28 February, 2011

The Dark Lurking (2009)

Synopsis:
The eight remaining survivors of a secret research facility barricade themselves away from a horde of ancient and deadly creatures.

The Conqueror (1956)

Synopsis:
In ancient times, the Mongolian warlord Temujin must do battle against the rival tribe that killed his father. The battles pale in comparison with Temujin's home life, as he attempts to woo the heart of the red-haired Tartar prisoner Bortai whom he has captured in a raid. He must also deal with various intrigues within his palace. Eventually, Bortai falls to his manly charms, Temujin defeats his enemies within and without, and is crowned Genghis Khan.

The Orphanage (2007)

AKA:
The Orphanage

Synopsis:
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, where she opens an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.

House Of The Invisibles (2007)

Synopsis:
There are a few dysfunctional inhabitants in a demolished old building. Life has been hard for Fat Chou and crippled Ah Fung, but they lived harmoniously. As Ah Fung realizes that she can no longer satisfy Fat Chau, she allows him to have sex with prostitutes, but not with the same one all the time. Soon, Fat Chou falls in love with one of the prostitutes, Kil-Kil and therefore, breaks his promise. The tenants later find their lives taking a major turn after unwittingly evoked the spirit of a dead tenant.

Dorian Gray (2009)

Synposis:
A naïve young man. A lovelorn artist. A corruptible Lord. A deal with the Devil. It all paints a dark picture of a Victorian London and how the rich and infamous party at their peril. Here, the telling of time and its consequence of experience for life's treasures' takes its toll on the body, mind and soul. The haunting and bleak tale of power, greed, vanity and inevitable self-destruction is ever present amongst the deceit, opium dens and sin.

From Paris with Love (2010)

Synopsis:
In Paris, a young employee in the office of the US Ambassador hooks up with an American spy looking to stop a terrorist attack in the city

From Russia With Love (1963)

Synopsis:
James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE.

From Mexico with Love (2009)

Synopsis:
A washed-up trainer takes a self-destructive young boxer under his wing.

The Girl Who Played With Fire (2009)

Synopsis:
Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.

Three Colours: Blue (1993)

Synopsis:
Three Colours: Blue (French: Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Polish: Trzy kolory. Niebieski) is a 1993 French film written, produced and directed by the acclaimed Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski. Blue is the first in the Three Colors trilogy, themed on the French Revolutionary ideals; it is followed by White and Red.
According to Kieślowski, the subject of the film is liberty, specifically emotional liberty, rather than its social or political meaning. Set in Paris, it depicts Julie, a woman whose husband and child are killed in a car accident.
Suddenly set free from her familial bonds, Julie attempts to cut herself off from everything and live in isolation from her former ties, but finds that she cannot free herself from human connections.

Three Colours: White (1994)

Synopsis:
Three Colours: White (French: Trois Couleurs: Blanc, Polish: Trzy kolory. Biały) is a 1994 Polish-film co-written, produced, and directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski. White is the second in the Three Colors trilogy, themed on the French Revolutionary ideals, following Blue and preceding Red. This film illustrates the second theme of the Three Colors trilogy, equality, through the two desires of the protagonist Karol Karol: improving his station in life, and revenge. In contrast to the introspective, melancholy, and eventually hopeful stories
of Blue and Red, White is a black comedy.

Three Colours: Red (1994)

AKA:
Trois Couleurs: Rouge >> French

Synopsis:
Three Colours: Red (French: Trois Couleurs: Rouge, Polish: Trzy kolory. Czerwony) is a 1994 French-Polish-Swiss co-production,
co-written, produced, and directed by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski. It is the final film of the Three Colors trilogy, which examines the French Revolutionary ideals; it is preceded by Blue and White. Kieślowski had announced that this would be his final film, which proved true with the director's sudden death in 1996. Red is about fraternity (brotherhood), which it examines by showing characters whose lives gradually become closely interconnected, with bonds forming between two characters who appear to have little in common. The film begins with clips that track a telephone call between London and Geneva, where a university student and part-time model, Valentine, is talking to her emotionally distant but possessive boyfriend. While driving to her apartment, she accidentally runs over a dog. She tracks down the owner, a reclusive retired judge, Joseph Kern. He seems unconcerned by the accident or the injuries sustained by Rita, his dog. Valentine takes Rita to a veterinarian, where she learns that Rita is pregnant. Valentine takes the dog home.

4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)

AKA:
4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile >> Romanian

Synopsis:
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romanian: 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile) is a 2007 Romanian film written and directed by Cristian Mungiu. It won the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. The film is set in Communist Romania in the final years of the Nicolae Ceauşescu era. It tells the story of two students, roommates in the university dormitory, who try to arrange an illegal abortion. After making its worldwide debut at Cannes, the film made its Romanian debut on June 1, 2007, at the Transilvania International Film Festival. The film follows the story of Otilia Mihartescu (Anamaria Marinca) and Gabriela 'Găbiţa' Dragut (Laura Vasiliu), two university friends in an unnamed Romanian town. The film is set in 1987, one of the last years of the Ceauşescu regime. When Găbiţa becomes pregnant, the two girls arrange a meeting with Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov) in a hotel, where he is to perform an illegal abortion (Communist Romania had a natalist policy against abortion).

The Hate (1995)

AKA:
Hatred >> English
La Haine >> French

Synopsis:
La Haine ("hatred") is a French black-and-white film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, released in 1995.
It is released under its French title in the English-speaking world, although its American VHS release was entitled Hate. It is about three teenage friends and their struggle to live in the banlieues of Paris. The title derives from a line spoken by one of them, Hubert: "La haine attire la haine!", "hatred breeds hatred."
The film focuses on a single day in the lives of three young friends in an impoverished multi-ethnic housing project (a ZUP - zone à urbaniser en priorité) in the aftermath of a riot. Vinz (Vincent Cassel), who is Jewish, is filled with rage. He sees himself as a gangster ready to win respect by killing a cop, and models himself after Travis Bickle from the film Taxi Driver. Saïd - Sayid in some English subtitles - (Saïd Taghmaoui) is a happy and talkative Maghrebin who tries to find middle ground
between his two friends' response to life. Hubert (Hubert Koundé) is an Afro-French boxer and drug dealer. The quietest of the three, he sadly contemplates the ghetto and the hate around him. He is probably the only one who has a minimum of consciousness about the state of things. He wants to simply leave this decadent world of violence and hate behind him but does not know how since he lacks the means to do so.

Skin (2008)

Synopsis:
'Skin', set in a grim Dutch working class area in 1979, tells the story of Frankie, who starts out as a normal, somewhat rebellious teenager, and ends up as a neo-Nazi in jail. His Jewish father, a concentration camp survivor, is unable to communicate with his wife and son, which frustrates Frankie and has already created a clearly uneasy father-son relationship at the beginning of the film. When Frankie's mother gets seriously ill and needs to be hospitalized, all frustrations come creeping out from under Frankie's skin and a rough process in which he alienates from his father and most of his friends is set in motion. Even though Frankie does not intend for it to happen, he gradually finds some
solace with a group of skinhead neo-Nazis, and escalation ensues. There are some parallels between this film and the classic 'American History X', but whereas that film shows us how a remorseful neo-Nazi seeks redemption, this one explores how exactly a young person who would seem an unlikely candidate for adopting such views ends up doing so for all the wrong reasons (if there even are any right ones to begin with). Moreover, 'Skin' is a strong, gripping story about what may happen when communication fails, set against a background of growing intolerance and violence.

Breaking the Waves (1996)

Synopsis:
Drama set in a repressed, deeply religious community in the north of Scotland, where a naive young woman named Bess McNeil meets and falls in love with Danish oil-rig worker Jan. Bess and Jan are deeply in love but, when Jan returns to his rig, Bess prays to God that he returns for good. Jan does return, his neck broken in an accident aboard the rig. Because of his condition, Jan and Bess are now unable to enjoy a sexual relationship and Jan urges Bess to take another lover and tell him the details. As Bess becomes more and more deviant in her sexual behavior, the more she comes to believe that her actions are guided by God and are helping Jan recover.

