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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Spokoj AKA The Calm AKA Peace (1976)
Quote: Based on the short story A Step Beyond the Gate / Krok za brame by Lech Borski). A television feature that is considered to have been one of the pioneering films in the cinema of moral anxiety....
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Gaspar Noé – Love (2015) (HD)
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 relationship, they invite...
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John Cromwell – Caged (1950)
Quote: Caged, considered the best woman’s prison film ever made, represents a union between realistic socially conscious drama and the more stylized world of film noir. Marie, (Eleanor Parker), is...
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Donna Deitch – Desert Hearts (1985)
Quote: It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She’s unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly...
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Toshiya Fujita – Daiamondo wa kizutsukanai AKA The Unspoiled Diamond (1982)
Quote: Toshiya Fujita (藤田 敏八 Fujita Toshiya, January 16, 1932 – August 30, 1997), also known as Shigeya Fujita (藤田繁矢 Fujita Shigeya), was a Japanese film director, film actor, and screenwriter. He is...
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Manoel de Oliveira – O Estranho Caso de Angélica AKA The Strange Case of...
Quote: Isaac is a young photographer living in a boarding house in Régua. In the middle of the night, he receives an urgent call from a wealthy family to come and take the last photograph of their...
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William Cameron Menzies – Address Unknown (1944)
Plot Synopsis: Nominated for Best B&W Art Direction-Interior Decoration and Best Music Score, this World War II drama chronicles the degradation of Martin Schulz (played by Paul Lukas), an...
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Orson Welles – Campanadas a medianoche AKA Falstaff – Chimes at Midnight (1965)
Orson Welles‘ (“Citizen Kane”) black and white low-budget film ingenuously chronicles the life of the fictional Shakespearean character named Falstaff (Orson Welles) in the period of 1400 to 1413....
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Jafar Panahi – Taxi AKA Taxi Teheran (2015)
Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies by the Iranian government, he poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran. (IMDb) Quote: One can wonder how is it possible that...
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Lisa Cholodenko – High Art (1998)
AMG: Lisa Cholodenko wrote and directed this lesbian-themed drama, winner of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival’s Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Ambitious photography magazine associate editor Syd...
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Alfred Hitchcock – Secret Agent (1936)
Brief Synopsis During the first world war, novelist Edgar Brodie is sent to Switzerland by the Intelligence Service. He has to kill a German agent. During the mission he meets a fake general first and...
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Florian Gottschick – Nachthelle (2015)
A drama with a supernatural edge, this genre-crossing gem finds two couples visiting a home from their past, and sexual tension that brings out the worst in each other. Long-buried grudges resurface...
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Slávek Horák – Domácí péce AKA Home Care (2015)
Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta lives for her husband Lada, her daughter, and her patients. But then one day things change and Vlasta comes to realize that she might need some care too....
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Dee Rees – Pariah (2011)
Plot / Synopsis Adepero Oduye portrays Alike (pronounced ah-lee-kay), a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents Audrey and Arthur (Kim Wayans and Charles Parnell) and younger...
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Umit Unal – Gölgesizler AKA The Shadowless (2009)
A barber working in Istanbul longs to be ‘both here and far, far away’. And one day, without warning, he takes himself off and disappears abruptly into the great far away. The barber settles in a...
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Arnaud Larrieu & Jean-Marie Larrieu – Un homme, un vrai (2003)
While they did not know, Boris, shy apprentice filmmaker and Marilyne, dynamic executive, fall madly in love at a Parisian evening. Five years later, Marilyn, accompanied by Boris and their children...
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Asghar Farhadi – Darbareye Elly AKA About Elly (2009)
Quote: About Elly, Iranian director Asgher Farhadi’s fourth feature, is a tightly-knit, intense drama about a sunny story gone tragic. Winner of the Best Director award at the Berlinale this year, the...
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Jean-Loup Hubert – Le grand chemin aka The Grand Highway (1987)
IMDB Review: Roads Scholar, 20 September 2004 Author: writers_reign Quite simply this is one of the Best French films of the last fifty years. The relatively unknown Jean-Loup Hubert has produced the...
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Satyajit Ray – Pather Panchali (1955)
Quote: A boy named Apu is born to a poor but proud Brahmin family. His loving older sister, Durga, is a sweet girl, but has formed the bad habit of stealing fruit from an aunt’s orchard, much to her...
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Chaitanya Tamhane – Court (2014)
“India’s Oscar entry, COURT by Chaitanya Tamhane, is a masterpiece – a work of the deepest empathy, sublime in its construction.” –Joshua Oppenheimer, director of ACT OF KILLING Sypopsis: Winner of...
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