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Stories From The North

September 18, 2011 / Drama, Ecology & the Environment, Movie Trailers, Thai, Thailand, Uruphong Raksasad

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Reanglao jak meangnue Released: 2006 Country: Thailand Director: Uruphong Raksasad Language: Thai Theme: Ecology & The Environment Genre: Drama Summary 8 moving vignettes reveal vivid contrasts of 21st-century life among farmers/herders in Thailand’s northern mountains. Profound continuities of age-old traditions are countered by scattered but crucial technological benefits – telephones, tin roofs, [...]

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Agrarian Utopia

September 18, 2011 / Drama, Movie Trailers, Social & Economic Issues, Thai, Thailand, Uruphong Raksasad

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Sawan baan na Released: 2009 Country: Thailand Director: Uruphong Raksasad Language: Thai Theme: Social & Economic Issues Genre: Drama Summary Two families are employed by a landowner to work on his rice fields. One of them, used to own their own land, but was evicted for being unable to keep up with [...]

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Sugar Is Not Sweet

September 18, 2011 / Drama, Gender & Sexuality, Movie Trailers, Ratana Pestonji, Thai, Thailand

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Nam Tan Mai Wan Released: 1965 Country: Thailand Director: Ratana Pestonji Language: Thai Theme: Gender & Sexuality Genre: Drama Summary A very old, wealthy Thai aristocrat who owns a hair treatment business wants to repay a debt to his dear Indian friend, now deceased, by having his son marry his friend’s daughter, [...]

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Forever Yours

September 18, 2011 / Gender & Sexuality, Khru Marut, Movie Trailers, Romance, Thai, Thailand

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Chuafah Dinsalai Released: 1955 Country: Thailand Director: Khru Marut Language: Thai Theme: Gender & Sexuality Genre: Romance Summary When Master Papo brings his new young bride home to his logging camp, a love story begins to unfold. Not with the old man and his wife, but with his nephew, Sangmong, and Yupadee, [...]

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Dark Heaven

September 18, 2011 / Family & Relationships, Movie Trailers, Ratana Pestonji, Romance, Thai, Thailand

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Sawan Mued Released: 1958 Country: Thailand Director: Ratana Pestonji Language: Thai Theme: Family & Relationships Genre: Romance Summary The film opens with Nien, a poor and starving young woman, stealing food. She is rescued by Mr. Choowit, a trash collector, who hides her from a policeman. Choowit brings her to his place, [...]

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Country Hotel

September 18, 2011 / Comedy, Gender & Sexuality, Movie Trailers, Ratana Pestonji, Thai, Thailand

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Released: 1957 Country: Thailand Director: Ratana Pestonji Language: Thai Theme: Gender & Sexuality Genre: Comedy Summary Paradise Hotel is small rural bar with only one room. When a young, enigmatic woman named Riam arrives and asks for a room, she is told it is already taken. Riam says she has 12 children and is [...]

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Black Silk

September 18, 2011 / Movie Trailers, Philosophy & Ethics, Ratana Pestonji, Romance, Thai, Thailand

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Original Title: Prae Dum Released: 1961 Country: Thailand Director: Ratana Pestonji Language: Thai Theme: Philosophy & Ethics Genre: Romance Summary A karmic lesson is illustrated by the lives of two people who get entangled in a web of crime. One of them knowingly gets involved, the other unknowingly. And the consequences get played out [...]

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Money Money Money

September 18, 2011 / Drama, Movie Trailers, Prince Anusornmongkolgan, Social & Economic Issues, Thai, Thailand

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Released: 1965 Country: Thailand Director: Prince Anusornmongkolgan Language: Thai Theme: Social & Economic Issues Genre: Drama Summary When a young man returns to Bangkok, his hometown, after finishing college, his miserly uncle expects to put him to work collecting interest on loans made to the poor. Tu rejects this job, saying he wants to [...]

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Truth Be Told – The Cases Against Supinya Klangnarong

September 18, 2011 / Documentary, Law, Politics & Government, Movie Trailers, Pimpaka Towira, Thai, Thailand

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Released: 2007 Country: Thailand Director: Pimpaka Towira Language: Thai Theme: Law, Politics & Government Genre: Documentary Summary When young human rights activist Supinya Klangnarong commented in 2004 that the ownership of Thailand’s largest telecommunications corporation by Thaksin, the prime minister, constituted a conflict of interest, she was immediately sued for 400 million baht by [...]

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Twelve Twenty

July 5, 2011 / Family & Relationships, Movie Trailers, Pen Ek Ratanaruang, Short, South Korea, Thai, Thailand

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Released: 2006 Country: South Korea, Thailand Director: Pen Ek Ratanaruang Language: Thai Theme: Family & Relationships Genre: Short Summary Before boarding a flight from Bangkok to Berlin, a married man meets a woman who he instantly falls in love with. To his astonishment, the same woman is sitting in the seat next to him. [...]

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Worldly Desires

July 5, 2011 / Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Communication & Media, Documentary, Movie Trailers, South Korea, Thai, Thailand

Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here: Released: 2005 Country: South Korea, Thailand Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Language: Thai Theme: Communication & Media Genre: Documentary Summary This highly eclectic piece of work is a filmic documentation of the shooting of Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s feature film, Tropical Malady (2005). The camera follows the film crew and actors through the jungle, revealing behind-the-scenes [...]

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