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Francesco Rosi – La Tregua AKA The Truce (1997)
Based on Primo’s account of his liberation from Auschwitz and long journey home through a Europe caught between war and peace. The truce is not only an account of hardship and the rediscovering of...
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Anthony Asquith & A.V. Bramble – Shooting Stars (1927)
Quote: Before the constipated bloat and stagger of his 40s and 50s theatrical adaptations, Anthony Asquith was a lively and original maker of silent films. A Cottage on Dartmoor is already celebrated...
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Laura Citarella & Verónica Llinás – La mujer de los perros AKA Dog Lady (2015)
An existentialist fable about a woman who lives with a pack of dogs on the very edge of the populated world, with minimal contact with other people. The seasons come and go. On life and survival, love...
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Ishmael Bernal – Himala aka Miracle (1982)
Himala is a landmark 1982 film directed by Ishmael Bernal. It tells the story of a young woman in a small town in the Philippines who claims to have seen an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary and...
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Yong-Kyun Bae – Dharmaga tongjoguro kan kkadalgun AKA Why Has Bodhi-Dharma...
Synopsis: Three people live in a remote Buddhist monastery near Mount Chonan: Hyegok, the old master; Yong Nan, a young man who has left his extended family in the city to seek enlightenment – Hyegok...
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Wings Hauser – Skins AKA Gang Boys (1994)
Linda Blair’s gay son gets raped by Nazis, so she tracks down the father, played by Wings Hauser, and helps him deal with his alcoholism, and eventually they kind of fight back....
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Jon Jost – Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977)
Quote: Somewhere along a desolate highway in Western Montana where the scorched grass burns brown and cotton-ball clouds dissolve into an endless ocean of white, a decrepit old pick-up truck speeds...
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Paul Verhoeven – Niets bijzonders AKA Nothing Special (1961)
Quote: A man is thinking about his relationship with his girlfriend, while checking out a gorgeous woman in a bar. http://nitroflare.com/view/BE795B88D47A8BF/Niets_bijzonders_%281961%29.mkv...
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Ruben Östlund – Play (2011)
Quote: Based on a real Swedish petty-crime wave, Play troubles the waters of any smugly held view, liberal or conservative, about how society should regard and handle its own rogue elements — a...
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Teuvo Tulio – Rikollinen nainen AKA A Woman of Crime [+Extras] (1952)
Synopsis: Pathological, triggered by the unbridled desire to take the story of jealousy towards the film noirs, the film shades of black crime, when Riitta decide to carve adulterous sister, imagining...
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Various – Deutschland im Herbst AKA Germany in Autumn (1978)
Quote: Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers...
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Teuvo Tulio – Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta AKA Song of the Scarlet Flower (1938)
Synopsis: Song of the Scarlet Flower was Teuvo Tulio’s first independently produced film, and the earliest of his surviving films. The plot was about Olavi, a farmer’s son who leaves his home after a...
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Maureen Blackwood & Isaac Julien – The Passion of Remembrance (1986)
The first film by Sankofa Film and Video, THE PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE has gained classic status as a representation of the totality and diversity of Black experience. Within a dramatic framework the...
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Robert Bresson – Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
Jim Ridley wrote: With exquisite, heartrending calm, Bresson’s 1966 masterpiece Au Hasard Balthazar lays out the life of a donkey, from first brays to final rest. Baptized Balthazar, the donkey goes...
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Jacques Doillon – Rodin (2017)
Quote: On the centenary of Auguste Rodin’s death, Jacques Doillon delivers a useful educational tool for the armchair traveler too lazy to go to a museum. Or read a book. “Rodin” could also be watched...
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Asia Argento – The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
Quote: The dysfunctional twenty-three-year-old Sarah takes her six-year-old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her....
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Negar Azarbayjani – Fasl-e Narges AKA Season of Narges (2017)
Quote: “Season of Narges” is parallel stories of three women who are named “Gisoo”, “Aylar”&“Narges”. These women each have their own story, but they’re all somehow connected to each other....
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Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie – Good Time (2017)
Quote: After a heist goes awry, a bank robber tries to free his brother from Rikers Island, all in one night....
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Trois couleurs: Bleu AKA Three Colors: Blue (1993)
This boldly cinematic trio of stories about love and loss, from Krzysztof Kieślowski was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s. The films are named for the colors of the French flag and...
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Trzy kolory: Bialy AKA Three Colors: White (1994)
This boldly cinematic trio of stories about love and loss, from Krzysztof Kieślowski was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s. The films are named for the colors of the French flag and...
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