Severance Christopher Smith :: UK :: 2006 :: 1h37 An office outing in the countryside with intent to team build through a little paint-ball and forced social activity turns into a blood soaked carnage. The rented house is, of course, a far cry from a rose garden English bed and breakfast, and the surrounding forrest [...]
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The Queen Stephen Frears :: U.K. :: 2006 :: 1h39 The young new Labour leader Tony Blair has just been elected Prime Minister of the U.K. when Lady Diana has a fatal accident in Paris, shocking the nation. Queen Elisabeth II is in Scotland with her family when it happens, and finds herself thrust into [...]
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Dans Paris Christophe Honoré :: France :: 2006 :: 1h32 Two brothers, Paul and Jonathan, in their parental home. Paul, who had left for the countryside with his love Anna returned in a state of suicidal depression. Jonathan, having never left his father, lives with a lightness of being to deal with the drama around [...]
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Children of Men Alfonso Cuaron :: U.K., USA :: 2006 :: 1h50 In the near future, mankind has become infertile. Although the reasons are unknown, the world is understandably in complete disarray. England combats the nihilism and lack of resources with an anarchy-fascist regime, who tries its best to safeguard its population by pushing out [...]
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Perfume : the story of a murderer Tom Tykwer :: France, Spain, Germany :: 2006 :: 2h27 The twisted tale of the unfortunate Jean-Baptiste, from his birth as an odorless, insignificant dropping to the summon of his ability, passing through the worst life life can offer. Jean-Baptiste Genouille is, despite his barely human existence, gifted [...]
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Lady in the Water M. Night Shyamalan :: USA :: 2005 :: 1h49 A fantasy story about a traumatized man hiding from his former life as the guardian of building. One day, he finds a water nymph. Her desire to return to her underwater world is blocked by evil forces who can only be contained [...]
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The New World Terrence Malick :: USA :: 2005 :: 2h16 A love story between a British soldier Smith and Pocahontas, the daughter of an Indian Chief, in the beginning of the European colonization of the Americas. The backdrop shows the tense relations between the two civilizations, which oscillate between the cooperative and the violent. [...]
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In an orgy of music, she is swept along in a world foreign but concrete, hostile but warm, cheerful but unhappy.A curious mixture of sentiments overwhelm you as you travel along with Zingarina in a timeless Europe which seems so close, yet far away from an urban perspective…. As for the latter, music, it is ever present through iPods and nightlife, but it is much less ‘just there’ as it is in this film.Watching Transylvania is transporting yourself into another version of reality, one which is both close and removed from (urban-dwelling) experience.
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Jiang cheng xia ri Wang Chao :: China/ France :: 2006 :: 1h28 Aging teacher Qiming returns to the city of Wuhan (south central China) after having lived in exile in the countryside most of his life. Picked up at the port by his beautiful daughter, his sets out to track down is out-of-view son. [...]
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