Shreeux's Movie Chronicles

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Capernaum is a movie full of compassion and heart, which is not to be mistaken as poverty porn as some have claimed it to be. It genuinely cares for its characters especially the wonderful Zain Al Rafeea who gives one of the best performance of the whole film.

Capernaum (2018) 7/10
Capharnaüm (original title)
R | 2h 6min | Drama | 20 September 2018 (Lebanon)

 

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Amid a coup, a North Korean agent escapes south with the country’s injured leader in an attempt to keep him alive and prevent a Korean war.


Steel Rain (2017) 6/10
Gangcheolbi (original title)
TV-MA | 2h 19min | Action | 14 March 2018

 

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HE WHO WAS A CRIMINAL AND A PATRIOT
Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.


The Drug King (2018) 5.5/10
Ma-yak-wang (original title)
Not Rated | 2h 19min | Action, Crime, Drama | 19 December 2018 (South Korea)

 

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B-Grade Movie.
Former special ops soldier, Laura Bishop, shows up for work at the largest church in America and is forced to take down a team of hijackers when she learns her daughter is trapped inside.



Atone (2019) 4/10
1h 29min | Action | 17 February 2019 (USA)

 

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BASED ON AN INCREDIBLE REAL STORY
Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.


El fotógrafo de Mauthausen (2018) 5.5/10
TV-MA | 1h 50min | Biography, Drama, History | 26 October 2018

 

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Based on true events... "The Whiskey Robber" who would drink whiskey before every robbing, notorious during the 1990s for committing a string of undercover "gentleman robberies" in and around Budapest.


The Whiskey Bandit (2017) 7/10
A Viszkis (original title)
2h 6min | Action, Adventure, Biography | 22 November 2017 (Hungary)

 

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Antonio, an unemployed man in the depressed post-WWII economy of Italy, at last finds a good job hanging up posters, the only requirement for which is that he must have his own bicycle. When Antonio’s bicycle is stolen, he and his son are forced to walk the streets of Rome in search of it, or else face ruin.


Bicycle Thieves (1948) 7/10
Ladri di biciclette (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 29min | Drama | 13 December 1949

 

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THE LEGENDS WHO TOOK DOWN BONNIE & CLYDE

Based on true events...An effective thriller beautifully shot along American landscapes.

In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to the wave of vicious crimes perpetrated by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a notorious duo of infamous robbers and cold-blooded killers who nevertheless are worshiped by the public.


The Highwaymen (2019) 6.5/10
R | 2h 12min | Crime, Drama, Mystery |

 

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The Burial of Kojo is a mesmerizing and dazzling piece of poetry shot in Ghana. It is a story of a Ghanaian father, Kojo, and his relationship with his daughter. His vengeful brother while his daughter embarks on a magical journey to rescue him.

The Burial Of Kojo (2018) 4/10
1h 20min | Drama, Thriller | 29 March 2019

 

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Director Karyn Kusama being fame of "Girlfight (2000)","Æon Flux (2005)", "The Invitation (2015)", "Jennifer's Body"

A superb central performance by Nicole Kidman and impressive aesthetic design and a new look the plot move slow paced with gripping till the end.

Destroyer (2018) 5.8/10
R | 2h 1min | Action, Crime, Drama | 27 December 2018

 

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HEROES WILL RISE
In an Albanian town known for drug production and trafficking an elite group of cops set out to end the war waged against the local police.


The Brave (2019) 6.5/10
Lazarat (original title)
Action, Crime, Thriller | 29 March 2019

 

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The great trilogy ended on an epic note. Following the conclusion of Split, Glass finds David Dunn (Bruce Willis) pursuing Kevin Wendell Crumb’s (James McAvoy) superhuman figure of The Beast in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.


Glass (2019) 5.5/10
PG-13 | 2h 9min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 18 January 2019

 

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A unique thriller movie executed blend of twisted family dramatics with black comedy and bloody violence through a pitch-perfect level of tension.


Brothers' Nest (2018) 6/10
1h 42min | Comedy, Thriller | 22 July 2019

 

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NOBODY RUNS FOREVER

Inspired by a Sam Dolnick article in the New York Times Magazine called “The Sinaloa Cartel’s 90-Year-Old Drug Mule,”

Clint at his best in a smart, in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive.

The Mule (2018) 6.5/10
R | 1h 56min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 14 December 2018

 

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A sequel as Rocky IV, Rocky Balboa, heavyweight contender Adonis Creed faces off against Viktor Drago, son of Ivan Drago.

Creed II (2018) 6.5/10
PG-13 | 2h 10min | Drama, Sport | 21 November 2018

 

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THERE ARE NO GOOD MEN
Years ago, the young Five Fingers fought for the rural town of Marseilles against brutal police oppression. Now, after fleeing in disgrace, Tau, one of them, returns to Marseilles, seeking only a peaceful life. When he finds the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it.

Five Fingers for Marseilles (2017) 5.5/10
2h | Drama, Thriller, Western | 7 September 2018 (USA)

 

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The Hong Kong police are hunting a counterfeiting gang led by a mastermind code-named “Painter”. The gang possesses exceptional counterfeiting skills which makes it difficult to distinguish the authenticity of its counterfeit currency.


Project Gutenberg (2018) 6/10
Mo seung (original title)
2h 10min | Action, Crime, Mystery | 5 October 2018

 

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A solid low-key backward-told darkly comic crime thriller. Shimmer Lake represents one of Netflix's better original films as well as an enjoyable directorial debut from Oren Uziel, with a witty and twisty script, a fittingly pitch-black sense of humor, and strong performances.


Shimmer Lake (2017) 5.5/10
TV-MA | 1h 23min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 9 June 2017

 

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Set during China's Three Kingdom's era (AD 220-280). The story of a great king and his people, who will be expelled from their homeland and will aspire to claim it. Zhang Yimou (HERO, HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS) once again pushes the boundaries of wuxia action to create a film like no other, masterfully painting a canvas of inky blacks and greys punctuated with bursts of color from the blood of the defeated.

Shadow (2018) 6.5/10
Ying (original title)
1h 56min | Action, Drama, War | 30 September 2018

 

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Goldstone is a Mystery Road thriller set in Australian Outback Western Noir. On the trail of a missing person, the troubled indigenous detective finds himself in the small mining town of Goldstone.

Goldstone (2016) 6/10
R | 1h 50min | Crime, Thriller | 7 July 2016