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Thèmes et variations

Thèmes et variations

France 1928

DIR Germaine Dulac

  • Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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I evoke a dancing woman. A woman ? No. A bouncing line with harmonious rhythm. I evoke a luminous projection on veils ! Precise matter ! No. Fluid rhythms. Why should one disregard, on screen, the pleasure that movement brings us in the theatre ? Harmony of lines. Harmony of light

Barren Illusions

Barren Illusions

Japan 1999

DIR Kiyoshi Kurosawa

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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Barren Illusions tells of a young couple named Haru and Michi, who are living a desultory existence in what looks to be a typical urban landscape after the apocalypse — featureless, characterless and purged of the past.

The Guard from the Underground

The Guard from the Underground

Japan 1992

DIR Kiyoshi Kurosawa

  • Currently 2.0/5 Stars.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa, one of Japan’s most respected directors, delivers a twisted tale of psychotic, bone-snapping violence, that pays homage to the slasher movies of the 1980s. One thing’s for sure… it’ll make you think twice about doing overtime ever again!

Happy Times

Happy Times

China 2000

DIR Zhang Yimou

  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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Happy Times is a charming, heartwarming comedy about the complex dynamics of relationships and the hysterical complexities inherent in making them work.

Always: Sunset on Third Street 2

Always: Sunset on Third Street 2

Japan 2007

DIR Takashi Yamazaki

  • Currently 5.0/5 Stars.
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Spring 1959. We meet the local residents of run down Third Street again as they strive to fulfill their dreams as Tokyo gears up for the Olympics. Ryunosuke tries to shape up and become an award-winning author while he pines for sake bar owner Hiromi, who left a year ago without saying a word.

The Borrowers

The Borrowers

Japan 2010

DIR Hiromasa Yonebayashi

  • Currently 0.0/5 Stars.
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14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items “borrowed” from the house’s human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.

Firecrest

Firecrest

Turkey 1966

DIR Osman F. Seden

  • Currently 0.0/5 Stars.
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An adaptation of Reşat Nuri Güntekin’s 1922 novel, about the destiny of heartbroken young Turkish woman who becomes a teacher in Anatolia.

Christmas on Mars

Christmas on Mars

United States 2008

DIR Wayne Coyne, Bradley Beesley & George Salisbury

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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Major Syrtis goes insane as he tries to improve morale in an abandoned colony on Mars through a Christmas pageant, where the first colonist baby will be born.

The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish

The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish

United Kingdom 1991

DIR Ben Lewin

  • Currently 2.7/5 Stars.
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Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus…

The Cable Guy

The Cable Guy

United States 1996

DIR Ben Stiller

  • Currently 2.3/5 Stars.
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A lonely and disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences.

A Pain in the Ass

A Pain in the Ass

France 1973

DIR Édouard Molinaro

  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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Ralf Milan (Lino Ventura), a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.

Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

France 1975

DIR Denis Héroux

  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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Three attendees at a puppet theater don various roles in order to sing a variety of songs by Jacques Brel, all while hippies and other eccentrics cavort about them.

The Big Shots

The Big Shots

France 1972

DIR Robert Enrico

  • Currently 0.0/5 Stars.
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This French crime drama tells the story of an ill-fated quartet of burglars and hoodlums. Two older burglars, near retirement, dream of making one last big heist. One of them has a daughter, whom he has tried to keep away from his business.

Jeff

Jeff

France 1969

DIR Jean Herman

  • Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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In this story of the perfect crime that goes wrong, Jeff (Georges Rouquier) is the mastermind who has planned a successful robbery. When he fails to show up for the job, his girlfriend and his young protégé Laurent (Alain Delon) are put under guard to wait for the boss to arrive.

Farewell, Friend

Farewell, Friend

France 1968

DIR Jean Herman

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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Years after serving together in the French Foreign Legion, American soldier of fortune Franz Propp (Charles Bronson) and French doctor Dino Barron (Alain Delon) are unexpectedly reunited under the most extraordinary circumstances.

Ho!

Ho!

France 1968

DIR Robert Enrico

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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Ho (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a racecar driver who is sponsored by a colorful gangster. When his friend is involved in an accident that leads to his death, Ho leaves the world of auto racing behind. He joins the mob and becomes a getaway driver for thugs who pull off bank robberies.

I, a Negro

I, a Negro

France 1958

DIR Jean Rouch

  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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Documenting the lives of young Nigerian émigrés in Treichville on the Ivory Coast.

Sumurun

Sumurun

Germany 1920

DIR Ernst Lubitsch

  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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An exotic oriental panoply, complete with desert caravans, cloth merchants, slave traders, eunuchs and sheikhs with their harems provides the setting for tales of passion and intrigue.

Behind the Screen

Behind the Screen

United States 1916

DIR Charlie Chaplin

  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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Charlie is an overworked laborer at a film studio who helps a young woman find work even while his coworkers strike against his tyrannical boss.

The Life of Fish

The Life of Fish

Chile 2010

DIR Matías Bize

  • Currently 0.0/5 Stars.
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Andrés is 33 and has been living for 10 years in Berlin, where he works as a travel writer. When he returns to his native Chile on holiday, at a friend’s birthday party he rediscovers the world he left behind, including his old love, Beatriz.