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Mercy (2011)

Actors: Amerjit Deu (actor), Diogo M. Borges (director), Ashley Musgrave (producer), Suresh Sippy (actor), Shadab Omar (writer), Arinda Alexander (actress), Asif Dewan (actor), Mariana Gonzalez Carballo (miscellaneous crew), Amir Rashidian (producer), Aaron Chawla (actor), Olley Edwards (actress), David Humberto Antunes (composer), Ashish Sharma (actor), Aiman Harhish (editor),

Plot: In Mumbai, India, a mother struggles to deal with both hers and her son's illnesses. Repeated damage to his brain, caused by seizures, results in him losing his grip on reality and the by-product of excessive smoking causes her incapacity to work efficiently. As she delves deeper into poverty and her disease progresses she finds herself at a loss and feels that she must ensure he will not suffer further, after she dies. She looks for every possible option, which leads her to an extreme decision.

Keywords: independent-film
Genres: Drama, Short,

Iubire si onoare (2010)

Actors: Maia Morgenstern (actress), Dan Condurache (actor), Costel Constantin (actor), Marin Moraru (actor), Virginia Rogin (actress), Alexandru Papadopol (actor), Marian Ralea (actor), Ruxandra Ion (producer), Radu Mada (costume designer), Ioana Ginghina (actress), Elvira Deatcu (actress), Adina Galupa (actress), Iura Luncasu (director), Nicoleta Luciu (actress), Razvan Fodor (actor),

Plot: Ilinca is the modern woman who dreams of a successful career in PR and never settles for what she has got. Yet, deep down, she still believes that true love can be found. And when least expected, Ilinca meets Amir, a charming, wealthy and attractive Sheikh who will change her destiny from the very first moment they meet. A new life begins for Amir, one worth fighting for even if it means to stand up to traditions and get over the memory of a past love. The world in which Amir has lived his life is marked by old written and unwritten traditions. In Beled el Noor (a fictional emirate), his homeland, it is accepted that a woman be killed in the name of honour for having disrespected the Islamic law. Marked by honour and love, the couple will write a story of forbidden love: the story of Ilinca and Amir - soulmates separated by a river of traditions, secrets, betrayal and religion.

Keywords: hate, honor, honor-killing, love, money, passion, power
Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: Two worlds. Two cultures. One love.

Aayirathil Oruvan (2009)

Actors: Indrans (actor), Janardanan (actor), Salim Kumar (actor), Madhupal (actor), Kalabhavan Mani (actor), Kochu Preman (actor), Sudheesh (actor), Thilakan (actor), Oduvil Unnikrishnan (actor), K.P.A.C. Lalitha (actress), Indrans (costume designer), Bhoominathan (editor), Senthil (actor), Shammi Thilakan (actor), Sibi Malayil (director),

Genres: Drama,

Gangster (2006)

Actors: Mahesh Bhatt (writer), Raju Khan (miscellaneous crew), Gulshan Grover (actor), Raju Singh (composer), Pritam Chakraborty (composer), Mahesh Bhatt (producer), Mukesh Bhatt (producer), Emraan Hashmi (actor), Girish Dhamija (writer), Kangana Ranaut (actress), Akiv Ali (editor), Shiney Ahuja (actor), Anurag Basu (writer), Anurag Basu (director), Vicky Ahuja (actor),

Plot: Daya Shankar lived with his family in Kashmir, but then subsequently re-located to Bombay where he took to crime as a career. One day while on the run from the Police, he holes up in a small room with a young bar dancer, Simran. She shields him from the Police, and he falls in love. He finds out the bar she dances in and comes in silently to watch her perform. He had come to her rescue when she was being molested and thereafter asked her to move in with him, which she did. For sometime it was as though they seemed to be living in bliss, then all of a sudden, they were on the run again. Then Daya decided that it was time to settle down, and they adopted a young boy, Bittu, made different passports, and decided to re-locate to Dubai. That did not happen, instead Bittu gets killed, and a heart-broken Simran and Daya are forced to live apart, with Simran moving to Seoul, Korea. It is here that she meets with Akash and both fall in love, get intimate and Simran gets pregnant. Then Daya re-enters her life, disrupting it completely, beating Akash to a pulp. It is now that Simran has to decide whether to stay with Akash, get married, and have her baby, or continue to live a life on the run with Daya - who is not only on the run from the Police, but also from the underworld Don, Khan. What the three players do not known that two of them are going to be betrayed - a betrayal so shocking that none of them may be able to survive it.

Keywords: alcoholic, bar-girl, corruption, gangster, kiss, pregnancy, premarital-sex, railway-station, repentance, shootout
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller,
Taglines: She fell in love with him the day she betrayed him...

