Cine-File


Getting Home

  • Year Released: 2007

  • Director: Zhang Yang

  • Starring: Zhao Benshan, Qiwen Hong, Song Dandan, Liao Fan

  • A black comedy about a farmer who tries to bring home the body of his friend, who died far from their town.

  • The Big Lebowski

  • Year Released: 1998

  • Director: Joel Coen

  • Starring: Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi

  • Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

  • Pokémon: The First Movie

  • Year Released: 1998

  • Director: Kunihiko Yuyama

  • Starring: Mewtwo, Mew, Pikachu, Ash

  • THE POKÉMON MATCH OF ALL TIME IS HERE

  • The adventure explodes into action with the debut of Mewtwo, a bio-engineered Pokemon created from the DNA of Mew, the rarest of all Pokemon. Determined to prove its superiority, Mewtwo lures Satoshi, Pikachu and others into a Pokemon match like none before. Mewtwo vs. Mew. Super-clones vs. Pokemon. It’s the ultimate showdown … with the very future of the world at stake!

  • Safe

  • Year Released: 2013

  • Director: Byoung-gon Moon

  • Starring: Lee Min-ji, Kang Tae-young, Kim Hyun-kyu

  • A woman working as a cashier at an illegal gambling parlor pushes her luck by stealing money from gamblers as a way to pay off her own debts. When one gambler realizes he’s been cheated, he returns with murderous intent and the already dismal situation spirals out of control.

  • The Florida Project

  • Year Released: 2017

  • Director: Sean Baker

  • Starring: Willem Dafoe, Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Valeria Cotto

  • The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times. This is a masterpiece. It’s everything I want from cinema. Bold and beautiful and angry and deep and hopeful and true.

  • In the Mood for Love

  • Year Released: 2000

  • Director: Wong Kar-Wai

  • Starring:Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung

  • Taking place in Hong Kong of 1962, a melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other.

  • Pulp Fiction

  • Year Released: 1994

  • Director: Quentin Tarantino

  • Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Harvey Keite,l Eric Stoltz, Tim Roth

  • JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE A CHARACTER DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE CHARACTER.

  • A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster’s moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

  • The Lighthouse

  • Year Released: 2019

  • Director: Robert Eggers
  • Starring: Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, Valeriia Karaman
  • Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

  • A Bloody Aria

  • Year Released: 2006

  • Director: Won Shin-yun

  • Starring: Han Suk-kyu, Lee Moon-sik, Oh Dal-su, Cha Ye-ryun

  • A student and her teacher go to a secluded area in the middle of nowhere to practice open-air singing. There they run into a gang of local thugs who initially seem friendly but slowly reveal their sinister side.

  • Abigail Harm

  • Year Released: 2012

  • Director: Lee Issac Chung

  • Director: Lee Issac Chung Starring: Amanda Plummer, Will Patton, Tetsuo Kuramochi

  • Abigail Harm is a woman living in a fictionalized New York City, who, after being granted a wish by a strange visitor, asks for love and learns of a creature who might provide it. Inspired by the Korean folktale “The Woodcutter and the Nymph.

  • Minari

  • Year Released: 2020

  • Director: Lee Issac Chung

  • Starring: Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan Kim, Yuh-jung Youn

  • It’s the 1980s, and David, a seven-year-old Korean American boy, is faced with new surroundings and a different way of life when his father, Jacob, moves their family from the West Coast to rural Arkansas. His mother, Monica, is aghast that they live in a mobile home in the middle of nowhere, and naughty little David and his sister are bored and aimless. When his equally mischievous grandmother arrives from Korea to live with them, her unfamiliar ways arouse David’s curiosity. Meanwhile, Jacob, hell-bent on creating a farm on untapped soil, throws their finances, his marriage, and the stability of the family into jeopardy.

  • In Bruges

  • Year Released: 2008

  • Director: Martin McDonagh

  • Starring: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes

  • Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.

  • Taxi Driver

  • Year Released: 1976

  • Director: Martin Scorsese

  • Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel

  • A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.

  • Nomadland

  • Year Released: 2020

  • Director: Chloe Zao

  • Starring: Francis McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May

  • A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the Western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

  • Year Released: 2010

  • Director: Edgar Wright

  • Starring: Michael Cera, Anna Kendrick, Kieran Culkin, Alison Pill, Aubrey Plaza, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jason Schwartzman

  • Scott Pilgrim is a 22 year old radical Canadian wannabe rockstar who falls in love with an American delivery girl, Ramona Flowers, and must defeat her seven evil exes to be able to date her.