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Renny Rye – Lipstick on Your Collar (1993)
During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. To their eyes, it can hardly compete with...
View ArticleAtif Yilmaz – Adi Vasfiye AKA Her Name is Vasfiye (1985)
A young writer anguished because he finds nothing interesting to write about, strolls through the streets of Izmir. He comes across a series of posters of Sevim Suna, a local singer. She intrigues him...
View ArticleGeorge Cukor – Edward, My Son (1949)
Quote:What will a father do to give his son everything? Obsessed with the desire to give his only son the best of everything, a man destroys his whole world in this riveting drama starring Spencer...
View ArticleDouglas Sirk and Hajo Gies – Silvesternacht – Ein Dialog AKA New Year’s Eve...
Encouraged by Fassbinder, with whom he became friendly after the then-enfant terrible of the German cinema visited him in Lugano, Sirk also did some teaching during the late 1970s at the film school...
View ArticleAsghar Farhadi – Todos lo saben AKA Everybody Knows (2018)
Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her two children to attend her sister’s wedding. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring...
View ArticleVarious – Ponts de Sarajevo AKA Bridges of Sarajevo (2014)
13 European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo and what this city represents in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo incarnates today in Europe. From different...
View ArticleLaurent Achard – Le dernier des fous AKA The Last of the Crazy People (2006)
Based on the 1967 novel by Canadian author Timothy Findley, THE LAST OF THE CRAZY PEOPLE is a French naturalist drama from director Laurent Achard. Martin is a young boy growing up in a family on the...
View ArticleNobuhiko Ôbayashi – Hanagatami (2017)
Quote:Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the seaside’s nature and culture, Toshihiko soon...
View ArticleGiuseppe Tornatore – La migliore offerta aka The Best Offer (2013)
SYNOPSIS:A story about an art expert who has some issues (he doesn’t seem to like people much, he doesn’t have a cell phone, he always wears gloves not to touch other people) and on top of that he...
View ArticleEli Cohen – Etz Hadomim Tafus AKA Under the Domim Tree (1994)
Synopsis: Israel 1953. At a kibbutz boarding school, Aviya is the only Israeli-born pupil. Her friends are all survivors of Nazi persecutions in Europe. As the students follow current events, it...
View ArticleHenry Hathaway – 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
tvguide wrote:Van Johnson plays a blind American writer who is renting an apartment on Baker Street while in London for the opening of his new play. After a row with his former fiancée (Vera Miles),...
View ArticleL. Rezan Yesilbas – Sessiz – Be Deng (2012)
[SPOILER] A woman tries to give a pair of shoes to her husband, who is in prison. The story takes place in Diyarbakır,Turkey in 1984 after the military coup in 1980. In prison only allowed language to...
View ArticleTerence Davies – The Terence Davies Trilogy (1984)
Description from IMDbDavies’ film is divided into three segments enitled “Children”, “Madonna and Child”, and “Death and Transfiguartion”. The segments tell the life of Robert Tucker. The first...
View ArticleElia Kazan – Man on a Tightrope (1953)
Plot Synopsis by Mark Deming: Elia Kazan directed this drama inspired by a true story. Karel Cernik (Fredric March) is the leader of a troupe of Czechoslovakian circus performers who have been plying...
View ArticleRussell Birdwell – The Come On (1956)
Plot Summary:A manipulative female con artist gets entangled in her own web of deceit. 699MB | 1:22:46 | 512×384 | avi http://nitroflare.com/view/99DB2E9CB1303FA/The.Come.On.1956-XviD.VHS-rip.avi...
View ArticleAleksandr Rogozhkin – Karaul (1990)
Synopsis (courtesy of the two IMDB comments):Very cinematic Russian tale of alienation and lost identityI saw this film on a local government television station in Australia called SBS which played it...
View ArticleDick Clement – A Severed Head (1970)
Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and Antonia want...
View ArticleMario Monicelli – Caro Michele (1976)
Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to...
View ArticleAlbert Finney – Charlie Bubbles (1967)
Synopsis:“Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer’s basic tool – the capacity to...
View ArticleJacques Audiard – De rouille et d’os AKA Rust & Bone (2012)
Quote:Based on Craig Davidson’s short story collection of the same name, Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone (De rouille et d’os, 2012) is a tender, yet visceral piece about the nature of being human....
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