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Mario Peixoto – Limite AKA Limit (1931)
Quote: An astonishing creation, Limite is the only feature by the Brazilian director and author Mário Peixoto, made when he was just twenty-two years old. Inspired by a haunting André Kertész...
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Ingmar Bergman – Larmar och gör sig till AKA In the Presence of a Clown (1997)
Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert – and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his...
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Aleksandr Mitta & Kenji Yoshida – Moskva, lyubov moya AKA Moscow, My Love (1974)
A Japanese girl came to Moscow to learn the art of dance. The love of a Moscow sculptor, the victory in the final-year students competition brought a lot of happiness to Yuriko. However a sudden...
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Yermek Shinarbayev – Mest AKA Revenge (1989)
Quote: A child is raised in Korea to avenge the death of his father’s first child in this decades-spanning tale of obsession and violence, the third collaboration between director Ermek Shinarbaev and...
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Manuel Pradal – A Crime (2006)
Quote: The devastated life of a man haunted by the unsolved murder of his beloved wife is strangely complicated by the mysterious neighbor who loves him from afar in a dark noir thriller directed by...
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Christopher Larkin – A Very Natural Thing (1974)
Quote: A poignant romantic drama examines the life of gay 26 year old, ex-monk, school teacher living in Manhattan. When he meets a man at a gay bar, they connect and are soon living together....
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Alfred Hitchcock – Under Capricorn (1949)
Quote: Although John Colton’s and Margaret Linden’s onscreen credit reads “by”, they had actually written an unproduced and unpublished play based on Helen Simpson’s novel. The novel was adapted for...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – The Gardener (2012)
Synopsis: The Gardener is a surreal film made using documentary-style techniques via the cameras of father and son (the Makhmalbafs) who go to Israel to learn about a religion (Baha’i faith) that they...
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Händl Klaus – Kater AKA Tomcat (2016)
Quote: Andreas and Stefan lead a happy and passionate life: Together with their beloved tomcat Moses, they live in a beautiful old house in Vienna’s vineyards. They work as a musician and as a...
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Denis Villeneuve – Un 32 août sur terre AKA August 32nd on Earth (1998)
Quote: When Simone nods off at the wheel, her car goes out of control. She escapes serious physical injury, but her life changes direction nevertheless. She cancels a planned trip to Italy, quits her...
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Francis Mankiewicz – Le temps d’une chasse AKA Once Upon a Hunt (1972)
Quote: The story of three men and a boy on a three-day hunting expedition. For them, who are from a humble background, hunting is a form of social promotion and freedom. But above all it’s a virility...
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José Antonio Nieves Conde – Surcos AKA Furrows (1951)
Quote: At the end of the Spanish Civil War, a working-class family that migrates from rural Spain to Madrid in the hopes of finding a better life, and their hopes are thwarted by Don Roque, the...
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Kurt Hoffmann – Das fliegende Klassenzimmer AKA The Flying Classroom (1954)
Synopsis: All is not really well between the boys of Gymnasium and the boys of the six-form High School: sparks fly when they get within 100m of each other! The continuous feud between the pupils is...
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Andrei Tarkovsky – Stalker [The Criterion Collection] (1979)
Quote: Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide—the...
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Clément Perron – Taureau (1973)
Quote: The population of a small Beauce town in Quebec dogs a mother and her daughter who are believed to trade on their charms. The film shows the brutal reality of the village inhabitants’ behaviour...
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Eduardo Williams – El auge del humano AKA The Human Surge (2016)
Quote: A 3-country observation of the millenials in Argentina, Mozambique, and the Philippines. Leo Goldsmith for Cinema Scope wrote: Williams’ cinema is one of vectors: across borders, networks, and...
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Richard C. Sarafian – Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973)
In the early 1970s, a young woman passing through rural Tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a feud between two local neighboring clans, the Feathers and the Gutshalls. Starring: Rod Steiger,...
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Jonás Trueba – Los exiliados románticos AKA The Romantic Exiles (2015)
Quote: Vito, Luis and Francesco are three Spanish friends around thirty who travel by van to Paris for no apparent reason, just looking for a reunion with their respective ancient, idyllic and yet...
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John Ford – Arrowsmith (1931)
Quote: Promising medical student Martin Arrowsmith turns down a chance to do research at the McGurk Institute with Professor Max Gottlieb because he wants to marry his sweetheart Leora Tozer. The...
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Dane Komljen – Svi severni gradovi AKA All the Cities of the North (2016)
Quote: In an abandoned bungalow complex two man have made themselves a peaceful haven. Although the relationship between them is unclear, the unexpected arrival of the third man is going to disrupt...
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