Cinematic Era: 2000 Vintage

Hong Kong movie

Clare, a mysterious young woman, earns a lucrative income as a serial seducer of men.

In 1966, Deann Borshay Liem was adopted by an American family and sent from Korea to her new home in California. There, the memory of her birth family was nearly obliterated, until recurring dreams led her to investigate her own past, and she discovered that her Korean mother was very much alive. Bravely uniting her biological and adoptive families, Borshay Liem embarks on a heartfelt journey in this acclaimed film that first premiered on POV in 2000. First Person Plural is a poignant essay on family, loss and the reconciling of two identities.

Following the death of his wife, Thomas, a cynical executive at a multinational corporation, travels to India to join his daughter Beatrice, who is there on a volunteer mission, to inform her of her mother's passing. During his stay, confronted with the shocking reality of the place, Thomas will rethink his company's market strategies.

Lucio Gaudino directs this family drama about a pair of brothers grudgingly reunited after their parents are killed by Mafia extortionists. After learning of the murders, affluent yuppie Edo leaves his abode in northern Italy to visit his family's home in Sicily. There he and his resentful brother, wheelchair-bound Saro, argue, reminisce, and debate the pros and cons of living in a beautiful coastal area where Mafia executions are common.

Footages from Arashi's first tour, "ARASHI FIRST CONCERT 2000", which took place from April 6h to April 30th. It includes performances as well as interviews with the members, footage of their travels and Typhoon Generation's album jacket behind. Arashi's first VHS release.

Vienna, 1956. Viennese butcher Karl Bockerer goes to Hungary to buy meat. Along with his foster son and grandchild, he is caught up in the turmoil of the Hungarian revolt against the Soviet occupiers. With some luck and a great deal of cunning, Bockerer and his family manage to escape, but the Austrian border is closed - except for the bridge to Andau...

Rasoul who works as a teller in a bank, lives a simple life with his wife, Zohre, and their daughter. Until one day, he has a road accident with a wealthy woman named Batoul and her son. Rasoul takes them to the hospital and they soon realize that Batoul has gotten amnesia ...

Christophe agrees to be filmed by his roommate Stéphane, while he is searching for a meaningful engineering job. Since he voluntarily resigned his job when he was to be moved to quality control, he does not get unemployment benefits, and goes to classes on how to contest the decision.

A fireman encounters more than he bargained for when rescuing a fiery temptress. Almas Em Chamas is a hot love story, told through boldly drawn characters.

Two women are cryogenically frozen, but wake up a century later to find Earth in shambles, with its dwindling population in the middle of an intergalactic war.

Tricia, the most attractive girl in Mountain Glenn, is in love with Russell, the town hot shot. Holly Peacock, a strange new girl, has stolen him away, luring him with illicit sex performed in cemeteries. When Tricia finally faces Russell, sparks fly. Holly reveals that she is an evil witch with demonic powers and her lust for sex is just a cover for her hunger for murder.

When her mother died, Geneviève went back to the village where she was born to sell off the house and return to Montreal. Her sister Manou, a pregnant teenager, refuses Genevieve's authority and leaves for the Île de Sable with her boyfriend.

Behind the scenes of the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest from Stockholm, Sweden. See the producers planning and the hosts rehearsing to entertain an audience of more than 100 million people.

Show recorded at the Cirque d'Hiver in 1997. This show marked both the consecration and the farewell of Elie Kakou to his public. This show, the artist's most accomplished, mixes great spectacle and humor through an incredible sound and visual delirium: in the company of dancers, trapeze artists, stilt walkers and whimsical characters, all on choreographies signed Rhéda; it is one of the most beautiful tributes to the world of the circus.

An Iranian director and his technical crew scramble to complete post-production on their latest film in time for the Fajr Film Festival.

A somewhat unhappy man and wife are touring New York's Prospect Park, when they encounter a pair of sailors on shore leave. The wife and one sailor give in to their desire and tarry a bit. Later, after they all get back together, the wife realizes she is not the only one with unsatisfied desires.

Francesca, Paola, Laura, and Alicia are four friends who all fall in love with the same man, a musician named Gigi. Alicia is a woman who fears compromising in her relationships, Laura is an overprotected dreamer, Paola is a lawyer who seeks true love, and Francesca is a dancer on a TV show

The story of a family living on the outskirts of Helsinki and their friends, who explore the shape, composition, and color palette of their hearts.

