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Venice International Film Festival
The granddaddy of all film festivals, Venice was founded in 1932 and has (excepting a few years during World War II) run annually ever since. It retains a grey eminence unshaken by many changes over the years, the prestige of its competitive selections and awards undiminished by the rise of myriad upstart rivals.
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2011
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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2010
Summer of Goliath
Shocked by her husband’s sudden departure, Teresa embarks on a mission to find out what happened. Instead of finding answers, her mission becomes a journey through the streets and homes of the people she meets. Blending fiction and documentary, her wanderings portray the town and its inhabitants....Start your free trial to watch
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2010
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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2009
Barking Water
A uniquely delicate and moving road movie, BARKING WATER uses the ruggedly beautiful backdrop of rural Oklahoma to tell the story of Frankie (Richard Ray Whitman), a proud Native American attempting to reconnect with his estranged family. Released from the hospital but still very ill, he hits the road with his ex-lover Irene...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
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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2009
Around a Small Mountain
On a winding mountain road, Vittorio gallantly helps Kate with her stalled car and, without a single word exchanged, speeds off. Later in town, he learns that Kate has returned to join her family's travelling circus after leaving under mysterious conditions many years ago. Intrigued by the circus and the...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Adrift
Soon after her wedding, newlywed Duyen's excitement begins to fade as she realizes her young husband is not only sexually naïve but overly occupied by his job and doting mother. As her marriage goes unconsummated and her emotional isolation grows, she reaches out to her closest girlfriend, Cam, who secretly desires her, but...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Attraction
One of the great taboo-smashers of the late '60s, directed by Tinto Brass, featuring interracial affairs, anti-Vietnam statements, violence versus sex. ATTRACTION (NEROSUBIANCO) will stun anyone expecting a standard softcore European sex flick as released originally in the US as THE ARTFUL PENETRATION OF BARBARA. Brace...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
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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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
Landscape no.2
A heist thriller in the tradition of INSIDE MAN and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, LANDSCAPE… tells the story of two burglars, Sergej and Polde, who steal a valuable painting, “Landscape No.2”. By coincidence Sergej also takes a mysterious document dating back to the end of World War II that may hide secrets that the owner of the...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Shirin
A vibrant, daringly original work from Abbas Kiarostami, SHIRIN is the flowering of an experimentalist streak that’s been evident in many of the director’s most well-known features, including CLOSE-UP, TASTE OF CHERRY and others. Ostensibly an adaptation of a 12th century Persian poem about a young princess courted by two...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
The Beaches of Agnès
A reflection on art, life and the movies, THE BEACHES OF AGNES is a magnificent film from the great Agnes Varda, director of CLEO FROM 5 TO 7, a richly cinematic self portrait that touches on everything from the feminist movement and the Black Panthers to the films of husband Jacques Demy (THE UMBRELLAS OF...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
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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2007
Searchers 2.0
As child actors, Mel and Fred were beaten and whipped by an imperious screenwriter, Fritz Frobisher. Now the elderly Fritz is to appear at a t-shirt signing ceremony in Monument Valley, Arizona, where his great films were made. Still living in Los Angeles and seeking works as actors, Mel and Fred decide to go to Monument...Start your free trial to watch
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2007
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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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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2005
Le petit lieutenant
A gripping police noir, LE PETIT LIEUTENANT tells the story of Antoine, an ambitious young cop from the provinces who joins a plainclothes crime unit in Paris. Antoine spends his days eagerly awaiting his first assignment, drinking with his fellow detectives and developing an unlikely relationship with his...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
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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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
San Yuan Li
Armed with video cameras, twelve artists present a highly stylized portrait of San Yuan Li, a traditional village besieged by China’s urban sprawl. China’s rapid modernization literally traps the village of San Yuan Li within the surrounding skyscrapers of Guangzhou, a city of 12 million people. The villagers move to a...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
