El Método Marcelo Pineyro :: Spain, Argentina, Italy :: 2005 ::1h55 Seven candidates show up at some multinational in Madrid, all of them in the last round of a recruitment process. While the city is immersed by anti-globalization protests on the streets down below, the candidates are turned on each other for the selection. A [...]
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Thank You for Smoking Jason Reitman :: USA :: 2004 :: 1h32 Nick Naylor is the acting spokesman for Big Tobacco defending it against the sign-of-the-times cultural onslaught on cigarettes. A candid, satirical look behind the scenes in a brutal politicized big business nation, where a gifted talker defends the unpopular while still trying to [...]
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Melissa P. Luca Guadagnino :: Italy, Spain :: 2006 :: 1h40 Melissa grows up in southern Italy with a father who is seldom there, her mother who is too preoccupied to really notice her, and her hippie grandmother who is as close to her heart as only a grandmother can be. As she leaves her [...]
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Selon Charlie Nicole Garcia :: France :: 2005 :: 1h55 A few days pass in the lives of very different characters in a small town on the scenic Atlantic coast. The town mayor, a teacher, a scientist, a crook, physiotherapist and their families all see their miserable lives cross paths with the others in almost [...]
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Du jour au lendemain Philippe Le Guay :: France :: 2006 :: 1h33 A man is plagued by little annoyances in a life which falls apart. One day, everything changes. Every annoyance he had vanishes, and his personal and professional life take a turn for the better. The sudden onset of happiness in his life [...]
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The Convenant Renny Harlin :: USA :: 2006 :: 1h37 Young descendants of witches battle it out between them when one of them wants all the power. Standard teen movie with supposedly pretty boys and girls, at a good school, doing the right thing, when they are confronted with the evil of one of them. [...]
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Batman BeginsChristopher Nolan :: USA :: 2005 :: 2h19The young Bruce witnesses the murder of his industrialist parents and, on growing up, dissapears into the world with his feelings of guilt and revenge to seek out answers…. Of course there is plenty of the obligatory tag line-repeating, the customary fighting scene choreographies, and the likes, but forget not that the film unconventionally builds up, whose utility you will understand as the film progresses.The genre of comic-book hero in cinema is not for everybody, like semi-standardized production-line films, but Mr Nolan does the hero justice in a well thought-out and meticulously crafted film.
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