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Heinosuke Gosho – Jinsei no onimotsu aka Burden of Life (1935)
Quote:“Rooted in “salaryman” comedy and family drama, Burden of Life represents a marked advance over Gosho’s previous three shomin comedies. It placed sixth in the 1935 Kinema Jumpo polling, and has...
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Chucho E. Quintero – Los días particulares AKA These Peculiar Days (2019)
Synopsis:Eight friends travel to a cabin in the woods to celebrate their high school graduation. 1.47GB | 1 h 40 min | 1280×720 | mkv...
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Anthony Pelissier – The History of Mr. Polly (1949)
Plot (possible spoilers):Opening in late Victorian times, following his dismissal from a draper’s shop, where his father had placed him as an apprentice, protagonist Alfred Polly (John Mills) finds it...
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Martin Ritt – The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)
Synopsis:At the height of the Cold War, British spy Alec Leamas (Richard Burton) is nearly ready to retire, but first he has to take on one last dangerous assignment. Going deep undercover, he poses...
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Oskar Reif – Postel AKA The Bed (1998)
Synopsis:‘Forty-year old PE teacher Luboš Urna, is a man you’d be unlikely to notice on the street. He is completely average and unremarkable, with nothing interesting or special about him at first...
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Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Shinmitsusa AKA Intimacies (2012)
Quote:Epic feature film that clocks in at four hours and fifteen minutes, born from a proposal at an actor training school. Three-part structure consists of an ensemble play by directors as they...
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Neville de Almeida – Jardim de Guerra (1970)
Quote:Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her film, but is arrested and meets a police torturer...
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Leopoldo Torre Nilsson – La casa del ángel (1957)
Letterboxd wrote:A young teen has been raised by a despotic mother overcome with religious zeal and a father who rules over the household with a heavy, iron hand. Forcibly kept innocent of the sexual...
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Simon Langton – Smiley’s People (1982)
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn’t want to know what happened. He...
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Raoul Ruiz – Mistérios de Lisboa AKA Mysteries of Lisbon [TV version] (2010)
SynopsisFollows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals....
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Marlen Khutsiev & Feliks Mironer – Vesna na Zarechnoy ulitse AKA Spring on...
A young school teacher Tanya works at a night school for working people. But it’s uneasy to get used to grown-up men, their constant attempts at flirting, their sometimes too manly jokes and comments....
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Ulu Grosbard – True Confessions (1981)
Synopsis:In Los Angeles, circa 1940, an embittered, once-corrupt cop named Tom Spellacy is investigating two murders: that of a priest found dead in a whorehouse, and that of a mutilated woman in a...
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Fernando Campos & Paulo Gil Soares – Um Homem e Sua Jaula AKA A Man and His...
Based on the novel ‘Matéria de Memória’ of Carlos Heitor Cony, it tells the story of a widowed man who maintains ambiguous relations with his mother-in-law, who lives in the same house. Then he...
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Setsurô Wakamatsu – Shizumanu taiyô AKA The Unbroken (2009) (HD)
Hajime Onchi (Ken Watanabe) works for Goku Airlines. He becomes the head of the labor union and fights to improve working conditions for the workers. The corporate bosses at Goku Airlines doesn’t take...
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Nien-Jen Wu – Duo sang AKA A Borrowed Life (1994)
Director Wu Nien-Jen’s autobiographical portrait of his father and the family conflict that develops around him, set against the background of dramatic political change in Taiwan. Sega, a coal-miner...
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Josef von Sternberg – The Salvation Hunters (1925)
SynopsisOften described as “the first American independent film”, von Sternberg’s The Salvation Hunters is an austere and obscurely naturalist drama about “humans who crawl near the floor.” “It’s hard...
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Tony Gatlif – Vengo (2000)
SynopsisThe vibrancy of gypsy life has been brought to the fore on film by Tony Gatlif, himself of gypsy heritage. Galtif has covered much European territory with films such as his much-loved Gadjo...
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Jules Dassin – Up Tight! (1968)
Synopsis:“Uptight” is an updated remake of John Ford’s 1935 film, “The Informer”. Dublin becomes the Cleveland ghetto and the Irish Republicans are replaced by black revolutionary fighters. Days after...
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François Leterrier – Un roi sans divertissement AKA A King Without...
In the nineteenth century, a young police captain, Langlois, is sent to a remote snow-covered village to investigate the disappearance of a girl. He is helped in his investigation by a local...
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Martin Ritt – The Outrage (1964)
Brooklyn Academy of Music writes:Kurosawa’s Rashomon is transposed to the American Wild West as four participants in a rape and murder—including a Mexican bandit (Newman), the dead man (Harvey), and...
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