Appassionata (1974)

Synopsis:
It's a little hard to describe this movie. It's kind of like "American Beauty" where you have a dysfunctional middle-class family with a father that lusts after his teenage daughter's best friend, but in this movie he actually has sex with the friend (repeatedly) and perhaps his own daughter as well(?!) To be fair, this movie is nowhere near as offensive and disturbing as it sounds on paper. It's directed with subtlety and some amount of class; it's much close to Italian art than Italian sleaze. The actors playing the mother and father are both very good, and the two teenage girls are played by Ornella Muti and Eleanora Giorgi, both then in their late teens/early twenties, and two of the most beautiful women in the history of the Italian cinema. (These two look good both in and out of their schoolgirl uniforms, but that is not because they are remotely believable as actual schoolgirls).
This movie is available in two versions: an Italian version which censors out the full-frontal nudity (which is hardly the most offensive thing in this movie), and a badly-dubbed English which is very confusing and seems to leave out a lot of plot points...
Oh, and by the way, Agostina Belli is NOT in this movie. (Muti. Giorgi, AND Belli all in the same movie probably would have melted the celluloid in the camera). I'd recommend this movie to fans of beautiful Italian actresses, but be prepared to possibly be offended and definitely confused!

Note: The Dubbing is clearly bad. If it irritates you badly, don't go for it.

Hitler's Children (2000)

AKA:
English version of the Guido Knopp series "Hitlers Kinder" which was broadcast by ZDF in 2000.
Synopsis:
Never has a generation been so completely taken over by a totalitarian state as was the case in Hitlers Third Reich: at the age of 10 children joined the "Jungvolk" movement at 14 they joined the Hitler Youth and at 18 they joined the party the "Wehrmacht" the SA or the SS. This 5-part documentary is the first comprehensive film portrayal of young people in the Third Reich. With in-depth witness statements and some previously unpublished archive material the documentary demonstrates how Hitler succeeded in gaining power over "his children" through years of manipulation.
Episodes:
1. Seduction
2. Dedication
3. Education
4. War
5. Sacrifice

Capitaine Conan (1996)

Synopsis:
Bulgaria near the end of World War I: Conan, Warrior, and Wolf lead a band of 50 ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat. Their motto: "We forgot to take prisoners, Captain." At war's end, the unit goes to Bucharest, where Conan tries to keep them out of trouble, defends them when they behave as warriors, and finds he's unsuited for peacetime. His friendship with Norbert, a teacher turned lieutenant, is tested when Norbert accepts a job as court-martial prosecutor because he's learned that Conan will be facing charges and he wants to protect his friend. When they are sent to the Russian border to fight Bolsheviks, Conan is back in his element and Norbert is off the hook.

The Drummer (2007)

Synopsis:
The Drummer is a 2007 Hong Kong film written and directed by Kenneth Bi. It is Kenneth Bi's second film as a director. The film was released in Hong Kong on October 11, 2007. It features the Chinese Zen drumming group U-Theatre. A Hong Kong movie that marries drumming with Triad intrigue? No one’s ever tried it before (or even thought of it, I’m 
betting), but there’s no reason why it can’t work. The Drummer is an original and stylistic cinematic feast of sight and sound. It is the first feature film to combine an engaging character-driven story with dramatic action and the stunning art of Chinese zen drumming. The film's story follows Sid, a reckless youth raised in a Hong Kong triad family, who flees to 
Taiwan upon enraging a mob boss. Hiding out in the mountains of Taiwan, he encounters and joins a group of zen drummers whose mesmerizing art, rigorous physical training, and austere way of life eventually transform him into an extraordinary young man. Sid’s independence from the triad life is profoundly challenged, however, when a twist of fate awaits him back home in Hong Kong and forces him to choose between loyalty to his family and his new found faith in himself.

Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

Synopsis:Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua) is an award-winning 1991 Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-produced film, directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Gong Li. It is an adaption by Ni Zhen of the 1990 novel Wives and Concubines by Su Tong.
Set in the 1920s, the film tells the story of a young woman who becomes one of the concubines of a wealthy man during the
Warlord Era. It is noted for its opulent visuals and sumptuous use of colours. The film was shot in Qiao's Compound in the ancient city of Pingyao, in Shanxi Province. Although the screenplay was approved by Chinese censors, the final version of the film was banned in China for a period. Some film critics have interpreted the film as a veiled allegory against Chinese communist authoritarianism. The film's popularity has also been attributed to helping Chinese tourism after the government response to the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989.

Garage (2007)

Synopsis:
Tragi-comedy from the margins of contemporary Irish life. Regarded by his neighbors as a harmless misfit, eliciting idle kindness, benign tolerance and occasional abuse, Josie has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station on the outskirts of a small town in the mid-west of Ireland. He is limited, lonely, yet relentlessly optimistic and, in his own peculiar way, happy. But then over the course of a summer, Josie's world shifts. A teenager, David, comes to work with him. David likes him. They open up to each other and suddenly the lonely adult is drinking cans down at the railway tracks with the local kids. He is awakened to needs in himself that have never been met. And Carmel, from the local shop, who has always been kind to him, stirs feelings within him that he struggles to name. And then one thoughtless moment unravels the threads of faltering friendship. Events spiral. Josie's life is changed, forever.

Litsonero ()

Perfect Love (1996)

AKA:
Parfait Amour >> French

Synopsis:
Another frank depiction of sexual obsession from Breillat which despite several instances of full frontal nudity is not particularly graphic until a short orgy sequence in the films latter stages. While the film is rather long and talky it is also surprisingly compelling aided considerably by its two excellent central performances particularly Isabelle Renaulds its semi-documentary/flashback framework then leads to a shocking inevitable finale. Having a relationship with a beautiful mature woman is every young mans dream and for a while Francis Renaud lives it but before long his unwillingness to let go of his chauvinistic male friends (who are prone to graphically describe their sexual prowess in front of his female companion) and seriously commit to his relationship is too heavy a burden for them both ironically it is Renauds attempt at taking on the role of father-figure (by taking an interest in Renaulds teenage girl) which triggers off the differences between them and which keep escalating as the film goes along.

Bilitis (1977)

Rendezvous (1985)

The Refugees Of The Blue Planet (2006)

Synopsis:
This is a truly moving film by Hélène Choquette and Jean-Philippe Duval about the ever growing phenomenon of environmental refugees. These are people who have been displaced as a result of the ever growing number of natural disasters, or as a result of the negligence of corporations and governments who make deals to extract hazardous resources on peoples land, utilize practices which degrade the environment, or force people off their land for the creation of monoculture farms. In numbers they have now surpassed the number of political and war refugees in the world (25 vs 23 million). These refugees aren't limited to third world and developing countries...it could be anyone.

We are taken to 3 very different parts of the world where people are suffering from 3 very different problems, all of which have made them environmental refugees. These stories are juxtaposed with interviews made by numerous scholars, human rights and environmental activists.

These areas include the sinking islands of Maldives and Brazil where thousands of previously self-sufficient farming families were forced to sell their plots to a corporation who created a Eucalyptus plantation on land which previously provided sustainability for people and now employs only 1500 and has become a literal desert. The third area is rural Alberta, Canada were Sour Gas is a nasty and toxic combination of sulfuric acid and crude oil.

Friend (2001)

AKA: Chingoo
Synopsis:
Friend (Chingoo) is a 2001 South Korean film directed by Kwak Kyung-taek. At one time, it was the highest-grossing South Korean movie of all time, but has since been surpassed. This film is the director's experience about his friends, a semi-autobiography set in his hometown, Busan, and the actors speak with a strongly accented Busan dialect.
Despite their different family backgrounds, four friends grew up together in the wearisome years of the 70s. But as time goes by, each of them takes a different life path. After enrolling in college, Sang-taek and Joong-ho return to visit Dong-su (Jang Dong-gun) and Joon-suk (Yoo Oh-sung), only to find one of them in jail and the other on drugs. Slowly life takes
difficult turns where friends become rivals in the crime world.

