Shreeux's Movie Chronicles

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Bulgarian writer-director duo Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov being the fame of their award-winning dramas The Lesson (2012) and Glory (2016). Now third feature film of "The Father" is a bittersweet family farce set in the rural Bulgarian hinterlands, a place where people still trust more in ancient superstition and magical folklore than in crooked state bureaucracy.
After mother funeral's battle of wills between stubborn father and skeptical son that follows is full of great comic portray. The unhinged journey of father and son that follows will make them face the guilt they feel towards the one they lost and rediscover their relationship.

The Father (2019) 5/10
Bashtata (original title)
1h 27min | Drama | 2 July 2019 (Czech Republic)

 

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Piranhas directed by Claudio Giovannesi, the story of the controversial rise of a gang of Neapolitan youngsters – known as the paranza – who was originally recruited to act as hitmen by the Camorra.
15-year-old gangsters marking their territory in a Naples neighborhood charts the descent into the organized crime of a naive with group of friends led by the inexperienced where he lives with his mom and little brother, he goes from dealing marijuana for one local gang to bartering for guns, rifles and automatic weapons with another and finally, declares war on all those left standing for the crown of top dog.


Piranhas (2019) 6/10
La paranza dei bambini (original title)
1h 45min | Crime, Drama | 2 August 2019

 

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Based on a true story “Fahim” is being made as an adaptation of the novel, “A Clandestine King,” which in turn is based on Bangladeshi-French junior chess champion Fahim Mohammad.
A father has forced to flee his native Bangladesh with an eight-year-old chess player. Both arrive in Paris, stayed in France asylum. In the meantime, the father has introduced to one of France’s top chess coaches. Coacher gives him a sense of purpose - his struggles on the chessboard mirroring both his victories and his crushing defeats in his battle for a normal life.
Due to political asylum in France, but their applications were rejected after two years. After that, Fahim and his father began living in France as illegal immigrants. Later, Fahim spent nights with various families. Fahim starts winning one chess championship after another. When Fahim became the undefeated champion of the French national under-12 chess tournament. The news went viral in the French media and after great success, they have a permit to a family reunion from Bangladesh.


Fahim (2019) 6.5/10
Biography, Comedy, Drama | 16 October 2019 (France)

 

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15-year-old Eryk lives with his mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother in a small village in Poland. He has a too intimate relation with his manipulative and dominant mother. Eryk is in love with his 13-year-old neighbor Klaudia, but he doesn’t know the difference between love and abuse.

Light as Feathers (2018) 4/10
1h 26min | Drama | 4 October 2018

 

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“The Warden,” tells a very strong, thrilling and entertaining story set in the 1960s. It is about a prison warden who is promoted to chief of police, but he is assigned the task of transferring prisoners to a new building before taking over his new position. Due to they are evacuating the old building, which is supposed to be turned into an airport. While transferring all inmates to the new Prison, but one inmate is missing. Now, to protect his reputation and save his career, Warden needs to find missing prisoner before his higher-ranking superior finds out.
Then Warden started his inquiry with crew members one by one and the found the prisoner not escaped, he may hide somewhere in this building. At this point, a manhunt begins in the empty prison, found some missing shoe polish and a pet turtle are the only clues to the prisoner's whereabouts, but they don't take the warden very far. Finally, the prisoner caught or not?


The Warden (2019) 7/10
1h 40min | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 5 June 2019 (Iran)

 

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‘6.5 Tomans Per Meter’ is the story of a social drama that deals with the issue of drug-taking and addiction.
A police officer who is after a major drug dealer in Tehran. The movie shows how the police force follows leads and do whatever is in their power to get to the top of the food chain. Police brutality, atrociously inhumane conditions in jails and the disrespect for the sanctity of life are all portrayed with grimy detail...


6.5 Toman Per Meter (2019) 7/10
Metri Shesh Va Nim (original title)
2h 10min | Action, Crime, Drama | 17 March 2019 (Iran)

 

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F20 is a medical code for schizophrenia. The film based on a young man who spends most of his time playing videogames affected by schizophrenia that combines many often-used plots about crazy love, “simple” crime schemes going bad seemingly ideal people turning into homicidal maniacs.
Martina, a young woman who delivers pizza for her father, starts a relationship with Filip affected by schizophrenia. After Martina convinces Filip to steal her father’s money to go the Party Beach, everything turns into a bloody nightmare.


F20 (2018) 5/10
1h 30min | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 27 September 2018 (Croatia)

 

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One successful female comic artist drinks her days away among the exploiters and operators of Amsterdam’s Red Light District. The death of her mother, whom she sometimes still sees in hallucinations, and her destructive nature all conspire against her. After stealing a couple of thousand Euros from her neighbors, things get out of hand and gruesome sobering event at her neighbors forces her to take action.


Bloody Marie (2019) 5/10
1h 27min | Action, Drama | 28 February 2019 (Netherlands)

 

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The Story of Nina Wu reveals the dark side of the industry.
Nina Wu is about an actress who is willing to get a role at any cost. The wait seems to be endless, as she lives a lonely and repressed life combined with a hereditary condition, she suffers from minor depression. She is the victim of exploitation in the film industry, but she gives herself willingly, seeing no other way.


Nina Wu (2019) 5/10
Juo ren mi mi (original title)
1h 42min | Drama | 19 July 2019 (Taiwan)

 

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A strange fiction true story of stolen babies in 1980s Peru provides the narrative inspiration for writer-director Melina Leon's debut feature crime thriller movie.
A pregnant a young indigenous woman from the Andes who has recently moved to Lima with her husband. They have arrived to go to a clinic offering “free” medical assistance for the birth of their child. It’s an offer that’s too good to be true. Their newborn child is kidnapped away from her exhausted mother, supposedly for routine health checks, and she is returned repeatedly in short order, the clinic vanishes into thin air.
Her desperate search leads her to the only person who will listen and try to help her a quiet, A journalist named who begins an investigation.
brings him into a perilous twilight zone of fake clinics, corrupt medics, and professional baby smugglers. Their painstaking fight for justice eventually yields some positive results but it is incomplete.

