2000s

  • Banjong Pisanthanakun & Parkpoom Wongpoom – Shutter (2004)

    2001-2010Banjong PisanthanakunHorrorParkpoom WongpoomThailandThriller

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    A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.Read More »

  • Oxide Chun Pang – Mon seung AKA Diary (2006)

    2001-2010Hong KongHorrorOxide Chun PangThriller

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    Winnie Leung is a lonely woman that likes to make puppets and write her diary, and she misses her boy-friend Seth Lau, who left her after breaking up their relationship. Winnie leaves messages in his mail box and unsuccessfully tries to contact him in his job. When she meets Ray Fan, she tells him that his resemblance with Seth is amazing. Ray moves to her place and when Winnie’s next door snoopy neighbors calls the police because of the smell in her apartment, a dark secret is disclosed in her diary.Read More »

  • Xiaolian Peng – Meili Shanghai AKA Shanghai Story (2004)

    2001-2010ChinaDramaFifth Generation Chinese CinemaXiaolian Peng

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    The rise and fall of a family in Shanghai. Once wealthy and capitalist, the family unraveled during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. Their home, once a French concession mansion, was converted into a multi-family dwelling. Years later, the matriarch of the family announces that she is dying. When her four grown children return, it becomes the first time the family has been under one roof in decades.Read More »

  • S. Pierre Yameogo – Moi et mon blanc AKA Me and My White Man (2003)

    2001-2010African CinemaBurkina FasoComedyS. Pierre Yameogo

    Plot: Mamadi is struggling to complete a doctorate at a Parisian university after the government of his country has stopped paying his scholarship. Thanks to his acquaintances in the African community, he finds a job as night watchman in an underground car park. There, a French colleague, Franck, helps the friendly African academic getting around. However, the car park is also a meeting point for dubious characters, and when Mamadi accidentally wrecks a drug trafficking operation, Franck is really hard-pressed to put his pal and himself out of harm’s way. Wouldn’t Mamadi’s home country be the ideal place to escape the gangsters’ wrath?Read More »

  • Giles Walker – Blind Terror (2001)

    2001-2010CanadaGiles WalkerMysteryThriller

    From the back cover-
    A young widow’s pain and grief finally fades after meeting a charming and handsome man who helps her to forget her past. But everything begins to go terribly wrong when it’s discovered that Mr Right hides a deadly secret from his own past.

    Immediately after her whirlwind romance culminates in marriage Kevin Massie, Susan Brice (Natassja Kinski 😉 ) becomes the object of a stalker. What at first appears to be nothing more than a voyeur, frighteningly becomes an obsessed psychopath bent on murder. Susan’s nightmare begins with ominous phone messages and petty vandalism, but quickly escalates into life threatening situations.Read More »

  • Naoyuki Tomomatsu – Rôjin to rabudôru: Watashi ga shochô ni natta toki… AKA Maid-Droid (2008)

    2001-2010AsianEroticaJapanNaoyuki Tomomatsu

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    Mr. Ueno, retired, lives alone; he talks to Maria, a maid-droid his parents brought from their factory decades ago. Maria became Ueno’s companion after his parents’ deaths, and now her battery is run down; there are no replacement parts. Meanwhile, Inspector Akagi and her police squad are looking for a serial rapist that may not be human; however, if it’s a robot, in harming people it would be disobeying Asimov’s rules of robotics. Akagi’s inquiry takes her to a droid factory run by Mr. X; he helps by explaining why host-droids, the male equivalent of a maid-droid, don’t sell. What will Ueno and Akagi learn about love and the nature of men and women?Read More »

  • Marion Hänsel – Si le vent soulève les sables AKA Sounds of Sand (2006)

    2001-2010African CinemaArthouseDramaFranceMarion Hänsel

    On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave and head south. Rahne, the only literate one, decides to head east with his three children and Mouna, his wife. A few sheep, some goats and Chamelle, a dromedary, are their only riches. A tale of exodus, quest, hope and fatality. Rahne and his family travel across hostile lands under a lethal sun, walking endlessly onwards and frequently crossing paths with death. But “Sounds of sand” is also a parable about determination and eternity that takes us in the footsteps of Shasha, a nomad child full of the joys of life, whose tenacity and strength will conquer her father’s love.Read More »

  • Shûichi Okita – Nankyoku ryôrinin AKA The Chef of South Polar (2009)

    2001-2010ComedyJapanShûichi Okita

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    Nishimura has a passion for cooking, but never would he have imagined the task before him now: He is unexpectedly assigned to a south polar mission to serve as head chef at the Dome Fuji station. Leaving wife and daughter behind for a year, he and the other crew members experience one existential crisis after another in the icy cold. And then they run out of Ramen!Read More »

  • Bob Gale – Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road (2002)

    2001-2010AdventureBob GaleCanadaComedy

    A Canadian independent road film written and directed by Bob Gale, in his directorial debut, and starring James Marsden, Gary Oldman, Amy Smart, Christopher Lloyd, Chris Cooper and Kurt Russell, with a cameo by Michael J. Fox.

    PLOT: Neal Oliver, a very confused young man and an artist, takes a journey of a lifetime on a highway I60 that doesn’t exist on any of the maps, going to the places he never even heard of, searching for an answer and his dreamgirl.Read More »

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