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Berlinale
Edgier and less star-driven than some of its (few) equals on the international festival scene, this wintertime event has highlighted artistically adventuresome work from around the globe since 1951. It also boasts a market component that has launched numerous high-profile talents outside the official festival program.
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2012
El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS is a revealing look inside the kitchen of renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria. Located in Catalonia, Spain, Adria's restaurant elBulli, closed for six months each year while Adria and his team of culinary experts design a fresh, innovative menu for the next season. Not content...Start your free trial to watch
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2012
Headshot
A darkly turbulent crime noir from Thai new wave director Pen-ek Ratanaruang, HEADSHOT is an existential thriller, ripe with shadowy paranoia that will turn your world upside-down, literally. This disorienting game of cat and mouse is played out in present-day Thailand, where corruption runs rampant and the good die young....Start your free trial to watch
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2012
The Sons of the Clouds
Álvaro Longoria partners with Academy Award winner Javier Bardem for his directorial debut, SONS OF THE CLOUDS. This compelling documentary brings to light the political and human rights issues facing the people of the Western Sahara and the responsibility of Western powers in the effort to restore peace...Start your free trial to watch
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2012
Bestiaire
Fascinating and beguiling, BESTIAIRE is filmmaker Denis Côté's mesmerizing meditation on the relationships between animals and people through the seasons at a Quebec safari park. This strikingly gorgeous work about the act of looking slyly blurs the line between observer and observed (the film opens with art students...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
!Women Art Revolution
An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. Starting from its roots in 1960s antiwar and civil...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
The Turin Horse
On January 3, 1889, in Turin, Italy, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert. Not far from him, a cab driver is having trouble with a stubborn horse. The horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche puts an end to the brutal scene,...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
Sirmilik
As filmed by Zacharias Kunuk and scored by Andrew Whiteman, Dean Stone and Tanya Tagag, Sirmilik ("Place of Glaciers") National Park in Nunavut, in the Arctic Cordillera of Canada, is a place of mighty mountains blanketed by snow in winter and denuded brown rocks in summer. An Inuit man talks of how his father taught him to...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
Amnesty
A new national law allowing conjugal visits for inmates brings together a man and woman visiting the same prison to meet their incarcerated spouses. Elsa’s dutiful contact with her husband is part of a routine consumed with job searching, raising her two sons, and getting along with her father-in-law. When she meets Spetim, a...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
The Prize
Under the cloud of a military dictatorship, a young mother and her daughter flee Buenos Aires for the seclusion of a ramshackle cottage along the windy dunes of an Argentine beach. As her mother listens for news from the radio with sad stoicism, restlessly curious seven-year-old Cecilia joins a nearby school overseen by a...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
The Advocate for Fagdom
At turns a transgressive artist, the spiritual son of Kenneth Anger and John Waters or leader of the Queercore movement, one thing is certain: Bruce LaBruce makes small budget movies full of hardcore sex and political messages in which he happily crushes any gay attitude clichés, mocks dramatic set ups and...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Echoes of the Rainbow
Simon Yam stars in ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW, a story of an ordinary family living in Hong Kong from 1967 to 1977. A struggling father from Guangzhou, an iron-willed mother supporting the family and their kids facing countless challenges from a changing world. Between tears and smiles, their stories will touch...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
The Robber
A champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber, sprinting between fixes (and away from police cavalcades) as many as three times a day. A lean, visceral study of pathological compulsion from Austrian director Benjamin Heisenberg, featuring a riveting central performance by Andreas Lust (REVANCHE).Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Caterpillar
Set during the time of the Second Sino-Japanese War, CATERPILLAR tells the story of a Japanese soldier who returns home horrifically mutilated. Liutenant Kurokawa is literally nothing but a human torso: he has lost both his arms and legs. With burns covering half his face, he is also unable to speak. His wife, Shigeko...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Blank City
BLANK CITY is an "absorbing snapshot of a daring time" (Los Angeles Times) when a disparate crew of renegade filmmakers emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history. From the late 1970s through the mid-'80s, when the East Village was still a wasteland of cheap rent and cheap drugs, these...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Putty Hill
A beautifully realized portrait of a close-knit community on the outskirts of Baltimore, PUTTY HILL is the second feature from celebrated young filmmaker Matt Porterfield. At a neighborhood karaoke bar, friends and family gather to remember a young man who passed away. Knowing little about his final days, they attempt to...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Yuki and Nina
Yuki, nine years old, learns that her parents are separating. Her father is French and her mother is Japanese. She is told to follow her mother to Japan and leave everything behind in Paris, starting with her best friend Nina. Together, Yuki and Nina try to get her parents back together; however, after failed attempts,...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Alamar
Jorge has only a few weeks with his five year old son Natan before he leaves to live with his mother in Rome. Intent on teaching Natan about their Mayan heritage, Jorge takes him to the pristine Chinchorro reef and eases him into the rhythms of a fisherman's life. As the bond between father and son grows stronger, Natan...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle
Silviu has only two weeks left before his release from a hostile juvenile detention center. But when his mother, who abandoned him long ago, returns to take his younger brother away, those two weeks become an eternity. While his outcries for help fall on deaf ears, he finds himself mercilessly taunted and...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Family Tree
Frederick is a tree grower, and for nearly sixty years he has been cultivating a secret. His wife and eldest son are the only ones around him who know the truth. Pushed by the death of his son, with whom he had a conflicted relationship with, he finally reveals what he just couldn't say to those near and dear to him: his...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Dooman River
