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Moshé Mizrahi – Les stances à Sophie AKA Sophie’s Ways (1971)
Quote: The presences of the exemplary Nouvelle Vague icons Bernadette Lafont and Bulle Ogier in the female lead roles notwithstanding, what cachet 1971’s Les Stances a Sophie has accrued over the...
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Henning Carlsen – Klabautermannen AKA Klabautermanden (1969)
From: moviephone. com In this dark, foreboding sea story, a veteran sea captain abducts his niece for what he believes is his last chance at love. As the sad demon of the ocean Klabautermanden watches...
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Jacques Feyder – Le grand jeu AKA The Great Game AKA The Full Deck (1934)
Synopsis: Pierre (Pierre Richard-Willm), a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence (Marie Bell), and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in...
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Ingmar Bergman – Jungfrukällan AKA The Virgin Spring (1960) (HD)
Set in beautiful 14th century Sweden, it is the sombre, powerful fable of wealthy land-owning parents whose daughter, a young virgin, is brutally raped and murdered by goat herders after her half...
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Andrzej Wajda – Czlowiek z marmuru aka Man of Marble (1977)
Plot: The first of Polish director Andrzej Wajda’s two “Solidarity” films, Man of Marble (originally Czlowiek Z Marmuru) concerns bricklayer Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz). Lauded as a national...
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Laura Bispuri – Figlia mia aka Daughter of Mine (2018)
Synopsis: A daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back. Three women struggling with primitive feelings, dealing with...
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Tay Garnett – The Fireball (1950)
Plot: Johnny runs away from Father O’Hara’s orphanage and becomes a roller skating star with the help of Mary Reeves. He becomes involved with women, including Polly, who only love him because he is a...
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Pedro Almodóvar – Hable con ella AKA Talk to Her (2002)
Quote: The closing act of the New York Film Festival, and one of the season’s most rewarding films, Talk to Her strikes a variety of chords: It’s uproarious, whimsical, sad, preposterous–sometimes...
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Carlos Saura – La madriguera AKA Honeycomb (1969)
This is a curious and little-known film from Saura’s best period. Co-scripted by Rafael Azcona, the film is virtually a two-hander about a husband and wife (Per Oscarsson and Geraldine Chaplin)...
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Vivian Qu – Jia nian hua AKA Angels Wear White (2017)
In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she...
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Claude Chabrol – L’Ivresse du pouvoir AKA A Comedy of Power (2006)
AMG: Claude Chabrol’s Comedy of Power stars Isabelle Huppert as a French judge who attempts to bring down the very powerful but corrupt CEO of a large corporation. As she digs deeper into the case,...
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Niki Caro – Memory & Desire (1998)
PLOT SYNOPSIS: Sayo and Keiji elope to New Zealand to get away from Keiji’s interfering mother. On their honeymoon they are free to express all their desires and passions, but just when it should be...
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Jaime Rosales – Sueño y silencio AKA Dream and Silence (2012)
Quote: Oriol and Yolanda live in Paris with their two daughters. He is an architect, she is a teacher. An accident while on holidays in the Ebro Delta changes their lives....
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Masud Kimiai – Reza Motori AKA Reza the Motorcyclist (1970)
Reza Motori, who has feigned madness, escapes from an asylum and robs a factory, with the aid of a friend. Afterwards, a young writer, who looks exactly like Reza, visits the asylum in order to write...
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Claude Chabrol – La femme infidèle AKA The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
Charles Desvalles (Michel Bouquet) becomes suspicious that his wife Helene (Stephane Audran) is having an affair. Charles hires a private detective who comes up with the name of Victor Pegala (Maurice...
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Ceylan Özgün Özçelik – Kaygi AKA Inflame (2017)
Quote: A News Channel employee Hasret, has been seeing the same nightmare for some time. Through recurring nightmares, a question creeps into her mind: Is it possible that her parents were not killed...
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Alexander Mackendrick – Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Synopsis: ‘J.J. Hunsecker, the most powerful newspaper columnist in New York, is determined to prevent his sister from marrying Steve Dallas, a jazz musician. He therefore covertly employs Sidney...
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Dom Rotheroe – My Brother Tom (2001)
Quote: A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and school teacher, and Tom is sexually abused by...
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Kenneth Glenaan – Yasmin (2004)
In England, the Pakistanis Yasmin lives two lives in two different worlds: in her community, she wears Muslin clothes, cooks for her father and brother and has the traditional behavior of a Muslin...
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Sidney Franklin – Private Lives (1931)
Plot: Elyot and Sibyl are being married in a big church ceremony. Amanda and Victor are being married by a French Justice of the Peace. Both couples go to a hotel on the same day and are put in...
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