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July 24, 2015
Childstar (2004) Trailer
Childstar
When you're only famous for fifteen minutes, every second counts.
Childstar is a 2004 comedy film directed and written (with the help of Michael Goldbach) by Don McKellar.
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Taylor Brandon Burns (Mark Rendall), a conflicted young TV star from the U.S., runs away from the set - and his problems - while shooting a big-budget film in Canada. His reluctant limo-driver, Rick Schiller (Don McKellar), a down-on-his-luck indie filmmaker, is enlisted to find Taylor before the childstar destroys himself. *Wikipedia*
July 23, 2015
Simon (2004) Trailer
Simon
Hij verandert je leven (He will change your life)
Simon is a 2004 Dutch drama film directed by Eddy Terstall.
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One of the characters is Camiel, a gay dentist who marries his lover and the other is Simon (Cees Geel), a heterosexual drugs dealer and lady magnet. They become close friends in the late 1980s, but Camiel does something that interrupts their friendship.
After fourteen years Camiel and Simon meet again. Simon is now terminally ill with cancer.
Simon has a daughter, Joy (Nadja Hüpscher) and a son, Nelson (Stijn Koomen). They develop a friendship with Camiel and his husband and after Simon's death Camiel adopts them.*Wikipedia*
The Misfortunates (2009) Trailer
De helaasheid der dingen
The Misfortunates (Dutch: De helaasheid der dingen) is a 2009 Belgian comedy-drama film directed by Felix Van Groeningen. It is adapted from the (partly autobiographical) book "De Helaasheid der Dingen" by Belgian writer Dimitri Verhulst.
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Writer Gunther Strobbe made his ladyfriend pregnant and looks back at this youth. He lived together with his father, grandmother and uncles in a house in the fictitious town of Reetveerdegem. Much of his youth was about drinking, cigarettes, women, and truancy. Heavier themes include addiction, criminality, and death. *Wikipedia*
Rare Birds (2001) Trailer
Rare Birds
Fortune can make a man do some pretty fowl things.
Rare Birds is a 2001 Canadian comedy/drama film. It was directed by Sturla Gunnarsson and written by Edward Riche based on his novel.
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A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure luminaries to their small Newfoundland town.
July 22, 2015
Gutterballs (2008) Trailer
Gutterballs
Strike....on your head!
Gutterballs is a 2008 horror film written and directed by Ryan Nicholson.
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A popular bowling alley becomes the scene of a big-time bloodbath in Live Feed director Ryan Nicholson's tongue-in-cheek horror comedy. Preparations for a local bowling tournament end in tragedy when, the night before the big event, a girl on her way home from the bowling alley becomes the victim of a vicious gang rape. The following night, as each of the teams prepares to do battle, a mysterious masked killer begins dispatching the bowlers with brutal efficiency. As the body count skyrockets, the remaining survivors wage a valiant fight to unmask the killer and survive the night.
July 21, 2015
The Mothman Prophecies (2002) Trailer
The Mothman Prophecies
Based on true events
The Mothman Prophecies is a 2002 supernatural thriller film directed by Mark Pellington, based on the 1975 book of the same name by parapsychologist and Fortean author John Keel.
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A reporter is drawn to a small West Virginia town to investigate a series of strange events, including psychic visions and the appearance of bizarre entities.
Arn: The Knight Templar (2007) Trailer
Arn: Tempelriddaren
In a Time of War and Betrayal, a Hero Will Rise
Arn – The Knight Templar (Swedish: Arn - Tempelriddaren) is a 2007 epic film based on Jan Guillou's trilogy about the fictional Swedish Knight Templar Arn Magnusson.
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The film about Arn and Cecilia is set in Sweden as well as the Middle East, and offers a rich gallery of brave knights, powerful queens and treacherous kings. It is a tale of war and intrigue, friendship and betrayal, but also an unforgettable love story.
Arn Magnussson is born in 1150 on Arnas farm in West Gothia in the western part of Sweden. He grows up to become an educated young man and a skilled swordsman. He meets Cecilia, the love of his life, but a cruel and jealous world forces them apart. Cecilia is imprisoned in a convent and Arn is sent away as a Knight Templar to the Holy Land, where war is raging between Christians and Muslims. They both have to fight to survive, they have to learn how to confront evil and overcome physical hardship. Their painful separation causes their faith in God and his goodness to waver -- though not their faith in each other and their confidence that they will one day be reunited.
When Arn returns home he has to fight for his love and what has become his life's mission: to unite Sweden into one kingdom.
Pathfinder (2007) Trailer
Pathfinder
An Untold Legend
Pathfinder (also known by the alternate title Pathfinder: The Legend of the Ghost Warrior) is a 2007 American epic action film directed by Marcus Nispel, distributed by 20th Century Fox, and stars Karl Urban, Clancy Brown, Ralf Möller, Moon Bloodgood, Russell Means, Jay Tavare, and Nathaniel Arcand.
