In This World (2002)

Actors: David M. Thompson (producer), Dario Marianelli (composer), Michael Winterbottom (director), Andrew Eaton (producer), Tony Grisoni (writer), Josh Hyams (miscellaneous crew), Guy Barker (miscellaneous crew), Nabil Elouahabi (actor), Paul Monaghan (miscellaneous crew), Paul Popplewell (actor), Chris Auty (producer), Peter Christelis (editor), Anita Overland (producer), Mat Whitecross (miscellaneous crew), Nicole Carmen-Davis (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: In February 2002 in the Shamshatoo Refugee Camp in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan, there are 53,000 refugees living in sub-human conditions since 1979 with the Soviet Union invasion and 2001 with the USA bombing and invasion of Afghanistan. The family of the Afghan Enayat and his cousin Jamal decides to send them illegally to London to have a better life. They hire coyotes to smuggle the cousins through Iran and Turkey to Italy and finally London hidden inside trucks and containers. However, the long journey locked in a container with other families separates the cousins and on 09 August 2002, Jamal has his asylum application refused in London.

Keywords: actual-animal-killed, afghanistan, asia, baby, beach, bead, beggar, bicycle, blanket, blood
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: The journey to freedom has no borders.

36K (2000)

Actors: Joey Figueroa (actor), Gale Harold (actor), Paul Scheuring (director), Paul Scheuring (editor), Mark Januzelli (actor), Paul Scheuring (writer), Danny Lopez (actor), Kevin Hunt (actor), Ray Hale (producer), Ray Hale (writer), Ray Hale (actor), Delilah Stombs (actress), Ave Eshaghian (actor), Tanya O'Brien (actress), Fernando Sucre (actor),

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Amazon (1990)

Actors: Esai Morales (actor), Mika Kaurismäki (writer), Erkki Astala (miscellaneous crew), Mika Kaurismäki (miscellaneous crew), Jaakko Talaskivi (miscellaneous crew), Jan-Eric Nyström (miscellaneous crew), Mika Kaurismäki (director), Rae Dawn Chong (actress), Robert Davi (actor), Mika Kaurismäki (producer), Kari Väänänen (actor), Pirkko Hämäläinen (actress), Ruy Polanah (actor), Kari Kyrönseppä (miscellaneous crew), Pauli Pentti (producer),

Plot: Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and educated local woman warns him about the possible consequences to the rain forest. Kari has mixed feelings about the project, until an accident puts him in the care of a local Indian tribe.

Keywords: amazon-river, back-to-nature, car-accident, caterpillar, cultural-difference, death, deforestation, destruction, ecological-disaster, ecological-footprint
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Adventure in a world where every man has his limits... and every dream its price.

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

Actors: Willem Dafoe (actor), Victor Argo (actor), John Lurie (actor), Irvin Kershner (actor), Paul Herman (actor), Nehemiah Persoff (actor), Harvey Keitel (actor), Peter Berling (actor), Tomas Arana (actor), David Bowie (actor), Leo Burmester (actor), Tomas Arana (actor), Giovanni Cianfriglia (actor), Robert Spafford (actor), Ted Rusoff (actor),

Plot: The carpenter, Jesus of Nazareth, tormented by the temptations of demons, the guilt of making crosses for the Romans, pity for men and the world, and the constant call of God, sets out to find what God wills for Him. But as His mission nears fulfillment, He must face the greatest temptation; the normal life of a good man. Based, not on the Gospels, but on Nikos Kazantzakis' novel of the same name.

Keywords: 1st-century, alternate-history, ancient-rome, angel, anger, anguish, apostle, baptist, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Judas: I struggle, you collaborate.

Judas: What's good for man isn't good for God!

Jesus: You think God belongs only to you? He doesn't. God is an immortal spirit who belongs to everybody, to the whole world. You think you're special? God is not an Israelite.

[after Lazarus has been resurrected]::Saul: How do you feel?::Lazarus: I like the light.::Saul: What was it like? Which is better: Death, or life?::Lazarus: I was a little surprised... wasn't that much difference.::[pause]::Saul: Give me your hand.::[stabs him]

Jesus: Brothers, my old friends! Listen to me! It's me the prophets preached about. God talked to me in the desert; he gave me a secret and told me to bring it to you. Didn't you hear me coming? I ran here to Nazareth, where I grew up, to bring you the news. The word of God is here now.::Voice in Crowd: You work miracles. Make a miracle for us. Make us believe in you. Otherwise, go away.::Jesus: The Messiah doesn't need miracles. He is the miracle. Now he's here. Are you ready for me? I'm here to tear down everything around you, and you know what I'm going to replace it with? Something new: God. The World of God. So take your bread and give it to the poor. What difference does it matter what you own? You have gold and silver? It's going to rot, and that rot is going to eat away your heart. All of you! There will be a flood, and there will be a fire. Everything will be destroyed. But there will be a new ark riding on that fire, and I hold the keys and I open the door, and I decide who goes in and who doesn't. You're my brothers from Nazareth, and you're the first I invite on the ark. Don't wait. Don't waste your life. Come with me.

Jesus: If I could touch every stone, if I could breathe on every branch, they'd get up and follow me. So what's wrong with you?

Jesus: Today and tomorrow I cast out demons and work cures. On the third day, I will be perfected.

Jesus: Judas, my brother, I have something to tell you. I have a terrible secret from God. You know why I came to Jerusalem?::Judas: Yes. This is where the revolution is going to begin.::Jesus: Last night, Isaiah came to me. He had a prophecy, I saw it written. It said, "He has borne our faults; he was wounded for our transgressions, yet he opened now his mouth. Despised and rejected by all, he went forward without resisting, like a lamb led to the slaughter."::Judas: I don't understand.::Jesus: Judas, I am the lamb. I'm the one who's going to do.::Judas: Die? You mean you're not the Messiah?::Jesus: I Am.::Judas: That can't be. If you're the Messiah, why do you have to die?::Jesus: Listen, at first, I didn't understand myself...::Judas: No, *you* listen. Every day, you have a different plan. First it's love, then the ax, and now you have to die. What good could that do?::Jesus: God only talks to me a little at a time and tells me as much as I need to know.::Judas: We need you alive!::Jesus: Now I finally understand! All my life-all my life, I've been followed by voices, by footsteps, by shadows. And do you know what that shadow is? The cross. I have to die on the cross, and I have to die willingly. We have to go back to the temple.::Judas: And after you die on the cross, what happens then?::Jesus: I come back to judge the living and the dead.

Jesus: I wish there was another way, but there isn't. I have to die on the cross.::Judas: I won't let you die.::Jesus: You don't have a choice. Neither do I. Remember, we're bringing God and man together. They'll never be together unless I die. I'm the sacrifice... Forget everything else, understand that.

[last lines]::Jesus: It is accomplished!