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Dazedi-:
I think Crows Zero and the sequel Crows Zero II are based on the manga Crows. They tell a story behind the characters in Suzuran, a violent high school. Basicly it's about Japanese students beating the crap out of each other.

I thought they were quite nice.

BuriaL:
Just watched a movie, so back to this thread.

I mentioned Men Who Hate Women earlier. Its actualy three movies, i just watched the last one. Oh yeah.. and for some reason the first movie have two different english titles.
They come in this order:

#1: Män som hatar kvinnor / The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Sweden, 2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132620/

#2: Flickan som lekte med elden / The Girl Who Played with Fire (Sweden, 2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216487/

#3: Luftslottet som sprängdes / The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Sweden, 2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343097/

pari1981:
Here is my Contribution.  :)

Adams æbler / Adam's Apples
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418455/

--- Quote ---Ivan is a priest in a rural church known for the apples that grow on a large tree in front. He's odd: seeing the world through rose-colored glasses, in denial about personal facts, and convinced he's at war with Satan. The rectory is a half-way house for recently paroled convicts. Adam arrives for 12 weeks, a large, tough neo-Nazi, first baffled by Ivan's thick-headed optimism, then angry. He vows to break Ivan's faith. Meanwhile, in exasperation at Ivan's insistence, Adam sets a personal goal: to bake an apple cake. All goes awry for the tree: crows, worms, lightening. The Book of Job gives Adam perverse insight, and his hooligan mates provide the resolution's spring.
--- End quote ---

Stestí / Something Like Happiness
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0406098/

--- Quote ---Three young adults in Most sort out feelings and responsibilities: Monika's boyfriend has left for the States, her mother wants her to join him there, and if the invitation does come, what should she do? Toník is a nice guy, his love for Moni is unrequited. He's trying to rebuild his family's crumbling house; a nearby factory has made an offer to buy the land. With Moni, he watches out for the two young sons of Dasha, their friend who's in a hopeless long-term affair with a married man: Dasha is at once unstable, unrealistic, neglectful of her boys, and cruel to those who help. For whom is this something like happiness?
--- End quote ---

Äideistä parhain / Mother of Mine
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343221/

--- Quote ---1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe behaves very unfriendly. She was expecting a little girl and still mourns for her daughter who drowned in the sea. The situation changes when Eero's mother tells with a letter that she wants to go with her lover to Germany and Eero should remain with his foster mother. Thus Eero becomes Signe's son. Now she cares lovingly for him. Eero makes friends with the little girl Siv and enjoys childhood for a while. However, after the end of the war the boy has to go back to Finland against his will where his mother waits for him. Never again he will be able to trust her, since she has disappointed him too often. 60 years later, invited to Signe's burial, he will understand while reading all letters that both women only wanted the best for him.
--- End quote ---

Good Bye Lenin!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301357/

--- Quote ---Two traumatic events affect the life of East Berliner, Christiane Kerner. First, in 1978, her husband, Robert, runs off to freedom and another woman in the west, leaving her to take care of their two adolescent children, Ariane and Alex, by herself. Always a good Socialist, Christiane devotes her life to the cause as a symbol of anger toward her husband. And second, in 1989, she sees a now grown Alex marching in an anti-Berlin Wall demonstration and being hauled off by police. As a result, she suffers a heart attack and goes into a coma. While Christiane is in her coma, Germany drastically changes with the Wall coming down and the imminent official reunification of East and West into one. The Kerner's personal life also changes with all aspects of the new found capitalist world infiltrating their home. When Christiane emerges from her coma eight months later, her health situation is still tenuous. Any shock she experiences could possibly lead to another heart attack and certain death. To protect his mother, Alex decides not to tell her of the new Germany in which they live. He feels he can better protect her at home, where he can control to what she is exposed. Although most around him don't support the idea - including Ariane and Lara (Alex's Russian immigrant girlfriend who is also Christiane's nurse) - they go along with the extreme measures Alex goes to to recreate East Germany in their home. How long can they keep up the ruse?
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BrownMasterV:
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (Bollywood [Indian] movie) - It's fucking ridiculous, but that's why it's great:

It's basically about British imperialism in India

forevr:
DeUsynlige / Troubled Water
Can you forgive the unforgivable?

Strong story and great music.
Trailer

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