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Woody Allen – Zelig (1983)
Quote: Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing...
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Nagisa Ôshima – Nihon shunka-kô AKA Sing A Song Of Sex (1967)
In Oshima’s enigmatic tale, four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets...
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Béla Tarr –Öszi almanach aka Almanac of the Fall (1984)
From New York Times Magazine: Possibly inspired by the existential play No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, this story about five people living in close quarters in a small apartment conveys the same angst...
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Antony Cordier – Douches froides aka Cold Showers (2005)
Quote: Cold Showers is a coming of age story about Mickael (Johan Libereau), a high school student who is captain of the Judo team and who lives with his low-income family. His mother is a...
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Stanley Kubrick – Paths of Glory (1957)
Quote: In Stanley Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” war is viewed in terms of power. This mesmerizing, urgent film about a true episode in World War I combines the idea that class differences are more...
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Fritz Lang – Das wandernde Bild aka The Wandering Image (1920)
Quote: The tangled story that unfolds in the torrid melodrama The Wandering Shadow centers around the character of Irmgard (played by actress Mia May), a virtuous woman who, like many such heroines...
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Derek Jarman – The Tempest (1979)
Quote: Prospero, a potent necromancer, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He’s in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence...
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Pedro Aguilera – La Influencia (2007)
Quote: This is the story of a disoriented and vulnerable woman, overburdened with daily life problems and more: her belongings are impounded, her cosmetics shop has been closed down, and her children...
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Béla Tarr – Szabadgyalog aka The Outsider (1981)
The central character of Szabadgyalog, nicknamed “Beethoven,” is a violinist who has been kicked out of music school in Debrecen and now makes his living as a disc jockey. The problem of marriage and...
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Andrzej Wajda – Eine Liebe in Deutschland AKA A Love in Germany (1983)
Plot In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his...
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John Ford – The Searchers [+Extras] (1956)
SYNOPSIS: Ethan Edwards, returned from the Civil War to the Texas ranch of his brother, hopes to find a home with his family and to be near the woman he obviously but secretly loves. But a Comanche...
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Arthur Penn – Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Quote: A bored small-town girl and a small-time bank robber leave in their wake a string of violent robberies and newspaper headlines that catch the imagination of the Depression-struck Mid-West in...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Scream of the Ants (2006)
Plot Synopsis from allmovie: As a newlywed couple boards a train bound for India and are forced to reconcile atheism and faith in director Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s spiritual-themed drama. He is a...
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Tinto Brass – Fermo posta Tinto Brass AKA P.O. Box Tinto Brass (1995)
This film is a series of letters, photos and video cassettes which women often send in to certain newspapers. By visualizing their story-telling (the name given by the psychologists to their...
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Woody Allen – Shadows and Fog (1991)
Quote: In a murky, seriously deranged cityscape only a studio art department could create, a giant bald strangler (Michael Kirby) is going around killing people with piano wire. The authorities are...
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Jørgen Leth – Det Erotiske Menneske AKA The Erotic Man (2010)
Quote: Erotic Man (Det Erotiske Menneske) (Director: Jørgen Leth): This somewhat experimental and extremely personal film raised so many issues for me to think about that I’m not sure my rating will...
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Claude Lanzmann – Shoah (1985)
Quote: Shoah is Claude Lanzmann’s landmark documentary meditation on the Holocaust. Assembled from footage shot by the filmmaker during the 1970s and 1980s, it investigates the genocide at the level...
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Kun-jae Jang – Hwioribaram AKA Eighteen (2009)
Plot summary from M-Line Distribution: Eighteen year-old Tae-hoon and Mi-jung have been going out for 100 days. During winter break they decide to take a trip to the beach to celebrate their...
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Piotr Studzinski – Twarz AKA The Face (1966) (HD)
Portrait of an artist as a young manic. First, a montage of still photographs of an artist’s face. Then motion. He stirs in sleep; he paints and expresses frustration. He looks for a light for his...
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Larisa Shepitko – Krylya (Крылья) AKA Wings (1966)
Plot Synopsis by Clarke Fountain The director of this film, Larisa Shepitko, was the wife of the distinguished director Elem Klimov and a very promising director herself. Based on a true story, Krylya...
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