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Chan-wook Park – Ah-ga-ssi aka The Handmaiden (2016)
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl (Sookee) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Hideko) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her...
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Federico Fellini – La città delle donne AKA City of Women (1980)
Marcello is in the compartment of an Italian train, facing forward when the mineral water of the woman seated across from him starts to fall toward him. He catches the bottle and makes eye contact and...
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Peter Greenaway – The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Quote: An American architect arrives in Italy, supervising an expedition for a French architect, Boullée, who is famous for his oval structures. Through the course of 9 months he becomes obsessed with...
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Robert Altman – Secret Honor (1984)
Robert Altman’s electric 1984 filmed version of the play by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, starring the inimitable Philip Baker Hall as Tricky Dick, in a one-man show. From Time Out London: Alone...
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Andrei Tarkovsky – Stalker [Artificial Eye] (1979)
Quote: Twenty years ago, a meteorite fell to Earth, and decimated a provincial Russian town. Villagers traveled through this curious area, now known as The Zone, and disappeared. Stories purport that...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Ich will doch nur, daß ihr mich liebt AKA I Only...
Quote: A man is interviewed by a sympathetic woman. His tale unfolds, of hard work that never pleases his parents, of a father who denigrates his efforts, of an indifferent mother. He builds them a...
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Basu Chatterjee – Sara Akash AKA The Whole Sky (1969)
from IMDb: Agra-based collegian Samar Thakur, lives in a joint family consisting of his dad, mom; brother Amar and his wife; as well as a married sister, Munni, who has been estranged from her...
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Krótki film o milosci AKA A Short Film About Love (1988)
Quote: An obscured thief breaks into a school gymnasium at night to steal a portable telescope from the science lab. On the following morning, the thief, Tomek (Olaf Lubaszenko) sets up the telescope...
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Lucile Hadzihalilovic – Nectar (2014)
Quote: In a park, a round chamber. Inside, women are taking part in a perfectly runin ritual. The queen hands out her nectar. But a new circuit is already in preparation....
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Yoshishige Yoshida – Honô to onna AKA Flame and Women (1967)
Quote: Honoo to onma (lmpasse; the title translates as the more poetic ” Flame and Woman” neatly rendered in the French title, La Femme et la Flamme) made the same year as The Affair (whose Japanese...
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Tobias Nölle – Aloys (2016)
Quote: Aloys Adorn is a middle aged private detective who lives and works with his father. He experiences life from a safe distance, through a video camera he keeps recording 24 hours a day, and the...
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Bob Rafelson – Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Quote: Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character study Fve Easy Pieces....
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Yilmaz Güney – Seyyit Han: Topragin Gelini AKA Bride of the Earth (1968)
Synopsis: Seyyit Han is a man with many foes. One day he falls in love with Mürsit’s sister, Keje. Mürsit is fine with them marrying, only on one condition: Seyyit Han has to get rid of his enemies to...
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Jytte Rex – Silkevejen AKA Silk Road (2004)
Quote: What follows Buddha’s quote is a mesmerizing portrait of a terminally ill paintings restorer, Christine (Ellen Hillingsø), whose harrowing reality, lucid dreams and memories of a lover long...
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Krótki film o zabijaniu AKA A Short Film About Killing...
Quote: Death from the very beginning — a rat decomposing in the water, a cat hanging from a railing as giggling children run off. In Krzysztof Kieslowski’s expansion of the Decalogue: Five segment...
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Vasilis Georgiadis – Ta kokkina fanaria AKA The Red Lanterns (1963)
Quote: … It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was also entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival…. The residents of a poor neighbourhood in Piraeus are asked to...
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Serif Gören & Yilmaz Güney – Endise AKA Anxiety (1974)
Synopsis: This is the story of Cevher and his family, who all work in cotton fields in late seventies in Turkey. Cevher has to pay blood money to save his life. He even considers getting his daughter...
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Yilmaz Güney – Aç kurtlar AKA The Hungry Wolves (1969)
Synopsis: Memed is a fugitive with a sole purpose to find and execute bandits in the mountains. When a rich landowner wants to avenge the death of his father, he hires Memed as a bounty hunter....
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Paddy Breathnach – Viva (2015)
Quote: Jesus an eighteen year old Cuban is lost and struggling to realize his true identity. Unsure of himself or his future direction, he works at a local Havana drag club where he entertains dreams...
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Claire Denis – Nénette et Boni AKA Nenette and Boni (1996)
Synopsis wrote: Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents’ divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a...
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