EXUDOS

E X U D O S (CHEUT AI KUP GEI) (Hong Kong)

The Story:
Tsim Kin-Yip (Simon Yam), is a low-ranking cop with twenty-years on the force under his belt who is handed a suspect by the name of Kwan Ping-Man (Nick Cheung). Yip begins to take Kwan's colorful statement about how he was in a woman's bathroom video taping and peeping in on them. While doing this, Kwan explains how he overheard a couple of women plotting to kill men...all men, and he was gathering evidence to prove it all.

Yip takes it as the ramblings of a crazy man and pays Kwan no mind by wrapping up the paperwork in order to let him go as soon as possible. Yip heads back to his life with his wife Ann (Annie Liu), and the task of helping with the renovations of their new place. Among other things, Yip also has to deal with Ann's mother (Candy Yu), and her always harping about his age and his time spent on the force. She's constantly complaining that he should own his own business and be doing something more with his life. Yip's bored with his position at work and and he doesn't give his wife very much attention at home, which results in her acting out in a variety of different activities.

But when Kwan changes his statement to a simple peeping story, and nothing related to a "women killing men" conspiracy, Yip is interested in finding out why his story suddenly changed. He finds out that his superior officer, Fong (Maggie Siu), spoke with Kwan and that's when his story changed. Yip decides to dedicate all of his time to the case and finds out that a string of men have died in unexplained ways. While looking for Kwan, Yip finds Kwan's ex-wife Pun Siu Yuen (Irene Wan), snooping around Kwan's apartment. The two form an interesting relationship that seems to do nothing more than distract Yip from his investigation. Is Yip just looking for something that isn't there or just lost in the idea of making a difference?

Starring:
Simon Yam, Annie Liu, Nick Cheung, Irene Wan, Maggie Shiu, Candice Yu, Lam Ka-Tung, Jim Chim.

Directed By:
Pang Ho-Cheung

Release:
2007

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THE DETECTIVE

The Detective (C+ jing taam) (Hong Kong)

The Story:
Tam (Aaron Kwok) is an unsuccessful private eye, who is just somehow trying to make ends meet. One day a guy, who he had talked to at a bar on several occasions, enters his office and asks Tam for help. He tells the private detective that a woman named Sum is following him wherever he goes, and that Tam must find her. He pays in advance. And Tam is just happy that he finally has a job.

The private eye immediately goes on a search for Sum, his only clue being a photo of the girl. During his investigation he finds out where the photo has been taken. The owner of a Mahjong-shop can give him some more information, and therefore he gets the address of Ming, a guy who often played Mahjong with Sum. However, when Tam arrives at Ming's appartment he finds him dead hanging from the ceiling.

The police steps in after this incident, and leading officer Chak (Liu Kai-Chi) thinks of this case as common suicide. Tam and Chak know each other since their childhood days, which is why Tam is allowed to copy some photos from Ming's cell phone. Ming had numerous girlfriends, and during his further investigation the private detective can also track down other individuals that have played with Sum at a mahjong table.

Strangely, every one of the suspects dies on Tam's arrival. Detective Chak has his hands full because of the sudden deaths and he really isn't happy about the fact that Tam can always be found at the crime scene. Nevertheless, contrary to Tam, he still doesn't think that this is a serial murder case. However, Tam has to realize that his investigation becomes more and more life-threatening...

Starring:
Aaron Kwok, Liu Kai-Chi, Shing Fui-On, Wong Tak-bun, Seung Tin-Ngoh, Natthasinee Pinyopiyavid, Kuk Jo, Chaiyapong Settagam, Lau Siu-Ming, Siu Suet, Lai Yiu-Cheung

Directed By:
Oxide Pang Chun

Release:

2007

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BIO SLIME

B I O . S L I M E

The Story:
Set in a remote abandoned industrial area, under the cover of night, a drug dealer and his sexy girl friend, Donna (Monique La Barr), wait for a stranger. When he arrives, the stranger offers a large bag of drugs in exchange for a mysterious briefcase. The drug dealer double crosses the stranger but before he could get away, the dealer is gruesomely killed. Donna panics and drives the car away with the briefcase still in the trunk.

