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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Mutter Küsters’ Fahrt zum Himmel (1975)
Quote: Like all of Fassbinder’s best films, Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven is many things at once. It is simultaneously a deeply compassionate portrait of a working-class woman and a scathing satire of...
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Ralitza Petrova – Bezbog AKA Godless (2016)
A nurse traffics the ID cards of demented patients on the black market of identity theft. Driven by easy cash, and an addiction to morphine, she struggles to keep tabs on her emotional void, and a...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Bande à part aka Band of Outsiders (1964)
Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote: To gauge the historical significance of Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsiders (1964) — getting a week’s run in a lovely new print at the Music Box — it helps to know that it...
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Matías Piñeiro – Hermia & Helena (2016)
Quote: Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”...
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Lothar Mendes – Jew Süss aka Power (1934)
Quote: Unlike the horrifically antisemitic 1940 Nazi propaganda film, Lothar Mendes’ adaptation of Lion Feuchtwanger’s book offers a fairly sympathetic depiction of a Jew (Conrad Veidt) who seeks...
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Michael Curtiz – Mandalay (1934)
Synopsis: Tanya, a Russian refugee, is hiding in Rangoon, Burma under the protection of her lover, Tony Evans, a gunrunner working for a weathly underworld leader named Nick. Nick wants to add Tanya...
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Liam Gavin – A Dark Song (2016)
Synopsis: Sophia Howard rents a house in the countryside of Wales and hires the occultist Joseph Solomon to contact her son that was kidnapped and murdered by teenagers practicing black magic. Along...
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Ulrich Seidl – Safari (2016)
Ulrich Seidls follow wealthy tourists going on safari to kill often endangered species. Some determinedly searching for trophies, others to enjoy. Even if every prey comes at a price, they always find...
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Yorgos Lanthimos – The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister....
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David Lynch – Twin Peaks (2017)
Quote: Picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered. http://nitroflare.com/view/3B2B2840D805635/Episode_01.mkv...
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King Vidor – Show People (1928)
Colonel Pepper brings his daughter, Peggy, to Hollywood from Georgia to be an actress. There she meets Billy who gets her work at Comet Studio doing comedies with him. But Peggy is discovered by High...
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Paul Verhoeven – De lifters AKA The Hitchhikers (1962)
Quote: A road movie about three men (one driver, two hitchhikers) and one woman. A short film inspired by Verhoeven’s own youth trips as a hitchhiker. + commentary track...
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Dale Berry – Hot-Blooded Woman (1965)
A ravishing blond newlywed is raped by a hobo gang after she dances for them, so her husband sends her to a psychiatrist who has her put into a mental hospital in order to cure her exhibitionist...
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Andrey Konchalovskiy – Dyadya Vanya AKA Uncle Vanya (1971)
Synopsis A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live...
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Paul Verhoeven – Het korps Mariniers AKA The Marine Corps (1965)
Quote: Het korps Mariniers is a documentary about the Royal Dutch Navy, which Paul Verhoeven made while being assigned to the Marine Film Service as a documentary filmmaker....
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Jean-Pierre Melville – Quand tu liras cette lettre AKA When You Read This...
Wikipedia wrote: After their parents die in a road accident, a strongly moral young woman named Thérèse Voise leaves a convent shortly before taking her vows in order to care for her younger sister...
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Emile de Antonio – In the Year of the Pig [+Extras] (1968)
Plot Synopsis [AMG] Documentary filmmaker Emil DeAntonio’s In the Year of the Pig was financed by New York society matron Mrs. Orville Schell; her fund-raising dinners earned her an executive producer...
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Aleksandr Gutman – Tri dnya i bol’she nikogda AKA Three Days and Never Again...
Quote: Two weeks before the end of his national service, Alexander Birgukov shot and killed his two commanding officers. He was sentenced to death. But when it was alleged that one of his victims had...
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Jacques Rozier – Adieu Philippine (1962)
Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote: Jacques Rozier is perhaps the least known of the most talented French New Wave directors, if only because his output is so limited—about one feature per decade. His subject...
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Terence Young – Soleil rouge aka Red Sun (1971)
In what was billed as “The First East-Meets-West Western,” Toshiro Mifune plays Kuroda, a samurai warrior who accompanies a Japanese diplomat to the United States. The diplomat has brought with him a...
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