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Nagisa Oshima – Amakusa shiro tokisada aka The Rebel (1962)
In 1637, the Tokugawa Shogunate mandated religious orders to severely restrict and contain the spread of Christianity. In Kyushu, Shimabara and Amakusa, the Christian population was particularly...
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Vera Chytilová – Ovoce stromu rajskych jime aka Fruit of Paradise [+Extras]...
Quote: “The Fruit of Paradise” is a breathtaking experimental film from Vera Chytilova. Well known for her surreal feminist comedy “Daisies” (1966), Chytlova uses many of the same hallucinatory camera...
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Yôji Yamada – Kiri no hata AKA Flag in the Mist (1965)
Synopsis: When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko (Chieko Baisho) travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get...
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Henry Alberto – Hara Kiri (2016)
Quote: When August suggests a suicide pact to his lover Beto, the skater soul mates emerge to defiantly ride through one final Los Angeles day punctuated by moments of lyricism, chaos, and contention....
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Ömer Kavur – Anayurt Oteli AKA Motherland Hotel [Restored] (1987)
Quote: Motherland Hotel (Anayurt Oteli) is a 1986 Turkish film directed by Ömer Kavur. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yusuf Atılgan. Zebercet owns a hotel in a small provincial...
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Luis Trenker – Der verlorene Sohn AKA The Prodigal Son (1934)
Synopsis: “Mountain-film” specialist Luis Trenker plies his trade with his usual expertise in the Austrian Velorene Sohn (Prodigal Son). Trenker himself plays the leading role of Tonia Feuersinger, a...
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Gillo Pontecorvo – La battaglia di Algeri AKA The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Quote: A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The Algerians...
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Dennis Berry – Chloé (1996)
Quote: After a violent dispute with her mother, sixteen-years old Chloé ends up in the streets with nowhere to go. Then she finds Jean-Michel, a charming young man who will lead her to prostitution....
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Samira Makhmalbaf – Sib AKA The Apple (1998)
Quote: This unusual Iranian documentary/drama is based on the true story of a poor and religious 65-year-old father who kept his two 12-year-old daughters locked in their small house from the day that...
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Sidney Lumet – The Verdict [+Commentary] (1982)
A 1982 courtroom drama film which tells the story of a down-on-his-luck alcoholic lawyer who pushes a medical malpractice case in order to improve his own situation, but discovers along the way that...
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Alexandre Astruc –Éducation sentimentale AKA Sentimental Education (1962)
Synopsis: Frédéric, a shy small-town man, falls in love with Anne, a middle class woman married to Didier, who cheats on her with top model Barbara. Catherine, a very determined woman, is secretly in...
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Kevin Phillips – Super Dark Times (2017)
Quote: Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of...
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Andrzej Wajda – Popiól i Diament AKA Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Introduction & Synopsis from Allmovie.com This is the last film in the trilogy that began Andrzej Wajda’s career as a director. Preceding this wartime drama are Pokolenie (1955) and Kanal (1957)....
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John Trengove – Inxeba AKA The Wound (2017)
Quote: Brimming with sex and violence, The Wound is an exploration of tradition and sexuality set amid South Africa s Xhosa culture. Every year, the tribe s young men are brought to the mountains of...
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Rouben Mamoulian – Queen Christina (1933)
Quote: Greta Garbo Appears as Queen Christina of Sweden in Her First Film in More Than Eighteen Months. Soon after entering the Astor Theatre last night for the presentation of Greta Garbo’s first...
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Akihiko Shiota – Kaze ni nureta onna AKA Wet Woman in the Wind (2016)
When a successful, but tired Tokyo-based playwright who has sworn off easy women and casual encounters takes refuge in the countryside, his plans are disrupted by a horny woman who pedals fast into...
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Valeska Grisebach – Western (2017)
A group of German construction workers start a tough job at a remote site in the Bulgarian countryside. The foreign land awakens the men’s sense of adventure, but they are also confronted with their...
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King Vidor – Our Daily Bread (1934)
Unable to secure Hollywood-studio backing for his Depression-era agrarian drama Our Daily Bread, director King Vidor financed the picture himself, with the eleventh-hour assistance of Charles Chaplin....
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Catherine Breillat – Une vieille maîtresse AKA The Last Mistress (2007)
Synopsis: Catherine Breillat’s adaptation of An Old Mistress stars Fu’ad Ait Aatou as Ryno de Marigny, and Asia Argento as Vellini, two lovers in 19th century Paris. The two have been passionately...
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Dariush Mehrjui – Hamoun (1990)
Hamoon’s wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph.D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he...
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