Pop star Anna has been kidnapped. Kidnapper Jash uploads the video clip of Anna being tortured onto the internet, which instantly becomes the talk of Hong Kong. A week later, Jash contacts the police, asking not for a ransom but for retired police inspector Mo to be his police contact. Inspector Mo eventually discovers through a tabloid magazine that a self-proclaimed psychic named Shana had phoned a radio program on the day of the kidnapping to warn of the incident.Read More »
2000s
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Billy Hin-Shing Tang – Woo dung saai yan si gin AKA Interactive Murders (2002)
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Nariman Turebaev – Antiromantika (2001)
2001-2010KazakhstanNariman TurebaevShort FilmYoung man aged about twenty picks up a beautiful woman to love her for her money.
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Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini – Runaway (2001)
2001-2010DocumentaryIranKim LonginottoZiba Mir-HosseiniThis documentary follows the stories of five young girls who arrive at a refuge in Iran’s capital city Tehran, having run away from abusive or neglectful families.Read More »
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Juliusz Machulski – Ile wazy kon trojanski? AKA How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh? (2008)
2001-2010FantasyJuliusz MachulskiPolandRomance

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A happily-married woman wishes she had met her second husband earlier, so that she could avoid many mistakes of the past. When suddenly moved back in time to 1980s she realizes she has one goal: find her future love.Read More » -
Shu-Kai Chung – Daai cheung foo 2 AKA Men Suddenly in Black 2 (2006)
Drama2001-2010ComedyHong KongShu-Kai Chung

The war between men and women never ends… Last time, Tin, Dr. Lee and Chao failed in the “mission”, but they didn’t take this as a lesson. They are more cautions these years and success to fool around behind their wives. This time, the team grows by a new comer – a university student Sai. At the same time, Mary, Ching, Chao’s wife and Ling (Sai’s girlfriend) get a DVD from Auntie Ninth. It is a very popular DVD among women recently, which is a documentary to teach women how to fooling around. Four women go to Macau to break the bond of morality. It is too late when the men discover this. They rush to Macau to ruin the women’s plan. A battle between women and men begins…Read More »
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Terence Davies – Of Time and the City (2008)
2001-2010DocumentaryTerence DaviesUnited KingdomThe streets of our cities are haunted by the ghosts of those who were young here long ago. In memory we recall our own past happiness and pain. Terence Davies, whose subject has often been his own life, now turns to his city, Liverpool, England, and regrets not so much the joys of his youth as those he did not have. Central to these are the sexual experiences forbidden by the Catholic Church to which he was most devoted.Read More »
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Jin-ho Hur – Hængbok AKA Happiness (2007)
2001-2010DramaJin-ho HurRomanceSouth KoreaSynopsis wrote:
When stricken with a terminal disease, Young-su leaves his careless high life in the city, live-in girlfriend and dwindling business. He retreats to a sanatorium in the countryside in order to treat his illness, where he meets a young woman who is a resident patient there. Soon they develop feelings for each other and leave the sanatorium together to live in a small but cozy farm house. Their health improves dramatically but when Young-su’s friends from the city come for a visit, he starts to wonder if he should abandon mundane rural village and return to his former lifestyle.Read More » -
Naomi Kawase – Hotaru AKA Firefly (2000)
1991-2000ArthouseDramaJapanNaomi KawaseEmotionally withdrawn strip club dancer Ayako has never recovered from her mother’s suicide when she was young. She begins a relationship with patient potter Daiji, but leaves him behind when she quits her job and returns to her home town after a 10 year absence.Read More »
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Shaheen Dill-Riaz – Lohakhor AKA Ironeaters AKA Eisenfresser (2007)
2001-2010BangladeshDocumentaryPoliticsShaheen Dill-Riaz

Chittagong is a seaport in southern Bangladesh that has become the center of a thriving industry in the Third World — breaking up old and obsolete ships and selling the scrap metal, usually to construction firms.Read More »