The next morning in a rundown building downtown LA, Troy (Vinnie Bilancio), an artist and a drunk, is rudely awakened to find out that the building has sold and he has to move out the next day. On top of that, his niece has just gotten beaten up by her boyfriend and is on her way over to seek comfort. Furthermore, his friend Jack (Magic J. Ellingson), a pothead, is cooking meth in the next room and an irate landlord is coming collects overdue rent. Donna arrives, carrying the mysterious briefcase. She runs into Jack, telling him about last night incident. Jack went to investigate the car. Donna overcome by her temptation, opens the case ... releasing a strange mass of slime ... It consumes her.

As the day goes, more and more people end up in Troy's apartment, fighting amongst themselves oblivious to the deathly threat. Only when a group of people filming an adult video were attacked by the slime monster that they realized the extent of their redicament.

Trapped in a room with only one door and no windows. With no cell phones reception and no way to calls for help, the group of seven people is under siege as the shape shifting creature tries to seep inside. They are picked off one by one. A plan is hatched to retrieve the briefcase for any clue to destroy the Slime monster.

Starring:
Vincent Bilancio, Kelli Kaye, Victoria De Mare, Gia Paloma, Magic J. Ellingson, Ronnie Lewis, Roxy De Ville, Micol Bartolucci, Al Burke and Mark Stefanovski.

Directed By:
John Lechago

Release:
2009

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4 MONTHS 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS

4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile) (Romania)

The Story:
Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) and Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) are college roommates. They may live in the wintry squalor of 1987 Romania in the last days of Communism. Gabita is the pregnant one; she's also the more childlike one, nearly paralyzed with fear. So it falls to Otilia, as Gabita nervously waits in their dorm room, Otilia takes the cash they've collected -- 2,700 leu -- and pays a visit to her boyfriend, Adi (Alex Potocean), a medical student who lends her an additional 300 leu after nagging her about attending his mother's birthday party that evening.

Otilia meets with Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov), a man who makes it his business to help women like Gabita, women in "trouble." Mr. Bebe is angry to learn that he won't be performing the procedure at the hotel he insisted on, a hotel he knows is "safe" and even angrier when he finally meets Gabita, who's now waiting for them back at the room. Just looking at her Mr. Bebe can tell Gabita has lied about her condition: She's well into the fourth month of her pregnancy, not the second, which means that according to Romanian law, Mr. Bebe will now be committing murder. Mr. Bebe informs them both that due to the added risk he'll be incurring, his price has just gone up, and he's no longer accepting just cash. He demands sex from both women for his services.In order to help her friend, Otilia reluctantly has sex (and eventually Gabriela does as well) with Mr. Bebe so that he will not walk out on them.

Mr. Bebe then performs the abortion and leaves Otilia instructions on how to dispose of the fetus when it comes out. Otilia is visibly exasperated by Gabriela's lies, yet continues to help her and care for her.Otilia leaves Gabriela at the hotel to go to Adi's mother's birthday.

Over the course of 24-hours the women’s lives are irrevocably changed.

Starring:
Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alex Potocean

Directed By:
Cristian Mungiu

Release:
2007

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TRAILER PARK OF TERROR

TRAILER PARK of TERROR

The Story:
Norma (Nichole M. Hiltz) looking to escape her hellish surroundings. As Norma goes to meet her boyfriend, who promises to take her away from a squalid life of taunts and harassment from inbred rednecks, she finds herself once again being taunted and harassed by the inbred rednecks who have made her life a living hell. When the rednecks kill her boyfriend, Norma seeks to even the score by unwittingly making a deal with “The Man” (Trace Adkins).

The stranger offers her a way to get revenge on the trailer park, a cesspool of sub-humans which include a violent rockabilly musician, an obese women with a meat fetish, a busty Asian prostitute, and the resident butcher/war hero/amateur porn director. She goes on a killing rampage, laying waste to everyone who was mean to her, and then blows up the trailer park.

Twenty years later, the park is haunted place where unsuspecting motorists lose their lives.
Six troubled high school students and their chaperon, an optimistic youth ministries Pastor, return from an outdoor character building retreat in the mountains. During a raging storm, their bus crashes, hopelessly stranding them in the middle of the Trucker's Triangle, a forgotten locus of consummate evil in the middle of nowhere. The hapless group seeks shelter for the night in a seemingly abandoned trailer park they find down the road.

The group is warmly greeted by Norma. Later, as the thankful group settles in for the night, trailer park reaper Norma reveals her grotesque true colors as her army of gut-munching redneck zombies emerge from their graves for an unholy feast of human flesh.

