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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The leading film festival in Eastern Europe, Karlovy Vary started just after World War II and saw the flowering (and governmental shutdown) of the fabled 1960s Czech New Wave. The festival then survived major internal problems after the demise of Czechoslovakia itself. Now it has stabilized once again into an important showcase for cinema both regional and from around the world.
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2012
Dark Horse
In his mid-30s, Abe (Jordan Gelber) clings to the trappings of his adolescence, including the extensive collection of toys and action figures adorning his boyhood bedroom. Still living with his parents Jackie (Christopher Walken) and Phyllis (Mia Farrow), Abe works for his increasingly disappointed Dad and spends evenings...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
In the dead of night, a group of men (among them, a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect) drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of their cars. They are searching for a corpse, the victim of a brutal murder. The...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
Post Mortem
The second part of director Pablo Larrain's celebrated trilogy about Chile during the dictatorial reign of Augusto Pinochet, POST MORTEM is a "grim, intense, mordantly comic little film" (A.O. Scott, New York Times) about a civil servant transformed by the 1973 military coup. Mario (Alfredo Castro) is an unassuming state...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
Belvedere
Ruveyda is like most residents of the Belvedere refugee camp: a widow yearning to forget the tragedy of war, fifteen years after the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia and Herzegovina. But unlike those around her, she spends most of her days in a bittersweet routine of caring for her extended family, and searching for the remains of...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
The Day He Arrives
A film director who no longer makes films, Seongjun, arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn't show up, Seongjun wanders the city aimlessly. He runs into an actress he used to know, shares a drink with some film students and against his better judgment, heads to his ex-girlfriend's...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Poetry
Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival, POETRY is a portrait of a woman's brave fight against Alzheimer's disease and against her guilt over a relative's brutal crime. This highly acclaimed Korean drama showcases a performance by Yun Jung-hee, voted as her country's greatest actress in a public poll....Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Mock Up on Mu
A radical hybrid of multiple genres, Craig Baldwin's MOCK UP ON MU cobbles together a feature-length "collage-narrative" based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Le quattro volte
LE QUATTRO VOLTE is an ineffably beautiful meditation on the mysterious cycles of life. Set in Italy's mountainous region of Calabria, it traces the path of one goat herder's soul as it passes from human to animal to vegetable to mineral. Director Michelangelo Frammartino was inspired by Pythagoras' belief...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Armadillo
The first documentary ever chosen to compete in the International Critics' Week at Cannes (where it won the Grand Prize), Janus Metz's ARMADILLO follows a platoon of Danish soldiers on a six-month tour of Afghanistan in 2009. An intimate, visually stunning account of both the horror and growing cynicism of modern warfare, the...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Marwencol
Outside a small bar in Kingston, New York, Mark Hogancamp was beaten nearly to death, his memories wiped away. Seeking recovery, he builds Marwencol, a miniature World War II-era town filled with doll versions of his friends, fantasies and even his attackers. As he documents the town’s dramas with his camera, the dolls become...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
Aurora
A mesmerizing new masterwork from the director of the critically-acclaimed THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU, AURORA is a murder mystery turned on its head, where the mystery's not the culprit but the motive. Inside a non-descript apartment kitchen, a man and a woman discuss the inconsistencies in "Red Riding Hood," their voices...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
The Strange Case of Angelica
A beguiling film from master filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA is a magical tale of a young photographer who falls madly in love with a woman he can never have (except in his dreams). Late one night, Isaac is summoned by a wealthy family to take the last photograph of a young...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Patrick
After violently murdering his mother and her lover, Patrick (Robert Thompson) is confined to a private hospital, comatose. When a pretty young nurse (Susan Penhaligon) begins working at the hospital, Patrick tries communicating with her while others in her life are being hurt and killed in mysterious ways.Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Long Weekend
Attempting to resurrect their failing marriage, Peter (John Hargreaves) and Marcia (Briony Behets) set out on a camping trip to a deserted stretch of the Australian coastline in the hope that a long weekend in the sunshine will help them patch their differences. They are a careless couple, littering the countryside with...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
A Screaming Man
Adam, a former swimming champion in his sixties, is a pool attendant at a hotel in Chad. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son, Abdel, leaving Adam humiliated and resentful. Meanwhile, the country is in the throes of a civil war. Rebel forces are attacking the...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
35 Shots of Rum
Widely hailed as one of the best films of 2009, the latest from the renowned director of BEAU TRAVAIL, Claire Denis’ sublime 35 SHOTS OF RUM is the moving story of a father and daughter whose close-knit, tender relationship is disrupted by a handsome young suitor. Sumptuously filmed and featuring an evocative score by...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
Laila's Birthday
