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Hitozuma no chishû: Numeru matagura (2012)

Actors: Tarô Araki (actor), Yutaka Ikejima (actor), Yumi Yoshiyuki (actress), Kuninori Yamazaki (writer), Kuninori Yamazaki (director), Ryû Nakasora (composer), Naoki Oka (actor), Chihiro Asai (actress), Kaede Ôshiro (actress), Kaede Ôshiro (actress),

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Thugs, the Musical! (2011)

Actors: David Alan Grier (actor), Margaret Cho (actress), Kenn Michael (actor), Rachel True (actress), Alexander Burke (composer), Erikka Innes (miscellaneous crew), Liam Kyle Sullivan (director), Liam Kyle Sullivan (editor), Paul Nygro (miscellaneous crew), Baron Vaughn (actor), Camille Banham (actress), Prodigal Sunn (actor), Jason Weary (actor), Richard Taylor II (actor), Andre Myers (actor),

Plot: 'Thugs, The Musical' is a faux documentary about Michael Gardner, a mediocre, slightly delusional, 'non-urban' black actor in Hollywood. After years of auditioning but not being considered 'black enough' to be cast in any of the stereotypical roles that his fellow black actors have been getting (the Gangsta, the fast-talking Sidekick, the doomed Black Guy at the party in the horror movie), Michael decides to write, direct and star in his own theater production - an epically bad play called 'Thugs, The Musical!' - to show Hollywood (and the world) that he, too, can 'act black.'

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Short,

Crnci (2009)

Actors: Emir Hadzihafizbegovic (actor), Ivo Gregurevic (actor), Kresimir Mikic (actor), Marija Kosor (miscellaneous crew), Zvonimir Juric (director), Rakan Rushaidat (actor), Zvonimir Juric (writer), Ankica Juric Tilic (producer), Ankica Juric Tilic (miscellaneous crew), Franjo Dijak (actor), Jura Ferina (composer), Pavle Miholjevic (composer), Niksa Butijer (actor), Sasa Anocic (actor), Goran Devic (director),

Plot: War. A city under the siege. The truce has been recently signed, and the squad known as the 'Blacks', who used to do the dirty jobs, needs to be disbanded. Ivo, the squad commander who has lost three of his soldiers, prepares the action to retrieve their dead bodies from the forest and, despite the ceasefire, blow up the dam, thus causing a great damage to the enemy: The survived members of the squad, tortured by their personal doubts and guilt, move into action. On the battlefield, they find the enemy they are searching for is in the place they least expect - inside themselves.

Keywords: human-rights, independent-film
Genres: Crime, Drama, War,

Il va pleuvoir sur Conakry (2007)

Actors: Joëlle Dufour (editor), Stéphanie Combot (miscellaneous crew), Isabelle Chesneau (writer), Balla Moussa Keita (actor), Ismaël Sy Savané (composer), Fifi-Dalla Kouyate (actress), Alexandre Ogou (actor), Fatoumata Diawara (actress), Cheick Fantamady Camara (writer), Tella Kpomahou (actress), Cheick Fantamady Camara (director), Abdoulaye Diallo (actor), Annabel Thomas (producer), Koumba Doumbouya (actress), Assata Camara (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Grbavica (2006)

Actors: Edin Sarkic (miscellaneous crew), Emir Hadzihafizbegovic (actor), Mirjana Karanovic (actress), Bogdan Diklic (actor), Semka Sokolovic-Bertok (actress), Barbara Albert (producer), Dejan Acimovic (actor), Leon Lucev (actor), Nada Djurevska (actress), Nidzara Mehic (miscellaneous crew), Jasna Beri (actress), Emina Muftic (actress), Richard Lormand (miscellaneous crew), Mirza Tanovic (actor), Jasmila Zbanic (writer),

Plot: Set against the backdrop of a former Yugoslavia of the nineteen-nineties, this is a single mother's anguish of how one must deal with truths and how to cope with a war's terrible past. With a twelve year old daughter to bring-up, both mother and child come head-to-head when a school trip is in the air and complications and rude awakenings arise from the ashes' of the cold and callous days of conflict, xenophobia and its secrets.

