Movies: Foreign Films

3 idiots

Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius. You've never met a college student quite like 'Rancho.' From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university, Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus upside down-along with the lives of his two newfound best friends. Together, they make life miserable for 'Virus,' the school's uptight and heartless dean. But when Rancho catches the eye of the dean's sexy daughter, Virus sets his sights on flunking out the '3 idiots, once and for all.
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Battle royale [videorecording]
director, Kinji Fukasaku.
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary 'Battle Royale' act. 42 Students, Three Days, One Survivor, No Rules. Bonus features included.
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Biutiful [videorecording]
director, Alejandro Gonzaalez Ianaarritu.
Uxbal is a man on the wrong side of the law who struggles to provide for his children on the dangerous streets of Barcelona. As fate encircles him, Uxbal learns to accept the realities of life, whether bright, bad, or biutiful.
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Blade of kings [videorecording]
producers, Albert Lee, Zhao Jianguo
In the mythical land of Huadu, Charcoal Head, a humble boy born to rule an empire, must undertake his journey to claim his throne. It is an epic action adventure combining romance, fantasy, comedy, and cutting-edge Hong Kong-style martial artistry.
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By the will of Genghis Khan [videorecording]
Epic Pictures in association with Urgel V/Nyamgavaa Film Production, Brown Wolf Production
"This is the story of Temujin, who would be known as Genghis Khan, the ruthless founder of the largest contiguous empire in history, the Mongol Empire... Three childhood friends and sworn brothers -one was initiated into the sacrament and grew up to be a great shaman while the other two followed the path of war and the nation recognized them as leaders. But only one of them was to become the ruler of the land. He was chosen by the Eternal Blue Sky, and the Sky itself put him on trial. Love for a woman will make him a warrior. Allegiance to the law will lead him to fratricide. Striving for peace will force him to start war. The council of nine tribes speaking nine tongues proclaimed him the sovereign and gave him the name of an ancient deity, Genghis Khan. His warriors would reach cities of the West, seas of the South, and mountains of the North... "--Container.
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La doppia ora [videorecording] = Double hour
Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Medusa Film presantano
"Guido, a former cop, is a luckless veteran of the speed-dating scene in Turin. But, much to his surprise, he meets Slovenian immigrant Sonia, a chambermaid at a high-end hotel. The two hit it off, and a passionate romance develops. After they leave the city for a romantic getaway in the country, things suddenly take a dark turn"--Container.
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Fish story [videorecording]
[director, Yoshihiro Nakamura].
A massive comet is five hours from crashing into Earth, impending annihilation. Everyone is doomed. Five strangers are gathered to discuss and resolve the fate of the world in a record store. The song, 'Fish Story' by a nameless '70s band can be heard playing on the record turn table. The back of the album cover reads: 'There is a silent pause during the song. It was put there by the song writers intentionally'. Does this obscure punk song contain the ingredients to save the world?
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Flash point [videorecording]
Mandarin Films Distribution Co. Ltd ... [et al.] present
A detective is about to close in on a gang of three brothers that are wreaking havoc in the streets. Time is of the essence as the witnesses start dying off one by one, and his partner is next on the list! Special features include: deleted scenes, featurettes, and trailers.
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High lane [videorecording]
IFC Films and Gaumont present
A group of friends on a climbing vacation ignore warnings that the mountains are closed and start their ascent anyway. Collapsing bridges, bear traps, and other dangers threaten to splinter the group, when the real hell begins and an unseen villain begins picking them off one by one.
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Je suis heureux que ma maere soit vivante [videorecording] = I'm glad my mother is alive
Strand Releasing
Thomas is a troubled teenager who was given up for adoption as a toddler and is now obsessed with finding his birth mother. After searching for years, Thomas finally finds his mother single, with a young child, and living in a nearby suburb. Thomas starts a relationship with her which is part courtship and part obsessive and eventually drives him to an act of madness.
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King of devil's island [videorecording]
directed by Marius Holst.
Seventeen-year-old Erling is a rumored murderer and therefore sent to the Bastoy Boys Home correctional facility. Once there he clashes with the island facility's governor who believes manual labor, rigid discipline, and harsh punishment is the only way to turn these boys around. Refusing to accept the constant abuse, Erling leads the boys in a violent uprising that will bring them head to head with no less than the Norwegian Army.
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Kyatapir?a [videorecording] = Caterpillar
Wakamatsu Purodakushon
Kurokawa Ky?uz?o returns home as a living war god with a decoration from the Sino-Japanese war in 1944. But the war also deprived him of all four limbs, voice, and hearing. Shigeko, Ky?uz?o's wife, devotes herself to taking care of him everyday. However, as the war starts waning, things start to change.
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Leaving [videorecording]
director, Catherine Corsini.
When stay-at-home mom Suzanne wants to return to work, her husband agrees to remodel a garage to serve as her office. Ivan, a sexy Spanish builder, enters their lives and changes them in ways no one could have expected. Suzanne and Ivan are irresistibly drawn together by an erotic passion that threatens to destroy her marriage, her family, and everything she holds dear. Her husband will stop at nothing to destroy her first.
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Left handed [videorecording]
producer, Takao Saiki
Takes place in a suburb of Tokyo and centers around a disaffected teenage boy, Hiroshi, who is struggling at school, socially and academically. One day he shuts himself away in his bedroom and for the next two years refuses to come out or let anyone in. Hiroshi's parents are so ashamed that they attempt to conceal his condition from family and friends.
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oDha odirot?i pikcar [videorecording] = The dirty picture
Alt Entertainment presents
Imagine a make-up girl who became an extra and then the most wanted heroine of the early 80s. Chronicling the meteoric rise and steep fall of an erstwhile screen sensation, The dirty picture is set against the colorful and entertaining backdrop of the south film industry of the 80s. The quintessential siren, Silk, knew her audiences, and it didn't seem like anything would stop the firecely ambitious starlet, till it did, in the shape of unrequited love. To the world, she was the queen of sensuality. But at heart, Silk was just another woman craving true love. An unfortunate encounter with deceit and infidelity led to dire consequences.
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Outrage [videorecording]
Magnet Releasing presents
In a ruthless battle for power, several yakuza clans vie for the favor of their head family in the Japanese underworld. The rival bosses seek to rise through the ranks by scheming and making allegiances sworn over sake. Longtime yakuza Otomo has seen his kind go from elaborate body tattoos and severed fingertips to becoming important players on the stock market.
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Pamgwa nat [Videorecording]
IFC Films
A married man in his early 40s, Seong-nam is an award-winning painter who, after getting busted for smoking pot with an American exchange student in Seoul, impulsively flees to Paris. Crashing in a dingy hotel run by a fellow Korean and unable to speak a lick of French, he finds himself wandering aimlessly around Paris, trapped in both his art and life. After a chance encounter with an old flame, he eventually stumbles into the emotional lives of two very different Korean expats.
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Rang zi dan fei [videorecording] = Let the bullets fly
Zhongguo dian ying ji tuan, Ying huang dian ying (guo ji) you xian gong si, Beijing bu yi le hu dian ying wen hua fa zhan you xian gong si chu pin.

