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John Ford – Men Without Women (1930)
PLOT SUMMARY An important John Ford film from the early talkie period (much of the film is silent with sound effects). After an alcohol-feuled shore leave in Singapore, the crew of an American...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Sokout AKA The Silence (1998)
Quote: The Silence (Sokhout), a startlingly fresh and elegant work, is about a ten-year-old boy, Khorshid, who is blind. Khorshid’s father, in Russia, has abandoned him and his mother, who in order to...
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Yasujirô Ozu – Daigaku wa detakeredo aka I graduated but… (1929)
大学は出たけれど Yasujirô Ozu wrote: I cast Takada Minoru and Tanaka Kinuyo for the first time in this film. I had made a good number of student films, but when it came to filming young actors, it was hard to...
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Friedrich Ermler – Parizhskii sapozhnik AKA The Parisian Cobbler AKA Paris...
Friedrich Ermler (1898-1967) remains one of the shadowy figures of the early Soviet cinema, known if at all for his psychological parable Fragment of an Empire. But he was a major force among the...
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Dharmasena Pathiraja – Bambaru Avith AKA The Wasps Are Here (1977)
Malini Fonseka and Vinjaya Kamaratunga acted together in 41 films, and The Wasps are Here (1978) is one of their pairings. Fonseka is a young girl engaged to a young fisherman and Kamaratunga is the...
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Robert Wiene – I.N.R.I. AKA Crown of Thorns (1923)
By the director of Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain,...
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Roman Polanski – Bitter Moon (1992)
Plot description : A prim and proper British couple, Fiona (Thomas) and Nigel (Grant), are on a Mediterranean cruise ship to Istanbul, en route to India. They encounter another couple on the ship, the...
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Kurt Meisel – Tragödie einer Leidenschaft (1949)
When she was a little girl, Liuba came to town with her widowed mother to live in the block of flats owned by her aunt Anna Iwanowna. The wealthy and cold-hearted Anna Iwanowna barely accepted them as...
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Marco Bellocchio – La Visione del Sabba AKA The Witches’ Sabbath (1988)
Plot: The freshly graduated psychiatrist David shall deliver an opinion about young Maddalena, who’s on trial for murdering a hunter. She claims she’s a witch and acted on behalf of the devil. The...
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Zülfü Livaneli – Sis AKA Le Brouillard AKA Mist (1993)
Mist is uncertainty. A mist which cannot be held with the hand, or even seen with the eye. A mist which can comprehend our happiness, our pain, our fears, our contrainment and which encompasses human...
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Federico Fellini – I vitelloni (1953)
Quote: Five men walk arm-in-arm through a sleepy Adriatic town, their lockstep a gentle echo of Italy’s Fascistic past. Such posses are quite common in Italy, where close male friendships, equal parts...
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Valeria Sarmiento – Linhas de Wellington AKA Wellington Lines [Theatrical...
Synopsis On September 27, 1810, the French troops commanded by Marshal Massena, were defeated in the Serra do Buçaco by the Anglo-Portuguese army of general Wellington. Despite the victory, Portuguese...
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Ramin Bahrani – Chop Shop (2007)
Synopsis: Set in Willet’s Point, an industrial sprawl of auto repair shops and junkyards in outer New York City, CHOP SHOP tells the story of 12-year-old Alejandro (Alejandro Polanco), an orphan...
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Julie Dash – The Diary of an African Nun (1977)
Shannon Kelley wrote: A nun in Uganda weighs the emptiness she finds in her supposed union with Christ. Adapted from a short story by Alice Walker, the film was a deliberate first move by its director...
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Juan Antonio Bardem – Calle Mayor AKA Main Street (1956)
Quote: The Spanish Civil War has been considered one of the most horrendous events in the recent European history and has been depicted by a plethora of writers, philosophers and artists – Hemingway,...
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Mikhail Romm – Mechta AKA Dream (1943)
About the fate of Anne, a peasant girl who finds herself among the inhabitants of the «Dream» furnished rooms in a town of Western Ukraine. They are unfortunate people who can’t be settled in life...
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Mia Hansen-Løve – Eden (2014) (HD)
Mia Hansen-Løve’s Eden, co-written with her brother Sven Hansen-Løve, is based on 20 years of his life as a DJ of electronic music, during the heyday of French Touch. While it is as personal as her...
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Mario Martone – Noi credevamo AKA We Believed (2010)
In the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign of the 1828 uprisings, three Southern Italian young people whose families are involved decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Italy...
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Mervyn LeRoy – Any Number Can Play (1949)
Plot Synopsis by Mark Deming In this light drama, Clark Gable once again played his stock-in-trade role of a rogue with a heart of gold. Charlie King (Gable) runs a casino, but, in a business that...
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Lav Diaz – Hele sa hiwagang hapis AKA A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016)
Synopsis The search for the body of Andres Bonifacio. 7,28GB | 8 h 5 min | 1280×720 | mkv...
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