Shreeux's Movie Chronicles

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The life of Spartacus, the gladiator who led a rebellion against the Romans. From his time as an ally of the Romans to his betrayal and becoming a gladiator, to the rebellion he leads and its ultimate outcome.

Spartacus 9/10
Spartacus: Blood and Sand (original title)
34 Episodes
TV-MA | 55min | Action, Adventure, Biography | TV Series (2010–2013)

Spartacus: Gods of the Arena 8/10
6 Episodes
TV-MA | 55min | Action, Adventure, Biography | TV Mini-Series (2011)

 

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My Little One is a visually striking road movie set in Arizona’s windswept hinterlands, After years apart an urgent plea from Jade, with whom they have once shared a passionate bond with two European friends, They find themselves meeting up again in the desert deep in Navajo Nation as they answer a call for a reunion from her.

My Little One (2019) 6/10
Drama | 27 February 2019 (Switzerland)

 

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Matteo Rovere’s ambitious Italian epic film “Romulus & Remus: The First King”. The Movie based on the legend of Romulus and Remus, twin brothers and shepherds who lived in peace near the Tiber river. They swept away by the water, along with their livestock. They miraculously escape death but are despoiled of their goods, reduced to slavery and cruelly deported to the flourishing city of Alba. Here, they are treated as animals and forced to fiercely fight against each other. Romulus, though, comes up with a plan to prevent the fight and succeeds in the attempt to lead a revolt, and escape together with the rest of the prisoners.
Together they all walked through arduous roads, inaccessible swamps, no man’s lands, they tried to protect, aid and help each other. But the cruel, sardonic fate will still prevail. From blood, and the most tragic of sacrifice, Because that’s the gods’ will to embark on an incredible journey to finding Rome.


Romulus & Remus: The First King (2019) 6.5/10
Il primo re (original title)
2h 3min | Drama, History | 31 January 2019

 

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Rumen, a boy of 13, is bullied by his classmates every day. An outsider, lonely and introvert, he never responds to the insults and the mockery. Until one day, pushed to his limits, he instinctively hits back with a single, but probably fatal strike.

Praseto (2018) 4/10
1h 36min | Drama | 2018 (Bulgaria)

 

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SHE IS THE PERFECT WOMAN UNTIL SHE DECIDES TO BE FREE
A beautiful woman turns to prostitution. She must surrender her income to the leader of a human trafficking ring, but her daughter’s illness and a drug addiction prevent her from delivering her usual share. An unexpected event will give her the opportunity to stop obeying and take justice into her own hands.


The Longest Night (2019) 5/10
La mala noche (original title)
1h 35min | Drama, Thriller | 9 March 2019

Looks the story of my ex
Sorry off topic

 

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Inspired by a true story, Versus is an atypical, hybrid film that oscillates between a teenage chronicle and genre film. We follow the steps of Achille, a handsome young Parisian teenager from a wealthy family, who suddenly becomes victim of an ultra-violent attack. Achille is sent by the sea-side on vacation to recuperate. There, he meets Brian, a young man angry with the world at large. The encounter of these two young men will bring out their true nature; from their conflict will create a murderer...


Versus (2019) 4/10
1h 20min | Drama, Thriller | 8 May 2019

 

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Easy Love is the experimental fiction debut of Tamer Jandali. His way of working shifted between documentary and fiction when he followed seven men and women from Cologne on their search for a balance between emotional security and sensual fulfillment.


Easy Love (2019) 4/10
1h 29min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy | 8 February 2019

 

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“It could be you”
This sentence is displayed during the end of the last frames of Bruno Gaston’s "Carga".

Portuguese director Bruno Gaston reveals human trafficking in a violent feature debut that brings together a nonetheless often a breathless experience in an impeccable way.

A truck driver who carries illegal immigrants on the back of his truck from Eastern Europe to the Portuguese countryside. Men and women have paid for a new life in the West, but things inevitably start to go wrong. Men get killed, and women end up being raped and embroiled in prostitution schemes organized by a repulsive Russian chief and his no-less-repulsive sister. Among them is a young woman, Viktoriya who refuses to be a victim. She is confronted with the cruel reality of human trafficking. Can she escape her fate?


Carga (2018) 7/10
1h 53min | Drama | 8 November 2018 (Portugal)

 

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Eka is a 25-year-old Balinese living in a small village in northern Bali. Out of love for Margaux, a beautiful piano student living on the island with her French family in a luxurious villa, Eka decides to learn how to compose music. The young man will be captivated by this artistic world he seeks to conquer, making him hope for a new life far from poverty and the harshness of his environment. But his downfall will match his rise to success: dizzying and tragic.


