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Based on Vaanaprastham, a novelette by multi-award-winning writer M.T. Vasudevan Nair, Pilgrimage is an exquisite story of love-a love kept immaculate through the years by a couple destined to stay apart. When retired schoolteacher, Karunan Master, and his old student, Vinodini, meet after more than three decades, they find that their unfulfilled love for each other is as strong as ever.
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It is the future. Controversial singer, Francisco Ruiz, seems a shoe-in for president. But there are some who would give their lives to stop that from happening. Pachito Rex, It's Not Over Until It's Over is the sum of numerous stories that revolve around the assassination attempt of Francisco Ruiz, a man who maintains his status as the much beloved candidate, destined to win the presidential election of a small, imaginary Latin-American country.
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Otilia is a sensuous woman with a gorgeous body. An enormous birthmark, however, mars her face-leading to scorn and rejection by all the men in her small village. That is, all except for Melquiades, her one true friend, a slow hulk of a man, employed by her family, who has always loved Otilia just the way she is. Embarrassed by the attention paid to his daughter's body and the ridicule given to her face, Otilia's father arranges for her to marry the local police chief.
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The Internet is all encompassing. It is used to make millions, to locate libraries of useless knowledge, to invade the privacy of others, and for many lonely souls, to provide sexual gratification. John Roth is a shy computer nerd who hasn't gotten over being dumped by his fianc?e. Together with his old college roommate, Moe, they start up Intercon-X.com, an adult web site, in their Manhattan apartment.
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Paul Sarossy (cinematographer of The Sweet Hereafter, Exotica, Affliction) delivers a powerful and visually stunning film in his directorial debut, Mr. In-Between. Jon, a hired assassin whose impressive reputation precedes him, is slowly coming to grips with the moral implications of a multitude of unspeakable sins. Entrenched in his subterranean world of murder, drugs, and isolation, Jon is wrenched out of his soulless reverie when he runs into Andy, an old school friend who lives with his beautiful wife, Cathy, and daughter, Kirsty, but has fallen on hard times.
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Marina Flores, 1990; Norma Aguilar, 1991; Maria del Rosario Gomez, 1993; Olgo Carrillo, 1995; These are the names of young women, many working in the maquiladoras - assembly plants that line the Mexican-American border near Ciudad Juarez. All slender, dark-skinned, and long-haired, they begin to disappear in 1990. Victims of brutal rapes, their bodies, sometimes just skeletons surrounded by remnants of clothing, are discovered months and years later. A young woman who has escaped abduction accuses Sharif Sharif, an Egyptian. But after his arrest, the disappearances continue.
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Electrical engineers turned filmmakers, Matt and Dan O'Donnell, transform this multi-character story into a surreal adventure in their 3-D animated feature, Missing Persons - a fascinating journey through the lives of four lost souls who are intertwined by the investigation of a half-drowned man living one foot beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. Grizzled NYPD detective, John Funn, hooks up with the mumbling Officer Snookie, as they traverse a New York filled with street fighting drug vendors who have a bad habit of surviving shotgun blasts.
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Missing Allen is a detective story that leads the viewer into the American Heart of Darkness of Waco, Texas; Oklahoma City; UFO-believers; and religious cults. November 1995-filmmaker Allen Ross disappears without a trace. Five years later, his friend and sometimes cameraman, Christian Bauer, decides to make a movie about him. Unwittingly, what begins as homage to a missing friend becomes a riveting mystery rivaling any detective story. Leaving the security of anonymity behind the camera, Bauer becomes director and detective.
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When the current manager of the England team suffers a near-fatal heart attack and is forced to retire, no one seems to want the job. In desperation, the football authorities turn to the manager of a minor league club, Mike Bassett. Luckily, England needs to win only one game out of three to qualify for the World Cup finals in Brazil. It should be a breeze, but Bassett hits an immediate and enduring losing streak.
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First time director/writer Zhong Qiang presents an absorbing story of alienation and intrigue in contemporary China. Newly divorced taxi driver, A, lives in a flat opposite Business Man, B, and his young, beautiful wife, C, who often takes A's taxi on mysterious journeys. Meanwhile, D, a young girl who lives in the flat across from A, develops what she hopes will be more than a friendship with A. One day A happens upon a serious car accident involving B. At the scene, A finds a large amount of cash in B's bag and steals it before calling for help.