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Murali Nair – Marana Simhasanam AKA Throne of Death (1999)
When Krishnan, a poor Indian laborer, is caught stealing a landowner’s coconuts to feed his family, he becomes a poster boy for various political parties all jockeying for position in local elections....
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Selim Gunes – Kar Beyaz AKA White As Snow (2010)
The movie takes the audience on a journey through time by throwing light on the vicious cycle of an era, taking place at the beginning of the seventies. The director gives life to the story on screen...
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Bruce Beresford –‘Breaker’ Morant [+Extras] (1980)
Quote:When they speak of heroes – of villains – of men who look for action, who choose between honor and revenge – they tell the story of Breaker Morant Quote:During the Boer War, three Australian...
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Arturo Ripstein – Tiempo de morir (1966)
After serving 18 years for killing a man in a duel,a former gunman returns to his hometown determined to live a normal life, but the sons of the man he killed are bent on revenge. Gabriel Garcia...
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Masao Adachi – Danjiki geinin AKA Artist of Fasting (2016)
Quote:Adachi Masao’s long-awaited return from hiatus is an absurdist comedy with political bite. The multilayered hypocrisies of contemporary Japan are slowly unveiled when a wordless man stages an...
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Emmanuel Blanchard – La collection AKA The collection (2018)
Paris, 1942. In the middle of the Occupation, Victor Gence, an unscrupulous merchant, buys, at vastly low prices, artworks belonging to Jewish collectors. Informed by a concierge, he manages to enter...
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Atif Yilmaz – Selvi boylum, al yazmalim AKA The Girl with the Red Scarf (1978)
Quote:A classic and endlessly watchable love story that never dates Inspired by the novel of acclaimed writer Cengiz Aytmatov, Atif Yilmaz adapts one of history’s greatest love stories to the screen...
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Vasili Sigarev – Zhit AKA Living (2012)
Quote:It is already a challenge to make a film on death and call it Living. But Sigarev fearlessly gets to the very heart of things, where life, death, God, love and the imagination form an...
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Babis Makridis – L (2012)
A Man lives in his car. He is 40 years old and although he does not have a lot of free time, when he does, he chooses to spend it with his family. He meets his wife and two children at a specified day...
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Jack Garfein – Something Wild (1961)
Criterion wrote:A complex exploration of the physical and emotional effects of trauma, Something Wild stars Carroll Baker, in a layered performance, as a college student who attempts suicide after a...
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Yuli Raizman – Kommunist (Коммунист) AKA The Communist (1958)
Synopsis: In 1919 workers arrive by train in the middle of the Taiga in order to construct a town. They fell trees and unload bricks from the train for that purpose. The newly arrived hero Vasilij is...
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William A. Fraker – Monte Walsh (1970)
SynopsisAn aging cowboy realizes that the West he knew and loved will soon be no more–and that there will be no room for him, either… 1.09GB | 1:35:00 | 720×304 | avi...
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Guillermo del Toro – El Laberinto Del Fauno aka Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
In 1944 falangist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she...
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Isabel Coixet – Ayer No Termina Nunca AKA Yesterday Never Ends (2013)
Year 2017. Barcelona. A couple reunites after five years of not seeing each other and after going through some tragic incidents in their past in their lives. She had stayed in Spain while he moved to...
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Maximiliano Schonfeld – Germania (2012)
In a small town of Entre Ríos, a German family is preparing to leave their farm, for reasons that will only be revealed much later. On the last day, the two teenage brothers, Brenda and Lucas, say...
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Jan Ole Gerster – Oh Boy (2012)
The Berlin-set tale of an aimless twentysomething is a delightfully unforced comedy with a sure grasp of character and setting. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER OH BOY is a charmingly self-ironic portrait of a...
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Vittorio De Sica – Ladri di biciclette AKA Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Quote: A crowd forms in front of a government employment agency, as it does every day, waiting – often in vain – for job announcements. Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani), one of the unemployed...
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Sebastián Borensztein – Un cuento chino AKA A Chinese Tale (2011)
The film opens idyllically when a Chinese man, Jun (Ignacio Huang), takes his girlfriend on a boat trip on a picturesque lake to propose to her. This image is quickly shattered when a cow falls from...
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Arnaud des Pallières – Michael Kohlhaas aka Age of Uprising (2013)
In this epic tale of wrongdoing and retribution set in 16th-century Cévennes, Michael Kohlhaas starts out as a successful, well-to-do horse trader with a loving family. The once unshakable feudal...
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Hans W. Geissendörfer – Der Zauberberg AKA The Magic Mountain (TV Version)...
Plot summary [wikipedia.org]The narrative opens in the decade before World War I. We are introduced to the central protagonist of the story, Hans Castorp, a young German. We encounter him when he is...
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