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Cristi Puiu – Sieranevada (2016)
Plot: Three days after the terrorist attack on the offices of Parisian weekly Charlie Hebdo and forty days after the death of his father, Lary, a doctor in his forties is about to spend the Saturday...
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Jean Vigo – L’Atalante (1934)
Quote: In 1934, French director Jean Vigo tragically died of tuberculosis at the age of just 29, leaving behind his one and only completed feature, L’Atalante (1934). A simple, yet visually complex...
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Gleb Panfilov – Nachalo AKA Debut AKA The Beginning (1970)
Synopsis: A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck...
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Charles Brabant – Les Possédées AKA Passionate Summer (1956)
Synopsis Story of the effect on three women living on an isolated farm when a man comes to live there. Agata, sa fille Silvia et la belle-sœur Pia exploitent une ferme perdue dans un coin de montagne....
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Akira Kurosawa – Ichiban utsukushiku AKA The Most Beautiful (1944)
The Most Beautiful is a wartime propaganda film depicting the efforts of female factory workers in a precision-lens manufacturing plant. It is episodic and anecdotal and very documentary-like. Donald...
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François Ozon – Frantz (2016)
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé’s grave to lay flowers....
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Mirjana Karanovic – Dobra zena AKA A Good Wife (2016)
Quote: Milena is a middle-aged wife and mother ensconced comfortably behind a gate in an upscale suburb of Belgrade. She quietly tends to her looks, dutifully cooks and entertains, and meets her...
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Saeed Roustayi – Abad va yek rooz AKA Life+1Day (2016)
The graphic account of a poverty-stricken family living in Tehran through the days before the youngest daughter of the family, Somaieh, is departing to start her marriage to a supposedly rich Afghan....
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Andrea Arnold – American Honey (2016) (HD)
Summary (from IMDb): Star, a teenage girl with nothing to lose, joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she...
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Asghar Farhadi – Forushande AKA The Salesman (2016)
The Salesman tells the story of a young couple Emad and Rana who play the lead roles in a local rendition of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Meanwhile, their personal relationship takes a hit...
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Pilar Miró – El Crimen de Cuenca AKA The Cuenca Crime (1980)
The Cuenca Crime (79) became a cause celebre for critics of the limitation on freedom of expression in Spain (the film is set in 1912 and is about an innocent peasant tortured by two members of the...
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Frantisek Vlácil – Marketa Lazarová (1967)
Quote: In less than a minute, before the film’s opening titles even conclude, Marketa Lazarová has announced itself as something potentially unique, perhaps indefinable. The first line of a brief...
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Gonzalo Suárez – Morbo AKA Morbidness (1972)
This Spanish thriller by dilettante director Gonzalo Suarez tells the story of two newlyweds and the uncanny happenings that attend their low-budget honeymoon. For much of the film the audience is...
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Volker Schlöndorff – Michael Kohlhaas – Der Rebell AKA Man on Horseback...
Quote: Man on Horseback (German: Michael Kohlhaas – der Rebell) is a 1969 German drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff based on the novel Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich Von Kleist. It was entered...
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Aki Kaurismäki – Juha (1999) (HD)
A farmer’s wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel. Quote: Literature is full of triangle dramas, but very few of them can beat...
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Richard Schenkman – The Man from Earth (2007) (HD)
Quote: In the mood for a little blasphemy today? Then allow me to introduce you to ‘The Man from Earth’. Now I can’t tell you why this film is so blasphemous as that pretty much ruins the thing and as...
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George Sluizer – Twee vrouwen AKA Twice A Woman (1979)
Quote: Laura (Bibi Andersson) has long been divorced from her theater-critic husband Alfred (Anthony Perkins), though they still see one another from time to time. One day, while working at the icon...
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Krzysztof Zanussi – Barwy ochronne AKA Camouflage (1977)
Quote: A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the...
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Takashi Miike – Dead or Alive 2: Tôbôsha AKA Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000)
Quote: From the ashes of Dead or Alive’s apocalyptic ending comes Dead or Alive 2, both a continuation of the series and a stand-alone film on par with its predecessor. Serving up shockingly graphic...
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Goran Paskaljevic – Pas koji je voleo vozove AKA The Dog Who Loved Trains (1977)
Quote: A fugitive girl, a stuntman and a young man who lost his dog quite some time before, are joining together on a trip to reach each of their own destination. A youngster gets emotionally...
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