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Mike Leigh – Play for Today: Home Sweet Home (1982)
From the Guardian: Home Sweet Home: The tragic-comic tale of a lonely postman, the social workers who chivvy him about his estranged teenage daughter, and his secret affairs with the wives of his...
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Khalid Al Siddiq – Bas ya Bahar AKA The Cruel Sea (1972)
The first feature film to be made by the state of Kuwait. It is a period piece about Kuwait before the discovery of oil when fishing was the predominant occupation. Bay Ya Bahr is the story of a...
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Jacques Tourneur – I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
A young Canadian nurse (Betsy) comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica, the wife of a plantation manager (Paul Holland). Jessica seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis as a result...
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Maroun Bagdadi – Hors la vie AKA Out of Life (1991)
Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point....
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Bing Wang – Fu yu zi AKA Father and Sons (2014)
Synopsis: “In 2011, Cai took his two sons to his workplace, a factory in Fuming, where he worked as a stone caster, and found a school for them. Ever since, they have been living in a hut owned by the...
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Justine Triet – Victoria AKA In Bed with Victoria (2016)
Synopsis: Victoria is a thirty-something divorced lawyer who’s struggling to raise her two daughters. She is canny and cynical but on the verge of an emotional breakdown. At a friend’s wedding she...
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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – Ludwig – Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König AKA...
Synopsis: The story of the legendary King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886), his opera interest and friendship with theatre personalities such as Richard Wagner and Joseph Kainz, and at the same time a...
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Paulino Viota – Contactos (1970)
Una pareja se hospeda en una misma pensión en habitaciones separadas y mantienen contacto a espaldas de la dueña. Metáfora de una sociedad reprimida en la etapa del franquismo, Contactos es una cinta...
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André Cayatte – Justice est faite aka Justice Is Done (1950)
Quote: Justice Is Done (French: Justice est faite) is a 1950 French drama film directed by André Cayatte. It tackles the subject of euthanasia by depicting a court case in which a woman is tried for...
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Asaph Polonsky – Shavua ve Yom aka One Week and a Day (2016)
Storyline: When Eyal finishes the week of mourning for his late son, his wife urges him to return to their routine but instead he gets high with a young neighbor and sets out to discover that there...
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Chris Marker – Si j’avais quatre dromadaires AKA If I Had Four Dromedaries...
Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries, If I had four camels stages a probing, at times agitated, search for...
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Christopher Doyle – Warsaw Dark (2009)
Quote: Warsaw, night, a club by the river. Ojka – young and beautiful prostitute runs out to the parking lot. Wolski-fat, aging politician follows her, lured by her charm. None of the realizes that...
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Maroun Bagdadi – Liban, le pays du miel et de l’encens AKA Lebanon, the Land...
Doctor Fournier arrives in Beirut as the civil war is raging. He finds himself with a colleague working in a hospital controlled by a Shiite militia and treating the injured. Driven by his doctor’s...
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Paul Sloane – Down to Their Last Yacht aka Hawaiian Nights (1934)
Review by mark.waltz at IMDb: Quote: A campy shipboard musical A family of bluebloods made destitute by the depression are scammed into leasing out their yacht and posing as crew to tacky “new money”,...
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Grigori Kozintsev – Gamlet AKA Hamlet [+extras] (1964)
Synopsis: A screen adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy. The somber Elsinore Castle that keeps secrets of many a crime is looming over the rocky coastline. Prince Hamlet once again puts the...
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Robert Ellis Miller – The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
When deaf mute Singer moves to a small city to be near his only friend confined in a hospital, he grows attached to his landlady’s sensitive 16-year-old daughter....
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Ingmar Bergman – Scener ur ett äktenskap AKA Scenes from a Marriage [TV...
Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) always seemed like the perfect couple. But when Johan suddenly leaves Marianne for another woman, they are forced to confront the disintegration of...
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Travis Collins & Amélie Ravalec – Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay...
Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay traces the development of one of music’s most quietly influential genres from the post-industrial cities of Europe to America’s avant-garde scene, and...
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Helke Sander – Dazlak – Skinhead (1997)
road movie in which a racist skinhead is stuck in a car with a black guy by german feminist film maker Helke Sander “Schwarz, weiß, doof!” – Mit diesem Spruch sagt die vorlaute Göre Jenny, was sie...
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Teinosuke Kinugasa – Jigokumon aka The Gate of Hell (1953)
Plot : In 1159, during an attempted coup, one of the court’s ladies in waiting disguises herself as the lord’s wife, and a loyal samurai conveys her from the city. This diversion allows the royal...
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