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La Dolce Vita
Posted on August 18, 2010 | No CommentsItaly | 1960 | Directed by Federico Fellini Logline: A listless playboy journalist drifts in and around Rome over the course of several days and nights following celebrities and dealing... -
Nikita (La Femme Nikita)
Posted on August 3, 2010 | 2 CommentsFrance/Italy | 1990 | Directed by Luc Besson Logline: A young and volatile criminal is convicted of multiple felon, but given a second chance; a new identity and exclusive training... -
Dekalog (Decalogue)
Posted on June 28, 2010 | 2 CommentsPoland | 1989 | Directed by Krzystof Kieslowski Logline: Ten modern fables loosely based on each of the Ten Commandments, all set within different apartments in the same high-rise block.... -
The Sheltering Sky
Posted on June 24, 2010 | No CommentsUK/Italy | 1990 | Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci Logline: The plight of an American woman, and her husband, whilst traveling through the desert and villages of the Sahara, North Africa,... -
My Summer Of Love
Posted on June 21, 2010 | No CommentsUK | 2004 | Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski Logline: A naïve teenager, in despair over her working class father’s born again Christianity, seeks solace and escapism in a romantic fling... -
L’enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot (Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno)
Posted on June 16, 2010 | No CommentsFrance | 2009 | Directed by Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea Logline: A documentary about the making of the ill-fated feature Inferno by a legendary French director and starring a... -
Der Räuber (The Robber)
Posted on June 11, 2010 | No CommentsGermany/Austria | 2010 | Directed by Benjamin Hesienberg Logline: The true story of an ex-con who trains as a marathon runner whilst leading a double life as a masked armed... -
The Ghost Writer
Posted on June 10, 2010 | No CommentsFrance/Germany/UK | 2010 | Directed by Roman Polanski Logline: A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers dangerous secrets that put his own life... -
Oldboy
Posted on February 15, 2010 | 2 CommentsSouth Korea | 2003 | Directed by Chan-wook Park Logline: An ordinary man is kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, then suddenly released, confused and bewildered, only to be informed... -
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Posted on February 11, 2010 | No CommentsUSA/France | 2005 | Directed by Tommy Lee Jones Logline: A ranch foreman honours the final Mexican burial wishes of his murdered best friend and makes sure the man responsible,... -
Fucking Åmål (Show Me Love)
Posted on February 3, 2010 | No CommentsSweden/Denmark | 1998 | Directed by Lukas Moodysson Logline: Two teenagers – an unhappy girl with a secret crush on the cute popular girl – find themselves the centre of... -
Control
Posted on January 28, 2010 | No CommentsUK/USA/Australia/Japan | 2007 | Directed by Anton Corbijn Logline: The story of Ian Curtis, the singer of seminal UK indie band Joy Division, whose personal and professional troubles lead to... -
Bad Blood
Posted on November 2, 2009 | No CommentsNew Zealand | 1981 | Directed by Mike Newell Logline: The true story of Stanley Graham, a poor farmer, who shot dead seven men during a WWII arms surrender, then... -
Casa De Areia (House Of Sand)
Posted on October 27, 2009 | No CommentsBrazil | 2005 | Directed by Andrucha Waddington Logline: The plight of a woman, and her feisty daughter, over the span of nearly sixty years, as she tries in vain... -
The Wrestler
Posted on August 11, 2009 | 3 CommentsUSA | 2008 | Directed by Darren Aronofsky Logline: A middle-aged professional wrestler struggling with drug addiction, thankless gigs, and being estranged from his daughter, is told to retire by... -
When Night is Falling
Posted on July 17, 2009 | 6 CommentsCanada | 1995 | Directed by Patricia Rozema Logline: An uptight and conservative woman, working as a Christian university professor and engaged to another of the college’s professors, finds herself... -
37°2 le Matin (37.2 Degrees in the Morning)
Posted on July 15, 2009 | 2 CommentsFrance | 1986 | Directed Jean-Jacques Beineix Logline: A carefree handyman begins a passionate relationship with a beautiful, but emotionally volatile young woman who wants desperately for him to succeed... -
Ex Drummer
Posted on July 9, 2009 | 8 CommentsBelgium | 2007 | Directed by Koen Mortier Logline: A manipulative and cynical writer joins a desperate punk band under the pretence he is as handicapped as the other three,... -
State of Grace
Posted on July 1, 2009 | 9 CommentsUSA | 1990 | directed by Phil Joanou Logline: An undercover cop returns to his NYC stomping ground in order to bring an Irish-blooded criminal family and associates to justice,... -
Wake In Fright
Posted on June 4, 2009 | 2 CommentsAustralia/USA | 1971 | Directed by Ted Korcheff Logline: An English Outback teacher on route to Sydney finds himself trapped and out of his depth in a small township, caught...
