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Sidney Lumet – The Pawnbroker (1964)
Rod Steiger plays a benumbed Jewish survivor of the concentration camps who lives on in Harlem running a pawnship–fat, sagging, past pain, past caring. Adapted from the Edward Lewis Wallant novel and...
View ArticleL.M. Kit Carson & Lawrence Schiller – The American Dreamer (1971)
Quote: A documentary about actor/director Dennis Hopper, showing him at his home and studio putting together his film “The Last Movie.”...
View ArticleXavier Dolan – Les amours imaginaires AKA Heartbeats (2010)
Quote: Early accolades can be a curse to an artist’s career. Directors whose first features meet with critical hallelujahs are often harshly scrutinized for subsequent efforts. Few debuts have enjoyed...
View ArticleW.S. Van Dyke & George Cukor – Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 crime melodrama film, produced by MGM, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, and starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy. The movie also provided one of the earliest...
View ArticleOle Bornedal – I Am Dina (2002)
Synopsis: In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother’s death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the...
View ArticleSidney Lumet – Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)
Plot: Based on Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play, this magnificent screen adaptation was directed by the great Sidney Lumet and starred Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards and Dean...
View ArticleZiad Doueiri – L’insulte AKA The Insult (2017)
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention....
View ArticleBéla Tarr –Öszi almanach AKA Almanac of Fall (1984)
Hédi is the wealthy landlady of a house in which resides her money-demanding son János, her nurse Anna and Anna’s boyfriend Miklós, and the elderly and financially troubled teacher Tibor. A large,...
View ArticlePedro Pinho – A Fábrica de Nada AKA The Nothing Factory (2017)
When management begins to sell off equipment at a factory that makes elevator parts, the workers become nervous about their job security. As they weigh their options, including a strike and a...
View ArticleSharunas Bartas – Peace to Us in Our Dreams (2015)
Plot Summary: A mild-mannered father, his restless daughter and his supine companion spend some time in a country cottage at the tail end of summer in Peace to Us in Our Dreams, from Lithuanian auteur...
View ArticleStephan Komandarev – Posoki AKA Directions (2017)
DIRECTIONS is a road movie through the dystopia that is present day Bulgaria, a country that remains optimistic, mainly because all the realists and pessimists have left. At a meeting with his banker,...
View ArticleLucrecia Martel – Zama (2017)
Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires....
View ArticleNaomi Kawase – Hikari AKA Radiance (2017)
Quote: A passionate writer of film versions for the visually impaired meets an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight Quote: In 1997, Naomi Kawase became the youngest winner of the...
View ArticleKim Hiortøy – The Rules for Everything (2017)
Quote: Storm (10) tries to figure out how everything is connected – from the serendipitous nature of atoms, to the complexity of human life. But her world spins out of control when her father and his...
View ArticleAnne Fontaine – Marvin ou la belle éducation AKA Marvin (2017)
Quote: “Becoming someone else: oneself…, to pull out your heart and take off running.” This is the starting point in darkness and light that inspired French filmmaker Anne Fontaine to make Reinventing...
View ArticleMerzak Allouache – Normal! (2011)
Quote: After the riots of December and the first peaceful marches, while “the Arab Spring” begins in Tunisia and Egypt, Fouzi wants his actors together to show them the incomplete editing of the film...
View ArticleRobert Enrico – Le secret AKA The Secret (1974)
Synopsis: ‘In a mysterious secure establishment, a prisoner named David effects a remarkable escape. Convinced that he is being pursued, he flees to the open countryside. Here, he meets a reclusive...
View ArticleAlfred Hitchcock – Easy Virtue (1928)
A recently divorced woman hides her scandalous past from her new husband and his family. http://nitroflare.com/view/9A04E9F676DB0E7/07_1927_Easy_virtue.mkv...
View ArticleSidney Lumet – 12 Angry Men (1957)
SYNOPSIS A Puerto Rican youth is on trial for murder, accused of knifing his father to death. The twelve jurors retire to the jury room, having been admonished that the defendant is innocent until...
View ArticleAlbertina Carri – Géminis (2005)
Quote: An incestuous love affair. Meme and Jeremias are the younger children in a typical bourgeois family. Their mother Lucia is the dominant force in the household, but her fixation on upholding the...
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