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G Storm (2021) WikiData NeoDB Douban IMDb
G 風暴
director: David Lam Tak-Luk actor: Louis Koo / Julian Cheung Chi-Lam …
other title: G 風暴
Follows an investigator as he prevents a terrorist attack during a symposium held by Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption. He later finds it has links to human trafficking in Thailand.
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The Secret Agent (2025) NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
O Agente Secreto
director: Kleber Mendonça Filho actor: Wagner Moura / Carlos Francisco …
other title: L'agente segreto / O Agente Secreto …
In 1977 Recife, Marcelo, a technology expert in his early forties, returns in the midst of Carnaval to reunite with his son and plot a dangerous escape under the ever-watchful eyes of Brazil’s repressive military regime.
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New Wave (2025) IMDb NeoDB Douban
New Wave
director: Richard Linklater actor: Guillaume Marbeck / Zoey Deutch …
other title: Nouvelle Vague
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, creating a treatment with Truffaut about a gangster couple.
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Primitive War (2025) WikiData IMDb
Primitive War
director: Luke Sparke actor: Jeremy Piven / Tricia Helfer …
During the Vietnam War, a recon unit ventures to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing platoon. They soon find themselves in a fight for their lives against an unexpected enemy — prehistoric dinosaurs.
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Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Reflet dans un diamant mort
7.2 (6 ratings) director: Bruno Forzani / Hélène Cattet actor: Fabio Testi / Yannick Renier …
other title: Reflection In A Dead Diamond / Reflet dans un diamant mort
When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d'Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.
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Relay (2025) NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
Relay
director: David Mackenzie actor: Riz Ahmed / Lily James …
other title: Relay: Informazioni pericolose / The Negotiator …
A broker of lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten them breaks his own rules when a new client seeks his protection to stay alive.
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Caught Stealing (2025) TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Caught Stealing
5.6 (5 ratings) director: Darren Aronofsky actor: Austin Butler / Zoë Kravitz …
other title: Una scomoda circostanza - Caught Stealing / Pris au piège - Caught Stealing …
Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined.
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12th Fail (2023) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
12th Fail
6.8 (5 ratings) director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra actor: Vikrant Massey / Medha Shankr …
Based on the true story of IPS officer Manoj Kumar Sharma, 12th Fail sheds limelight on fearlessly embracing the idea of restarting the academic journey despite the setbacks and challenges and reclaiming one's destiny at a place where millions of students attempt the world's toughest competitive exam: UPSC.
Oct. 22, 2025 watched
Drama about trying to succeed honestly in a system with pervasive corruption and extreme competition

#EuroKino #WatchParty on Mastodon
2020s EuroKino India WatchParty drama
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Cloud (2024) IMDb TMDB WikiData
Cloud クラウド
director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa actor: Masaki Suda / Daiken Okudaira …
other title: Cloud クラウド
Ryōsuke Yoshii, an ordinary reseller, carelessly earns grudges by people and becomes entangled in a life-threatening struggle.
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War of the Ninja Monsters: Jaron vs Goura (2024) NeoDB TMDB IMDb
忍獣大戦記 蛇龍対號羅
director: Shinpei Hayashiya actor: Mizuho Yoshida / Keiki Hayashiya …
other title: 忍獣大戦記 蛇龍対號羅
Two men, tired from work, visit the town of Chichibu to enjoy their favorite hobby - exploring caves. But little do they know, the town has been secretly protected by the descendants of the righteous Shinobi ninja since the Sengoku period. The two unlucky friends accidentally break a spell that awakens two colossal beasts, Jaron and Goura. The area’s rival clans manipulate them into a fierce battle, bringing chaos to the area. But a righteous female ninja steps up, wanting to stop the destruction and restore the seal. Can she defeat the evil ninjas that stand in her way before Chichibu is completely destroyed by two kaiju?
Sept. 22, 2025 watched
Not a lot of war, ninjas or monsters. A lot of tone shifts & grating comedy music.

Watched in the #MonsterMiru #WatchParty on miru.miyaku.media and Mastodon, after #Monsterdon's showing of 'The Angry Red Planet' (1959).
2020s Horror Japan Kaiju MonsterMiru
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Under Paris (2024) NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Sous la Seine
director: Xavier Gens actor: Bérénice Bejo / Nassim Lyes …
other title: Hajer i Paris / Sob as Águas do Sena …
In order to save Paris from an international bloodbath, a grieving scientist is forced to face her tragic past when a giant shark appears in the Seine.
July 28, 2025 watched
A little bit of silliness, a little bit of Jaws rehashed. Good action above and below ground, through the spooky catacombs under Paris (hey, that's the title!) The CGI sharks are more convincing than in the other movies.

I even thought the film might make it all the way without a shark doing a Free Willy-style leap through the air, but I guess no shark movie director can resist the idea of airborne shark.

Watched for #SharkWeek 2025 in BMovieBonanza https://piefed.social/post/1081894
2020s BMovieBonanza BereniceBejo Shark SharkMovie
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Narco Shark (2024) IMDb
Narco Shark
director: Gerardo Preciado actor: Ricky Valente / Tico Suave …
In 1989, mexican direct to video superstar Ricky Valente was in line to write and direct NARCO SHARK, a wild and ambitious film about a Detective/Saxophonist who battles the Mexican Yakuza and a cocaine fueled Killer Shark while trying to save his marriage from falling apart and helping his awkwardly shy but sexually depraved brother in law learn some breakdancing moves. Sadly, the film was never made… until now.
July 21, 2025 stopped watching I love the posters for Narco Shark and sequel Narco Sharks and it sounds good on paper. But I hate the actual film. It's like an experimental student film. A bad, dull one. With almost zero shark or narco action! (I'm sure there's some ironic justification for that.) I fell asleep in the middle, and restarted it the next day but just couldn't be arsed to finish it.

My rating for this is 0 stars. Zilch, nothing, nada. Not sure if NeoDB understands that, or just thinks I forgot to rate it.

Watched for #SharkWeek in BMovieBonanza https://piefed.social/post/1059464
2020s BMovieBonanza Mexico SharkWeek monster
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Cocaine Shark (2023) TMDB IMDb
Cocaine Shark
director: Mark Polonia actor: Titus Himmelberger / Ken Van Sant …
A mafia drug lord has unleashed a new, highly addictive stimulant on the streets called HT25, derived from sharks held captive in a secret lab, and which causes monstrous side effects. After an explosion and leak at the lab, an army of mutated, bloodthirsty sharks and other creatures are set loose on the world.
July 22, 2025 watched
A bunch of friends and family decide "Hey, we can make our own shark movie!" using their lakehouse and motorboat.

But instead of terrible CGI sharks, we get terrible rubber & papier mâché sharks. Sweet!

Unfortunately we get too much of the non-existent acting and not enough of the laughably bad effects. And it's nothing like the poster, of course.

Watched for #SharkWeek 2025 in BMovieBonanza https://piefed.social/post/1062495
2020s BMovieBonanza Shark SharkWeek USA
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Meg 2: The Trench (2023) WikiData NeoDB KevGa-NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban
Meg 2: The Trench
director: Ben Wheatley actor: Jason Statham / Wu Jing …
other title: Shark 2 - L'abisso / Meg 2: Dødens dyb …
An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.
July 24, 2025 watched
Is it a serious oeuvre of the seventh art that conveys a deeper message? Is it fuck! Is it braindead schlock that delivers what I needed: thrills, spills and kills? Fuck yeah!

Watched for #SharkWeek in BMovieBonanza https://piefed.social/post/1068347
2020s Action BMovieBonanza CliffCurtis JasonStatham