Connection
Bandhobi is a film of genre Drama with Baek Jin-hee
Bandhobi (2009)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listBandhobi (Hangul: 반두비; RR: Bandubi) is a 2009 South Korean indie film about a frustrated and rebellious high school student who ends up becoming a friend of a migrant worker from Bangladesh who is desperate to receive his unpaid back wages. The title means "female friend" in Bengali.
Lead actor Mahbub Alam is a longtime resident of Korea who entered the country as a migrant worker. He has since appeared in small film roles and become involved in various activist projects, including the launch of the Migrant Worker Film Festival, for which he serves as festival director.
Synopsis
Karim (Mahbub Alam) is a 27-year-old Bangladeshi working in an industrial laundry. An intellectual whose academic degree was not recognized in Korea, Karim's work permit is about to expire and he's still owed a year's pay by a previous employer, Shin (Jung Dong-gyu), who's not taking his calls; meanwhile, his wife back home is giving him a hard time about money problems.Actors
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Bandhobi
There are 9 films with the same actors, 61834 with the same cinematographic genres, 411 films with the same themes, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Bandhobi, you will probably like those similar films :
Sisters (2009)
, 1h47Directed by Éléonore Faucher
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Amira Casar, Sylvie Testud, Jean-Pierre Martins, Marc Barbé, Zoé Duthion, Lubna Azabal
Rating63%
Années 70 à la Croix-Rousse, la vie insouciante et heureuse de trois sœurs au caractères très différents. Néanmoins à l'école et dans leur voisinage, elles doivent lutter contre les préjugés et les quolibets qui les concernent du fait de leur origine italienne et que leur mère les élève seule (ce qui est mal vu à l'époque). Cette dernière, italienne immigrée en France (donc étrangère), abandonnée par son mari, est en permanence débordée, car devant mener de front son travail et son ménage dans une pauvreté relative. De plus ses filles lui font voir les 400 coups.
In This World (2003)
, 1h28Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Nabil Elouahabi, Marie Gillain
Rating72%
Jamal and Enayatullah are Afghan refugees in a camp in Peshawar, Pakistan. They travel to Quetta, and thence to Taftan on the Iranian border. They pay people smugglers to assist them over the border; on their first attempt they are stopped by Iranian police and returned to Pakistan, but their second attempt is successful. They travel to Tehran and then to Maku, in the Kurdish part of Iran, from where they cross a mountain range on foot to Turkey. In Istanbul they meet a group of other migrants, and they are taken to Italy inside a shipping container. The container is not ventilated, and most of the refugees, including Enayatullah, are suffocated to death. Jamal survives and lives in Italy for a time. He then steals a woman's purse and buys a rail ticket to Paris. From there, he goes to the Sangatte asylum seekers camp and with a new friend, Yusef, he crosses the channel by stowing away on a lorry. Finally, he arrives in London, where he calls his uncle to say he has arrived but that Enyatullah is "not in this world". The film ends with images of the Peshawar refugees.
Hatred (2012)
, 1h24Directed by Reza Dormishian
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration
Actors Baran Kosari, Babak hamidian
Rating55%
Jaleh and Hamid are two youngsters from the third generation of Iranian immigrants in Turkey. Their families came here to have a peaceful life. We see two parallel narrations from two different periods of the young characters' lives. One narration is about their first days of meeting and happiness. The other is about the eight crucial hours when they commit a robbery so they can use the money to start a happy life somewhere else. However, as often happens in such cases, they are led in a different direction.
America America (1963)
, 2h48Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité, L'émigration
Actors Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, John Marley, Robert H. Harris, Lou Antonio, Estelle Hemsley
Rating76%
In this tall, loosely based upon the life of Kazan's uncle, the director uses little-known cast members, with the entire storyline revolving around the central performance of Greek actor Stathis Giallelis (born 1941), twenty-two years old at the time of production, who is in virtually every scene of the nearly three-hour movie.
