Movies

HomeMoviesSearchTV SeriesBookmarksView Source
The Noise of Engines
The Noise of Engines

The Noise of Engines

Genres

DramaComedy

OverView

Alexandre, an instructor at the Canadian customs college, returns home to his small town after his employer places him on compulsory leave. As he forms a new friendship with a female Icelandic drag racer, he finds himself under surveillance by police investigators trying to get to the bottom of the sexually explicit drawings that have been troubling the town.

Others

Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Runtime

79 mins

Rating

6.7/10

Release Date

21 September 2021

Country

Canada

Cast

Robert Naylor

Robert Naylor

Alexandre

Tanja Björk Ómarsdóttir

Tanja Björk Ómarsdóttir

Aðalbjörg

Naïla Rabel

Naïla Rabel

Laura

Marie-Thérèse Fortin

Marie-Thérèse Fortin

Johanne

Alexandrine Agostini

Alexandrine Agostini

Directrice

Marc Beaupré

Marc Beaupré

Letellier

Maxime Genois

Maxime Genois

Rémillard

Similar Movies

7.0

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

November 2005 •English

When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and exhumes Estrada's corpse, and the odd caravan sets out on horseback for Mexico.

7.4

Distant Lights

February 2003 •German

Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.

5.4

Metal Skin

February 1994 •English

Psycho Joe loves one thing: fast cars! When he gets a job at a local supermarket, Joe meets fellow "petrol head" Dazey, who quickly becomes his idol and best friend. Soon after, Joe falls for Savina, a goth girl who practices black magic. But Savina has already fallen for Dazey and will do anything to get him -- including using Joe's feelings for her. In true Shakespearean fashion, this trio race down the road to tragedy.

6.5

No Entrance

May 1960 •Czech

Two stories from the lives of border guards. In the story "The Pursuit", an experienced border guard and his young and inexperienced colleague follow the tracks of ski boots in a snowstorm. The second story, Wandering, is about a frontiersman whose wife wants to go inland with their child.

4.7

The Pom Pom Girls

May 1976 •English

A football player at Rosedale High School is amorous of one of the cheerleaders, who is going with another guy. Another player can't decide which of two cheerleaders he wants to be with. Meanwhile, the Big Game with Hardin High School is approaching, and a prank war is in full swing.

0.0

Feuerrose

September 2011 •German

A woman wakes up disoriented in a barren and desolate area. She knows neither who she is nor where she is. Instead of answers, she only ever finds more questions. In search of her identity, she soon realizes that her destiny seems to be more incredible than she ever thought possible...

6.3

Machete

September 2010 •English

After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.

0.0

Black Wolf

February 1972 •Czech

In the thick woods at the edge of the Bohemian Forest, two border guards are keeping watch - rifleman Kucera (Rudolf Jelínek) and dog handler Stencl (Josef Hajducík), whose sluggishness and clumsiness have won him the nickname Simpleton. The official army dog, the bitch Líza, picks up the scent of an alien dog on the German side - Black Wolf. She bites through her leash and runs away. Soon afterwards, the border boundary was interrupted. The two soldiers are wounded in the gunfire that follows, but Stencl's shot also hits the target and the intruder - an attractive woman in a black jersey - is dead. The investigation reveals that this agent knew someone among the local residents. The locals are all called in to identify the body but nobody admits to knowing the woman.

5.0

Teto contra la migra

January 1988 •Spanish

Teto the altar boy turns his church into a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.

6.0

Borderline

December 1980 •English

Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of illegal aliens is responsible for Scooter's death, but the feds insist that drug dealers committed the crime.

5.9

The War Boys

May 2009 •English

David, George, and Greg, best friends since high school, are “The War Boys”. They used to perch on the US-Mexican border, waiting to spot illegal immigrants who were trying to run into the United States. Sometimes, without a thought for the immigrants, the boys chased them across the wasteland and back across the border – just for fun. It was just one of those games boys played to make themselves feel big. But high school’s over now. David is unexpectedly home from his freshman year of college and the War Boys have been reunited.

6.2

The Crooked Way

April 1949 •English

A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.

5.1

Fast Company

March 1979 •English

An over the hill drag racer finds himself considering retirement and ceding the spotlight to his protégé and targeted for replacement by the oil-company executive who sponsors his team.

7.5

Balloon

September 2018 •German

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.

5.2

More American Graffiti

August 1979 •English

College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.

5.5

Dragstrip Girl

April 1957 •English

Girl loves hot cars and a rich dragstrip racer. Her parents don't like either one.

4.3

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow

July 1959 •English

A group of drag-racing fanatics, members of a Los Angeles club, move into an old deserted mansion and set up shop, making it their headquarters. They hold a Halloween masked ball for the club's grand opening, and invite everyone to come dressed as their favorite monster! Oddly enough, the festivities turn sour when one of the bright youths discovers an impostor among them in the form of an honest-to-gosh live monster who's been hogging all the dances with the best-looking girls

4.5

The Base

March 1999 •English

Major Murphy, a US Army Investigator, has received a new assignment. Sgt. Gammon is suspected of dealing cocaine from his base, and Murphy must gather enough evidence to shut down Gammon and his entire operation. Along with his partner, Lt. Andrews, the Major goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and find out just how far up the chain of command these activities are going.

6.2

Flashpoint

April 1984 •English

Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. Before they decide whether to keep the money or report it, they privately investigate the clues and unravel a decades old mystery.

4.8

Son of the Sunshine

January 2009 •English

A socially disconnected young man with Tourette's Syndrome undergoes an experimental surgery to correct his disorder, but as his symptoms start to fade so does his ability to heal the sick and dying.