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Frank Borzage – Street Angel (1928)
SynopsisAngela (Gaynor), a poor Neapolitan girl desperate to acquire medication for her sick mother, comes into conflict with the police and finds refuge with a traveling circus. Under the big top,...
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Carl Theodor Dreyer – De nåede færgen AKA They Caught the Ferry (1948)
Quote:This short movie is meant as a propaganda against fast driving. In 1948 there where no speed limits in Denmark (and only few motor vehicles) but it began to be a problem. The movie tells about a...
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Ann Hui – Woo Yuet dik goo si AKA The Story of Woo Viet (1981)
Quote:Hong Kong, 1980. The Vietnam War has been over for five years and the ethnic cleansing of Chinese has begun. As the “boat people”, refugees of Vietnam, flood out of the country, Hong Kong...
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Beth B. & Scott B – Vortex + Black Box (1979 – 1982)
Scott B and Beth B, successful makers of short, experimental films made The Vortex an attempt at a “camp” film with a pessimistic “noirish” atmosphere. The detective Lunch (Lydia Lunch, a popular...
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Valeska Grisebach – Mein Stern aka Be My Star (2001)
Quote:Grisebach’s graduation film – her first full-length feature Mein Stern (2000), co-produced by the “Konrad Wolf” Academy of Film & Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg, ZDF and 3sat – met with...
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John Boorman – The Emerald Forest (1985)
Synopsis by Hal EricksonThe Emerald Forest is based on a true story, as related by Los Angeles Times correspondent Leonard Greenwood. Powers Boothe stars as Bill Markham, a US engineer working on a...
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Alan Rudolph – Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
synopsis – AMG:Jennifer Jason Leigh offers an acclaimed performance as humorist Dorothy Parker, who together with such 1920s luminaries as Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman,...
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Liviu Ciulei – Padurea spânzuratilor AKA Forest of the Hanged (1964) (HD)
Quote:During the most brutal days of World War I, Apostol Bologa (the extraordinary Victor Rebengiuc), a Romanian serving as a lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian Army, is part of the Court Martial...
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Satyajit Ray – Devi AKA The Goddess (1960)
SynopsisOne of Satyajit Ray’s greatest early films, full of sensuality and ironic undertones, Devi is sufficiently critical of Hindu superstition that it was banned from foreign distribution until...
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Felix de Rooy – Desiree (1984)
Set in Brooklyn, New York this Dutch film is based on a true story that appeared on a New York newspaper in 1980. Desirée lives in the past. A series of flashbacks expose us to her psychologically...
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Peter Strickland – Katalin Varga (2009)
Katalin Varga is a 2009 directorial debut of Peter Strickland, he used the money from a bequest from his uncle to fund the project. Filmed over several years in a Hungarian-speaking part of the...
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F.W. Murnau – Der Gang in die Nacht AKA Walking into the Night [+extra] (1921)
Quote:Dr Eigil Borne is engaged to Hélène, a girl who is madly in love with him. At Hélène’s birthday celebration, Eigil invites her to a cabaret, where he meets his other love, Lily, a passionate,...
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Erick Zonca – La vie rêvée des anges AKA The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
Quote:Elodie Bouchez and Natacha Regnier both won “Best Actress” honors at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival in this naturalistic drama about two women alienated from mainstream society. After a trio of...
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Joon-ho Bong – Gisaengchung AKA Parasite (2019) (HD)
Quote:Ki-taek’s family of four is close, but fully unemployed, with a bleak future ahead of them. The son Ki-woo is recommended by his friend, a student at a prestigious university, for a well-paid...
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Laurence Olivier – Hamlet (1948)
Olivier’s Hamlet is the Shakespeare film that has received the most prestigious accolades, winning the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor. However, it was poorly received by Shakespearean...
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Cristian Mungiu – 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile AKA 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2...
Quote:Romania, 1987, the brutal Ceausescu communist regime is in place; birth control is illegal and abortion is a crime punishable by death. Gabita (Laura Vasliu) is almost five months into an...
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David Lean – This Happy Breed (1944)
Synopsis:David Lean brings to vivid emotional life Noël Coward’s epic chronicle of a working-class family in the London suburbs over the course of two decades. Robert Newton and Celia Johnson are...
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Mitchell Leisen – Remember the Night (1940)
Synopsis:Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He postpones the trial because it is hard to get a conviction at...
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Werner Herzog – My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
Quote:The police are called to a murder scene and quickly discover that the murderer, the victim’s son, is holed up in his house with two hostages. Through a series of interviews with both the...
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Nanouk Leopold – Brownian Movement (2010) (HD)
SynopsisCharlotte is married with one son and is a doctor in a clinic in Brussels. She has sex with patients in an apartment, selecting the men as if setting up a scientific experiment: They are all...
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