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Costa-Gavras – L’Aveu AKA The Confession (1970)
Synopsis Gérard has been a loyal supporter of communism for all his adult life, serving in the French Resistance during the Second World War and supporting the civil war in Spain. Now, in 1951, he is...
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John Carpenter – Halloween [Extended Edition] (1978)
Plot Synopsis from AMG It was “The Night HE Came Home,” warned the posters for John Carpenter’s career-making horror smash. In Haddonfield, Ilinois, on Halloween night 1963, 6-year-old Michael Myers...
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Robert Bresson – L’Argent (1983)
Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader wrote: Robert Bresson’s 1983 film returns to some of the themes of his earlier work–the notion of stolen grace from Pickpocket, the suppression of scenes in favor of a...
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Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub – Klassenverhältnisse AKA Class Relations...
Klassenverhältnisse, known in English as “Class Relations” is based on Franz Kafka’s unfinished first novel, Der Verschollene. The story describes the bizarre wanderings of a 17-year-old European...
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Victor Sjöström – Körkarlen AKA The Phantom Carriage (1921) (HD)
The last person to die on New Year’s Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death’s chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year. So says the legend...
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Sinan Cetin – Berlin in Berlin (1993)
A young German engineer photographs a beautiful Turkish woman without her permission. Her husband finds out and starts a fight. In the midst of the argument the German engineer accidentally kills the...
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Werner Nekes – Diwan (1974)
Quote: “Diwan, a lyric anthology, an outdoor movie with people. With people living in the surrounding precious and very beautifully photographed nature, are neither more nor less than one part of it....
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David Cronenberg – A Dangerous Method (2011)
David Cronenberg’s adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s play detailing the deteriorating relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung as they contend with a particularly troubled patient. The year...
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Piotr Szulkin – Femina (1991)
Quote: After a five-year hiatus from filmmaking, Piotr Szulkin returned in 1990 with “Femina”, based on a novel by Krystyna Kofta and inspired by Luis Bunuel. The main character is Bogna, a thirty...
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Robert Wise – Odds against tomorrow (1959)
SYNOPSIS ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW, a crackling crime caper with an undercurrent of racial tension, combines the desperation of three men–two of whom hate each other–and the culmination of that...
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Alfred Hitchcock – Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide: Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan’s Personal History before producer Walter Wanger brought the...
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Bertrand Bonello – L’Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (2011)
Quote: Bertrand Bonello’s highly stylized look at the final days of a fin-de-siècle brothel in Paris conjures up the languid beauty and frank sexuality of French Romantic painting. Its visual...
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Jafar Panahi – Ayneh AKA Mirror (1997)
A girl in traditional female clothing, and her arm in plaster, comes out of school one day and doesn’t find her mother meeting her…...
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Masaru Konuma – OL kanno nikki: Ah! Watashi no naka de AKA Erotic Diary of an...
From wikipedia: Japanese pink film in Nikkatsu’s Roman Porno series starring Asami Ogawa and directed by Masaru Konuma. Ogawa’s debut film, this was the seventh and last entry in the Office Lady...
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Otto Preminger – Fallen Angel (1945)
Sinopsis Eric Stanton, a penniless drifter, falls in love with Stella, who works in a small-town coffee shop. She refuses to marry him because of his poor financial condition. Desperate for money,...
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Lordan Zafranovic – Ujed andjela (1984)
A lighthouse keeper lives on an isolated island together with his wife, ailing father and retarded sister. News of a serial killer stalking the isolated lighthouses makes him leave in order to hunt...
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Ventura Pons – Barcelona (un mapa) AKA Barcelona: A Map (2007)
Synopsis: Timid, elderly Ramon once worked at a Barcelona theater, later burned down, where he enjoyed dressing up in women’s costumes. He’s now married to Ros and owns a house whose rooms he has...
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Jean-Pierre Melville – Bob le Flambeur aka Bob the Gambler [+Extras] (1956)
Plot Outline : Bob, a middle-aged gambler and thief, plans a complicated heist. He deals with a number of underworld characters while planning the robbery of the Deauville Casino. Bob eventually hires...
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David Cronenberg – Maps to the Stars (2014)
Synopsis: The Weiss family is the archetypical Hollywood dynasty: father Stafford is an analyst and coach, who has made a fortune with his self-help manuals; mother Cristina mostly looks after the...
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Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne – Deux jours, une nuit AKA Two Days, One...
Quote: Sandra, a young Belgian mother, discovers that her workmates have opted for a significant pay bonus, in exchange for her dismissal. She has only one weekend to convince her colleagues to give...
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