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Masahiro Shinoda – Himiko (1974) (HD)
Quote: An imagined life of the prehistoric Japanese Queen Himiko, based loosely on a few mentions in Chinese chronicles. Himiko is presented as the head priestess of the Sun Goddess cult and a spirit...
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Barry Jenkins – Medicine for Melancholy (2008)
“Everything about being indie is tied to not being black,” says Micah (Wyatt Cenac), half of the accidental kind-of couple whose one-day romance is chronicled in “Medicine for Melancholy.” He is...
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Jacques Doillon – Mes séances de lutte (2013)
A young woman excuse his father’s funeral to find a neighbor rather charming , and try to understand why she interrupted the love relationship began with him a few months earlier. They end and replay...
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Joseph Losey – The Go-Between (1970)
Quote: This 1971 adaptation of L.P. Hartley’s novel was the third and final collaboration between Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter, and is often seen as the least successful. It is the story of a young...
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George Ovashvili – Simindis Kundzuli AKA Corn Island (2014)
Synopsis: The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. Tensions between the two nations have not abated since the war of 1992–93. Every spring, the river brings fertile soil...
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Rehad Desai – Miners Shot Down (2014)
Renowned director Rehad Desai returned to the events of August 2012, when the Marikana mine in South Africa experienced the worst episode of bloodshed since the end of apartheid. For seven days,...
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Vilgot Sjöman – Syskonbädd 1782 AKA My Sister My Love (1966)
Set in Sweden in 1782. Jacob, a young nobleman (Per Oscarsson) returns from France to his home and cherished sister Charlotte (Bibi Andersson) who is engaged to Baron Alsmeden (Jarl Kulle). The...
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Michel Hazanavicius – The Search (2014)
A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya. Cannes Film Festival 2014 Nominated Palme d’Or...
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Israel Cárdenas & Laura Amelia Guzmán – Jean Gentil (2010)
Quote: In Jean Gentil, a man looks for a job in a cacophonous city that wouldn’t notice if he had never existed. He’s wearing a tie and the kind of sadness that removes from the face any immediately...
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Sally Potter – Orlando (1992)
Sally Potter’s adaptation of Virginia Wolf’s 1928 novel is a visual delight. The story of a person, who apparently lives 400 years, and appears initially as a man, and later as a woman. Tilda Swinton,...
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Billy Wilder – The Lost Weekend (1945)
Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been “on the wagon” for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother...
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Ren Peng – The Destiny (2014)
Plot: The story takes place in 1937 in the southern town, a young woman married into Yinjialin rain lotus in the day, never met her husband joined the fleeing forced marriages MingXuan Japanese team,...
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Sam Peckinpah – Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
It’s 1881 in New Mexico, and the times they are a’changing. Pat Garrett, erstwhile travelling companion of the outlaw Billy the Kid has become a sheriff, tasked by cattle interests with ridding the...
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Jane Campion – The Piano (1993)
Synopsis: A mute woman along with her young daughter, and her prized piano, are sent to 1850s New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, and she’s soon lusted after by a local worker...
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Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov – Luna Papa (1999)
Synopsis “Mix some Monty Python with the violent black humour of Yugoslavian director Emir Kusturica, add a little South American magic realism, and you might have some idea of what goes on in the...
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Caveh Zahedi – I Am a Sex Addict (2005)
Synopsis taken from IMDB: Caveh, the director and lead actor of the film has a rather interesting problem; he is addicted to sex with prostitutes. The film is comprised of narrations re-telling the...
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Roy William Neill – Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
Holmes is recruited to escort the heir to a European throne safely back to his homeland after his father’s assassination....
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Jan Peters – Aber der Sinn des Lebens (1990 – 1996)
Aber den Sinn des Lebens hab’ ich immer noch nicht rausgefunden / … but I Still Haven’t Figured Out the Meaning of Life (OmeU) Every year on his birthday, Jan Peters filmed one reel of Super-8...
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Jane Campion – Sweetie [+extras] (1989)
Synopsis: Explores sisters, in their twenties, their parents, and family dysfunctions. Kay is gangly and slightly askew, consulting a fortune teller and then falling in love with a man because of a...
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Tina Mascara & Guido Santi – Monk with a Camera (2014)
Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Grandson of legendary Vogue editor, Diana Vreeland, and trained by Irving Penn to become a...
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