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- DirectorGareth EvansStarsIko UwaisAnanda GeorgeRay SahetapyA S.W.A.T. team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs.You shouldn't expect a storyline,even a STORY at all,there's no finesse,no emotional gripping,no good script or even no good actory..
BUT HERE you'll see a PERFECT,FAST and brutal actionmovie,which even doesn't lack a decent aesthetica...brilliant! - DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsJean-Louis TrintignantKlaus KinskiFrank WolffA mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.Shamely it lasted until this year that I watched this masterpiece:A biblical,cynical story about human cruelty and the face of hate and corruption.Typical for a movie of 1968,it carries a more or less hidden left wing-message in its view on capitalism and capiltalistic society.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsEwan McGregorPierce BrosnanOlivia WilliamsA ghost writer, hired to complete the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister, uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.Beyond its full tension,it's fine woven structure of intrigue,flamboyant dialogue-duels and a sort of surprising,emotional cruelty it transports the VERY SPECIAL and filigran,mysterious kind of signature,only Polanski is able to.
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsJutta LampeBarbara SukowaRüdiger VoglerTwo sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.An old film,a passionate pleading against the cruelty,mecrcilessness and inhumanity of the state,if it comes to deal with left-wing terrorists turned prisoners.Gripping and touching in all it's rationality,when its main actresses play their feelings and experiences with arrest of many years in isolation cells.
Timeless,important piece of history. - DirectorReinhard HauffStarsUlrich TukurHans KremerTherese AffolterStammheim Prison in Stuttgart, West Germany, as the five defendants--Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof Gudrun Ensslin, Jan-Carl Raspe, and Holger Meins--are brought before the judge and accused of the murder of four US servicemen in a terrorist bombing attack. After a hunger strike at the trial's start, Meins dies. The next to die is Meinhof, an apparent suicide. As the trial stretches on, Baader, Ensslin, and Raspe continuously disrupt the proceedings with accusations that they are being purposely undernourished and spied upon.The same topic than no.6,but here it is merely a fine,gentle piece of playing theatre,a kind of filmic stage-play,mixed with documentary-stile scenes of authentic nature.The dialogues of the actors and their roles are true,happened in real and are fixed in the protocols of police and justice.the actors develop a painful authenticy during their play and the film manages to real get you feeling sorry for the protagonists.Brilliant!
- DirectorValeria SarmientoStarsNuno LopesSoraia ChavesMarisa ParedesOn September 27, 1810, the French troops commanded by Marshal Massena, were defeated in the Serra do Buçaco by the Anglo-Portuguese army of general Wellington. Despite the victory, Portuguese and British are forced to retreat from the enemy, numerically superior, in order to attract them to Torres Vedras, where Wellington had built fortified lines hardly surmountable. Simultaneously, the Anglo-Portuguese command organizes the evacuation of the entire territory between the battlefield and the lines of Torres Vedras, a gigantic burned land operation, which prevents the French from collecting supplies. This is the setting for the adventures of a multitude of characters from all social backgrounds - soldiers and civilians, men, women and children, young and old - to the daily routine torn by war and dragged through hills and valleys, between ruined villages, charred forests and devastated crops.Highly persecuted by the French, already tormented by an unmerciful weather, the mass of fugitives continues to move forward clenching the teeth, just to save their skin, loaded with tenacious will to resist the invaders and retreat them from their country. Or even hoping to take advantage of the disarray to satisfy their basic instincts. All of them, whatever nature or motivations - the idealistic young lieutenant Pedro De Alencar, Clarissa Warren, the malicious little English girl, the shady dealer Penabranca, the vindictive Sergeant Francisco Xavier or the lusty prostitute Martírio, all gather by different paths to the lines of Torres, where the final battle will decide the fate of each one of them.Superbe-One of the,if not THE most detailed masterpiece of an historic era,I've ever seen.Dark,intense,gripping and realistic to the core,in pictures and atmosphere.EVERY single uniform or dress is without mercy absolutely correct,dirty (as these times were)and even the dirty but aggressive colours of the women's clothes correspond to the habits of difficultly colouring clothes in that days.
Furthermore it is breathtaking interesting;interesting characters do and experience hard life and tenseful developments for the viewer without being overdue or too much.You will watch in full suspense,perhaps one or the other will weep a bit...BRILLIANT,big epos..liefe-realistic persons,great setting..The year's best until now.. - DirectorDavid FincherStarsBrad PittCate BlanchettTilda SwintonTells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences.This is a great,wonderful,sad,bombastic and fairytale-like masterpiece.Full of wisdom and laconic messages of life and ABOUT life.It is NOT just another Brad Pitt-Lovestory and it is NOT just a bittersweet comedy again,what nobody needs..It is a wonderful collage of feelings,sadness,happiness and history..
- StarsVolker BruchTom SchillingKatharina SchüttlerFive friends go out to war and promise each other to be back for Christmas.In fact this is no series;it's just a very long film,parted in three parts for TV.This is the most gentle,un-niceworldly,unjudging and precisely crafted movie I saw about WWII in my life.Its about the fate of five very different,young people;friends..They celebrate their last evening before their ways split in 1941...Then we follow each of them,the focus hopping from one to another until 1945,shortly after the end of war..I never experienced such soft and nevertheless mercilessly realistic way to SHOW what war does with a human being in the most different ways...Absolutely fascinating and brilliant..Perhaps the best one of the year..We'll carry on with watching films every day,but there needs to be a further film with REALLY tornado-like abilities to beat THIS film..
- DirectorMatthew ArnoldStarsDallas RobertsAlison EastwoodMattie LiptakA radio talk show host unravels a conspiracy about encounters with mysterious beings known as The Shadow People and their role in the unexplained deaths of several hundred victims in the 1980s.It's a hoax,finally it is..But it kept me thinking about for a long while and it still does a little bit(just for the feeling of nice,creepy chills on my back and a nice goosewalking..)..It entertained,it drew my interest and it haunted me while watching..What could I want more??
