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Kham grew up with elephants in Thailand. To him elephants are majestic creatures, bred for peace, but prepared for war. When an evil Asian gang kidnap a bull and baby elephant during a festival, they are smuggled into Sydney, Australia. Kham must travel to a foreign land, and unravel a conspiracy that will reach into the highest levels of Australian law and business circles. With only his Muy Thai fighting techniques, and a disgraced Thai-descent...
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Thai
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“You find yourself moved, even enchanted, by the beautiful, oblique stories unfolding before your eyes… SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY is split in two. The first half takes place at a quiet rural hospital, while the second unfolds at a much larger and more modern urban medical complex… The beauty of the film is an aspect partly of its patient attention to faces, trees, landscapes and architectures, and partly of the subtle precision of the camera movements…...
4) Noise
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 4
Language
Thai
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Noise: Two heinous crimes have left a suburban town reeling. As the local community enfolds itself in a shroud of secrecy, borne from fear and an untrammeled mistrust of authority, the police remain desperate for witnesses. Graham McGahan, a young police constable suffering from a chronic hearing problem, is stationed at a police caravan near the crime scene. Living on the periphery of the investigation, McGahan crosses paths with the people affected...
5) Headshot
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Thai
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A darkly turbulent crime noir, HEADSHOT is an existential thriller, ripe with shadowy paranoia. This disorienting game of cat and mouse is played out in present-day Thailand, where corruption runs rampant and the good die young. When Tul, a straight-laced cop, is blackmailed by a powerful politician he soon becomes disillusioned by the state of human nature and, in his vengeful condition, is recruited to become a hitman for an iconoclastic group aimed...
7) P
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Thai
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While growing up in rural Thailand, a young and beautiful orphan girl is taught the mysterious art of dark magic by her grandmother. When her grandmother falls sick, young Dau travels to Bangkok looking for work in order to earn enough money for medicine. She lands a job as an exotic dancer at a go-go club. Hesitant at first and ridiculed by the other dancers, circumstances force Dau to become an adult before her time and ultimately becomes the most...
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Thai
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s spiritual tale involves soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. The memory-filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira, as she watches over Itt, a handsome soldier with no family visitors. Jen befriends young medium Keng who uses her psychic powers to help loved ones communicate with the comatose men. Doctors explore ways, including...
10) Mother
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Thai
Description
In a small village in Thailand, Pomm takes care of Europeans with Alzheimer's. Separated from her children, she helps Elisabeth during the final stages of her life, as a new patient arrives from Switzerland. Pomm has sacrificed being close to her children in order to earn a better living. Meanwhile in Switzerland, a family prepares to say goodbye to their MOTHERr; a woman who has developed Alzheimer's in her 50s. Both Pomm and her patients are trying...
11) Bouyancy
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Thai
Description
This story of a Cambodian teenager sold into forced labor on a Thai fishing boat is a passionate testimony against social injustice and a moving coming-of-age tale about a boy whose humanity is put to the test. Spirited 14-year-old Chakra works the rice fields with his family. He yearns for independence and seeks out a local broker who can get him paid work in a Thai factory. Without telling his family, Chakra travels to Bangkok to make his fortune....
12) Whores' glory
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Thai
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Whores' glory, the third film in Michael Glawogger's globalization trilogy (following Megacities, Workingman's death), is an explicit and unflinching exposé of global prostitution. Glawogger's latest larger-than-life documentary is an audacious, non-judgmental study of sexuality, politics, human behavior and the effects of capital and religion on both women and men from starkly different cultures.
13) Hit man file
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Thai
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Equal parts violent and sensual, Hit man file is a flashy new Asian action film with a distinctive Thai identity.
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Thai
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A re-make of the Indian/Malaysian film Drishyam, this Chinese box-office blockbuster is a Hollywood-esque cat-and-mouse crime thriller. Working family man and self-described movie-geek Li (Xiao Yang) is thrown into a battle of wits with the law after his daughter accidentally kills, and his wife hurriedly buries, a fellow student who had sexually molested her. The dead boy’s father is an ambitious politician, and his mother (Twin Peaks’ Joan Chen)...
15) Pop Aye
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Thai
Description
A successful Bangkok architect in the midst of a midlife crisis is reunited with an elephant he knew growing up. The two embark on a road trip to the man's childhood home in the idyllic Thai countryside. Along the way, they meet a colorful cast of characters, including a pair of nonplussed local police officers, a forlorn transgender sex worker, and a mysteriously wise drifter. As the encounters mount and the bond between man and elephant deepens,...
16) Ghost of Mae Nak
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Thai
Description
A pair of young newlyweds acquire an old abandoned house in Bangkok that soon brings them into contact with Mae Nak, a vengeful spirit of horror and despair. While Mae Nak's ghost protects the couple from unscrupulous visitors, it soon becomes apparent that she expects a terrible favor in return. Only by setting Mae Nak's spirit free will the couple have any chance of surviving her deadly wrath.
17) Chocolate
Language
Thai
Description
A young girl learns to fight from watching TV and the fighters at the boxing school next door. She sets upon a violent quest to collect payment for her ailing mother's medical expenses which ultimately leads her to her father, a member of the Yakuza.
18) The overture
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Thai
Description
Inspired by the life of maestro Luang Pradith Phairao, the storied master of the ranard-ek -- Thailand's traditional wooden xylophone -- The overture is a boldly conceived, stunningly beautiful story bursting with color, energy, and music.
19) The victim
Language
Thai
Description
Ting is an aspiring actress who dreams of becoming famous. One day the police ask her to help solve a murder case by portraying the victim in the reenactment of the crime. Ting relishes the opportunity and is quickly asked to recreate fatal experiences of other victims. Now a local celebrity, Ting is invited to reenact a very high-profile murder case. The victim is a former Miss Thailand and the murder especially gruesome and peculiar. However,...
20) Dorm
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Thai
Description
In Thailand, the young Ton Chatree is sent to a boarding school by his father to study harder and have less entertainment with television. Once in the school, Ton feels outcast and misses his family and friends. He becomes scared with the ghost stories his new schoolmates tell about a boy that died in the swimming pool and a young pregnant woman that committed suicide. He becomes a close friend of the also lonely boy Vichien, and later Ton realizes...
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