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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.
After getting out of prison, small-time crook Mardar stumbles upon a woman who looks exactly like his long-lost lover.
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.
Quando o professor da escola primária de Shuiquan tem de se ausentar durante um mês, o presidente da pequena aldeia, Tian, apenas consegue encontrar uma adolescente de 13 anos, Wei Minzhi, para o substituir. O professor Gao adverte-a para que não permita que mais alunos abandonem a escola, garantindo-lhe o pagamento de 50 yuan e mais um pequeno extra se for bem sucedida.
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.
Three disaffected youths live in Datong in 2001, part of the new "Birth Control" generation. Fed on a steady diet of popular culture, both Western and Chinese, the characters of Unknown Pleasures represent a new breed in the People's Republic of China, one detached from reality through the screen of media and the internet.
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.
The lives of four Beijing University students, from 1988 to the early 2000s.
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."
Brent Mitchell (Xavier Samuel), é um jovem constantemente confrontado pelo colapso emocional da sua mãe após o trágico acidente de carro que matou o seu pai. Rejeitado e sem perspectivas, a sua única felicidade é a bela namorada Holly. Quando Brent recusa o convite de Lola para a festa de formatura, ela planeja um louco e violento ato de vingança.
Mizuki’s husband Yusuke went missing for 3 years. He suddenly comes back home one day and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him. Their trip consists of visiting the people that helped Yusuke on his previous travel. While travelling together, Misuki sees, touches and feels what Yusuke did for those 3 years.
Um rapaz de 16 anos infiltra-se na casa de um colega de turma e relata essas histórias ao seu professor de francês. Este último, face a este aluno dotado e diferente, volta a ganhar um novo fôlego no ensino. Mas esta intrusão vai desencadear uma série de acontecimentos incontroláveis.
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.
Três histórias, cada uma com a sua visão única sobre uma cidade fascinante. Histórias peculiares que conduzem o espetador por recantos pouco conhecidos de Tóquio, na companhia de um jovem casal teimoso, um bizarro homem dos esgotos e um homem habituado à reclusão forçado a sair do seu esconderijo para encontrar a entregadora de pizzas por quem se apaixonou.
Estudo bem-humorado sobre o “jeitinho” romeno, filme mostra a criatividade com que pessoas comuns desenvolvem esquemas para contornar os absurdos do cotidiano, como na época do regime de Nicolae Ceausescu (1918-1989). Uma fina ironia percorre seis episódios que baseiam-se em “lendas urbanas” do período que o governo comunista romeno definia como “a era do ouro”.
Iris é advogada, mãe de um menino com autismo e acaba de descobrir que tem um irmão, também autista, que está preso por assassinato. Ela acredita em sua inocência e começa a descobrir um passado perigoso para ela e seu filho.
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 the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.
Based on a popular manga, the film is a tender coming-of-age love story set deep in Japan's countryside. 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.
Ana e Alice passam a maior parte de suas horas juntas, são amigas inseparáveis. Até que um dia eles se interessam por dois meninos que os encontram no trem. Hana fica obcecada por um deles, a ponto de segui-lo aonde quer que ele vá. Em um desses acompanhamentos, o menino bate com a cabeça e Hana decide convencê-lo de que ele sofre de amnésia e que ela era sua namorada. Hana terá a ajuda de Alice para traçar seu plano, mas ela não conta que Alice também terá sentimentos...
Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered...
Um detetive investiga uma série de estranhos assassinatos ocorridos em Tóquio. Quando consegue capturar um suspeito junto ao corpo da última vítima descobre que o homem exerce estranhos poderes em quem entra em contato com ele. Começa então a tentar descobrir a relação dele com os crimes.
Shohei Sugiyama (Kôji Yakusho) é um típico homem de negócios japonês, que durante o trajeto do seu trabalho para casa vê Mai Kishikawa (Tamiyo Kusakari), uma bela jovem mulher, através da janela de uma escola de dança. Atraído por ela, Shohei se matricula na escola e conhece Mai, uma professora de dança. Inicialmente Mai confunde Shohei com um sedutor, mas para surpresa dela ele é um dançarino naturalmente talentoso, que só está interessado em ter uma boa parceira. Assim Mai começa a treiná-lo para uma competição.
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.
Sete anos após a morte da sua esposa, Aoyama, um executivo de uma grande empresa, é convidado para fazer parte de um painel de avaliação para a selecionar uma atriz. Folheando os currículos com antecedência, a sua atenção é capturada por Yamazaki Asami, uma jovem impressionante e com formação em ballet. O intuito real de Aoyama é escolher uma nova esposa, o que ele não sabe são as verdadeiras intenções de Yamazaki. Uma obra de arte do terror.
Akiko é uma jovem japonesa que secretamente se prostitui para pagar os estudos universitários. Ninguém, nem mesmo o seu namorado Noriaki, sabe desta actividade. Um dia, conhece Takashi Watanabe, um velho professor catedrático, que se torna seu cliente regular e é, em todos os aspectos, a absoluta antítese de Noriaki. É assim que, inesperadamente, Akiko se começa a sentir dividida entre um namorado jovem, mas rude e ignorante, e um velho amável com quem consegue uma partilha intelectual que a faz sentir-se viva e, acima de tudo, respeitada.
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.
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.
Dez sequências na vida emocional de seis mulheres e os desafios que elas encontram numa etapa particular das suas vidas, que podiam também ser dez sequências da vida emocional de apenas uma mulher...
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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