Asami (Rina Uchiyama) is about to gradute from college. One rainy day, she offers her umbrella to Mayama (Shinichi Tsutsumi) who was her mother’s lover, and Asami’s real father, though he doesn’t know it. As they keep meeting each other, Asami realizes how much her dead mother means to him. At the same time, Mayama’s current lover decides to leave him, sensing there’s no room for her in his heart.Read More »
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A young single mother of Dai minority named Ye Nan returns from Shanghai to her scenic home village at Sino-Burmese border. She tries to assimilate back into her clan and make amends for the tense relationship between her and her daughter, Nan Hang. During one of their quarrels, the rebellious teenage girl rants questions about why one must relocate to cities to compete for the best colleges and jobs rather than stay in their countryside ancestral homes and farm for a living. Reflecting on a series of setbacks, Ye Nan gradually gives in to learning about Nan Hang’s life instead of disciplining her. Read More »
A few summer days of three ordinary Moscow girls on threshold of adulthood. Farewell to childhood in yards, where everything is for the first time – from secretly bought cigarettes and cans of G&T to first love and almost real tragedies.Read More »
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When a twenty-something retail clerk meets a rising popstar, he takes the opportunity to edge his way into the in-crowd. But as the line between friend and fan blurs beyond recognition, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.Read More »
C.I.D. was a 70s HK cop show supposedly based on real cases/incidents in Hong Kong.
Episode info:
Breaking the constraints of traditional television storytelling, Tam and Chan give a surprisingly in-depth exploration into the modern female psyche, exposing their fears and their desires. In their later attempts in CID: Two Teddy Girls, the pair uses a seemingly typical cat-and-mouse chase story between a cop (Mark Cheung Lui) and two criminal “teddy girls” (Ban Ban and Marysia Lam) to portray the lives of Hong Kong’s different social classes.Read More »
Frustrated by life unemployed in a small Irish border town Vinnie (Stephen Brennan) and Arthur (Eamon Morrisey) see “Roustabout”, a movie where Elvis Presley rides a fairground Wall of Death – to the amazement of the local community, they proceed to build their very own Wall of Death on the outskirts of town.
As their enthusiasm increases, their cash decreases, and it becomes necessary for the pair to finance the project by hiring themselves out to run pigs, videos and booze across the border for the local smuggling baron. There are consequences and repercussions for all concerned.Read More »
Plot: The story of a young girl’s first love is told from the heroine’s point of view. Surrounded by various people, she finally begins to awaken to her own feelings as a woman.Read More »
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Handan and Korhan a middle-aged couple who live their lives in one of istanbul’s best neighborhoods. Handan constantly invents things for herself in order to fill her life. Handan, imitates her friend Sermin and starts writing! But this desire, which is innocent in the first place, will become jealous over time and diverge in different ways.Read More »
A unique title, as it was directerd by the author of the Thai National Anthem.
The film is a social drama set in a fishing village near Ban Phe, Rayong. The protagonist, Muek (Pichai Wasanasong), a young fisherman, falls in love with Mukda (Khaisi Chumasarthun). However, she attracts the attention of Jamleng, a pearl trader. Jamleng deceives Mukda, feigning romantic interest, and tricks her into giving him a pearl gifted by Muek—intending to swap it with a fake to bestow upon another woman, Phakakaew.Read More »