Shreeux's Movie Chronicles

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A few years from now - Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.


Bacurau (2019) 5/10
2h 11min | Action, Adventure, Mystery | 29 August 2019

 

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The reappearance of notorious criminal Paul Sanchez becomes an obsession for a young police officer who will do anything to catch him.


Paul Sanchez Is Back! (2018) 5/10
Paul Sanchez est revenu! (original title)
1h 50min | Drama, Thriller | 18 July 2018 (France)

 

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Céline Sciamma’s first foray into period drama set in the Brittany coast, 1770 starts out as a cautiously demure watercolor wash but gradually builds into a vivid, full-blooded oil portrait of the stolen romantic relationship between two young women.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) 6.5/10
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (original title)
1h 59min | Drama, History, Romance | 6 December 2019

 

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Joon-ho Bong back and on Brilliant form of Parasite is cumbersomely plotted and heavy-handed in its social commentary. A luxuriously and satirical suspense drama about a home invasion of the lifestyle snatchers.

Joon-ho Bong's being the fame of his previous epic:-
Memories of Murder (2003)
The Host (2006)
Mother (2009)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Okja (2017)


Parasite (2019) 7.5/10
Gisaengchung (original title)
2h 12min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 11 October 2019

 

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About three generations of a family grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in the historic town of Sintra, Portugal.

Frankie (2019) 3/10
1h 38min | Drama | 25 October 2019

 

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A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.


The Operative (2019) 6/10
1h 56min | Thriller | 24 July 2019

 

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It is a story of reunion, a love story between two sisters, the story of a family who loves each other but who do not know how to tell.
Vali and Mina are two sisters whom everything opposes, removed by the trials of life. One is a singer, dreamy and emotional. The other is a therapist, distant and rational. Their loving father ends up finding the perfect opportunity to gather them for a weekend and try to reconcile them Vali won an audition in Paris and it is Mina who will have to take him there despite his contempt for the passion of his sister.


J'irai où tu iras (2019) 5/10
Comedy, Drama | 2 October 2019 (France)

 

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With Italy about to go to war in 1914, this is the story of the encounter between a goatherd called Lucia, the commune of young Northern Europeans led by Seybu and the town's young doctor on the unique island of Capri.


Capri-Revolution (2018) 6/10
2h 2min | Drama, History | 20 December 2018

 

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15-year old Klemen lives with his elder brother Peter and single mother in a small and remote rural town. Klemen’s well-established routine of spending time with his beloved brother on the tennis court and by the nearby river gets interrupted by Peter’s sudden and passionate love affair with his gorgeous classmate Sonja. This triggers a torrent of conflicting emotions and reckless actions by Klemen. —Slovenian Film Centre


Don't Forget to Breathe (2019) 4/10
Ne pozabi dihati (original title)
1h 37min | Drama | 2019 (Slovenia)

 

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Writers-directors Patrick-Mario Bernard and Pierre Trividic premiered their latest independent and very melancholic anti-superhero film.
The movie about a French man born with the ability to render himself invisible, He can disappear and reappear by breathing in and out heavily, but it doesn’t always work. But such power only leads to loneliness, alienation and a feeling that one would have been better off without it.

Blind Spot (2019) 6/10
L'angle mort (original title)
1h 44min | Drama | 17 May 2019 (France)

 

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Felix Vereecke grows up as an insider at his father’s veteran league cycling races, an outlandish milieu with no shortage of alcohol, violence, and prohibited substances.
He wants to become a pro no matter what, excelling his father Mathieu, who seeks to fulfill his own failed dreams of cycling glory.
As an adult, Felix turns out to be incredibly gifted. When he becomes a national junior champion, he follows his own path towards the promised land of youth cycling: Italy. The merciless competition and his feeble health, however, threaten to become his downfall.

Coureur (2018) 6/10
1h 36min | Drama | 13 March 2019 (Belgium)

 

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Being fame of Liza the Fox-Fairy (2015), Hungarian filmmaker Károly Ujj Mészáros returns with a solid and stylish thriller that sets its heights high with a focus on ideological issues and the weight of the past with some intriguing dips into Hungary’s history of politics, corruption, and extra-judicial killings. A very well Cinematography, unexpected ways and from unusual perspectives, along with excellent sound design and composition.
Once a great investigator, troubled ex-detective has discovered a serial murder case. Now suffers from a panic disorder. She can no longer visit crime scenes and relies on photos to uncover details other investigators miss. But when a fellow detective pushes her back into the game to examine a series of mysterious deaths, they uncover much more and dig much deeper than they expect.


