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Ghannam Ghannam – Fatayat Haerat AKA Bewildered Girls (1981)
Some university students change their views on sex after hearing a lecture on the blind Syrian philosopher Al-Maarri. He gets his way with one of them after sneaking what I imagine is rufees into one...
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Hilton Lacerda – Tatuagem AKA Tatoo (2013)
Hilton Lacerda’s film debut is a lively take on the conflict between the straight establishment and the gay avant garde in late ’70s Brazil, and won a clutch of awards at the recent Rio festival. The...
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Jan Svankmajer – Dimensions of Dialogue (1983)
A three-part depiction of various forms of communication. ‘Factual Discussion’ depicts three heads (made up of fruit, kitchen utensils and writing implements respectively) endlessly devouring and...
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Jan Svankmajer – do pivnice aka Down to the Cellar (1983)
A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form....
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Jan Svankmajer – Another Kind of Love (1988)
Svankmajer’s music video for Hugh Cornwell’s “Another Kind of Love.” http://keep2s.cc/file/526eef8825a2d/07_-_Another_Kind_of_Love.mkv...
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Claude Chabrol – Merci pour le chocolat (2000) (DVD)
When the young Jeanne finds out that she could have mistakenly been exchanged, from her cradle, with another newborn (the son of a famous piano player), she decides to contact this family, not really...
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Dimitre Osmanli – Zedj AKA Thirst (1971)
Content: The inhabitants of a small village in a backward area of Macedonia earn their living by sending their men abroad in search of employment. Three young girls, named Elica, Maria and Nikolina...
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Ferzan Ozpetek – Allacciate le cinture (2014)
Elena and Antonio are not made for each other: they are too different, in terms of character, life choices, worldview and the way they relate to others. They are total opposites. However they are...
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Ken Kwek – Sex.Violence.FamilyValues. (2013)
Quote: A kindergarten principal finds a series of morbid cartoons drawn by a docile pupil. A porn actor struggles to rise to the occasion while filming his first porno. A middle-aged nightclub bouncer...
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Mu Fei – Xiao cheng zhi chun aka Spring in a Small Town (1948)
Quote: “Spring in a Small Town” is a remarkable fusion of classic form and the convincingly real. It moves from its central character, Yuwen, who is isolated in a small town, and in an arranged...
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Richard Fleischer – 10 Rillington Place (1971)
London, 1949. John Christie is an unassuming, middle aged man who, along with his wife Ethel, manages the apartment building at 10 Rillington Place. His unassuming demeanor masks the fact of being a...
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Bill Morrison – Decasia (2002)
synopsis Experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison created this non-narrative feature, which derives a large portion of its visual beauty from the physical nature of the film medium itself. Decasia is...
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Xiaolu Guo – UFO in Her Eyes (2011)
Quote: Premiered at Toronto Film Festival, UFO In Her Eyes is a cinematic adaptation of her most recent novel of the same title. The film stars Shi Ke and Udo Kier and is a political metaphor...
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Lotfy Nathan – 12 O’Clock Boys (2013)
To Baltimore locals, the 12 O’Clock Boys are hooligans – a group of urban dirt-bikers that perform death-defying stunts at excessive speeds through traffic and impressively evade the hamstrung police,...
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Juraj Lehotsky – Zázrak AKA Miracle (2013)
Juraj Lehotský’s riveting feature debut is about a troubled 15-year-old named Ela (electrifiying newcomer Michaela Bendulová) sent to live in a correctional facility. Forced there by her mother and...
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Eddy Saller – Schamlos AKA Shameless (1968)
IMDB: A very dynamic Udo Kier stars as Pohlmann, a teenager setting up a gang to collect protection money, who falls in love with an exotic dancer, who gets murdered. Can Pohlmann revenge her?...
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David Blyth – Red Blooded American Girl (1990)
Plot: Owen Augustus Urban III, a creator of designer drugs, is hired by Dr John Alcore, the founder of Life Research foundation, who wants his help in obtaining a cure for AIDS. But Owen discovers...
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Frank Pavich – Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013)
Jodorowsky’s Dune is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Frank Pavich. The film explores Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unsuccessful attempt to adapt and film Frank Herbert’s...
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Andrei Tarkovsky – Andrey Rublyov (1966)
Quote: Widely recognized as a masterpiece, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 205-minute medieval epic, based on the life of the Russian monk and icon painter, was not seen as the director intended it until its...
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Andrzej Wajda – Niewinni czarodzieje AKA Innocent Sorcerers (1960)
Quote: A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals and love. But he loses her when he goes out...
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