On the 29th lunar New Year's Eve of the twelfth lunar month of a certain year, it was getting late in Guangzhou. A trance-looking boy drove through the urban jungle, wandering alone on the streets, waiting to meet his girlfriend a few years ago, expecting a result to happen. In an old town, a middle-aged woman brought a girl along the street to beg for food. At the gate of a certain community, they encountered a middle-aged man who was driving around after drinking and eating. The man invited them to have a barbecue at a roadside stall and made a suggestion. In a hospital, two security guards were bored at the gate. After work, I decided to go to a certain village in a city and village to win money after work. Unexpectedly, the night was getting thicker and the flow of people was surging. The Spring Festival Gala is going on grandly, and the air is full of noise and anxiety, three realities Event, tearing apart the absurd reality of the crazy city•••
A 17 year old boy from a village in the Sechuan province leaves for the big city looking for his father, who left 6 years before and has not been heard of since.
Originally conceived as the film for government propaganda but couldn't pass the censorship. Five punks found Dong Jianguo, a millionaire wearing the dog chain being trapped in the trunk.
In Luxi, a county in southeastern Yunnan Province, someone’s corpse was burned. The parents of the murdered man don’t know the truth and have been waiting for their son to return home.
Burial Rites become the mise-en scene in which politicians, the media, a monk and an infuriated neighbour vividly portray the aftermath of an accident.
Two friends reconnect at their childhood haunts in the heartlands. As the night lengthens, their conversations draw out their sense of entrapment within the city, and how far removed their present selves have become from fleeting childhood aspirations.
Three scenes about three couples with each portraying maybe the turning point of their relationship. First scene, Lim & Amelia are a couple who had been together for almost five years.
If It’s Not Now, Then When? mostly takes place in an apartment inhabited by three members of a family (though never at the same time): mother Pearlly Chua (from Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone), daughter Tan Bee Hung and young son Kenny Gan.
Popular movie trailers from 2009
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 2009:
It's Boxing Day and already Karen is making New Year resolutions - chiefly for others - and the family have been burgled,though selectively,causing Sue to cheat on the insurance claim.
Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black, a werewolf.
A documentary following the exploits of a group of filmmakers as they take their independent feature, Ten 'til Noon, along the film festival circuit, and the politics, pitfalls, triumphs and comic tragedies they encounter along the way.
Two lives collide and then change forever when a suicidal psychiatrist is interrupted mid-attempt by the ambitious son of his wealthiest patient- a young man who claims to desperately need help and won't take no for an answer.
Nikki Blue is a dancer at a strip club hidden along a back road in rural New England. Further down the road, Alice, a burnt-out, neurotic college grad with no particular ambitions, spends her days working at a roadside fossil and rock shop.
Set in and around the male and female toilets of a Dublin jazz bar. A drama concerning the trials and tribulations of two lowly paid toilet attendants and the people they serve.
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