• Sang-soo Im – Hanyo AKA The Housemaid (2010)

    Drama2001-2010Sang-soo ImSouth KoreaThriller
    Hanyo AKA The Housemaid (2010)
    Hanyo AKA The Housemaid (2010)

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    Award-winning actress Jeon Do Yeon stars as poor divorcee Eun Yi, who gladly signs on to work as a nanny and housemaid for a wealthy, upper-crust family. In her naive eyes, the rich and handsome Hoon (Lee Jung Jae, Typhoon), his pregnant wife Hae Ra (Seo Woo, Paju), and adorable daughter (Ahn Seo Hyun) make the picture-perfect family. But that myth is soon shattered when the domineering Hoon finds his way to her bed. Their torrid affair upsets the balance of the household, unleashing a cruel power struggle as Hae Ra, her mother (Park Ji Young), and the head housekeeper (Yoon Yeo Jung) all answer with their own calculated measures.Read More »

  • Paul Schrader – The Walker (2007)

    Paul Schrader2001-2010CrimeDramaUSA
    The Walker (2007)
    The Walker (2007)

    Carter Page III (Harrelson), a middle-aged gay man in Washington, D. C., is a “walker”, a single man who escorts other men’s wives to social events so the husbands do not have to. One of the women he escorts, Lynn Lockner (Scott Thomas), is the wife of a United States senator and is carrying on an affair with a lobbyist. When she finds the lobbyist murdered, she embroils Carter in an investigation that leads to the highest levels of the federal government.Read More »

  • Francis Veber – Tais-toi! AKA Ruby & Quentin (2003)

    Francis Veber2001-2010ComedyCrimeFrance
    Tais toi! (2003)
    Tais toi! (2003)

    Since his early masterpiece Pain In The Arse [L’emmerdeur, as writer, 1973; remade as director, 2008], Francis Veber, primarily as writer, occasionally as director, has been the genius behind many of the funniest French comedies and filmed farces of the last four decades, including such cheeky pleasures as La cage aux folles, Three Fugitives, and Le dîner de cons. His stock-in-trade is PC-tickling, broad knockabout, duo- or trio-based character comedy tied to tightly-scripted narratives, spot-on timing and slaying reaction shots. These are all present and correct in his highly enjoyable Paris-set latest, a criminal caper that harps back in many ways to that first triumph, this time with cow-eyed Jean Reno and strawberry-nosed Gérard Depardieu as the hard man/idiot couple playing off each other with the same delicious stupidity as did Lino Ventura and Jacques Brel 30-odd years ago. Okay, Tai-toi! isn’t exactly sophisticated entertainment: if you don’t find Depardieu’s electric-shock hairdo funny, you’ll probably hate it. Among the excellent support, Richard Berry gives good deadpan as the police commissaire and André Dussollier is superb as the prison psychiatrist who unwittingly unites the fifth arrondissement’s sharpest, most silent, criminal brain with its dumbest, most talkative ox.
    — Wally Hammond, Time Out LondonRead More »

  • David DeCoteau – The Invisible Chronicles (2009)

    2001-2010David DeCoteauQueer Cinema(s)ThrillerUSA
    The Invisible Chronicles (2009)
    The Invisible Chronicles (2009)

    A young scientist experiments on himself with an invisibility serum. The serum is successful and the scientist wreaks murderous revenge on his enemies – but can’t stop there.Read More »

  • Ted Post – Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971)

    Ted Post1971-1980ComedyMysteryUSA
    Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971)
    Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1971)

    Four elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional “girl” for a computer dating service. However, things take a turn for the worse when their description of the “girl” attracts a psychopath.Read More »

  • Vu Tran – Den hen lai len AKA We’ll Be Seeing Us Again (1974)

    1971-1980AsianDramaVietnamVu Tran
    Den hen lai len (1974)
    Den hen lai len (1974)

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    Before the August Revolution, Net, a pretty and virtuous girl, was well known in the Ha Bac area for her beautiful voice. She loved Chi, a Quan Ho singer in the neighbour village, a talented but poor man. During a Spring festival Binh, a playboy, plotted with his sister to win Net’s hand in marriage. To this end they had to get rid of Chi: Binh accused Chi of being “communist”. Cha had to run away to Binh, for being a communist meant committing high treason. Net’s mother, who was seriously ill and indebted to Binh, had to give him her daughter’s hand. Bu on the very night the wedding party was held Net left the village. There was also a conflict within Binh’s family. Read More »

  • Bas Devos – Ghost Tropic (2019) (HD)

    2011-2020Bas DevosBelgiumDrama
    Ghost Tropic (2019) (HD)
    Ghost Tropic (2019) (HD)

    Synopsis
    After a long day at work, Khadija falls asleep on the last subway train. When she wakes up at the end of the line, she has no choice but to make her way home on foot.Read More »

  • Aleksei Balabanov – Schastlivye dni AKA Happy Days (1991)

    Aleksei Balabanov1991-2000DramaRussia
    Schastlivye dni (1991)
    Schastlivye dni (1991)

    Synopsis
    The story begins when a young man with a head injury is released from the hospital and begins searching modern-day St. Petersburg for a room or a place to stay.Read More »

  • Itsaso Arana – Las chicas están bien AKA The Girls Are Alright (2023)

    2021-2030DramaItsaso AranaSpain
    Las chicas están bien (2023)
    Las chicas están bien (2023)

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    Four actresses and a writer spend a summer week in an old mill to rehearse a play. During those days, the girls will get to know each other and measure themselves through the materials that the work presents.Read More »

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