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Fernando Trueba – El artista y la modelo AKA The Artist and the Model (2012)
Quote: Fernando Trueba, one of the most prestigious filmmakers in Spain, has set his latest film somewhere in occupied France in the summer of 1943, not far from the Spanish border. An old renowned...
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst – The Mistress of Atlantis AKA The Lost Atlantis (1932)
Synopsis: Two soldiers–searching the Sahara for Atlantis–are captured by raiders from the lost city. They are taken before its beautiful queen who has over 50 mummified ex-lovers! What follows is an...
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Bahman Ghobadi – Niwemang aka Half Moon (2006)
Synopsis: Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he...
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Joseph Sargent – Goldengirl (1979)
A German doctor tries to prove his theory that people are evolving to be taller by making a “superwoman” of his daughter thru diet, exercise, and conditioning to run in the Olympics. Unfortunately she...
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Jeanne Balibar & Pierre Léon – Par exemple, Electre (2013)
Synopsis: Balibar, well-known as an actress and singer, left none of her talents unused in her directing debut. In this eclectic homage to Greek tragedy, Balibar and Léon are free of any convention....
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Leos Carax – Gradiva (2014)
Two minutes in which Carax attempts to reach the essence of Art : sculpture, Cinema, actress, music, gallery, myth… a delicious mixture; Godard influence is still here and will always be with Carax;...
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Burt Kennedy – The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
Plot Synopsis by All Movie In this comic western, Flagg (Robert Mitchum) is a veteran marshal forced to retire by the pompous Mayor Wilker (Martin Balsam). McKay (George Kennedy) is a wily gunslinger....
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Mario Ruspoli – Regards sur la folie (1962)
L’aliénation mentale filmée en Lozère, à l’hôpital psychiatrique de Saint-Alban : constat sur les malades eux-mêmes et sur la patiente rééducation de leur cerveau par les psychiatres. Quote: « C’est...
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Sidney Lumet – The Appointment (1969)
synopsis Sidney Lumet directed this romantic melodrama involving deceit and marital secrets. The film takes place in Rome where lawyer Federico Fendi (Omar Sharif) falls in love with his colleague...
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John Huston – Sinful Davey (1969)
synopsis Davey Haggart (John Hurt) wishes to follow his father’s footsteps and become a highway robber. He also wishes to avoid his father’s fate — which was death by hanging at the tender age of 21...
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Hy Averback – I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
synopsis One of the few 1960s satires of the hippie culture that doesn’t appear to be concocted by grumpy old men, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas stars Peter Sellers as Harold Fine, a staid Jewish...
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John Flynn – The Outfit (1973)
The Outfit is a 1973 film directed by John Flynn. It stars Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker and Robert Ryan. The film is an adaptation of the book of the same name by Richard Stark and...
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Ayreen Anastas – Pasolini Pa* Palestine (2005) (DVD)
“Pasolini Pa* Palestine is an attempt to repeat Pasolini’s trip to Palestine in his film, Seeking Locations in Palestine for The Gospel According to Matthew (1963). It adapts his script into a route...
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Takahisa Zeze – Hada no sukima AKA A Gap in the Skin (2005)
Synopsis: Two young people, Hidenori and Sunako, are on the run from the law following Hidenori’s killing of his mother. The two manage to hitch a ride in a passing ice-cream van, but Sunako is...
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Panagiotis Fafoutis – Paradeisos AKA Paradise (2011)
Synopsis: Marianna returns to Greece on a whim to surprise her boyfriend, secretly plotting to stay with him forever, while Nikos is using the carnival as an excuse to confess his love to his...
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William Klein – Mr. Freedom (1969)
Mr.Freedom is a militaristic moron of a superhero. In his secret identity he is a United States sheriff, but when he enters his hidden closet hidden in his office behind a large American flag, he...
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Assi Dayan – Giv’at Halfon Eina Ona aka Halfon Hill Doesn’t Answer (1976)
Quote: Sgt. Jinji is very interested in Yaeli, Mr. Hasson’s youngest daughter. After getting into a dispute with a fuming Mr. Hasson who falsely believed Jinji wanted to marry his eldest daughter,...
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Peter Yates – Breaking Away (1979)
synopsis Dennis Christopher stars as a recent high school graduate in Bloomington, Indiana, who is caught with his friends — Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley — coasting between high...
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Vera Chytilová – Vyhnání z ráje AKA Expulsion from Paradise (2001)
Description: The uncompromising director Věra Chytilová, well-known for her harshly mocking attacks on people’s failings and foibles, has created a new filmic parable on human weakness with Vyhnání z...
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Jack Smight – The Illustrated Man (1969)
The Illustrated Man is a 1969 American science fiction film directed by Jack Smight and starring Rod Steiger. The film is based on three short stories from the 1951 collection The Illustrated Man by...
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