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Thessaloniki Film Festival
Founded in 1960 to showcase emerging Greek cinema, Thessaloniki has in more recent years maintained that mission while expanding to accommodate movies from around the world (with special emphasis on new directors, independent filmmaking and work from the entire Balkans region).
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2012
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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2011
The Oath
From the director of the Oscar-nominated MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY, THE OATH is a spectacularly gripping documentary that unspools like a great political thriller. It’s the crosscut tale of two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo Bay Prison and the U.S....Start your free trial to watch
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2011
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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2011
The Boy Mir
In this extraordinary and unique film, one young boy becomes, over the course of ten years, a young man. It is a common story but this is Afghanistan, one of the most dangerous countries on earth. What makes the story even more remarkable is the humour and adventure that runs through it. Every new challenge is met with a...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
Peep Show
J. X. Williams was a legendary bottom-of-the-barrel director in the fifties and sixties, pushed even lower by his Commie leanings. On the skids, he drifted around the Continent making cheapo features and the occasional nudie reeler (like the infamous NORWEGIAN WOOD). In the late-1950s he fell in with the Chicago mob, helming...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
The Virgin Sacrifice
"Before VIRGIN, I never put much stock in the idea of a 'cursed' production. Take a film like INCUBUS. Just because the director's nephew died, the production company went belly up and Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate attended the premiere. Those could all just be coincidences. Shit happens. But with VIRGIN,...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
Psych-Burn
“PSYCH-BURN was what musicians call a contract-breaker. ABC had given us some coin to make a few short films for a TV pilot. LOVE-IN TONITE was to be a psychedelic rock variety show with live performances, skits and whatnot to cash in on the emerging hippie demographic. Even pre-Disney, the network was riddled with a bunch of...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
Toll Booth
A taciturn tollbooth attendant shuffles between a suffocating home life with his ailing father and the monotony of the box where he works. Desperate to resist his father’s attempt to marry him off while determined to prove his worth by fixing his family’s broken-down car, he drives himself toward a nervous breakdown. After a...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
Videocracy
How can you explain what’s happened to Italy in the age of its prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi? VIDEOCRACY is director Erik Gandini’s critically-acclaimed inquiry into the mercenary underbelly of the high-glitz, low-politics, skin-baring media culture promulgated by Berlusconi’s ownership of the majority of the country’s...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
Littlerock
LITTLEROCK is a powerfully intimate drama that captures the fears and desires of a young Japanese woman lost in America. Rintaro (Rintaro Sawamoto) and Atsuko (Atsuko Okatsuka, who also co-wrote the script) are a Japanese brother and sister spending their summer traveling through the U.S. While on their way to San Francisco,...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
The Red Chapel
Winner of the World Cinema Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Mads Brügger’s documentary follows a trio of Danish comedians as they pretend to be regime sympathizers and mount an absurd variety show in North Korea. Combining the muckracking spirit of Michael Moore with the confrontational comedy of Borat, THE RED...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
The Light Thief
In this colorful modern-day parable of good and evil, a humble village electrician devotes his compassion and ingenuity to destitute neighbors in a wind-swept valley of Kyrgyzstan. Played with wry humanity by writer-director Aktan Arym Kubat, the trusting Mr. Light strikes a suspect bargain with a rich developer running for...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Tilva Roš
Bor, Serbia was once the largest copper mine in Europe; now it is just the biggest hole. Best friends Toda and Stefan spend their first summer after high school skating in the abandoned mine and making Jackass-like videos. When Dunja, a friend who has returned from France for her summer holiday, arrives on the scene, the boys...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
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine
LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE SPIDER, THE MISTRESS AND THE TANGERINE is a cinematic journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. As a screen presence, Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw. There is no separation between her life as an artist and the memories and emotions...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Inferno
One of the great, unfinished works in film history, Henri-Georges Clouzot's INFERNO was an audaciously experimental film with a virtually unlimited budget that was stopped only three weeks into production. Working closely with Clouzot's widow, Inès, Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea reconstructs Clouzot's original vision,...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Kimjongilia
