Conviction
Jun 18, 2010 Biography, Drama, Thriller
Conviction
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Biography
Miscarriage of justice, sibling relationships, study, Advocate
Kenny Waters in 1983 will be sentenced for murder. His sister Betty Anne is convinced that he is innocent. The mother of two brings her to school and studied law in order to represent her brother as a lawyer. For 18 years she has worked doggedly on the case, get Kenny to be free again. Finally opened a DNA test to prove the possibility of Kenny’s innocence for good. Title: Conviction Country of production: USA Production year: 2011
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Balibo
Jun 17, 2010 Thriller
Balibo
Genre: Thriller
Journalist, invasion, disappearances, Filmfest München 2010, East Timor, Indonesia
1975: Indonesia prepares for the invasion of the tiny island republic of East Timor, when five journalists suddenly disappear without a trace. Four weeks later, the foreign correspondent Roger East on charismatic later Nobel Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta, lured to the island to find out the truth about the whereabouts of the group. Robert Connolly’s thriller based on true events. Title: Balibo Country of production: Australia Production year: 2009 Length: 111 (Min.)
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Farewell
Jun 17, 2010 Thriller
Farewell
Genre: Thriller
Spy, Moscow, Cold War, Francois Mitterrand, Ronald Reagan
Moscow 1981: The KBG-Colonel Grigoriev has enough of Soviet communism and decides to change the world. He contacted the French engineer Pierre, who works in Moscow, and must provide documents that ultimately initiate the greatest espionage coup of the Cold War. Two years worth of French President Francois Mitterrand, and U.S. President Ronald Reagan made himself the first documents sent, the Farewell, the code-name Grigorievs, the West does. Title: Farewell Original Title: L’affaire Farewell Country of production: France Production year: 2009 Length: 113 (Min)
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The Dark House
Jun 17, 2010 Criminal, Thriller
The Dark House
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Murder, farm, plot, police, martial law, the Munich Film Festival 2010
”The Dark House” or in the original “Dom zly” is praised as the best Polish film of the year 2009. Wojciech Smarzowski director has made a neo-noir thriller set in two time levels. 1978 Edward Srodon celebrates with the farmer and his young wife Zdzislaw Dziabas Bozena an exuberant celebration and it plans to sell illegally produced liquor. Four years later, Edward returns back with the police to the remote farm, for he is the prime suspect in a murder case. But the police are not really interested in resolving the matter, since it is quite another to cover up crimes. Title: The Dark House Original Title: Dom zly Country of production: Poland Production year: 2009 Length: 105 (Min)
A map of the sounds of Tokyo
Jun 17, 2010 Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A map of the sounds of Tokyo
Genre: Drama
Contract killer, love relationship, Tokyo, suicide, Cannes 2009
When it comes to feelings, in extreme situations, it is the Spanish director Isabel Coixet on top form. After My Life Without Me and The Secret Life of Words / The Secret Life of Words is her with her new film again succeeded in creating a masterpiece – a sparkling gem, in which break the complex inner worlds of five people. A map of the sounds of Tokyo is the story of the fragile-beautiful Ryu (Rinko Kikuchi of the Japan-only episode of Babel). The young woman leads a double life – but none that would serve the cliche of the secret whore. Ryu worked at night at the fish market and take orders during the day as a professional killer. Why the silent loner lives so we do not know. The only certainty is that they will one day bring the Spanish wine merchant David (Sergi Lopez) to the track. The had a relationship with Midori, the young daughter of an influential CEOs. Midori suffering so in this love, that she kills herself and leaves a heartbroken father. The David is to blame for the death of his daughter and demands revenge. For the killer Ryu is the wine merchants also not a simple case. She discovers in him a kindred spirit with him and spends the night without firing the gun. Ideally she would now return the order. But their donors remain hard. So far set the framework for action, which, with its thriller bonds the film gives a solid framework, so to speak, the outer structure of a piece with his sentence consequences. It can now develop the different voices freely and tell their stories inside. The act of sensuality as well as of sadness, of love of life as well as by a longing for death. Each of the characters – are added or a sound engineer Ryu platonic friends, and the assistant to the CEOs, who was hopelessly in love with his daughter – controls at their own emotional world, each of which is marked by a different extreme life situation. Together they form an associative tapestry of sound. That A Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, a musical film is structured, it has only been out of the title. And of course, Isabel Coixet has been with the sounds and music, this time a great deal of trouble. The soundtrack plays in addition to the two protagonists of the third lead. They commented on and is counterpoint, is ahead of events and pauses to in most