Writer-director Zhang Lu’s fascinating window into a rarely seen corner of rural China revolves around 12-year-old Chang-ho, living with his grandfather and mute sister along the frozen river-border with North Korea. Although fraught with unemployment and other tensions, his community seems sympathetic toward the Korean...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Metropolis
Incorporating more than twenty-five minutes of newly discovered footage, this 2010 restoration of METROPOLIS is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece. Backed by a new recording of Gottfried Huppertz’s 1927 score, the film’s dazzling visual design and special effects are more striking than ever....Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Double Take
An Official Selection at both the Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals, Johan Grimonprez's DOUBLE TAKE is a unique film that combines early 60's advertising, hysterical Red Menace newsreels and Alfred Hitchcock (featuring his hilarious introductions to his TV show and movies, and interviews with actual Hitchcock impersonator...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
One Day You'll Understand
As the 1987 trial of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie unfolds on television, Victor Bastien (Hippolyte Girardot) reviews old family documents and finds a distressing “Aryan declaration” authored by his late father, a discovery that throws Victor’s conception of his family’s history into darkness. His mother,...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
Adapted from a century novella by Eça de Queiroz, Manoel de Oliveira's exquisite ECCENTRICITIES OF A BLONDE-HAIRED GIRL is the story of an ill-fated romance between a young accountant and a mysterious woman he spies through his window.Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Everyone Else
A young couple’s relationship is pushed to the brink while vacationing in the Mediterranean in this smart, sexy drama from acclaimed new filmmaker Maren Ade. On the surface, Chris and Gitti appear blissfully in love while enjoying the sun and sand of Sardinia. But the more time they spend together, the more their silly games...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Beeswax
From director Andrew Bujalski (MUTUAL APPRECIATION), BEESWAX revolves around the personal and professional entanglements of twin sisters Jeannie and Lauren (played by extraordinary newcomers Tilly and Maggie Hatcher) living in Austin, Texas. Jeannie co-owns a bright, candy-colored vintage clothing store. When a conflict with...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Citizen Juling
How did a young idealist, Buddhist art teacher Juling from the far North, end up lying comatose in a pool of blood at a village kindergarten school in the deep Islamic South? Colorful human rights activist and senator Kraisak Choonhavan goes on the road to understand what happened and why. Definitely not a straight enquiry...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Lake Tahoe
Teenage Juan crashes his family's car into a telegraph pole on the outskirts of town and then scours the streets searching for someone to help him fix it. His quest will bring him to Don Heber, an old paranoid mechanic whose only companion is Sica, his almost human boxer dog; to Lucía, a young mother who is convinced that her...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Skirt Day
SKIRT DAY is a fascinating psychological study, a socio-critical investigation. Isabelle Adjani plays Sonia Bergerac, a teacher at a tough junior high. Despite the principal's warnings, she wears a skirt to work. She simply wants to teach her class but the insults are just too much. Scared and taking antidepressants, Sonia...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Jerichow
In a small desolate town in northeastern Germany, a handsome ex-soldier, a Turkish businessman and his beautiful, restless wife find themselves in a desperate love triangle in this suspenseful reworking of the James M. Cain's novel THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE from acclaimed director Christian Petzold.Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Yella
Narrowly escaping her volatile ex-husband, Yella flees her small hometown in former East Germany for a new life in the West. She finds a promising job with Philipp, a handsome business executive with whom an unlikely romance soon blossoms. But just as Yella seems poised to realize her dreams, she finds herself haunted by...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Beast Stalker
Ace action director Dante Lam is in top form once again with this raw, nail-bitingly intense action thriller and with award-worthy emotional performances by Nicholas Tse and Nick Cheung. Tse is Tong, a take-no-prisoners police sergeant who accidentally kills a girl during his relentless pursuit of armed robber Cheung (Ho-man...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Sita Sings the Blues
Nina Paley crafted most of SITA SINGS THE BLUES by herself, a remarkable fact when you consider the labor force required of most feature-length animated films. SITA’s eclectic layering of personal history, epic myth and saucy musical numbers is held together by Paley’s palpable pleasure in the art of...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
United Red Army
Koji Wakamatsu's epic docudrama explores the political unrest of 1960s Japan when mass student uprisings coincided with the beginnings of the far-left United Red Army group, which tortured and murdered its "deviant" members during a 1972 training session. An uncompromising piece of filmmaking from one of Japan's most...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Mutum
Thiago is a sensitive and imaginative boy living on a small, hardscrabble farm in a remote region of Brazil. His life is filled not only with curiosity and youthful discovery but also the reality of his parent's unhappy marriage and his father's abuse, all of which are one day changed by a chance encounter and unexpected...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Her Name is Sabine
An intelligent, moving and beautiful portrait of Sabine, a 38-year-old autistic woman, filmed by her sister, the famous French actress Sandrine Bonnaire. Through personal footage filmed over a period of twenty-five years, it is revealed that Sabine's growth and many talents were crushed by improper...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Munyurangabo
After stealing a machete from a market in Kigali, Munyurangabo and his friend, Sangwa, leave the city on a journey tied to their pasts. Munyurangabo wants justice for his parents who were killed in the genocide and Sangwa wants to visit the home he deserted years ago. Though they plan to visit Sangwa's home for just a few...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Somers Town
Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello), a Polish immigrant, lives in the district of SOMERS TOWN, between King's Cross and Euston stations, where his dad is working on a new rail link....Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Death in the Garden
Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of ill-starred fugitives (a roguish adventurer, a local hooker, a priest, an aging diamond miner and his deaf-mute daughter) are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted and stripped of their old identities, they wander...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Un chien andalou
Made in 1929, UN CHIEN ANDALOU (AN ANDALUSIAN DOG) is regarded as the first film produced purely from within the Surrealist movement, and a landmark in the history of cinema. Based on an exchange of dreams between Salvador Dali and acclaimed director Luis Buñuel, this tale of unfulfilled desire opens...Start your free trial to watch
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2007
Crossing the Line
Taking full advantage of access granted by the government of North Korea, the mysterious and feared rogue state of the so-called "axis of evil," director Daniel Gordon (A STATE OF MIND) combines historical footage with contemporary interviews to both uncover the Kim-Jong Il regime and end 44 years of...Start your free trial to watch
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2007
Eye in the Sky
Johnnie To produces this crackerjack thriller directed by To's longtime screenwriter Yau Nai-Hoi with an all-star cast. Hong Kong Police's elite SU (Surveillance Unit), led by its veteran leader Wong (Simon Yam), has been monitoring Shan (Tony Leung Ka-Fai), the criminal mastermind whom Wong suspects may have been involved...Start your free trial to watch
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2007
Beaufort
After eighteen years dug into a heavily fortified mountain deep in occupied Lebanon, the last Israeli soldiers enduring constant bombardment at the site of an ancient crusader stronghold called Beaufort receive orders to abandon their posts, detonate the warren of bunkers in which they've tenuously clung to life and victory...Start your free trial to watch
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2007
Summer '04
Beautiful and assured, Miriam (Martina Gedeck) enjoys a seemingly perfect existence. But when her 15-year-old son invites his girlfriend to spend the holidays, Miriam grows jealous of the girl's brazen sensuality and begins an extramarital affair with a charismatic stranger that threatens to tear her family apart.Start your free trial to watch
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2007
Getting Home
In this soulful and humane comedy, Zhao, a middle-aged construction worker, struggles to fulfill a dying co-worker's last wish to be buried in China's Three Gorges region. Setting out with his colleague's body in tow, Zhao travels hundreds of miles across extraordinary countryside, encountering a number of colorful adventures...Start your free trial to watch
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2007
I Am from Titov Veles
Set in the quaint but scarred town of Veles, three sisters long to escape the suffocating environment of their dying community. Burdened by memories of their late father, each chooses a different path: Sapho struggles to secure a visa to Greece; Slavica desperately searches for a rich husband; Afrodita...Start your free trial to watch
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2007
What a Wonderful World
Souad is a prostitute whose best friend is Kenza, a tough traffic cop. Kamel is a stony–eyed contract killer who receives his hit orders via the Internet; he is also Souad's favorite customer. When Kenza falls in love with Kamel, the two begin a bizarre courtship doomed by their disparate lines of work....Start your free trial to watch
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2007
The Trap
Post-Milosevic Belgrade is the capital of a nation struggling to find its soul, of a country whose turbulence has left many in a moral and existential desert. This is the home of Mladen, his wife Marija and their son Nemanja. When Nemanja develops a serious heart condition, the doctors urge an expensive operation abroad. Just...Start your free trial to watch
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2007
All the Days Before Tomorrow
A critically acclaimed, international festival award winning feature debut, ALL THE DAYS BEFORE TOMORROW effectively captures the push-pull of two people attracted to each other. In this quirky tale about a friendship that's almost something more, Joey Kern and Alexandra Holden play pals who ought to be...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
Isabella
Isabella Leong (A CHINESE TALL STORY) and Chapman To (INITIAL D) both give career-defining performances in this edgy, unforgettable drama gorgeously shot and directed by Edmond Pang (MEN SUDDENLY IN BLACK). Down-on-his-luck corrupt cop Shing (To) has a drunken one-night stand with a mysterious girl Yan (Leong). As events...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
In Between Days
IN BETWEEN DAYS intimately portrays the joys and risks of first love and burgeoning adulthood with bracing and undeniable honesty. Aimie (Jiseon Kim) is a teenager recently transplanted from her native South Korea to a snowbound North American city. Disconnected from her single mother and bored at school, she struggles to...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
Vacationland
This unflinching work from New York City based filmmaker Todd Verow is a deeply personal, semi-autobiographical story of growing up gay in picturesque Maine. Gay high-school senior Joe is not quite out to his family and has for years been in love with his best friend Andrew. Unhappy at home, Joe moves in with an older artist...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
The Custodian
As a bodyguard for a high profile politician, Ruben is reduced to a mere shadow of a man. Every action in his life is regulated by a series of mundane routines. Everywhere his boss goes he must follow, watching but never speaking. Resigned to his invisibility, his life is a series of days without meaning, punctuated only by...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
My Country, My Country
Working alone in Iraq over eight months, director/cinematographer Laura Poitras creates an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. Her principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six and Sunni political candidate. An outspoken critic of the...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
Men at Work
MEN AT WORK tells the hilarious story of four old friends who, driving back from a failed skiing trip, encounter a strange and enormous rock. The men's frivolous attempt to dislodge the rock gradually disintegrates into a tale of betrayal, defeat and renewed hope. The heroes of the film are doctors, engineers and businessmen...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
Camping Sauvage
Fresh out of prison, Blaise accepts a job as a sailing instructor at a summer camp run by his brother in law, Eddie. It’s not long before he catches the eye of Camille, a bored and beautiful teenager. Haunted by violent nightmares, scorned by the other campers and reminded daily of his estranged wife and children, Blaise...Start your free trial to watch
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2005
As It Is in Heaven
Nominated for "Best Foreign Film" at the 2005 Academy Awards®, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN is the story of Daniel, a successful international conductor who returns to his childhood village in Sweden. Soon thereafter, the local church choir seeks him out to solicit his advice. He can't refuse, and nothing in the...Start your free trial to watch
