Coming as it does from the depths of the Stalinist regime, the Russian Road to Life is a remarkably optimistic film. A host of nonprofessional children are cast as Moscow street kids, left homeless by the Bolshevik revolution. They get into all sorts of melodramatic scrapes until they're rounded up by kindly, altruistic Soviet functionaries. The children are reformed (in the nicest possible way) and made useful members of society. Road to Life is simplistic in its solutions to society's problems, albeit no more so than the usual Hollywood product from the same period.
AMSTERDAMNED 2 is the long-awaited sequel to the movie that is regarded as one of the best action movies coming out of Europe in the eighties. A breathtaking roller coaster from beginning to end in the blood drenched Amsterdam canals.
Migrant Nina takes a hotel job in the Maldives, but her island paradise turns nightmarish after an incident. Falsely accused, she must evade traps to escape her unjust life sentence.
Ji-yeon and Do-jin are exhausted from years of IVF treatment. They don't remember what life was like before. She continues to experience the pain of separation from a child she has never met. Do-jin is worried about her health and wants h
