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Maria Maggenti – The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995)
This enjoyable film combines features of teen movie, coming-of-age film, and lesbian flic. Made by a female director, with attractive actors, it is a role-reversal farce. The appeal is not restricted...
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Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov – Urok AKA The Lesson (2014)
In a small Bulgarian town, Nade is an honest, hard-working elementary school teacher and devoted mother, struggling to keep her life together. Her unemployed, alcoholic husband has secretly spent...
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Fred C. Newmeyer – Gambling Sex (1932)
Gambling Sex (1932) A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more of her fortune. Stars: Ruth...
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Yimou Zhang – Gui lai AKA Coming Home (2014)
Quote: The story is adapted from the novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi (simplified Chinese: 陆犯焉识; traditional Chinese: 陸犯焉識) written by Yan Geling. Lu Yanshi had been a professor before being sent to the...
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Georges Lampin – L’idiot AKA The Idiot (1946)
Synopsis: Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to...
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François Girard – Le Violon Rouge aka The Red Violin (1998)
In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as “the red violin,” is being auctioned off. During the auction, we flash back to the creation of the violin in 17th century Italy, and...
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Richard Blank – Friedliche Tage AKA Peaceful Days (1984)
Quote: The dramatic arc of Friedliche Tage was developed from images and the people who sustained those images. As long as the film is set in the building where the executions are carried out and the...
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Ingmar Bergman – De två saliga AKA The Blessed Ones (1986)
“Things are never crazy in and of themselves. They only seem so from the outside.”De två saliga (The Blessed Ones or The Blessed Pair) is a 1986 made-for-television film directed by Ingmar Bergman,...
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Noah Baumbach – Mistress America (2015)
Quote: Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes....
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Jean-Luc Godard – For Ever Mozart [+commentary] (1996)
Quote: Jean-Luc Godard’s densely packed rumination on the need to create order and beauty in a world ruled by chaos is divided into four distinct but tangentially related stories, including the...
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Gaspar Noé – Carne (1991)
Quote “Starring Philippe Nahon and Blandine Lenoir, it tells the story of a horse butcher with an autistic daughter. At a running time of 40 minutes, it was the first longer film directed by Noé. The...
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Bjørn Erik Pihlmann Sørensen – Reckless (2013)
An uncompromising and controversial short set in the Scandinavian suburbia on the hottest day of the summer. A sister reluctantly babysits her little brother. Two young boys catch her attention, and...
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Richard Boleslawski – Men in White (1934)
Plot: A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can’t accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating...
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Andrey Smirnov – Osen AKA Autumn (1974)
A 7-day trip with a city couple that is struggling to get it’s relationship straightened up. She is single, he is married. The rain never stops, leaving them inside the country shack for days to make...
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Fernando de Fuentes – Vámonos con Pancho Villa! AKA Let’s Go With Pancho...
Synopsis: Six hearty fellows in the tiny hamlet of San Pablo decide to join the revolutionary army of Pancho Villa. The Federales have already put a price on the head of young Miguel Ángel del Toro...
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Kar Wai Wong – Fa yeung nin wa AKA In The Mood For Love (2000)
Quote: Set in Hong Kong, 1962, Chow Mo-Wan is a newspaper editor who moves into a new building with his wife. At the same time, Su Li-zhen, a beautiful secretary and her executive husband also move in...
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Frank Tashlin – Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? was a run-away success. The film is known as Mansfield’s “signature film.” Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? is a 1957 American satiric comedy film starring Jayne...
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Todd Louiso – Love Liza (2002)
Love Liza is a psychological drama about a man trying to come to terms with his wife’s suicide. Wilson Joel (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) is searching for answers as to why his wife, Liza, killed herself....
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Todd Solondz – Life During Wartime (2009)
Quote: Todd Solondz is back with Life During Wartime, his sixth feature and a sequel of sorts to his crowd-pleasing 1998 effort, Happiness. Solondz once again follows the joyless Jordan sisters...
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Michelangelo Antonioni – I vinti AKA The Vanquished (1953)
IMDB quote 1: Three stories of well-off youths who commit murders. In the French episode a group of high school students kill one of their colleagues for his money. In the Italian episode a university...
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