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The Green Ray (1986)Le Rayon Vert / Summer
Delphine's travelling companion cancels two weeks before her holiday, so Delphine (Marie Rivière), a Parisian secretary, is at a loose end. She doesn't want to travel by herself, but has no means boyfriend and seems unable to meet new people. A friend takes her to Cerbourg; after a few days there, the weepy and self pitying Delphine goes back to Paris. She tries the Alps, but returns the same day. Next, it's the beach; once there, she chats with an outgoing Swede, a party girl, and a friendship seems to bud; then suddenly, Delphine bolts, heading back to Paris. On her way, a young man catches her eye; perhaps a sunset and the sun's green ray await. - Director:
- Eric Rohmer
- Cast:
- Marie Rivière, María Luisa García, Vincent Gauthier
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120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)120 BPM / BPM (Beats Per Minute) / 120 battements par minute
As the AIDS epidemic tears through their community, the members of ACT UP Paris are fighting for survival. One day, as outspoken radical Sean (Nahuel Perez Biscayart) strikes up a conversation with shy newcomer Nathan (Arnaud Valois), they have no idea that their lives are about to change forever. From the writer of Palme d'Or winner 'The Class', Robin Campillo, and based on his own experiences, this vibrant and deeply emotional drama rushes with youthful energy, balancing powerful themes of social justice with euphoric moments of spine-tingling sensuality. Urgent and effecting, it's a film about life, death, passion, tragedy - and, above all, the will to survive. - Director:
- Robin Campillo
- Cast:
- Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel
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Danielle (Margot Kidder) meets Phillip (Lisle Wilson) on a "Peeping Tom" shamelessly voyeuristic TV game show and dodging her ex-husband Emil (William Finley), takes him back to her apartment. But Danielle has a separated Siamese twin sister, Dominique, who is not pleased about the overnight guest. Journalist neighbour Grace (Jennifer Salt) sees Phillip slaughtered by one of them through her window; the body vanishes before she can convince a sceptical detective (Dolph Sweet) to take a look. Determined to prove that she's right (and get a career-advancing story), Grace investigates, assisted by a private eye (Charles Durning), and becomes more involved in the relationships among Danielle, Dominique, and Emil than she ever expected. - Director:
- Brian De Palma
- Cast:
- Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
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Irma Vep (1996)Vampire
Maggie Cheung (playing herself) has been cast by a once revered but now out of touch director as the latex-clad cat-burglar in his ill-fated remake of the French classic 'Les Vampires'. From the moment she arrives in Paris chaos ensues until the director finally has a breakdown and is replaced by another who doesn't know why she was cast in the first place. Amidst all the confusion Cheung becomes drawn to her character and is soon pulling on latex and prowling her hotel corridors at night. - Director:
- Olivier Assayas
- Cast:
- Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard
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In his earlier Edgar Allan Poe films, Roger Corman took short stories by the great Gothic master and expanded them into full-length features. Here, by contrast, the stories stay short, the only other thing they have in common being the participation of Vincent Price. In 'Morelia', Price plays a tormented man forced to confront a dark family secret when his long-estranged daughter tracks him down. In 'The Black Cat', he's the rakish lover of the wife of Peter Lorre, who naturally plots a deadly revenge. And in the title role of 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar', he tries to relieve chronic pain by asking Basil Rathbone to hypnotise him, something that leaves poor Valdemar hovering on the border between the dead and the living. Corman's previous Poe films were played completely straight, and parts of Tales of Terror are as authentically creepy as any of them. But he also stirred comedy into the Poe brew for the first time, particularly in the scenes between Price and Lorre. - Director:
- Roger Corman
- Cast:
- Vincent Price, Maggie Pierce, Leona Gage
