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Jafar Panahi – Dayereh AKA The Circle [+extras] (2000)
Synopsis: In a Tehran hospital, a woman awaits anxiously for news about her grandchild – and she’s shattered when she learns that the baby is a girl. Outside the hospital are three young women –...
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Raoul Walsh – White Heat (1949)
Quote: White Heat (1949) is one of the top classic crime-heist dramas of the post-war period, and one of the last of Warner Bros’ gritty crime films in its era. White Heat is an entertaining,...
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Sidney Lumet – The Pawnbroker (1964)
Rod Steiger plays a benumbed Jewish survivor of the concentration camps who lives on in Harlem running a pawnship–fat, sagging, past pain, past caring. Adapted from the Edward Lewis Wallant novel and...
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L.M. Kit Carson & Lawrence Schiller – The American Dreamer (1971)
Quote: A documentary about actor/director Dennis Hopper, showing him at his home and studio putting together his film “The Last Movie.”...
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Xavier Dolan – Les amours imaginaires AKA Heartbeats (2010)
Quote: Early accolades can be a curse to an artist’s career. Directors whose first features meet with critical hallelujahs are often harshly scrutinized for subsequent efforts. Few debuts have enjoyed...
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Dziga Vertov – Kinoglaz AKA Kino Eye (1924)
Quote: This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village, centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls,...
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W.S. Van Dyke & George Cukor – Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 crime melodrama film, produced by MGM, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, and starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy. The movie also provided one of the earliest...
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Ole Bornedal – I Am Dina (2002)
Synopsis: In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother’s death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the...
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Sidney Lumet – Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)
Plot: Based on Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play, this magnificent screen adaptation was directed by the great Sidney Lumet and starred Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards and Dean...
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Philippe Garrel – Le Lit de la Vierge AKA The Virgin’s Bed (1969)
Synopsis: 30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His clothes are soaked. His mother was...
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Agnès Varda – Plaisir d’amour en Iran AKA The Pleasure of Love in Iran (1976)
Storyline: A couple find their erotic love mirrored perfectly in the architecture and mosaics of Iran....
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Ziad Doueiri – L’insulte AKA The Insult (2017)
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention....
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Sulev Nõmmik – Mehed ei nuta AKA Men Don’t Cry (1968)
Synopsis: A group of sleepless nerds should be taken into sanitarium for hard-therapy. They are taken to a lonely island but no sanitarium is in sight. Suddenly turns out that the nurses have...
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Pietro Anton – Italo Disco Legacy (2018)
A journey into the past and the future of Italo Disco music through the stories of the original 80’s heroes and cult DJs and the voice of the new generation of artists, radio broadcasters and fans...
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Samuel Fuller – Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
Synopsis: Erik Gregersen, imdb wrote: Fourteen-year-old Tolly Devlin sees four hoods beat his father to death. Twenty years later, the killers have risen to the top of the crime syndicate and Tolly...
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Seijun Suzuki – Tokyo naito AKA Tokyo Knights (1961)
東京騎士隊 After the sudden death of his father, high school kid Koji is elevated to company president of the Matsudara Syndicate. The old guard thinks they got themselves an easy stooge, but Koji has some...
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Béla Tarr –Öszi almanach AKA Almanac of Fall (1984)
Hédi is the wealthy landlady of a house in which resides her money-demanding son János, her nurse Anna and Anna’s boyfriend Miklós, and the elderly and financially troubled teacher Tibor. A large,...
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Pedro Pinho – A Fábrica de Nada AKA The Nothing Factory (2017)
When management begins to sell off equipment at a factory that makes elevator parts, the workers become nervous about their job security. As they weigh their options, including a strike and a...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky – The Panic Fables Mystic Teachings and Initiatory Tales...
The complete series of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s spiritual comics, translated into English for the first time • Contains all 284 of Jodo’s Panic Fables comics, published weekly from 1967 to...
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Sharunas Bartas – Peace to Us in Our Dreams (2015)
Plot Summary: A mild-mannered father, his restless daughter and his supine companion spend some time in a country cottage at the tail end of summer in Peace to Us in Our Dreams, from Lithuanian auteur...
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