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Archie Mayo – Under 18 AKA Under Eighteen (1931)
Quote:One of several Pre-Code dramas helmed by Warner Bros. contract director Archie Mayo in 1932, Under Eighteen is a cautionary tale for the working girl that was lost in the shuffle of too many...
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Jean-Claude Brisseau – La vie comme ça AKA Life the Way It Is (1978)
Quote:The second film by Jean-Claude Brisseau is this gritty story of working women in the modern world. Originally shot on 16mm for French television, Life the Way It Is (La Vie Comme Ca) may be the...
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Béla Tarr – Kárhozat AKA Damnation [Artificial Eye] (1988)
Quote:Kárhozat is close to being a genre film in its story of love and betrayal, a theme that Tarr has described as being very simple—even “primitive.” Karrer lives a withdrawn life in a mining...
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Neil Breen – Twisted Pair (2018)
Identical twin brothers become hybrid A.I (artificial intelligence) entities, yet torn in different directions to achieve justice for humanity. 1.18GB | 1 h 28 min | 833×480 | mkv...
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Rami Imam – Hassan wa Morcus AKA Hassan and Marcus (2008)
When the lives of Sheikh Mahmoud, a Muslim preacher (played by Omar Sharif), and Boulos, a Christian priest (played by Adel Emam), are threatened by religious extremists on both sides, the Egyptian...
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Maurice Pialat – Loulou (1980)
Synopsis:Maurice Pialat’s portrait of contemporary France mocks prosperity as a substitute for social and sexual revolution. Nelly abandons her bourgeois friends and a steady relationship for the...
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Johan Jacobsen – Soldaten og Jenny AKA Jenny and the Soldier (1947)
A good natured soldier with a killer right hand, falls in love with a beautiful girl who has a troubled past. 1.42GB | 1 h 32 min | 768×576 | mkv...
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Jean-Claude Brisseau – Céline (1992)
Quote:Genevieve, the village nurse, finds Celine, a confused girl with suicidal tendencies, wandering the ward of the hospital one morning. Genevieve takes the young girl home but is afraid to leave...
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Martín Rodríguez Redondo – Marilyn (2018)
Quote:Marcos, a seventeen-year-old farm worker, discovers his sexuality in a hostile environment. Nicknamed Marilyn by other teenagers in town, he becomes the target both of human desire and...
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Nicolas Roeg – Track 29 (1988)
Quote:In a small southern American town, housewife Linda Henry lives a unsatisfied life and wants a child to fulfil that gap, but her husband Henry seems more concerned about his model trains and...
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Ermanno Olmi – Il posto (1961)
Quote:When young Domenico (Sandro Panseri) ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung of the bureaucratic ladder in a huge, faceless...
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Robert Bresson – Journal d’un curé de campagne aka Diary of a Country Priest...
Quote:A new priest (Claude Laydu) arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The apathetic and hostile rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his...
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Max Ophüls – The Reckless Moment (1949)
Quote:When the opening titles credit a film as adapted from a short story in the Woman s Home Journal, you know you re onto a good thing. The Reckless Moment doesn t disappoint. Max Ophuls last...
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Bigas Luna – Huevos de oro AKA Golden Balls (1993)
Quote:Directed by acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Jose Juan Bigas Luna, HUEVOS DE ORO (GOLDEN BALLS) stars Javier Bardem in his breakthrough role (for which he also received a Goya Award nomination). In...
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Mohamed Chouikh – El kalaa AKA The Citadel (1989)
Synopsis:Set in a rugged little Algerian mountain village, in a moslem culture, where male and female society works under a strongly patriarchal controlling influence. Insensitive and brutish Sidi has...
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Jean-Claude Brisseau – Noce Blanche AKA White Wedding (1989)
Quote:A teacher of philosophy encounters a complicated pupil; a seventeen year old girl who possesses quite a cynical view of the world. He attempts to help her focus on her studies, but soon becomes...
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Otar Iosseliani – Chant d’hiver (2015)
A deadpan, picaresque buddy comedy about two old friends through a series of urban adventures, loosely connected by the skull of an executed French aristocrat. Winter Song is a typically irreverent...
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Michael Curtiz – Mission to Moscow (1943)
Probably the most notorious of the handful of pro-Soviet films produced by various Hollywood studios in 1943–44, going out of its way to defend the Soviet Union in every imaginable way: justifying the...
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Glauber Rocha – Barravento AKA The Turning Wind (1962)
Rocha’s first film, a denunciation of exploitation and the superstition that helps maintain it; an exploration of ‘macumba’, the mixture of Christianity and African tribal religion whose superstition...
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Miguel Picazo – La tía Tula AKA Aunt Tula (1964)
Quote:Tula, the titular aunt is raising the children of her recently-deceased sister, alongside her brother-in-law Ramiro. She is austere and somewhat bossy, but the kids accept her as the replacement...
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