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2005
The Sun
Following up his portraits of Hitler in MOLOCH and Lenin in TAURUS, Alexander Sokurov's film is a mesmerizing tour of Emperor Hirohito's final days in power during the waning moments of WWII. Hirohito (Issei Ogata) wanders through his palace in a child-like state of denial. He spends his time studying marine biology and...Start your free trial to watch
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2005
Angel's Fall
A critically acclaimed, contemporary tale from picturesque Istanbul, a city bordering the West and the Arab world, comes a timely tale about love and hope. Zeynep, a beautiful, young woman, dreams of a better life. Her days are spent cleaning hotel rooms and her nights are like hell because of her abusive father. The only...Start your free trial to watch
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2005
25 Firemans Street
On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated for demolition restlessly revisit their haunted pasts as they face an uncertain future. In a gently turning kaleidoscope of dream imagery, regret-laden nostalgia and painstakingly intimate detail, the looming wrecking ball pales...Start your free trial to watch
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2005
Summer Storm
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren (Linda Darnell), who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge (George Sanders), a decadent aristocrat (Edward Everett Horton) and an estate superintendent (Hugo Haas), each with surprising results. Fine direction by master auteur Douglas Sirk and an...Start your free trial to watch
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2005
Les mauvais joueurs
Vahe is a small time hustler trying to find his way. When his lover, Lu Ann, walks out on him, it seems that everything has gone sour at once. However, things begin to change after Vahe befriends Yuen, Lu Ann’s headstrong illegal immigrant brother. When Yuen refuses to pay extra tribute to the gang that...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
David Holzman's Diary
Jim McBride's brilliant cinéma vérité-esque independent film follows the titular character (charmingly portrayed by L.M. Kit Carson) as he documents his life. As news from the Vietnam War and social unrest blares over the radio, Holzman unloads comic-neurotic monologues to his 16mm camera. When his...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
The Time We Killed
The post-9/11 political situation is refracted through an isolated female subjectivity in Jennifer Reeves’ bold foray into narrative filmmaking. “Terrorism brought me out of the house,” says poet Robyn (Lisa Jarnot) in her winding voiceover, “But the War on Terror drove me back in.” Reeves freely...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
Let the Wind Blow
At the height of nuclear tensions between India and Pakistan, Arjun and his best friend, Chabia, weigh their options for the future against the reality of life on the streets of Mumbai. Enticed by the promise of wealth and opportunity in the Persian Gulf, Chabia is eager to leave his job as a mechanic. But...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
Campfire
The year is 1981. Rachel Gerlik, a forty-two year old widow and mother of two beautiful teenage daughters, Esti and Tami, wants to join the founding group of a new religious settlement in the West Bank. The problem is that the acceptance committee won't accept her unless she remarries and proves that she and her daughters can...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
Day of the Wacko
DAY OF THE WACKO is a black comedy from the director of the highly acclaimed NIC SMIESZNEGO (NOTHING FUNNY). It chronicles one day in the life of a teacher who is completely disillusioned with his reality. When he looks for the reasons for his unhappiness he blames his neighbors, his former wife and his...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
Blind Shaft
BLIND SHAFT tells the story of two itinerant miners (Song Jinming and Tang Chaoyang) who risk their lives under dangerous working conditions and develop questionable morals in order to survive. In the dark caves of one of the many illegal Chinese coal mines, Song and Tang murder a co-worker whom they have convinced to pose as...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
Mango Yellow
Guaranteed to shock even jaded viewers, Claudio Assis' debut feature is seeped in bold, sun drenched colors (a mood that extends to the oversized subtitles as well). It is a provocative tale of low-rent losers set in the coastal town of Recife, Brazil. Assis' characters seemingly stem from some Carnival hell. A macho butcher...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
Alexandra's Project
It's Steve's birthday and he's just been promoted at the office. In a good mood, he goes home to his family expecting to celebrate. Instead, he finds an empty suburban home and videotape labeled "Play Me." The tape begins with his loving wife providing birthday wishes and quickly segues, to his pleasant...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
Liberated Zone
An economically depressed town in Germany finds its collective fortune and libido rejuvenated when the local soccer club negotiates the purchase of superstar African footballer “Blondi.” Before long the team’s winning streak is matched only by the number of bed swapping affairs.Start your free trial to watch
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2002
Guardian of the Frontier
Three beautiful young college girls embark upon a leisurely boat trip down the river Kolpa, dividing Slovenia and Croatia, at the outset of the Balkan war. They are being watched and followed by a political extremist group called the "Guardians of the Frontier" and layers of social, political and...Start your free trial to watch
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2002
Beneath Clouds
In a tiny desolate town, there is only one road in and out. A fair skinned, blue eyed teenage girl rejects the indigenous blood of her mother for the blood of her Irish father. A teenage indigenous boy spends all of his time in a plantation pine forest. Years of incarceration have molded a tough exterior and separated him...Start your free trial to watch
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2002
Ghost of a Chance
In the casino there is only one queen: the small ball that spins on the roulette table. None of the players pay the slightest attention to the female dealers. But Takis, a medical student, doesn't go to the casino to win millions but rather to earn a day's wages. Vera works in a gym but gets a second job...Start your free trial to watch
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2002
I sovversivi
The first feature directed solely by the Taviani brothers (following two collaborations with Valentino Orsini) is somewhat atypical in being borderline anarchic, sometimes farcical and experimental in its mash-up approach to narrative. Several strands are juggled here, including strife between a yuppie couple that leads to...Start your free trial to watch
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2001
Daresalam
In a small Central African village, boyhood friends Djimi and Koni have come of age under a post-colonial government that levies crippling taxes and legally robs local farmers of their meager crops. When impulsive Koni savagely attacks a visiting government official, the resulting massacre forces the two friends on a journey...Start your free trial to watch
