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Cats and Trees (2014)

Actors: Mike Figgis (actor), Joe Swanberg (actor), Garnet Mae (actor), Simon Brandon (actor), Howard Corlett (actor), Sophie Linfield (actress), Jonathan Sidgwick (actor), Sartaj Garewal (actor), Huck Melnick (producer), Huck Melnick (actor), Isy Oliver (editor), Isy Oliver (producer), Isy Oliver (writer), Isy Oliver (director), Nik Turner (actor),

Genres: Drama, Romance,

Singularity (2013)

Actors: Atul Kulkarni (actor), John Scott (editor), Guy J. Louthan (producer), Jo Cameron Brown (miscellaneous crew), Lonnie Ramati (miscellaneous crew), Milind Gunaji (actor), Josh Hartnett (actor), Josh Hartnett (actor), Om Puri (actor), Bipasha Basu (actress), Terry Ryan (costume designer), Shane Briant (actor), Dean Hamilton (producer), Robert Threadgold (miscellaneous crew), Robert Threadgold (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Great Barrier Reef, 2020. After a dangerous dive to save his wife Laura trapped while exploring an colonial British merchant ship wreckage, Jay Fennel, a rugged and attractive marine archeologist lies brain dead in a Boston hospital. Fennel's dream-like coma takes us back in time to Pune, India in 1778. The British East India Company is invading the palaces and a young captain named James Stewart, who bears a striking resemblance to Fennel, is about to embark on a dangerous mission. Along the way he encounters murder, deceit, betrayal and revenge. He falls deeply in love with an Indian She-warrior named Tulaja, an impossible love which he must fight for. Only the power of a ring can transcend time and save a life.

Keywords: first-anglo-maratha-war, one-word-title, reincarnation
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: Love is longer than life.

Fireflies (2013)

Actors: Mithun D'Souza (miscellaneous crew), Ajay Rai (producer), Arjun Mathur (actor), Alan McAlex (producer), Rahul Khanna (actor), Raman Prasher (miscellaneous crew), Shivani Ghai (actress), Shan Mohammed (editor), Vishesh Agrawal (miscellaneous crew), Zubin Balaporia (composer), Bibi Zeeba Miraie (costume designer), Amira Bhargava (miscellaneous crew), Sabal Singh Shekhawat (writer), Sabal Singh Shekhawat (producer), Sabal Singh Shekhawat (director),

Genres: Drama,

Abstract Messiah (2011)

Actors: Michael O'Hear (actor), Bryan Patrick Stoyle (producer), Bryan Patrick Stoyle (costume designer), Bryan Patrick Stoyle (actor), Alexander S. McBryde (actor), Jake Albarella (actor), John Renna (actor), Timothy Dugan (actor), Laszlo Kovacs (producer), Laszlo Kovacs (actor), Laszlo Kovacs (writer), Laszlo Kovacs (costume designer), Laszlo Kovacs (director), Lisa Dee (actress), Andrew Hookway (actor),

Plot: The year is 2106 and the world is rebuilding from a near-apocalyptic breakdown in human society caused by the global crash of cybernetic systems. The Greater Toronto Republic is growing in political and social unrest due to rising crime from and towards cybernetic-enhanced citizens, with the police keeping a thin margin of order.

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller,

Double Duty (2009)

Actors: Chris Anderson (composer), Connie Stevens (actress), David Cohen (actor), Karen Black (actress), Anthony De Longis (actor), Tom Sizemore (actor), Kent Hamilton (miscellaneous crew), Stephen Eckelberry (director), Ismael 'East' Carlo (actor), Steven Nielson (editor), Nick Plantico (miscellaneous crew), Yuri Elvin (miscellaneous crew), Mimi Lesseos (writer), Mimi Lesseos (actress), Mimi Lesseos (actress),

Plot: Funny, action-packed coming of age story portrays *Lesseos *as an ex-marine trying to adjust to civilian life and discover her feminine side, with help from best friend Sophia. Many obstacles are thrown in her path, resulting in edge of your seat action scenes. Her love interest, Craig is sweet and soft-spoken but is intrigued with M.J.'s tough side, creating a hilarious dynamic duo that keeps us laughing as well as touches our hearts.