Musa-The Warrior (2001)

Synopsis:
In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Korea then) sent a delegation of many diplomats, soldiers and a silent slave (Woo-sung Jung) to make peace with the new Chinese government. However, this delegation got charged as spies and sent in exile to a remote desert. On the way the group came across a Yuan troop, and the Coryo soldiers managed to survive the battle. They began the journey toward the faraway home country,
where they met the Yuan troop again. When they found out the Yuan troop kidnapped a Ming princess (Ziyi Zhang), they decided to rescue her so that they could get a ship to go home. Then the battle began.

Red Cliff II (2009)

Synopsis:
The Battle of Red Cliffs, otherwise known as the Battle of Chibi, was a decisive battle at the end of the Han Dynasty, immediately prior to the period of the Three Kingdoms in China. It was fought in the winter of 208/9 AD between the allied forces of the southern warlords Liu Bei and Sun Quan and the numerically superior forces of the northern warlord Cao Cao. Liu Bei and Sun Quan successfully frustrated Cao Cao's effort to conquer the land south of the Yangtze River and reunite the territory of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The allied victory at Red Cliffs ensured the survival of Liu Bei and Sun Quan, gave them control of the Yangtze and provided a line of defence that was the basis for the later creation of the two southern kingdoms of Shu Han and Eastern Wu .

Descriptions of the battle differ widely on details, and the location of the battle is fiercely debated .Although its precise location remains uncertain, the majority of academic conjectures place it on the south bank of the Yangtze River, southwest of present-day Wuhan and northeast of Baqiu The most detailed account of the battle comes from the biography of Zhou Yu in the 3rd century historical text Records of Three Kingdoms . An exaggerated and romanticised account is also a central event in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

Red Cliff (2008)

AKA: Chi bi
Synopsis:
In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale, led by the Prime Minister, himself. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance. Numerous battles of strength and wit ensued, both on land and on water, eventually culminating in the battle of Red Cliff. During the battle, two thousand ships were burned, and the course of Chinese history was changed forever.

The Killing Kind (1973)

Synopsis:
Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem is his overbearing mother, whose boarding house he resides in and who keeps bringing him glasses of chocolate milk. One of her boarders, Lori, becomes attracted to him. However, while he was serving his prison sentence, Terry developed an interest in rough, violent sex, and gory death. Now, one by one, some of the town's women pop up dead.

Green River (2008)

Synopsis:
There is no turning back. Whether we trust our friends, others or ourselves our decision determines the fate of the future.

Red River (2009)

Synopsis:
A haunting, tragic love story about the aftermath of the American War in Vietnam, and the long-term effect it had on ordinary people's lives. Set in a border town between China and Vietnam, it is a universal story that could be about any war, in any country.

Samarpan ()



Kanchhi (1984)

AKA:
कान्छी

Starring:
Shiva Shrestha
Sushma Shahi - Sushma Didi
Sharmila Shah as Debutant [main lead] - Kanchhi / Mira Thapa
Mausami / Maushami Malla [Bishnu Thakuri] as Debutant - Kusum
Shanti Maske - Kanchhi's Mother
Sushila Rayamajhi

Kristi K.C. - Kanchhi's Friend

Director: B.S. Thapa  (Release date: 2041, Bhadra)

26 February, 2011

The Milk of Sorrow (2009)

Synopsis:
Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother’s footsteps. Nominated for Oscar, 2010 Academy Awards Best Foreign Film. Another 11 wins & 1 nomination.

Baby And Me (2008)

Sleep with me (2009)

Ram Avatar (1988)

Starring:
Sunny Deol
Anil Kapoor
Sridevi
Shakti Kapoor
Bharat Bhooshan
Manek Irani
Mushtaq Merchant
Minno Sarkar
Dinesh Hingoo
Yunus Parvez

Director: Sunil Hingorani

Kaalo (2010)

Starring:
Swini Khara
Aditya Shrivastava
Paintal
Abhijit Satam

Director: Wilson Louis

Yaadein ()

Starring:
Hrithik Roshan
Kareena Kapoor
Jackie Shroff
Amrish Puri
Himani Rawat
Kiran Rathod
Anang Desai
Supriya Karnik
Avni Vasha
Madan Joshi
Suman Dutta
Suhaas Khandke
Ranjan Kapoor
Jennifer Kotwal
Rahul Singh
Dolly Bindra
Kamal Adib
Gargi Patel
Rati Agnihotri
Subhash Ghai
Akhil Ghai

Director: Subhash Ghai

50 Lakhs ()

Starring:
Mohit Chaddha
Veerendra Chauhan
Janardhan Choudhary
Likitha
Ashok Kumar

Director: Chandrasekhar Yeleti

Striker ()

Starring:
Siddharth
Aditya Pancholi
Vidya Malavade
Padmapriya

Director: Chandan Arora

Lam Lakhan (1989)

Starring:
Anil Kapoor
Madhuri Dixit
Jackie Shroff
Dimple Kapadia
Rakhee Gulzar
Amrish Puri
Raza Murad
Lalita Kumari
Satish Kaushik
Gulshan Grover
Saeed Jaffrey
Annu Kapoor
Lahiri Singh
Sonika Gill
Dalip Tahil
Anupam Kher
Paresh Rawal
Anand Balraj

Director: Subhash Ghai

Awakening (2005)

Eye ()

Starring:
Director: David Chen and Zack Young

Nepal (2006)

Starring:

Director: Carl Kulliton

An Untold Story ()

Starring:
Director: Sushil Chhetri

Ishq (1997)

AKA:
Love

Starring:
Aamir Khan
Ajay Devgan
Kajol
Juhi Chawla

Director: Indra Kumar

Welcome (2007)

Synopsis:
After the passing away of his dark-skinned wife, from who they sired Uday, Dubai-based criminal don, Shankar Shetty re-married a fair-skinned woman, who gave birth to fair-skinned Sanjana. After the couple's passing, Uday takes over in his dad's footsteps, and takes it upon himself to try and get Sanjana married - in vain.

Starring:
Feroz Khan
Anil Kapoor
Nana Patekar
Akshay Kumar
Katrina Kaif
Mallika Sherawat
Paresh Rawal
Vijay Raaz
Supriya Karnik
Mushtaq Khan
Adi Irani
Snehal Dhabi
Shereveer Vakil
Swatantra Bharat
Rakesh Shrivastav
Malaika Arora

Director:

Jai Santoshi Maa ()

Starring:
Nushrat Bharucha
Rakesh Bapat
Abhijit Lahiri
Lalit Tiwari
Shashi Sharma
Raj Khan
Sanjay Swaraj
Shameem Ali
Anisha Hinduja

Director: Ahmed Siddiqui

Nick Vujicic : The Embassador of Hope worldwide (2009)

Slogan:
From a life without Limbs to a life without Limits.

