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Souleymane Cissé – Finye AKA The Wind (1983)
Overview Finye / Le vent/ The Wind (1982) continues Cisse’s examination of internal African problems. This film examines the sources of student unrest and the relationship between postcolonial and...
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Mikio Naruse – Shiroi yajuu aka White Beast (1950)
Quote: The third film that Naruse made in 1950, White Beast (Shiroi yaji, 1950), was described by Kinema Junpo critic Tsumura Hideo three years later as “so indescribably miserable as to haunt me even...
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Wim Wenders – Im Lauf der Zeit aka Kings of the Road (1976)
Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader wrote: The first masterpiece of the New German Cinema. Wim Wenders’s existentialized road movie follows two drifters–an itinerant movie-projector repairman and a child...
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Keisuke Kinoshita – Narayama bushikô AKA Ballad of Narayama (1958)
Quote: In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family...
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Dennis Iliadis – Hardcore (2004)
Two young women on the wrong side of both society and the law fall into a dangerous love affair in this stylish drama from Greece. Martha is a cynical 17-year-old drug addict who supports her habit by...
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Shôhei Imamura – Narayama-bushi kô AKA Ballad of Narayama [+Extras] (1983)
Plot Summary In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse he/she would disgrace their...
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Michel Franco – Las hijas de Abril AKA April’s Daughter (2017)
Quote: Valeria is 17 and pregnant. She lives in Puerto Vallarta with Clara, her half sister. Valeria has not wanted her long-absent mother, April, to find out about her pregnancy, but due to the...
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Paul Verhoeven – Steekspel AKA Tricked (2012)
Quote: Director Paul Verhoeven returns to the camera for this unique comedy drama surrounding a birthday party that goes horribly wrong for the host. The film was written via crowd-sourcing (close to...
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John Crowley – Brooklyn (2015)
Eilis Lacey followed her sister, Rose’s, plan to leave Ireland and find a better future and job in the US. She departs terribly, enduring seasickness and a terrible relationship with her cabin mates....
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Sergio Nasca – Il saprofita aka The Profiteer (1974)
In a Puglia country, the young seminarian Hercules lives in a middle class family in shambles, as the plant organism that feeds on decaying organic matter, said saprophyte. Priest failure, he goes for...
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Oleg Bondarev – Machekha AKA The Stepmother (1973)
Based on a story by Mariya Khalfina. Shura Olevantseva leads a happy life with her children and her loving husband Pavel. One day she hears the news that the woman, who once loved her husband, died...
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Mladomir ‘Purisa’ Djordjevic – Kisa, ili Zivot jednog producenta AKA Rain, or...
Quote: A short love affair of young married woman and police inspector in winter resort will turn into fatal love after chance meeting. Inspired by Chekhov’s story “The Lady with the Dog”....
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Laurent Cantet – Foxfire (2012)
Set in the 1950s, a a group of young girls in upstate New York form their own gang. http://nitroflare.com/view/64D079F74619F18/Foxfire.2012.480p.BRRip.XviD.AC3-NYDIC.avi Language(s):English
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Vera Egito – Amores Urbanos AKA Restless Love (2016)
Living on the same floor of a building in the city of São Paulo, Micaela (Renata Gaspar), Diego (Thiago Pethit) e Júlia (Maria Laura Nogueira) share their experiences, failures and achievements....
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Michael Winterbottom – 24 Hour Party People (2002)
from allmovie “This digital-video biopic uses the life of journalist, record mogul and club owner Tony Wilson to frame the story of the Manchester, England, music scene from the heyday of punk through...
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Takashi Miike –Ôdishon AKA Audition [+Commentary] (1999)
Quote: Audition is Takashi Miike’s neo-Darwinian exercise in terror, playing out like a comfy companion piece to Shall We Dance? before evolving into a torturous freakshow not unlike Baise-moi. Miike...
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François Truffaut – La Sirène du Mississipi AKA Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
Mississippi Mermaid is a rich and tropical amalgam of the post-war French fascination with the great American tradition of gritty urban thrillers and Francois Truffaut’s growing yearnings for settings...
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Vasilis Georgiadis – To homa vaftike kokkino aka Blood on the Land (1966)
from the back cover: In 1907, in the parts of Greece that are liberated, not all Greeks feel free and the biggest ranges of the Thessalian valley are owned by a few big landowners. The farmers who are...
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Manoel de Oliveira – A Caixa aka Blind Man’s Bluff (1994)
synopsis The human condition is examined in this Portuguese French film with opens with a warning that informs the audience that the following is not a documentary but a moral tale about the...
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Richard Compton – Welcome Home, Soldier Boys (1971)
Plot Synopsis Discharged from a tour of duty in VietNam, a group of soldiers drives across the US to take in the nation they fought for. The country, however, doesn’t want to see them, and after being...
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