Released Date:
2000-09-27
Languages:
French, Lingala, English
Countries:
France, Belgium, Germany, Haiti
Runtime:
115 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (1381 Reviews)
Director:
Raoul PeckPascal Bonitzer
Dan Edelstein (English dubbed version)
Raoul Peck
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgium overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.
Released Date:
2002-11-06
Languages:
English, French, Spanish
Countries:
France, Switzerland
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (27380 Reviews)
Director:
Brian De PalmaThe thief Laurie Ash steals the expensive diamond jewel called 'Eye of the Serpent' in an audacious heist during an exhibition in Cannes 2001 Festival. She double-crosses her partners and is mistakenly taken as Lily, a woman who lost her husband and son in an accident and is missing since then, by an ordinary family. One day, while having bath in Lily's bathtub, Lily comes back home and commits suicide. Laurie assumes definitely Lily's identity, goes to America where she marries a rich man, who becomes the Ambassador of USA in France. When Laurie returns to France, her past haunts her.
Released Date:
2005-05-06
Languages:
English, Arabic, Latin, Italian
Countries:
USA, UK, Spain, Germany, Morocco
Runtime:
144 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (200037 Reviews)
Director:
Ridley ScottIt is the time of the Crusades during the Middle Ages - the world shaping 200-year collision between Europe and the East. A blacksmith named Balian has lost his family and nearly his faith. The religious wars raging in the far-off Holy Land seem remote to him, yet he is pulled into that immense drama. Amid the pageantry and intrigues of medieval Jerusalem he falls in love, grows into a leader, and ultimately uses all his courage and skill to defend the city against staggering odds. Destiny comes seeking Balian in the form of a great knight, Godfrey of Ibelin, a Crusader briefly home to France from fighting in the East. Revealing himself as Balian's father, Godfrey shows him the true meaning of knighthood and takes him on a journey across continents to the fabled Holy City. In Jerusalem at that moment--between the Second and Third Crusades--a fragile peace prevails, through the efforts of its enlightened Christian king, Baldwin IV, aided by his advisor Tiberias, and the military restraint of the legendary Muslim leader Saladin. But Baldwin's days are numbered, and strains of fanaticism, greed, and jealousy among the Crusaders threaten to shatter the truce. King Baldwin's vision of peace--a kingdom of heaven--is shared by a handful of knights, including Godfrey of Ibelin, who swear to uphold it with their lives and honor. As Godfrey passes his sword to his son, he also passes on that sacred oath: to protect the helpless, safeguard the peace, and work toward harmony between religions and cultures, so that a kingdom of heaven can flourish on earth. Balian takes the sword and steps into history.
Released Date:
2005-05-06
Languages:
English, Arabic, Latin, Italian
Countries:
USA, UK, Spain, Germany, Morocco
Runtime:
144 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (200087 Reviews)
Director:
Ridley ScottIt is the time of the Crusades during the Middle Ages - the world shaping 200-year collision between Europe and the East. A blacksmith named Balian has lost his family and nearly his faith. The religious wars raging in the far-off Holy Land seem remote to him, yet he is pulled into that immense drama. Amid the pageantry and intrigues of medieval Jerusalem he falls in love, grows into a leader, and ultimately uses all his courage and skill to defend the city against staggering odds. Destiny comes seeking Balian in the form of a great knight, Godfrey of Ibelin, a Crusader briefly home to France from fighting in the East. Revealing himself as Balian's father, Godfrey shows him the true meaning of knighthood and takes him on a journey across continents to the fabled Holy City. In Jerusalem at that moment--between the Second and Third Crusades--a fragile peace prevails, through the efforts of its enlightened Christian king, Baldwin IV, aided by his advisor Tiberias, and the military restraint of the legendary Muslim leader Saladin. But Baldwin's days are numbered, and strains of fanaticism, greed, and jealousy among the Crusaders threaten to shatter the truce. King Baldwin's vision of peace--a kingdom of heaven--is shared by a handful of knights, including Godfrey of Ibelin, who swear to uphold it with their lives and honor. As Godfrey passes his sword to his son, he also passes on that sacred oath: to protect the helpless, safeguard the peace, and work toward harmony between religions and cultures, so that a kingdom of heaven can flourish on earth. Balian takes the sword and steps into history.
Released Date:
2009-06-18
Languages:
English, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Zulu
Countries:
Australia, South Africa
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (4340 Reviews)
Director:
Steve JacobsGenres:
DramaJ.M. Coetzee (novel)
Anna Maria Monticelli (screenplay)
Cape Town professor David Lurie blatantly refuses to defend himself for an affair with a colored student whom he gave a passing grade for an exam she didn't even attend. Dismissed, he moves to his daughter Lucy's farm, which she runs under most disadvantaged terms, favoring the black locals. Yet rowdies, unprovoked, violently rob and abuse them both. Lucy refuses to fight back, unlike David, who is surprised by his own altruistic potential.
Released Date:
2008-02-12
Languages:
English
Countries:
Ireland, Germany, UK, Sweden
Runtime:
93 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (917 Reviews)
Director:
David GleesonAn African immigrant bank security guard turns the tables on Dublin's nastiest criminals when they force him to be the "inside man" on a bank robbery
Released Date:
2008-01-11
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (423 Reviews)
Director:
Cristina ComenciniGiulia Calenda
Cristina Comencini
Maddalena Ravagli
An italian engineer and a beautiful black woman both married had an affair turning his life's into a hard forbidden romance.
Released Date:
2010-02-10
Languages:
French, Czech
Countries:
France
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (12394 Reviews)
Arnaud Bordas (scenario)
Yannick Dahan (scenario)
Stèphane Moèssakis (scenario)
Benjamin Rocher (scenario)
Nicolas Peufaillit (scenario consultant)
A posse of crooked cops, malevolent gangsters and a horde of walking dead are the centre point of this gruesome, tight, action packed, claustrophobic tale of retribution and escape. Penned like animals, on the top floor of a deserted high-rise block, these two opposing gangs find that they are not alone in the lair of bloodthirsty corridors of death. Joining forces to survive, they must reach ground level together or perish. Loaded with a bad ass attitude, guns, axes and extremely creative hand-to-hand combat sequences that project the fears and paranoia that are the fighting forces behind the need to survive, when caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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