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Lukas Moodysson – Vi är bäst! AKA We Are the Best! (2013)

Stockholm 1982. A film about Bobo, Klara and Hedvig. Three 13-year old girls who roam the streets. Who are brave and tough and strong and weak and confused and weird. Who have to take care of...

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Mario Monicelli & Steno – Guardie e Ladri aka Cops and Robbers (1951)

IMDb: Toto most successfully attempts to go one better than Chaplin in this entry in which he cleverly uses his expressive face not only to telegraph laughs but to induce audience sympathy. Set...

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Lars von Trier – Orchidégartneren AKA The Orchid Gardener (1977)

Lars von Trier submitted this film as part of his application to film school. Many of the aesthetic and thematic fetishes of his later feature length films (including the Dogme films and his more...

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Lars von Trier – Menthe – la bienheureuse (1979)

Even more so than The Orchid Gardener, this film anticipates Lars von Trier’s later work. The cross-wielding figure who emerges in the final shot before the end title in The Orchid Gardener appears...

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Markus Schleinzer – Michael (2011)

Markus Schleinzer was Michael Hanekes casting director on several projects util he decided to turn to directing himself. This is his first feature film – A drama that focuses on five months in the...

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Rafael Baledón – El pantano de las ánimas aka Swamp of the Lost Souls (1957)

A small Mexican village faces the disappearance of a corpse. The dead man’s brother goes out to find his detective friend, a cowboy. However, he is killed by a gang that seeks to get the insurance...

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Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine (2013)

synopsis Woody Allen trades New York City for San Francisco with his comedy-drama Blue Jasmine, starring Cate Blanchett as a troubled former Manhattanite who moves to the City by the Bay to live with...

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Don Sharp – Hennessy (1975)

IMDB: Set in the Seventies, Hennessy is a Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the IRA. Hennessy’s family is killed, and he plots revenge, setting out to assassinate Queen...

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Renaud Fely – Pauline et François (2010)

Quote:Pauline et François contains little in the way of emotive revelations or garment rending histrionics. Its dramatic climax, if one can call it that, is a relatively minor moment of moral weakness...

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Didier Flamand – La vis (1993)

IMDB: Mr. K is a do-it-yourselfer and he works very seriously. One day he has a problem with one of his screws. Furious, he decides to complain at the administration office of the Department Store of...

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Paul Bamborough – Arcadia (1990)

Set in the not to distant apocalyptic future. Earth is under invasion from computer/arcade aliens, tensions run high and teenagers still want to ‘go out’....

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Henry Koster – Harvey (1950)

synopsis This whimsical fantasy about a local drunk’s 6′ 3 1/2″ imaginary rabbit pal was a smash hit (and a Pulitzer Prize winner) on Broadway and was then adapted into this likeable farce that’s also...

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Irving Cummings – The Night Club Lady (1932)

synopsis A night club owner under heavy police protection is murdered anyway, and a clever police commissioner figures out that it was her mother, who used a scorpion as the murder weapon....

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Gary Weis – 80 Blocks from Tiffany’s (1979)

synopsis The gangs in the South Bronx (about 80 blocks from Tiffany’s in more ways than one) are handled with kid gloves in this one-hour treatment by Gary Weis. The more articulate members of the...

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Jacob Mendel – Zlatá Rybka aka The Goldfish (2010)

The lives of a man, a cat, and a goldfish intersect in unexpected ways. http://keep2share.cc/file/3823b5728ba8a/Jacob_Mendel-Zlat%D0%90_Rybka_%28%27The_Goldfish%27%29_%282009%29.avi.avi...

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Colin Finbow – Dark Enemy (1984)

IMDB: After a nuclear war, a group of children at an isolated farmhouse debate what the outside world might be like. Soon one of them leaves the house to investigate, and finds out that things aren’t...

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Gönül Dönmez-Colin – Cinemas of the Other (2006)

amazon says: An original collection of recent interviews with filmmakers whose works represent the trends in the film industries of their respective countries. Preceding the interviews, the author...

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Paul Newland – Don’t Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s (2010)

While postwar British cinema and the British new wave have received much scholarly attention, the misunderstood period of the 1970s has been comparatively ignored. Don’t Look Now uncovers forgotten...

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William Castle – The Tingler (1959)

IMDB: Dr. Warren Chapin is a pathologist who regularly conducts autopsies on executed prisoners at the State prison. He has a theory that fear is the result of a creature that inhabits all of us. His...

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Louella Parsons – How to write for the movies (1916)

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