Song Without a Name (2019) 6.5/10
Canción sin nombre (original title)
1h 37min | Drama | 16 May 2019

 

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The setting is Serbia in 1999, during NATO's airstrike campaign against the Slobodan Milosevic regime. This movie based on shocking real-life events, the writer-directors debut fictional feature went up with thriller.
A middle-aged truck driver arrives at a run-down warehouse in war-torn Kosovo to collect the mysterious load he has been tasked with transporting to the Serbian capital Belgrade, the journey must through treacherous territory to deliver a sensitive load. The rules of the job are without any stop and no questions keep the cargo locked away at all times till the end.


The Load (2018) 5/10
Teret (original title)
1h 38min | Drama | 30 August 2019

 

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The debut film of young Ukrainian director Nariman Aliev made powerful dramatic road trip - family drama is well-crafted movie reveals the political and historical context to fully engage viewers from outside Europe’s troubled eastern border regions.
A grieving father and son share an eventful road trip across war-torn they who transport the body of a deceased older son and brother from Korea to Crimea because the father is very religious and he wants to bury his he older son in only in Crimea.
They are collecting the bullet-scarred corpse of an Elder son killed in battle after volunteering to fight in the ongoing border war between Ukraine and Russia. They pressing urgency to transport a deceased body across the country to bury him in his ancestral homeland, in observance of Tatar tradition and Islamic religious ritual.
In between road trip, they facing many problems with the police and burglars and escaped in border security force after the checked.
Finally with suspenseful and tragic the ending.


Homeward (2019) 7/10
Evge (original title)
1h 36min | Drama | 7 November 2019 (Ukraine)

 

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Fading actress Vera V. gathers with the remnants of her 70's social circle to shoot her last film: an unfinished script left behind by cherished friend J.L. Jorge. The Caribbean production is lavish, the musical numbers grand. But odd forces threaten the shoot. Vera turns to her ghosts for answers.


Holy Beasts (2019) 4/10
1h 30min | Drama | 8 February 2019

 

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An extremely well-crafted look into a world I never knew existed. Director Hari Sama pulled a lot of his own experiences and successfully weaved them into a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the class divide in Mexico during the 80s,
A young boy invited to a mythical nightclub where he discovers the underground nightlife scene: punk, sexual liberty, and drugs.
The music and cinematography really pushed it to another level.

This Is Not Berlin (2019) 6/10
Esto no es Berlín (original title)
TV-MA | 1h 55min | Drama | 21 June 2019 (Spain)

 

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A quiet young man lives with his father and works alone to manage the family bakery. His elder brother dies committing a crime that results in the death of two others. As per family tradition to bury him next to their mother.
The village mayor does not access to his brother’s body and enforces the law to declare there is no place for bad people to be buried beside the good in the municipal cemetery.
Mayor daughter is young man lover. She witnesses his resolve and encourages to take a stand for his family honor, even as doing so will put his life in danger.



Amare Amaro (2018) 7/10
1h 29min | Drama | 2 October 2018 (France)

 

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The story, written by the two Romanian directors debut feature film focuses on a Crusade Against Corruption.
A young pediatric surgeon working in a large hospital in Bucharest.
The sudden death of a 3-year old boy following a routine hernia operation. He is devastated when one of his young patients suddenly dies. Sure that none of his actions were responsible for the child’s death. The young pediatric surgeon investigates and found the out that the disinfection liquids used for cleaning and hand-washing are being diluted with water, thus becoming less effective and leading to the spread of dangerous bacteria around the hospital. Endangering even the lives of patients being treated for minor issues.
Despite on his own attempts to investigate face the several issues, with his boss, and seek the support of his own family, the young surgeon is fundamentally alone face the scandal goes all the way up to the Ministry of Healthcare. Every step of the way, there is only indifference, fatalism, and sabotage.


Thou Shalt Not Kill (2018) 6/10
Sa nu ucizi (original title)
2h | Drama | 1 March 2019 (Romania)

 

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Frida and Marius both are schoolmates. When they have to work together at school, it's the start of a turbulent and challenging relationship. Generation Achievement meets impossible love.


Psychobitch (2019) 6.5/10
1h 49min | Drama | 11 January 2019 (Norway)

 

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Nina, a 16-year-old girl with big dreams who spends the summer between her village and the theme park where she works. Just before meeting Morad, a teenage from an Algerian family living in the nearby projects, Nina sees a meteorite falling in the sky that seems only visible to her as an omen.

Meteorites (2018) 5/10
Les météorites (original title)
1h 25min | Drama, Romance | 8 May 2019 (France)

 

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Maryam Touzani’s exquisite debut film of Adam reveals the story of two women friendship between a pregnant hairdresser and a widowed mother, who transform each other's lives, Maternity, friendship and the position of women in who gives birth outside the marriage of Moroccan society.


Adam (2019) 7/10
1h 38min | Drama | 29 January 2020

 

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Ermanno is an Italian guy who spends his days doing petty thefts in order to put money in slot machines, Lena is an indomitable seven months pregnant Polish girl. They are two strangers, who now have to pretend to be a couple. Lena has come to Italy to sell her baby. Ermanno has to pretend to be the father so that he can entrust the baby to his uncle Fabio through an adoption between relatives.


Sole (2019) 5.5/10
1h 30min | Drama | 2019 (Italy)