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2008,
Animation,
Australia,
Belgium,
Biography,
Drama,
Finland,
France,
Germany,
Israel,
Switzerland,
USA,
War
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is [...]
Ilsa, now a vicious warden, runs a mental-hospital for young women. A girl deliberately “checks” in to the hospital to find out what has happened to her sister who stayed there. Meanwhile Ilsa and one of the guards are forcing the inmates to have sex with male prisoners, filming them and selling it as pornoflicks.
The first Franco/Erwin Dietrich effort is probably Franco’s most exploitive film with numerous sadistic scenes of torture and perversion. A true exploitation masterpiece that only a director like Franco could make. Maria (Lina Romay) is sentenced to prison for life for killing her father that attempted to rape. She is sent to a special section [...]
A deaf and dumb accountant suffers from a psychic trauma in his childhood. He is collecting puppets and mutilates female bodies in the mortuary. After his secret love died by an accident he starts to kill.
A French grad student named Celine (Julie Delpy) meets an American boy named Jesse (Ethan Hawke) on the Budapest-Vienna train. They get off the train in Vienna and hang out for a while.
Tags: american, chance-meeting, conversation, culture, europe, french, one-night-stand, pinball, railway-station, realistic, Romance, train, vienna-austria
When an experienced thief accidentally makes off with a Van Gogh, his partner is kidnapped by gangsters in pursuit of the painting, forcing the criminal to hatch a rescue plan.
Tags: armored-car-robbery, bulletproof-vest, car-chase, cell-phone, double-cross, ex-soldier, flashback-sequence, heist, military-police, painting, title-spoken-by-character
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers’ union [...]
Tags: activist, based-on-fact, betrayal, cameo-appearance, cleaning-crew, cleaning-woman, deportation, diabetes, fiesta, gas-station, gas-station-attendant, gas-station-robbery, hardship, hospital, illegal-immigrant, immigrant, independent-film, justice, kidney-failure, labor-activist, labor-condition, labor-union, latino-america, los-angeles-california, mexican, mexican-border, party, passion, prostitute, prostitution, robbery, security-guard, sister-sister-relationship, supervisor, tijuana-mexico, traitor, union