competition gets harder and harder, until Rafael kills Don Antonio! Lourdes, the ugliest woman in the store, unexpectedly helps Rafael to hide the corpse, but her help isn’t for free. Rafael will soon start considering a new crime. A new perfect crime.
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Girl Chef (2011) Lilawadee, Wongwarut Tantragul, Kalaya Nonsungnoen, Naphat Majchagua, Drama, Erotic

A girl who has been abused by her stepfather has moved in with her sister. But here she is further abused by her sister’s boyfriend. In the end, the has prepared a revenge on the men who abused her.
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La folie Almayer / Almayer’s Folly (2011) Chantal Akerman, Stanislas Merhar, Marc Barbé, Aurora Marion, Drama

A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
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Ne le dis à personne / Tell No One (2006) Guillaume Canet, François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, André Dussollier, Crime, Drama, Mystery

The pediatrician Alexandre Beck misses his beloved wife Margot Beck, who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Alex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive.
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Sex and Lucia (2001) Julio Medem, Paz Vega, Tristán Ulloa, Najwa Nimri, Erotic, Romance, Drama

Lucía is a young waitress in a restaurant in the centre of Madrid. After the loss of her long-time boyfriend, a writer, she seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island. There, bathed in an atmosphere of fresh air and dazzling sun, Lucía begins to discover the dark corners of her past relationship, as if they were forbidden passages of a novel which the author now, from afar, allows her to read.
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Coisa Ruim / Bad Blood (2006) Tiago Guedes, Frederico Serra, Adriano Luz, Manuela Couto, Sara Carinhas, Horror, Mystery

A well-educated, urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village deep in Portugal’s countryside. Upon their arrival they try to adapt themselves to the new lifestyle, but they soon learn that the village is overshadowed by superstition, religion and mysterious folklore. Strange events soon begin happening and as they learn more about the history of their family, they slowly begin to believe the rumors heard throughout the village: by inheriting the house, they also inherited a curse.
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Nahid (2015) Ida Panahandeh, Sareh Bayat, Nasrin Babaei, Pejman Bazeghi, Drama

A woman tries to mend the broken pieces of her last life, as she is now involved with a new sexual relationship with a man.
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