2000s

  • Farah Khan – Om Shanti Om (2007)

    Farah Khan2001-2010ActionDramaIndia
    Om Shanti Om (2007)
    Om Shanti Om (2007)

    In the 1970s, Om, an aspiring actor, is murdered, but is immediately reincarnated into the present day. He attempts to discover the mystery of his demise and find Shanti, the love of his previous life.Read More »

  • Cristina Comencini – La bestia nel cuore AKA Don’t tell (2005)

    2001-2010Cristina ComenciniDramaItalyQueer Cinema(s)
    La bestia nel cuore (2005)
    La bestia nel cuore (2005)

    Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart. Sabina wants to contact again her brother, a University teacher in the US, to try to understand what is happened in their past. What is the secret? She is determined to bring clarity and serenity in her life. She finally manages to free herself from her “beast inside the heart”.Read More »

  • Dominik Moll – Harry un ami qui vous veut du bien AKA With a Friend Like Harry… AKA Harry, He’s Here to Help (2000)

    Dominik Moll1991-2000ComedyDramaFrance
    Harry un ami qui vous veut du bien (2000)
    Harry un ami qui vous veut du bien (2000)

    Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel’s life… and things take a sinister turn.Read More »

  • Miguel Ángel Sánchez – Arderás conmigo AKA Burn with Me (2002)

    Miguel Ángel Sánchez2001-2010SpainThriller
    Arderás conmigo (2002)
    Arderás conmigo (2002)

    Laura, a shy teacher of mysterious beauty, begins a passionate relationship with one of her students, a marginalized teenager named Israel. The young man begins to frequent the decadent mansion where Laura lives with her grandparents, Irene and Luis, with the purpose of taking advantage of her. During these clandestine meetings, violence breaks out, unexpectedly revealing the dark secrets that are hidden in the house, and driving the couple’s relationship towards an increasingly dangerous game, in which it is no longer known who uses whom and who is being used.Read More »

  • Mototsugu Watanabe – Whore Angels (2000)

    1991-2000ComedyEroticaJapanMototsugu Watanabe
    Whore Angels (2000)
    Whore Angels (2000)

    Komasa is a cow-girl drifter who works at the brothel, “Hot-Lips”. One day, she saves the life of Monroe, a pink-haired woman, who is being attacked by a demon. Monroe gets a job at “Hot Lips” where it’s quickly discovered that her blowjobs have magical healing powers. Soon she’s the most popular girl there as lines of sick and handicap men seek special treatment from the woman who has the healing powers of an angel… Director Mototsugu Watanabe (Sexy Battle Girls) directs this irreverent sexy comedy!Read More »

  • Chang-dong Lee – Milyang AKA Secret Sunshine (2007)

    2001-2010AsianDramaLee Chang-dongSouth Korea
    Milyang (2007)
    Milyang (2007)

    Renowned Korean filmmaker Lee Chang Dong, the director of Green Fish, Peppermint Candy, and Oasis, returns to the director’s chair in 2007 with the critically acclaimed Secret Sunshine. This is his fourth film, and his first directorial work since his stint as Minister of Culture and Tourism from 2003 to 2004. In addition to Lee’s long-awaited return, Secret Sunshine attracted much attention with its pairing of two of the biggest names in Korean cinema – Song Kang Ho and Jeon Do Yeon, who was named Best Actress at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for her amazing performance.Read More »

  • Jonathan Glazer – Birth (2004)

    Jonathan Glazer2001-2010DramaUnited KingdomWar
    Birth (2004)
    Birth (2004)

    Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can’t get the boy out of her mind. And much to the concern of her fiancé, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life.Read More »

  • Franco Piavoli – Al primo soffio di vento AKA At the First Breath of Wind (2002)

    Drama2001-2010ArthouseFranco PiavoliItaly
    Al primo soffio di vento (2002)
    Al primo soffio di vento (2002)

    Experimental film director Franco Piavoli’s Al Primo Soffio Di Vento (At the First Breath of Wind) is nearly a wordless, non-narrative account of a summer’s day as appreciated by the residents of an estate in Lombardy, Italy.

    The family, despite living in a idyllic mansion, live their lives very much apart from one another. The father (Primo Gaburri) is usually holed up in his study, while his wife aimlessly paces the grounds pining away after a former lover. Of the two daughters, the eldest plays sad tunes on the piano, while the younger explores the woods and struggles to understand her recent inklings of sexual attraction.Read More »

  • Manoel de Oliveira – Je rentre à la maison AKA I’m Going Home (2001)

    Manoel de Oliveira2001-2010DramaFrance
    Je rentre à la maison (2001)
    Je rentre à la maison (2001)

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    I’m Going Home (French: Je rentre à la maison, Portuguese: Vou Para Casa) is a 2001 French-Portuguese film written and directed by Manoel de Oliveira.

    Gilbert Valence (Michel Piccoli) is a grand old theatre actor who receives the shocking news that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car accident. As time passes, Valence busies himself with his daily life in Paris, turning down unsuitable roles in low-brow television productions and looking after his 9-year-old grandson. When an American filmmaker (John Malkovich) miscasts him in an ill-conceived adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Valence finds himself compelled to make a decision about his life.Read More »

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