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Tag Archives: 2000s
Malèna (2000) Giuseppe Tornatore, Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico

Amidst the outbreak of World War II, Renato, a young Sicilian boy, becomes infatuated with beautiful war widow Malena. Read More »
Waterboys / Wôtâ bôizu (2001) Shinobu Yaguchi, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hiroshi Tamaki, Akifumi Miura

All it takes for a bunch of schoolboys to join the swim club is the arrival of a pretty teacher who clearly is considered a babe. Read More »
Heart, Beating in the Dark / Yami utsu shinzô (2005) Shunichi Nagasaki, Noriko Eguchi, Shoichi Honda, Kaori Mizushima

A young couple are on the run after killing their baby. They hide out for the night in a dingy apartment. Read More »
Fade to Black (2006) Oliver Parker, Danny Huston, Diego Luna, Paz Vega

Attempting to recover from his failed marriage to Rita Hayworth and restart his career Read More »
Connected / Bo chi tung wah (2008) Benny Chan, Louis Koo, Barbie Hsu, Nick Cheung

Bob’s life isn’t going well at all. A single father in a dead-end job as a debt collector Read More »
A Song for Martin (2001) Bille August, Sven Wollter, Viveka Seldahl, Reine Brynolfsson

Famous composer Martin meets concertmaster Barbara at one of his performances, and the two fall in love. Read More »
Sacred Heart / Cuore sacro (2005) Ferzan Ozpetek, Barbora Bobulova, Andrea Di Stefano, Lisa Gastoni

Irene, a workaholic, is forced to re-evaluate her priorities after the suicide of her two best friends. Read More »
The Vertical Ray of the Sun / Mùa hè chieu thang dung (2000) Anh Hung Tran, Nu Yên-Khê Tran, Quynh Nhu, Khanh Le

With the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. Read More »
Wild Side (2004) Sébastien Lifshitz, Stéphanie Michelini, Yasmine Belmadi, Edouard Nikitine

In Paris, the thirty-two years old travesty Stéphanie a.k.a. Pierre is a streetwalker that lives Read More »