Still Orangutans (2007)
Genre : Comedy, Drama
Runtime : 1H 21M
Director : Gustavo Spolidoro
Writer : Gibran Dipp, Gustavo Spolidoro
Synopsis
The film tells the story of sixteen people in the hottest day of the year in the city of Porto Alegre.
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After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
Young dancers gather in a remote and empty school building to rehearse on a cold and wintry night. The all-night celebration soon turns into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn that their sangria is laced with LSD.
When contact is lost with the crew of the first Mars expedition, a rescue mission is launched to discover their fate.
Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.
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Three hooded Eastern-European criminals burst into a home in a Madrid gated community, holding the family hostage in its own home, and forcing the father to empty his credit cards. But the family fights back - brutally.
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive…
A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.
Private investigator Mel Sampson is tasked with tracking down the whereabouts of a missing woman from his own past.
A social gathering is rocked to its core when Jack accuses his best friend's wife of infidelity. But as the allegations start flying, it soon emerges that a far more sinister game may be at play...
Andy Warhol’s screen adaptation of Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange”.
Six single-take stories connecting the most important minutes in characters' lives.
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Susana has gathered all her friends to celebrate a very special evening: it's Toni's birthday, and for the first time he's away in Germany, but the distance is not going to stop them from celebrating together. No one suspects that after the party their lives will change forever.
A Hungarian TV version of the play shot in just two takes.