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Frank Lloyd – The Shanghai Story (1954)
Gary Tooze writes:Produced and directed by the prestigious Frank Lloyd, The Shanghai Story was promoted as a “class” production by the bread-and-butter firm of Republic Pictures. The film takes place...
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Elia Kazan & John Ford – Pinky (1949)
Synopsis:Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother’s house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been “passing”...
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Radu Muntean – Alice T. (2018)
Alice, a buoyant and impertinent redhead teenager, is far from the charming little girl her mother adopted when she was unable to have a child of her own. Being an endless source of problems and...
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Daisuke Itô – Chokon [Incomplete] (1926)
Chokon depicts the tragic lives of two brothers in the late Edo period; the title is a word borrowed from the Chinese, meaning “the grudge that one cannot forget.” Only the last reel of this feature...
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Douglas Sirk – Magnificent Obsession (1954)
Quote:A wealthy young wastrel, Bob Merrick, cracks up his speedboat and almost dies, to be saved at the last minute by a resuscitator borrowed from the home of a famous surgeon who lives nearby. In...
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Luigi Comencini – Proibito rubare AKA Guaglio (1948)
Synopsis:On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While making every effort to retrieve his baggage he finds out how devastated and...
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Idrissa Ouedraogo – Yaaba AKA Grandmother (1989)
Quote:A simple story about the status of old people in African society told with amazing grace”. A small african village. Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her...
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Menelik Shabazz – Burning an Illusion (1981)
SynopsisA pioneering first feature from Menelik Shabazz, much of it shot around the Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove communities, Burning an Illusion marked a coming of age for black British cinema. A...
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Masahiro Shinoda – Yari no gonza aka Gonza the Spearman (1986)
A lancer falls into disgrace when his social ambitions lead him to become engaged to two different women. Quote:LEAD: Don’t be put off by the title. ”Gonza the Spearman” is not an Eastern western....
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Giorgia Cecere – In un posto bellissimo (2015)
A beauteous depiction of a woman’s life and gradual liberation. Lucia has long been married to Andrea and is fully occupied by raising their son and her work in a flower shop. But everything is turned...
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Stephan Geene – Umsonst AKA For Nothing (2014)
Unannounced, Aziza is once again standing in her room – internship, Portugal, everything canceled. But her room is occupied. Her mother, Trixi, has rented it out. Zach lives there now, a...
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Christoph Hochhäusler – Die Lügen der Sieger AKA The Lies of the Victors (2014)
Investigative journalist Fabian Groys enjoys great freedom since the stories he uncovers make for strong sales. He works for a political news magazine in their Berlin head office. In this context, his...
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Laurence Olivier – The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His...
Synopsis:Laurence Olivier’s adaptation of Henry V is one of the finest Shakespeare films ever made, full of rousing action, beautiful colors and passionate performances. Henry V is the story of the...
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Pascale Ferran – Petits Arrangements avec les Morts AKA Coming to Terms with...
SynopsisA dramatic triptych offering differing perspectives about death and its aftermath, set on a Brittany beach during the late summer… L’histoire d’un chateau de sable, de celui qui le construit...
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George Cukor – Gaslight (1944) (HD)
SynopsisAfter the death of her famous opera-singing aunt, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) is sent to study in Italy to become a great opera singer as well. While there, she falls in love with the charming...
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Alfred Santell – That Brennan Girl (1946)
On Mother’s Day, 1946, in San Francisco, Ziggy Brennan thinks back on the events which have brought her to this day. Quote:Raised as a grifter by her single mother, a San Francisco girl (Mona Freeman,...
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Kazik Radwanski – How Heavy This Hammer (2015)
Erwin, a middle-aged married man, finds that his only outlet is online gaming. After trying to make a drastic shift in his life, he finds himself in the same rut as before. Angelo Muredda @CinemaScope...
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Kazik Radwanski – Tower (2012)
Derek is 34 and lives in his parents’ basement. Single, self-interested and gauche, he divides his time between casual work for his uncle, cringe inducing encounters with women and an animation...
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María Alche – Familia sumergida AKA A Family Submerged (2018)
Synopsis:Marcela’s world becomes strange and unfamiliar after her sister Rina dies. She feels lost in her own house, and her relationship with her husband and children seems to suffer. But when Nacho,...
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Ash Mayfair – The Third Wife (2018)
Synopsis:19th century rural Vietnam, fourteen-year-old May is ready to become the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Little did she know that her hidden desires will take her by surprise and force her...
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