the notes need to be cleaned up
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/
https://www.miramax.com/movie/amelie/
A quirky young woman crushes on a weird artsy guy.
This is quirkier than it's characters, and is worthy of earning seventeen times its budget.
Original title: Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17024450/
A man with particular skills find himself among honest townsfolk gripped by criminals.
Simple and reasonably entertaining. Recommended especially for the people who like gritty low-tech spy-superhero movies.
Set in Italy, so there is some spoken Italian.
 There are more than seven boys.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3620418/
College students LARPing as revolutionaries set a hacker up, but he causes a shitstorm in an agent training prison.
This is pretty good. It's essentially a Dutch revisitation of the concepts in the French movie La Femme Nikita - (1990 movie). It's straightforward and so it seems fairly low budget.
See also:
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100263/
A woman is swept into the life of an assassin.
A classic, and really awesome, movie.
See also:
Point of No Return - (1993 movie) is the English-language remake.
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050986/
https://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/en/item/?type=film&itemid=4549
A retired man reminisces, I guess.
It's a fantastic nothing of a movie. Recommended for people who want moving pictures with audio and optional thinking.
aka Wild Strawberries
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5761544/
A MI6 agent on loan to the CIA becomes embroiled in the aftermath of the disruption of the nuclear program of Iran.
Definitely not bad, but it's nothing to call home about.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1167638/
The past returns to haunt a retired crime boss.
Quite watchable. I think it's trivially surpassed by a lot of movies, but this has a reasonable simplicity without creating too much of a superhuman protagonist.
aka 22 Bullets
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282599/
Two people connect because of a portal through time in the shape of a mailbox.
Awkward in various ways, but I can see the charm. Not recommended because The Lake House - (2006 movie) is vastly superior.
This inspired The Lake House - (2006 movie), which is a lot better.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060256/
https://warnerbros.co.jp/home_entertainment/detail.php?title_id=2569/ (.jap)
A blind woman travels to find a blind man, and becomes embroiled in an inn-town's troubles.
Straightforward and wholesome; highly recommended.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20242042/
https://weibo.com/u/7470196136
A drama about a secret society of nerds? I don't know.
Fuck man, this show is utterly alien. It's Chinese, and this storytelling is just fucking terrible. I guess I'll wait for the American version.
Inspired by The Three-Body Problem - (2008 book), by Ken Liu
