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Certification15 Our Rating

Two sisters, Su-mi and Su-yeon, return from a stay in a psychiatric hospital to the home they share with their father and wicked stepmother. Disturbing and inexplicable events soon begin to occur, strange noises, hallucinations, disembodied footsteps on the stairs all combine to stretch tensions within this already volatile family unit to breaking point. Are these phenomena a product of the sisters' disturbed minds, is it their stepmother cruelly tormenting them or could there be something more find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Nong Toom has become one of the very best at his particular discipline, the ancient martial art of Muay Thai, but unlike many of his fellow combatants, Nong is in search of more than just fame and fortune. In the perfection of his art Nong hopes to find the financial means by which he can redefine his very sexuality. Based on a true story, Beautiful Boxer is a bone crunching display of its art, though, perhaps, some of the emotional subtleties have been lost in between the stunningly choreograph find out more...

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Two brothers, in itself a metaphor, get drafted into the Korean Civil War. The more macho elder one is determined to become a hero in order to win his bookish brother a ticket back to mum and this leads both to him turning into a monster and a serious split between the two. Against the bitter backdrop of a violent war many loyalties are called into question, to brother, family, friend, nation, ideology, nationality and to fellow soldiers, and many are betrayed. This is an awesome, if emotionally find out more...

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Kenji, a neatness freak who keeps his dishes washed and his books neatly stacked and categorized, has resigned himself to an early and self-inflicted demise when he stumbles across Noi, a girl who is everything he is not, a dope smoking slob who never picks anything up, but whose sister's tragic death in a car accident he has witnessed. It's a match that somehow works, and, slowly, more is revealed about the Japanese man, why he's suicidal and living in Bangkok. Last Life In the Universe is a b find out more...
R-POINT (2004)

Certification15 Our Rating

The Vietman war is setting for this tight horror thriller about a team of soldiers who are sent on a search and rescue mission after a radio transmission is received from a unit sent in 6 months previously and presumed missing. The mission becomes far more complex when the soldiers find themselves under threat from an unseen and deadly enemy. Though with the odd tacky moment, and some moments of banal behaviour, this movie is full of little suprises and very creepy, with a very taut sense of psc find out more...

Certification12 Our Rating

A young boy lives in a small floating temple on a beautiful lake, together with an elderly master who teaches him the ways of the Buddha. Years later the boy, now a young man, experiences his sexual awakening with a girl who has come to the temple to be healed by the master. Returning from a disastrous trip to the outside world the young monk must pay penance and, in the last of four vignettes, he returns to the lake temple to find spiritual enlightenment. find out more...
THE BOW (2005)

Certification15 Our Rating

An old man and a beautiful young girl live on a boat, which they never leave. Groups of men come out to fish, have their fortune told, in an extraordinary manner involving the bow of the title, and mutter about the pair's relationship. This is an art movie, beautifully made and very surreal. find out more...
THE EYE (2002)

Certification15 Our Rating

Mun has been without sight since she was a young child so, when the opportunity for a transplant that will restore her vision arises, she leaps at the chance. At first the surgery appears to have been a success, but it soon becomes horrifyingly clear that all is not as it seems, particularly when she becomes aware that the image of herself that she now sees is not her at all. Mun becomes obsessed with the need to find out whose eyes it is she now sees with, but the truth is a horror beyond her m find out more...