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The Wasps are Here

September 22, 2011 / Dharmasena Pathiraja, Drama, Movie Trailers, Sinhalese, Social & Economic Issues, Sri Lanka

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: Bambaru Avith Released: 1977 Country: Sri Lanka Director: Dharmasena Pathiraja Language: Sinhalese Theme: Social & Economic Issues Genre: Drama Summary Malini Fonseka and Vinjaya Kamaratunga acted together in 41 films, and The Wasps are Here (1978) is one of their pairings. Fonseka is a young girl engaged to a young fisherman and [...]

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Some Day in the Future

September 22, 2011 / Dharmasena Pathiraja, Drama, Movie Trailers, Sinhalese, Social & Economic Issues, Sri Lanka

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: Mathu Yam Davasa Released: 2001 Country: Sri Lanka Director: Dharmasena Pathiraja Language: Sinhalese Theme: Social & Economic Issues Genre: Drama Summary Sri Lanka’s veteran realist, Dharmasena Pathiraja, has always been interested in politics and in society’s marginal people, and both are important parts of “Some Day in the Future,” which had its [...]

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Survival Game

September 20, 2011 / Drama, Korean, Moon Seung Wook, Movie Trailers, Social & Economic Issues, South Korea

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: 2002 Country: South Korea Director: Moon Seung Wook Language: Korean Theme: Social & Economic Issues Genre: Drama Summary The Survival Game, starring Jang Hyun-Sung (as Kim Hun-Sung), is an experimental cinema-verite parallel reality between the contemporary cultural paradigms of Korean social relations and war driven paranoia. We follow Kim Hyun-Sung, a young fund [...]

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Standing On The Edge Of Death

September 20, 2011 / Documentary, Kim Dong Won, Korean, Movie Trailers, Social & Economic Issues, South Korea

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: Byeorange Seon Dosibinmin Released: 1990 Country: South Korea Director: Kim Dong Won Language: Korean Theme: Social & Economic Issues Genre: Documentary Summary The economic progress of Korea, has exacerbated the social disparity that exists in Seoul. Impoverished, and thus discriminated against, villagers feel the crushing burden of supporting their families and keeping [...]

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Sanggyedong Olympic

September 20, 2011 / Documentary, Kim Dong Won, Korean, Movie Trailers, Social & Economic Issues, South Korea

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: Sanggyedong Olrimpik Released: 1988 Country: South Korea Director: Kim Dong Won Language: Korean Theme: Social & Economic Issues Genre: Documentary Summary Two years before the 1988 Olympics in South Korea, Sanggyedong residents were brutally evicted from their homes, to make way for the government’s urban renewal plans. Years later, they remain homeless [...]

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Another World We’re Making

September 19, 2011 / Documentary, Kim Dong Won, Korean, Movie Trailers, Social & Economic Issues, South Korea

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: Tto Hanaui Sesang: Haengdangdong Saramdeul Tu Released: 1999 Country: South Korea Director: Kim Dong Won Language: Korean Theme: Social & Economic Issues Genre: Documentary Summary Former residents of Haengdang-dong, a village which had been demolished to make way for new apartment buildings, bond together as a community while they live in their [...]

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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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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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Voice of Rain That Comes at Night

September 17, 2011 / Drama, Igarashi Kohei, Japan, Japanese, Movie Trailers, Social & Economic Issues

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: 2008 Country: Japan Director: Igarashi Kohei Language: Japanese Theme: Social & Economic Issues Genre: Drama Summary Inabe is in between. By night he walks; by day he waits. He lives with his girlfriend in a small, cluttered apartment where care and affection are not overt but easily detected. Fired for theft, Inabe is [...]

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Go For Broke

September 13, 2011 / China, Drama, Mandarin, Movie Trailers, Social & Economic Issues, Wang Guangli

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: Heng Shu Heng Released: 2001 Country: China Director: Wang Guangli Language: Mandarin Theme: Social & Economic Issues Genre: Drama Summary Go For Broke is based on a 1998 true story of six Shanghai people who reinvent their lives after being laid off by state-owned companies. The film is acted by the real [...]

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The Mourner

July 7, 2011 / Drama, Hindi, India, Kalpana Lajmi, Movie Trailers, Social & Economic Issues

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: Rudali Released: 1992 Country: India Director: Kalpana Lajmi Language: Hindi Theme: Social & Economic Issues Genre: Drama Summary Sanichari lives alone in a village in Rajasthan, India, working as a bonded laborer. One day, Bhikni, a rudali (professional mourner) comes to stay with Sanichari prior to the death of the local landlord [...]

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