"At eight o'clock, it's Laila's birthday, okay?" Palestinian-judge-turned-cab-driver Abu Laila's wife reminds her husband. But on his young daughter's birthday (like any day), Abu faces a nerve-wracking shift in a Ramallah yellow cab armed only with an ex-jurist's misplaced pride, a father's loyalty and a...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Act of God
Is being hit by lightning a random natural occurrence or a predestined event? Accidents, chance, fate and the elusive quest to make sense out of tragedy underpin director Jennifer Baichwal’s captivating new work, an elegant cinematic meditation on the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning. To explore these...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
Here
Reeling from the sudden death of his wife, He Zhiyuan, a middle-aged man who struggles to make sense of his reality, loses the will to speak and is interned at the Island Mental Hospital. As he adjusts to life within, he is selected for an experimental treatment, which, using video therapy, forces him to confront the...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Zero Bridge
A truly independent film of integrity and offhand grace, ZERO BRIDGE tells the deeply affecting tale of a student and small-time criminal in Kashmir who develops a crush on an older, college-educated woman. Dilawar (Mohamed Imran Tapa) is a rebellious seventeen-year-old Kashmiri boy who lives on the outskirts of Srinagar city...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
A Town Called Panic
Hilarious and frequently surreal, the stop-motion extravaganza A TOWN CALLED PANIC has endless charms and raucous laughs for children from eight to eighty. Based on the Belgian animated cult television series (which was released by Aardman Studios), PANIC stars three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Tulpan
Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, acclaimed Kazakh documentarian Sergey Dvortsevoy’s first narrative feature is a gorgeous mélange of tender comedy, ethnographic drama and wildlife extravaganza. Following his Russian naval service, young dreamer Asa returns to his sister’s nomadic brood on...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Three Monkeys
After his critically acclaimed mood pieces DISTANT and CLIMATES, Turkey’s leading filmmaker moves in a more plot-driven direction while retaining his mastery of ambience, nuance and astonishing cinematography. Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, THREE MONKEYS tells a twisty, noirish tale that opens with an ambitious...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
In the City of Sylvia
A young artist searches the winding streets of Strasbourg for an old love in Jose Luis Guerin's acclaimed and exceedingly beautiful IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA. During a languid summer, a young man spends his afternoons sketching in an outdoor café. He is looking for a woman he met several years earlier. Amidst...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
The Shaft
In a poor mining town in western China, the stories of a father and his two children intersect and intertwine, illuminating complicated relationships hidden beneath the community’s hardened exterior. Accused of an affair with her manager, the attractive daughter of the household finds herself spurned by her boyfriend and...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
The Photograph
Sita is a spirited young woman working to support her family as a singer and prostitute in a local brothel. Always short of funds and bullied by her pimp, she convinces an elderly portrait photographer, Mr. Johan, to rent her a room. In failing health, Mr. Johan is desperate to find an apprentice to carry on his work before...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
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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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
La perdicion de los hombres
"The ruination of men is caused by women," is a famous saying in Mexco. The film depicts two ranchers who decide to stone a third rancher to death. In a darkly surreal and comic way the film then follows several widows that show up at the police station to claim the body, as each detail their grievances....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
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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2006
In the Pit
For every bridge built, warns a Mexican proverb, the devil demands one soul. Even in contemporary Mexico, "any major construction project needs a soul in its foundation," agrees one of IN THE PIT's army of laborers tunneling beneath the surface and scaling the perilous heights of La Cuidad to ensure that "the Second Deck"...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
Son of Man
In the state of Judea in southern Africa, violence, poverty and sectarianism are endemic. The neighboring Alliance has invaded under the pretense of restoring peace. Bloody street battles accompany the dictatorship’s incursion into its weaker satellite. Promises of a transition to open democratic rule are marred by summary...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
In the middle of northeastern Brazil in 1942, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought. Although their personalities and lives are worlds apart, the two men develop a deep friendship, as...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
The Bothersome Man
Forty year old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment, even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has...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
The Violin
Don Plutarco, his son Genaro and his grandson Lucio live a double life: on one hand, they are musicians and humble farmers; on the other, they support the Campesina peasant guerilla movement's armed efforts against the oppressive government. When the military seizes the village, the rebels flee to the sierra hills, forced to...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
Madeinusa
MADEINUSA is a girl aged fourteen with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon (the time of day when Christ died on the cross) to Easter Sunday, the...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
Time
Korean auteur Kim Ki Duk returns to form with this award winning Hitchcockian thriller. After two years together, Seh-hee thinks Ji-woo no longer finds her attractive and disappears. Reappearing six months later with a new name and surgically altered face, she competes against her own memory, wooing her lover to move past his...Start your free trial to watch