X - The eXploited (2018) 7.5/10
X. (original title)
1h 54min | Crime, Thriller | 1 November 2018 (Hungary)

 

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Based on true events, Ana is a seamstress who lost her son 18 years ago when he was allegedly stillborn. As Ana has never seen the body of her son, nor been informed of where he was buried, she is still unable to let go of the notion that Stefan, as he was named for the purpose of the death certificate, might be alive, and perhaps even within her reach. Ana keeps trying to find out the truth.


Stitches (2019) 5/10
Savovi (original title)
1h 45min | Drama, Thriller | 11 February 2019

 

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TO SAVE A LIFE MEANS TO SAVE THE WORLD
Hardly anyone would have predicted that Žanis Lipke would miraculously become a hero. He was a completely ordinary Latvian blue-collar worker. In order to be able to support his family under wartime conditions, he worked at the German military aviation warehouses and supplemented his income by smuggling at night. This film attempts to answer the question of whether Žanis’ courage stems from his adventurous and daring spirit, stubbornness, or a sense of responsibility towards people in need. ×


The Mover (2018) 6.5/10
1h 30min | History | 18 October 2018 (Latvia)

 

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Antonia Berger, a young German and enthusiastic Communist, goes to the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Whilst there, she is accused of spying and sent to Vorkuta’s labor camp. After being released from the gulag in 1952, she manages to return home to the new socialist East German state with her daughter Lydia. Antonia is forced by her party comrades to keep her terrible experiences secret for the common good. It is only after Stalin's death that she speaks out about her time in the Soviet Union. But her newly regained freedom is taken away from her again when her lover, a committed Communist, informs the authorities. Antonia has to make a choice – between truth or the present.

Sealed Lips (2018) 6/10
Warum? (original title)
1h 48min | Drama | 5 September 2019 (Germany)

 

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Set towards the end of World War II, Kaede Itakura, who leads kindergartners, and Mitsue Nonomiya, who enjoys music, persuades the parents at the school to take their children out of Tokyo. They seek shelter at an abandoned temple in Saitama while Tokyo is bombed.


Organ (2019) 4/10
Ano Hi No Orugan (original title)
Family, War | 22 February 2019 (Japan)

 

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Vivere revolves around the Attorre family, who live in a decent suburb in a terraced house. Luca, a freelance journalist, and packager of colored items, barely making a living in the newspapers, while Susi (Ramazzotti), a dancer, has been reduced to teaching overweight ladies, and Lucilla, their six-year-old daughter, is quiet and imaginative but suffers from asthma. In a magnificent and incomprehensible Rome, multi-layered, maternal yet unkind, Mary Ann, an Irish art history student, touches down to start a new job as an au pair to the little Lucilla. One year in Italy at the Attorre home will prove to be full of legitimate and illicit ties, friendship and love.

Vivere (2019) 6/10
Drama | 26 September 2019 (Italy)

 

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These young women are an odd couple. Julie is quick-witted and stubborn. She celebrates idleness and even voluntarily checks into a psychiatric clinic. Nurse Agnes, on the other hand, is always eager to do the right thing and to meet everyone’s expectations of her, which is not always easy. When the two of them accidentally meet one day, odds are they won’t get along. But they quickly feel attracted to one another, despite their enormous differences.

Stillstehen (2019) 4/10
Drama | 2 July 2019 (Germany)

 

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Egor Korshunov (40) is a Siberian forest guard who works in a local environmental company, fighting fearlessly against poachers in the taiga. Egor is a great family man, respected by his fellow villagers. He and his wife Natalia are expecting a second child. Unexpectedly, Egor finds out that he has terminal cancer and has only two months left to live. No traditional medicine or shamanic magic can save Egor. Finally, left with no other options, he decides to take the last desperate step. He attempts to completely change his identity in order to fool the oncoming death.


The Man Who Surprised Everyone (2018) 5/10
Chelovek, kotoryy udivil vsekh (original title)
1h 45min | Drama | 25 October 2018 (Russia)

 

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Wanda's world has been turned upside down when her teenage daughter Nina suddenly turns up in a hijab. Nina has secretly converted to Islam.

Womit haben wir das verdient? (2018) 4/10
1h 31min | Comedy | 30 November 2018 (Austria)