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2001
A Time for Drunken Horses
Winner of the Caméra d’Or ("Best First Feature") at the Cannes Film Festival, A TIME FOR DRUNKEN HORSES announced Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi (TURTLES CAN FLY) as a major talent. His debut follows the heart-wrenching drama of a Kurdish family living on the Iran-Iraq border. The only work available in...Start your free trial to watch
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2001
The Sweetest Sound
In THE SWEETEST SOUND, Alan Berliner is tired of being mistaken for people who might share his name and decides to rid himself of the dreaded Same Name Syndrome. His solution: invite all the Alan Berliners in the world over to his house for dinner. In the end, Berliner leaves us with a greater sense of the...Start your free trial to watch
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2001
Scarlet Street
When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson) rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett) from the rain slicked gutters of an eerily artificial backlot Greenwich Village, he plunges headlong into a whirlpool of lust, larceny and revenge. As Chris' obsession with the irresistibly vulgar Kitty grows,...Start your free trial to watch
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2000
Pan Tadeusz
A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives. However, they are able to unite as one with the patriotic and rebellious efforts...Start your free trial to watch
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2000
Terror is a Man
Following after the example of Val Lewton’s 1940s horror films, this drive-in ready adaptation of H.G. Wells’ THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU wrings psychological anguish and terse visual effects from its low-budget expressionism. The film begins with a naïve sailor (William Fitzgerald) washing up onto Girard’s island. Director...Start your free trial to watch
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1999
Brakhage
Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) was possibly the most important filmmaker of the avant-garde and one of the greatest artists of our time. From 1952, at the age of nineteen, until his death, Brakhage created more than 400 films, ranging in length from several seconds to several hours, constantly and consistently redefining cinematic...Start your free trial to watch
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1998
Conceiving Ada
In this award-winning film (which was the first to use "virtual sets"), Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton embodies Lady Ada Lovelace, daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron and the mathematics genius who developed what became the world's first computer language 100 years before computers were invented. Ada's story is...Start your free trial to watch
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1997
Little Shots of Happiness
An urban comedy of identity lost and found via sexual indiscretions, Frances is initially a bored 9-to-5'er. She comes to the much-prolonged decision to leave her mentally unstable husband and begins to live out of her office, unbeknownst to her co-workers. Each night she goes to a different nightclub or a...Start your free trial to watch
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1997
The Castle
A land surveyor identified simply as K is summoned to a remote mountain village by the local government, known as (and housed in) "the castle." Unable to convince underlings of the legitimacy of his position, he tries to take his case to castle officials. But the more K struggles to gain entrance, the more obstructive the...Start your free trial to watch
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1997
Nobody's Business
In NOBODY’S BUSINESS, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory. What emerges is a uniquely cinematic biography that finds both humor and pathos in the swirl of conflicts and affections that bind father and son....Start your free trial to watch
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1996
Fallen Angels
Commonly regarded as one of the most influential directors of contemporary cinema, Wong Kar-Wai (HAPPY TOGETHER, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE) has developed a signature style that employs bold, experimental uses of photography, music, and editing to capture the tension of the new millennium. Originally intended to be a third story in...Start your free trial to watch
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1996
The Electronic Diaries
A woman's personal life unfolds over twelve years in a video diary that simultaneously parallels and reflects global history. Personal fears and obsession dissolve into a story of triumph and empowerment as the protagonist eventually finds her voice.Start your free trial to watch
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1996
Paris Was a Woman
A film portrait of the creative community of women writers, artists, photographers and editors (including Colette, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas) who flocked to the Left Bank of Paris in the early decades of the 20th century. Utilizing groundbreaking research and newly discovered home...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
Mod Fuck Explosion
WEST SIDE STORY meets RUMBLE IN THE BRONX meets A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. Bizarre tale of London, a lonely teen yearning for affection and a leather jacket who lives in a dysfunctional family home where the mother keeps popping and sexually playing with her other child, X-Ray, a member of a gang of Mods who are...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
Rhythm Thief
Simon (Jason Andrews) is a New York City bootlegger who sells stolen music on the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Ludlow Street chick Cyd (Kimberley Flynn), who has a real job, meets Simon on weekday mornings for sex. Life is good for Simon, until the day he rips off 1-900-BOXX, a militant all-girl punk band fronted...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
Seven Chances
This dazzling comedy showcases Buster Keaton’s genius for super-sized slapstick as it tells the story of an eligible young bachelor who must marry by 7:00pm in order to receive a $7 million inheritance. After bungling a proposal to his longtime sweetheart (Ruth Dwyer), Jimmie (Keaton) embarks on a desperate quest for a bride....Start your free trial to watch
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1995
Go West
A fascinating alternative to the manic stunt work and elaborate sight gags that distinguish the films of Buster Keaton, GO WEST offers a rare and satisfying glimpse of his talent for more expressive comedy: charming moments of intimate humor flavored with rich pathos. Heeding the expansionist call of Horace Greeley, a...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
Battling Butler
The greatest box-office success of all his independent comedies, BATTLING BUTLER is a rarely-seen gem that mingles Buster Keaton's deadpan demeanor and awesome physical agility with a particularly dramatic storyline. Keaton stars as Alfred Butler, a fragile young man whose father sends him into the country where he hopes...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
Sherlock Jr.
