Below is the list of recent movies (≤ 10 years) that we
recommend. With quick marks ("yawn" or "thumb-up") and my
one-liners. In parentheses is the US/Canadian release name.
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| Biutiful | 2010 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | How a mean was preparing to die. |
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| Incendies | 2010 | Denis Villeneuve | How a sister and a brother were looking for their relative. |
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| The Road | 2009 | John Hillcoat | How a man and his son hit the road |
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| В Париж (To Paris) | 2009 | Sergei Krutin | How a Russian father tried to make some money and help his son. |
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| Novaya Zemlya (Terra Nova) | 2008 | Aleksandr Melnik | How a group of cons were released on an island. |
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| Ratatouille | 2007 | Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava | How a rat cooked ratatouille (animated movie). |
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| Children of Men | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | How a man saved a child. |
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| Babel | 2006 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | How three stories came together. |
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| Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | How a man wrote an article for Spiegel |
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| El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | How a girl followed her fantasy |
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| Cheech | 2006 | Patrice Sauvé | How an employee book was lost. |
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| La sconosciuta (The Unknown Woman) | 2006 | Giuseppe Tornatore | How a woman was looking for her daughter. |
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| Edmond | 2005 | Stuart Gordon | How a man just had too much coffee. |
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| The Village | 2004 | M. Night Shyamalan | How a rural community met those they didn't speak of. |
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| Sideways | 2004 | Alexander Payne | How two losers were on a wine tasting trip. |
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| The Matrix Revolution | 2003 | A. and L. Wachowski | How a religious belief helped fight a computer virus |
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| Lost in Translation | 2003 | Sofia Coppola | The movie had a deep idea which unfortunately was lost in translation. |
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| Vozvrashcheniye (The return) | 2003 | Andrei Zvyagintsev | how farther spent time with his sons. |
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| 21 grams | 2003 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | how a man fell in love with his heart donor's wife. |
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| Elephant | 2003 | Gus Van Sant | How two school boys had fun with guns. |
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| Dogville | 2003 | Lars von Trier | How a stranger turned from a slave to a judge |
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| Ricordati di me (Remember Me) | 2003 | Gabriele Muccino | How an Italian family dealt with an "American beauty" type of crisis. |
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| The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | How a jewish pianist was hiding from nazis |
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| Kukushka (Cuckoo) | 2002 | Aleksandr Rogozhkin | how a Lapp woman saved two soldiers |
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| A la folie... pas du tout (He loves me, he loves me not) | 2002 | Laetitia Colombani | how a woman made a picture of her beloved with anti-depressant pills |
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| Hable con ella (Talk to Her) | 2002 | Pedro Almodóvar | How two men took care of women who were in coma |
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| The Good Thief | 2002 | Neil Jordan | how a thief made everyone believe that he wanted to steel a collection of paintings. |
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| Cidade de Deus (City of God) | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | How a boy took a picture of mob in Rio. |
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| Wu jian dao (Infernal Affairs) | 2002 | Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak | How an undercover cop and mob played hide and seek |
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| Ying xiong (Hero) | 2002 | Yimou Zhang | How three warriors tried to assassinate the king |
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| Ten (10) | 2002 | Abbas Kiarostami | How a woman drove her car. |
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| Intacto | 2001 | Juan Carlos Fresnadillo | how a Holocaust survivor was pushing his luck |
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| Sur mes lèvres (Read my lips) | 2001 | Jacques Audiard | how two losers stole a bag of money and fell in love |
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| Chuen jik sat sau (Fulltime killers) | 2001 | Johnny To and Ka-Fai Wai | how two hitmen were after each other |
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| Love the Hard Way | 2001 | Peter Sehr | how love can be merciless to those in love. |
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| Das Experiment | 2001 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | how a group of volunteers were playing guards and prisoners. |
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| Miss Julie | 1999 | Mike Figgis | How a mistress seduced a footman and paid the consequences |
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| Under solen (Under the sun) | 1998 | Colin Nutley | how a lonely farmer found a woman. |
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| Un air de famille (Family Resemblances) | 1996 | Cédric Klapisch | how a French family celebrated a birthday in a family restaurant |