thriller
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The German Doctor aka Wakolda
In the opening scenes of this historical drama we see a distinguished looking German gentleman accosting a traveling family of 5 to ask if he may follow behind them as he is unsure about driving alone on the desolate dirt roads in the middle of the vast plains of Patagonia. The year is 1960 and…
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A Most Wanted Man
In Dutch filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s take on John le Carré’s spy thriller we are very much aware of who ‘the most wanted man’ is, but like Gunther Bachmann, a German Intelligence Officer in Hamburg, we never know why he has earned this title. Gunther is very much the ‘good man’ in this intricate web of international spy/terrorist…
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THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH aka ‘La femme du Vème’
When Tom an American College Professor and one-time author arrives in Paris he tells the Immigration Officer he is there to visit his wife and child. What he doesn’t reveal is that she has a Court Restraining Order out and refuses to let him see their daughter. When Tom stalks the girl the police are…
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Bethlehem
This tense taut thriller is about yet another deadly incident in the ongoing struggle in the Middle East and was written by a former Israeli Secret Agent and a Palestinian journalist. Yet despite its bipartisan credentials the overwhelming feeling that you come away after watching ‘Bethlehem’ is that the world is split into different camps…
