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Israel Cárdenas & Laura Amelia Guzmán – Dólares de arena AKA Sand Dollars (2014)
An older European woman becomes enchanted with a young Dominican woman who must struggle to make ends meet. Love brings a flow of entanglements in a drama which unfolds like palm trees in an...
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Dervis Zaim – Gölgeler ve suretler AKA Shadows And Faces (2010)
Turkish Cypriot filmmaker Derviş Zaim’s most recent directorial effort, “Gölgeler ve Suretler” (Shadows and Faces) in which he tackles the inter-communal violence his homeland experienced in the...
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Ken Loach – Sweet Sixteen [+Extras] (2002)
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home. Extras – optional audio commentary by...
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George Schaefer – An Enemy of the People (1978)
Synopsis: Based on a play by Henrik Ibsen. A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the theraputic hot springs and unspoiled nature. Dr. Stockmann,...
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Andrew Brotzman – Nor’easter (2012)
Andrew Brotzmans Maine-set drama Nor’easter is perhaps too glacial for its own good, with the pleasingly wintry photography matching the deliberate pacing. It has secrets buried under its icy surface...
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Yann Gonzalez – Les îles (2017)
Synopsis Characters cross an erotic maze and love with desire as the only guide. http://nitroflare.com/view/5710BE25B9A87DC/Yann_Gonzalez_-_LES_ILES_%282017%29.mkv Language(s):French Subtitles:English...
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Josephine Decker – Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014)
Quote: Thou Wast Mild and Lovely is the wildly imaginative and unexpected second feature from US indie director Josephine Decker. The film is the creepy, erotic tale of married man Akin (Joe Swanberg)...
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Ingmar Bergman – Tystnaden AKA The Silence (1963)
Quote: Two sisters—the sickly, intellectual Ester (Ingrid Thulin) and the sensual, pragmatic Anna (Gunnel Lindblom)—travel by train with Anna’s young son, Johan (Jörgen Lindström), to a foreign...
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Amir Naderi – Aab, baad, khaak AKA Wind, Water Dust (1989)
A young teenager returns home after an absence to find his village in Iran deserted because of an incredibly severe drought. He begins a search to find his family, traveling through an amazingly bleak...
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Jacques Doillon – Ponette (1996)
An extremely captivating movie on how a little girl copes with her mother’s death. She withdraws from all the people around her, waiting for her mother to come back. She tries waiting, and when her...
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Jirí Weiss – Ninety Degrees in the Shade (1965)
synopsis The Anglo-Czech coproduction 90 Degrees in the Shade stars British actress Anne Heywood as a grocery clerk embroiled in an affair with manager James Booth. Though she knows that Booth is good...
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Milagros Mumenthaler – Abrir puertas y ventanas aka Open Doors, Open Windows...
From Argentina, this film is called Abrir puertas y ventanas in Spanish, “To Open Doors and Windows.” And indeed the first time director, Milagros Mumenthaler, has a fixation on these two apertures:...
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Sergei M. Eisenstein – Ivan Groznyy I (Иван Грозный) AKA Ivan the Terrible...
From Turner Classic Movies: On the day of his coronation as the first Tsar of Russia, the former archduke of Moscow, Ivan IV (Nikolai Cherkasov), finds himself inheriting a deeply troubled empire. The...
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Teresa Villaverde – Três Irmãos AKA Two Brothers, My Sister (1994)
Quote: Lisbon of the nineties. Three siblings, a girl and two boys, live together in a most close kind of relationship. The centre of the story is the girl, Maria, who hardly ever says what she thinks...
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Roberto Faenza – Copkiller AKA Corrupt Lieutenant (1983)
This gritty and powerful police thriller is a classic stand-alone independent film. With good performances from Harvey Keitel (Reservoir Dogs, Bad Lieutenant) and John Lydon (former Sex Pistols...
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Margarethe von Trotta – Das Versprechen (1995)
From the L.A. Times: November 03, 1995 Kevin Thomas “LOVE AND THE BERLIN WALL” Margarethe von Trotta’s beautiful, stirring love story “The Promise” reveals, through the lives of one young couple, the...
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Sean Baker – The Florida Project (2017)
Louise Keller on Urban Cinefile wrote: A very special film about the innocence and corruption of childhood, The Florida Project is a cinematic experience to treasure…The journey is memorable; the...
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Samira Makhmalbaf – Takhté siah AKA Blackboards (2000)
Review (DVDVerdict.com) The irony at the center of Iranian filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf’s (The Apple) movie, Blackboards, is that basic education may have the power to radically improve the lives of...
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Kenneth Glenaan – Summer (2008)
Quote: Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is their friendship and for Shaun his first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is...
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Lech Majewski – The Garden of Earthly Delights (2004)
Review from the Village Voice: Images can be tyrannical things. In The Garden of Earthly Delights, faded videos trace the once vibrant presence of a lover. Chris (Chris Nightingale) obsessively...
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