Movies: Foreign Films

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Two ostensibly ordinary middle-aged couples, Marie and Vitek, and Dita and Ondra, are linked by more than just a lifelong friendship, they are linked by love. Both men, Ondra and Vitek, who are work colleagues, sincerely love their wives, but they both also harbor a secret yearning for the other's wife. When, by a stroke of fortune, the foursome finds themselves on an almost uninhabited island in the Caribbean, it's just a matter of time.
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Amorcito corazon

For the first time on DVD, the four-discs set of captivating cheerful stories about friendship and love. Isabel Cordero is unlucky in love, she believes that she is cursed and thinks that every man who falls in love with her will suffer for it until she meets Fernando Lobo. Will Fernando be the one to finally break Isabel's curse? Anything can happen in this romantic comedy that will have you laughing and crying.
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The Assassin's blade [videorecording]
directed by Jingle Ma
Zhu, the daughter of a wealthy family is sent into the mountains disguised as a man to learn martial arts from an elite clan. Zhu finds herself at odds with the Kung Fu master and must fight to save her family from death.
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At the gate of the ghost [videorecording]
Magnet Releasing and Sahomongkolfilm International
A murder mystery witnessed and told through the eyes of a young monk, a woodcutter, and an undertaker.
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Les barbouzes [videorecording] = The great spy chase
Gaumont presente
After the death of an infamous arms dealer, four secret agents try to seduce his young widow to obtain his secrets for their respective countries.
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Clandestine childhood [videorecording]
Film Movement presents a Historia Cinematograficas and Habitacion 1520 in coproduction with Antartuda Produccions Academia de Filmes and Radio y Television Argentina film
Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets Maria, who only has one name. Based on true facts, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is "one about love".
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Cold prey II [videorecording]
Fantefilm presents in cooperation with Aschehoug, Filmlandet Invest and Norsk Filmstudio
The sole survivor from the first Cold Prey film arrives at a local hospital for medical attention following a massacre in which her friends were killed by a psychopath in the Norwegian mountains. But when she steps out of her bed and finds the hospital dark and silent without a living soul in sight it becomes clear that her nightmare is far from over.
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Un condamne a mort s'est echappe [videorecording] = A man escaped : or, Le vent souffle ou il veut = The wind blows where it wishes
Janus Films
Based on the memoirs of an imprisoned French resistance leader, this unbelievably taut and methodical marvel follows the fictional Fontaine's single-minded pursuit of freedom, detailing the planning and carrying out of his escape with gripping precision.
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The condemned [videorecording]
writers, Roberto Buso-Garcia, Danielle Schleif [and] Luis R. Trelles
Dark and terrible secrets are hidden in an old mansion and stirred back to life when the original owner of the house returns. Beautiful Ana travels to a remote town to transform the abandoned family mansion into a museum detailing her father's scientific and humanitarian achievements. She discovers that the mysterious caretaker has kept the house in pristine fashion. However, the townspeople, now destitute and helpless, do not welcome her warmly. And neither does the house.
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Easy money [videorecording]
The Weinstein Company presents
Lower-class business student JW falls in love with a sexy heiress while living a double life mingling with Stockholm's wealthy elite. To keep up the facade of his lifestyle, he's lured into a world of crime. Jorge is a petty fugitive on the run from both the police and the Serbian mafia. He hopes that brokering a massive cocaine deal will allow him to escape for good. Mafia enforcer Mrado is on the hunt for Jorge, but his efforts are complicated when he's unexpectedly saddled with caring for his young daughter. As JW's journey ventures deeper into the dark world of organized crime, the fate of all three men becomes entangled and ends with a dramatic struggle for life and death.
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The great magician

After the revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty, China was ruled by vicious landlords. A rising lieutenant uses amazing magic to scare convicts into joining his warlord's army.
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Id:A [videorecording]
director, Christian E. Christiansen
A young woman wakes up in a river in France with no memory, a bag with 2 million Euro and a scar across her chest and soon discovers that she is being stalked by mysterious men. Realizing that her accent is Danish she decides to go to Denmark to find out who she is and becomes wrapped into a web of conflicting and complicated stories from her loved ones about her past.
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Judgment [videorecording]
director, Masato Tsujioka.
An ex-boxer wakes up in chains. His name is Machimura. In this unfamiliar room, he sees his old boxing partner, Matoba; and his long time rival, Ushijima; both being held captive. A woman's voice erupts: 'Choose which one to kill-or you die.' Machimura must choose or meet his fate. Machimura chooses-but the nightmare doesn't end. He must continue to 'choose between people from his past. How many judgments must he make before this is over?
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Maldonne [videorecording]
Sergio Gobbi.
A musician named Jacques Christens is given a proposition by an old man. For ten million Francs he is asked to impersonate a certain Paul de Baer-a man who is supposedly exiled in The Amazon. Christens is told this scheme will save Mr. Baer from ruin. He wants nothing more than to complete his symphony in peace, but needs money and accepts the ten million. While living in Mr. Baer's villa, Christens begins to suffer a form of amnesia, as he comes to believe he actually is Mr. Baer.
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Papillon rose complete collection

A team of scantily-clad, magic-using girls fight the forces of evil.
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The Rabbi's cat

A cat belonging to a widowed Rabbi and his beautiful daughter eats the family parrot and miraculously gains the ability to speak. Along with the power of speech comes unparalleled sardonic wit, and the cat spares no group or individual as he skewers faith, tradition and authority. The delivery of a box from Russia further complicates things when a painter is discovered inside, more dead than alive. He is on a quest for a hidden tribe and its mythical city in Africa.
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Race 2 [videorecording]
UTV Motion Pictures and Tips Industries Ltd. present Ramesh Taurani's
Set on the lush locales of exotic Turkey, with a backdrop of gambling and Casino's. Ranvir treads through the world of the Indian mafia in Turkey as he looks to avenge the death of his lover and partner in crime. The plot moves with reckless speed from one exotic locale to another at a breakneck speed full of unexpected twists and turns.
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Shanghai [videorecording]
directed by Dibakar Banerjee
A small town somewhere in India is poised to become the next Shanghai. Billions of dollars are being poured into an upcoming International Business Park. On the eve of its launch, a drunk truck driver moves down a prominent social activist. A lone girl believes it to be murder, supported by a porn film makeer who claims to have the proof that will bring the government down. A high ranking bureaucrat is brought in to investigate the accident.
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The sorcerer and the white snake [videorecording]
producer, Chui Po Chu
Based on a Chinese legend of a man who falls in love with a thousand-year-old white snake transformed into a woman. The sorcerer discovers the white snake's true identity and battles to save the man's soul.
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Teddy Bear [videorecording] ; Cathrine ; Dennis

Teddy Bear: Dennis, a painfully shy 38-year old body builder, would like to find true love. He has never had a girlfriend and lives with his mother in a suburb of Copenhagen. When his uncle marries a woman from Thailand, Dennis decides to try his own luck on a visit to Pattaya as it seems love is easier to find there. Knowing his mother would never accept another woman in his life, he lies and tells her he is going to Germany for a competition. Pattaya turns out to be a cultural shock for him. The intrusive Thai girls shatter his naive picture of what love should be like. He is about to lose hope when he unexpectedly meets the woman of his dreams. There may be hope for him if he can only confront his mother.
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