Keywords: action-hero, comedy-duo, female-fighter, fight, grappling, hero, marine, martial-arts, stuntwoman, wrestling
Genres: Action, Comedy, Romance,

Karma, Confessions and Holi (2009)

Actors: Suresh Oberoi (actor), Naomi Campbell (actress), Raju Singh (composer), Rati Agnihotri (actress), Sticky Fingaz (actor), Sameer (writer), Sushmita Sen (actress), Kumar Pallana (actor), Drena De Niro (producer), Drena De Niro (actress), Randeep Hooda (actor), Ken Greenblatt (producer), Sabrina Chemloul (miscellaneous crew), David Roma (producer), Chandan Arora (editor),

Plot: The identity of Indian families living in the U.S. and the cross cultural differences in evolution. Do Indians, having migrated from their native land, adapt to the difference in culture and are they ready to give up their inherent cultural inhibitions? "Karma, Confessions & Holi" is a film about Indian families, their relationships with fellow Americans, their own internal and inter-personal conflicts.

Genres: Drama,

Deadland (2009)

Actors: William Katt (actor), Gary Weeks (producer), Gary Weeks (writer), Gary Weeks (actor), Chad Mathews (actor), Jason-Shane Scott (actor), Brian Tee (actor), Brian Tee (producer), Leigh Higginbotham (actress), Adam Hampton (actor), Cullen Douglas (actor), Mark Rickard (actor), Mike Lutz (actor), John Weselcouch (actor), Harrison Page (actor),

Plot: Intertwined within it's sci-fi action/thriller roots, at its core DEADLAND is a story of hope set in a post-apocalyptic world. After five years of searching, survivor Sean Kalos stumbles upon proof that his missing wife may still be alive in the new United Provinces. World War III's nuclear strikes on the U.S. set the nation back 200 years, and hope is all but lost when every survivor of the war is infected by a fatal nuclear plague. What was designed to be the new rebirth has become martial law, and the Officers of the Province wield their power with cruelty. When Sean crosses them, he finds himself in the middle of a personal war, and his quest for his wife inspires hope in a land that has forgotten the meaning of the word.

Keywords: alternative-history, fight, journey, leader, lost-love, militia-group, murder, nuclear-holocaust-aftermath, plague, post-apocalypse
Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Taglines: The Beginning of the End

Chhodon Naa Yaar (2007)

Actors: Anand Raj Anand (composer), Remo (miscellaneous crew), Jimmy Shergill (actor), Shri Vallabh Vyas (actor), Ahmed Khan (actor), Kim Sharma (actress), Ranjit Barot (composer), Vinod Nagpal (actor), Ajay Rai (producer), Kabir Sadanand (actor), Sanjay Pawar (writer), Amit Pawar (editor), Farid Amiri (actor), Veena Advani (writer), Dilip Sood (writer),

Genres: Thriller,

The Half Life of Timofey Berezin (2006)

Actors: Oana Paunescu (costume designer), Vlad Paunescu (producer), Steven Soderbergh (producer), Steven Berkoff (actor), George Clooney (producer), Peter Berg (producer), Radha Mitchell (actress), Guy J. Louthan (producer), Constantin Barbulescu (actor), Nikolaj Lie Kaas (actor), Jason Flemyng (actor), Armyan Bernstein (producer), Derren Nesbitt (actor), Christina Hwang (miscellaneous crew), Jennifer M. Byrne (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: In Russia, the technician and family man Timofey is exposed to 1,000 REMs (Roentgen Equivalent Man) of radiation in the nuclear facility where he works. The facility director hides the level of exposure from Timofey and tries to force him to assume the blame for the accident and puts Timofey on unpaid leave. Aware that the exposure is lethal and feeling the sickness of radiation, Timofey steals 100 mg of plutonium and heads to Moscow expecting to sell it on the black market for US$ 30,000.00 to give to his wife Marina and his seven year-old son Tolya. Meanwhile, the small-time criminal Shiv and the gangsters Vlad and Yegor need to pay US$ 6,000.00 to the powerful mobster Starkov in 72 hours. When Shiv meets Timofey trying to sell the Pu-239, he sees the chance to pay his debts and make some money. But he is incompetent and gets in trouble with powerful mobsters.

Keywords: black-market, character-name-in-title, dog-hit-by-a-car, plutonium, post-soviet-russia, prostitute-mother, radiation-poisoning, russia, terminal-illness
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: His family's future depends on one unstable element.

Quotes:

Timofey: [voiceover] Light is a particle and a wave. This is hard to understand how a thing can be two things at once; but a woman is also both a particle and a wave. She's a wave when you see her reach down to pull a shell from the sea, and you feel her beauty pass through you like electrical current. She's a particle when her hair brushes your face, and her hands push into yours. And a child is also a particle and a wave. He is a wave the sound of his pain shoots through and twists you away from yourself. And he is a particle when a doctor hands you a baby; a small mirror. Women, children and light can be two things at once; a particle, a wave. They ricochet off the hard surfaces and illuminate the corners. Without them it would be far darker.

