Village of Hope (2014)
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 1H 7M
Director : Boonsong Nakphoo
Synopsis
Far away in the countryside, there is a small village called Wangpikul. Sorn, a young soldier, comes to visit his home town. He finds that his little wooden house is untidy and deserted. His grandmother is getting very old and has been waiting for her descendants to visit home. Their everyday lives are very common and usual until her grandson calls and tells her that he will bring his son to visit.
After completing a covert mission in southern Thailand, CIA agent Gunja finds herself forced to fight off operatives who've been ordered to take her out at all costs. She survives and after two years of laying low, re-emerges in Bangkok to face her old foes and foil a plot to detonate a bomb in the city.
A pregnant woman is abandoned by her lover. Enraged, she goes to a witch doctor and uses black magic to have her ex and his family killed, only for another woman claiming to be her lover's secret mistress to claim his inheritance and move into his house with her children. Not long after that, inexplicable things happen to that family and, one by one, they begin to die.
Finding the diary of his predecessor, rural schoolteacher Song falls in love with its author, Ann, and sets out on a winding journey to find her.
Nida is a single mother who takes care of her anti-social son who has locked himself in his room for five years. The only way to communicate with her son is to write on a piece of paper and slip it under the door. But, when outsiders start to get curious about what is going on behind the door of her son’s room, a series of terrible events starts to happen.
Three supernatural tales of horror after dark. A motorcycle leader comes back for vengeance. A ghostly haunting at an all-girls school. A shop for the dead to return.
After a hasty plan to construct a nuclear power plant spreads fear among villagers and environmental activists, a hero emerges, who dispenses justice on Bangkok's corrupt politicians and vile criminals when the law fails to function.
The film begins as a whimsical observation of Thai gambling culture, a culture in which gamblers will bet on anything, right down to what color underwear a mini-skirted woman will flash when she alights from a tuk-tuk.
Tas Rak Asoon is a classic love-hate drama in the vein of veteran director Pisarn Akarasenee, which Mum has made in his own, slapstick way. Sporting a new pirate-like look, Mum also stars in the film as Nai-hua Perm, a heartless man who seeks vengeance against the family responsible for the death of his sister. Also starring in Tas Rak Asoon are 27-year-old actress Savika Chaiyadej (Pinky), who plays a spoiled rich kid, and 31-year-old sexy star Lukkana Wattanawongsiri (Aum), who plays an island girl named Jet Ski. Throughout the film, the two women fight for the affections of Nai-hua Perm.
In collaboration with Lomo, an Austrian camera company, and Mubi, a global film website, Weerasethakul was invited to make a work to launch the new LomoKino, a portable motion picture camera. Ashes juxtaposes the intimacy of his daily routine with the destruction of memories and his observations of the dark side of Thailand’s social realities.
The storyline revolves around a group of schoolboys who suspect two of their number are in love with each other. They come up with ways to prove the secret love affair, but things get more complicated when a girl comes into play.
The Thai film contains 6 short erotic stories of love, greed, wrath, and obsession that blend in various genres like thriller, action, drama, romance and comedy.
Pregnant Emmy is drugged by her boyfriend and taken to an illegal abortion clinic, but the ordeal makes her sterile. One day she decides to adopt an orphan girl who always keeps a doll which turns out to be possessed.
Tukky is a young, princess-obsessed woman who works a stall in a unique and colorful market alley where the vendors dress up like the things they are selling. Tukky, whose mirror shatters when she asks who is the fairest of them all, sells frogs.
While traveling, a crew of documentary makers meet a horrible fate when their van falls off a cliff. Though only one of them really dies, the rest are 'accidentally' dragged into hell where each are tortured according to their sins.
Kana is a girl who so obssessed with Korean styles so she convinces Mara, her sister to travel to South Korea together. In South Korea, Kana and Mara pursue their dreams - Kana wants to see Ajoo, her favourite Korean star while Mara wishes to look pretty by Korean surgery. But Kana doesn't realize that Chai, her best friend who accompanies her to South Korea is secretly loves her.
Delving deep into the underbelly of Thailand's nightlife, the movie follows three showgirls working at the risque Angel Bar. Focusing om their personal lives and struggles, the movie attempts to go beyond the stereotypes usually attached to Thai bar girls.
An entire village meets a bizarre fate when all of its female inhabitants become pregnant at the same time, impregnated seemingly by an unknown force.
The story of two best friends who work in a convenience store. Is responsible for serving customers as usual. But there is one day a stranger appeared. Inertia night that night which is not normal.
When a murdered body of a highschool girl is found naked with a strange mark on her forehead used to prevent the vengeance of her spirit, Detective Khan from DSI is assigned to investigate the case. The dead girl is brought to Dr. Nicha at CIFS in Bangkok to find more clues and identify the body. Meanwhile, C, a former teenager's heartthrob is involved in this case when he begins to search for his lost ex-girlfriend. When the ghost is trying to connect to the living, Detective Khan starts to believe in something supernatural that leads him to the truth.
Guy is a geek who always gets pushed around. He has a crush on Nana, a popular girl who's also the object of desire of Trai, the college's chief bully. When Trai finds out that Guy is also in love with the girl of his dreams, he reveals himself as a wolf and hurts his love rival. To fight back, Guy enlists the help of a mysterious boy named Zen.