Starring:
Nichole M. Hiltz, Lew Temple, Hayley Marie Norman, Ryan Carnes, Priscilla Barnes, Trace Adkins.

Directed By:
Steven Goldmann

Release:
2008

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I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS

I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS

The Story:
Steven Russell (Jim Carrey) lives his life in Texas as a happily married police officer who plays the organ at church, prays every night with his wife (Leslie Mann).

He gets in a car crash and realizes on his hospital bed that he is gay. Not just gay but lavishly so. Steven leaves his life and family behind to go out into the world and be his true, flamboyantly gay self. He moves to Miami, finds a boyfriend (Rodrigo Santoro) and begins living the high life.

He realizes quickly though, that a life of luxury is expensive, leading this resourceful former cop to turn to a life as a conman. But when his con work finally catches up with him, Steven is sent to prison, there he meets and almost instantly falls in love with Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor).

When Phillip Morris is transferred to another prison, Steven goes to any lengths to be with Phillip.What ensues can only be described as a relentless quest as Steven attempts escape after escape and executes con after con, all in the name of love.

Starring:
Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro

Directed By:
Glenn Ficarra and John Requa

Release:
2009

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VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE

VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE

The Story:
Veronika (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a woman in her mid twenties who appears to have everything: good looks, good job and a great life ahead of her. Yet she decides to end her own life. She is unsuccessful and awakens in a mental hospital where she learns that she has five days to live. We learn that the reason that she attempted suicide was that she felt so constrained by the rules and expectations of 'normal' society that she had concluded that she had experienced all that life had to offer. However in the hospital she meets people who are only 'insane' because they don't always follow society's rules. With little left to lose, Veronika embarks on a journey on which she frees herself to experience relationships and emotions and ultimately discovers what it means to live.

Starring:

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jonathan Tucker, Melissa Leo, David Thewlis, Erika Christensen.

Directed By:
Emily Young

Release:

2009

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APARTMENT 1303

APARTMENT 1303 (Japanese)

The Story:

On the first night that Sayaka moves out of her mother's home and into her first apartment, an evil within draws her to the brink of madness and she leaps from her 13th story balcony to her death right in front of her friends that had helped her move in. Sayaka's death devastates her mother, and it is up to her sister Mariko (Noriko Nakagoshi) to pick up the pieces and deal with moving her stuff out. While finishing up with the apartment, Mariko feels a dreadful force, but can not quite place it.

Her fears gain a focal point when a local detective clues Mariko into the fact that over the past two years five women have committed suicide in 1303. She also discovers that books have been written about the original jumper and her horrific ordeal with her abusive mother, and that the authors believe she has placed a curse on the apartment. Mariko tries to gain the attention of the company that owns the building, but her pleading falls on deaf ears. It is only after learning that the apartment has already been rented out again, that she realizes the deaths will continue to happen, unless she tries to put an end to it.

Starring:

Noriko Nakagoshi, Eriko Hatsune, Yuka Itaya, Naoko Otani, Arata Furuta

Directed By:
Ataru Oikawa

Release:

2007

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DAN IN REAL LIFE

DAN IN REAL LIFE

The Story:
Dan Burns (Steve Carell) is a newspaper columnist, widower and father to Jane (Alison Pill), Cara (Brittany Robertson), and Lilly (Marlene Lawston) in the New Jersey suburbs.

He brings the family to his parent's house at Rhode Island for a family get-together.

The morning after his arrival, Dan goes to a local bookstore, he meets a woman, Marie (Juliette Binoche). They talk, he bares his soul and feels a connection. Marie, gets a phone call and starts to leave immediately.

On the way back, Dan, an otherwise careful driver, is so engrossed in the memory of Marie that he jumps a stop sign and gets a ticket. When he gets home, he finds out to his surprise that Marie is his brother Mitch's (Dane Cook) girlfriend, but not before he mentions that he met a hottie at the bookstore.

It's a dicey couple of days at the house as Dan can't keep his eyes off Marie, his brother is obviously falling in love, and everyone thinks she's great. In this big supportive family, who will be the first to find the tension too much to bear? And after the snap, then what?

Starring:

Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook, Dianne Wiest, John Mahoney, Emily Blunt, Alison Pill, Brittany Robertson, Marlene Lawston, Norbert Leo Butz, Amy Ryan,Jessica Hecht, Frank Wood.

Directed By:

Peter Hedges

Release:

2007

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