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Toshiya Fujita – Daiamondo wa kizutsukanai AKA The Unspoiled Diamond (1982)
Quote: Toshiya Fujita (藤田 敏八 Fujita Toshiya, January 16, 1932 – August 30, 1997), also known as Shigeya Fujita (藤田繁矢 Fujita Shigeya), was a Japanese film director, film actor, and screenwriter. He is...
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Manoel de Oliveira – O Estranho Caso de Angélica AKA The Strange Case of...
Quote: Isaac is a young photographer living in a boarding house in Régua. In the middle of the night, he receives an urgent call from a wealthy family to come and take the last photograph of their...
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João Nicolau – A Espada e a Rosa AKA The Sword and the Rose (2010)
Quote: Manuel flees from his tax debts and ends up on a ship on which some people want to earn their living as pirates. Also on board is a mysterious substance called Plutex that can destroy the...
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William Cameron Menzies – Address Unknown (1944)
Plot Synopsis: Nominated for Best B&W Art Direction-Interior Decoration and Best Music Score, this World War II drama chronicles the degradation of Martin Schulz (played by Paul Lukas), an...
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Orson Welles – Campanadas a medianoche AKA Falstaff – Chimes at Midnight (1965)
Orson Welles‘ (“Citizen Kane”) black and white low-budget film ingenuously chronicles the life of the fictional Shakespearean character named Falstaff (Orson Welles) in the period of 1400 to 1413....
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Jafar Panahi – Taxi AKA Taxi Teheran (2015)
Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies by the Iranian government, he poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran. (IMDb) Quote: One can wonder how is it possible that...
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Abdellatif Abdul-Hamid – Aayadina aka Our Hands (1982)
Quote: This is a great little short from the back-catalogue of the 70s-80s Syrian art/experimental scene. It is a nine minute short about hands. Hands, and the things hands do. It’s handsomely edited...
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Kevin Jerome Everson – 13 Short Films (1994-2004)
With a sense of place and historical research, Kevin Jerome Everson films combine scripted and documentary moments with rich elements of formalism. The subject matter is the gestures or tasks caused...
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Lisa Cholodenko – High Art (1998)
AMG: Lisa Cholodenko wrote and directed this lesbian-themed drama, winner of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival’s Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Ambitious photography magazine associate editor Syd...
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Alfred Hitchcock – Secret Agent (1936)
Brief Synopsis During the first world war, novelist Edgar Brodie is sent to Switzerland by the Intelligence Service. He has to kill a German agent. During the mission he meets a fake general first and...
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Gert de Graaff – De zee die denkt AKA The Sea That Thinks [+Extra] (2000)
The Sea That Thinks is a 2000 Dutch experimental film directed by Gert de Graaff. The film makes heavily use of optical illusions to tell a “story within a story” revolving around a screenwriter...
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Florian Gottschick – Nachthelle (2015)
A drama with a supernatural edge, this genre-crossing gem finds two couples visiting a home from their past, and sexual tension that brings out the worst in each other. Long-buried grudges resurface...
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Slávek Horák – Domácí péce AKA Home Care (2015)
Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta lives for her husband Lada, her daughter, and her patients. But then one day things change and Vlasta comes to realize that she might need some care too....
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John Ford – Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer....
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Dee Rees – Pariah (2011)
Plot / Synopsis Adepero Oduye portrays Alike (pronounced ah-lee-kay), a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents Audrey and Arthur (Kim Wayans and Charles Parnell) and younger...
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Maria Beatty – The Black Glove (1997)
Quote: A daring exploration of the fine line between fantasy and reality, art & erotica… The mysterious world of the senses that Maria inhabits is one of complete surrender to the wills and whims...
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Maria Beatty – Elegant Spanking (1995)
Quote: This nouveau, sleekly produced film features the story of a unique lesbian S&M relationship between a mistress and her maid. Enter their fantasy: a seductive chain of nostalgically hot...
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Umit Unal – Gölgesizler AKA The Shadowless (2009)
A barber working in Istanbul longs to be ‘both here and far, far away’. And one day, without warning, he takes himself off and disappears abruptly into the great far away. The barber settles in a...
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Thornton Freeland – Flying Down to Rio (1933)
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Others in a Musical Film For the benefit of the holiday throngs the Radio City Music Hall’s screen program consists of an expensively staged musical comedy known as...
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Arnaud Larrieu & Jean-Marie Larrieu – Un homme, un vrai (2003)
While they did not know, Boris, shy apprentice filmmaker and Marilyne, dynamic executive, fall madly in love at a Parisian evening. Five years later, Marilyn, accompanied by Boris and their children...
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