pensive songs express what remains unspoken. For, among many others what can be said of Coixet’s film, he is also a sensitive study of the silence. In this way remain so many riddles as necessary to tell the story not to a shallow love story or a gimmicky Gangster Story. Isabel Coixet solves the balancing act between too much mystery and too much food psychology elegant by leaving tell the story from the off – with the figure of the sound engineer. The is not an omniscient narrator, but is many issues with which the viewer sees also faced – without a quick answer to have. With its sophisticated color aesthetic homage to the city of Tokyo succeeds Isabel Coixet a remarkable balance between melancholy and pleasure. Especially if the lonely protagonists roam the city, brings back memories of Lost in Translation. The director is careful not intrusive but before quotations, but creates her very own picture of the lights of a city. The sparkle so beautiful that you want to stay smooth. (Peter Gutting)
Title: A Map of the Sounds of Tokyo Original Title: Map of the Sounds of Tokyo Country of production: , Spain Year of Production: 2009 ( #) Length: 109 (Min.) Distribution: Alamode Film Distribution
Daybreakers
Jun 16, 2010 Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Daybreakers
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction
Vampire
In 2019 an epidemic can mutate almost all people to vampires. Due to the lack of people threatens the vampires assumed her favorite drink: Blood. Meanwhile, an underground movement trying to save humanity from extinction. Title: Daybreakers Country of production: U.S., Australia Production year: 2010 Length: 94 (Min.) Distribution: Sunfilm Entertainment ISBN: 4041658252263
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Shutter Iceland (DVD)
Jun 16, 2010 Criminal, Mystery, Thriller
Shutter Iceland (DVD)
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
Homicide, hospital, island, Psychiatry
Of course, living the Berlinale, especially this year for their 60th Jubilee by the big names, the deserving directors, whose films in the Berlinale Palast their premieres and world premieres to celebrate. At least in this respect was in the first days of something available. According to Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer Martin Scorsese’s new work today Shutter Iceland was on the program and saw the light of the attending celebrities for a proper media boost. And it was not just because the expectations of Shutter Iceland, at least in parts of the public and the press were somewhat high. With such a height it is no wonder then that many journalists were more a little disappointed with the new work of the director. What was not so much to the images rather than in a less-inspired story, which is like a patchwork of well-known pieces from film and literature. Leonardo DiCaprio plays in Iceland shutter the U.S. Marshall Edward Daniels, who together with his new partner, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) in the early 1950s, the disappearance of a patient in a clinic for mentally disturbed most serious on the island Shutter Iceland to investigate. Unfortunately, not even the Most Stable Daniels mentally since he was a soldier in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp there and also have lost his wife in a fire. The disappearance of the patient appears particularly Daniels suspicious from the start and he speculates that the whole story being told to him by the senior physician Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley), something is wrong. However, it seems with him myself up some in Argentina, as he always is plagued by severe migraine attacks, nightmares and symptoms that can fuse the fiction and reality, the obscure events on the island and Daniels traumatic past experiences with each other. Until finally, the whole truth will come out. And which really is not what has Daniels expects … Actually it’s pretty clear that the story that followed Edward Daniels in the course of the film, something is strange and he himself is a prisoner of delusion and Fkition. This makes the film by his suspense and one would wish almost, instead of the actual resolution would have the template is moved further to the rather trashy side paths of the nested story, especially since Scorsese and Lehane dig vigorously in the find box of film history and Crime / Mystery Literature and Agatha Christie’s works plunder as well as films like Identity, The Sixth Sense or other “mindfuck movies” as well as age-old horror à la Frankenstein. The problem is that you can not help feeling, is all this to have already seen elsewhere – perhaps not always so brilliantly staged, but in itself consistent and round. This lack of narrative originality, which should lie mainly on the novel of Dennis Lehane tried to Scorsese by the rather pungent score, and other tricks to compensate for the voltage from the available clothing cinemas. More than pure formulaic and unwound a routine genre comes in beautiful packaging patchwork while but not out. (Joachim Kurz)
Title: Shutter Iceland (DVD) Country of production: USA Production year: 2009 Length: 132 (Min.) Published by: Concorde Home Entertainment format: 16:9 tone / language: Dolby Digital 5.1, German, English EAN: 4010324027801 Tools : film documentaries: “Behind the Shutters” – from novel to film, “Into the Lighthouse” – Historical development of psychiatry in the U.S.
