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Youssef Chahine – Awdat al ibn al dal AKA The Return of the Prodigal Son (1976)
In this Andre Gide adaptation, an activist (Ali Mahrez) is released after many years in prison and returns home, shaking up established relationships among his family members at the farm governed by...
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Ben Hopkins – Hasret: Sehnsucht (2015)
A European director is commissioned to make a documentary about Istanbul. He starts to film its everyday life – but soon becomes drawn to the darker, more mysterious side of the city – its past, its...
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Jerzy Skolimowski – 11 minut AKA 11 Minutes (2015)
A jealous husband out of control, his sexy actress wife, a sleazy Hollywood director, a reckless drug messenger, a disoriented young woman, an ex-con hot dog vendor, a troubled student on a mysterious...
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Ida Panahandeh – Nahid (2015)
A woman tries to mend the broken pieces of her last life, as she is now involved in a new relationship with a man. http://nitroflare.com/view/98C283304E342AD/Nahid.2015.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv...
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Gan Bi – Lu bian ye can AKA Kaili Blues (2015)
A doctor travels to his hometown to rescue his nephew, in the process confronting his traumatic past, in Chinese director Bi Gan’s aesthetically remarkable debut. Quote: A New Language for Chinese...
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René Clément – Plein soleil AKA Purple Noon (1960)
Quote: Purple Noon is a taut, intelligently written, and well crafted film about an amoral criminal. Tom Ripley (Alain Delon), commissioned to find and bring home an old school acquaintance named...
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Grímur Hákonarson – Hrútar AKA Rams (2015)
Quote: In Rams, writer-director Grímur Hákonarson mixes drollness and pathos with commanding matter-of-factness. The narrative is so inherently poignant that Hákonarson understands it requires a dry...
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Ken Russell – Women in Love (1969)
Quote: Ken Russell’s celebrated and controversial film is a lyrical take on love and death as experienced by a Britain ravaged by World War One. Based on D H Lawrence’s acclaimed novel, it tells the...
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Naomi Kawase – An AKA Sweet Bean (2015)
Quote: It is easy to forget what a breath of fresh air Kawase Naomi once seemed within Japanese filmmaking circles when she first emerged, aged just 18, at the turn of the 1990s with a series of...
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Wen Jiang – Yang guang can lan de ri zi AKA In the Heat of the Sun (1994)
Quote: Beijing, the Seventies. Now that the Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces, 14-year old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no...
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Grigori Kozintsev – Korol Lir AKA King Lear (1969)
From IMDB user comments: Black and white cinematography of Gritsius, the music of Shostakovich and the enigmatic face of Jarvet, makes all other versions of King Lear smaller in stature. Lord Olivier...
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Momoko Andô – 0.5 miri AKA 0.5 mm (2014)
From japansociety.org Sawa, a home helper for a middle class family with an elderly infirm grandfather, is forced to stretch her morals to keep her job. As a result, she finds herself broke and out on...
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Andrei Stefanescu – #Beings (2015)
Beings is the second feature film of Stefanescu Andrei, after Sleep Awake in 2012, is also a micro-budget film, this time shot in Berlin with a small magical crew in the autumn of 2014. It is a...
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Tim Hunter – The Saint of Fort Washington (1993)
PLOT: Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by...
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Wim Wenders – In weiter Ferne, so nah! AKA Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Quote: In Faraway, So Close! angels watch over the people of Berlin. The world weighs heavily upon these men and women. Their attachment to things diminishes their desire for the invisible. As one...
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Yang Zhang – Kang rinpoche AKA Paths of the Soul (2015)
Quote: Docu-drama follows the journey of a group of Tibetans on a pilgrimage to Lasa, the holy capital of Tibet. The journey covers 1,200 km on foot, in a continuous repetition of prostrating one’s...
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Jan Troell – Nybyggarna AKA The New Land (1972)
Quote: For many, The New Land will be where Jan Troell’s two-part Swedish immigrant story set in 19th-century America really starts to take off. In many ways, The Emigrants [review] was merely...
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Yasujirô Ozu – Tôkyô boshokuAKA Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Synopsis: Two sisters live with their father. The younger sister is embroiled in an affair and becomes pregnant. The elder sister has run away from her husband and returned with her child to her...
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Lina Wertmüller – Notte d’Estate Con Profilo Greco, Occhi a Mandorla, e Odore...
Synopsis: Fulvia is a wealthy industrialist whose made her money as part of a rich conglomerate that supposedly supports the environment. She and her cohorts are sick and tired of a boorish Sicilian...
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Petr Kazda & Tomás Weinreb – Já, Olga Hepnarová AKA I, Olga Hepnarova (2016)
Olga Hepnarova was a young, lonely lesbian outsider from a coldhearted family who couldn’t play the part society had chosen for her. Her paranoid self-examination and inability to connect with other...
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