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2005
The Book of the Dead
In this ravishing film of mystical beauty, master animator Kihachiro Kawamoto’s tour de force adventure tale tells the story of a young noblewoman in 8th-century Japan who leaves her home to follow the apparition of an executed prince. THE BOOK OF THE DEAD takes place as Buddhism is being introduced to...Start your free trial to watch
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2005
Romantico
By day, mariachi musician Carmelo Muñiz washes cars. But at night, he and his friend Arturo perform norteño and ranchero music for gringo tips in the taquerias and bars of San Francisco's Mission District. Carmelo's meager itinerant living belies the deep roots and binding ties he has to his native Mexico. His wife, two young...Start your free trial to watch
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2005
Gilles' Wife
Based on the novel by Madeleine Bourdouxhe, GILLES' WIFE is a haunting tale of love and betrayal in a small mining town on the outskirts of France. In this startling film from director Frédérin Fonteyne (AN AFFAIR OF LOVE), Emmanuelle Devos (KINGS AND QUEEN) gives an extraordinary performance as a devoted wife who struggles...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
Travellers and Magicians
Khyentse Norbu’s follow-up to his audience favorite THE CUP is the first feature film ever shot in the tiny kingdom of Bhutan. One of Himalayan Buddhism’s most revered lamas, Khyentse (aka Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche) weaves parallel fable-like tales about two men who seek to escape their mundane lives in...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
Fuse
In Bosnia, still experiencing the effects of the breakup of Yugoslavia, everyday activities in the small town of Tesanj are thrown into a tailspin over an impending visit by American president Bill Clinton. A brothel is turned into a "cultural center." The mayor's ledgers are burned. Even the local firemen are forced to unite...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
Aaltra
Comedians Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern, who wrote, directed, and co-star in this irreverent road movie, show a distinct flair for understated physical comedy and defiantly non-PC humor. Rural neighbors who hate each other come to blows one day on a farm and get tangled up in an agricultural tractor, leaving them both...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
Falling Angels
Canadian filmmaker Scott Smith directs the black comedy FALLING ANGELS, based on the novel by Barbara Gowdy and adapted for the screen by poet and author Esta Spalding. Set in the late 1960s and filmed on-location in Saskatchewan, this dark family drama focuses on the three teenaged daughters of the Field household. Callum...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
Fear and Trembling
A dream job rapidly becomes a nightmare for Amelie, a Japanese-born Belgian woman, who suffers a series of increasingly humiliating demotions after she lands a job as an interpreter at a large Japanese corporation. Sylvie Testud earned the French equivalent of the Academy Award® for her haunting...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
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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2003
Today and Tomorrow
The seemingly unavoidable downward spiral of Argentina's middle class during the current economic and social crisis is vividly brought to life in the character of young, street-smart Paola. A talented, would-be actress with a paying job as a waitress, she is always on the run: from her landlord, from the...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
Women's Prison
This taboo-breaking film is based on Manijeh Hekmat's long fieldwork among women prisoners in Iran. She depicts the lives of Iran's lost generation in the two decades since the 1979 Islamic Revolution using the claustrophobic life of women behind bars as a metaphor for the entire society. Her protagonist, Mitra, is in prison...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
Oasis
Hailed as the seminal film of the Korean new wave, acclaimed director Lee Chang-dong’s OASIS tells the story of two societal misfits and their struggle to find love and acceptance amidst the hypocrisy of modern Korean life. Fate helped bring them together, family fought to keep them apart.Start your free trial to watch
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2003
Sonic Outlaws
Within days after the release of Negativland's clever parody of U2 and Casey Kasem, recording industry giant Island Records descended upon the band with a battery of lawyers intent on erasing the piece from the history of rock music. Craig Baldwin follows this and other intellectual property controversies across the...Start your free trial to watch
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2002
Satin Rouge
A widowed Tunisian seamstress takes an unlikely journey of self-discovery in writer-director Raja Amari’s sumptuous and sensual SATIN ROUGE. While investigating a suspected liaison between her headstrong teenaged daughter and a cabaret musician, young widow Lilia becomes drawn to an exotic nightclub netherworld of Rubenesque...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
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
With IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN, documentary filmmaker Martina Kudlácek has fashioned not only fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking and influential artist but a pitch-perfect introduction to her strikingly beautiful and poetic body of work. Maya Deren is arguably the most important and innovative...Start your free trial to watch
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2002
Daughter of Keltoum
A young woman, Rallia, raised in Switzerland, travels to an isolated and barren Berber settlement located in the rocky Atlas Mountains of Algeria. Rallia's journey is one of multi-tiered discovery in terms of her relationship to her extended family, traditional Berber culture and her desperate need to...Start your free trial to watch
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2002
Gebürtig
A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. When a beautiful reporter eager for a scoop tries to lure him back, Geburtig must decide whether to confront his past.Start your free trial to watch
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2002
