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Aleksandr Mindadze – V subbotu aka Innocent Saturday (2011)
It’s just another normal Saturday in Ukraine but Valery Kabysh, a young party official, sees panic on the faces of those in charge of the Chernobyl power station where a reactor tower has exploded. As...
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Vsevolod Pudovkin – Konets Sankt-Peterburga AKA The End of St. Petersburg (1927)
Filmed to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 1917 Russian revolution, End of St. Petersburg was the second feature-length effort of director V. I. Pudovkin. Utilizing many of the montage...
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Alice Rohrwacher – Lazzaro felice AKA Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
The tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their isolated pastoral...
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Sijie Dai – Les Filles du botaniste AKA The Chinese Botanist’s Daughters (2006)
Forbidden love upsets the real and symbolic balance of an earthly paradise in “The Chinese Botanist’s Daughters,” a languid lesbian romance set in China in the early ’90s. While pic (lensed in...
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Hiroshi Inagaki – Muhomatsu no issho AKA The Life of Matsu the Untamed (1943)
This simple human-interest/love story belies the cinematic triumph of its creation. Although shown in 1981 at Japan House in New York, the film dates from 1943 and so was obviously first released in...
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Otto Preminger – The Cardinal [+Extras] (1963)
From DVD Verdict.com: The Charge “Look at him now, will you? Stiff as a board, he is, in that fine Eye-talian suit.”—Dennis Fermoyle (Cameron Prud’Homme) Opening Statement As World War I reaches its...
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John Woods – Sex, Chips & Rock n’ Roll (1999)
Synopsis – It’s 1965. Times are changing! But the swinging sixties haven’t quite hit the Brookes household. Non-identical twin sisters Ellie and Arden Brookes seem destined to play out their lives...
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Craig Zobel – Compliance (2012)
Quote: Well, what would you do? You’d never go along with this, right? You’re too smart. Me, too. “Compliance” encourages us to feel superior to the employees of a fast-food chicken chain in Ohio, and...
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François Truffaut – L’Histoire d’Adele H. AKA The Story of Adele H. (1975)
Quote: Francois Truffaut’s dramatization of the true story of Adele Hugo, the daughter of French author-in-exile Victor Hugo, and her romantic obsession with a young French officer is a cinematically...
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François Truffaut – Le Dernier metro AKA Last Metro (1980)
Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew and was compelled to leave the country. His wife Marion, an actress, directs the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive with a new play, and hires...
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F.J. Ossang – 9 doigts AKA 9 Fingers (2017)
Synopsis Magloire starts running with no luggage and no future until he meets a dying man from whom he inherits a fortune. Subsequently, Magloire is chased by a gang and becomes not only their...
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Vladimir Potapov – Posrednik AKA The Mediator (1990)
Quote: Morning of a silent provincial small town. The sleepy city is exposed silent to capture alien a landing. Newcomers are installed in people, destroying the person and subordinating a body to the...
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Aleksandr Zeldovich – Moskva aka Moscow (1999)
IMDB: User Reviews Mockva 29 November 2005 | by severaloptions (United States) I took the movie very seriously. Of course it is a black farce. But not only so. I love to watch this movie. The director...
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Paul Seed – House of Cards (1990)
Francis Urquhart is the chief whip of the Conservative party. When Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader, he remains neutral and after a general election where the conservatives are returned with a...
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Mustafa Kenan Aybasti – Devrimden Sonra AKA After the Revolution (2011)
What if a revolution will happen in Turkey? “After Revolution” is discussing ordinary, daily life just after socialist revolution in Turkey. (~IMDb) 1.36GB | 1:35:09 | 720 x 400 | avi...
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Steve McQueen – Shame (2011)
“allmovie” wrote: by Mark Deming IAn outwardly ordinary man must come to terms with his inner compulsions in this powerful drama from filmmaker Steve McQueen. Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a...
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Christoffer Boe – Beast (2011)
Synopsis: The emotions a married couple can undergo in one day can range from frustration to passionate love. This is true for Danish newlyweds Bruno and Maxine who have just moved into a stylish...
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Paul Schrader – Dark (2017)
Quote: “Dark” was filmed in 2013 and released in 2014 under the titled “Dying of the Light.” That film was taken from me after the first director’s cut, re-edited as well as scored and mixed without...
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Martin Scorsese – The Age of Innocence (1993)
This 1993 film, directed by Martin Scorsese, brings the Edith Wharton novel to life. Here it is — all the social comment and smoldering unrequited passions originally intended by the author. And now...
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Michael Haneke – Le temps du loup AKA Time of the Wolf (2003)
Quote: As you may know, Michael Haneke doesn’t make comfortable films; there was Funny Games, which I thought was almost physically painful to watch, and then he made The Piano Teacher, a shocking but...
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