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Obce Niebo

children 09:08:00
We live in times when emigrating for financial/professional reasons is a norm. By student exchange programs we program our children to get used to the fact that they will live abroad. We push them into circumstances distant from their motherlands where mother tongues are not understood by friends and workmates. We create an economic melting pot.  The different country requires you to live...
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Crimson Peak

brothers 09:06:00
Once in a while, a stone is put in a ring of perfect size, perfect shape, and perfect color. Once in a while, a movie is made with the perfect cast, compelling plot and setting breathtaking with minute details. I'm not a fan of horror films where blood and guts are spread on the screen for no good reason. But I'm a fan...
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Kick-Ass

children 11:56:00
We need heroes. We need someone who in times of danger, famine, war or violence will make us feel that there is still justice in the world. We obsess over Superman, Spiderman, Ironman and we are besotted with the idea that under the disguise of an exceptional, strong and a man of unsurpassed abilities there's a plain guy: a little bit geeky, unlucky...
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Tropic Thunder

action 11:38:00
Who told us that we should be fond of entertainment of the highest level? Who forbids us to laugh at the most vulgar and humiliating acts of human nature? Don't you fart, burp, digest with the volume of a loudspeaker? Have you never fallen down, tripped, slipped on a slippery road? Are you always nitpickingly perfect? I suppose not. And as far as...
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Lady Chatterley's Lover

love 11:37:00
First loves. First jobs. First marriages. There are very few lucky people who were successful from the very beginning. The majority of us managed to accomplish what we have already achieved by trial and error, making countless mistakes, hurting other people and being hurt on the way. Classic stories rarely lose any of their impacts. However times might change, people need to be...
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Fight Club

action 11:35:00
Have you been lost in life which circulates around jobs, reports, boredom, stresses, work, shopping, home, shopping again, fitness activities, shopping again, lunches at a cafeteria, boredom again, shopping again, mortgage, work again, shopping again? Have you been stuck in the western civilization? Can you see the emptiness of it all? Do you crave wild and exotic vacation to change your lifestyle just...
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Garden State

friendship 11:35:00
Adulthood. When you're young you start a race towards adult life, having in mind better, more independent, happier. And then you're an adult and it seems that nothing has changed. Your family situation, life problems, unsolved dilemmas will always come back and remind you of themselves like old friends popping up on your Facebook wall now and again. You think you can move...
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A Room With a View

Helena Bonham Carter 02:59:00
Edwardian bliss not yet destroyed by war when (for the better-off of course) life was peaceful, safely adventurous and class-oriented. What do you take into account when you decide on who to marry? Does the opinion of your family matter? Do you still consider yourself a part of a bigger group and do you need the approval of your relatives and friends in...
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Overfed and Undernourished

children 02:54:00
The topic of the wrong food that makes our society obese tends to come back to us as our bad eating habits constantly reappear with the force of a boomerang. We think we know how to eat healthily, how to avoid fast foods, how to keep the balance in life. Still, we are tempted by delicious cakes, crispy crisps, chocolate toppings, fatty burgers,...
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Stoker

family 02:53:00
Family relations may be a little bit different than what appearances might suggest. Love may not be love, innocence might be the cover of bestiality and relationships can be layered with second bottoms. Have you asked your family members all the important questions? Do you know who is to be trusted and who irrevocably betrayed the trust? Or do you want to experience...
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Lost in Translation

Bill Murray 02:50:00
Tokyo. The paradise of tradition, orient, and sushi. A city both intriguing and unexplored. Consumptive culture, the most modern technology, manga, anime and the most bizarre sexual toys mixed with established norms, the division of roles and a very strict code of conducting business. For a foreigner, it's a jungle of stimulants of senses. Your taste, smell, and sense of hearing are subjected...
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Submarine

children 00:57:00
Adolescence. First loves. Rites of passage. Messed-up parents. Relationships that last and don't last, building and destroying our idea of love and friendship. Growing up is difficult. Childhood is over and staying in one little submarine of distant observation doesn't do the trick. You won't experience life if you don't get wet. A good film for those who are still growing up. And...
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Hocus Pocus

adventure 00:55:00
Sometimes we need to forget about school, duties and family dilemmas. We crave autumn's charm and hot-chocolate-cup/under-a-blanket entertainment. We desire magic and mystery. It's one of my favorite childhood films when the dead come back from the grave when witches are released from their prison of time and memory, when salt is your best weapon and when simple trick-or-treat changes into an adventure...
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Never Let Me Go

Andrew Garfield 00:54:00
The question of people's purpose on this planet is yet to be answered. Are we here to fulfill God's plan? Are we here for a higher purpose? Are we here only as another species - a little bit more socially and technologically developed - and we need to procreate? What if some of us were brought to this world to serve another purpose,...
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Stigmata

church 00:52:00
There are very few people who nowadays don't question the authority of the Church. There are some laws which seem to us inhumane, not modern enough, inadequate to the needs of contemporary families and individuals. But if you believe in God can you keep the Church entirely at bay? If you live in an informal relationship, if you have a child out of...
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On the nature of pictures

*Every Google image belongs to someone and this someone should be noted. However, if pictures are scenes from the film they most probably belong to owners of the film/producers. I use saved screens of the Google compilation of pictures, thus the pictures of pictures, which I take, cut and edit myself (as a derivative use). They are used for reviewing purposes (fair use), not for diminishing the films' profits by stealing what rightly belongs to them. Copyright is tricky, let's get used to it.