Starring:
Nick Vujicic

The Magical Singer - Mohammad Rafi


Documentary on Mohammad Rafi ()


Relationship Breakdown ()

AKA:
Starring:
Director: Sushil Chhetri

Raat Gayi Baat Gayi ()

Starring:
Rajat Kapoor
Neha Dhupia
Vinay Pathak
Iravati Harshe

Director: Saurabh Shukla

Detour ()

Starring:
Director: Saurav Tandan

Shaadi Se Pehle ()

Starring:
Akshay Khanna
Mallika Sherawat
Ayesha Takia

Director: Satish Kaushik

25 February, 2011

Heavy Metal In Baghdad (2007)

No End in Sight (2007)

Starring:
Director:

House of Saddam (2008)

AKA: منزل صدام ح

Starring:

Director:

Tashan (2008)

Starring:
Saif Ali Khan
Kareena Kapoor
Akshay Kumar
Anil Kapoor

Director: Vijay Krishna Acharya

Mere Baap Pehle Aap ()

Starring:
Akshaye Khanna
Genelia D'souza
Paresh Rawal

Jail (2009)

Starring:
Neil Nitin Mukesh
Mugdha Godse
Manoj Bajpai
Arya Babbar
Mirza Ali Quli

Director: Madhur Bhandarkar

Anveshna ()

Starring:
Director:

Saathiya (2002)

Starring:
Rani Mukherjee
Vivek Oberoi
Tanuja

Director: Shaad Ali

Shaadi Se Pehle (2006)

Starring:
Akshay Khanna
Mallika Sherawat
Ayesha Takia

Director: Satish Kaushik

Veer Zaara (2004)

Synopsis:
Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh is a rescue pilot with the Indian Air Force, who risks his own life to save the lives of others. One day, on duty, he comes across a stranded Zaara... a girl from Pakistan. Zaara, a carefree, sprightly girl has come to India to fulfill her surrogate mother's dying wish. She meets with a bus accident leaving her stranded in a foreign land.
Veer saves her life... and his life is never the same again... Twenty-two years later, Saamiya Siddiqui, a Pakistani lawyer on her first case, finds herself face-to-face with an ageing Veer Pratap Singh. He has languished in a Pakistan jail cell for 22 years and has not spoken to anyone all these years - and no one knows why.
Her mission is to discover the truth about Veer and see to it that justice is served. And thus starts her journey to unveil the truth... the story of Veer and his life.

Starring:
Shahrukh Khan
Preity Zinta
Rani Mukherjee
Amitabh Bachchan
Hema Malini
Manoj Bajpai

Director: Yash Chopra

Neal 'N Nikki

Starring:
Uday Chopra
Tanisha

Director: Arjun Sablik

Woman Rebel (2010)

Synopsis:
40% of the rebel army over the course of a ten year revolution in Nepal were women. Woman Rebel follows the incredible story of one such woman (codename 'Silu') from the jungles all the way to the halls of Parliament.

Starring:
Director: Kiran Deol

Weekend Braunch ()

Starring:

Director: Rabindra Shrestha

Lost ()

Starring:
Director: Aashish Sharma

Life in America (2010)

Starring:
Pritam Lama
Biku Newa

Director:

Home (2004)

Starring:
Umesh Thapa
Leeza Sharma
Bhashwat Risal
Bibek Amatya
Ujjwal Shrestha
Karen Jensen

Director: Narendra Ghimire

Aja Bholi ()

Starring:
BJ - LexLimbu
Amir - Hangyam Thebe (Gorey Gurung junior)
Parvati - Mamita Setling

Director:
Laxcha Bantawa

Street Crime (2010)

Starring:
Roman
Sujan
Yuken
Catyo

Director: Milan

Facebooked ()

Starring:
Bipul K.C.
Milan Bimali
Avinash Lohni
NIkesh Joshi

Director: Bipul K.C.

Following Dreams (2010)

AKA:
Starring:
Deepa Ghimire
Ribesh Poudel

Director: Aashiq Regmi

Sorry Elisa ()

Starring:
Bishal Subedi
Ranjana Dhakal

Director: Aashiq Regmi

The Apartment ()

Starring:
Supath Sitaula
Sanchita Silwal Sitaula

Director: Naran Malla

Samjhana (2010)

AKA:
सम्झना

Starring:
Nikhil Upreti
Sanchita Luitel
Raj Ballav Koirala
Garima Pant
Deshbhakta Khanal
Hemanta Bodhathoki

Director: Yogesh Ghimire

Under the Same Sun ()

AKA:
Starring:
Director:

Letter ()

AKA:
Starring:
Director: Samten Bhutia

Passion ()

AKA:
Starring:
Director:

House Wife ()

AKA:
Starring:
Bhoma Limbu
Bhim Raj Subba
Biyan Limbu

Director: Shamim Anwar

The Refugees Of The Blue Planet (2006)

AKA:
Starring:
Director:

Code Changa ()

23 February, 2011

Kusume Rumal (1985)

AKA:
कुसुमे रुमाल
Silk Handkerchief

Starring:
Bhuwan K.C. - Arjun
Tripti Nadakar - Suniti
Udit Narayan - Amar
Neer Shah

Director: Tulsi Ghimire

Kusume Rumal II (2009)

AKA:
कुसुमे रुमाल २
Kusume Rumal 2

Starring:
Niraj Baral
Usha Rajak
Rubi Bhattarai
Tripti Nadakar
Nikhil Upreti (Special Appearance)

Director: Nirak Poudel

I hate Nature ()

Congo (DRC) - Nation of Vice ()

Synopsis:
The militias of the DRC use rape as a tactic of war, even male rape. Now they're throwing kidnapping into the terrible mix. They're combining their sexual desires with fund raising.

A Congolese soldier watches women marching in protest at the raping of 300 women near a UN base; but the gun cradled in his lap is a savage reminder that in this war all soldiers are accused, "Rape is all around us." Young or old the people of the DRC have no safety from the horrific rape tactics of the militias.

One woman her eyes still emptied by torture tells how she was kidnapped and raped for three days in front of her husband. For the militias rape has become just part of war, "When we saw a woman the officer would give the order to rape her".

And now the militias incorporate kidnapping into their reign of terror, "They said they would behead my husband if I didn't bring beer and $100 phone credit". While the warring continues there appears to be no end in sight for the suffering people of the DRC.

Director: Sam Farmar

City of Death - Guatemala ()

'Unreported World' visits a world of unimaginable lawlessness where disappearances, death and torture have become part of the daily routine. Reporter Ramita Navai and director Sam Farmar present a shocking exposé of the rampant violence that afflicts areas of Guatemala City, as vigilante groups, street gangs and the beleaguered security forces battle for control; A film full of shocking and disturbing imagery.

Series: Unreported World, Channel 4

Reported by Ramita Revia
WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC, NOT FOR EVERYONE
Directed by Sam Farmar

Roads to Koktebel (2003)

AKA:
Коктебель

Starring:
Gleb Puskepalis
Igor Chernevich
Yevgeni Syty

Directors: Boris Khlebnikov, Aleksei Popogrebsky

Synopsis:
A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's sister. After they are stopped by a train guard, they continue their travel on foot. The father battles against his alcohol addiction and the son is fascinated with the idea of flight. One rainy day an old man accepts them in his house in return for the repair of the roof. The father gives in to the alcohol offered by the old man, who in a drunken brawl accuses him of stealing money and shoots him. A young female village doctor takes care of him and a romantic relationship between the two ensues. The father feels reluctant to continue the journey. The son leaves alone and a truck driver gives him a ride to Koktebel. However, his aunt has left for the summer.

Himalayan Viagra / Love Bug ()

The world's most valuable aphrodisiac; 'Yarchagumba' - a mushroom that grows out of the head of caterpillars has led to a modern day gold rush with more than fifty thousand people making the dangerous journey up the Nepalese mountains in search of the mysterious parasite, worth half the price of gold.

“The main property it gives you is energy – like a Viagra”, Raaj Waiba, owner of a tea shop in Kathmandu, told reporter Sam Farmar, “So I call it Viagra from the Himalaya. Man, it gets you really sexy”. Eventually Yarchagumba ends up in places like Japan, where a bowl of soup containing just three caterpillars costs a hundred dollars.

The worlds best 'Himalayan Viagra' comes from Dolpa - the poorest and least developed region of Nepal - with no roads, few jobs and reliant on food aid. Much of the region is now under the control of the Maoists rebels who dominate two thirds of the country and have been fighting a war killing 12,000 people in the past nine years. Yarchagumba is now providing millions of dollars towards the Maoist rebellion.

Intrepid British journalist Sam Farmar travelled by foot across the roof of the world in pursuit of this story.

Broadcast on BBC Newsnight, ABC Foreign Correspondent, NHK, CNN

Director: Sam Farmar

The Great Escape North Korea / China ()

Synopsis:
Unreported World travels to China’s remote border with North Korea, where few journalists have ever set foot. Reporter Oliver Steeds and director Sam Farmar report on the plight of thousands of North Korean women who have been forced into prostitution or sold as brides after fleeing persecution and starvation in one of the world’s most secretive and repressive regimes.

