Gran Torino Clint Eastwood :: USA :: 2008 :: 1h55 Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is a retired factory worker and war veteran, who lives in a gang-infested run-down neighbourhood, where he dislikes almost everyone and everything besides his own house. His life is filled with a near-perfect cliché of American redneck tough existence: arrogance, ignorance, [...]
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Pranzo di Ferragosto Gianni Di Gregorio :: Italy :: 2008 :: 1h16 Gianni (Gianni Di Gregorio), who is well into his forties, has no job or income and still lives in his comfortable family home with his ageing mother. She is a capricious but refined woman who requires a lot of attention and even more patience. Gianni offers her [...]
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Incendiary Sharon Maguire :: UK :: 2008 :: 1h36 A young woman (Michelle Williams) is trapped in an empty marriage tucked away in an ugly apartment block in London. Her pride and joy in her grey existence is her 4-year-old son. One day, as the two of them are at the football match, she seduces a slick journalist Jasper [...]
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Die Welle Dennis Gansel :: Germany :: 2008 :: 1h48 High school teacher Rainer Wenger (played by Jürgen Vogel) is assigned a week long teaching course on autocracy. His students bore at the thought of talking about the Nazi’s again and are convinced a fascist rise to power would no longer be possible in contemporary Germany. [...]
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35 Rhums Claire Denis :: France :: 2008 :: 1h40 The quiet Lionel (played by the cool Alex Descas) lives with his grown up daughter Joséphine (newcomer Mati Diop) in a comfortable, albeit somewhat sterile, grey, contemporary apartment in a Parisian suburb. Life has unfortunately taken away Lionel’s wife, and left the two-person family in a state [...]
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