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Hirokazu Koreeda – Umi yori mo mada fukaku AKA After the Storm (2016)
A prize-winning author that wastes his money on gambling struggles to take back control of his existence as his aging mother and ex-wife move on with their lives, until a stormy summer night offers...
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Jesper Ganslandt – Blondie (2012)
Three sisters return home. Elin leaves a modelling job and a once-so glamorous lifestyle in Paris to be at her mother’s 70th birthday party. Lova gives up her studies in London to live at home until...
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Various – Cosmos (1996)
Quote: A film about the absurdities of everyday life, Cosmos is not so much six short films as it is one film with multiple storylines which interlace seamlessly. The styles, interests and rhythms of...
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Agnieszka Holland – Hitlerjunge Salomon AKA Europa Europa (1990)
A Jewish boy, separated from his family in the early days of WWII, poses as a German orphan and is thereafter taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a ‘war hero’ and eventually made a Hitler Youth....
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Annelise Hovmand – Ingen tid til kærtegn aka Be Dear to Me (1957)
The eight year old girl, Lene, feels neglected by her loving, but busy parents. One day when she is once again let down, she run away from home. On her adventure she meets new people, buys a dog and...
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Pim de la Parra – Frank en Eva AKA Frank & Eva AKA Living Apart Together (1973)
Synopsis: The story of a man who goes out looking for hamburgers, while he has a beautiful steak at home. Frank and Eva can’t live together, but can’t live without each other either. He has sex with...
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Stanley Kwan – Yuen Ling-yuk AKA Centre Stage (1992)
IMDB: Chinese History Still Mysterious To Westerners, 19 March 2005 9/10 Author: shinewu from United States *** This review may contain spoilers *** I don’t mean to say anything other than the title...
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Raimundas Banionis – Vaikai is Amerikos Viesbucio aka Kids From American...
Movie about the Lithuanian teenagers of the 1970s The movie is interesting to watch as it shows the young teenagers of the soviet Lithuania in the 1970s who cherish ideas of hippies, dream of...
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Jean Châteauvert – La coupure AKA Torn Apart (2006)
Two people are caught up in an all-consuming and forbidden love in this drama, the first feature from director Jean Chateuvert. Christine (Valerie Cantin) is married to Mario (Michael Kelly), a...
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Algirdas Dausa, Almantas Grikevicius – Jausmai aka Feelings (1968)
Synopsis The Second World War is ending. Widower Kasparas moves in with his brother Andrius, who lives on the other side of the bay where the German occupation has already ended. Andrius’ wife Egne is...
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Emir Kusturica – Dom za vesanje AKA Time of the Gypsies (1988)
In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens...
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Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq & Claire Burger & Samuel Theis – Party Girl (2014)
Angelique is a 60-year-old bar hostess. She still likes to party, she still likes men. At night, she makes them drink, in a cabaret by the French-German border. As time goes by, clients become rare....
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Ray Lawrence – Lantana (2001)
Synopsis: The intertwined lives of four couples living in and around Sydney, Australia, form the structure for this drama masquerading as a whodunit. Andrew Bovell freely adapted his play, Speaking in...
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Yasuo Furuhata – Gokuchu no kaoyaku AKA Prison Boss (1968)
Synopsis: Ken Takakura stars in yet another bad-ass Prison film, in “Prison Boss”. Here, rival gangs battle it out over ownership of a bicycle race track. The outside life for the yakuza mimics prison...
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John Huston – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Humphrey Bogart plays Fred C. Dobbs, down-on-his-luck American in Mexico—he cadges the odd peso out of friendly passersby and countrymen, just so he can fill his stomach every now and again. He pals...
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Mikio Naruse – Aki tachinu aka Autumn Has Already Started (1960)
Shigeko, a recently widowed mother from Nagano,brings Hideo,her sixth-grade son,to live with his uncle in Tokiyo.Shigeko soon gets a job at the Mishima hotel.The shy Hideo doesn´t respond wellto his...
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Basil Dearden – Frieda (1947)
‘In the final year of WW2 a British airman marries the German girl who helped him escape from a POW camp and brings her home to meet his stolid middle-class family. Will they – and by implication,...
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Albert Lamorisse – Crin blanc: Le cheval sauvage AKA White Mane (1953)
PopMatters Review : Renowned French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse is best known for his brilliant 1956 film, The Red Balloon, winner of both an Oscar (for screenplay) and the Palme d’Or award at the 1956...
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Roy Ward Baker – A Night to Remember (1958)
Quote: Director Roy Ward Maker, and his producer, William MacQuitty, have done a sterling job in putting the tragic sinking of the Titanic in 1912 on the screen with an impressive, almost documentary...
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Serdar Akar – Dar alanda kisa paslasmalar AKA Offside (2000)
Suat, who still lives with his mother, father and sister, works at his father’s store in his spare time after practicing as goalkeeper for Esnaf Spor, an amateur football team. Approaching his 30s,...
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