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9:06
Slovenia, 2009, 71 min.
A coolly elegant one-man police procedural slowly develops into a beguiling psychological mystery in this genre-bender that raises more questions than it answers. Winner of nine Slovenian film awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay.... more
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The Albanian
Germany, 2010, 104 min.
An Albanian illegal immigrant in Berlin tries to earn the dowry demanded by the family of his pregnant beloved back home in this social-issues drama. Winner, Best Actor, Special Jury Prize, Moscow Film Festival.... more
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Bibliothèque Pascal
Hungary, 2010, 111 min.
The work of an imaginative filmmaker with ambition and chutzpah, Bibliothèque Pascal is a dark sex-trafficking fairy tale from Central Europe with Terry Gilliam-esque touches. Please note: this film contains disturbing scenes of sex and violence. Winner, CineEuropa Prize; Grand Prix, Hungarian Film ... more
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Black Bread
Spain, 2010, 108 min.
A ten-year-old boy confronts an adult world of lies, myths, wicked crimes and painful revelations in post-Civil War Catalonia. Be advised the film contains a scene that may offend those with a heightened sensitivity regarding cruelty to animals, though no animals were harmed during the shooting of t... more
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Brotherhood
USA, 2010, 81 min.
Taut, terrifically well-directed, with a script that drives its nightmarish plot forward with dizzying precision, this cautionary tale of a final night in the rite of passage known as frat pledging makes for utterly engrossing cinema. Winner, Audience Award, Dallas, SXSW Film Festivals.... more
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Carancho
Argentina, 2010, 107 min.
With crisp, tight editing, this lean and suspenseful thriller featuring Ricardo Darin (The Secret In Their Eyes) takes us through accident sites, hospital wards, and seedy interior settings that would be perfectly in place in a Hollywood noir. Carancho is the latest example of director Trapero’s tra... more
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Confessions
Japan, 2010, 107 min.
A mystery-cum-revenge thriller that is both psychologically and viscerally confrontational, Nakashima’s haunting film focuses on a schoolteacher who unleashes a series of vengeful actions after discovering that her deceased toddler was actually murdered by two of her 13-year-old students… Not for th... more
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Dossier K
Belgium, 2009, 116 min.
Bustling Antwerp and backwoods Albania serve as the twin stages of tragedy in Dossier K, a hard-hitting crime thriller that reunites the buddy cops from the internationally acclaimed The Alzheimer Case (PSIFF 2004). This intense revenge story will leave audiences on the edge of their seats.... more
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The Double Hour
Italy, 2009, 95 min.
A psychological thriller with fascinating story structure. Sonia meets Guido at a speed dating event; they click, fall in love and become a couple--until a surprising violent event interferes. A thrilling latter day film noir.
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The Drummond Will
United Kingdom, 2010, 81 min.
A delicious black comedy that veers from quirky mystery into more dark and violent places, Butterworth’s debut features a mismatched set of brothers who attend their father’s rural funeral and find that the “eccentric” villagers are definitely not what they seem…... more
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Dusk
Netherlands, 2010, 89 min.
Loosely inspired by a crime that sent shockwaves through the Netherlands, Dusk offers a haunting search to discover why 15-year-old Jessie is murdered by her closest friends. A story of jealousy, insecurity and peer pressure gradually unfolds in an overlapping, a-chronological structure.... more
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Easy Money
Sweden, 2010, 95 min.
If you liked THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, you will love Easy Money, the latest exciting Swedish crime thriller to hit America. Set in the violent, multi-cultural criminal underground of Stockholm, it focuses on three desperate men and their separate, soon-to-overlap worlds while beautifully inco... more
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If I want to Whistle, I Whistle
Romania, 2010, 94 min.
An 18-year-old about to be released from a juvenile detention center is pushed over the edge when his deadbeat mom reappears with plans to take his beloved younger brother to Italy. Winner, Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival; Best Romanian Film, Transylvania Film Festival.... more
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Little Murder
USA, 2010, 98 min.
A moody, atmospheric detective thriller with a supernatural twist, Little Murder is set in post-Katrina New Orleans, as a disgraced cop is assigned to routine surveillance on a potential suspect in a recent string of bizarre murders terrorizing the city.... more
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The Man From Nowhere
South Korea, 2010, 119 min.
Korea’s 2010 box office champion, this dynamic thriller transforms local heartthrob Won Bin (Mother) into an action hero. It’s a fast-paced, blood-soaked tale about a mystery man who gets caught up in a gang war while trying to protect a child. The breathless, often violent action is not for the fai... more
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Monga
Taiwan, 2010, 140 min.
A box-office hit and Taiwanese twist on the epic gangster film, Monga depicts the troubled lives of five boys coming of age in the 1980s. When a new recruit is invited join a gang, he discovers an irresistible world of friendship and brotherhood until outside forces threaten their turf.... more
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Paper Moon
USA, 1973, 102 min.
During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.... more
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Poetry
South Korea, 2010, 139 min.
A woman takes up writing poems as a means of coping with her difficult grandson and the onset of cognitive problems in this quietly haunting film. Winner, Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival.
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Road to Nowhere
USA, 2010, 121 min.
Cult director Hellman returns after 21 years with this noir-ish mystery—arthouse pulp, as one critic aptly named it—about an arrogant young filmmaker whose obsession with an actress threatens both the film he is making and the “real lives” of those making it.... more
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Small Town Murder Songs
Canada, 2010, 75 min.
Named by Variety as one of 10 Directors to Watch, Ed Gass-Donnelly delivers an eerily quiet and controlled tale of crime and redemption. His modern gothic follows an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly re... more
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A Somewhat Gentle Man
Norway, 2010, 103 min.
A droll, highly satisfying black comedy about our painful shortcomings, a tribute to less than perfect sex, and a worldwide campaign against people of petty exactness. After completing his prison sentence, Ulrik has to cope with his old gang, his ex, a few women, and a snitch.
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Street Days
Georgia, 2010, 86 min.
This gritty drama, as artful as it is down-and-dirty, shows us contemporary Tbilisi through the eyes of a struggling junkie, and manages to offer a compelling picture of a place where everything, including one’s soul, is for sale. Winner, Best Film, Wiesbaden Go East Film Festival.
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