North Korea is one of the world’s most isolated nations. For sixty years, North Koreans have been governed by a totalitarian regime. A cult of personality surrounds its two recent leaders: first, Kim Il Sung, and now, his son, Kim Jong Il. For Kim Jong Il’s 46th birthday, a hybrid begonia named kimjongilia was created,...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Ajami
Teeming with Palestinian illegal immigrants, Israeli Arabs, Christians and Jews, Ajami is a cloistered urban neighborhood as treacherous and potentially deadly as the front lines of Gaza. When a Bedouin extortionist is gunned down in self defense, a teenager is mistakenly killed in retribution and an entire Arab family faces...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Slovenian Girl
Having grown up in small-town Slovenia, twenty-three year old Alexandra embraces the excitement and anonymity of big city life when she moves to the capital. She styles herself as a call girl, planning to take advantage of everything the city has to offer. But her isolated existence, English studies and mortgage payments by...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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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
The Last Homecoming
During the course of what seems to be an idyllic Mediterranean summer, a Greek Cypriot family are asked to re-evaluate their relationships, as compelling desires and needs are beginning to unfold. Passions, infidelities and betrayal emerge, while political mumblings are heard in the distance. The year is...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Tony Manero
As Augusto Pinochet holds Chile in the grip of dictatorship, a fifty year old man obsessed with John Travolta’s character from SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER imitates his idol each weekend in a small bar on the outskirts of Santiago all the while committing an increasingly violent series of crimes and thefts in order to reproduce his...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Momma's Man
Bumped from a flight back to Los Angeles and the life, wife and infant daughter that await him there, Mikey (Matt Boren) returns to his childhood home, a cluttered, cocoon-like Manhattan loft presided over by his bohemian parents. "You can stay here as long as you want," Mikey's mother tells him. But in Azazel Jacobs' MOMMA'S...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
A Week Alone
A group of privileged children, ages 7 through 14, are left home alone at a house in a secluded community in the countryside. Their innocence is gradually corrupted as they experiment with rule-breaking, ultimately leading to house break-ins around the neighborhood. The arrival of the maid's son, exposes prejudice and...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
Pandora
Vissilis wanders around in the dilapidated house, where he was raised by his uncle Kostis. His mind is flooded with memories of a time long-gone. It's the early 1950s, the aftermath of a Civil War. Vassili's father, Manos, was still in exile when an American woman, Pandora descended on the village. Like her mythological...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
We Feed the World
What does world hunger have to do with us? In a word: everything. WE FEED THE WORLD is an award-winning, visually stunning, globe-trotting exposé of our modern agricultural system. From struggling fishermen and long-distance truckers to agronomists and multi-national corporate executives, WE FEED THE WORLD...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
Old Joy
Based on Jonathan Raymond’s short story and featuring a soundtrack from Yo La Tengo, Kelly Reichardt's second feature chronicles a short camping trip by two old friends to a quasi-mystical oasis, the Bagby Hot Springs, in Oregon’s lush Cascade Mountains. The actors in this Cain-and-Abel story are Kurt (musician/actor Will...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
Climates
Winner of the prestigious Fipresci Award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, CLIMATES is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner DISTANT. Beautifully drawn and meticulously observed, the film vividly recalls the cinema of Italian master Michelangelo...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
Iraq in Fragments
An opus in three parts, IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a...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
Avida
Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, co-directors of the 2005 cult favorite AALTRA, return with AVIDA, another eye-popping dark comedy. The loony French filmmakers appear in leading roles as two of the three men whose plan to kidnap a wealthy woman's dog goes horribly awry. Instead of nabbing the dog, the "kidnappers" are...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
Khadak
Sundance and Toronto Festival hit KHADAK is a magical-realist fable that tells the epic story of Bagi, a young nomad shepherd who confronts his destiny to become a shaman. After a plague strikes their herd, Bagi and his family are relocated to a mining town. There, he saves the life of Zolzaya, a beautiful performer/coal...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
Romeo and Juliet Get Married
From international auteur Bruno Barreto comes this hilarious retelling of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” Ophthalmologist Romeo and his family are passionately obsessed fans of the Corinthians football team. While across town, the lovely Juliet’s father is an equally rabid fan, and fan club president, of...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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2004
Whisky
WHISKY is an inspired and beautifully assured tragicomedy about Jacobo, a sixty-year-old owner of a small, outdated sock factory, is illuminated with deadpan, repetitive and monotonous detail. When his successful younger brother is expected for a visit, Jacobo asks Marta, his humble, loyal assistant, to pose as his wife. The...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
