Asia (2013)

Actors: Ahmed Helmy (producer), Mona Zaki (actress), Bassem Samra (actor), Hani Adel (actor), Sayed Ragab (actor), Salwa Mohamed Ali (actress), Raouf Mustafa (actor), Abbas Abu El-Hassan (writer), Afaf Rashad (actress), Mostafa Gaafar (actor), Tamim Abdo (actor), Saba Mubarak (actress), Nabil Subhi (producer), Samia Asaad (actress), Omar Hassan Youssef (actor),

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama,

Lena (2011)

Actors: Frank Klein (miscellaneous crew), Nico Leunen (editor), Rifka Lodeizen (actress), Jeroen Willems (actor), Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem (producer), Koen Maenhout (miscellaneous crew), Christophe Van Rompaey (director), Sebastiaan Petrus (miscellaneous crew), Dries Phlypo (producer), Ellen Lens (costume designer), Els Vandevorst (producer), Hans van den Berg (miscellaneous crew), Lisa Smit (actress), Agata Buzek (actress), Mieke de Jong (writer),

Genres: Drama,
Taglines: At Daan's place, Lena finally comes home - but at what price?

Backward (2010)

Actors: Max Leonida (actor), Max Leonida (writer), Max Leonida (producer), Ugo Conti (actor), Angelo Infanti (actor), Tony Sperandeo (actor), Max Leonida (director), Gerardo Amato (actor), Enrico Munarini (editor), Paola Cipollina (producer), Randi Ingerman (actress), Randi Ingerman (writer), Marta Loza Alonso (miscellaneous crew), Fabio Bonini (actor), Elizabeth Uhl (actress),

Plot: BACKWARD is a big, intense drama in which the many different life stories of a minor-league football team converge to create a collective plot. The 42 locations drift the audience from the enchanting Piedmont province (with its culture, its stones, its vineyards) to the skyscrapers of Los Angeles. The main characters are Martha, a young Italian-American manager (who inherited the football team from the dead father), and Gianni a former worldwide famous goalkeeper now reduced to the sad role of a glory of the past: a good man ruined by the alcoholic vice. Along with Gianni and Martha the entire little universe of a small football team is acting: each boy is protagonist of a story, carrying in the movie his own load of ambitions, expectations, hopes and delusions. The story runs through the last three months of the soccer championship season and, during that time, every character must face some inner fears, some inner demons: Christian (the best player) will remain paralyzed on a wheel-chair, Loris (the boss, the coolest) will be imprisoned and spend some days in jail, Anna (who betrays her sweet husband Daniele for Luke, the bastard one) will understand that to escape from responsibilities doesn't remove them... Even Martha - pushed by the sense of guilty toward her dead father (she doesn't want to disappoint his last wills) - and Gianni - who loves alcohol more than his dignity but is desperately seeking a kind of redemption - will have to deal with the very dark and intimate part of their souls: they will discover that, in life, when we you lose something perhaps you're winning something else. A simple, strong, honest movie painted with dark and bright lights that reflect the struggled souls of the characters: from the calm Italian hills to the chaotic skyscrapers of Los Angeles. It's not a sport movie or a soccer story: it's a drama about many young lives, in which the green football field remains just on the background. It's not an intellectual movie or a difficult, complex story: it's a simple, emotional and honest picture made with a high cinematography level. An intense and ambitious Italian work that wants to compete with the international standards.

Keywords: italian, mafia, one-word-title, passion, soccer
Genres: Drama,

Così vanno le cose (2008)

Actors: Andrea Roncato (actor), Mauro Bonanni (editor), Barbara Bouchet (actress), Lorenzo Balducci (actor), Massimo Ferrero (producer), Paolo Giovannucci (actor), Chiara Mastalli (actress), Eros Galbiati (actor), Emanuela Barilozzi (actress), Fabio Castaldi (miscellaneous crew), Damiano Russo (actor), Ruby Kammer (actress), Adriano Saleri (actor), Antonio Cascio (actor), Veronica Corsi (actress),

Plot: While earning his living playing the psychologist on the phone, a young man realizes that a whole generation is stuck in a poor job present, with no hopes for the future. What starts like a way of making his own money takes a whole new direction when he decides to do something for all of them.

Genres: Comedy,

Giorni di Notte (2007)

Actors: Daniele Misischia (producer), Daniele Misischia (editor), Daniele Misischia (director), Daniele Misischia (writer), Claudio Caminito (actor), Matteo Vezza (actor), Ilaria Antoniani (actress), Michela Grigoli (actress), Pierfrancesco Botti (actor), Francesco Sabino (actor), Emanuele Tamagnini (actor),

Genres: Drama, Horror, Short, Thriller,

Year of the Dog (2007)

Actors: Cassandra Barbour (miscellaneous crew), Christophe Beck (composer), Dody Dorn (editor), Brad Pitt (producer), Molly Shannon (actress), Jack Black (producer), Regina King (actress), Audrey Wasilewski (actress), Josh Pais (actor), John C. Reilly (actor), Peter Sarsgaard (actor), Laura Dern (actress), Ursula Brauner (actress), Nicholas Guest (miscellaneous crew), Ursula Brauner (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Peggy is single, childless, in her 40s, a lonely executive assistant in a friendly office. Her dog Pencil is the love of her life, and when he dies after eating some sort of toxin, Peggy's life spins out of her control: a friendly neighbor invites her for dinner; a friendly staff member at her vet's calls with an abused dog he recommends she adopt - she does, and also finds herself attracted to this fellow. She becomes a vegan, supports animal-rights causes, and embroils her brother's young children in these concerns. Saving dogs and other animals become such a passion that her mental health and her job may be in danger. Are regaining control and finding love beyond her reach?

