The Vanishing Point (2007)

 

Lucie Audibert, a student of Art History, does research work on Watteau. She is persuaded that a hidden sense that nobody has ever deciphered can be found in a few of his paintings. The further she proceeds the more professor Jean Dussart - for unclear reasons - tries to discourage her. But Lucie is persistent, even stubborn, and, aided by Vincent, a mute street mime, she manages to attain her goal in spite of everything.

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010) Eng Hardsub

 

An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths 

that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.

The Crimson Rivers (2000)

 

Parisian murder detective commissioner Pierre Niemans is called to Gueron, a self-sufficient, prestigious university in a mountain valley, to investigate the murder on 32-year old professor and librarian Rémy Caillois, whose corps was found 50 meters high on a steep mountain side, naked, horribly covered in bruises and bleeding wounds, the result of some five hours of bestial torture including quasi-surgical amputation of hands cauterized to prevent bleeding to death- and eyes. Guernon is a closed society of virtually incestuous scientists, de facto succeeding to their parents' posts; the eye-doctor, formerly on the staff, says hereditary genetic diseases are the price of such elitism, but in recent years spread to the simple farming families. Inspector Max Kerkerian examines two crimes in the town: a school break-in with theft of old photos and archive papers as well as a graveyard desecration of Judith Herault...

Mantra (2010)

 

This story starts in a cemetery where Muzir (Zul Handy Black) is betrayed by Hasbi (Hasnul Rahmat) who wins over Muzir’s wife. Hasbi is to be jailed for life. In prison, Muzir desires revenge, so he learns black magic from a dying warden (Hamdan Ramli) who helps him escape by erasing the holy words that are emblazoned all around. Shot in the infamous Pudu Jail.