Last Stop 174 (Rio 174)
Based on a true story, Last Stop 174 tells the stories of two boys, Alessandro and Sandro, orphans who drift into crime and bond in prison. The movie also chronicles the parallel saga of Alessandros religious mother, Marissa, searching for the infant son taken from her by the drug lord of the ghetto where she lived. The three stories intertwine and culminate in the violent and dramatic hijacking of city bus 174 on the busy streets of Rio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmG9_rr2j8YUP THE YANGTZE ( documentry, but it feels like a movie, it's that good of storytelling)
A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze, navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." In the biggest engineering endeavour since the Great Wall, China has set out to harness the Yangtze with the world's largest mega-dam.
Meanwhile at the river's edge Yu Shui says goodbye to her family and turns to face the future. From their small patch of land, her parents watch the young woman walk away, her belongings clutched in a plastic shopping bag. The waters are rising.
The Three Gorges Dam, gargantuan and hotly contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle, provides the epic and unsettling backdrop for Up the Yangtze, a dramatic and disquieting feature documentary on life inside the 21st century Chinese dream.
Stunningly photographed and beautifully composed, Up the Yangtze juxtaposes the poignant and sharply observed details of Yu Shui's story against the monumental and ominous forces at work all around her.
Among the two million losing their livelihood to the dam, the Yu family must send their daughter off to work. In a bitter irony she's been hired by Farewell Cruises, part of the strange apocalyptic tourist trade that thrives along the river, offering a final glimpse of a legendary world before it disappears forever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV3tQ7G2Ve4Intacto ( Thriller) ( Spain)
The protagonist has the ability to steal other people's luck. He uses it in a game of luck against others who have the 'gift'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TqUMw18ZCwDon't Tempt Me
Pretty good film, made me have the hots for Penelope Cruz, and pretty funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08VC7J8iIB0
Topic: 'Foreign' film recommendations