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Modern Heroes Modern Slaves

Each day, thousands of people leave countries like the Philippines to seek work abroad. They work as nannies, domestics, clerks and labourers for low wages and with few rights. What little money they earn they send home to their families. This contribution to their country’s economy has prompted the Philippine government to call these contract workers “modern day heroes.” But that’s only half the story.

Enchanting Bournemouth

1961

Bournemouth offers a variety of sports, pastimes, steamer trips, and fine dining for holidaymakers, competing with cheaper foreign holidays and offering a variety of transportation options.

Wolverhampton into the Seventies

1970

Bricks and mortar makes way for concrete and reinforced steel as Wolverhampton sweeps the past aside in a modernist town planning utopia.

The Old Curiosity Shop

1995 · ★ 7.2

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

Ramen Shop

2018 · ★ 6.8

Masato is a young ramen chef in Japan. When he finds his late mother's journal after the sudden death of his emotionally distant father, he takes it with him to her native country, Singapore, hoping to piece together the story of his family and his life.

Pleasure Factory

2007 · ★ 4.3

A series of intertwining tales involve "pleasure seekers and pleasure providers" during the course of one night in Geylang, Singapore's red-light district. There are three distinct stories, united only by the presence of characters from all the stories in a streetside eatery:

Singapore On Film

2019 · ★ 8

Rare archive footage reveals what Singapore was like dating back to 1900, showing coolies sharing lunch, rickshaw pullers, a grand Peranakan funeral, and more.

The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

1997 · ★ 7.5

Documentary about Dario Argento, "Profondo Rosso" shop in Rome, and most important works throughout his career.

Chennai 2 Singapore

2017 · ★ 10

An aspiring filmmaker, who is also down on luck, goes to Singapore to meet a producer, but what follows is misadventure after misadventure, with a dash of romance thrown in.

Otter Town

2016

Meet the Riversiders and the Wildlings, two very different otter families growing up in one of the busiest islands in the world: Singapore. Join them and discover their endless adventures in the ultimate Otter city.

Tourism

2018 · ★ 6.7

When Nina wins free airline tickets, she leaves her dingy apartment and part-time factory job in Yamato City, Japan for Singapore with her friend Su.

Portrait of Penge

1964

Film about the town of Penge featuring local personalities, housing, shopping, traffic and the Penge formation dancers.