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Noboru Tanaka – (Maruhi) jorô seme jigoku AKA The Hell-Fated Courtesan (1973)
The second of Nikkatsu’s trilogy of softcore melodramas looking at prostitution in various Japanese cities, this dark look at ritualistic temple sex in Edo from director Noboru Tanaka is quite a...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Charlotte et son Jules AKA Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1960)
“Charlotte et son Jules was made the year before Breathless and in many ways prefigures the arrival of that major film. Shot entirely in or from a single hotel room, it centres on Jules, played by...
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Marco Bellocchio – Il traditore AKA The Traitor (2019)
Quote:The real life of Tommaso Buscetta the so called “boss of the two worlds”, first mafia informant in Sicily 1980’s. 3.82GB | 2 h 31 min | 1024×552 | mkv...
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Vasilis Georgiadis – Koritsia ston ilio AKA Girls in the Sun (1968)
A shepherd falls in love with an English tourist in Greece (imdb) Language is no barrier to romance in this quite delightful Greek picture about a young English tourist who has a chaste love affair...
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John Frankenheimer & Charles Crichton – Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Synopsis:In 1912, the notorious and violent prisoner Robert Franklin Stroud is transferred to the Leavenworth Prison convicted for murdering a man. When a guard cancels the visit of his mother,...
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Eric Barbier – La promesse de l’aube AKA Promise at Dawn (2017)
In this testament to the special bond between a mother and her son adapted from French author Romain Gary’s loosely autobiographical novel of the same name, Charlotte Gainsbourg turns in an exuberant...
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Zoltán Fábri – Fábián Bálint találkozása Istennel AKA Balint Fabian Meets God...
Fábri linked two József Balázs novels. The Bálint Fábián story depicts the bitter peasant existence of the father of the protagonist of Hungarians with a profundity and power similar to sociographic...
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Lana Gogoberidze – Me vkhedav mzes AKA I See the Sun (1965)
Quote:Action takes place in Georgia during world war two. Zurikela, orphan boy. Meets Khatia, blind girl, who wants to return eye-sight. Zurikela decides to help her. They know, that if blind sees the...
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Jacques Nolot – L’arrière pays aka Hinterland (1998)
After ten years away, Jacques Pruez, an unmarried, 50-year-old, modestly successful actor, returns to his home village to comfort his dying mother. His father Yvan, a family barber who’s counting on...
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Sidney Lumet – The Pawnbroker (1964)
Synopsis:In a poor neighborhood of New York, the bitter and lonely Jewish pawnbroker Sol Nazerman is a survivor from Auschwitz that has no emotions or feelings. Sol lost his dearest family and friends...
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Shinji Sômai – Gyoei no mure AKA The Catch (1983)
Tuna fishing. It doesn’t exactly evoke the stuff of drama, yet very dramatic is this gripping yarn (puns intended) about the solemn, solitary lives of the men who catch what ends up as our sushi and...
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Anthony Mann – God’s Little Acre (1958)
Synopsis:A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by his grandfather. To find it he conveniently moves a marker out of his way that designates the land on which it...
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Brian Welsh – Beats (2019)
Quote:Black and White that bursts into vibrant bright colours for the rave dance scenes. Scotland. 1994. As the Criminal Justice Bill clamps down on UK rave culture, ‘Beats’ tells the story of two...
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Kim Quy Bui – Nguoi truyen giong (2014)
In the curious story of this magic-realistic film, the customs of ethnic mountain peoples in Vietnam are linked to the idiosyncrasies of modern art. There are three protagonists, who live on a lonely...
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Noah Baumbach – Margot at the Wedding [+ Extras] (2007)
Online review of film:Eventually it may be that Noah Baumbach could turn into this country’s answer to France’s Eric Rohmer, turning out a steady diet of small, circumspect dramas about the lives and...
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Edgar Neville – Domingo de carnaval AKA Carnival Sunday (1945)
The same morning that carnival begins, a serene finds in Madrid the corpse of a rich and greedy lender who has been murdered. The main suspect is a seller of watches that owed much money to the old...
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Aisling Walsh – Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)
Based on Patrick Galvin’s memoir, ‘Song for a Raggy Boy’ is set in the grey, grim surroundings of a brutal Irish reform school in 1939. While the storyline has unmistakable parallels with ‘The...
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Philippe Garrel – L’enfant secret AKA The Secret Child (1979) (HD)
After the generational upheaval of May ’68 and its aftermath, and the personal upheavals of drug addiction, depression, and shock therapy, Garrel made the conscious decision to turn away from the...
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Marco Bellocchio – Il gabbiano aka The Seagull (1977)
SYNOPSIS:This is an Italian adaptation of The Sea Gull by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother (Laura Betti) and the knowledge that he has...
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Damien Manivel – Le parc (2016)
Quote:Summer time. Two teenagers, a boy and a girl, have their first date in a park. Hesitant and shy at first, they soon discover each other, get closer as they wander, and end up falling in love....
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