Journey of Hope (1990)
, 1h50Directed by Xavier Koller
Origin Suisse
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Yaman Okay, Mathias Gnädinger, Erdal Merdan, Dietmar Schönherr
Rating74%
In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. He sells their livestock and small plot of land in exchange for passage for two. He wants to leave their seven children in the care of the eldest and his parents; his father advises him to take one son to be educated in Europe, as economic insurance. The three set off for Istanbul, Milan, and Switzerland, stowing away on a ship. At Lake Como, they pay the rest of their money to unprincipled men who abandon them at an Alpine pass before a blizzard. Father and son are separated from Meryem.
Dirty Hearts (2012)
, 1h30Directed by Vicente Amorim
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Historical
Themes Films about immigration
Actors Tsuyoshi Ihara, Takako Tokiwa, Eiji Okuda, Eduardo Moscovis, Shun Sugata, Kimiko Yo
Rating67%
In 1945, news of the Surrender of Japan was received with wide skepticism by most Japanese immigrants in Brazil, who assumed it be mere Allied propaganda. Those who did accept the truth are seen as traitors, "dirty hearts", who dishonor the emperor; patriotic-turned-terrorist organization Shindo Renmei takes in their own hands the duty of killing said traitors.
Raging Bull (1980)
, 2h9Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Historical
Themes Films about immigration, Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana
Rating80%
In a brief scene in 1964, an aging, overweight Italian American, Jake LaMotta (Robert De Niro), practices a comedy routine. The rest of the film then occurs in flashback. In 1941, LaMotta is in a major boxing match against Jimmy Reeves, where he received his first loss. Jake's brother Joey LaMotta (Joe Pesci) discusses a potential shot for the middleweight title with one of his Mafia connections, Salvy Batts (Frank Vincent). Some time thereafter, Jake spots a 15-year-old girl named Vickie (Cathy Moriarty) at an open-air swimming pool in his Bronx neighborhood. He eventually pursues a relationship with her, even though he is already married. In 1943, Jake defeats Sugar Ray Robinson, and has a rematch three weeks later. Despite the fact that Jake dominates Robinson during the bout, the judges surprisingly rule in favor of Robinson and Joey feels Robinson won only because he was enlisting into the US Army the following week. By 1947, Jake marries Vickie.
Heaven's Gate (1980)
, 3h40Directed by Michael Cimino, Brian W. Cook
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Films about immigration, Politique, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, La précarité, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Political films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt, Sam Waterston
Rating67%
In 1870, two young men, Jim Averill and Billy Irvine, graduate from Harvard College. The Reverend Doctor speaks to the graduates on the association of "the cultivated mind with the uncultivated" and the importance of education. Irvine, brilliant but obviously intoxicated, follows this with his opposing, irreverent views. A celebration is then held after which the male students serenade the women present, including Averill's girlfriend.
Poetical Refugee (2001)
, 2h10Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, Medical-themed films, La précarité, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Sami Bouajila, Élodie Bouchez, Bruno Lochet, Aure Atika, Virginie Darmon, Mustapha Adouani
Rating68%
Like Voltaire‘s Candide in his eponymous novel, Jallel, a young North-African man, dreaming of better prospects, immigrates illegally to France. He struggles at first as he is unable to find work and finds it difficult to make friends. But soon he gets to sell fruits in the underground, albeit illegally. He also makes some new friendsand then falls in love. But his dreams of success remain unrealized as he comes to discover and share the solidarity of the other outcasts going from one encounter to the other, making his way through Paris, from hostels to immigrant aid societies and social welfare groups, living among the excluded and the destitute.
, 1h36Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, L'Outfit de Chicago, Gangster films
Actors Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker, Jack Nicholson, Jean Hale, Jan Merlin
Rating65%
An organized crime war breaks out between two rival gangs in Chicago during the Roaring Twenties. The leader of the Southside Mob is the notorious Al Capone, who resents his nemesis George "Bugs" Moran's activity in the city. Moran, too, wants control of the town's bootlegging and gambling operations. His lieutenants Peter and Frank Gusenberg use threats and intimidation to make tavern owners do business with them in exchange for "protection." Moran gives the order to have a crony of Capone's eliminated as the Chicago body count escalates. Inclusive are flashbacks to a lunchtime attack on Capone at a restaurant outside of Chicago by Hymie Weiss and Moran in September 1926 and the murders of Weiss in October 1926 and Dion O'Banion in November 1924 by Capone's gang.