Romain, a well read and articulate real estate agent, protects his grandmother from a bailiff that wants to seize her property,

The main character Kadyr decides to change his life and goes in search of his happiness. A lot of adventures await him on his way...

Soo-jung and Yun-jung are sisters in their 20s and 30s, both physically challenged since birth. Like other women, romance, sex, marriage, and having children are concerns in their lives. The filmmaker records their social life with a close but unpatronizing gaze, as they fall in love, break up, study porn videos, and dream about having their own children. Conventional Korean values die hard, as we see from the voices of the people around them, while the sisters themselves never cease to smile, to sing, and to try to enjoy life despite the odds.

Not long after Vincent meets the vivacious Pandore at the Montreal port for a business meeting, the two are soon rolling around in a hotel room. Vincent's ardor cools for the lass when he learns of her ominous secret, and his button-down wife Ariane walks out on him.

Two railway signal men, Nemai and Balaram, share a passion for wrestling and spend their days wrestling after working hours. However, things change when Balaram marries Uttara.

In Cape Verde, where the majority of the population is young, children use olive oil cans, bits of sandals, leftover tires and pieces of cardboard to build their own toys. The absence of a consumer society and the challenges posed by insularity have led them to invent their own recreational independence with almost nothing.

A comedy about a wimpy bimbo conflicted about her loyalty to a group of broke environmental Superheroines (The Broom Witch, The Librarian, Mother Nature, The Chocolatier) versus their wealthy villainous counterparts (Virginia Svelte, Cosmetic Chick, Bitch-on-Wheels and The Doucher) who run an advertising agency that promotes carcinogenic products for women.

As a storm rages, five desperate people are caught in the mirror's power to reveal lost souls, broken dreams, second chances, and some very strange sexual vengeance.

In Manila, a solitary man from a far-away province lives in poverty. The only thing he has is a camera, and he stays at churches hoping people will hire him to take their photographs. During one day, he has three encounters that change his life: the first, with a smooth-talking young man who's standing by the church door who berates him for wasting his life in church, the second with a boy who offers to take his picture, and the third with a Mercedes-driving man who's been stuck in traffic and has no patience left. Is there any deliverance from the soullessness of the city?

To some, it’s murder. To them, it’s just work. The Troma Team is proud to present Robert Larkin’s intense sci-fi thriller Viral Assassins. In the not so distant future, a terminal disease will make cancer look like the common cold. The government’s solution to this epidemic is to make carrying the disease a capital crime, punishable by death through a team of highly trained assassins. This not only lowers the risk of the disease spreading but also greatly lowers health costs for the average Joe. But what happens if the government becomes infected? The only hope for a vaccine is trapped within the diseased body and mind of a government lab technician. Unfortunately, the government hires their most dedicated and trigger-happy assassin to eliminate her. Will the assassin uphold the government’s heinous order, or will he jeopardize his own life, reputation and health insurance by eliminating her?

The Sleeping Beauty remains, as Rudolf Nureyev often called it, the 'ballet of ballets'. It is the most accomplished and the most brilliant, as well as one of the most spectacular of the 19th century, and the most representative of the 'noble' style of classical dancing. Performed by Opera National de Paris in 2000.

In a drunken fit of ecstasy, two college girls (Misty Mundae, Ruby Larocca) find an intense passion for each other. While sober, the sexual experimentation doesn't sit so easily with one of the young girls as she struggles with the temptation of a possible second night of unbridled passion.

Documentary tracing the rise of the 'slasher' movie.

Ten short unrelated stories that move chronologically through Slovakia's twentieth-century history as seen from the perspective of life in small towns and villages.

Behind the scenes of the filming of the sequel to the ground breaking drama Queer As Folk.

The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.

Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his parts 24/7. This film tells the story of a man who no longer could understand the difference or distinguish between fantasy and reality.

A nonsense piece. It starts with the fact that there are two butters in the fridge at home, one for the top and one for the bottom, and then for some reason it reminds me of the Moh-Roh-Ushi hot springs.

