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Tai Katô – Mabuta no haha AKA The Mother He Never Knew (1962)
Synopsis: The protagonist Chujiro, who possesses many attractive qualities, is a victim of unkind circumstances: his mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside society....
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Marshall Neilan – The Little Princess (1917)
Synopsis:Captain Richard Carewe, a wealthy British officer stationed in India, sends his daughter Sara to Miss Minchin’s school in London to be educated. Dubbed “the Little Princess,” because of her...
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Marguerite Duras – Les Enfants aka The Children (1984)
A sort of philosophical comedy written and directed by Marguerite Duras (with Jean Mascolo and Jean-Marc Turine), starring Axel Bogousslavsky, Daniel Gélin, Tatiana Moukhine, Martine Chevallier, André...
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Roberto Rossellini – Viaggio in Italia AKA Journey to Italy [+ Extras] (1954)
Quote: Among the most influential films of the postwar era, Roberto Rossellini’s Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) charts the declining marriage of a couple from England (Ingrid Bergman and George...
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Henry Koster – Das häßliche Mädchen AKA The Ugly Girl (1933)
Quote: “Das hässliche Mädchen” (The ugly girl) of the title is young Lotte (Dolly Haas), who is hired as a secretary by an insurance company precisely for her supposed ugliness, as the director (Otto...
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Pere Portabella – Nocturno 29 (1968)
Synopsis: A woman walks by her home and finally takes a shower – She buy colored fabrics in a trade. A man visiting a post office – Succession of scenic pictures and semi-autonomous fading almost...
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Jean Cocteau – Orphée AKA Orpheus [+commentary] (1950)
Quote: Jean Cocteau died on October 11, 1963, the same exact day that his longtime friend, the French chanteuse Edith Piaf, succumbed to liver cancer not all that far away. Some have even speculated...
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András Jeles –Így fog leperegni Aka This Is How It Will Run (1970)
Interesting crime story about woman-prisoner, incest and murder.. http://nitroflare.com/view/FF596262E0FFD37/Igy_fog_leperegni_%281970%29.mkv...
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Pascal Bonitzer – Tout de suite maintenant (2016)
Nora Sator, a dynamic young thirty-year-old, began her career in high finance. When she learns that her boss and wife have frequented her father in their youth, she discovers that a mysterious rivalry...
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Terence Young – Bloodline (1979)
Synopsis: Sam Roffe, president of a multi-national pharmaceutical corporation, is killed while mountain-climbing. It is first determined to be an accident, but Inspector Max Hormung later deduces that...
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Piero Vivarelli – Satanik (1968)
Synopsis A withered old hag turns into a beautiful young woman after drinking a youth formula. Review (thanks to k_t_t2001@ imdb) A faithful adaptation of the fumetti neri The level of success of...
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Sergei Parajanov – Tini Zabutykh Predkiv AKA Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors...
Quote: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors has often been described as a Carpathian Romeo and Juliet – that is, if Romeo had the tenacity to live after his beloved’s death. Sergei Paradjanov prefaces the...
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Toshio Masuda – Sabita naifu AKA Rusty Knife (1958)
Synopsis: Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Fontane Effi Briest (1974)
Quote: It’s a non-traditional black and white film based on the 1894 novel by Theodor Fontane. It’s for an audience that is more aware and welcomes something addressed to the intellect, rather than...
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Albert Maysles & David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin – Gimme Shelter...
Synopsis: A harrowing documentary of the Stones’ 1969 tour, with much of the focus on the tragic concert at Altamont. Review: Gimme Shelter documents the last ten days of the Rolling Stones’ 1969...
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Marco Berger & Martín Farina – Taekwondo (2016)
Quote: In a picturesque country house in Buenos Aires, Fernando gathers his mates for a boys-only vacation. Free from work, responsibilities and their girlfriends, this close-knit gang of bros kick...
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Jérôme Reybaud – Jours de France AKA Four Days in France (2016)
Quote: Disillusioned with his life in Paris, Pierre Tomas drops everything to travel through France. Via phone numbers written in bathroom stalls, coincidental rendezvous, and Grindr, a smartphone...
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Klaus Wyborny – Studien zum Untergang des Abendlands AKA Studies for the...
Quote: In Wyborny’s ‘musical film’, every new sound triggers a new image: 6,299 shots, all directly edited within his Super-8 camera. An intoxicating, stroboscopic trip to industrial, natural and...
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Bernardo Bertolucci – Io e te AKA Me and You (2012)
Synopsis: An introverted teenager tells his parents he is going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in a basement. Review: It’s ten years since we last had a film from Bernardo Bertolucci...
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Stuart Heisler – The Glass Key (1942)
Quote: This is a solid remake of the 1935 film of the same name about big-city political corruption, and it starred Edward Arnold as the corrupt political boss and George Raft as his loyal lieutenant....
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