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The Buddha bears a badge and badgers the monk behind bars.
A brash Moscow police officer serendipitously falls into the favor of Buddhist followers. His life begins to reflect their suggestions of his being the reincarnated Dalai Lama, in spite of his obstinate refusal of any such possibility.
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Obsession consumes two men dead-set on winning the high-stake bet of a lifetime.
Viktor, a wealthy, arrogant oligarch, agrees to pay young Maxim, his cocky employee, $15 million if the young man can endure fifteen years of imprisonment in confined, guarded quarters. If Maxim fails to complete his detention, he will be indebted to work without pay for the rest of his life.
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A young woman has nothing to lose, and everything to learn.
Gao Yuanyuan (Shanghai Dreams, Beijing Bicycle) stars as a young woman dying from a brain tumor; and who unexpectedly discovers that her brother-in-law ? someone she has loved and trusted since she was a little girl ? may have murdered her parents. In a desperate, yet calculating move, she kidnaps and tortures him to try to learn the truth before she dies.
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One woman?s life changes tempo as she gyrates along the streets of Prague in search of fulfillment.
?Proudly humanistic at a time when such fare plays against the prevailing grain of cynical hipness, Alice Nellis' distinctive third feature, strikes a pitch-perfect note of benevolent mischief as it tracks the mellow mid-life crisis of a bemused Prague housewife in an evolving city.? ? Variety
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They?re the most loving, harmless elderly robbers you will ever meet.
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Affluence, recklessness and power blend together in a bizarre and mesmerizing mystery.
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Why is the case so heavy?
Frozen body parts, a milquetoast husband and his shrewish wife, and the serene scenery of Lijiang blend to sharp, entertaining effect in this fresh black comedy. He Dashang and his nagging wife run a riverside guesthouse in a well-known tourist spot. One morning, he wakes to find a suitcase floating down the river. To his surprise, inside are chopped up frozen body parts.
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Joseph could see what no one else could.
If Woody Allen, David Lynch and M. Night Shyamalan ever had a forbidden love child, it may look something like The End?a wolf in sheep?s clothing that looks and feels like a modern noir, but unleashes surprises which burns in flames any conventional relationship an audience has with fictional cinema.