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A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
July 20, 2015
The District! (2004) Trailer
Nyócker!
The District! (Hungarian: Nyócker!) is a 2004 Hungarian caricaturistic animated film directed by Áron Gauder.
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A group of teens from the wrong side of Budapest's tracks band together to make themselves rich by traveling back in time, burying a horde of wooly mammoths under the city's streets, then returning to the present and drilling for oil. As creators of a new oil-producing nation, their scheme draws the attention of Putin (who uses the district's Russian hookers as spies), Blair and George W. Bush. In the midst of it all, star-crossed teen love is in bloom. This outrageous and visually stunning animated satire plays like an unhinged ghetto updating of Romeo & Juliet smash-filtered through a politically-charged — and politically-incorrect - kaleidoscope of clashing world views and social unrest, complete with musical numbers and a wicked soundtrack of Hungarian hip-hop. You have never seen anything like it.
The Namesake (2006) Trailer
The Namesake
The greatest journeys are the ones that bring you home.
The Namesake is a 2006 film which was released in the United States on March 9, 2007, following screenings at film festivals in Toronto and New York City.
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NAMESAKE is the story of the Ganguli family whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a lifelong balancing act to meld to a new world without forgetting the old. Though parents Ashoke and Ashima (Irfan Khan, Tabu) long for the family and culture that enveloped them in India, they take great pride in the opportunities their sacrifices have afforded their children. Paradoxically, their son Gogol (Kal Penn) is torn between finding his own unique identity without losing his heritage. Even Gogol's name represents the family's journey into the unknown.
July 19, 2015
Inner Senses (2002) Trailer
Yee do hung gaan
Her Daydreams Become His Nightmare.
Inner Senses (original title Yee do hung gain) is a 2002 Hong Kong psychological horror film directed by Law Chi-leung and starring Leslie Cheung and Karena Lam.
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July 18, 2015
A Man Who Was Superman (2008) Trailer
Syoo-peo-maen-i-sseo-deon Sa-na-i
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A snobbish producer makes a documentary about the extraordinary behavior of her neighbor who believes himself to be Superman.
Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) Trailer
Blood: The Last Vampire
Now that She's Here, There Will Be Blood...
Blood: The Last Vampire, released in Japan as Last Blood (Japanese: ラスト・ブラッド Hepburn: Rasuto Buraddo), is a 2009 horror-action film, a Hong Kong-French-British co-production; it is the remake of the 2000 anime film of the same name.
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A vampire named Saya, who is part of covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan, is inserted in a military school to discover which one of her classmates is a demon is disguise.
July 17, 2015
As You Like It (2006) Trailer
As You Like It
Romance...or something like it.
As You Like It is a 2006 film adapted for the screen by Kenneth Branagh from the Shakespearean play of the same name, and directed by him.
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The Go-Getter (2007) Trailer
The Go-Getter
Life doesn't come with a roadmap.
The Go-Getter is a 2007 American independent road film directed and written by Martin Hynes.
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The Fish Child (2009) Trailer
El niño pez
The Fish Child (Spanish: El niño pez) is a 2009 Argentine drama film directed by Lucía Puenzo.
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Lala, a teenager from the most exclusive suburban neighborhood in Argentina is in love with Guayi, the 20-year-old Paraguayan maid working at her place. They dream of living together in Paraguay, at the shores of lake Ypoá. They rob every purse and wallet in the house to fulfill their dream, hiding the money in a shoe box. But when the box is full, it bursts, fueled by desire, jealousy and rage. This is the starting point that spurs the escape through the highway that connects the North of Buenos Aires with Paraguay. While Lala waits to be reunited with her lover in Ypoá by reconstructing her past (the mystery surrounding her pregnancy and the legend of a fish child who guides the drowned to the bottom of the lake), Guayi is detained in a minors institute in the outskirts of Buenos Aires. She turns out to be hiding a crime from long ago.
July 14, 2015
Summer Coda (2010)Trailer
Summer Coda
Closure is just the beginning.
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Hitchhiking home to a family she's never known, Heidi meets Michael. In the stunning orange groves of country Australia, they embark on an adventure, discovering their secrets and lives may be better shared.
Teenage Dirtbag (2009) Trailer
Teenage Dirtbag
Death is fleeting... Love lasts forever.
Teenage Dirtbag is a 2009 drama film starring Scott Michael Foster, Noa Hegesh and written and directed by Regina Crosby.
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The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) Trailer
The Legend of Bagger Vance
It Was Just A Moment Ago.
The Legend of Bagger Vance is a 2000 American sports drama directed by Robert Redford and starring Will Smith, Matt Damon and Charlize Theron.
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A down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddy.
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