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Nader Takmil Homayoun – Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution (2006)
Today Iranian cinema is one of the most highly regarded national cinemas in the world, regularly winning festival awards and critical acclaim for films which combine remarkable artistry and social...
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Hiroshi Teshigahara – Otoshiana aka Pitfall [+Extras] (1962)
Synopsis Mysterious goings-on twist and turn this effective but slightly uneven drama of murder and intrigue into a Gordian knot, skillfully woven by director Hiroshi Teshigahara. One day an...
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Branko Schmidt – Put lubenica aka The Melon Route (2006)
Quote: One of the most terrible ills of our time, people trafficking, follows the so-called Balkans Route for smuggling people into the West. Bosnian and Croatian papers often carry stories about...
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Francesco Maselli – Il sospetto AKA The Suspect (1975)
Quote: Following his passionate involvement in the 1968 demonstrations (Maselli was one of the supporters of the protest at the 1969 Venice Biennial), he made two explicitly “political” films, Lettera...
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Tahmineh Milani – Vakonesh panjom AKA The Fifth Reaction (2003)
Tahmineh Milani’s “The Fifth Reaction” An Iranian Woman Fighting for Her Rights By Josef Schnelle Five women sit in a restaurant in Tehran and talk about their husbands and their marriages. First, the...
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Jafar Panahi – Badkonake Sefid aka The White Balloon (1995)
Reviews: This extraordinary debut feature, about a 7-year-old’s first journey alone into the streets of Tehran, is a movie of audacious subtlety and simplicity, and a deserving Cannes prize-winner. It...
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Joseph Losey – A Doll’s House (1973)
IMDb plot summary wrote: Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her...
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George A. Romero – Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Barbra and her brother Johnny travel by car from Pittsburgh to the countryside to visit the gravestone of their father in the cemetery. Out of the blue, they are attacked by a strange man and Johnny...
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Alicia Scherson – Il futuro (2013)
When two orphans, Bianca and Tomas meet up with Tomas’ gym rat friends, they concoct an elaborate scheme to rob an aging movie star and one-time Mr. Universe, Maciste. The boys enlist Bianca to seduce...
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Jon Jost – Rembrandt Laughing (1989)
synopsis The title refers to a rare etching of Dutch artist Rembrandt. Jon A. English plays a young musician who expresses his love for former girl friend Barbara Hammes by presenting her with a...
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Jacques Deray – Par un beau matin d’été aka Crime on a Summer Morning (1963)
Plot / Synopsis Likable if rather wistful James Hadley Chase adaptation. The first half particularly is light and verging on the comedic, albeit with stunning b/w photography and ultra cool...
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Valerio Zurlini – Le soldatesse aka The Camp Followers (1965)
Quote: Shot almost entirely on location in Greece in an awesome deep-focus newreel-documentary style black-and-white (with the emphasis on the blacks), `Le Soldattesse’ is the story a group of...
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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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Mario Caiano –…a tutte le auto della polizia aka Calling All Police Cars (1975)
Plot / Synopsis At the core of Without Trace is a story about a young girl who is the daughter a prominent doctor. When the girl goes missing her father gets the police to jump into action because of...
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Marco Ferreri – L’ape Regina aka The Queen Bee (1963)
ynopsis: In this Italian sex comedy, a middle-aged car dealer marries a young girl and gets more than he bargained for. She is obsessed with getting pregnant pronto. To this end, she keeps him in bed...
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Lutfi Akad – Vesikali yarim aka My Prostitute Love (1968)
Imdb User Review: Watch it like that you can’t watch any movie after this time,it gives you unbelievable moments… 29 August 2006 | by hashus (Turkey) Lütfi Akad is one of the most important directors...
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Lutfi Akad – Kanun namina aka In the Name of the Law (1952)
Ömer Lütfi Akad, aka Lütfi Ömer Akad, (b. 1916) is a Turkish film director, who directed movies from 1948-1974. In 1949, he debuted as a film director with Vurun Kahpeye (“Kill the Whore”) an...
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Jean Cazenave – Apostrophes: Charles Bukowski (1978)
almost 35 years ago (sept 22 1978) bukowski made this notorious ill fated appearance on french tv. no subs and mostly in french (chuck speaks english but a french translator does his best to drown him...
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Vasilis Georgiadis – To homa vaftike kokkino aka Blood on the Land (1966)
from the back cover: In 1907, in the parts of Greece that are liberated, not all Greeks feel free and the biggest ranges of the Thessalian valley are owned by a few big landowners. The farmers who are...
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Henry Hathaway – Shoot Out (1971)
Storyline: Clay Lomax, a bank robber, gets out of jail after an 8 year sentence. He is looking after Sam Foley, the man who betrayed him. Knowing that, Foley hires three men to pay attention of Clay’s...
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