1991-2000

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The detective with the highest arrest rate. In fact, he was a vicious detective who communicated with the gangsters!Read More »

In the scorching heat of Okinawa, former lovers meet. Now, he is a gangster on a mission, she is a window trying to protect what is hers. Together, they get caught in the crossfire.Read More »

Synopsis:
Two Moscow students are mostly concerned with scoring with women but their lives change radically when one of them falls for a Jewish girl whose family is being persecuted by anonymous anti-Semites and is preparing to emigrate to Israel.Read More »

Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé reveals his passion for cinema, Africa and the world to Cambodian director Rithy Panh.Read More »

A young Jew in 19th-century London, Esther Kahn is so disconnected with her surroundings – hardly speaking, emotionless – that she seems retarded. Unhappy among her poor tailoring family, she yearns for the stage. Only there does she engage with life.Read More »

There are two versions of “Toire No Hanako-san.” The first version, released in 1995, was set in an elementary school and centered on a boy named Takuya and a new transfer student named Saeko (Maeda Ai plays Takuya’s younger brother). Takuya’s classmates think that Saeko has been possessed by Hanako, the ghost that lives in the bathroom. The rumor is especially encouraged by a girl who has a crush on Takuya and is jealous since Takuya likes Saeko. The second version, released in 1998, centers on a group of high school girls (among them Maeda Ai and Nomura Yuka) who inadvertently release a demonic doll from a shrine outside of their school.Read More »

After their daughter’s kidnapping, the Prices are forced to sell everything, but their new life as a working class family proves difficult.Read More »

In 1950s/60s London, Maura Ryan, the sole sister among seven brothers, joins their criminal enterprise in the East End. Her eldest brother Michael leads the family’s gangland operations.Read More »

After a young Canadian Aboriginal girl is murdered in 1971, it takes 20 years of inaction and prejudice before the police finally find the real killers. Meanwhile the killers have to live with their own guilt and fear of being caught.Read More »