Timofey: [voiceover] An element loses a particle and becomes unstable. A chain reaction is set in motion. Pulsing waves of desperation in every direction. Perhaps the lost part is clarity or hope. In the fallout, the man-made elements appear- isotopes of fear and anger that cannot be handled safely or buried in the ground. They take the shape of a mushroom cloud started above a desert, that circles the globe and shadows us all.

Tusk: That is what you need to be able to see in the world now: a Baskin-Robbins of pussy. That is capitalism.

Timofey: You read too much.::Marina: I thought that's why you liked me.::Timofey: I never said I liked you. I said I loved you.::Marina: When did you say that?::Timofey: Before I ever knew your name. First day I saw you at the institute. I tried to say it with my eyes. On the day I married you in Tuvula and every day since. Just sometimes I said it to myself.

Timofey: [voiceover] The hands on the clock are waving goodbye. It was my grandfather's watch. The dial was painted by hand in America during Word War I. The brides of soldiers seated at long tables dutifully making luminous little sixes and eights to help keep the world free. The eights were particularly hard to make; so the women sucked on the tips of the paintbrushes to bring them to a fine point. One by one, their mouths began to fill with cancer. The radium-based paint they had swallowed bombarded their brains and bones with alpha and beta particles. The women who painted the watch faces sued the US Radium Corporation of West Orange, New Jersey. Had the trial been at night, the breath they used to say goodbye to the world would have glowed like moonlit fog. They were given ten thousand dollars for their lives.

Timofey: [voiceover] I have been thinking about what hurts more: the jar or the pins. And I think I can tell you that it is not the pins. Because the monarch in the jar is already dead when it comes to the pins. At some point things stop hurting; and from inside the jar, with eyes that see in all directions, maybe it is possible to look into the future, well beyond the pins, to where the compass in your head tells you that you need to go.

Shiv: You know who wore hat like this?::Andrei: No.::Shiv: Jesse James.::Andrei: Jesse James! [mimicking pistols with hands]::Shiv: Jesse James. He wore hat just like this. He only stole from rich people, so he really wasn't a thief. He'd go into a rough place like Chicago or Brooklyn and do business.::Andrei: Like you?::Shiv: [nodding] The CIA chased him for years. Whenever Jesse Jackson needed a car he stole one.::Andrei: Jesse James?::Shiv: What did I say?::Andrei: Reggie Jackson.::Shiv: Jesse Jackson! He could've been the president of the United States but they don't respect the black man so he went underground.::Andrei: Was he who did sports like Michael Jordan?::Shiv: Michael Jackson! Michael, Reggie, Jesse... and two other brothers: the Jackson Five. The most powerful family in America. Hey, what bill is Andrew Jackson on?::Andrei: Twenty!::Shiv: Twenty! Hey. Respect the Jacksons.

Shiv: The fuck is that? Oh boy. Alright, if you're interested in some kind of man-love, there's a Romanian gymnast in lobby who bites pillow.

Shiv: I need to see the shit.::Timofey: You don't understand.::Shiv: Fuck you! Let me see it! I want to see it!::Timofey: Are you aware of the radiological effects on living organisms? Protons cut through your DNA rewriting your genetic code. The instructions for teeth become the recipe for cancer. Your marrow dies inside your bones taking with it your immune system. The next coughing person will become an infection, the smoke from your cigarette becomes lethal as a bullet. A thousandth of a gram can change a life.::Shiv: Okay, I'll put the cigarette out.::Timofey: There is a right way to open this canister, no fewer than twenty wrong ways. Open it the wrong way and the material spills out. It costs thirty thousand dollars to learn the right way.

Timofey: [voiceover] Uranium, Neptunium, Plutonium. They came from space; found their way here by comet and meteorite. No child ever wished this from a star. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl. Problems with half-lives forty-thousand years long. Half a life. Time takes half of us away and comes back later for the rest. We are children and then we are parents. We are long division. Slowly we decay into memory.

Droh Kaal (1994)

Actors: Annu Kapoor (actor), Naseeruddin Shah (actor), Vanraj Bhatia (composer), Manoj Bajpayee (actor), Mita Vasisht (actress), Shri Vallabh Vyas (actor), Milind Gunaji (actor), Achyut Potdar (actor), Amrish Puri (actor), Om Puri (actor), Ashish Vidyarthi (actor), Prithvi Zutshi (actor), Govind Nihalani (writer), Govind Nihalani (writer), Govind Nihalani (producer),

Plot: Riveting suspense thriller about a dedicated cop who leads an under-cover squad against a group of terrorists. He manages to capture their leader, but finds himself and his family mentally and physically manipulated by the wily terrorist and his followers.

Keywords: jogging, lust, military, spy, terrorism, terrorist, torture
Genres: Drama, Thriller,