Foreign Language – MovieLog

Bordertown: The Mural Murders (2021)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:59:31 +0000

When the imprisoned serial killer Lasse Maasalo’s face and a text Let’s make the world a better place are painted to an underpass with blood, Kari Sorjonen is forced to confront the most difficult case of his career.

Sorjonen: Muraalimurhat

Juuso Syrjä

Finland

6.3

IMDb

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Absolution (2015)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:59:27 +0000

Kiia and Lauri are speeding down a dark country road, anxious to reach the hospital because Kiia has gone into premature labour. Their car hits something. Lauri goes to take a look, and tells his wife he saw nothing. They rush to the hospital, and Kiia gives birth to a healthy baby boy. While in the hospital, Kiia meets Hanna, a woman whose husband is in a coma, the victim of a hit-and-run driver. Kiia befriends Hanna and desperately tries to help her without revealing her role in the accident. When the truth finally dawns, will it be too late to forgive?

Henkesi Edestä

Petri Kotwica

Finland

6.3

IMDb

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Raid, The (2011)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:49:38 +0000

In Jakarta, Indonesia, Lieutenant Wahyu organizes the invasion of an apartment building that is the safe house of the powerful and cruel drug lord Tama and his gang. The SWAT team breaks in the building but one lookout sees and warns the gangsters and the police force is trapped on the seventh floor. They learn that Lt. Wahyu has not informed his superiors about the operation. Now the police officers have to fight with limited ammunition against the armed and dangerous gangsters.

Serbuan Maut

The Raid: Redemption

When there’s nowhere left to run or hide… you fight or die.

Gareth Evans

Indonesia

7.6

IMDb

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Hero (2002)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:46:54 +0000

In ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin’s three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victory.

Ying Xiong

Kono kuni wa mada, hontô no hero wo shiranai [Japan] (This land doesn’t know a real hero. Yet.)

Yimou Zhang

China, Hong Kong

7.9

IMDb

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New World (2013)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:46:48 +0000

As Korea’s biggest crime organization ‘Goldmoon’ expands its powers, Kang, the head of police investigation planning department, orders the undercover cop Ja-Seoung to participate in project New World, that will take down ‘Goldmoon’. Ja-seong must choose either to follow Kang’s orders as a cop or to keep his loyalty with Jeong Cheong, the under-boss of the ‘Goldmoon’ crime organization.

New World

Shin-sae-gye

Trust No One

Hoon-jung Park

South Korea

7.5

IMDb

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Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow (1978)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:46:44 +0000

An orphan who has been raised at a kung fu school, where he is treated as little more than a dogsbody and practice target for the students, has a life-changing experience after helping an old peripatetic beggar.

Se Ying Diu Sau

Bruce vs. Snake in Eagle’s Shadow, nake and the Eagle’s Shadow, agle’s Shadow

Woo-Ping Yuen

Hong Kong

7.3

IMDb

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Confession Of Murder (2012)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:46:32 +0000

Lee Du-seok publishes an autobiography describing murders he committed after the statute of limitations expires. A detective and one of the victim’s mothers search for the author while another killer begins a spree of murders.

Nae-ga Sal-in-beom-i-da

Byeong-gil Jeong

South Korea

6.8

IMDb

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Three Colors: White (1994)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:46:29 +0000

Second of a trilogy of films dealing with contemporary French society shows a Polish immigrant who wants to get even with his ex-wife.

Trois Couleurs: Blanc

Krzysztof Kieslowski

France, Poland, Switzerland

7.6

IMDb

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Three Colors: Red (1994)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:46:28 +0000

Final entry in a trilogy of films dealing with contemporary French society concerns a model who discovers her neighbour is keen on invading people’s privacy.

Trois Couleurs: Rouge

Krzysztof Kieslowski

France, Switzerland, Poland

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Breaking The Waves (1996)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:23:26 +0000

Drama set in a repressed, deeply religious community in the north of Scotland, where a naive young woman named Bess McNeil meets and falls in love with Danish oil-rig worker Jan. Bess and Jan are deeply in love but, when Jan returns to his rig, Bess prays to God that he returns for good. Jan does return, his neck broken in an accident aboard the rig. Because of his condition, Jan and Bess are now unable to enjoy a sexual relationship and Jan urges Bess to take another lover and tell him the details. As Bess becomes more and more deviant in her sexual behavior, the more she comes to believe that her actions are guided by God and are helping Jan recover., p class=’origtitle’>Breaking The Waves

Love is a mighty power.

Lars von Trier

Spain, Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland

7.8

IMDb

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