Keywords: african-american, animal, animal-in-title, animal-lover, animal-rescue, animal-rights, animal-shelter, animal-slaughter, animal-testing, animal-torture
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: Has the world left you a stray?

Quotes:

Layla: Even retarded, crippled people get married.

Al: So, you ever been married?::Peggy: No. No... That I mean that I never, you know I guess I never... that... that... that never happened. But I think some people just aren't as... you know... I don't know. It's like that, I guess.

Layla: I believe that there is somebody on this planet for us all. Even retarded cripple people get married. You just have to be open. So maybe your dog died so your love life could live.

Newt: Animals are like people, they live for love.

Peggy: It's nice to have a word that can describe you. I've never had that before.

[Closing lines]::Peggy: If you all didn't think I was crazy, I'm sure you will now. How do I explain the things I've said and done? How do I explain the person I've become? I know I've disappointed everyone and I'm sorry for that. I wish I was a more articulate person. I believe life is magical. It is so precious. And there are so many kinds of life in this life. So many things to love. The love for a husband or a wife, a boyfriend or girlfriend. The love for children. The love for yourself. And even material things. This is my love. It is mine. And it fills me and defines me. And it compels me on.

Peggy: I've always been disappointed by people. I've really only been able to count on my pets. I know it's pathetic, but...::Newt: Hey, it's not pathetic.::Peggy: But it's enough. It was enough last month and last week, and it'll be enough next week.

Layla: How are ever going to find a boyfriend if you keep shacking up with dogs?

Robin: I mean, I know it's a lot of money to you, but, I mean... but you don't have my degrees.

Peggy: So you were saying you had a dog who died when you were young?::Al: Tessie. I loved that dog. I had her since she was a puppy. We did everything together. She was my right-hand bitch... sorry, I mean in the dog way of being a bitch. Yeah, she died way too young. She was only six.::Peggy: Oh.::Al: Yeah.::Peggy: How did she die?::Al: I shot her in Wyoming. You want some more wine?

Amnèsia (2002)

Actors: Antonia San Juan (actress), Diego Abatantuono (actor), Claire Viroulaud (miscellaneous crew), Sergio Rubini (actor), Juanjo Puigcorbé (actor), Ottaviano Dell'Acqua (actor), Ian McNeice (actor), Ugo Conti (actor), Massimo Fiocchi (editor), Gabriele Salvatores (director), Gabriele Salvatores (writer), Francisco Ramos (producer), Alessandra Martines (actress), Rubén Ochandiano (actor), Bebo Storti (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama,

Geschiedenis mijner jeugd (1983)

Actors: Ugo Prinsen (actor), Ann Petersen (actress), Jan Moonen (actor), Jacky Morel (actor), Alex Wilequet (actor), Denise De Weerdt (actress), Maurits Goossens (actor), Herbert Flack (actor), Jef Burm (actor), Walter Cornelis (actor), Sjarel Branckaerts (actor), Jo De Meyere (actor), Paul Cammermans (actor), Mieke Verheyden (actress), Jeanine Schevernels (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Le village des miracles (1959)

Actors: André Weber (actor), Rosy Varte (actress), Michel Galabru (actor), Jacques Hilling (actor), André Julien (actor), Marius Laurey (actor), Roger Coggio (actor), Jean Leuvrais (actor), René Lucot (director), Raymond Danjou (actor), Gaston Martens (writer), Vera Valois (actress),

Genres: ,

Lust for Life (1956)

Actors: David Bond (actor), David Horne (actor), Lionel Jeffries (actor), Al Haskell (actor), Ronald Adam (actor), Henry Daniell (actor), Noel Howlett (actor), Jay Adler (actor), Kirk Douglas (actor), Paul Bryar (actor), Rex Evans (actor), Henry Corden (actor), Roy Gordon (actor), Wilton Graff (actor), David Leonard (actor),

Plot: Vincent Van Gogh is the archetypical tortured artistic genius. His obsession with painting, combined with mental illness, propels him through an unhappy life full of failures and unrewarding relationships. He fails at being a preacher to coal miners. He fails in his relationships with women. He earns some respect among his fellow painters, especially Paul Gauguin, but he does not get along with them. He only manages to sell one painting in his lifetime. The one constant good in his life is his brother Theo, who is unwavering in his moral and financial support.

Keywords: 1880s, 19th-century, absinthe, arles, art, art-masterpiece, art-patronage, artist, auvers-sur-oise-france, based-on-novel
Genres: Biography, Drama,
Taglines: THE MOST REVEALING LIFE-INSPIRED STORY EVER FILMED! (original print ad - all caps) The best-seller comes to the screen...the drama of a man who lived with insatiable passion. He had a lust for life. Sometimes he was brutal, sometimes delicate---always he lived with insatiable passion!

Quotes:

Paul Gauguin: With all your talk of emotion, all I see when I look at your work is just that you paint too fast!::Vincent Van Gogh: You look too fast!

Paul Gauguin: I like 'em fat and vicious and not too smart. Nothing spiritual either. To have to say 'I love you' would break my teeth. I don't want to be loved.

Vincent Van Gogh: If I'm to be anything as a painter I've got to break through that iron wall between what I feel and what I express. my best chance of doing it is here, where my roots are... the people I know, the earth I know.

Paul Gauguin: If it's one thing I despise, it's emotionalism in painting.

Vincent Van Gogh: I tried to show a place where a man can ruin himself, go mad... commit a crime.