Widely regarded as one of the most visually inventive silent comedies ever made, SHERLOCK JR. offers fast-paced slapstick as well as a brilliant deconstruction of the filmmaking process. Buster Keaton stars as a movie theatre projectionist who dreams of becoming a super-sleuth and, in one breathtaking sequence, literally...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
Three Ages
A brilliant historical satire teeming with inventive flourishes, Buster Keaton's THREE AGES is a silent comedy of truly epic proportions. This clever parody of D. W. Griffith's INTOLERANCE follows Buster's hard-luck romantic adventures throughout world history: from the dawn of man in the Stone Age, through the gladiatorial...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
Steamboat Bill Jr.
Set on the Mississippi River in the old sidewheeler days, STEAMBOAT BILL JR. follows the adventures of a spoiled young man (Buster Keaton) who is forced by his crusty father (Ernest Torrence) to learn the ropes of riverboating. Over the course of the narrative, the scale of comedy gradually expands, from...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
The High Sign
THE HIGH SIGN was Buster Keaton's first independent effort but he believed the film retained too much of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's style of comedy and not enough of his own. He shelved the film and made ONE WEEK instead. THE HIGH SIGN was released only after Keaton broke his ankle and Joseph M. Schenck needed a film to...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
Convict 13
CONVICT 13 pushes boundaries with the darkness of its comedy, particularly the scene in which Buster Keaton is about to be hanged in prison while his fellow inmates sit as spectators cheering on the proceedings with concessions sold as if it were a baseball game.Start your free trial to watch
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1995
One Week
Buster Keaton's first masterpiece, ONE WEEK is a joke title lost on most twenty-first century viewers unaware of Elinor Glyn's notorious novel "Three Weeks." The front of a two-story house collapsing on Buster, with the window-opening miraculously preventing his injury, that was first experimented with in BACK STAGE and...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
Neighbors
NEIGHBORS is notable for its acrobatic climax involving "The Flying Escalantes" (Buster Keaton would enlist their talents again for his 1934 two-reeler ALLEZ-OOP) as well as the appearance of Joe Keaton portraying (naturally) Buster's father. Virginia Fox, his most frequent leading lady, makes her first appearance here. She...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
The Haunted House
Buster Keaton, on the run, hides in an abandoned house where a visiting opera company of "Faust" also seeks refuge. The film's great moment is a dream sequence in which Buster dreams he is an angel ascending to heaven. At Saint Peter's gate he is rejected and slides down a chute to hell where he discovers...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
Hard Luck
Long believed lost and admittedly a lesser work, HARD LUCK was nonetheless Keaton's favorite of all his short comedies because it contained the greatest single laugh of his career. This version is the 1987 reconstruction (sans ending) produced by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill.Start your free trial to watch
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1995
The Paleface
THE PALEFACE is Buster Keaton's comic exploration of the Western dramas that were popular in American cinemas at the time. A group of oil prospectors are swindling a group of Native Americans out of their own lands. The Indian chief proclaims to his tribe: "Kill the first white man who comes through the gate." Naturally,...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
Cops
One of Buster Keaton's greatest and most famous comedies, COPS is universally enjoyed for the inventive comedy and amazing chase sequences. However, its darker aspects (Keaton's use of an anarchists bomb risked painful reminders of the horse and wagon, similar to the one Buster drives, that carried a bomb into New York city's...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
The Frozen North
A parody of the Western melodramas of William S. Hart, THE FROZEN NORTH was filmed partly on location near Truckee, California, and the intertitles drew from Robert Service's "The Shooting of Dan McGrew." Charles Chaplin later used Truckee for his masterpiece THE GOLD RUSH and drew upon "McGrew" for his...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
The Love Nest
Buster Keaton's final silent short before moving into features, THE LOVE NEST takes to the high seas for slapstick verging on tragedy. Buster leaves on a seasick voyage after being spurned by his usual leading lady, Virginia Fox. He soon finds himself aboard a whaling ship working for a tyrannical skipper who thinks nothing...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
The Saphead
In 1920, having served a slapstick apprenticeship in the shorts of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Buster Keaton had earned the opportunity to headline his own series of two-reel comedies. The very moment at which he emerged as a star of his own shorts, Keaton was recruited to appear in his first feature film, THE SAPHEAD, based on...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
Asphalt
Gustav Froelich, best known as the young protagonist of METROPOLIS, stars as Holk, a strait-laced traffic cop who has the simple task of escorting a diamond thief to the police station. However, the thief is the exotic and beautiful Else (played by Betty Amann), which makes the task far from simple. The stage is thus set for...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
Hayseed Romance
The obvious parallel to HAYSEED ROMANCE is Buster Keaton's 1922 silent short, MY WIFE'S RELATIONS. Jane Jones is similar in build to Kate Price, Buster's memorable mother-in-law in the earlier film. Their rough handling of him is similar in both films. A plate-smashing sequence was also featured in the Stan Laurel and Oliver...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
Tars and Stripes
TARS AND STRIPES seems to be an example of the old Mack Sennett trick of creating a story around a setting where permission to film has been granted, in this case a U.S. Navy compound. The running gag of always returning to the rig and Buster Keaton's attempts to get food always being thwarted work well....Start your free trial to watch
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1995
Ditto
Leonard Maltin, whilst asserting that Buster Keaton's sound shorts are far from poor, cites DITTO as one of his worst mainly due to the last gag with the girls being done with their backs to us. Although the identical height and dress of each girl and Buster's reaction make the gag obvious, an added punch would have been to...Start your free trial to watch