Keywords: animal-abuse, body-identification-war-dead, bosnian-war, child-abuse, child-born-of-rape, child-with-gun, female-protagonist, folk-song, gambling, gun
Genres: Drama,

Lord of War (2005)

Actors: Michael J. Harker (miscellaneous crew), Laurie Gershon (miscellaneous crew), Michael Mendelsohn (producer), Gary Hamilton (producer), Jared Leto (actor), James D. Stern (producer), Mikhail Gorbachev (actor), Ian Holm (actor), Nicolas Cage (actor), Donald Sutherland (actor), Ethan Hawke (actor), Evgeniy Lazarev (actor), Nicolas Cage (producer), Michael Mendelsohn (miscellaneous crew), Julia Jones (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The film also charts his relationship through the years with his younger brother, his marriage to a famous model, his relentless pursuit by a determined federal agent and his inner demons that sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.

Keywords: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, africa, airplane, ak-47, alternate-identity, american-flag, ammunition-belt, anti-hero
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: The first and most important rule of gun-running is: never get shot with your own merchandise. got guns? Where There's A Will, There's A Weapon. He Sells Guns... And He's Making A Killing.

Quotes:

Vitaly Orlov: You fuck! You fucking fuck! You fuck- you fucking fuck! What the fuck is the matter with you?

[first lines]::Yuri Orlov: There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?

Yuri Orlov: Without operations like mine it would be impossible for certain countries to conduct a respectable war. I was able to navigate around those inconvenient little arms embargoes. There are three basic types of arms deal: white, being legal, black, being illegal, and my personal favorite color, *gray*. Sometimes I made the deal so convoluted, it was hard for *me* to work out if they were on the level.

Yuri Orlov: The first and most important rule of gun-running is: Never get shot with your own merchandise.

Anatoly Orlov: Is this how you want to be remembered?::Yuri Orlov: [chuckles] I don't want to be remembered at all. If I'm being remembered, it means I'm dead.

Yuri Orlov: I sell to leftists, and rightists. I sell to pacifists, but they're not the most regular customers. Of course, you're not a *true* internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your *own* countrymen.

Andre Baptiste Jr.: Can you bring me the gun of Rambo?::Yuri Orlov: Part One, Two, or Three?::Andre Baptiste Jr.: I've only seen Part One.

Yuri Orlov: There are two types of tragedies in life. One is not getting what you want, the other is getting it.

Yuri Orlov: [to a pilot, who doubts that he can ditch the plane] You underestimate yourself Aleksei. You're the best. You're the shit Aleksei, you're the shit! You're the shit! You're the shit!

Jack Valentine: Do you know why I do what I do? I mean, there are more prestigeous assignments. Keeping track of nuclear arsenels - you'd think that be more critical to world security. But it's not. No, nine out of ten war victims today are killed with assault rifles and small arms - like yours. Those nuclear weapons sit in their silos. Your AK-47, that's the real weapon of mass destruction.::Yuri Orlov: I don't want people dead, Agent Valentine. I don't put a gun to anybody's head and make them shoot. But shooting is better for business. But, I prefer people to fire my guns and miss. Just as long as they are firing. Can I go now?

Siraba, la grande voie (2003)

Actors: Zoé Durouchoux (editor), Claude Gilaizeau (producer), Abdoulaye Komboudri (actor), Joseph Traoré (actor), Martine Somé (costume designer), Issa Traoré de Brahima (director), Sekou Traore (producer), Issa Traoré de Brahima (writer), Mamadou Zerbo (actor), Djénéba Dao (actress), Joséphine Kaboré (actress), Célestin Zongo (actor), Amadou Bourou (actor), Issouf Tapsoba (miscellaneous crew), Albert Bilgho (actor),

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Wer bist Du? (1938)

Actors: Reinhold Bernt (actor), Ernst Dernburg (actor), Erich Fiedler (actor), Franz Schafheitlin (actor), Charlott Daudert (actress), Jürgen von Alten (writer), Wolf Ackva (composer), Jürgen von Alten (director), Ottmar Ostermayr (producer), Hilde Seipp (actress), Hans Bornemann (writer),

Genres: Short,