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Carlos Saura – Stress-es tres-tres AKA Stress Is Three (1968)
Synopsis: ‘Fernando, with his wife and life-long friend, Antonio, set out on a weekend together. Fernando begins to suspect his wife and Antonio of being in love, and his jealousy grows as he observes...
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Zivko Nikolic – Bestije AKA Beasts (1977)
Synopsis: A Pasolini-esque mythical tale that is probably a metaphor for Serbian-Croatian Yugoslavia of old and its politics. On an island that floats, the leader is an old captain constantly awaiting...
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Eric Rohmer – La collectionneuse aka The Collector[+Extra] (1967)
Synopsis A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the...
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Cyril Collard – Alger la blanche (1986)
Quote: The story of a passion between Jean and Farid, thwarted by uncomprehension, opposite cultures, and impossible departures. link Cyril Collard dedicated this movie to Maurice Pialat (he worked...
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Bertrand Tavernier – L.627 (1992)
Quote: After recently watching Bertrand Tavernier’s “In the Electric Mist”, that film made me miss “L.627” all the more. While “In the Electric Mist” isn’t a complete failure, it’s mixture of Southern...
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Peter Chan – Tian mi mi (aka “Comrades, Almost a Love Story”) (1996)
Multi award-winning film, starring Maggie Cheung, Leon Lai and Eric Tsang. The film also features a role by renowned cinematographer Christopher Doyle (who has shot many of Wong Karwai’s films, and...
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John Ford – The Quiet Man (1952)
The Quiet Man is a 1952 American Technicolor romantic comedy-drama film. It was directed by John Ford and starred John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Victor McLaglen and Barry Fitzgerald. It was based on a...
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Aki Kaurismäki – Varjoja paratiisissa aka Shadows In Paradise (1986)
Shadows in Paradise (Finnish: Varjoja paratiisissa) is a 1986 Finnish art house comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The film stars Kati Outinen as Ilona and Matti Pellonpää as...
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Alain Robbe-Grillet – L’immortelle (1963)
Robbe-Grillet’s directorial debut, which was for decades bogged down by copyright dispute and never available on home video, cropping up only at rare 35mm showings – infrequent because apparently...
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Alexis Damianos – Evdokia (1971)
Synopsis: A prostitute (Evdokia) meets a sergeant (Yorgos). They fall in love and get married after a short love affair. Her profession, however, is a barrier for their relationship. They try to stay...
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Béla Tarr – Családi tüzfészek AKA Family Nest (1979)
Quote: Béla Tarr’s first full length film is a bleak indictment of communist housing policy; A young couple and their daughter are forced to live with the husband’s family in a tiny flat in which...
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Hisayasu Sato – Rafureshia AKA Sukebe-zuma: otto no rusu ni (1995)
From The Director Of Survey Map Ofia Paradise Lost And Love-Zero=Infinity Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the sledgehammer style of Hisayasu Sato helped redefine Japanese erotic cinema with carefully...
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Asia Argento – Incompresa AKA Misunderstood (2014)
Synopsis Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria’s infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any...
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James Foley – At Close Range (1986)
Synopsis One of the overlooked films of the 1980s, perhaps because it is such a downbeat tale of an amoral family. Sean Penn plays a kid whose small-time criminal impulses are stoked to a new level...
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Wim Wenders – Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015) (HD)
Synopsis by Jack Rodgers A car accident brings together a writer, his girlfriend, a publisher’s assistant, and a mother in mourning. James Franco, Rachel McAdams, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Marie-Josée...
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John Ford – Tobacco Road (1941)
Plot: In Georgia, near to the Savannah River, the lazy and crook hillbilly Jeeter Lester lives in the Tobacco Road with his wife Ada, his son Dude and his single daughter Ellie May in a very poor...
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Alvin Rakoff – Passport to Shame AKA Room 43 (1958)
Synopsis by Michael P. Rogers Before Eddie Constantine became a French pop icon as the slapdash “Lemmy Caution,” he played Johnny, a straightforward London taxi driver. When his new taxi is smashed...
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Eduard Grecner – Drak sa vracia AKA The Return of Dragon [+ Extra] (1968)
Synopsis: A ballad of love, hatred, and desire to escape from loneliness. The story of a reclusive potter, who returns, years after being shunned by his village. The story is a simple one, set in...
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Arthur Penn – The Missouri Breaks (1976)
Synopsis from Timeout.com: A wonderfully quirky Western, brilliantly scripted by Thomas McGuane, which strips all the cute whimsy away from the Butch Cassidy theme (outlaws on the run from a...
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Federico Fellini – Amarcord aka I Remember [+Commentary] (1973)
SYNOPSIS: In this carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Federico Fellini’s most personal film satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals,...
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