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Cornelius Hintner – Die Würghand aka The Strangling Hand (1920)
“Dame Rose ( Dame Carmen Cartellieri ) is a liberal and impudent youngster who sells flowers in selected and important places for aristocrats. There she is obliged by her greedy brother Toni ( Herr...
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Burhan Qurbani – Shahada (2010)
The fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin collide as they struggle to find their place between faith and modern life in contemporary western society, caught at a crossroads where alluring...
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Tim Sutton – Dark Night (2016)
The lives of six strangers intersect at a suburban Cineplex where a massacre occurs. Village Voice wrote:Tim Sutton’s ‘Dark Night’ Finds Beauty and Pain in Teen Lives Before a Shooting Suburban...
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Jean Grémillon – L’amour d’une femme AKA The Love of a Woman (1953)
Quote:Marie Prieur, a young doctor, decides to settle down on Ushant, a remote island belonging to Brittany. Little by little she manages to be accepted by the population. One day she meets André...
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Alfonso Cuarón – A Little Princess (1995)
Plot:When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe...
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Victor Erice, Claudio Guerín & José Luis Egea – Los Desafíos aka The...
Synopsis:Dean Selmier plays an expatriate American in each story of this trilogy. Francisco Rabal and his family star in the first feature filmed at the Rabal family home in Madrid. An over aggressive...
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Agnès Varda – Le bonheur AKA Happiness (1965)
Quote: Even with the landscape bathed in warm hues and verdant fields on a summer day, accompanied by the lushness of a textured Mozart adagio, clad with airy wispiness of draped muslin, and...
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Yilmaz Güney – Duvar (1983)
Synopsis:Teens in a Turkish prison struggle to survive under hideous conditions. Made by dying Yilmaz Guney in France, after he escaped from a Turkish prison, enabling him to accept his award at...
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Julien Duvivier – Panique AKA Panic [2018 Restoration + Extras] (1946)
Criterion wrote:Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire (Michel Simon) has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a...
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Valeska Grisebach – Sehnsucht aka Longing (2006)
Quote:The second feature of German director Valeska Grisebach is one of the pleasant surprises of the Berlin Competition here – a quietly unassuming tale of marital infidelity told in a brisk 90...
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Shin Su-won – Reinbou aka Rainbow (2010)
Plot / SynopsisThe fantasy musical film “Passerby #3? by Korean director Shin Su-won won the Best Asian-Middle Eastern Film Award at the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival. Ji-Wan is a middle-aged...
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Martin Donovan – Collaborator (2011)
The career of dramatist Robert is in steep decline – his last play was canceled after a two-week run. On top of that he is unable to decide what to do about an old love affair that is once again...
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Irving Rapper – The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
Plot:He was a riverboat pilot, reporter, penniless prospector, Civil War dropout, would-be entrepreneur, loving family man, world traveler, pomposity burster and raconteur. It turns out the man who...
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Felipe Guerrero – Oscuro Animal (2016)
Quote:The protagonists don’t speak – which only makes the images all the more telling in this drama about three women who manage to escape a dangerous war situation in different places in the jungle....
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Raoul Ruiz – The Golden Boat (1990)
“The Golden Boat, the first American production from internationally acclaimed director Raoul Ruiz, is a dry-humored, surreal tale set in downtown Manhattan. Young writer Israel Williams (Federico...
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W.S. Van Dyke & Robert J. Flaherty – White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
Unscrupulous trader Sebastian has little trouble cheating the inhabitants of the South Seas paradise and leading the natives to adopt some of the more unfortunate habits of “civilized” men. He has...
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Ermanno Olmi – Il posto [+Extras] (1961)
“Criterion” wrote:When young Domenico (Sandro Panseri) ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung of the bureaucratic ladder in a...
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Stéphane Lafleur – En terrains connus AKA Familiar Ground (2011)
Benoit and Maryse: a brother and sister with seemingly normal lives. Everything is changed by a series of coincidences… and the arrival of a man claiming to come from the future. Quote: It is rare...
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Hadi Mohaghegh – Mamiroo AKA Immortal (2015)
Ayaz, a lonely seventy-year-old man, detests his life. He’s constantly in search of ways of ending his life. Some years back, on the way back from a family wedding party, the minibus which he was...
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Jerzy Skolimowski – Essential Killing (2010)
allmovie wrote:A pair of American security operatives (Zach Cohen and Iftach Ofir) are on patrol in Afghanistan when they stumble upon a Taliban fighter (Vincent Gallo), who kills them despite his...
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