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Jean Delannoy – Notre-Dame de Paris AKA The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
Synopsis: ‘Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy,...
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Hiroshi Shimizu – Kodomo no shiki aka Four Seasons of Children (1939)
Quote: A follow-up to Children in the Wind, Four Seasons of Children is also based on a Tsubota Joji novel. The film is divided into two chapters, following the young protagonists’ minor adventures...
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Hiroshi Shimizu – Kaze no naka no kodomo AKA Children in the Wind (1937)
Quote: The best way to describe this film would be “bright”. The story is simple, two young boys are usurped from being the head of their gang of children by the son of the man who indicts their...
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Anocha Suwichakornpong – Dao khanong AKA By the Time It Gets Dark (2016)
By the Time it Gets Dark encompasses multiple stories of Thailand whose connections are as spiritual as they are incidental. We meet a pair of actors whose paths take them in very different...
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Miwa Nishikawa – Nagai iiwake AKA The Long Excuse (2016)
Quote: Based on a book by writer – director Miwa Nishikawa, a recently widowed writer ( Masahiro Motoki,Departures)whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief,or lack of it, in caring...
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Lino Brocka – Orapronobis AKA Fight for Us (1989)
Quote: Lino Brocka’s “Tatlo, Dalawa, Isa” (Three, Two, One, 1974) shows the filmmaker’s versatility in the short form, working with various writers. The first segment, Tony Perez’s “Mga Hugis ng...
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Lav Diaz – Ebolusyon ng isang pamilyang Pilipino AKA Evolution of a Filipino...
An intimate epic made with uncompromising and austere seriousness, Lav Diaz’s “Evolution of a Filipino Family” patiently and methodically observes the collapse and hopeful revival of a poor farming...
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Lino Brocka – Cain at Abel (1982)
Brothers Ellis (Christopher De Leon) and Loren (Philip Salvador) battle it out in a sibling rivalry of biblical proportions in this award-winning retelling of the Old Testament story. Controlling...
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Gabriel Axel – Den røde kappe AKA Hagbard and Signe AKA The Red Mantle (1967)
Hagbard and Signe / The Red Mantle By Roger Ebert / October 30, 1968 Prentoulis films presents an ASA Film Movie Art Europe co-production, directed by Gabriel Axel from a screenplay by himself and...
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Philip Kaufman – The White Dawn (1974)
Plot Synopsis by Paul Brenner (from AMG) Director Philip Kaufman took his production of Eskimo life to actual locations in the Arctic Circle, making it only the third film in history (after Nanook of...
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Ben Young – Hounds of Love (2016)
Quote: Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she...
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François Ozon – L’amant double AKA The Double Lover (2017)
Quote: Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity....
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Teuvo Tulio – Sellaisena kuin sinä minut halusit AKA The Way You Wanted Me...
Quote: Latvian-born Teuvo Tulio came to Finland as a young boy, and started his film career as a teenager acting in movies directed by his friend Valentin Vaala. His oriental looks (there was at least...
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Bernardo Bertolucci – L’assedio AKA Besieged (1998)
Quote: Shandurai (Newton), an African refugee in Rome, pays her way through medical school as a live-in cleaner for English pianist and composer Kinsky (Thewlis). Shy and timid, he woos her with gifts...
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Teuvo Tulio – Unelma karjamajalla AKA In the Fields of Dreams (1940)
This rural melodrama, based on the play “Hälsingar” by Swedish playwright Henning Ohlson, tells a story of two brothers, one a honest, hard-working man and the other a womanizing gambler who threatens...
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Nikos Grammatikos – O Vasilias AKA The King [+Extras] (2002)
Synopsis wrote: Trying to turn his back on a dark past, a thirty-year-old man returns to his hometown in the Peloponnese with the hope of making a fresh start. The local society treats him with...
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Alan Rudolph – Remember My Name (1978)
Quote: Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to “start a new life”, but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and...
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Teuvo Tulio – Intohimon vallassa AKA In the Grip of Passion (1947)
Quote: This is based on a short story by neo-romanticist writer Johannes Linnankoski, and is a remake of Tulio’s now-lost debut film Taistelu Heikkilä Talosta (Battle for the House of Heikkilä). I...
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Bigas Luna – Tatuaje, primera aventura de Pepe Carvalho AKA Tattoo, the First...
Summary from filmaffinity: On a beach in Barcelona, the body of a young man is discovered. His face eaten by fish, tattooed on his arm is the phrase: “I was born to revolutionize hell”. So begins a...
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Amir Naderi – Davandeh AKA The Runner (1984)
Quote: Amiro is a young boy who has lost his home during the war. He spends his days by working odd jobs, until he realizes that the only way that he can realize his dreams is by enrolling in school....
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