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Ewald André Dupont – Piccadilly [+ Extras] (1929)
The star attraction of the Piccadilly Club is the dancing team of Mabel and Vic. Victor is infatuated with Mabel, but she rejects his advances, since she is in love with Valentine Wilmot, the club’s...
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Shôhei Imamura – Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari AKA Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Synopsis:Vengeance Is Mine is the come-back feature of master Shohei Imamura after a 10 year hiatus. The film is based on a real-life serial killer who went on a killing spree across Japan in the 60s....
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Joanna Hogg – Archipelago (2010)
Quote:Deep fractures within a family dynamic begin to surface during a getaway to the Isles of Scilly. …As much as a downbeat comedy of bourgeois mores, Archipelago is a sort of claustrophobic horror...
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Yôji Yamada – Tasogare Seibei AKA The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Synopsis:Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. A widower, he has charge of two daughters (whom he adores) and a senile mother;...
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Robert Siodmak – The Spiral Staircase (1946)
Quote:The wonderfully suspenseful psychological drama Spiral Staircase is the prototype of the “old dark house, lady in distress” thriller, full of dark corners, flickering candles and featuring a...
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N.C. Heikin – Kimjongilia AKA The Flower of Kim Jong II (2009)
Synopsis:For some, the Korean War was a clear example of American imperialism. For others, it was a valiant effort on the part of the UN and the Koreans to quash the spread of communism. For all...
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Raja Amari – Corps étranger AKA Foreign Body (2016)
In the turbulent aftermath of the Tunisian revolution, young Samia (Sarra Hannachi) flees her homeland. She braves hostile seas in the crossing to France, but once there she finds that her struggles...
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João Pedro Rodrigues – Morrer Como Um Homem AKA To Die Like a Man [+Extras]...
Once upon a time there was a war In the darkness of the night, a young soldier goes AWOL. Tonia, a veteran transsexual in Lisbons drag shows, watches the world around her crumble. The competition from...
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Kaizo Hayashi – Harukana jidai no kaidan o AKA The Stairway To The Distant...
Quote:Stairway to the Distant Past is the second film in the Mike Hama Private Investigator Trilogy. If you’ve seen part one The Most Terrible Time in My Life you must seek this out to find out how...
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Renée Nader Messora & João Salaviza – Chuva É Cantoria Na Aldeia Dos Mortos...
Quote:There are no spirits or snakes tonight and the forest around the village is quiet. Fifteen-year old Ihjãc has had nightmares since he lost his father. He is an indigenous Krahô from the north of...
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Mikio Naruse – Onna no naka ni iru tanin AKA The Stranger Within a Woman (1966)
Synopsis:Tashiro (Keiju Kobayashi) coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto (Tatsuya Mihashi) in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro...
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Salvatore Samperi – Ernesto (1979)
Quote:Remastered in 2019. Ernesto is based on the scandal novel by Umberto Saba, scandalous for the outspoken portrayal of a gay relationship between an adult man and an adolescent. The film has won...
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Jack Witikka – Aila – Pohjolan tytär AKA Arctic Fury (1951)
A precursor of sorts to The White Reindeer (1952), featuring the same female lead, Mirjami Kuosmanen, and the same cinematographer, Erik Blomberg, who was Kuosmanen’s husband and went on to direct as...
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Lewis Milestone – The North Star (1943)
In a peaceful Ukrainian village, the school year is just ending in June 1941. Five young friends set out for a walking trip to Kiev, but their travels are brutally interrupted when they are suddenly...
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Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi – Tickets (2005)
SynopsisA train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket,...
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Richard Billingham – Ray & Liz (2018)
SynopsisPhotographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz....
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Radu Jude – Toata lumea din familia noastra AKA Everybody in Our Family (2012)
Quote:Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to take his daughter on...
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Erden Kiral – Mavi sürgün AKA The Blue Exile (1993)
Brief SynopsisBased on an autobiographical novel, story of the four year exile (1922-26) from his Turkish homeland of early European ecologist Cevat Sakir (1890-1973). Quote:Based on the true story of...
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Radu Muntean – Boogie AKA Summer Holiday (2008)
A ‘generation film’ about 30-somethings in Romania who deal with totally different issues than those of their parents. The businessman Bogdan (alias Boogie) is on a holiday with his family at the...
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Vulo Radev – Osadeni dushi AKA Doomed Souls (1975)
Spain – the Civil War is raging. Fanny Horn, an English aristocrat looking for adventure, is caught up in the turmoil in Madrid. Here, for the first time, she meets Father Heredia – a monk of the...
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