Series: Unreported World, Channel 4

Director: Sam Farmar

Kidnap capital of the world - Haiti ()

Haiti has become a failed state where the only growth industry is kidnapping. Millions live in fear of thuggish gangs who carry out the dirty work of the country’s politicians. “In some war zones, you find less violence than in the slums of Haiti”, despairs Human Rights campaigner Anne Sosin. Eighty percent of the population is unemployed. For many, crime is the only way to make a living. “Two guys kidnapped me. They bought me to a room where there were a lot more people that were kidnapped”, states one victim. There are claims politicians are behind most of the kidnapping. “It is very well known that members of the interim government are very, very steeply involved in kidnapping”, admits one former public servant. Others accuse the UN of contributing to the unrest and are angry they have not been able to restore order. In this atmosphere of insecurity, many fear that a return to anarchy is now inevitable.

Broadcast on BBC Newsnight, ABC Foreign Correspondent

Director: Sam Farmar

Chinese reignite ivory poaching in East Africa ()

Synopsis:
Sam Farmar reports on the unprecedented wave of elephant poaching taking place across Africa - spurred on by a doubling of the international ivory price and the worst drought in East Africa for more than a decade. Many now feel they have little option but to poach to survive.

After years in decline poaching is back and conversationalists are blaming the Chinese. China trade with Africa now stands at 100 billion US dollar annually a figure that is expected to increase by 80% in the coming year – with this level of investment African governments are reluctant to upset their fastest growing trading partner and clamp down on the illegal ivory trade to China.

The number of elephants killed in East Africa has doubled in the last year and experts predict the extinction of elephants outside of protected parks as early as 2020. Currently the elephant death rate from poaching throughout Africa is higher than the annual death rate that led to the international ivory trade ban 20 years ago.

Conservationists blame a decision to relax the law and allow the legal sales of stockpiled ivory, which they claim has reignited interest in ivory across the Far East.

Director: Sam Farmar

Joseph Kony breaks his silence ()

This report is a world exclusive first aired on BBC Newsnight. It’s the first ever interview with Joseph Kony, the most wanted man in Africa and the leader of the ‘Lords Resistance Army,’ in his 25 year rebellion. Joseph Kony has led a brutal insurgency in Northern Uganda and is accused of murdering 10,000 people and abducting 25,000, many of them children. Sam Farmar tracks him down to his jungle hideout.

Director: Sam Farmar, Mareike Schomerus

The Decisive Moment ()

Synopsis:
Cartier-Bresson achieved international recognition for his coverage of Gandhi's funeral in India in 1948 and the last (1949) stage of the Chinese Civil War. He covered the last six months of the Kuomintang administration and the first six months of the Maoist People's Republic. He also photographed the last surviving Imperial eunuchs in Beijing, as the city was falling to the communists. From China, he went on to Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), where he documented the gaining of independence from the Dutch.
Photograph of Alberto Giacometti by Henri Cartier-Bresson

In 1952, Cartier-Bresson published his book Images à la sauvette, whose English edition was titled The Decisive Moment. It included a portfolio of 126 of his photos from the East and the West. The book's cover was drawn by Henri Matisse. For his 4,500-word philosophical preface, Cartier-Bresson took his keynote text from the 17th century Cardinal de Retz: "Il n'y a rien dans ce monde qui n'ait un moment decisif" ("There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment"). Cartier-Bresson applied this to his photographic style. He said: "Photographier: c'est dans un même instant et en une fraction de seconde reconnaître un fait et l'organisation rigoureuse de formes perçues visuellement qui expriment et signifient ce fait" ("Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact").

Both titles came from publishers. Tériade, the Greek-born French publisher whom Cartier-Bresson idolized,[peacock term] gave the book its French title, Images à la Sauvette, which can loosely be translated as "images on the run" or "stolen images." Dick Simon of Simon & Schuster came up with the English title The Decisive Moment. Margot Shore, Magnum's Paris bureau chief, did the English translation of Cartier-Bresson's French preface.

"Photography is not like painting," Cartier-Bresson told the Washington Post in 1957. "There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative," he said. "Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever."

Cartier-Bresson held his first exhibition in France at the Pavillon de Marsan in the Louvre in 1955.

Narrator: Henri Cartier Bresson

22 February, 2011

Famous Nepali Sextape ()

Synopsis:
A young Nepali couple residing in London goes to do some "creative thing".

Note: The Poster is thankfully pasted from one of the finest artists of the world Gilberto Mattos.

Yojimbo the Bodyguard (1961)

AKA:
Yôjinbô >> Japan (Original Title)
Bodyguard >> Japan (literal title)
Die Leibwache >> West Germany
Yojimbo - Der Leibwächter >> West Germanylay title)

Starring:
Toshirô Mifune
Eijirô Tôno
Tatsuya Nakadai

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Synopsis:
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

The Hidden Fortress (1958)

AKA:
Kakushi-toride no san-akunin Japan (original title)
La fortaleza escondida Mexico (imdb display title) / Spain
The Hidden Fortress >> International (imdb display title) (English title) / USA
Die verborgene Festung >> West Germany
La forteresse cachée France
Three Rascals in the Hidden Fortress >> International (English title)

Starring:
Toshirô Mifune
Misa Uehara
Minoru Chiaki

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Synopsis:
Lured by gold, two greedy peasants escort a man and woman across enemy lines. However, they do not realize that their companions are actually a princess and her general.

Wapakman (2009)

Synopsis:
The movie is about Magno, a father with 5 children but was left behind by his wife Magda to work as a nurse in Italy. Contrary to popular belief, it is Rufa Mae Quinto who plays as her leading lady and not Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls. She was Manny’s first choice but due to conflict in schedule, she begged off from doing the movie.

When Magno was knocked unconscious by an explosion caused by Walo-walo, an organic substance which stores energy that is almost as powerful as a nuclear energy, he wakes up with superpowers.

He assumes the superhero identity of Wapakman. WWE wrestler Dave Batista plays as a yet to be named villain.

Zeitgeist, The Movie - Remastered Final Edition ()

Synopsis:
Documentary about the origin of christian faith, how american banks have seized world power at the beginning of the 20th century and how these 2 items are related to the wars fought in the 20th and 21st century.

Naked Youth (1960)

AKA:
Seishun zankoku monogatari >> Japan (original title)
A Story of the Cruelties of Youth >> (undefined)
Contos Cruéis da Juventude Portugal
Cruel Story of Youth >> International (English title)
Grausame Geschichten der Jugend West Germany
Historias crueles de juventud >> Spain
Nackte Jugend >> West Germany

Starring:
Yûsuke Kawazu
Miyuki Kuwano
Yoshiko Kuga

Director: Nagisa Ôshima

The long good friday ()

Synopsis:
The leading gangster in the London underworld Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins ) is forming an alliance with the Mafia to fund the very profitable London docklands development of the 1980s. But not all things go to plan as bombs start going off around London targeting his men. what follows is a struggle of revenge, double dealing and back stabbing. but who is behind it all and can Harold survive

A Love Story (2007)

Synopsis:
What if you met the woman you wanted to make your wife after you married someone else? Ian Montes (Aga Muhlach) is a picture of success…
A Love Story is about successful but emotionally scarred businessman Ian Montes Aga Muhlach who is torn between two women: Joanna Maricel Soriano, a doctor, and Karyn Angelica Panganiban a flight attendant.

Paano Ko Sasabihin (2009)

Synopsis:
What if the attractive deaf-mute guy you meet on the metro train thinks you’re also deaf? And what if you were both just pretending so as not to disappoint each other? PAANO KO SASABIHIN (How Do I Say This) is a romantic comedy about two souls entangled in a loop of lies. Both of them hoping that true love will straighten everything out

Babe I Love You (2010)

Synopsis:
Promo girl Sasa (Anne Curtis) and a highly respected university professor Nico (Sam Milby), first met when the former rescues the latter from muggers. This rescue gives Sasa a neck injury so Nico had no choice but to drive her around. Despite their differences, they fall in love as they spend more time with each other. Conflict arises when Nico discovers Sasa’s dark past. He finds this difficult to accept but then he realizes that he too, is haunted everyday by his own mistakes from years back.

