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Ming-liang Tsai – He liu AKA The River (1997)
Quote:An unemployed young man named Hsiao-Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) passes idle time at a local Taipei mall when he encounters an old friend (Chen Shiang-chyi) on the opposite escalator. With time on his...
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Anders Fløe – Afskåret AKA Secluded (2016)
19-year-old Sarah is going on holiday deep in the Swedish forests with her parents. Everything seems to be completely idyllic, but just as she leaves behind civilisation and mobile phone coverage, she...
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Julien Duvivier – Sous le ciel de Paris AKA Under the Sky of Paris (1951)
Quote:Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day. Quote:Ah, Paris! City of rich and mellow beauties! City of...
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Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat – El Artista aka The Artist (2008)
SynopsisJorge (Sergio Pángaro), a 40-year-old man, single, shy and circumspect, works as a nurse in a geriatric house. There, he looks after Romano (Alberto Laiseca), an old man who hardly walks and...
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Alejandro Fernández Almendras – Matar a un hombre AKA To Kill A Man (2014)
A working class man who, tired of being the victim of criminals, decides to take justice in his own hands. 1.20GB | 1h 22mn | 854×356 | mkv...
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Ji Huang – Jidan he shitou AKA Egg and Stone (2012)
Icarus Films wrote:Huang Ji’s brave personal film is one of the most auspicious debuts in recent Chinese cinema. Set in her home village in rural Hunan province, Egg and Stone is a powerful...
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Metin Erksan – Bir intihar aka A Suicide (1975)
“Isn´t suicide an introverted desire to kill?” The man wants to die and the woman wants to be famous. According to the man, there could not be a better plan than the woman killing him. This way the...
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Nobuhiko Obayashi – Noyuki Yamayuki Umibe Yuki AKA To the Fields, to the...
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea town. He vies with the school’s reigning bully,...
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Brillante Mendoza – Ma’ Rosa (2016)
Quote:Ma’ Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor neighborhood of Manila where everybody likes her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts...
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Sergei Dvortsevoy – Ayka (2018)
A poor woman without a job struggles to raise her child. Ayka is a 2018 drama film directed by Sergey Dvortsevoy. It was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. At...
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Peter Chan – Tau ming chong aka The Warlords (2007)
The film is set in the 1860s, during the Taiping Rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty in China. The story, based on an unresolved crime in 1870, tells of three sworn brothers (played by Andy Lau, Jet Li...
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Harry Lachman – The Man Who Lived Twice (1936)
Full Synopsis: from TCMJohnny “Slick” Rawley flees the police and, after lying low with his partners John “Gloves” Baker and his moll Peggy Russell, goes into hiding at the Baldwin Medical College....
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Paulo Rocha – Os Verdes Anos AKA The Green Years (1963)
Julio, aged nineteen, has just left the provinces to settle down in the outskirts of Lisbon. He lives there in a poor area with his uncle Raul and starts working as an apprentice shoemaker. At the...
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Johan Heldenbergh & Kenneth Taylor – Schellebelle 1919 (2011)
Schellebelle 1919 tells the story of the Van De Veldes. The eldest daughter Coralie – only 16 years old herself – took as many as 25 war orphans into her home during the First World War. Yet the...
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Barbara Loden – The Frontier Experience (1975)
The Westward movement — and a woman’s perspective of that movement — emerges in the dramatic story of Delilah Fowler’s first year on the Kansas frontier in 1869. Based on diaries of the period, the...
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Duygu Sagiroglu – Bitmeyen Yol AKA The Never Ending Road (1965)
Quote:In Turkey in the 1960s, six unemployed friends struggle in life, some even driven to crime… Bitmeyen Yol which is sometimes natural and sometimes lyrical, made in 1965 is Sagiroglu’s first and...
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Branko Gapo – Denovi na iskusenie AKA Days of Temptation (1965)
In 1918, after the Balkan Wars and the First World War, thousands of Macedonians immigrate to Bulgaria. Among them are pro-Bulgarian Macedonians who want to exploit the emigrants for their own...
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Terence Davies – Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
Quote:The film, depicting life in working-class Liverpool from the 1940s into the 50s, is already a modern classic. Now that Eileen, Maisie, and Tony are adults, their childhood memories – and in...
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Roman Zhigalov – Les (2018)
IMDB:In a small village lost in the middle of a boundless forest a teenager is in love with an older woman. He does not know how to strike up a conversation with her, much less how to tell her about...
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Zoltán Fábri – Magyarok aka Hungarians (1978)
“Hungarians” is as stolid as its characters, a group of peasants who leave Hungary to work in Germany during World War II. The most knowledgable of them has never heard of Hitler. Yet signs of the war...
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