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Bill Gunn – Personal Problems (1980)
Quote:An “experimental soap opera” centered around a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover. Quote:This entirely African American-conceived and produced ensemble drama is the...
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Ann Guedes & Eduardo Guedes – Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale (1989)
Johnny Fortune is no good to anyone, not mean, but just no good. To escape Casino bosseswho want him for stealing money, he flees to England. He gets a job dressed as a bear forPunch & Judy shows,...
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Stole Popov – Gypsy Magic AKA Gipsy Magic (1997)
Quote:In a Macedonian gypsy village local man meets an Indian UNPROFOR physician whom he sees as solution to all his troubles. Quote:The action of the movie takes place in a Gypsy settlement, and the...
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S. Sylvan Simon – The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938)
This underrated feature stars Ralph Bellamy as Dr. Paul Hallet, working in the jungles of Sumatra with associate Jack Murray (William Gargan), experimenting on monkeys in search of a cure for red...
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Shigehiro Ozawa – Tosei-nin retsuden AKA Yakuza’s Tale (1969)
SynopsisA yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo of a dragon who is said to be responsible...
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Assi Dayan – Dr. Pomerantz (2011)
Last film by Assi Dayn.Dr. Yoel Pomerantz, 64, is an unemployed clinical psychologist who lives in poverty with his 30 year old son Yoav in a 12th floor apartment. Pomerantz volunteers at ANA, the...
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Guillaume Canet – Ne Le Dis a Personne AKA Tell No One (2006)
Pediatric Alex Beck (François Cluzet), still devastated by the savage murder of his wife Margot (Marie-Josée Croze) in the early days of their marriage eight years ago, receives an anonymous...
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Alain Resnais – Mon oncle d’Amérique AKA My American Uncle (1980)
Mon oncle d’Amérique (“My American Uncle”) is a 1980 French film directed by Alain Resnais. The film stars Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, and Roger Pierre. The didactic film is built around the...
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Brillante Mendoza – Foster Child (2007)
Quote:Ostensibly a fiction film about a foster mother (Cherry Pie Picache) in the outskirts of Manila spending her last day with her latest foster child (Kier Segundo), Foster Child is actually a home...
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Satyajit Ray – Aparajito (1956)
Quote:“Aparajito” is the second film of Satyajit Ray’s ‘Apu Trilogy’ (Pather Panchali, Aparajito and Apur Sansar) continues to document the life and maturation of one young Indian boy. The film opens...
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Aida Begic – Snijeg AKA Snow (2008)
Quote:The first Bosnian film to win the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival’s International Critics Week focuses on six women living in a small village one year after the war has ended. All of the...
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Fernando E. Solanas – El Exilio de Gardel: Tangos AKA Tangos, the Exile of...
The dictatorship forced thousands of Argentines to leave their country and settle in different corners of Europe. This film follows the daily routine of a community of Argentine exiles in Paris. While...
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István Szabó – Mephisto (1981)
Quote:There are times in “Mephisto” when the hero tries to explain himself by saying that he’s only an actor, and he has that almost right: All he is, is an actor. It’s not his fault that the Nazis...
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Mircea Daneliuc – Glissando (1982)
Quote:In the ’30s a man is obsessed with a painting of a woman that reminds him of his long-lost mother. He models his girlfriend exactly after the woman in the painting and after she attempts to...
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Thomas Durchschlag – Allein AKA Alone (2004)
Quote:Maria is a student at the university of Essen, Germany, living and working in a gray, unpleasant, and anonymous environment. While she has little problem finding someone for a one night stand,...
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Eiji Okuda – Kyôko to Shûichi no baai AKA Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi (2013)
Quote:The fifth directorial effort and the first in around six years from film director and actor Okuda Eiji. This drama, set before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake, offers a delicate...
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Juan José Campanella – El secreto de sus ojos aka Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
Quote:El secreto de sus ojos (English: The Secret In Their Eyes) is a 2009 Argentine dramatic crime film, directed by Juan José Campanella, co-produced by Argentina and Spain, and based on Eduardo...
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Herrmann Zschoche – Insel der Schwäne AKA Swan Island (1983)
Synopsis:Fourteen-year-old Stefan Kolbe, along with his mother and sister, moves from an idyllic small town to the developing area of Berlin-Marzahn, where his father works as a construction worker....
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Stefan Ruzowitzky – Die Fälscher AKA The Counterfeiters [+commentary] (2007)
Quote:The moral conundrum at the heart of Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky’s “The Counterfeiters” is worthy of Kafka or Dostoevsky: What is the value of a single human life in the face of...
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Henrikas Sablevicius – Musu vasara (1963)
Synopsis:A children’s short film about the summer adventures of a schoolboy and his dog. The protagonist of the film seeks to get on TV to demonstrate the “extraordinary talent” of his four-legged...
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