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Irvin Kershner – Loving (1970)
Roger Ebert sez: The Segal character has a loving wife and kids at home, a loving mistress in the city, a manager who wants him to make lots of money, and a harassed conscience. His basic problem is...
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Mario Mattoli – Totò al giro d’Italia AKA Totò does the Giro d’Italia (1948)
Plot: Totò plays an esteemed professor with no interest in sport who wants to marry a sexy blonde. She mockingly says that she will agree to this if he manages to win the Giro d’Italia. When Totò says...
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Dmitriy Astrakhan – Detochki (2013)
Synopsis: The new film “Detochki” (Kids) opens at the gate of the Dandelion Children’s Home in an unknown provincial town. Inside, the town’s rich and powerful are bedding (or getting ready to bed)...
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James Whale – One More River (1934)
IMDB reviewer: Highly superior soap …a Galsworthy novel, adapted by playwright R.C. Sheriff (author of the great antiwar play “Journey’s End”), directed with great assurance by James Whale, and with a...
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Steph Green – Run & Jump (2013)
After a stroke leaves her husband mentally disabled and fundamentally changed, spirited Irish housewife Vanetia struggles to keep her family together in the wake of tragedy. A research grant from...
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BBC – The Late Show – The New Middle Ages (1994)
Synopsis Begins a week of LATE SHOW’s looking at the future. This programme argues that the 21st century is going to be just like the 14th. For example Alan Minc has argued that there will be no...
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Manuel Martín Cuenca – Caníbal aka Cannibal (2013)
Synopsis In the sleepy Spanish town of Granada, a mild-mannered tailor and secret cannibal unexpectedly finds himself falling in love with his latest prospective victim, in director Manuel Martín...
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Enzo Doria & Luigi Russo – Adamo ed Eva, la prima storia d’amore aka Adam and...
Quote: God casts Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden because Eve decided to have a fling with a visiting Cro-Magnon named Bearkiller. The disgraced couple find themselves on the outside up against...
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Kaspar Rostrup – Dansen med Regitze (1989)
From: Amazon.com Memories of a Marriage (based on Martha Christensen’s best-selling novel, Dansen med Regitze) is a wonderful, moving and superbly acted film featuring what may be the greatest...
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Jean Becker – L’Été meurtrier AKA One Deadly Summer (1983)
From IMDB: Plot Summary: In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative...
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Frank Tashlin – The Alphabet Murders (1965)
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials. The first victim is A.A. the second B.B. and so on. Poirot...
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Steven Soderbergh – Underneath (1995)
For passion, betrayal and murder… there’s still no place like home. Michael Chambers returns home to celebrate his mother’s marriage. Michael had been ousted from his home town due to his gambling...
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André Téchiné – Impardonnables AKA Unforgivable (2011)
Synopsis: Francis arrives in Venice seeking peace and quiet to write his next novel. Looking to rent a small apartment, he meets Judith a real estate broker. For Francis, it’s love at first sight....
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Nicole Védrès – Paris 1900 [English version] (1947)
Quote: One of the most important documentary films made in France, Paris 1900 vividly conveys the mood of a world in transition, from the exuberance of the belle époque to the shattering folly of...
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Rafael Gil – Mare nostrum (1948)
Rafael Gil directed a number of films during the ’40s and ’50s. He started out co-directing three films with Gonzalo Memedez Pidal, and in 1941 he made his solo directorial debut with El Hombre Que Se...
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Jean Garret – A Mulher Que Inventou o Amor AKA The Woman Who Invented the...
The plot: Doralice is a simple minded woman romantically fascinated by marriage. However, when she is raped by a butcher, a friend advises her to become a prostitute – and she does it. After that, all...
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Alexander Payne – Citizen Ruth (1996)
“Ruth Stoops is a poor indigent drug-user (a huffer – inhaling glue and paint for a high) whose down and out existence is complicated once more by becoming pregnant (she has had and lost four children...
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Girish Karnad – Utsav aka The Festival (1984)
Playwright, actor, director, and theatre scholar Girish Karnad conceived this film as a popularly-accessible tribute to the glories of Sanskrit drama, turning one of the most beloved of classical...
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Myriam Mézières & Alain Tanner – Fleurs de sang AKA Flowers of Blood (2002)
Again, it is a portrait of a woman and it gives us another glimpse of an exceptional figure. Mézières comes across as an outstanding actress, offering her body and her sufferings with a rare and...
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Louis Malle – Le Voleur AKA The Thief of Paris (1967)
IMDB : In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who squanders his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a...
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