Beware Pickpocket (2010)
Genre : Comedy, Action
Runtime : 21M
Director : Michael Laicini
Synopsis
Beware Pickpocket is a compelling character study, a stylistic heist film and a genre shifting love story set in the city of Toronto. It intimately focuses on a twenty-four-hour period in the life of a mysterious and lascivious pickpocket who has come to Toronto to win back the love of his life -an escort named Charlotte. Problem is he isn't nearly as gifted a con-artist as he believes he is and the love of his life doesn't react kindly to his forced reunion.
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Brother Time is a mythic tale of neighbors from different tribes caught in a wider conflict. Kenya erupted in ethnic violence after the 2007 Presidential election, and the two friends fell apart when, suddenly, it was 'not the brother time.' Filmed in the Rift Valley during the clashes, the roots of tribalism are explored as one who saw the worst of the conflict returns home to see his neighbor. To be released during the 2012 Presidential campaign, this message of hope shows it can be Brother Time once again.
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A romantic comedy about dogs.
Deco Dawson uses rare audio recording and film footage taken from Jean Benoit's studio in Paris to whimsically illustrate the life of the last official member of the hugely influential Surrealist group.
A psychological thriller about a man, whose wife's death has left him alone and estranged from society. He remains depressed and stricken with grief. Until one night, he finds his wife at the local club with a man named Jeremy Fox. Sam immediately recognizes him. He knew Jeremy Fox to be responsible for his wife's death. As Sam gets closer and closer to finding Jeremy Fox, he gets closer and closer to finding the real truth behind his wife's death.
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Ariane Lives in Val-d'Or. She will soon stay in the big city. So she gets ready to leave everything behind and to say bye to her brother. But the sexual tension between them, that they always struggle with, seems to take all the place.
A first-person tour through the private collection of Ronald Grant and Martin Humphries in Britain with their curator Anna.
Middle aged metal rock star Tarantula Moonrocket's career is going down the toilet. He rejects demands from his record company and his manager to be in a reality TV show and to fake scandalous behavior in order to increase publicity. Tarantula is put in a corner when he discovers that the record company own his name, image and likeness and it seems he has no choice but to follow their orders.
After losing their parents when they were toddlers, twins Sam and Matt form a unique brotherly connection to survive their childhood in an abusive foster home. As adults this special bond is threatened when Matt becomes enamored with a neighborhood girl, leaving Sam behind for the first time in his life.
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