Despite people saying that this movie is actually pretty good, we could not help but disagree big time. Yes, Anne and Sam look really cute together in the big screen but we would not give a good rating for cuteness alone. Feast your eyes on Anne Curtis and her tube tops and short shorts but beyond this, there is nothing much the movie can offer. Some scenes, especially the dramatic ones were given extra long minutes which bored us to death. The story is not half bad though. The best thing about the movie is that some scenes were funny which kept the mood light most of the time. We would not recommend spending money or even your time for this movie. If you’ll be waiting for it in local cable, make sure you are a big Anne Curtis or Sam Milby fan to make this movie worth it.

My Big Love (2008)

Say That You Love Me (2005)

Miss you like Crazy (2010)

My Amnesia Girl (2010)

Synopsis:
When Apollo (John Lloyd Cruz) finds himself surrounded by friends who are beginning to settle down, he is faced with the possibility of finding his true love. It all boils down to one name: Irene. It must be fate then, when he once again sees Irene (Toni Gonzaga), his ex-girlfriend from three years ago with whom he had the best memories with. Apollo and Irene were a perfect couple, and were engaged to be married. It all ended at the altar when Apollo had a bout of cold feet and left Irene alone in the aisle.

Now, Irene pretends to have no recollection of Apollo, having acquired “amnesia” shortly after their separation. Apollo sees this as the perfect opportunity to pursue Irene again, and be able to undo all the mistakes he made in the past, by offering Irene the best memories she could ever have.

True love is difficult to resist, they learn. Just when they find themselves ready to commit to each other, the pains from the past catch up with them, challenging them to finally own up to the mistakes made and lies said, and eventually realize what it is to forgive and forget.

TRON Legacy (2010)

Starring:
Jeff Bridges
Garrett Hedlund
Olivia Wilde

Director: Joseph Kosinski

All Good Things (2010)

Synopsis:
All Good Things is a love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for an imaginative spellbinding story of family, obsession, love and loss.

Villa Estrella (2009)

Synopsis:
Ana is dragged to dilapidated resort Villa Estrella in an effort by her ex-boyfriend Alex to rekindle their lost romance. There, she is introduced to the strange inhabitants of the resort: Giselle, the daughter of one of the resort’s long-time helpers who seem to have a mysterious connection with Ana, the restort’s eccentric caretaker Mang Gusting who has been searching for his daughter since she suddenly disappeared many years ago and a murderous monstrosity who resides in the resort’s murky swimming pool.

Kayfabe ()

Synopsis:
Kayfabe tells the story of an independent wrestling federation in Canada that is going out of business after 60 years performing in front of packed houses of less than 100 people. The roster of characters contains almost every type of stereotype of wrestler imaginable. There is the veteran that made it to the big time, the rookie, the cranky promoter, the wrestler that can't figure out how to cut a promo, and the performer that seemingly really enjoys the homo-erotic element of professional wrestling.

When the promoter goes missing, it is up to the veteran champion to take over the book and everyone has their opinion of what they should be doing. This leads to some humorous conversations and the problem being solved by the most unlikely of characters in the movie.

Zeitgeist The Movie (2007)

Roommates: 4 Horror Tales/D-Day (2006)

AKA:
Eoneunnal Kabjagi Cheotbeonjjae Iyagi

Apartment 1303 ()

Synopsis:
In a seaside apartment complex, there's one unit, 1303, that seems to be cursed. A young woman getting away from home for the first time moves in one day, but she's hardly unpacked her things when, at a housewarming party with her friends, she strangely munches on some dog food before making a bee line for the balcony and jumping to her death. Despite the police declaring her death a suicide, her boyfriend refuses to believe she willingly took the plunge on her own, a possibility that the woman's sister is growing more and more open to. It's not long before Mariko learns that her sister wasn't the only girl to take a swan dive off of 1303's balcony, that something about this habitation is sending its tenants to their deaths. It's up to Mariko to investigate the apartment's sordid past in order to put an end to this.
and so the story begins.....

Spider Forest (2004)

Synopsis:
Awaking alone in the middle of a dark forest, Kang Min sees a secluded cabin nearby & wanders towards it. Upon entering the small home, he is shocked to discover a brutal, bloody crime had taken place. A man, hacked repeatedly by a sickle, lies on the floor, dead. Min hears a noise nearby & discovers his girlfriend Su-Young, stabbed,nearly dead, & talking about "spiders."

Before he could save her, Min is caught off guard by the killer who unexpectedly emerges & dashes out of the cabin. Min grabs the sickle & pursues the dark figure through the shadowy woods of the Spider Forest.
Min, being disoriented & slightly dazed, sees the killer enter into a tunnel on a road nearby & follows him. . . . .
. . .He awakes Fourteen days later at a local hospital with his head heavily bandaged. His friend, a police detective named Choi, is at his bedside to both comfort and question him about the murders. Min in fact, is the prime suspect of the killings due to his fingerprints being on the sickle

Dead Friend (2004)

AKA:
Ryeong

Synopsis:
"Dead Friend" aka "Ryeong" directly translates into "The Ghost".This is a 2004 South Korean horror film. It is one of a number of recent South Korean horror films set in a girls high school; the trend began with 1998's Whispering Corridors.
It starts out with
Three friends from the same high school,who are conducting a séance with a bunshinsaba - a traditional South Korean ouija board. As the spirits are called by Eun-jung, the planchette of the bunshinsaba starts jumping up and down: At the same time, her sister Eun-seo, who was sleeping in the next room, wakes up screaming. When Eun-seo comes out, she has an argument with Eun-jung about conducting the séance rather than studying. After she leaves, Eun-jung says she wishes the ghost had taken her sister away and then jumping to join her friends in bed jokingly tells them that if they don't send the ghost back it will kill them. They are all unaware of the planchette moving around the board on its own. Nor are they aware of Eun-seo being attacked by a ghostly water-based presence in the kitchen.

Cut (2010)

Synopsis:
Five friends return from a cocktail party to a cottage deep inside the English woods of the Peak District. Having brushed off the notion of urban legends as rubbish, never occurring in reality, our protagonist's slowly find themselves weaving through their very own horror story.

Carved ()

AKA: A slit-mouthed Woman


Rahtree Flower Of The Night (2003)

AKA:
Buppah Rahtree

Synopsis:
From Thailand comes the story of Buppah Rahtree. It's about a maltreated young woman named Buppah Rahtree, and the lengths she will go to hold onto the one she loves. Beaten, neglected, and abused on reg. basis from the father she grew up with, Buppah has seen her share of pain and sorrow.
She lives alone now, keeping to herself. After being persued for weeks, by a boy named Ake,She agrees to go away with him for a few days.He is the son of a multi-millionaire, and only courts Buppah because of a dare from his friends. Ake, after he slept with her, begins to ignore Buppah for some time, but not to long after, he realized that he actually misses her and has real feelings for her. He goes to Buppah & reveals the truth about the dare of his friends. Buppah forgives him and then tells him she is pregnant. Ake could not face the responsibility due to his near travel to England for his further studies,and at the orders of his parents, insists an abortion.

This act of ending the pregnancy of Buppah leads her to a physical complication, and Ake takes her back to her apartment,then leaves, saying he will return with some gruel for her..
Let the nightmares begin!!

Minsan Pa (2004)

Synopsis:
In Minsan Pa, Jomari Yllana plays Jerry, a tourist guide in Cebu who knows all the angles. Jerry takes a bus load of Japanese tourists out golfing, boating and to strip clubs. Jerry is the oldest of three children, so his divorced mother and younger brother and sister rely on him. Their father is a musician who has left the family for a younger woman.

During one tour, Jerry notices a beautiful young woman named Luna (Ara Mina). She is travelling with her boyfriend, and in the course of the trip, these two become engaged. Tragedy will change their plans, and Jerry continues hoping that he might end up with Luna after all.