A Barque on the Ocean 6/10

 

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Arnaud Desplechin's being the fame of (My Golden Days, Ismael's Ghosts, A Christmas Tale) now tackles the genre of the crime thriller against the backdrop of poverty, but struggles to be convincing despite a great performance from Roschdy Zem and Lea Seydoux as an impoverished murder suspect.

Oh Mercy! A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered. The investigation at the heart of the film a real authenticity. From around its midpoint, this uneven film becomes a riveting, compassionate interrogation drama.


Oh Mercy! (2019) 6.5/10
Roubaix, une lumière (original title)
1h 59min | Crime, Drama | 21 August 2019 (France)

 

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In a fishing village in Iceland, a boy develops feelings for his best friend as his best friend pursues his affections for a girl.

Heartstone (2016) 6/10
Hjartasteinn (original title)
Unrated | 2h 9min | Drama, Romance | 28 December 2016

 

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Like a young bird yet to find the courage to lift its wings, Fúsi (43) lives alone with his mother, where they’ve always lived.


Virgin Mountain (2015) 6/10
Fúsi (original title)
1h 34min | Drama | 20 March 2015 (Iceland)

 

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After losing his farm during the floods of 1953, a romantic Dutch farmer is tired of getting his socks wet. He cycles to Italy and decides to grow tulips in the sweltering heat of Puglia.

Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle (2017) 6/10
Tulipani: Liefde, eer en een fiets (original title)
1h 30min | Comedy, Drama | 21 September 2017 (Netherlands)

 

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Ali learns through medical documents the sudden recurrence of his son's incurable genetic disorder. deciding to hide the matter from the rest of the family, he finds himself helpless and starts behaving strangely.


GESTURE 4/10
Directed by Pouya Parsamagham

 

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A Colony by Genevieve Dulude-de Celles’ closely observed coming-of-age movie which won the Crystal Bear for best film in the Berlinale’s Generation Kplus — an award given by a children’s jury.

Camille wanders through the countryside talking with frogs and chickens: she sails through life as a carefree soul. But for her older sister, the introverted Mylia, things are more complicated. Mylia is lost between the uncertainty in her family life, the superficial atmosphere at her new school and her first experiences at house parties. It is Camille who eventually introduces Mylia to Jimmy. The boy from the nearby Abenaki reserve is different and he encourages her to break free. Without passing judgment, and with a fine sense for the subtleties of social relations, the film follows these young teenagers in their search for a place where they can just be themselves.



A Colony (2018) 5/10
Une colonie (original title)
1h 42min | Drama | 1 February 2019 (Canada)

 

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A gritty and ultra-realist film on a form of modern slavery taking place behind the scenes between Eastern European posted workers. Juris Kursietis' sharp, scorching, surprisingly raucous social thriller.


Oleg (2019) 5.5/10
1h 48min | Drama | 17 May 2019 (France)

 

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A distressed father without much ambition, except for love, is back to square one after his wife left home. Now he must raise on his own his two daughters going through their adolescent years while going through some sort of a teenage crisis of his own. Younger daughter blames her father for their mother’s absence and she develops ambivalent feelings towards her new girlfriend. The elder daughter will plan soon leave home. Until then, she lives a good life. He can’t help but lose the women he loves. They all not agree to let one another go. Again they will join.


C'est ça l'amour (2018) 6/10
1h 38min | Comedy, Drama | 27 March 2019 (France)

 

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Doctor Lepage knows his wife, Françoise, very well. He loves her, watches over her ... Like her master, he's away all 'butterflies' that approach her. Francoise knows that she is beautiful, she feels the desire in the gaze of the men who lust after her. But with Jacques, she is sure it is different.

DISSONANCE 5/10
directed by Bernard Leclerq

 

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Chinese actor Zu Feng makes a professional, polished but overly cautious directorial debut with “Summer of Changsha,” The movie revolves around a world-weary detective’s investigation of a mysterious murder and his relationship with the victim’s equally jaded sister.

Summer of Changsha (2019) 7/10
Liu Yu Tian (original title)
2h | Crime | 22 May 2019

 

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A chilling film-noir movie, set in the 1850's rural countryside of Denmark. A story filled with good intentions, personal preferences, greed, envy, poverty, cruelty, money, self-serving intentions, revenge, death, sugar beets, and cows.
A 70-year aging widowed old man and farmer who has three additional mouths to feed at home but hardly enough subsistence for a single meal. He forced to make an impossible decision as winter approaches he can either sell off his unyielding plot of land to another wealthy farmer or marry off his daughter in exchange for an alliance with a neighbor. In an effort to secure them all a better life make into turmoil.



Before the Frost (2018) 6/10
Før frosten (original title)
1h 44min | Drama | 10 January 2019 (Denmark)