Let the Right One In
The best vampire movie ever made in my opinion. Let the Right One In is a truly unique story about a young boy and his new blood-sucking friend from next door. Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.
Boogie Nights
The story of a young man’s adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the 1970s and 1980s. Young Mark Wahlberg plays an up-and-coming porn star. Much comedy and drama ensues.
The Man from Earth
The science fiction movie begins with Professor John Oldman packing his belongings onto his truck, preparing to move to a new home. Professor gathers his academic friends and confesses that he is a caveman who has been alive since prehistoric times thanks to a gene mutation allowing his cells to replicate without error.
Kung Fu Hustle
Kung Fu Hustle puts a crazy spin on the classic kung fu film. In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious “Axe Gang” while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.
Midnight in Paris
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancé’s family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight. Woody Allen’s latest places starving writer Owen Wilson in Paris with his fiancée, Rachel McAdams. Searching for inspiration for his incomplete novel, Owen begins taking strolls around the city at night where he discovers an unexpected group of people.
Sin Nombre
Sin Nombre is the intense story of a runaway gangster and a young Honduran girl crossing paths en route to illegally enter the United States. Honduran teenager Sayra reunites with her father, an opportunity for her to potentially realize her dream of a life in the U.S. Moving to Mexico is the first step in a fateful journey of unexpected events.
Garden State
A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother’s funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade. He starts figuring out what he wants in life. It’s chock-full of quirky humor, funny characters and ruminations on life.
Waking Life
A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe. Waking Life follows the dream(s) of one man and his attempt to find and discern the absolute difference between waking life and the dreamworld. While trying to figure out a way to wake up, he runs into many people on his way; some of which offer one sentence asides on life, others delving deeply into existential questions and life’s mysteries.
Closer
The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other. This film is a rather dark, yet comedic story about the twisted relationships between Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Clive Owen and Julia Roberts. Instead of going with the normal romantic-comedy theme, Closer shows the sinful, deceptive, human side of love and infatuation.
Cashback
After a painful breakup, Ben decides to take advantage of his insomnia, To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild, he learns that he can somehow stop time with his mind. Oddly this power has little to do with the plot, which centers mostly around his search for meaning and the girl pictured above.
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