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Yuki’s family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Though she dies in childbirth, she makes sure that the child will be raised as an assassin to kill the criminals who destroyed her family. Young Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.Read More »
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Toshiya Fujita – Shurayukihime aka Lady Snowblood (1973)
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Won-Chan Hong – Daman akeseo goohasoseo AKA Deliver Us from Evil (2020)
2011-2020CrimeSouth KoreaThrillerWon-Chan HongAn assassin goes to Thailand in order to solve a kidnapping case linked to him, and finds himself chased by a man whose sibling he killed.
From the writer of The Yellow Sea and Confession of Murder
2 wins & 3 nominationsRead More »
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Stefan Krohmer – Sommer ’04 AKA Summer ’04 (2006)
Stefan Krohmer2001-2010ArthouseGermanyThrillerA family vacation sets the stage for an often uncomfortable generational battle. Krohmer constructs an unpredictable love triangle between Miriam (Martina Gedeck), a still-radiant forty-something mother and wife, her son’s 12-year-old girlfriend, Livia (Svea Lohde) and Bill (Robert Seeliger), the charming American expat in his twenties to whom both women find themselves drawn.Read More »
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Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou – Talk to Me (2022)
Danny Philippou2021-2030AustraliaHorrorMichael PhilippouThrillerWhen a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.Read More »
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Sang-hoon Ahn – Beul-la-in-deu aka Blind (2011)
2011-2020Sang-hoon AhnSouth KoreaThrillerA female university student goes missing one day and later is discovered as a victim of a hit-and-run. Assuming the kidnapper and the driver are the same person, police begin investigating the case and find two witnesses who were at the scene: Soo-ah, a visually impaired woman who was once a very promising student at a national police university, and Gi-seob, a young man who happened to see the hit-and run. The case becomes even more complicated as the two witnesses tell different stories about the accident.Read More »
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Lucio Fulci – Il Miele del diavolo AKA Devil’s Honey AKA Dangerous Obsession (1986)
1981-1990ExploitationItalyLucio FulciThrillerQuote: Dr. Wendell Simpson is troubled surgeon with a nagging wife, named Carol, and stressful hospital job, who botches a surgery on an injured young man, named Johnny, who then dies under his care. The man’s dangerously disturbed girlfriend, Jessica, abducts the doctor and holds him captive at her apartment and subjects him to mind games and sexual torture because she holds the doctor responsible for the death of her boyfriend which triggers hidden repressed memories about Jessica and Johnny’s times together, while Dr. Simpson finds himself pervasively drawn to this strange young woman holding him captive.Read More »
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Sheldon Larry – Quiet Killer AKA Black Death (1992)
1991-2000Sci-FiSheldon LarryThrillerUSAThe real-life Plague of Justinian that killed half of the world population in 6th century AD reappears in modern day New York City. As mass panic leads to chaos, a female doctor tries to stop the outbreak.Read More »
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Fabrice du Welz – Inexorable (2021)
Fabrice Du Welz2021-2030BelgiumThrillerThe latest from Fabrice du Welz follows a bestselling novelist who moves into an eerie old mansion in search of inspiration.Read More »
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Sang-soo Im – Hanyo AKA The Housemaid (2010)
Drama2001-2010Sang-soo ImSouth KoreaThrillerQuote:
Award-winning actress Jeon Do Yeon stars as poor divorcee Eun Yi, who gladly signs on to work as a nanny and housemaid for a wealthy, upper-crust family. In her naive eyes, the rich and handsome Hoon (Lee Jung Jae, Typhoon), his pregnant wife Hae Ra (Seo Woo, Paju), and adorable daughter (Ahn Seo Hyun) make the picture-perfect family. But that myth is soon shattered when the domineering Hoon finds his way to her bed. Their torrid affair upsets the balance of the household, unleashing a cruel power struggle as Hae Ra, her mother (Park Ji Young), and the head housekeeper (Yoon Yeo Jung) all answer with their own calculated measures.Read More »