plot: An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.
Mala educatión, La
12 december 2008Amores perros
12 december 2008plot: A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life’s harsh realities, all in the name of love.
21 grams
12 december 2008plot: A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician (Penn), a grieving mother (Watts) and a born-again ex-con (Del Toro).
21
12 december 2008plot: “21″ is the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.
Kung fu hustle
12 december 2008Plot: In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious “Axe Gang” while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.
Green Mile
12 december 2008Plot: The story about the lives of guards on death row leading up to the execution of black man accused of child murder & rape, who has the power of faith healing.
Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A very long engagement)
10 november 2008Plot: “A Very Long Engagement” tells the story of a young woman’s relentless search for her fiancée, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.
Good Bye Lenin!
10 november 2008Plot: In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma; a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.
Seven Years in Tibet
10 november 2008Plot: True story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountain climber who became friends with the Dalai Lama at the time of China’s takeover of Tibet.
Gandhi
10 november 2008Plot: Biography of Mahatma Gandhi, the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British through his philosophy of non-violent protest.
Million Dollar Baby
10 november 2008Plot: A hardened trainer/manager works with a determined woman in her attempt to establish herself as a boxer.
Oldboy
10 november 2008Plot: After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in 5 days.
Gladiator
10 november 2008Plot: When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.
Braveheart
10 november 2008Plot: William Wallace, a commoner, unites the 13th Century Scots in their battle to overthrow English rule.
The Pianist
10 november 2008Plot: A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
Forrest Gump
10 november 2008Plot: Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him.
Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Le
10 november 2008Plot: Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love.
12 angry men
10 november 2008Plot: A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court.
The Butterfly Effect
10 november 2008Plot: A young man blocks out harmful memories of significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life.
Mar adentro (The sea inside)
10 november 2008Plot: The real-life story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30 year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.
Central do Brasil (Central station)
10 november 2008Plot: An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who write letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, in search for the father he never knew.
Habla con ella (Talk to her)
10 november 2008Plot: Two men share an odd friendship while they care for their girlfriends who are both in deep comas.
Non ti muovere (Don’t move)
10 november 2008Plot: A destitute woman (Cruz) becomes involved with an upper-crust physician (Castellitto).
Finding Forester
10 november 2008Plot: An afro-american teen writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author.
Coach Carter
10 november 2008Plot: Samuel L. Jackson plays the controversial high school basketball coach who benched his undefeated team due to their collective poor academic record in 1999.
Paradise Now
10 november 2008Plot: Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
Patch Adams
10 november 2008Plot: A medical student in the 70′s that treated patients, illegally, using humor.
Hurricane
10 november 2008Plot: The story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Freedomwriters
10 november 2008Plot: A young teacher (Swank) inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Trainspotting
10 november 2008Plot: Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a starter home. Choose dental insurance, leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose your future. But why would anyone want to do a thing like that?
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
10 november 2008Plot: Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds and having one week to come up with the cash.
Snatch
10 november 2008Plot: Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
The Green Mile
10 november 2008Plot: The story about the lives of guards on death row leading up to the execution of black man accused of child murder & rape, who has the power of faith healing.
La Vita è bella
10 november 2008Plot: A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.
Requiem for a Dream
10 november 2008Plot: The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control.
Memento
10 november 2008Plot: A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.
American History X
10 november 2008Plot: A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.
Cidade de Deus (City of God)
10 november 2008Plot: Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
The Shawshank Redemption
10 november 2008Plot: Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
10 november 2008Plot: An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychadelic escapades.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
10 november 2008Plot: Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more a dictator than a nurse.
A Clockwork Orange
10 november 2008Plot: In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and later volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society’s crime problem.
2001: A Space Odyssey
10 november 2008Plot: Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest.
Koyaanisqatsi (Life Out of Balance)
10 november 2008Plot: A movie with no conventional plot: merely a collection of expertly photographed scenes. Subject matter has a highly environmental theme.
Bridge to Terabithia
10 november 2008Plot: A preteen’s life is changed after befriending the new girl at school.
El Laberinto Del Fauno
10 november 2008Plot: In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Y tu mamá también
10 november 2008Plot: In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
The Boondock Saints
10 november 2008Plot: Fraternal twins set out to rid Boston of the evil men operating there while being tracked down by an FBI agent.
Das Leben Der Anderen
9 november 2008Plot: In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Gegen Die Wand
9 november 2008Plot: In ‘Gegen die Wand’ Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey has removed everything Turkish from his life.
Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Scaphandre et le papillon, Le)
9 november 2008Plot: The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn’t paralyzed.
Into The Wild
9 november 2008Plot: After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.
Crash
9 november 2008Plot: Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters.
Bin-jip
9 november 2008Plot: A transient young man breaks into empty homes to partake of the vacationing residents’ lives for a few days.
Pay It Forward
9 november 2008Plot: A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance.
The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta)
9 november 2008Plot: The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life’s calling.
As It Is In Heaven (Så som i himmelen)
9 november 2008Plot: A successful international conductor suddenly interrups his career and returns alone to his childhood village in Norrland.