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1994
Whispering Pages
The pages that whisper through this brooding, beautiful tone poem are from nineteenth-century Russian literature, primarily Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. An anonymous man wanders through decomposing, fog-enshrouded catacombs and encounters a series of “the degraded and the humiliated,” including a...Start your free trial to watch
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1993
Careful
Guy Maddin’s early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents (adult, child and animal!) must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. But sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles and quadrangles with deadly consequences....Start your free trial to watch
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1993
Wittgenstein
A humorous portrait of one of the 20th century’s most influential philosophers. This self-tortured eccentric, who preferred detective fiction and the musicals of Carmen Miranda to Aristotle, is a fitting subject for Derek Jarman’s irreverent imagination. A visually stunning and profoundly entertaining work about modern...Start your free trial to watch
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1993
The Bed You Sleep In
Created by one of America's most prominent independent filmmakers, THE BED YOU SLEEP IN is an unforgettable, beautifully structured and exquisitely photographed epic tragedy set in a small lumber town in Oregon. Ray (Tom Blair), a struggling lumber mill owner, and his wife Jean (Ellen McLaughlin) receive a...Start your free trial to watch
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1993
Rock Hudson's Home Movies
“It was all up there,” says Rock Hudson (Eric Farr) at the start of this rule-breaking, dizzying assortment of clips from Rock Hudson’s Hollywood career that make up Mark Rappaport’s feature film, ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES. Employing a narrative commentary from beyond the grave, the film invents an...Start your free trial to watch
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1991
The Dove's Lost Necklace
This second feature in Nacer Khemir’s "Desert Trilogy" is a visually ravishing folktale reminiscent of THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. The story revolves around Hassan, who is studying Arabic calligraphy from a grand master. Coming across a fragment of manuscript, Hassan goes in search of the missing pieces,...Start your free trial to watch
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1991
Poison
The second feature directed by Todd Haynes, POISON is a groundbreaking American independent film and was the most fervently debated film of the 1990s as well as a trailblazing landmark of queer cinema. A work of immense visual invention, Haynes’ spectacular follow-up to his legendary SUPERSTAR: THE KAREN CARPENTER STORY is...Start your free trial to watch
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1990
Darkness Light Darkness
A corporeal and Kafkaesque claymation from Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer. Two hands find each other in a room and begin molding themselves into a human figure. Different body parts come knocking, some more insistently than others, until the small space is stuffed with the finished man. Whether viewed as...Start your free trial to watch
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1990
The Battle of San Pietro
Starting with an unusually romantic depiction of the region that became key to the Allies' capture of Italian territory from German forces, this was director/narrator John Huston's government-produced chronicle of the late 1943 battle. His film crew shot right alongside U.S. Army troops and (partly as a...Start your free trial to watch
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1990
The Falls
Standing at a pivotal point in his filmography, poised between his earlier, witty shorts and the unique pleasures of his post-DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT oeuvre, THE FALLS is arguably the most significant film of Peter Greenaway’s prolific career. Shot as a pseudodocumentary, this magnum opus dazzlingly details ninety-two case...Start your free trial to watch
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1990
The Stranger
The 1946 thriller, THE STRANGER, features Welles as both director and actor. As Franz Kindler, Welles is a Nazi war criminal who has fled to America, where he disguises himself as a small town schoolteacher. Loretta Young stars as Mary, the young woman who falls in love with the devious, yet charming Kindler, while Edward G....Start your free trial to watch
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1988
The Last of England
An apocalyptic roar of a movie, Derek Jarman's dizzying THE LAST OF ENGLAND is a lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. One of Jarman's most experimental and overwhelming works, he has Tilda Swinton stalk through the remnants of industrial England, encountering visions of...Start your free trial to watch
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1987
Ma'loul Celebrates Its Destruction
Since the declaration of the state of Israel in 1948, countless Palestinian villages have been erased from the map. MA'LOUL CELEBRATES ITS DESTRUCTION uses poignant images of bombardments, destroyed buildings and disfigured people to illustrate this. All that remains are ruins, bearing silent witness in...Start your free trial to watch
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1986
Caravaggio
Jarman’s most profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld. CARAVAGGIO incorporates the painter’s precise aesthetic into the movie’s own visuals, while touching on all of...Start your free trial to watch
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1986
Chain Letters
“Life is a river. A very dirty river,” one protagonist decrees in Mark Rappaport's last narrative feature before he embarked on a 1990s trilogy of quirky, highly personal documentaries about Hollywood (such as ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES). Made in Manhattan during the worst early depths of the AIDS epidemic, this LA RONDE-style...Start your free trial to watch
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1986
Battleship Potemkin
For eight decades, Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece has remained one of the most influential silent films of all time. Yet each successive generation has seen BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN subjected to censorship and recutting, its unforgettable power diluted in unauthorized public domain editions from dubious...Start your free trial to watch
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1985
The Angelic Conversation
