Hong Kong drama film.
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D.C. Cab
The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company but needs to motivate Harold’s employees to want to make something out of themselves. It is only when Albert is kidnapped that the cabbies must decide whether or not they are loyal to Albert and his cause.
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Sadma
A head injury causes a woman to regress to childhood. Lost and confused, she is eventually befriended by a school teacher. A Hindi remake of the 1982 film “Moondram Pirai” by the same team.
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Focus on Fishko
This short film satirizes French auteur theory. An earnest critic rediscovers washed-up director Seymour Z. Fishko (“Revenge of the 80-Foot Stripper,” “They Froze Hitler’s Head,” “Dragstrip Mummy”) and makes a documentary about his life and work.
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The Half Meter Incident
Wafa confesses to her fiancé Ahmed about her previous relationship with a young man who is martyred in the war. Wafa gives in to Ahmed and gets pregnant. He welcomes the fetus and sets a date for marriage, but his friend discourages him, which upsets Wafa for his reluctance to get married.
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Women’s Prison Massacre
Emanuelle is framed by a corrupt D.A. while investigating a drug smuggling operation and has to tough it out under lock and key, dealing with a strict warden and abusive guards.
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Neither Seen, Nor Known
The story revolves around Mursi (Adel Imam), a poor history teacher, married and suffering from an ambitious financial crisis in life, who gets involved with an old colleague at the university (Salwa), who runs her house for prostitution and hides him. Salwa uses the naiveté of Morsi to convince him that he attacked her He is drunk to press him to marry her pregnant.
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First Desires
Three teenage girls decide to visit a romantic island and find love. They get shipwrecked and end up on different sides of the island. Each girl begins her own romantic adventure either with a man, a boy or even another girl.
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Tales of a Eunuch
The story follows a “loveable” rascal as he gambles and gets into various bits of trouble with outlaws and rebels. He eventually gets into a situation where he has to impersonate the eunuch servant of an elderly eunuch who is an evil martial art master. This gets the rascal involved with the emperor who is studying martial arts. The whole movie revolves around a quest for all the copies of a special Buddhist text.