Pornographia
From the uniformly excellent acting to the subtle manner in which the story is handled, this is masterful filmmaking. In Warsaw, 1943, Witold meets the cultivated Fryderyk at a salon and they become friends. He takes Fryderyk with him to the country estate of Hipolit, Maria and Henia, their teenage daughter. Fryderyk embarks...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
Alila
For the apartment dwellers of ALILA, every action creates a ripple unknowingly felt by all. Gorgeous libertine Gabi's (Yael Abecassis, KADOSH) loud, violent trysts with her physically dominant, emotionally unavailable lover Hezi (Amos Lavie) bring down the wrath of their disgusted neighbors. Mali (Hanna Laslo), Gabi's sole...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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1995
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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1984
A Year of the Quiet Sun
In this award-winning drama set in the wake of World War II, an American soldier played by Scott Wilson (IN COLD BLOOD, SHILOH) forms a delicate friendship with a war widow (Maja Komorowska) amid the devastation of 1946 Poland. In spite of the language barrier, painful memories of their past and the many...Start your free trial to watch
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1964
King and Country
In Joseph Losey's stirring anti-war film, a tough, no-nonsense British Army lawyer (Dick Bogarde) is assigned to defend a lowly private (Tom Courtenay) at his court martial. The private has been accused of desertion during battle. The lawyer, Captain Hargreaves, is convinced this young man should die....Start your free trial to watch
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1964
The Gospel According to Saint Matthew
The birth, life, teachings and death on the cross of Jesus Christ presented almost as a cinéma-vérité documentary. Pasolini's second feature seemed a strange choice for such a revolutionary director, but it is an attempt to take Christ out of the opulent church and present him as an outcast Italian...Start your free trial to watch
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1962
Un uomo da bruciare
The return of Salvatore (Gian Maria Volonte) sets his whole Sicilian town talking and not everyone is pleased by the news. Sure enough, soon he's stirring unrest amongst the much-abused local peasants, urging them to unite against the all-powerful Mafia that exploits their toil. Based on the life of union...Start your free trial to watch
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1959
A double tour
Vintner Henri Marcoux (Jacques Dacqmine) brazenly carries on an affair with a beautiful young neighbor (Antonella Lualdi) right under the nose of his bitter wife Thérèse (Madeleine Robinson). Henri's gorgeous daughter has herself caught the eye of a Hungarian ne'er do well (Jean-Paul Belmondo), while Henri's voyeur son begins...Start your free trial to watch
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1958
Weddings and Babies
Viveca Lindfors stars as Bea, a Swedish-born woman who yearns to begin a family with her photographer boyfriend Al. But the two things to which Al has devoted his career (weddings and babies) are the very things he cannot make room for in his life. The unexpected appearance of Al’s aging mother, evicted...Start your free trial to watch
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1953
Thérèse Raquin
Star-crossed lovers Thérèse (Simone Signoret) and Laurent (Raf Vallone) think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband "falls" from a speeding train. But when forced to contend with a blackmailer's demands and the mute accusations of Thérèse's mother-in-law (French stage and screen diva Sylvie, in a...Start your free trial to watch
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1953
Little Fugitive
When a seven-year-old boy (Richie Andrusco) is tricked into believing he killed his older brother, he gathers his meager possessions and flees to New York’s nether wonderland: Coney Island. Upon and beneath the crowded boardwalk, Joey experiences a day and night filled with adventures and mysteries, resulting in a film that...Start your free trial to watch
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1947
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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1941
Piccolo mondo antico
Antonio Fogazarro's classic 1897 novel has been adapted several times by Italian filmmakers, though this well-appointed first version remains the definitive effort for many. The young Alida Valli (best known, perhaps, for her role in THE THIRD MAN) plays a woman of humble origins who marries nobleman...Start your free trial to watch
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1937
A Star Is Born
Esther Blodgett (Janet Gaynor) comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom only to have them shattered by a ruthless, cold-hearted town without pity, where the chances of finding fame are one in a hundred thousand. Enter falling (and falling down drunk) movie star Norman Maine (Fredric March), whom Esther meets at a Hollywood...Start your free trial to watch
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1932
Earth
Alexander Dovzhenko was among the greatest of Soviet directors and his EARTH is one of the undisputed masterpieces of the cinema (though his earlier ZVENIGORA is arguably a more revolutionary work). No single viewing of EARTH will ever reveal all of its poetic brilliance. In its compelling story, an old farmer dies and his...Start your free trial to watch