Best of 2011

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Mou gaan dou aka Infernal Affairs (Hong Kong , 2002)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1 Release Year - 2002Country - Hong KongGenres - Crime | Mystery | Thriller IMDB page Synopsis: A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop. Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later,...

Chinjeolhan geumjassi aka Lady Vengeance (South Korea , 2005)

Ratings - IMDB - 7.7 Release Year - 2005Country - South KoreaGenres - Crime | Drama | Thriller IMDB page Synopsis: Third and final part of "The Vengeance trilogy" After thirteen and half years in prison for kidnapping and murdering the boy Park Won-mo, Geum-ja Lee is released and tries to fix her life. She finds a job in a bakery; she orders the manufacturing of a special weapon; she reunites with her daughter, who was adopted by an Australian ...

Oldeuboi aka Oldboy (South Korea , 2003)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.4Release Year - 2003Country - South KoreaGenres - Drama | Mystery | Thriller IMDB page Synopsis: Second part of "The Vengeance trilogy" After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in 5 days. An average man is kidnapped and imprisoned in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. He then is released, equipped with money, a cellphone and...

Boksuneun naui geot aka Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance ( South Korea , 2002)

Ratings - IMDB - 7.8Release Year - 2002Country - South KoreaGenres - Crime | Drama | Thriller IMDB page Synopsis: First part of "The Vengeance trilogy" A recently laid off factory worker kidnaps his former boss' daughter, hoping to use the ransom money to pay for his sister's kidney transplant. In Seoul, Ryu, a deaf worker has a sister who needs a kidney transplant. He tries to donate his own kidney to his sister, but his blood...

Fa yeung nin wa aka In the Mood for Love (Hong Kong , 2000)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1 | Metacritic - 85 Release Year - 2000 Country - Hong Kong Genres - Drama | Romance IMDB page | Metacritic page Synopsis: Second part of "Days of Being Wild - In the Mood for Love - 2046" trilogy A man and a woman move in to neighboring Hong Kong apartments and form a bond when they both suspect their spouses of extra-marital activities. Set in Hong Kong, 1962, Chow Mo-Wan is a newspaper editor who moves into ...

2046 (Hong Kong , 2004)

Ratings - IMDB – 7.5 | Metacritic - 78 Release Year - 2004 Country - Hong Kong Genres – Drama | Fantasy | Romance IMDB page Synopsis - Third and final part of "Days of Being Wild - In the Mood for Love - 2046" trilogy He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went there had the same intention.....to...

A Fei jingjyuhn aka Days of Being Wild (Hong Kong , 1990)

Ratings - IMDB – 7.6 | Metacritic - 96 Release Year -1990 Country - Hong Kong Genres – Crime | Drama | Romance IMDB page Synopsis - First part of "Days of Being Wild - In the Mood for Love - 2046" trilogy Set in 1960, the film centres on the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy, who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Hoping to hold onto him, she refuses to divulge the name...

Balkanski spijun aka Balkan Spy (Yugoslavia , 1984)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.5 Release Year -1984 Country - Yugoslavia Genres – Comedy IMDB page Synopsis - Ilija Cvorovic is called by the secret police to routinely answer questions about his neighbour, businessman who had returned from the West. After that talk, Cvorovic is convinced that his neighbour represents the greatest threat to national security and begins his own surveillance operation against the innocent man. Download...

Esperando la carroza aka Waiting for the Hearse (Argentina , 1985)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.1 Release Year -1985 Country - Argentina Genres – Comedy IMDB page Synopsis - Each member of this family tries to endorse someone else to care for the old Mother. Mamá Cora (Antonio Gasalla) is about 80 years old and she has three sons and a daughter. Mamá lives with one of them, unfortunately, the one who is in the worst economic position. One day, all the members of the family have a reunion to...

El laberinto del fauno aka Pan's Labyrinth (Spain , 2006)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.4 | Metacritic - 98 Release Year -2006 Country - Spain Genres – Drama | Fantasy | Mystery IMDB page Synopsis - In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. In 1944 fascist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain...

Bienvenido Mister Marshall aka Welcome Mr. Marshall! (Spain , 1953)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.1 Release Year -1953 Country - Spain Genres – Comedy IMDB page Synopsis - After finding out that North American people are visiting the Spanish villages, the citizens of Villar del Río start preparing themselves to welcome them when they arrive. The little village of Villar del Río is awaiting the song performance of Carmen Vargas, 'The Great Andalusian Star'. The quiet village is governed by a deaf,...

Okuribito aka Departures (Japan , 2008)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1 | Metacritic - 68 Release Year - 2008 Country - Japan Genres - Drama | Music IMDB page Synopsis: A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals. Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled...

Hadashi no Gen aka Barefoot Gen (Japan , 1983)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.1 Release Year -1983 Country - Japan Genres – Animation | Drama | War IMDB page Synopsis - A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people. Gen and his family are living in Hiroshima as Japan nears the end of World War II. Gen's father has come to believe that the war is unwinnable, thus earning the...

Maratonci trce pocasni krug aka The Marathon Family (Yugoslavia , 1982)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.3 Release Year -1982 Country - Yugoslavia Genres – Comedy IMDB page Synopsis - The Topalovic family has been in the burial business for generations. When the old (150 yrs old) Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance. Download Links (w English Subs) The_Marathon_Family_Maratonci_Trce_Pocasni_Krug_(1982).part1.rar.html The_Marathon_Family_Maraton...

Il Posto (Italy , 1961)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.1 Release Year -1961 Country - Italy Genres – Comedy | Drama IMDB page Synopsis - Domenico and Antonietta are two suburban Italian youths who meet while seeking "a job for life" from a big city corporation. After a bizarre screening process made up of written exams, physical agility exercises, and interview questions such as "Do you drink to forget your troubles?" (Domenico and Antonietta are no older...

Flop Show (TV Series , India - Hindi , 1989)

Ratings - IMDB – 9.4 Release Year -1989 Country - India (Hindi) Genres – Comedy IMDB page Synopsis - 10 Episode TV Series This Indian comedy series came on Doordarshan in the late 80s, early 90s, when high-end production sets and the juggernaut of cable networks had yet to infiltrate the Indian public. Surprisingly, the series was incredibly funny and served up satire of the then social situations. The TV serial was made...

Apur Sansar aka The World of Apu (India , 1959)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.0 Release Year -1959 Country - India Genres – Drama IMDB page Synopsis – Third and final part of "The Apu Trilogy" Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding. This changes his life, for when the bridegroom turns out to be mad, Apu's friend asks him to become the husband! After initial revulsion at the...