This is an unsentimental, brutal and a breathtakingly beautiful film. The fact that it is described as a docu-drama is a credit to the performances of the children and the directoral vision of Bahman Ghobadi. A group of orphaned Kurdish children live on the poverty line in a village on the Iran-Iraq border. Doing anything they can to make money, the children work in markets, carry tyres, and work for smugglers though are often cheated by their employers. Working in extreme conditions, they feed
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AALTRA (2004)
Certification18 Our Rating
Two neighbours live opposite each other on a country road somewhere in Northern France. They hate each other and life for them is nothing but a daily painful confrontation. One day, in the course of a violent dispute, an agricultural trailer knocks them over and sends them both to hospital. Now paralysed from the waist down each decide to embark on a personal journey, but, seemingly unable to escape each other's destiny, they find themselves on the same platform, waiting for the same train, thei
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ADAM (2009)
Certification12 Our Rating
Adam is a young man with the Asperger Syndrome form of autism - difficulties in non-verbal communication - living in a Manhattan flat. Into his life, as his new neighbour, comes little Miss Rich Kid primary school teacher Beth. An unlikely couple? An unlikely couple!
Award winning schmaltz.
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ALMOST CHRISTMAS (2013)
Certification15 Our Rating
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AMOUR (2012)
Certification12 Our Rating
An elegant elderly couple faces the ultimate challenge in Austrian auteur Michael Haneke's carefully controlled, emotionally devastating
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ANY DAY NOW (2012)
Certification15 Our Rating
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BABEL (2006)
Certification15 Our Rating
Four interlocking stories run in parallel; two set in Morocco, one in Mexico and one in Japan and all four follow different cinematic traditions that can be described as coming from World Cinema, American melodrama, American thriller and Asian New Wave. The accidental shooting of an American tourist is the trigger that begins a chain of misery that slowly envelopes four seemingly disparate groups of people from different social, cultural and geographic backgrounds. Borrowing, at a distance, from
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BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ DISC 3 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Ep 7, Remember—An Oath can be Amputated; Franz has lost his right arm, but is looked after by Eva and her boyfriend.
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BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ DISC 4 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Ep 10, Loneliness Tears Cracks of Madness Even in Walls; Mieze can't have children, but Eva tells her that she'll have a child by Franz for Mieze to raise. Frank gets freaked by the idea, thinking Mieze's trying to dump him on to Eva, and then a rich client turns up to take Mieze away for 3 days.
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BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ DISC 5 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Ep 13, The Outside and the Inside and the Secret of Fear of the Secret; Franz tells Eva that Mieze has left him. Meck gets injured in a bank robbery and Franz helps him out. Meck leads the police to Mieze's body.
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