Shreeux's Movie Chronicles

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Watched in 17th Chennai International Film Festival

Averno, a place where the Andean inhabitants believe that the dead coexist with the living and where everything finds its opposite face. Many have heard of it but very few have seen it; Tupah, a young shoe shiner must find it to rescue his uncle.

Averno (2018) 5/10
1h 27min | Adventure | 11 January 2018 (Bolivia)

 

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Watched in 17th Chennai International Film Festival

Killing Jesus paints a gritty, raw portrait of grief, revenge, systemic poverty, and inescapable cycles of violence.

Killing Jesus (2017) 6/10
Matar a Jesús (original title)
TV-MA | 1h 35min | Drama | 13 April 2018

 

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Watched in 17th Chennai International Film Festival

Eva and Candela face the end of their relationship. They met and fell in love but what brought them together would separate them. Their professional dreams would become their end.

Eva and Candela (2018) 5/10
¿Cómo te llamas? (original title)
1h 29min | Drama | 29 March 2019 (USA)

 

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Watched in 17th Chennai International Film Festival

Nina, a teacher in her mid-30s struggling to have a child, looks for a surrogate mother. It would seem that together with her husband she has found an ideal candidate, yet Nina falls for the woman, who could have given birth to her child.

Nina (2018) 4/10
2h 10min | Drama, Romance | 5 October 2018 (Poland)

 

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In the mid-1990s, a loyal South Korean secret agent is caught in a political vortex plotted by the ruling classes of North and South Korea.

The Spy Gone North (2018) 6/10
Gongjak (original title)
Not Rated | 2h 17min | Drama | 17 August 2018

 

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In this suspenseful erotic drama, the private male secretary and lover of Madam Baek, a Korean conglomerate’s middle-aged matriarch, falls for her more genuine daughter. Meanwhile, Madam Baek’s husband has an affair with the Filipino nanny.


The Taste of Money (2012) 5/10
Donui mat (original title)
Unrated | 1h 55min | Drama, Thriller | 25 January 2013

 

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A young Buenos Aires mother and sex worker suffers the hypocrisy of the laws that are supposed to protect her, in this compelling, profoundly political drama about the dismal choices foisted upon vulnerable women.


Alanis (2017) 5/10
1h 22min | Drama | 30 November 2018

 

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A German emergency doctor takes a well-deserved vacation from her long nights of saving lives and flies to the sunny rocks of Gibraltar in order to fulfill one of her forever dreams.

Styx (2018) 5.5/10
1h 34min | Drama | 13 September 2018

 

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FRIENDSHIP IS THE WILDEST ADVENTURE OF ALL
A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.


Mia and the White Lion (2018) 6/10
Mia et le lion blanc (original title)
PG | 1h 38min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 12 April 2019

 

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Watched in 17th Chennai International Film Festival

Two young women come into conflict with the conservatism and patriarchalism of Madrid's Roma community when they fall in love.

Carmen & Lola (2018) 4.5/10
Carmen y Lola (original title)
1h 43min | Drama, Romance | 14 November 2018

 

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Watched in 17th Chennai International Film Festival

The story set in a rural area that is practically a no man’s land, where there is a thin line between tragedy and comedy. Considering the vivid overexposure of his heroes’ characters, most of which are played by actual locals.

Volcano (2018) 5/10
1h 44min | Comedy, Drama |

 

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Watched in 17th Chennai International Film Festival

Mug is a strange, engaging film – well and potently acted and directed, a drama that puts you inside its extended community with a mix of robust realism and a streak of fantasy comedy.

Mug (2018) 5/10
Twarz (original title)
1h 31min | Comedy, Drama | 6 April 2018

 

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Watched in 17th Chennai International Film Festival

While Chinese queer directors have explored trans characters and featured trans actors before, Zhang Wei’s, The Rib is the first mainstream feature film to interrogate contemporary Chinese society’s transphobia.

The Rib (2018) 5/10
1h 25min | Drama | 7 October 2018

 

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Watched in 17th Chennai International Film Festival

The pregnancy of a young, unmarried Moroccan girl is the basis for an intimate women’s drama and exposé of social hypocrisy in Meryem Benm’Barek’s debut feature film.

Sofia (2018) 5.5/10
1h 20min | Drama | 5 September 2018

 

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A slow burn thriller...After the wife being rape within their own home, her husband takes avenge in a peculiar form of violence.


The Silence of the Sky (2016) 6/10
O Silêncio do Céu (original title)
1h 42min | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 25 January 2017

 

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Watched in 17th Chennai International Film Festival

Growing up in the Moroccan village of Tazzeka, Elias learned the secrets of traditional Moroccan cuisine from his grandmother who raised him. Years later, meeting a top Paris chef and a young woman named Salma inspires him to leave home.

Tazzeka (2018) 4.5/10
1h 35min | Comedy | 30 November 2018

 

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Watched in 17th Chennai International Film Festival

The drama of a woman stands out who must reexamine her past and her attitude towards her father from the discovery of the corpse of this, many years after having disappeared: the progenitor passes from scoundrel to victim, and from unscrupulous to murdered.

When You No Longer Love Me (2018) 5.5/10
Cuando dejes de quererme (original title)
1h 41min | Drama, Thriller | 16 February 2018

 

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A deep investigate a mysterious abandoned German facility located deep underground. What they find is a fate worse than death.

Trench 11 (2017) 4.5/10
Not Rated | 1h 30min | Horror, Thriller, War | 11 September 2018

 

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A young boy drowned in backwoods waters, A garbage man plays detective, embarking on a precarious and obsessive investigation to prove the boy was murdered.


A Dark Place (2018) 5/10
Steel Country (original title)
1h 29min | Mystery, Thriller | 19 April 2019

 

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GRIEF. ANGER. VENGEANCE.

On the outskirts of a kingdom, a quiet but fierce medieval warrior protects the realm from monsters and the occult. His gruesome collection of heads is missing only one – the monster that killed his daughter years ago. Driven by a thirst for revenge, he travels wild expanses on horseback. When his second chance arrives, it’s in a way far more horrifying than he ever imagined.

The Head Hunter (2018) 5/10
1h 12min | Fantasy, Horror | 5 April 2019