Antares
Austria's Academy Awards® selection for "Best Foreign Language Film," ANTARES skillfully interweaves the stories of three couples at crossroads over three momentous days. Set in a ubiquitous, concrete high-rise apartment complex on the outskirts of a big city, the couples emerge from this uniform coexistence to search for...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
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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2003
Since Otar Left
Winner of the prestigious Critics Week "Grand Prize" at the Cannes Film Festival and featuring a trio of stunning performances, Julie Bertuccelli's exquisite SINCE OTAR LEFT is a bittersweet tale of deception and affection. Three Georgian women, strong-willed matriarch Eka (90-year-old former dental assistant and fledgling...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
A Talking Picture
Effortlessly gliding from graceful travelogue to playful star-driven caprice to trenchant cautionary fable, A TALKING PICTURE is "a majestic and profound work by one of the greatest of all living filmmakers" (Chicago Tribune). Writer-director Manoel de Oliveira (I’M GOING HOME) has created a valedictory...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
Free Radicals
Austrian housewife Manu's narrow escape from the catastrophic consequences of "The Butterfly Effect" aboard an airliner only sets her up for an even more shockingly random fate. As the devastating results of a traffic accident transform Manu's family and the young occupants of the other car, the personal and circumstantial...Start your free trial to watch
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2002
Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina
The suspicious death of a renowned far-left academic's daughter opens up a can of worms that Milanese newspaper editor Bizanti (Gian Maria Volonté) doesn't shrink from exploiting for his own benefit in this political thriller. Straddling the adversarial worlds of radical counterculture activists and...Start your free trial to watch
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2002
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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2002
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The most brilliant example of that dark and twisted film movement known as German expressionism, THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI is a plunge into the mind of insanity that severs all ties with the rational world. Director Robert Wiene and a team of designers crafted a nightmare realm in which light, shadow and...Start your free trial to watch
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2001
The Mark of Cain
Sailing ships, stars, angels and executioners, THE MARK OF CAIN chronicles the vanishing practice and language of Russian criminal tattoos. Captured in some of Russia’s most notorious prisons, including the fabled White Swan, the film traces the animus of the flowers of this carnal art by way of the...Start your free trial to watch
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2001
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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2001
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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2000
The Gleaners and I
Voted the best documentary of 2001 by the National Society of Film Critics, Agnès Varda's universally acclaimed "wandering-road documentary" focuses her ever-seeking eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads us from forgotten corners of the...Start your free trial to watch
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2000
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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2000
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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2000
Kippur
Taking place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War, in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. Although the story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers, the film is far from being an exercise in propaganda. We are led by Weinraub (Liron Levo) and his friend Ruso (Tomer Ruso) on a day that...Start your free trial to watch
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1999
The Cherry Orchard
Acclaimed international director Michael Cacoyannis (ZORBA THE GREEK) and a dream cast of British screen talent revive Anton Chekhov's masterpiece of imprisonment in wealth and regret. Working from his own translation, Cacoyannis expands and condenses THE CHERRY ORCHARD with a fidelity that preserves...Start your free trial to watch
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1999
Devarim
DEVARIM is Amos Gitai's debut narrative feature and the first installment in his renowned "City Trilogy" (concluded by 1998's YOM YOM and 1999's KADOSH), a remarkable trio of films each based in one of Israel's thriving metropolises. Making full use of a decade of documentary experience, Gitai transformed Ya'ackov Shabatai's...Start your free trial to watch
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1999
Yom Yom
In spite of blood ties to both Haifa's Jewish and Arab populations, Moshe (Moshe Ivgy) leads a rootless existence. Grown weary of his impatient wife Didi (Keren Mor) and ambivalent about his needy young mistress Grisha (Natali Atiya), the only relationships Moshe doesn't complicate are with his devoted parents, Jewish Hanna...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
Save and Protect
A retelling of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary as a surreal story of universal suffering, the film emphasizes the heroine’s internal transformation as she slowly loses her grip on reality. Her erotic fascination with rich clothing and her almost childish desire to seduce and to be lost in passion is...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