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see all genres ›To many cineastes, cinema as art means Europe: its diverse, richly historied nations have long been the chief provider of up-market filmmaking to art-houses, repertory venues and other purveyors of intelligent, adventuresome entertainment outside the commercial mainstream.
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C'est parti
One morning in a building on the outskirts of Paris, men and women of all ages begin to empty a large office. They threw dozens of files out the window. Among the people, Olivier Besancenot, the famous 35-year-old leader of the French radical left. He and his friends are getting rid of the archives which have been...Start your free trial to watch
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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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The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer
This early film by renowned animators Stephen and Timothy Quay is structured as a series of little lessons in perception, taught by a puppet simulacrum of Jan Svankmajer (whose head is an opened book) to a doll (whose head the master empties of dross and refills with a similar open book). Each of the nine...Start your free trial to watch
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Cabiria
Inspired by grand opera and Italy's imperialist victory in the Libyan War (1911-12), the Italian movie industry produced dozens of historical epics in the period just before WW I. The most influential and successful of these was CABIRIA, the visually spectacular film which set the standard for big-budget feature-length movies...Start your free trial to watch
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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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Candlelight in Algeria
James Mason stars as fugitive British agent Alan Thurston on a mission to find secret photographs of the location of the Allied invasion of North Africa before the Nazis. Susan Foster (Carla Lehmann) is drawn into the intrigue of the event when she decides to help Thurston by hiding him from Dr. Muller...Start your free trial to watch
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La captive
Chantal Akerman’s insinuating chamber drama distills the romantic pathologies of suspicion and control with remarkable precision. Based on the fifth volume Proust’s IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, LA CAPTIVE treats the novel’s fetishized structures of detail and time as symptoms of a slow spreading sickness. The film opens with Simon...Start your free trial to watch
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Car Cemetery
Combining punk rock and post-apocalyptic mayhem, Arrabal's outrageous adaptation of his infamous stage play is a gallows-humor romp in a wretched dystopia. The inhabitants of a junkyard at the edge of a nuclear crater live hand to mouth all the while being hounded by authorities from a corrupt government. Among them is Emanou...Start your free trial to watch
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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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Card Party
For many, cinema began on December 28, 1895, with the first public projection of short films like EXITING THE FACTORY, ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN and this film, CARD PARTY, by Louis and Auguste Lumiere. But these iconic films also existed in alternate versions, sometimes with each frame colored by hand (as it is in this instance).Start your free trial to watch
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The Career of Nikos Dyzma
An insignificant event becomes a turning point in the career of Nikos Dyzma, a funeral eulogist. After he embarrasses the hated Vice Prime Minister, his life changes dramatically. Dyzma rises up the political ladder, becoming a hero to the workers, other elected officials and to their bored wives.Start your free trial to watch
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Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
One of the finest examples of the Lumières’ dynamic staging of documentary action, CARMAUX: DRAWING OUT THE COKE employs contrasting angles and depths in picturing a factory’s routine. Workers in the foreground spray and rake a steaming brick of coke as it emerges for a smelter while men in the background...Start your free trial to watch
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Casanova '70
Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Screenplay, CASANOVA '70 is a raucously funny sex romp starring Marcello Mastroianni at his charismatic peak. Directed by Italian comedy legend Mario Monicelli (BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET), it finds army officer Andrea (Mastroianni) dealing with a particularly strange case of...Start your free trial to watch
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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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Castle of Blood
When American author Edgar Allan Poe visits London, he is approached by British journalist Alan Foster, who becomes the target of a peculiar wager. Not believing Poe’s assertion that all of his macabre stories have been based on actual experience, Foster accepts a bet from Poe and his friend Sir Thomas Blackwood that he...Start your free trial to watch
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Cave of the Living Dead
The police cannot solve the mystery of seven murders which have alarmed the inhabitants of a small village. They call in Inspector Doren (Adrian Hoven) of Interpol but the only clue the town's chief constable can give his young and famous colleague is the fact that each time a murder was committed, the...Start your free trial to watch