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The sleeping beauty [videorecording]
a film by Catherine Breillat.
Cursed at birth by an evil fairy, Anastasia is destined to prick her finger and die at the age of sixteen. When three feckless fairy sisters discover this, they hatch a plan to alter the curse: rather than die, Anastasia will sleep for 100 years and live in a world of dreams. Through her active dream life, Anastasia will find love, loss and possibly a waking life. French provocateur Breillat continues her deconstruction of classic fairytales with her latest, 'The Sleeping Beauty'.
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Special treatment [videorecording]
a film by Jeanne Labrune.
Alice is a high-class prostitute who serves up sexual fantasies for her clientele, from school girl innocence to S&M. Fed up with the seamy underbelly of French masculinity she crosses paths with Xavier, a neurotic psychoanalyst facing a marriage crisis. The two quickly realize their professions share a thing or two in common as they navigate the overlapping worlds of psychotherapy and sex therapy. Special features: director Q&A and filmmaker bio.
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The stoning of Soraya M. [videorecording]
Roadside Attractions presents in association with MPower Distribution an MPower Pictures production
When a journalist is stranded in her remote village, Zahra takes a bold chance to reveal what the villagers will stop at nothing to keep hidden. Thus begins the remarkable story of what happened to Soraya, a kind-spirited woman whose bad marriage leads her cruel, divorce-seeking husband to trump up false charges of infidelity, which carry an unimaginable penalty.
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Tales from the golden age [videorecording]
director Ioana Maria Uricaru.
The final fifteen years of the Ceausescu regime were the worst in Romania's history. Nonetheless, the propaganda machine of that time relentlessly referred to that period as the country's 'golden age'. Using the moniker as a starting point, Tales from the Golden Age spins the most popular, comic and bizarre urban legends from that harrowing period into a hilariously surreal omnibus film.
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Teresa [videorecording]
Televisa.
Teresa is a young woman dominated by her own greed. She would rather lie and cheat her way out of poverty than find an honest job. Her parents have made great sacrifices to give her a good, decent life, but Teresa wants more, a lot more. Mariano, Teresa's boyfriend, is truly in love with her and stands behind all of her decisions. Teresa, however, sees him merely as a convenient accessory, someone always eager and ready to do her bidding.
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War of the arrows [videorecording]
directed by Kim Han-min.
During Second Manchu invasion of Korea, one village is attacked by Manchurian soldiers. Manchurian kidnap Ja-in on her wedding day with her childhood sweetheart Seo-Goon. Her brother Nam-Yi defeats the enemy and saves his sister and the other Korean victims with only one bow.
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