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Robert Mullan – We Will Sing aka Mes Dainuosime (2015)
A group of protesters, from all around Lithuania, gather at the Television Tower to protect it from approaching Soviet tanks and paratroopers. Review:WE WILL SING is an ambitious low budget Lithuanian...
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Boonsong Nakphoo – Thudongkawat AKA Wandering (2016)
Quote:Nob leads a happy life in a small town with his wife and young son. But when his son dies and his wife leaves him, he is unable to cope. Even others in the village turn their backs on him. He...
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Reha Erdem – Hayat var AKA My Only Sunshine (2008)
Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat’s father owns a small boat that secures the...
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Nobuhiko Obayashi – Futari aka Chizuko’s Younger Sister (1991)
Quote:Futari (Two of Us) is about two sisters, one of them the perfect child, the other clumsy and slow. One day, the perfect sister dies, and comes back as a ghost to guide her little sister. I’m not...
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Denijal Hasanovic – Catalina (2017)
Colombian girl, who studies law in France, arrives to Sarajevo in order to write a study about the War Crimes Tribunal. Unexpectedly she finds herself in the center of the intimate tragedy of her new...
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Juraj Herz – Habermann (2010)
A mill owner in the Sudetenland and his family’s lives are changed as Europe heats up in 1938. Habermann (Czech: Habermannův mlýn) is a 2010 Czech-German-Austrian drama film directed by Juraj Herz. In...
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Christy Cabanne – Annapolis Salute (1937)
Synopsis:The adventures of three disparate cadets at the US Naval Academy–one the son of a Navy enlisted man, the other the scion of a wealthy family, the third decent but somewhat slow-witted–and...
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Javier Rebollo – Lo que sé de Lola AKA What I Know About Lola (2006)
Quote:Director Javier Rebollo’s first feature, Lola (Lo que se de Lola), was the unanimous choice of this year’s London Film Festival FIPRESCI jury. Partly shot in French and in Spanish, and located...
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George Cukor – Zaza (1938)
Synopsis:George Cukor’s seldom seen adaptation of David Belasco’s Zaza, this one features Claudette Colbert in the lead role of Zaza a famous singer who falls for a married man played by Herbert...
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Manolo Nieto – La perrera AKA The Dog Pound (2006)
Quote:Desperate and without luck, 25 year old David has failed as an exam and has lost the scholarship that kept him in the city. To gain it back he has to pass an exam that will take place in a year....
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Terrence Malick – Badlands (1973)
Quote:An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands. Roger Ebert, in 1973, wrote:They meet for the first...
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Hyun-mok Yoo – Obaltan AKA The Aimless Bullet (1961)
SynopsisA lowly clerk at an accountant’s office, Yeong-ho (Kim Jin-kyu) is the head of a household that consists of his mother (Noh Jae-shin), who lost her sanity in the war and sporadically cries,...
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Jim Goddard – The Black Stuff (1980)
A group of Liverpudlians goes to Middlesborough to lay a tarmac road. Without the boss around, there’s a chance for some diversions with the locals, while keeping up the spirit of free enterprise,...
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Neil Jordan – Not I (2000)
A young woman sits down in a chair. Only her mouth is visible as she begins to speak at a rapid clip, describing events that she insists did not really happen to her. 197MB | 14mn 8s | 846×476 | mkv...
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Rino Di Silvestro – Hanna D. – La ragazza del Vondel Park AKA Hanna D.: The...
Hanna is a young woman with a dysfunctional family background who becomes addictive to heroin and takes up with a guy who pimps her out. As her life begins to slide, she meets a nice young man who...
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Shaken Ajmanov – Konets Atamana AKA Az atamán halála (1971)
featuring Andrey Konchalovskiy on the scriptQuote:[…]Andrei Konchalovsky had, together with Eduard Tropinin, written the script for The End of the Ataman, directed by the renowned Kazakh film-maker...
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Jean Delannoy – Notre-Dame de Paris AKA The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy, performs a...
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Mihalis Kakogiannis – Alexis Zorbas AKA Zorba the Greek [+Commentary] (1964)
If ever there was a role that Anthony Quinn was born to play, it was the lusty, life-affirming title character in Zorba the Greek. The scene is the isle of Crete, where English writer Alan Bates...
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Hussein Kamal – Thartharah fawq al-Nil AKA Adrift on the Nile (1971)
Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz’s novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various...
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Luigi Magni – In nome del papa re AKA In the Name of the Pope King (1977)
In 1867, with Garibaldi’s forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the violence to...
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