Yōko and her husband, Teruhisa, run a café—yet lately his attentions have drifted to a young school girl named Haruko, leaving Yōko feeling abandoned. Beneath her composed exterior, a simmering lust has been growing: memories of Teruhisa as the passionate first lover she once knew, and a secret craving for something more depraved. Haunted by Yōko disappearance, Teruhisa retraces their past, until his search leads him into Shinjuku—to a “peep room.” There, through a peephole, he catches sight of his wife swaying in nothing but her slutty lingerie, every move an erotic confession of the desire she’s kept hidden. Yōko surrenders to the pulsing rhythm of hidden lust. Each sway of her hips is an invitation—slipping into the abyss of pleasure. Teruhisa realizes there was once something she tried to say on the night they first made love. Now, driven by a mixture of longing and guilt, he must hear the truth of her yearning before she plunges irrevocably into the depths of her darkest desire.

An eight year-old girl waits with her mother for a delayed train. Through her eyes we observe the waiting crowds and their reactions to the situation.

A David di Donatello-winning short film about a junkyard keeper, in love with the portrait of the Mona Lisa, who is charged with teaching a young Slavic girl the tools of a much less honourable trade...

Story of two con men, Boorman and his younger assistant Laarmans, who are trying to sell companies their non-existing magazine.

Taiwanese movie

Alain runs Le Detour, a small cafe in Paris where Antoine works. Antoine is reunited with his sister Marie when she's released from prison; they are very close, perhaps abnormally so, but she's not aware that Antoine has fallen into cahoots with Stephane, who works as a waiter at another cafe. Damien, a local businessman, is pressuring Alain to expand Le Detour, and cut his nephew Xavier in for a percentage as a manager. While Alain waffles on Damien's proposal, Xavier offers Antoine a chance to make some money under the table by delivering some drugs to a cadre of dealers. Antoine makes the drop and picks up the payment, but runs off with the money rather than bringing it back to Xavier, which proves to have tragic consequences for Antoine and his friends.

The action of the movie is set in the late 11th century Constantinople during the time of the 1st Crusade. The crusaders need the help of the emperor Alexius to get to Jerusalem while the latter tries to do his best to get rid of the unwelcome guests. At the same time Caesar Nicephorus plays his own game and betrays his royal fiancée Anna Comnena while trying to win the heart of the beautiful countess Brigitta.

Two women's lives merge at the point of a fatal car accident. Immediately thereafter, one of the women awakens to find her world is no longer normal...

A decade after taking a series of photographs of skinhead members of a far-right group for his book Public Enemies, Leo Regan returns to three members of the gang to see what has happened to them in the intervening years.

A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.

Based on a true story. The life of a Ukrainian Jewish girl from the last days of the Russian Czarist regime through the end of WWII and the affects of the political turmoil and Jewish persecution on her and those closest to her. Ukraine amassed thousands of WWII monuments. 600,000 Ukrainian Jews perished as victims of Hitler and Stalin, and half of the Russian losses occurred in Ukraine.

The film was shot and ready to release in 1990. Due to no distributor's willing to buy the the film , it was shelved for a decade. Finally the producer added a few odd scenes in the beginning and end of the film and changed the storyline. He also changed the title to make it look like a suspense horror film.

One night Lorna hears screams for help coming from the staircase outside her apartment. She opens her door to find a girl, who has apparently been beaten, and a man.The girl claims the man tried to rape her. The man, however, claims that the girl possesses a knife which she uses to mug old people. What should Lorna do? She lets the girl into her apartment and notices that she does indeed have a knife. A game of cat-and-mouse ensues, and, before long, one of them is caught in a trap.

Bruno, a bisexual but closeted young man lives in rural Hungary with his girlfriend Mari. Also on the scene is her homosexual brother Ringo. Mari doesn't know that when the boys go off to work together in the city they raise cash by turning tricks and burglarizing houses.

A black political comedy, which, as a backdrop, uses the election race and the accompanying chaos in the media. The film's protagonist is a presidential candidate in the 2000 elections in Poland who suddenly withdraws from the election campaign despite his best ratings. During the election battle, he portrays himself as a professional liar and decides to give away everything he has previously won. What he doesn't expect, however, is how difficult a problem giving can be.