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Massoud Bakhshi – Tehran Anar Nadarad AKA Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!...
Tehran is a large village near the city of Rey, full of gardens and fruit trees. Its inhabitants live in anthill-like underground holes. The village’s several districts are constantly at war....
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Jacques Rivette & Suzanne Schiffman – Out 1, noli me tangere (1971)
Quote: Though Jacques Rivette’s Out 1 is often described as a time capsule, it hardly functions as a medium for concrete historical research. The 1971 film takes place in a major global city (Paris in...
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John Sayles – Passion Fish (1992)
Character and dialogue are the driving forces in writer-director John Sayles’ movies. In Passion Fish, Sayles delivers a quality screenplay, and Mary McDonnell and Alfre Woodard do his script justice...
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Mikhail Kalik & Inna Tumanyan – Lyubit… AKA To Love (director’s cut) (1968)
Several short films about love. http://nitroflare.com/view/0FC0F6B67D0F8A7/Kalik.Ljubit.1968.1992.avi...
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Marco Bellocchio – Fai bei sogni AKA Sweet Dreams (2016)
Quote: With the innocuously titled Sweet Dreams (Fai bei sogni), Italian director Marco Bellocchio stages a gentle, eminently watchable return to some of the key themes that have haunted his 50 years...
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Dominik Spritzendorfer & Elena Tikhonova – Elektro Moskva (2013)
Elektro Moskva is an essayistic documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy. The story begins with the inventor of the world’s first electronic instrument, Leon Theremin, unveiling the...
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Edgardo Castro – La noche (2016)
Quote: Gritty journey through the sexual underbelly of Buenos Aires, with graphic depictions of the highs and lows in one man’s quest for intimacy. The story tells, from an accentuated hyper-realistic...
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Rowland V. Lee – Zoo in Budapest (1933)
Brief Synopsis from TCM: Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo’s animals. When Zani meets Eve, a young orphan girl, they...
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Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi – Shin Gojira AKA Godzilla Resurgance (2016)
Synopsis: It’s a peaceful day in Japan when a strange fountain of water erupts in the bay, causing panic to spread among government officials. At first, they suspect only volcanic activity, but one...
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Ingmar Bergman – Misantropen AKA The Misanthrope (1974)
ingmarbergman.se wrote: The Misanthrope Bergman took one of his favourite plays to Copenhagen for a guest performance, which was even broadcast on Danish TV. In his Copenhagen The Misanthrope, Bergman...
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Andrzej Zulawski – L’Amour braque AKA Limpet Love (1985)
Synopsis: Inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot and intended as “a homage to the great writer,” this film is set in modern France rather than 19th century Russia. This is a story of Léon (Francis...
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Tage Danielsson – Picassos äventyr AKA The Adventures of Picasso (1978)
Plot Summary Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris in poverty. But one day he is...
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James Ivory – Quartet (1981)
Marya finds herself penniless after her art dealer husband, Stephan, is convicted of theft. Marya accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who lets her live in their house....
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Michel Spinosa – Anna M. (2007)
Synopsis: A gentle, shy woman who is industrious at work and pleasant with her colleagues, Anna M. convinces herself that a happily married doctor is in love with her. From then on, every move this...
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Chantal Akerman – Sud AKA South (1999 )
Synopsis A look at the troubled area of America’s Deep South, primarily focusing on the sadistic murder of James Byrd, an African-American man dragged to his death by three white supremacists. The...
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Greta Schiller – Paris Was a Woman (1995)
“Paris was a Woman” is a film portrait of the creative community of women writers, artists, photographers and editors who flocked to the Left Bank of Paris in the early decades of the 20th century,...
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Otto Bell – The Eagle Huntress (2016)
Quote: This spellbinding documentary follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old nomadic Mongolian girl who is fighting to become the first female eagle hunter in twelve generations of her Kazakh family. Through...
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Robert Bresson – Les anges du péché AKA Angels of Sin (1943)
Synopsis wrote: A well-off young woman decides to become a nun, joining a convent that rehabilitates female prisoners. Through their program, she meets a woman named Thérèse who refuses any help...
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Alfred Hitchcock – Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Quote: Mr. and Mrs. Smith represented a change of pace for director Alfred Hitchcock. Out of his 50+ films, this one was his only comedy. Sure, The Master of Suspense usually added humorous touches to...
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Haolun Shu – No. 89 Shimen Road [+Extra] (2010)
Quote: In the late 1980’s Shanghai, a 16 year-old boy, Xiaoli, comes of age surrounded by his neighbors and grandfather. His best friend is a girl named Lanmi, a couple years older than him. But Lanmi...
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