Idiocracy Mike Judge :: USA :: 2006 :: 1h19 Simple character Joe is chosen to be frozen in, only to wake up 500 years later. What he finds is not the high-tech ‘Star Trek’ world, but rather a society which is run and populated by idiots. Joe suddenly finds himself to be the most intelligent [...]
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Elementarteilchen Oskar Roehler :: Germany :: 2006 :: 1h53 Two half brothers, Michael and Bruno, abandoned as children by their hippie mother, struggle to form loving relationships. Michael remained faithful to his childhood first love, one he could never act on out of a mixture of cowardice and fear of abandonment. His half-brother whose past [...]
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La Tourneuse de pages Denis Dercourt :: France :: 2006 :: 1h25 Young village butcher’s daughter Mélanie fails a piano competition because she is distracted by the rudeness of one of the musician jurors. Having given up on music, she finds herself in Paris many years later, taking on a placement at the juror’s husband’s [...]
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Ca brûle Claire Simon :: France :: 2006 :: 1h51 Adolescent Livia finds herself in the south of France, in the dust, after falling off her horse with an older man, a fireman, leaning over her. As he helps her, she falls in love. Summer is kicking in, it’s hot and emotions are flaring up. [...]
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The Science of Sleep Michel Gondry :: France / UK :: 2005 :: 1h45 Stephane comes to Paris to take on a job at a calendar-production company arranged by his mother, which unfortunately turns out to be somewhat more dull than expected. His fantasy life goes haywire in his dreams, he falls in love with [...]
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