2000s

  • Vincenzo Natali – Cypher (2002)

    Vincenzo Natali2001-2010Sci-FiThrillerUSA

    An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.Read More »

  • Miguel Gomes – Inventário de Natal AKA Christmas Inventory (2000)

    Miguel Gomes1991-2000ArthouseCultPortugal

    Quote:
    December 25th in the middle eighties. The family gets together in the grandparents’ house, through red curtains in the window that opens onto the sunroom, amid pendulum clocks, wicker-seat chairs and a huge Nativity Scene. There is not one particular highlight; our only interest is the portrait of the group consisting of four generations and two dogs.Read More »

  • Takashi Miike – Dead or Alive: Final (2002)

    Takashi Miike2001-2010CrimeDramaJapan

    The ace cop of a totalitarian police force and a drifting android play their parts in a post-apocalyptic society. They are destined to fight. Their encounter will change them forever.Read More »

  • Koen Mortier – Ex Drummer (2007)

    Koen Mortier2001-2010BelgiumCultDrama

    Synopsis:
    Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.Read More »

  • Veronica Hart – Misty Beethoven the Musical! (2004)

    2001-2010EroticaMusicalUSAVeronica Hart

    Quote:
    A snobby socialite and his mistress try to transform a sleazy hooker into a singing sex goddess.

    Quote:
    Back in the 1970’s, during the Golden Age of Porn, Misty Beethoven was considered a classic. 30 plus years later, veteran performer and director Veronica Hart has re-envisioned the classic tale in a manner not even the original director/writer, Henry Paris, would have imagined…as a musical.Read More »

  • Kam-Hung Yip – Ban zhi yan aka Metade Fumaca (2000)

    1991-2000DramaHong KongKam-Hung Yip

    Quote:
    In Portuguese Metade Fumaca means ‘half smoked’ and in this movie that is a reference to the cigarette Eric Tsang’s character carries with him since one, for him, magical night 30 years ago.

    Mountain Leopard (Eric Tsang from Gen-X Cops) is a triad who has spent the last 30 years of his life living in Brazil. He now returns to Hong Kong to kill his long time rival Nine Dragons (Michael Chan) who stole the woman Mountain Leopard was in love with. He enlists the help of small time hoodlum Smokey (Nicholas Tse from 2002) who more than willingly is ready to kill for money. Smokey also knows the present Hong Kong which Mountain Leopard is not really familiar with and the two slowly begin the search for Nine Dragons. During this time they develop an almost father-son like relationship but along the way the real truth about Mountain Leopard is revealed…. Read More »

  • Philippe Garrel – Les amants réguliers AKA Regular Lovers (2005)

    Philippe Garrel2001-2010DramaFranceThe Films of May '68

    Quote:
    1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won’t throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?Read More »

  • Reha Erdem – Bes Vakit AKA Times and Winds (2006)

    Reha Erdem2001-2010DramaTurkey

    Three youngsters lead difficult lives in a poor, rural mountain village in northern Turkey. Omer (Ozkan Ozen) hates his father, the village Imam, and imagines different ways to kill him. His friend Yakup (Ali Bey Kayali) has a secret infatuation with his teacher. Yildiz (Elit Iscan) must handle the housework handed out by her severe mother. Their tough existence is tempered by the wonder and excitement of youth, as their daily lives are divided into five sections, separated by prayer sessions.Read More »

  • Steve Boyum – King Solomon’s Mines (2004)

    2001-2010ActionAdventureSteve BoyumUSA

    Safari hunter, Allan Quartermain, heads into Africa in order to rescue a man, who had disappeared while searching for the fabled lost gold mines of King Solomon.Read More »

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