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Herbert Achternbusch – Das Andechser Gefühl aka The Andechs Feeling (1974)
SynopsisIn Achternbusch’s first feature, an anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While flies...
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Herbert Achternbusch – Hick’s Last Stand [+Extras] (1990)
Synopsis[In Hick’s Last Stand] we witness yet another incarnation of a Last Bavarian Mohican, incoherently staggering across the badlands of South Dakota and Wyoming in white cowboy boots, black...
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Leon Hirszman – São Bernardo [+Extras] (1971)
SynopsisIn the interior of Alagoas, the son of peasants Paulo Honório, is a peddler who wanders through the midlands negociating all sorts of things, from cow to religious artifacts. He grows an...
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Helke Sander – Der Beginn aller Schrecken ist Liebe AKA The Trouble with Love...
Quote:In Love Is the Beginning of All Terror the paradoxical politics of emotion are parodied when two liberated, though jealous, women vie for the same man and perform for his gaze. The film...
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Pablo Larraín – El Club AKA The Club (2015)
Quote:A crisis counselor is sent by the Catholic Church to a small Chilean beach town where disgraced priests and nuns, suspected of crimes ranging from child abuse to baby-snatching from unwed...
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Nicolas Cage – Sonny (2002)
from VARIETY.COMNicolas Cage makes an unusual but pleasantly haunting debut behind the camera with “Sonny,” the tale of a young man groomed as a gigolo by his Southern momma from age 12. Distinguished...
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Koen Mortier – Ex Drummer (2007)
Quote:A famous writer gets visited by a band of retards who heard that he can play drums and need a famous drummer for their band “The Feminists”. The writer joins the band in hope for new material...
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Radu Jude – Alexandra (2006)
Quote:Tavi, a forty-year-old divorced father, comes to his ex-wife’s home to repair his four-year-old daughter bike, Alexandra. He realizes with amazement that Alexandra does not call him “Daddy” any...
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Chi Zhang – Dixia de tiankong aka The Shaft (2008)
In a poor mining town in western China, stories of a father and his two children intertwine. The misfortunes of son and daughter alike unravel to illuminate the complicated relationships masked by...
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Zagid Sabitov – Beregis, zmey! AKA Beware, Snakes! (1979)
featuring Andrey Tarkovsky in the script. Quote:An experienced detective managed to unravel a difficult matter, while exposing the criminals and perpetrators of the crime. Not far from the village...
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Branko Gapo – Najdolgiot pat AKA The Longest Journey (1976)
Content:March 1903. The Ottoman Empire is in a process disintegration. Only Macedonia is not still liberated in the Balkans. The Macedonian revolutionary movement is in full growth. The Turks are...
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Mihalis Kakogiannis – To teleftaio psema AKA A Matter of Dignity (1958)
A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm a millionaire for his money in marriage. Soon she is torn between living a lie and keeping up...
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Carlos Diegues – Joanna Francesa (1975)
Joana is a sophisticated, beautiful woman, so she has a choice of lovers, and destinies. She will let down Pierre, the French consul at Sao Paulo, and with him the frivolity of tea-parties and...
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Bigas Luna – Caniche AKA Poodle (1979)
Quote:A brother and sister live together in a relationship which is unhealthily close, and has overtones of incest. The unpleasant couple are involved in other deranged and disgusting activities as...
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Maurice Lehmann & Claude Autant-Lara – Le ruisseau AKA The Stream (1938)
Synopsis/Review:Denise, a young orphan girl who has escaped from a convent, believes that her misfortunes have ended when she meets Paul , a young naval officer upon whose ship she has stowed away....
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Hrishikesh Mukherjee – Mili (1975)
Synopsis:Shekhar Dayal has moved into a new neighborhood, and is just not pleased with the new surroundings. He resents the noise children make while playing, as he prefers quiet and solitude. His...
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Douglas Sirk – All I Desire (1953)
Quote:When the adulterous Naomi Murdoch (Barbara Stanwyck) returns to the family she abandoned years before, her arrival is rendered all the more difficult by the appearance of her former lover, Dutch...
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Peter Ho-Sun Chan – Tian mi mi AKA Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)
Synopsis:Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship...
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Andrey Konchalovskiy – Istoriya Asi Klyachinoy, kotoraya lyubila, da ne...
From Senses of Cinema:Istoriya Asi Klyachinoy, kotoraya lyubila, da ne vyshla zamuzh (Asya’s Happiness) is a seminal film, a film that suffered numerous title changes and edits by edict. It is a...
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Luigi Bazzoni & Franco Rossellini – La donna del lago AKA The Possessed (1965)
Quote:When a visitor arrives in a small Italian village, he discovers that the residents are acting like soul-less zombies–and he begins to suspect that they may be under the influence of a mysterious...
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