Public Enemy No.. 1
Jun 16, 2010 Action, Biography, Criminal, Movie Trailers, Thriller
Public Enemy No.. 1 – Murder Instinct (DVD)
Genre: Thriller, Biography
Murder, Jacques Mesrine, criminal, bank robbery, 1970
Against him was “Scrooge” just a small fish. Jacques Mesrine, France’s most famous criminals terrorized for over 20 years, the Grande Nation. Whether bank collapses, brutal murders, kidnappings or spectacular eruptions from ice-cold high-security prisons – Mesrine criminal file space offered for multiple phone books. When on the second November 1979 will be shot on the street in Paris, drew on all of France. Mesrine gruesomely fascinating life cried out for a movie adaptation. Director Jean-François Richet (Assault on Precint 13) knew at the same time, however, that the substance was overcome in two-hour movie barely. Therefore, he splitted up Mesrine story in two parts. The first part Public Enemy No.. 1 – murder instinct told in classic style gangster film about the rise in France, Mesrine crooks scene. Public Enemy No.. 1 – death drive (Start date: 21.5) shows Mesrine as degenerate public enemy No 1, the skins swim rapidly away. In 1956, the jovial, 19-year-old Jacques (Vincent Cassel) collected in the Algerian war. When truncated, hearted man, he returns back in 1959, the Paris home. Without training soon his hopes vanish on a regular, decent-paying work. Mesrine pent-up aggressions find an outlet as the creator of crime boss Guido (Gerard Depardieu bloated one on the verge of self-parody) to know. Together, the two mix, the Paris underworld with brutal and brazen raids. As Mesrine shoots his first man he appears below and is based in Spain with the naive Sofia (Elena Anaya), a family. But Mesrine is an adrenaline junkie, and depending on the crime-kicks. But he leaves Sofia and his three small children sit in cold blood. Mesrine it pulls back on the road. Together with the unpredictable Jeanne Schneider (Cecile de France committed) it in a “Bonnie and Clyde” spectacular raids. be taken up both in Canada. Mesrine is ordered to solitary confinement and tortured by several guards brutally. But it can not break the officials. On the contrary, Mesrine hatches an escape plan from the high-security prison of its own. Public Enemy No.. 1 – killing instinct in front of genre needs role models like Scarface (1983) American Gangster (2007) not to hide. Richet was achieved with the outrageously expensive biopic, based on Mesrine in prison constituted an autobiography, a rousing thriller. Over the full period shown by the young filmmakers, a feeling for atmospheric, sumptuous images, consistent dialogue and perfectly arranged, in Heat (1996), reminiscent action sequences. Brilliant in the supporting roles filled by Vincent Cassel stands out in the title role. With constantly changing appearance – he took during the nine months filming 20 pounds – he shows oppressively intense all facets of the dangerous killer, ranging from charming flirtation attempts to gruesome outbreaks of violence. Reward for the effort was a César, the Cassel for his tour de force this year received. (Florian Koch)
Title: Public Enemy No.. 1 – Murder Instinct (DVD) Original Title: Mesrine: L’instinct de mort Country of production: France Production year: 2008 Length: 105 (min .) Published at: Universum Film format: 16:9 tone / language: Dolby Digital 5.1, German, French EAN: 886 973 831 793 Extras: Interview with Vincent Cassel and Jean-François Richet, Trailer
Public Enemy No.. 1
Jun 16, 2010 Action, Biography, Criminal, Movie Trailers, Thriller
Public Enemy No.. 1 – death drive (DVD)
Genre: Thriller, Biography
Murder, Jacques Mesrine, criminal, bank robbery, Canada, jailbreak, 1970
