Dating process and getting to know each other is hard enough but imagine that your partner's short-term memory is fractured and you have to start the whole process all over again every day. On one hand, it's frustrating, on the other hand, it gives you so many opportunities to be creative and to fall in love not once but many times. An uplifting comedy which proves that love is about meeting the right person and then everything falls into place. 50 First Dates.
For centuries there was something wrong with the perception of women. While girls were supposed to stay virgins until their wedding day, boys were expected to gain manhood in the company of whores. Once a woman stopped being the man's property and was allowed the same voting rights, the inequality exposed itself in her professional and personal life. It was a woman who earned less than a man, it was a woman who had to make a choice between family and career. Men had best of both worlds and they took it for granted. And while women through fight and determination gained a lot, they still cannot consider themselves equal, even though they are very often better and more experienced than men. Even Hollywood has recently presented itself as the spot for sexually abused women and abusing producers, which proves that talent for acting is valued less than talent for a good job fuck. There was, however, a field in which women could compete for respect, equality, and victory. Strong and significant, Battle of the Sexes on the tennis court.
It is never too late to fall in love. Beauty and youth might pass in time, but time, in return, gives you experience and maturity. Some things are also eternal, whether it's a good story told, love and passion, or talent for turning a simple story into magic. Sometimes you think that you are in control of your life but the fate had written your life scenario long ago and you just have to watch it unfold before you and go with the flow of fortune and misery intertwined. If you are in a mood for one unbelievable fairy tale and a whole lot of unexplained incidences, set off on the journey to see Monica Bellucci's immortal beauty, Emir Kusturica's storytelling gift and your belief in the power of love will be restored. On the Milky Road.
We are spread all over the world for some reason. In one country you can be a brilliant law graduate with a loving family, core values, and decent living conditions to be limited to a cheap workforce in another. You can have high prospects, dreams, and rules that you would never ever break but circumstances force you to disobey your code of arms and become evil. You can be hurt so much that you are able to hurt as much as you have been hurt. We are spread all over the world for various reasons: some of us wanted to have better money and opportunities for survival for their families, others wanted to pursue dreams but were happy with what they were offered by fate. Some were deceived by chances, prospects, and money. Some covered miles to find peace. A bittersweet truth about emigration: The Paradise Suite.
You'd think that in the case of kidnapping your beloved ones will be there for you, they will turn the world upside down to pay the ransom, devote their last penny, liquidate their savings, beg for loans just to get back your precious body from the hands of unscrupulous criminals. In reality, however, your comeback might be less than awaited and the situation can open your eyes widely and show you who really cares and who doesn't give a shit. A story of an unwanted wife and a couple of kidnappers who became a case of tongue-in-cheek Stockholm syndrome. Ruthless People.
Remember Romeo and Juliet, who tried to love each other despite opposing families? Recall Tristan and Isolde, who fell for each other despite knight's word and wife's promise to another man? We love forbidden love, as love is hard to find. It disappears somewhere in the pursuit of money, career, and material things. It deceives you, pushes you into life scenarios you are not ready for, it makes you compromise your dreams, wishes, and ideals. It's a dream that turns into the nightmare of money division, calling names, grudges, irreconcilable differences and alimony. It leaves you heartbroken to teach you that you can love again. At times, two lost and hurt souls find each other at the crossroads and there is nothing which holds them back. Freedom, crime, and a journey of no return for contemporary young lovers with beautiful Sweden in the background. Enjoy.
Do you always picture yourself as the good guy? Are you here for justice, peace, the well-being of the poorest? Are you a savior like Batman, Robin Hood and Harry Potter, willing to die for others in the endless battle of good and evil? Or maybe one day you wake up not entirely sure on which side of the spectrum you are? Lost love, mystery and a great parody of American hypocrisy and pursuit of fame and publicity. Horns, maybe in truth you are the incarnation of evil. Enjoy.
It's apparently never too late to meet a genuine friend who will take you from the group of fake and pretentious people and add some rays of sunlight to your gloomy monotonous days. You can be separated by everything: age, background, culture, religion, and diet, but there is something that pulls you to each other like a firm grasp of the mother's hand. In times when true friendship is rare and hard to find, it's nice to watch something uplifting. A queen and her friend, and a whole lot of monarchy's highlights and paradoxes. Victoria & Abdul.
Any regrets? That career path that you didn't choose, that trip that you didn't go to when you were still young and full of energy, that parachute jump that you were too afraid to try. We all have things that we didn't do, experiences that we opted out of doing due to various reasons: responsibility, family problems, the lack of money, and bad timing. Unfortunately, we longer tend to remember things that we didn't do than those that we did add to our list of accomplishments. Imagine that you are struck by a disease which will soon terminate your life. What can you do before you finally part with your earthly form? Will it be a modest reminiscence of lost loves or a mindblowing adventure to experience all that there is to experience? Just get inspired. The Bucket List.
There are families which cultivate the love and passion for a vocation. Families of lawyers, doctors, actors, artists. Growing up in such a family always erases the lines between private and public life. You don't know if you're at work or if work absorbed your life, love, sex and the upbringing of your children to the extent of madness. You buy a little guitar for a football fan, you plan your children's education years in advance even though they barely can read and write, you take Cartoon Network obsessed youngsters to art galleries, and you disapprove other lifestyles, limiting any potential choices. Imagine a family which was so deep in its ways that it didn't notice the immediate danger and took fascination for a mortal threat. Medically disturbing, The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Enjoy.
Some easily get married and equally easily get divorced. Others last in a happy relationship for a lifetime, not needing any written document, official ceremony, change of surname, a white dress, and a suit. For some it's the validation of the life spent together and pride of numerous anniversaries celebrated among family and friends. For others, this is still something unreachable, illegal and condemned, even though they love and are loved in return. As many people as many lifestyles. But soon everybody (even permanent losers of the game of love) is bitten by the bug of love and desire, and there's time to do something about it. Funny and heart-warming, Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Can you put together the whole story from the bits and pieces of information that you are given to observe? Can you solve the mystery of a missing woman even though you can barely trust your own senses? Can you truly believe the ones you love or do you love the ideal of them sitting undisturbed in your head, sometimes so far away from the reality? And, can three so different women, with three different motherhood experiences, fall victim to one sinful mind of a man? An interesting outtake on women in general and one mystery to solve. The Girl on the Train.