Devil’s Knot 2013

Devil's Knot 2013

Devil’s Knot 2013
1h 54min | Biography, Crime, Drama | 12 March 2014 (Philippines)

Storyline:

Based on the actual events of the West Memphis Three, where three young boys were savagely murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Spurred on by the demand from a grieving town, the local police act quickly to bring three “devil-worshipping” teenagers to trial. With their lives hanging in the balance, investigator Ron Lax is trying to find the truth between the town’s need for justice and the guilt of the accused.

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Weiser 2001

Weiser 2001

Weiser 2001

Weiser 2001
1h 35min | Drama, Mystery | 18 January 2001 (Poland)

Storyline:

Poland. Summer 1967: 12-year-old kids, Pawel, Piotr, Szymek, and Elka, meet a fascinating, mysterious Jewish boy. David Weiser opens for them a new world of miracles and mystique. He is scheming something unusual.

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M15F1T5 (2013) Directors Cut

M15F1T5 (2013) Directors Cut

M15F1T5 (2013) Directors Cut
1h 36min | Crime, Music, Mystery | 3 June 2013 (USA)

Storyline:

This is an experimental Narrative movie. Although not a religious story, we (the writers) referred to a haunting question from our Christian upbringing; “what if Jesus came today”. So we started writing the story with consideration of how exactly this miracle worker might be documented and possibly even followed one day. For starters, this particular messiah is gay.

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Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Song 1971

Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song 1971

Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Song 1971

Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Song 1971
1h 37min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 22 March 1973 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from “the man” with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.

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Apt Pupil 1998

Apt Pupil 1998
R | 1h 51min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 23 October 1998 (USA)

Storyline:

Neighborhood boy Todd Bowden (Renfro) discovers that an old man living on his block named Arthur Denker (Mackellan) is Nazi war criminal. Bowden confronts Denker and offers him a deal: Bowden will not go to the authorities if Denker tells him stories of the concentration camps in WWII. Denker agrees and Bowden starts visiting him regularly. The more stories Bowden hears, the more it affects his personality.

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The Giants 2011

The Giants 2011

The Giants 2011

The Giants 2011
Les géants (original title)
1h 24min | Drama | 12 October 2011 (Belgium)

Storyline:

Brothers Seth and Zak, fifteen and thirteen & 3/4 years old, are spending the summer in their deceased grandfather’s house, waiting in vain for their mother, who is otherwise busy, and running low on cash. To make some money they decide to rent the house out to a local drug dealer, but things don’t go exactly as planned…

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Baise-moi 2000

Baise-moi 2000

Baise-moi 2000
1h 17min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 28 June 2000 (France)

Storyline:

Manu and Nadine lose their last tenuous relationship with main-stream society when Manu gets raped and Nadine sees her only friend being shot. After a chance encounter, they embark on an explosive journey of sex and murder. Perhaps as a revenge against men, perhaps as a revolt against bourgeois society, but certainly in a negation – almost joyful in its senseless violence – of all the codes of a society which has excluded, raped and humiliated them. Controversial for its violence and real sex scenes: a vividly nihilist road movie set in France.

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