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Absorbing speculation on the lives of the early-20th-century British intellectual coterie known as the Bloomsbury Group from Amanda Coe centers upon the difficult relationship between sisters Virginia Woolf (Lydia Leonard, Catherine McCormack) and...

Could anything have been done to prevent World War I in the 37 days between Archduke Ferdinand's assassination and Great Britain's declaration of war on Germany? This three-part British miniseries dramatizes that gripping passage of time, observing the...

Playing like a Japanese "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," writer/director Toshiaki Toyoda's off-the-wall comedy/drama follows a group of nine prison inmates-among them a man who killed his son, a biker, a deranged bomber, a porn merchant, and a dwarf...

For caf? manager Kato (Kazunari Tosa), life was about the job, his frustrated musical ambitions, and trying to get up the nerve to ask out his cute neighbor (Aki Asakura). That changed when his computer monitor started displaying himself, only two...

In the spirit of "Taxi Driver" comes a dynamic exploration of urban alienation focusing on a troubled Japanese youth whose natural viciousness is exploited by pimps who use him to murder powerful gangsters. But once the young man gets a taste for murder,...

As he struggled through his shoot in an abandoned utility, the martinet director of a low-end zombie film was fuming over the stilted performances and shoddy effects. He'd get a burst of renewed inspiration, though, as the plant got invaded by genuine...

Powerful look at alienated youth in modern Japan follows a high school student who becomes leader of his school's leading gang, a position that he grows bored with, but feels unable to leave. Ryuhei Matsuda, Hirofumi Arai star; scripted and directed by...

A married phone counselor finds herself the blackmail victim of a mysterious caller who takes her through an odyssey of sexual exploration. When her husband becomes the stalker's target as well, things take a bizarre turn. Writer/director Shinya...

In his starring film debut, Phil Collins is Buster Edwards, a small-time London burglar whose desire for a better life for wife June (Julie Walters) and their son lands him a role in 1963's Royal Mail Train Robbery, Britain's "Crime of the Century," and...

Swedish-born London DI John River (Stellan Skarsg?rd) may well be his department's most brilliant and implacable investigator. However, his drive comes from a psyche that may be on the precipice of breaking-as he visualizes the ghosts of the victims in...