- DirectorDetlev BuckStarsAlbrecht SchuchBaldanpurev SambuuAgi Ariunsaichan Dawaachu"Die Vermessung der Welt" follows two brilliant and eccentric scientists, Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss, on their life paths in early-19th-century Germany.Sweet,warm,beautiful and full of eccentric people..Very nice...
- DirectorJee-woon KimStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerForest WhitakerJohnny KnoxvilleThe leader of a drug cartel busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is a sheriff and his inexperienced staff.brutal,cynic,funny,no great literature or depth..but again a perfect,absolutely entertaining action flick..Who needs only intellectual stuff???this one is just what it has to be..perfect entertainment!
- DirectorFranck KhalfounStarsElijah WoodNora ArnezederAmerica OlivoAs he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.you liked ENTER THE VOID??you liked DRIVE as well??You will love this one;it carries lots of elements of both.a dark,chilling trip into the mind and soul of a serial killer,the films enforces you to take part in the bloody every night-life of Frank Zito.It does in a consequent manner I never experienced before.And a brilliant performance by Elijah Wood.
- DirectorRob ZombieStarsSheri Moon ZombieMeg FosterBruce DavisonRadio DJ Heidi is sent a box containing a record--a "gift from the Lords". The sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of her town's violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords back to take revenge on Salem, Massachusetts?Belive me: this one is Rob Zombie's masterpiece.This is a film,truly woven by and containing a very extreme but ultimatively unique and individual style of art.It's one of the most intelligence critical attacks against christian church WITHOUT positivating or worshipping stupid satanistic questions,which are of the same dogmatism than are the christian ones.Questioning the whole structure of clerical beliefs in every direction and favorising true individual free fulfillment of faith and mental values one could ask himself,if it is not especially THIS aspect,what leads to hidden satanistic positions,but Zombie makes clear,that also satanistic dogmatism is only a way to follow something or someone.So the whole movie appreciates the own mind of the viewer and encourages- in its own,strange and genial way-to live your own,clear and non-clerical faith.Great!!!!!!!
- DirectorTom TykwerLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsTom HanksHalle BerryHugh GrantAn exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.Contains the one and only,true,beautiful and wise message,we humans should understand,finally.
- DirectorJoe WrightStarsKeira KnightleyJude LawAaron Taylor-JohnsonIn late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.Magic
- DirectorJoachim RønningEspen SandbergStarsPål Sverre HagenAnders BaasmoGustaf SkarsgårdIn 1947, with five loyal friends in tow, explorer Thor Heyerdahl sails a fragile balsa wood raft along an ancient path some 4,300 miles across the Pacific.Experience REAL Adventure,in days before twitter and *beep* Facebook
- DirectorDaniele VicariStarsClaudio SantamariaJennifer UlrichElio GermanoA reenactment of the final days of the 2001 G8 Summit.That's how it is and ever was...
- DirectorLogan MillerNoah MillerStarsEd HarrisJanuary JonesJason IsaacsIn the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory.A wonderful,inspirative Western.Full of eccentric,distorted characters,of an unusual plot and not at least full of a wonderful consequence.Love it!!
- DirectorPeter WebberStarsMatthew FoxColin MoyTommy Lee JonesAs the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, General Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.A try to have a closer look into the shattered soul of the japanese culture shortly after the end of WW2.very intense and gripping
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsSaoirse RonanGemma ArtertonSam RileyResidents of a coastal town learn, with deathly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought shelter at a rundown hotel.The most intelligent look on vampires since WE ARE THE NIGHT of 2011.Loks a bit independent,well photographed and modern thought without beging too hip.Contains a respectable twist.
- DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsIsabelle AdjaniSam NeillMargit CarstensenA woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.The most anti-aesthetical and terribly twisting movie since i saw MARTYRS.A real anti-society,early masterpiece with greetings by H.P.Lovecraft:-)
- DirectorNicolas Winding RefnStarsRyan GoslingKristin Scott ThomasVithaya PansringarmJulian, a drug-smuggler thriving in Bangkok's criminal underworld, sees his life get even more complicated when his mother compels him to find and kill whoever is responsible for his brother's recent death.Don't make the mistake to compare it to the other films oft Nicholas Winding Refn.It is no asian Version of "Drive".It is a relatively straight and clearly told story oft guilt, revenge and of right or wrong. It contains a very intelligent created god-character. AND it is clad in phantastically crafted,surreal images,full oft bizarre art.
- DirectorZal BatmanglijStarsBrit MarlingAlexander SkarsgårdElliot PageAn operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities changing dramatically after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.Gripping to the bone;watch and see REAL consequence and REAL humans..
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsOndrej PavelkaAnna MalováJulie JuristováA poor student must rescue an ailing princess from the castle of an evil magician, who's preparing a rejuvenating elixir from the stolen hearts of nine children.Classical,surrealistic,deeply ingoing,mythical,fine,epic,dark,eerie,spooky
- DirectorCarsten UngerStarsMartina GedeckMarkus KrojerAntonia LingemannNine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. Criminal psychologist Claudia notices contradictions in her conversation with the parents of the missing child, in particular Nikolas' mother, who appears to be hiding something.Sad,deeply gripping,emotional with no limits,atmospheric,full of tension
- DirectorEric EnglandStarsNajarra TownsendCaroline WilliamsAlice MacdonaldAfter being drugged and raped at a party, a young woman contracts what she thinks is an STD; but, it's actually something much worse.The perfect,modern Version of a Zombie movie.The next generation