The River
Critically acclaimed THE RIVER flows between a dozen diverse, well-etched characters in a small Finnish town, including a clandestine gay couple, a factory worker and his adulturious wife and a suicidal young mother. It is a rich and insightful look at ordinary lives unfolding over the short time span of one autumnal Saturday...Start your free trial to watch
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2002
Kedma
An Official Selection at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, KEDMA is renowned Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai’s powerful drama about a group of European Jewish refugees who arrive at Palestine in the critical year of 1948. Carried on the deck of the freighter Kedma, they come ashore to find not the Promised Land of milk and honey,...Start your free trial to watch
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2001
Flickering Lights
Academy Award™ winner Anders Thomas Jensen, whose style has been described as a cross between Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers, has pulled a stunner with FLICKERING LIGHTS, both shocking and funny, violent and gentle. It’s a brand new kind of gangster comedy about four childhood buddies whose...Start your free trial to watch
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2001
Louder Than Bombs
Set in a small Polish town, LOUDER THAN BOMBS tells the coming-of-age story of Marcin, a 21-year-old with a penchant for James Dean and The Smiths. After the death of his father, Marcin must contend with the funeral arrangements while hosting his baffoonish out-of-town relatives who disparage his small...Start your free trial to watch
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2001
I Love Budapest
Aniko, a nineteen year old country girl, moves to the city to fulfill her dream of a better life. Guided by her friend, Moni, she gets work at a factory and starts hanging out with Moni's friends, including Miki, a handsome security guard. Moni's boyfriend Krisztian seems to have it all and when he offers Miki a job, he...Start your free trial to watch
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2000
The Magic of Marciano
THE MAGIC OF MARCIANO is the story of a young boy named James who quietly yearns for a better life. He tried to comfort his loving mother Katie (Nastassja Kinski) when her disturbing mood swings bring her to the edge of hysteria. He ignores the fights between his mom and her antagonistic boyfriend Curt by...Start your free trial to watch
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2000
Night Train
In this dark and dangerous film-noir-meets-German-Expressionism directorial debut from veteran visual effects man Les Bernstien, paunchy ex-con Joe Butcher (John Voldstad) heads south of the boarder, tumbling head first into the boiling vat of corruption that supports Tijuana's thriving snuff film industry. Through a...Start your free trial to watch
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1999
The Dogwalker
Jerry Cooper is an adult Tom Sawyer who, having fallen on hard times, is struggling with the reality of sleeping in his car for the first time. When he stumbles upon an old woman named Alma and her dog Lucky, he believes his luck may finally be changing. Alma’s daughter, Helene, hires him to take care of the flinty old...Start your free trial to watch
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1998
Funny Games
A succession of sadistic games between victims and perpetrators (and between auteur and spectator) FUNNY GAMES opens with an aerial shot of an SUV maneuvering through an idyllic landscape. Inside the vehicle, Anna (Susanne Lothar, THE PIANO TEACHER), Georg (Ulrich Mühe, THE LIVES OF OTHERS) and their son Georgie play a...Start your free trial to watch
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1998
Happy Together
Winner of the Best Director Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Wong Kar-Wai's HAPPY TOGETHER is a cinematic balancing act, a stunning display of filmmaking style and a touching love story evenly mixed into one film. Hong Kong and world cinema have never seen anything quite like it. Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung, two of...Start your free trial to watch
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1997
Kitchen Party
Scott wants to throw a party to celebrate going off to college, and to impress (and hence, score with) his girlfriend Tammy. But he’s not going anywhere if his overly retentive parents find out, or if one footstep is seen on the perfectly-vacuumed carpet. Scott’s solution: have the party anyway, but restrict everyone to the...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
Irma Vep
Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung plays herself in haute auteur Olivier Assayas’ spiky satire of the French film industry. After seeing her in Johnny To’s cult-actioner HEROIC TRIO, past-his-prime director René Vidal (New Wave legend Jean-Pierre Léaud) impetuously casts Cheung as the lead in his remake of the silent classic...Start your free trial to watch
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1997
Highway 61
The story of a small-town barber (Don McKellar) who teams up with a roadie (Valerie Buhagiar) as they pack a corpse on the roof of a 1963 Ford Galaxy 500 and set off on a high-emission odyssey featuring a traveling feast of gothic weirdness from northern Canada to New Orleans.Start your free trial to watch
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1997
Slacker
Richard Linklater's independent classic SLACKER presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas, among its social outcasts and misfits (predominantly the twenty-something set) using a series of linear vignettes. These characters who, in some manner, just don't fit into the establishment norms move seamlessly from one scene to the...Start your free trial to watch
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1995
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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1994
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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1994
Manly Games
A man sits down with plenty of beer to watch a game of football but the points in this game tally body count rather than goals. Jan Svankmajer’s claymation Grand Guignol keeps the crowd cheering while the man gorges on cookies. When the animated players charge the real world of the glutton’s apartment, a time-honored warning...Start your free trial to watch