K vam prishyol angel... (2004)

Actors: Shukhrat Irgashev (actor), Evgeniya Loza (actress), Dmitriy Bobrov (actor), Farkhad Makhmudov (actor), Andrey Filippak (actor), Sergey Gamov (actor), Anton Eskin (actor), Olga Pashkova (actress), Vyacheslav Kirilichev (actor), Vladimir Nazarov (actor), Vladimir Nazarov (composer), Valeri Velichko (actor), Amet Magomedov (actor), Mikhail Churbanov (producer), Sergey Legostaev (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Maqbool (2003)

Actors: Vishal Bhardwaj (composer), Laurens C. Postma (producer), Vishal Bhardwaj (writer), Vishal Bhardwaj (writer), Tabu (actress), Vishal Bhardwaj (director), Vishal Bhardwaj (producer), Pankaj Kapur (actor), Shweta Menon (actress), Irrfan Khan (actor), Naseeruddin Shah (actor), Murli Sharma (actor), Om Puri (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Sitaram (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Macbeth meets the Godfather in present-day Bombay. The Scottish tragedy set in the contemporary underworld of India's commercial capital; two corrupt, fortune telling policemen take the roles of the weird sisters, and "Duncan" is Abbaji, the head of a crime family. Abbaji's mistress and Maqbool plot and carry out his death; the sea plays the role of Birnham wood.

Keywords: antihero, based-on-play, betrayal, black-comedy, character-name-in-title, critically-acclaimed, cult-director, cult-film, dark-comedy, death-of-protagonist
Genres: Crime, Drama,

Chameli (2003)

Actors: Manish Malhotra (costume designer), Kareena Kapoor (actress), Saroj Khan (miscellaneous crew), Yashpal Sharma (actor), Makrand Deshpande (actor), Remo (miscellaneous crew), Jayesh Pradhan (miscellaneous crew), Sudhir Mishra (writer), Sudhir Mishra (director), Rahul Bose (actor), Deepak Qazir (actor), Pritish Nandy (producer), Sandesh Shandilya (composer), Pankaj Jha (actor), Shivkumar Subramaniam (writer),

Plot: Lamington Road on Bombay's Western Railway is the nearest railway station that takes one to Kamathipura, notorious for it's red-light, in particular, and a crime-prone area in general. It is in this area, on a stormy rainy day, that wealthy Aman Kapoor's car breaks down. His efforts to call for help via his cell phone are in vain, and he takes shelter in a nearby building. This is where he comes in contact with a prostitute named Chameli - and this is where his nightmare involving pimps, eunuchs, prostitutes, and corrupt police officers - will begin - and will seem to have no ending whatsoever.

Keywords: character-name-in-title, eunuch, night, one-night, one-word-title, pimp, police, prostitute, rain, rainy-night
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Two strangers. One stormy night.

Kilichundan Mampazham (2003)

Actors: Baburaj (actor), Baiju (actor), Seema (actress), Soundarya (actress), Sukumari (actress), Priyadarshan (writer), Sreenivasan (writer), Vidyasagar (composer), Priyadarshan (director), Cochin Hanifa (actor), Ganesh Kumar (actor), Salim Kumar (actor), Mohanlal (actor), Narayanan Nair (actor), Pujappura Ravi (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Romance,

Quotes:

Moidukutty Haji: I believe the existence of only what I see::Abdul Khader: Have you seen Dubai?::Moidukutty Haji: No::Abdul Khader: Since you haven't seen Dubai, doesn't it exist?

Agneepath (1990)

Actors: Anjan Srivastav (actor), Pradeep Singh Rawat (actor), Bob Christo (actor), Amitabh Bachchan (actor), Tinnu Anand (actor), Deepak Shirke (actor), Sharat Saxena (actor), Goga Kapoor (actor), Shakti Kapoor (actor), Danny Denzongpa (actor), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Alok Nath (actor), Avtar Gill (actor), Vikram Gokhale (actor), Rohini Hattangadi (actress),

Plot: Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) father is brutally lynched by villagers after being framed by Kancha Cheena (Danny Denzongpa), and his family is forced to flee. The young Vijay vows revenge, and grows up protecting his sister and mother by becoming a gangster himself. Eventually he works his way up the ladder until he is face to face with the men who killed his father, but by this time he is little different from them, and his actions have put his family in the line of danger once more.

Keywords: abduction, anguish, anti-hero, argument, attempted-murder, beaten-to-death, black-cat, blood-splatter, boat, brothel
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama,
Taglines: The path of fire

Quotes:

[Lying down on the bed at the hospital]::Vijay Dinanath Chavan: What's your name?::Mary Matthew: Why?::Vijay Dinanath Chavan: Because in this world, only two women have seen me naked - and you are one of them.

Vijay Dinanath Chavan: Name, Vijay Dinanath Chavan - full name. Father's name, Master Dinanath Chavan. Mom's name, Sawashni Chavan. Village, Mandva. Age, 36 years, 9 months, 8 days. We are in the 16'th hour.

Vijay Dinanath Chavan: This is a city only in name. But laws of jungle prevail here. The housefly eats microbes. The frog eats the housefly. The snake eats the frog. The mongoose kills the snake. The fox sucks the blood of the mongoose. The lion chews-up the fox. Here, every powerfull being lives by killing the one weaker than himself.

Hindustan Ki Kasam (1973)

Actors: Padma Khanna (actress), Vijay Anand (actor), Bharat Kapoor (actor), Satyendra Kapoor (actor), Amjad Khan (actor), Madan Mohan (composer), Raaj Kumar (actor), Amrish Puri (actor), Balraj Sahni (actor), Parikshat Sahni (actor), Chetan Anand (director), Chetan Anand (actor), Nitin Sethi (actor), Bhisham Kohli (actor), Priya Rajvansh (actress),

Genres: Action, War,