Minsan Pa has all the requisite tears and drama and reconciliation to qualify as melodrama, but there is a lot more going on in the film about relationships in general and the passage of time.


"What makes you happy?" Jerry asks his mother, and he seems surprised at her reply -- that she still has the strength to serve her family.

The film also looks at what various characters must do to survive, so never mind about love. All the characters talk about work and love, and love and work and how to find their way in both.

Minsan Pa is beautiful to look at, and not just for the cinematography. Most of the movie was shot in the actual Cebu tourist spots, including the Argao Church, scene of an unexpected wedding at the end, as well as at Kawasan Falls and the amazing dive sites of Moalboal.

Now that I have you (2004)

All my Life (2004)

Cruel Restaurant ()

Tokyo Gore Police (2008)

AKA:
Tokyo zankoku keisatsu

The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)

Three Extremes (2004)

Curse Of The Deserted ()

Synopsis:
Young writer Guo wrote about a peculiar curse in his book, "The Deserted Village". It began 500 years ago in the Ming Dynasty, when one of the villagers died of terminal illness. The widow Yanzi vowed to stay with her husband forever but when the man suddenly returned to life,
the horrified neighbours believed that he was a monster. They burned him to death and torched his mansion. The devastated Yanzi upheld her vow, cursing the village as she threw herself into the fire.
And so the story begins...

Since then, the village was cursed and the mansion subsequent inhabitant dies mysteriously. Some say only couples who share true love can survive in that village. Those who are unfaithful will come to their demise. To the world, the book was pure fiction. Only Guo and his ex-girlfriend Zhi had lived through the horror to know its existence. When four college students decided to explore the village themselves, the trip led them to an ancient well in Yanzi's mansion, where the curse was unleashed once again.

Rahtree Reborn (2009)

Synopsis:
Surrounded by tranquility of the apartment, a horrible spirit in the room 609 is lurking, and going to be awaken. This time the terrors are triplex.
It is time for Oscar's apartment to be renovated after the death of the former owner. Now, it's J'Sam who takes over the whole business and stealthily turns the third floor into an illegal casino. Meanwhile, Rang, a handsome guy who has a job as horror cartoonist, moves in for a personal reason. As Rang has a supernatural ability to see ghost, he finally gets to meet Buppha, a mysterious girl who lives in the room 609. Soon, He falls in love with her.
Rang isn't aware that his crush indeed is the haunting and dangerous spirit that he needs to avoid. But he is too late when his sweet dream turns to nightmare as Buppha is now on the rage again.

And the bloody horror love story begins.....

Let The Right One In (2008)

AKA:
Let Me in

Synopsis:
Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl. She can't stand the sun or food and to come into a room she needs to be invited.Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back but when he realizes that Eli needs to drink other people's blood to live

21 February, 2011

The Seventh Curse (1986)

AKA:
Yuan Zhen-Xia yu Wei Si-Li

Synopsis:
SKINNY:In this movie, a young heroic cop in the jungle of Thailand attempts to rescue a beautiful girl from being sacrificed to the "Worm Tribe" she belongs to. As a result, the cop is damned with seven "Blood Curses". . . .


The Seperation (2007)

AKA:
Alone

Synopsis:
Skinny:
Pim was born as a twin, conjoined at the stomach with her sister, Ploy. Pim was very sweet and protective to Ploy.However, it was Ploy who threw rocks at a group of children who were taunting them. While they were staying in a hospital, Pim and Ploy met a boy named Wee. Although both loved him, Wee only returned Pim's affections, which made Ploy angry and jealous. Finally Wee recovers from his illness and was able to leave. As he is getting into the car, Wee decided he wanted to see Pim one last time. Since the twins' room was on the second floor, he decides to call to her. As much as Pim wants to see Wee, Ploy would not get out of bed. Wee is upset and leaves. Angry and in tears, Pim demands that she and Ploy be separated. The twins had an operation to separate them, but Ploy did not survive.

Several years later Pim, who is now living in South Korea and is dating Wee, receives a phone call from Thailand that her mother has had a stroke. When Pim and Wee return to Thailand, Ploy comes back to haunt her.


Director: Banjong Pisanthanakun

Rahtree's Revenge ()

When I Met You (2009)

And I love you so (2009)

In my Life (2009)

Oh my Girl (2009)

I love you, Goodbye (2009)

Sundo (2009)

White House (2010)

Synopsis:
Six contestants enter a pinoy horror-reality show to survive 5 days of haunting inside the famous White House in Baguio City. A million pesos is at stake but as the first night draws to a close and each one is being found dead, everyone realizes their lives are also on the line.

It is up to spirit medium Jet (Gabby Concepcion) to find out what exactly is going on and who is the real enemy among he many ghosts that haunt the place, which includes a powerful Black Lady who abducted the soul of Jet’s only daughter.

Ouija (2007)

Feng Shui ()

Cinco (2010)

Loktantra! (2008)

Synopsis:
In May 28th 2008, Nepal became a federal republic after 239 years of Hindu monarchy and 10 years of a Maoist rebellion held by Prachanda (“the fierce one”).
In August 2008, Prachanda has been elected as Prime Minister by the Constitutional Assembly, mostly Maoists since the elections of April.

Civil society organisations and human rights defenders have played a big role in the change of the regime. For that, many of them have been facing murder, threats, harassment, torture, and exile.
Some of them are giving here their testimonies about that period of violence starting with the royal “coup” of February 1st 2005 and April 2006 when the successful “people’s movement” inaugurated the new era of Nepal: this movement is called Loktantra in Nepali.

Now, in addition to restore Justice for 13.000 victims of the conflict and much more cases of torture, forced disappearances and other Human Rights violations, gender, cast, ethnic-based discriminations have still to be eradicated in the “new Nepal”.

Protection International is working in Nepal since 2004, providing protection strategies for human rights defenders at risk.

Director: Pascale Boosten
Protection International

30000 Leagues Under The Sea (2007)

Starring:

Executive Decision (1996)

Starring:

The Penguins Of Madagascar Operation Penguin Takeover (2010)

Starring:

The Devils Brigade (1968)

Starring:

Jin Roh (1998)

Starring:

The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)

Starring:

Natural City (2003)

Starring:

Lebanon (2009)

Starring:

Virus Undead (2008)

Synopsis:
Five teenagers are confronted, in a village in Brandenburg (Germany), with the effects of a new,far more aggressive variation of the bird‘s flu virus. Within a night, the virus spreads from person to person and transforms every infected into bloodthirsty monsters. The news concerning the bird flu has disappeared from the media. However, the bird‘s deaths go on and spread silently in the whole country.

Tears of the Sun (2003)

AKA:
Les larmes du soleil Canada (video title) (French title) / France (dubbed version)
Tränen der Sonne Austria / Germany

Starring:
Bruce Willis
Cole Hauser
Monica Bellucci

Director: Antoine Fuqua

13 (2010)

Synopsis:
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.

Machete (2010)

The Other Hell (1980)

Synopsis:
A priest investagates paranormal activity at a nuns' convent where a deep, dark secret is about to resurface in the guise of murder! Could the devil be behind this, or is that just what Mother Superior wants everyone to believe?

The Dead Undead (2010)

Synopsis:
A group of peaceful Vampires are infected and turned into crazed zombie like creatures whose only motivation is to feed on flesh, whether Human or Vampire. A group of Vamprie commandos tries to keep their identity secret, while trying to stop the spread of the infection. Soldiers from across the ages, it's up to these vampires to end the zombie infection. Caught in the middle is a group of human kids on a camping trip, who team up with the Vampires in an attempt to survive.

The Rock (1996)


Starring:
Sean Connery
Nicolas Cage
Ed Harris

Director: Michael Bay

We Corner People (2007)

AKA:
Hami kunako manche

Synopsis:
Near Nepal’s border with China, a small village sits, island-like, on a tip of land formed by precipitous slopes cross-cut by tumbling Himalayan streams on three sides. The people who live there call this place “a corner.” A corner, however, is not a dead-end. It may not be a hub, but it can be a place where things turn around. This is the message of Kesang Tseten’s decidedly non-preachy documentary about building a suspension bridge in this remote community.