Robert de Niro has done it, Sylvester Stallone, too. At the end of the food chain now Vincent Cassel, who rose as before, the two Hollywood stars for a role of 20 kilos. To the bloated gangster Jacques Mesrine in Public Enemy No. 1 – death instinct credible to embody the French method actor turned to his diet radically. Cassel was eating five times a day for four months, combined with beer syrup and allowed himself 1300 calories a strong milk shakes. Medically questionable, the effort was worth the charismatic actor. Cassel was awarded for his role in the recently César for best actor. , Concentrated, director Jean-François Richet Mesrine in the rise of small-time crook to professional gangster shows him to the continuation of the death instinct as a self-infatuated media hero, desperate to knit his own legend. After his spectacular escape from a Canadian prison Mesrine it pulls back to France in 1973, where he will soon be the merciless Commissioner Boussard (Olivier Gourmet taken). But would not Mesrine Mesrine, if he does not yet have an escape plan in store. Located in the courthouse, he captures the judge and can pile up again. When he again during a bank robbery falls into the clutches of the police, Mesrine landed in a Paris high-security wing. There he wrote his memoirs, and learn the cool Strippers King Besse (Mathieu Amalric) know. The two criminals are watching each first like famished tiger in the cage before it binds the desire for thrills. They share the seemingly impossible escapes from jail. Despite a massive manhunt, the police can not catch Besse and Mesrine. A few days of freedom, the two packs and returning to the criminal hunting fever. You want to rob a heavily guarded casino of Deauville – without considering the risks of their daring plan. Richet also holds in the second part of the French Gangstersaga up the tension, is form and content but in other areas as Public Enemy No.. 1 – killing instinct. Embeds a death wish stronger the political background of the plot. Foreign, radical terrorist organizations like the Red Brigades and the RAF to inspire Mesrine its anarchic violence. From a radical leftist drive the smug loner wants to know nothing. What interests him is rather the game with the media, which made him the “public enemy No. 1 transfigure. Cassel succeed here especially to show the vanity and increasing isolation Mesrine. At his side shine Bond villain Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) and Ludivine Sagnier in the spectacular (Swimming Pool) as a girlfriend Sylvie Mesrine nationals. In spite of the more complex characters, character drawing succeeds director Richet in the second part, to place a number of spectacular action scenes. He chases the young filmmakers obviously staged as a tribute to William Friedkin (French Connection) and John Frankenheimer (Ronin) work. Richet reveled in Public Enemy No.. 1 – killing instinct still in blues and reds, he designed a death wish for a different color that corresponds with its brown and orange accent the changing temporal and thematic focus of the second part. Although developed here some storyline somewhat frayed and acts as a less concentrated in one part, and Richet a torture scene stylized exaggeration of a journalist selbstzweckhaft, bringing Public Enemy No.. 1 – Jacques Mesrine, the death instinct farewell after four hours in an overall better end. (Florian Koch)
Title: Public Enemy No.. 1 – death drive (DVD) Original Title: L’ennemi public n ° 1 Country of production: , Canada, France Production year: 2008 Length: 128 (Min.) Published at: Universum Film format: 16:9 tone / language: Dolby Digital 5.1, German, French EAN: (# ) 886974607496 Extras: Making Of, Trailer
Never Let Me Go
Jun 15, 2010 Drama, Literature, Thriller
Never Let Me Go
Genre: Drama, literature, Thriller
Boarding school, love triangle, organ trafficking, cloning
has been released “Never Let Me Go” is based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, who were also in Germany under the title “All what we give.” , Hailsham Abbey is at first glance, an idyllic boarding school. Here grow on Ruth, Kathy and Tommy. But the city has apparently engrossed in a strange oversight mechanisms that indicate that the idyll is deceptive. The stated by the trio, as they grow up. For their determination, they can not escape. Title: Never Let Me Go Country of production: United Kingdom Production year: 2010
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