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Tell me what your favorite movies are and I will tell you what kind of person you are. So my favorite highest rated movies are Fight Club, American Beauty, Jagten, Heat, Manchester By The Sea...
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Inspired by true events of the 1989 Czech and Slovak Velvet Revolution and Václav Havel's controversial release of 23000 prisoners.
Mardar, un delinqüent de pacotilla que acaba de sortir de la presó, coincideix amb una dona clavada a una amant que va perdre temps enrere.
Six women attempt to make it in current day Tokyo, living their everyday lives the best and worst they can. For them, every little moment becomes a ritual of the ordinary and the exciting, a balancing act for their dreams and hopes as the days perpetually tug on their heartstrings.
Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students.
China, the 1990s. A young bookseller is in love with a woman. The woman is now with another guy, a rich man. The rich man sends his people to beat the bookseller. In the fight, the laptop computer from a man looking at the scene gets broken. Who will pay for the computer? The bookseller wants revenge. Will it be useful? The bookseller and the laptop owner are from different ages and classes. They are two different points of view, two different Chinas. How will they fight for justice?
For anyone with tricky personal troubles — marital, professional and otherwise — Yu Guan and his buddies have a new business that will provide the solution, from taking the abuse of a man’s nagging wife to showering an obscure writer with awards.
Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director.
A policeman investigates an introverted signal-station manager suspected of raping a hotel clerk.
Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young singer and dancer working for a liquor company as a spokesmodel.
Mr. Zhao tells the story of a philandering doctor living in Shanghai. His infidelity gets the best of him, however, when his mistress Tian Jing (Chen Yinan) announces she is pregnant, while his wife learns of his affair but refuses to grant a divorce
A man returns to his native Beijing after serving in a labor camp, to find that he has no family or prospects or friends. He tries to make a living, but his old underworld contacts drag him back into a life of crime.
The dysfunctional Chinese justice system allows citizens with grievances against their local governments to petition the court to clear or correct their record. Yet in order to do so, the petitioners must travel to Beijing to file paperwork and wait an indefinite period to plead their case. Following the saga of a group of petitioners over the years of 1996 and 2008, Petition unfolds like a novel by Zola or Dickens. This was filmed surreptitiously from the point of view of the petitioners, and not the justice officials, the police, or those heavies sent by the municipalities.
Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.
A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.
A tale of two sisters. Penny (Masterson) cares for her younger sister Mary (Malone), who suffers from cystic fibrosis. "Cares for" is a questionable term, as the hardened, edgy Penny secretly makes her living in the world's oldest profession while popping pills to help numb her from the grim reality of her job and the impending loss of her sister. Mary, a romantic daydreamer who faces her disease with a graceful, knowing spirit, remembers the days when her big sister was a "brilliant" published poet, and she pours her every thought, memory, and dream into a lovingly crafted scrapbook she calls "the book of stars."
When Brent turns down his classmate Lola's invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge.
Mizuki és una professora de piano que dona classes als nens. El seu marit, Yusuke, fa tres anys que està desaparegut. Torna a casa com un fantasma i li diu que va morir ofegat al mar. El seu cos va desaparèixer al mar, menjat pels crancs. Des d'aleshores ha viatjat pel Japó i ha fet amistat amb els vius i altres persones "com ell". Li demana a la Mizuki que l'acompanyi en un viatge. Yusuke li mostra els bells llocs que va descobrir i visita la gent que ha estat amable amb ell.
Un professor de literatura francesa, descoratjat per les maldestres reaccions dels seus nous alumnes, descobreix que el noi que se seu al fons de la classe, mostra en els seus treballs un agut i subtil sentit de l'observació.
An average, everyday metalworker and volunteer firefighter content in his marriage to his childhood sweetheart finds his emotions unexpectedly stirred when he falls for a pretty waitress from a nearby town.
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
Composed of 6 unconventional short stories, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceauşescu's regime.
L'Iris és una advocada jove que té un fill autista i no té parella. Un dia topa amb un conegut de la família que li diu que el seu fill s'assembla molt al germà d'ella. Però ella sempre s'ha pensat que era filla única. Davant de la negativa de la mare a explicar-li què passa, l'Iris es posa a investigar qui podria ser aquest germà seu que no sabia que existís. I descobreix que és autista, com el seu fill, i que està reclòs en una institució psiquiàtrica des de fa dues dècades perquè va cometre uns assassinats. Però hi ha moltes coses que no lliguen i l'Iris reobre el cas del seu germà i remou molts fantasmes del passat.
Tomoya Kishida is working as a staffer in a television studio when he hears about the death of his close friend, Aoi Sato. This sparks his recollection of the events in life they shared from meeting at a record store, shooting a short film as part of their university film club, to saying their last goodbyes. Though in love with each other, neither had the courage to confess their feelings before it was too late.
Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to life once again.
In one long Friday evening, Takeshi Miyata, a straight-arrow businessman, will encounter a number of people (some only fleetingly) who have intertwining fates.
When two souls find one another, nothing can tear them apart. Widower Takumi lives a quiet life with his six-year-old son Yuji after the loss of wife and mother Mio. Yuji unfailingly remembers her promise to him: "I'll be with you again in a year's time, when the rains come." On the first anniversary of her passing, Takumi and Yuji are taking a walk in the woods when they come across a woman sheltering from a monsoon downpour.
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.
When eighth-grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small elementary/middle school with only six kids enrolled, wholesome and honest Soyo becomes enthralled with his sophisticated world.
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.
Momoko és una jove solitària que viu en el seu món i té una visió particular de les coses. No té amics ni l'interessa tenir-los, considera la seva família i veïns uns ordinaris i es gasta els estalvis en costosos vestits ambientats en el període rococó. Fins que coneix Ichigo, noia de la mateixa edat que és el pol oposat: una motera malcarada que vesteix descuidadament, renega sovint i escup a terra. Encara que Ichigo es fa la dura, en realitat està tan sola i se sent tan incompresa com Momoko. Aviat seran inseparables i viuran peripècies tan estranyes com hilarants.
El policia Takabe investiga uns estranys assassinats. Les víctimes apareixen amb una ferida d'arma blanca en forma de x i els culpables són persones totalment normals sense cap motiu per haver comès l'assassinat. Takabe comença a sospitar que alguna cosa està influenciant la gent per matar.
A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves ballroom dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to also be called Itsuki Fujii.
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.
An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.
En un barri perifèric de Tòquio, la policia troba el cadàver d'una dona de 53 anys anomenada Matsuko Kawajiri. El seu nebot Sho, un noi de vida desordenada que vol dedicar-se a la música, rep l'encàrrec del seu pare de recollir els objectes personals de Matsuko a l'apartament on vivia. L'apartament està ple de bosses d'escombraries i està encara més descuidat que el seu, però poc a poc Sho va descobrint a través de records i testimonis com va ser de dissortada la vida de la seva tia... i qui podria tenir motius per assassinar-la.
A life of a mother and her two children breaking down quietly without showing any events happening out of their house. The film is about a child neglect and a corruption of the belief, motherhood exists in all female, based on a true incident happened in Osaka, Japan.
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
The satirical commentary on clergymen in post-revolutionary Iran. While in prison, petty criminal Reza (Parviz Parastui) comes across a clergyman, sparking a plan for escape. Reza dons his new acquaintance's clerical robes and makes a bid for freedom. He soon learns that being a clergyman brings little respect from the public. Reza travels to the outlying villages, from where he plots to escape the country. However, his plans must be put on hold when the villagers accept him into their community and expect him to perform religious duties. Will Reza's prison break transform him into an unlikely pillar of the community?
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