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Pier Paolo Pasolini – Accattone (1961)
Quote: The poet as scrounger-pimp-saint, his life and death. “Long live us thieves… we always know where to go.” Accattone “the cardboard man” (Franco Citti) in the Roman lower depths of dirty...
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Isabel Coixet – The Bookshop (2017)
Quote: Set in a small town in 1959 England, it is the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield....
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Hormoz – J’ai rêvé sous l’eau AKA I Dreamt Under the Water (2008)
Quote: A twentysomething bisexual takes many wrong turns down blind alleys in his search for affection and understanding in this drama from France. Antonin (Hubert Benhamdine) is a young man who is...
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Jerry Schatzberg – Scarecrow (1973)
Quote: Max, an ex-con drifter with a penchant for brawling is amused by Lion, a homeless ex-sailor, and they partner up as they head east together. Quote: Scarecrow tends to get lost in the shuffle,...
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Kôji Wakamatsu – Endless Waltz (1995)
Quote: Koji Wakamatsu, who in the past has directed such pungently titled exploitation flicks as Go Go Be a Virgin a Second Time and Violated Women in White, spins this biopic about jazz saxophonist...
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Ebrahim Irajzad – Tabestan-e Dagh AKA Searing Summer (2017)
Quote: Nasrin wants to divorce her husband, but knows she won’t be able to get custody of her six-year-old daughter if she does. So, unbeknown to her husband, she and her daughter move to another part...
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Sidney Lumet – Equus (1977)
IMDb wrote: A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming...
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Markus Mörth – Siblings AKA Geschwister (2016)
The siblings Bebe and Mikhail leave their country Moldova to apply for asylum in Germany. Their flight turns into a modern odyssey. Quote: Geschwister ist ein Flüchtlingsdrama um die Frage, wie weit...
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Sogo Ishii – Mizu no naka no hachigatsu AKA August in the Water (1995)
Quote: Taking in the whole spectrum of pre-millennial new age phenomena, the bizarre August in the Water (whose English language release title is a direct translation of the Japanese, though is not to...
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Andrzej Zulawski – La fidélité AKA Fidelity (2000)
Synopsis A talented young photographer, Claire is hired by a Canadian tabloid magnate, Mac Roi, to improve his company’s image. Claire knows that her mother once had an affair with this charismatic...
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Akira Kurosawa – Shichinin no samurai AKA Seven Samurai [+commentary] (1954)
Quote: In 16th century Japan, protracted feudal wars have created a prevailing sense of lawlessness. Bandits have organized into formidable armies that scavenge the countryside in search of villages...
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Alonso Ruizpalacios – Güeros (2014)
Quote: In this lyrical and wry coming-of-age story set in Mexico City, wayward pre-teen Tomas (Sebastián Aguirre) is taken in by his aimless older brother Federico (Tenoch Huerta) and joins him on a...
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Andrew Kotting – Ivul (2009)
The second in a projected trilogy by artist and filmmaker Andrew Kötting, Ivul marks the director’s successful return to narrative filmmaking. A family drama in which the close relationship between...
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Joji Koyama & Tujiko Noriko – Kuro (2017)
Romi, a Japanese woman living in Paris, works in a karaoke bar. At home in the suburbs, she tends to her paraplegic lover Milou. To pass the time she recounts to him a story alluding to a period they...
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Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani – Kaos (1984)
The film consists of four stories plus epilogue, set in 19th-century Sicily. THE OTHER SON – A mother spends her life waiting for news from her two sons (emigrated to America) while ignoring her...
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Lukas Moodysson – Mammoth (2009)
Quote: Aptly named, Mammoth is an elephantine dud from a director who has plenty to say about the state of the world – and not a whit of new insight to offer nor artistic invention to express it....
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Alexander Kluge – Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos AKA Artists Under...
Synopsis: The circus artist Leni Peickert is planning the circus of the future. She wants to show the animals authentically, and not dressed up as people. In face of the inhuman situation, the artists...
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Lukas Moodysson – Lilja 4-ever (2002)
Lilja 4-ever is a 2002 drama film. It is director Lukas Moodysson’s third feature film which marks a sharp change of mood from his previous two films, the uplifting love story Show Me Love and...
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Kornél Mundruczó – Jupiter holdja AKA Jupiter’s Moon (2017)
Quote: A young immigrant is shot down while illegally crossing the border. Terrified and in shock, wounded Aryan can now mysteriously levitate at will. Thrown into a refugee camp, he is smuggled out...
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Jonas Carpignano – A Ciambra (2017)
Synopsis: In A CIAMBRA, a small Romani community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the region’s factions – the...
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