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Henri-Georges Clouzot – La Prisonnière AKA Woman in Chains (1968)
“When instinctive film artists have passed their chronological niche, they either parody themselves or set out for new fields of action at the risk of complete failure … Clouzot goes down swinging.” –...
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Andrey Konchalovskiy – Belye nochi pochtalona Alekseya Tryapitsyna AKA The...
The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A reserved...
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Gaspar Noé – Love (2015)
Synopsis IMDB wrote: Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the effect it will have on their...
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Pedro Almodóvar – La flor de mi secreto AKA The Flower of My Secret (1995)
Quote: Marisa Paredes is Leocadia (“Leo”) Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love...
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Malgorzata Szumowska – Cialo AKA Body (2015)
Quote: A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga might try to harm herself, since she’s still grieving over her recently deceased mother, sends her to see a psychiatrist, Anna, who’s...
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Costas Zapas – Uncut Family (2004)
The life of a boy in his adolescence takes a turn when his relationship with his mother and father is exposed. Costas Zapas’ debut film. http://www.nitroflare.com/view/B42CC7F7A603AD1/Uncut_Family.rar...
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Luis Buñuel – Simón del desierto AKA Simon of the Desert [+Extra] (1965)
Quote: Simon of the Desert is Luis Buñuel’s wicked and wild take on the life of devoted ascetic Saint Simeon Stylites, who waited atop a pillar surrounded by a barren landscape for six years, six...
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Yahya Alabdallah – Al Juma Al Akheira AKA The Last Friday (2011)
Quote: Isolation and loneliness are the dominant feelings in Youssef’s life after getting divorced from his wife who took the only son they have to live with her. He counts the days till he sees his...
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Wayne Wang – Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989)
Synopsis Ben’s wife wants some attention. Ben’s boss wants some dedication. Ben’s father wants some grandchildren. And Ben just wants a minute to sort it all out in Wayne Wang’s gentle comedy, “Eat a...
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Sebastian Schipper – Victoria (2015)
Quote: Victoria, a young woman from Madrid, meets four local Berliners outside a nightclub. Sonne and his friends promise to show her a good time and the real side of the city. But these lads have...
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Frank Capra – You Can’t Take It with You (1938)
From “filmschoolrejects” You Can’t Take It with You is a classic case of good old-fashioned American optimism, a celebration of family and small-town values courtesy of Frank Capra, who made a...
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Kon Ichikawa – Shijûshichinin no shikaku AKA 47 Ronin (1994)
Synopsis: In Japan in 1701, Asano, the daimyo of Ako, assaulted Kira (Rie Miyazawa), an official of the Shogunate, in Edo Castle, for which offense he was ordered to commit suicide. The following...
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Dennis Hopper – Easy Rider (1969)
Quote: Nobody went to see Easy Rider (1969) only once. It became one of the rallying-points of the late ’60s, a road picture and a buddy picture, celebrating sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, and the freedom...
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Costas Zapas – The Last Porn Movie (2006)
Description: The story of a beautiful teenager girl whose life is turned around when her ex-porn star dad is made (by his producers) to cast her as the lead in his latest x-rated film. A devastating...
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Arnaud Desplechin – Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse AKA My Golden Days (2015)
Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother’s madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who...
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Klaus Kinski – Kinski Paganini [Director’s Cut] (1989)
Klaus Kinski believed that he lived through the same experiences as the legendary “devil violinist” Paganini, who set whole Europe of the 19th century into frenzy and through whose personality Klaus...
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Peter Greenaway – Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)
Synopsis: In 1931 the Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein travels to Guanajuato to direct his film Que viva México. There he encounters a new culture and its dealings with death; he also discovers...
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Victor Fleming – Red Dust (1932)
Plot: Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson’s Indochina rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. The latest boat upriver brings Carson an unwelcome guest: Vantine, a floozy from Saigon, hoping...
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Stéphane Brizé – La loi du marché AKA The Measure of a Man (2015)
At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?...
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Andreas Dresen – Stilles Land AKA Silent Country (1992)
Up until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of communist rule in East Germany, the most anyone in the outlying regions of that country knew about its overall situation was...
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