Derek Jarman's lyrical celebration of gay love set within the context of a series of William Shakespeare’s sonnets. Ethereal Super-8 images slowed to a magical, meditative pace follow the love affair between two men as Dame Judi Dench provides a soothing presence with her narration of the fourteen sonnets....Start your free trial to watch
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1984
Nosferatu
An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's DRACULA, NOSFERATU is the quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau. Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok (as portrayed by Max Schreck) is a nightmarish, spidery creature of...Start your free trial to watch
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1983
The Draughtsman's Contract
Set in a richly exaggerated 17th-century England, Peter Greenaway’s sumptuous and sensuously charged brainteaser catapulted him to the forefront of international art cinema. Adorned with intricate wordplay, extravagant costumes and opulent photography, Greenaway’s first narrative feature weaves a...Start your free trial to watch
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1983
A Zed and Two Noughts
“Two legs look so good together, don’t you think?” A masterpiece of modern cinema, A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS is Peter Greenaway’s beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. In a horrific automobile-swan accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo, two women die and a third, Alba...Start your free trial to watch
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1983
Vertical Features Remake
A mocking parody of the fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration’s several attempts to reconstruct (Peter Greenaway alter-ego) Tulse Luper’s study of the aesthetic and ecological significance of various trees, posts and poles on the English landscape. Greenaway shows an innovative use of sound to...Start your free trial to watch
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1983
A Walk Through H
One man’s "hell" is another man’s "heaven" in what has been described as ”one of the best British movies of the decade.” A WALK THROUGH H traverses a series of ninety-two maps, painted by filmmaker Peter Greenaway himself, that guide a deceased ornithologist into the afterlife. Reoccurring motifs of...Start your free trial to watch
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1983
Foolish Wives
As artistically brilliant as it is gleefully perverse, FOOLISH WIVES is Erich von Stroheim's epic-scale account of an American diplomat's wife who falls under the spell of a phony Russian Count. With his trademark eye for visual metaphor and gritty detail, von Stroheim infuses the artistocratic splendor of Monte Carlo...Start your free trial to watch
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1982
Daughters of Chaos
"The film deals simultaneously with girls becoming women, woman looking back on her childhood. It is pervaded with voluptuousness, with longing: the woman, disappointed in love, looking for lost innocence, the girl yearning for the power of her sex." - Anne BeckerStart your free trial to watch
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1977
The Chess Players
In the kingdom of Awadh, rich landowners Meer (Saeed Jaffrey) and Mirza (Sanjeev Kumar) pour every ounce of passion into a never-ending game of chess. At the same time, an ambitious British General (Sir Richard Attenborough) plots his own moves against Awadh's King (Amjad Khan) and Prime Minister (Victor...Start your free trial to watch
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1975
Adoption
Widowed, financially secure and involved with a married man, forty-three year old Kata yearns for the motherhood she instinctively knows will push her out of personal ambivalence. Though having little in common, Kata befriends Anna, a rebellious teenage girl consigned to a woman's shelter and unaccustomed to anything more...Start your free trial to watch
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1970
The Howl
THE HOWL is a true surrealistic cult classic, filled with jokes, impossible characters, riotous comedy and punk rock music well before its time. A young bride escapes her wedding ceremony with a stranger and together they set off on an epic journey through increasingly bizarre lands. They encounter talking animals and...Start your free trial to watch
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1966
Le stagioni del nostro amore
This moody romantic drama is suffused with the same inconsolable disillusionment with modern life that marked Michelangelo Antonioni's classics of the same era. Journalist Vittorio (Enrico Maria Salerno, a highly regarded Italian stage actor who also appeared in and occasionally directed films) is facing...Start your free trial to watch
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1965
The Railrodder
In one of the last films of the comedian's long career, Buster Keaton stars as a "railrodder" crossing Canada from east to west on a railway track speeder. As might be expected, the film is full of sight gags as Keaton putt-putts his way to British Columbia. Not a word is spoken throughout and Keaton is as spry and ingenious...Start your free trial to watch
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1963
Young Aphrodites
YOUNG APHRODITES presents a world of primitive love and lust, erotic passions and innocent physical longing as two adolescents experience sensual awakening in a savagely nomadic world. Director Nikos Koundouros, winner of the Best Director award at the Berlin Film Festival, filmed YOUNG APHRODITES among...Start your free trial to watch
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1961
Antigone
In the aftermath of a bloody civil war that fatally pitted both her brothers against each other, Antigone (Papas), daughter of Oedipus, picks through the carnage outside the gates of Thebes in search of her fallen siblings' bodies. Vowing to bury both men, Antigone defies a direct edict from Thebes' King Creon that Antigone's...Start your free trial to watch
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1958
Cairo Station
In this beautiful classic film from legendary director Youssef Chahine, Cairo’s main railroad station is used to represent all of Egyptian society. We see a community comprised of luggage carriers and soft-drink vendors living in abandoned train cars. A crippled newspaper dealer, Kinawi (played by Chahine himself), falls in...Start your free trial to watch
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1951
Four in a Jeep
Intrigue and danger follow the International Police on their rounds in post-WWII Vienna in this suspenseful made-on-location drama. The city is divided between the U.S., England, France and (oh-oh!) Russia. Each Jeep patrol is comprised of one sergeant from each country. The beautiful Franziska (Viveca Lindfors) wants to...Start your free trial to watch