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Gillo Pontecorvo – Queimada (1969)
Plot:The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal...
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Gordon Douglas & Henry Levin – Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
Synopsis:Just before Christmas, Joe Miracle, a returning WWII war hero, comes home to learn that gangster Barney Teener has taken over his nightclub and murdered Joe’s partner. Joe loots the club’s...
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Krzysztof Krauze – Dlug AKA The Debt (1999) (DVD)
The Debt is a gripping thriller about two entrepreneurs who become tangled in the web of a Russian thug. Two friends begin a business venture of importing Italian scooters into Poland. With no...
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Lance Comfort – Temptation Harbour (1947)
Synopsis:A signalman on a quay sees a fight between two men. One of the men is deliberately pushed into the water and the signalman cannot save him, but decides to keep his suitcase which later finds...
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Márta Mészáros – Eltávozott nap AKA The girl aka The day has gone (1968)
A young woman leaves a state orphanage to find her mother in this interesting examination ofhow the overt repression of women in the older pattern of village life has been replaced bythe more subtle...
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André Cayatte – Les chemins de Katmandou AKA The Pleasure Pit (1969)
Quote:Sven is Norwegian and his future is Kathmandu, the city of the gods.Their paths meet and it is side by side they choose to take the path that leads up to the holiest city in Asia.Olivier is...
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Marva Nabili – Khake Sar Beh Morh AKA The Sealed Soil (1977)
Quote:Made surreptitiously in 1977 just as the Ayatollah Khomeini regime was coming to power, a rough cut of ‘The Sealed Soil” was smuggled out of Iran by the director in a false-bottomed suitcase,...
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João Pedro Rodrigues – O Pastor (1988)
João Pedro Rodrigues’ ESTC graduation short film.Formally assured, and consisting mostly of long shots, it tells the story of a shepherd who, at the age of 65, is forced to retire. It is unsurprising...
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Fabrice du Welz – Vinyan (2008)
Synopsis:Unable to accept the the loss of their son in the 2005 Tsunami, Jeanne and Paul Bellmer have remained in Phuket. Desperately clinging to the fact that his body was never recovered, Jeanne has...
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Ray Enright & Edoardo Anton – Dramma nella Kasbah AKA The Man from Cairo (1953)
“The Man from Cairo”, a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright the only credited director on the film print, finds Mike Canelli, the man from Cairo, nosing around...
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Stephen Frears – Play for Today: Sunset Across the Bay [+ Extra] (1975)
A married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature of their relationship, and what they have left....
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Josef Mach – Die Söhne der großen Bärin AKA The Sons of Great Bear (1966)
Although the Indians were assured their lands adjacent to the Black Hills by contract, the Whites want to expel them. Meanwhile, gold has been discovered there and the unscrupulous settler, Red Fox,...
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Robert Guédiguian – Le voyage en Arménie AKA Armenia (2006)
Barsam, Anna’s father, is seriously ill. Before he dies, he would like to bequeath something to his daughter: a sense of doubt. As he flees to Armenia, he leaves several clues in his wake so that Anna...
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Raoul Walsh – Under Pressure (1935)
Two members of a crew of “sandhogs”, men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel...
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Brian G. Hutton – The First Deadly Sin (1980)
Synopsis:A serial killer is stalking New York. Inspector Edward X. Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow...
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Michelangelo Antonioni – La signora senza camelie AKA The Lady Without...
The third feature film by cinema master Michelangelo Antonioni, La signora senza camelie [The Lady Without Camelias], expanded the expressive palette of contemporary Italian movies, demonstrating that...
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Federico Fellini – Il bidone AKA The Swindle (1955)
Synopsis:Aging small-time con man Augusto, who swindles peasants, works with two younger men: Roberto, who wants to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso, who has a wife and...
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Ayse Toprak – Mr Gay Syria (2017)
Mr. Gay Syria follows two gay Syrian refugees who are trying to rebuild their lives. Husein is a barber in Istanbul, living a double life between his conservative family and his gay identity. Mahmoud...
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Billy Wilder – Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Quote:One of Wilder’s finest, and certainly the blackest of all Hollywood’s scab-scratching accounts of itself, this establishes its relentless acidity in the opening scene by having the story related...
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Sverre Udnæs – Fru Inger til Østråt AKA Lady Inger of Oestraat (1975)
This historical drama is based on a play by Henrik Ibsen and set in the year 1528. The central figure in the low-keyed story is a Norwegian noblewoman who is seeking to bring independence to that...
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