Nordstrand (2013)
NORDSTRAND tells the story of two brothers, Marten and Volker, who meet in their parents' now empty house on the coast. Older brother Marten would like to pick up together their mother from prison where she has been since the death of their violent father years ago. But Volker seems only to have come in order to sell the house. He apparently can't forgive neither his ...Read all
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Sunflower (2005)
When Chairman Mao dies, many men jailed during his regime are released, including artist Zhang Gengnian (Sun Haiying), who comes back to his wife, Xiuqing (Joan Chen), and son, Xiangyang (Zhang Fan), after a long absence. There is unease in the family home, though, as Xiangyang is mistrustful of the father he barely knows and Gengnian is no longer able to paint after years of forced labor. Xiangyang begins to excel at art, which could either bring him closer to his father or widen the schism.
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Heat Wave (2009)
A scientist comes to the rescue when a rise in temperature threatens Los Angeles County.
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The Civilization of Maxwell Bright (2005)
After a bad breakup, Maxwell Bright (Patrick Warburton), a diehard male chauvinist, declares he is fed up with dating and decides to buy a mail-order bride from China. When she arrives, Mai Ling (Marie Matiko) is quiet and submissive, but Maxwell cannot stop his piggish ways. After continued abuse, Mai Ling reveals she is actually a Buddhist nun, sent to America in place of her sister. After this, Max has an epiphany and devotes himself to making Mai Ling happy.
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Molière (2007)
French playwright and actor Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Romain Duris) tries to coach a wealthy man (Fabrice Luchini) who paid his debts.
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Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2002)
Based on Rebecca Miller's recently published book of short stories, "Personal Velocity" tells three tales of women as they escape their current situations. Segmented into three parts, Greta (Parker Posey), Delia (Kyra Sedgwick) and Paula (Fairuza Balk) have one thing in common, each struggle to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
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14 Blades (2010)
After he's framed for treason, a legendary royal guard (Donnie Yen) joins forces with a gang of outlaws to save an empire.
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The Jennie Project (2001)
An 11-year-old boy (Alex D. Linz) develops a close friendship with a chimpanzee from Africa who is learning sign language.
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Sucker Free City (2004)
Nick (Ben Crowley), a white mailroom clerk who rips off his coworkers' credit card numbers on the side, moves to a mostly African-American neighborhood and is terrorized by a local gang called the V-Dubs. He befriends K-Luv (Anthony Mackie), a black gang member to whom Nick helps sell bootlegged CDs, and they soon build a relationship with Lincoln (Ken Leung), a low-level Chinese gangster. But tension becomes palpable as the trio begin committing crimes on one another's turf.
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The Last Days of Patton (1986)
Based on a true story, this film finds Gen. George S. Patton (George C. Scott) working a desk job for the U.S. military after World War II. In the midst of dealing with the difficulty of adapting to his dramatic change of lifestyle, Patton is involved in an auto wreck that leaves him in critical condition. While his body fails him, Patton introspectively reminisces about his relationship with his spouse, Beatrice (Eva Marie Saint) ; his childhood; and his days on the battlefields of World War I.
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