Director: Kesang Tseten

Frames of War (2007)

AKA: Yudhha Chitra

Synopsis:
Yudha Chitra (Frames of War) is a stark reminder that peace has not yet come for those directly affected by Nepal’s 11-year conflict. The film brings us the voices of those whose relatives were killed or disappeared or who were disabled during the conflict. Suffering and pain reside in individuals and individual bodies, which we often forget under the collective ‘people’.

Director: Prem B.K. and Kesang Tseten

Listen to the Wind (1999)

Synopsis:
Setting: the Sherpa village of Khumjung, at 3,600 m above sea level, at Khumbu region, in the lap of Mt. Everest.

Director: Kesang Tseten and Tsering Rhitar Sherpa

The Desert eats us (2010)

About:
The film provides a rare glimpse of the migrant experience in Qatar, where they outnumber natives by 3 to 1. Their struggle to endure long working hours in stultifying heat, burdened by loans and high expectations of home, and the upheaval and fractures of emotional life is overwhelming, unhinging the compass of their lives.

Director: Kesang Tseten

20 February, 2011

Ayos na... ang kasunod

Sambahin Ang Ngalan Mo

Kapag lumaban ang api

Hindi pa tapos ang laban

Ang maestro

Ikaw ang mahal ko

Suicide Commandoes

36-3 ()

About:
An award winning short drama. This movie was shot and edited in two days for a CFF film festival.

Starring:
Nadia Payat
Nocholas Hogle
Mohamed R. Amer
Logan Howell
Steve Howell
Felicity Howell
William Brendel
Samia El Amrani
Julien Ludwig
Lea Guiet
Anup Gurung
Maya Sherpa
Janardhan Doppa
Camille Leblanc
Mathilde Giffard
(Voiceover) Samia El Amrani

Director: Camille Leblanc and Anup Gurung

Kesari ()

Synopsis:
Young Kesari desperately wants to run away from home while her obtuse brother, Kishan wants her to attend school. On the way to school, when she does take the unfamiliar turn, Kishan follows her and together they talk a long walk.

Director: Shirish Gurung

Making MoMo : MoMoNite

About:
MomoNite short film that shows how much we love eating MoMo. This video shows the process of making MoMo, a very popular Nepali dish.

Sold ()

This was an assignment for my 'Technology and Digital Media in English Education' class. The requirement was to create a digital film relating to our field (English Education) that we could use in our future classrooms. So I created a sort of book trailer/mock movie trailer for the YA book SOLD - a story about a young Nepali girl who is sold into prostitution. This video is designed to be an introduction for students to the book SOLD and the global epidemic that is Sex Trafficking.

Director: Steven Webster

On the Road with the Red God (2005)

Synopsis:
"On the road with the Red God: Macchendranath", a new film recently made by Kesang Tseten, where he takes a hundred and ten hours of footage of various acts of human ingenuity and devotion to what seems like a lost cause--namely, the construction of an unwieldy hundred foot chariot that gets tangled up in the electric wires of the city of Patan and tilts drunkenly as it is dragged and pushed and pulled by enthusiasts across flood-washed roads every twelve years, and where men get roaring drunk and get into fights all the way from Bungmati to Patan, and then repeat the process all the way back.

Director: Kesang Tseten

In Search of the Riyal (2009)

Synopsis:
Nepal has rapidly become a pipeline of cheap labour for the Gulf in the last two decades. Migration has emptied Nepal’s villages of its young men, its farm fields tended by the elderly and women or left fallow.

This film is about young men who set out to escape their family woes and grinding poverty, albeit at a high cost, to earn wages of US$5 to 7 a day in the alien and stultifying conditions of the Qatari desert. Theirs is often a true test of resilience and luck.

Director: Kesang Tseten

Saving Dolma (2010)

Synopsis:
The film looking at women migrant workers follows the thread of Dolma, sentenced to death for killing a Filipino co-domestic in Kuwait, presenting the multiple responses to this event, the upheaval and fractures of the family, the women’s advocacy group, Nepali society and officialdom. It presents a rare glimpse of the women’s situation in the Gulf States extremely sensitive to outside scrutiny of their treatment of foreign workers. It exposes the fundamentally vulnerable condition of ill-educated and ill-prepared women from a poor country making this enormous journey. Thanks to the director for bringing her story to all.

Director: Kesang Tseten

Lust (2011)

About:
A group of young film makers From Nepal made this short Nepali Movie called LUST. This Award winning movie has been released by a Nepali Blog 'AakarPost.com'.

Starring:
Manisha Bista
Pawan Jha

Director: Rajan Kathet

Bacterium (2006)

Starring:
Alison Whitney
Benjamin Kanes
Miya Sagara

Director: Brett Piper

Jashnn (2009)

Starring:
Shahana Goswami
Humayun Saeed
Anjana Sukhani

Directors: Hasnain Hyderabadwala and Raksha Mistry

Naseeb (1981)

AKA:
Nasib

Starring:
Amitabh Bachchan
Shatrughan Sinha
Rishi Kapoor
Hema Malini
Reena Roy
Kim
Amjad Khan
Kader Khan
Prem Chopra
Shakti Kapoor
Pran
Amrish Puri
Raj Kapoor   
Shammi Kapoor
Dharmendra

Director: Manmohan Desai

Abdullah (1980)

Starring:
Raj Kapoor … Abdullah
Sanjay Khan … Emir-e-Rajasthan Sheikh Mohammed Al Qamal
Sanjeev Kumar … Ameer
Zeenat Aman … Zainab (Mohammed’s wife)
Parveen Babi
Mehmood … Ahmed
Danny Denzongpa … Khaleel
Rajeev Bhatia … Krishna
Bob Christo … Magician
Nasir Hussain … Blind man
Jezebel … Dancer
Kader Khan … Military Officer
Dheeraj Kumar
Sujit Kumar … Jamal
Leela Mishra … Yashoda’s mother-in-law
Mukri … Trader
Gufi Paintal … Naseer
Rakesh Pandey … Yashoda’s husband
Praveen Paul … Gangubai
Om Prakash … Pandit
Madan Puri … Military Commander

Director: Sanjay Khan

Note: "Maine Poochha Chand se" was the superhit song from the movie.

Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage (1926)

AKA:
Faust >> Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, International
Fausto >> Argentina, Brazil, Portugal, Spain
Faust: A German Folk Legend Canada, English

Synopsis:
God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist. During a plague, Faust despairs and burns his books after failing to stop death; Satan sends Mephisto to tempt Faust, first with insight into treating the plague and then with a day's return to youth. Mephisto is clever, timing the end of this 24 hours as Faust embraces the beautiful Duchess of Parma. Faust trades his soul for youth. Some time later, he's bored, and demands on Easter Sunday that Mephisto take him home. Faust promptly sees and falls in love with the beautiful Gretchen, whose liaison with him brings her dishonor.

German alchemist Faust is the object of a wager between God and Satan. Satan sends Mephisto to Earth to offer Faust an end to the plague that is making it's way through the local population, and eternal youth, in return for the small price of his soul.

Murnaus Film verwebt Motive aus dem Volksbuch über Johann Fausten mit Elementen aus den Dramatisierungen dieses Stoffes durch Christopher Marlowe und J. W. Goethe: Die Suche des alten Faust nach Weisheit, das Angebot Mephistos, dem greisen Gelehrten mittels eines mit Blut besiegelten Pakts ein Leben in ewiger Jugend zu verschaffen, sowie Fausts Begegnung mit Gretchen mit den Episoden Verführung, Duell mit Gretchens Bruder Valentin, Pranger, Scheiterhaufen und Erlösung durch die Liebe. Und dies alles eingerahmt von den Streitgesprächen zwischen dem Erzengel und dem Herrn der Finsternis.

Starring:
Gösta Ekman
Emil Jannings
Camilla Horn

Director: F. W. Murnau