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Three generations of the notorious Cutler family live as outlaws in the Cotswolds, living by their own rules and practising their own way of life. Chad (Michael Fassbender) finds himself torn between respect for his archaic father, Colby (Brendan Gleeson), and a desire to forge a better life for his children. When Colby coerces him into a major robbery one night, Chad is faced with a choice that will change his life forever. - Director:
- Adam Smith
- Cast:
- Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Lyndsey Marshal
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Charley Varrick is a small-time crook who outfoxes the Mob in this fast-paced offbeat thriller directed by Don Siegel. Academy Award winner Walter Matthau stars in a rare dramatic role, along with the powerful Joe Don Baker, as a tough Mafia hitman. Charley robs small banks with small payrolls. That keeps him out of trouble until he stumbles onto the Mob's secret stash. The chase is on as the Big Boys go after the "Last of the Independents". It's a heart-pounding ride that builds to a fiery airborne climax as Charley makes his last desperate run for the Mexican border and safety. - Director:
- Don Siegel
- Cast:
- Felicia Farr, Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker
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A tenth wedding anniversary celebration ends tragically when Michael Courtland (Cliff Robertson) discovers that his wife (Genevieve Bujold) and 9-year-old daughter have been kidnapped. When an attempt to thwart the captors goes awry, Courtland's wife and daughter are never recovered. Several years later while vacationing in Florence, Courtland falls in love with a young woman who is an exact double of his dead wife. On the eve of their wedding, the woman disappears and Courtland finds a ransom note - a duplicate of the one found several years earlier. - Director:
- Brian De Palma
- Cast:
- Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow
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In 1988, Mike Figgis made his feature directorial debut with 'Stormy Monday', a taut, noir-influenced gangster movie that drew on his key formative influences, including his youth in the Newcastle of the late '50s and early '60s, and the city's vibrant jazz scene. Sean Bean plays Brendan, a young loafer taken under the wing of jazz club owner Finney (Sting), who's under pressure from American mobster Cosmo (Tommy Lee Jones) to sell up in exchange for a cut of a local land development deal. Brendan just wants to earn an honest crust, but his burgeoning relationship with Cosmo's ex-lover Kate (Melanie Griffith) threatens to drag him into the middle of the impending showdown... - Director:
- Mike Figgis
- Cast:
- Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting
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A Pistol for Ringo / The Return of Ringo (1965)Una pistola per Ringo / Il ritorno di Ringo
Directed by skilled craftsman Duccio Tessari (The Bloodstained Butterfly, Death Occurred Last Night), the original Ringo films represent a high-water mark in the annals of the spaghetti western genre, introducing an iconic hero and boasting gripping set-pieces with unforgettable musical scoring by Ennio Morricone. Giuliano Gemma stars in the titular role in 'A Pistol for Ringo', which sees our clean-cut hero infiltrate a ranch of Mexican bandits to save a beautiful hostage (Lorella de Luca). In 'The Return of Ringo' the gunslinger, now a veteran of war, disguises himself as a Mexican in order to take revenge on outlaws who have stolen his property and taken his wife. Hugely successful upon their original release, Tessari's films spawned numerous unofficial sequels and proved influential on the emerging genre. - Director:
- Duccio Tessari
- Cast:
- Giuliano Gemma, Marc Smith, Fernando Sancho
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When Harry (Anthony Edwards) meets Julie (Mare Winningham) at the La Brea Tar Pits, it's love at first sight. But when Harry's alarm clock fails to go off, he misses their scheduled date by several hours. Alone on a street corner at four in the morning, he answers a ringing pay phone and picks up a garbled message that all-out nuclear war is set to begin in an hour's time. With the clock ticking and the city spiralling into chaos, can Harry somehow track down Julie and get them both to safety before Armageddon? - Director:
- Steve De Jarnatt
- Cast:
- Anthony Edwards, Raphael Sbarge, Mare Winningham
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The Aviator's Wife (1981)La Femme De L'Aviateur
Francois (Philippe Marlaud) loves Anne (Marie Rivière). However, his night-shift job at the post office means they rarely get to spend much time together. One day, he sees her leaving home with her ex, Christian (Mathieu Carrière), who had come to break up with her for good. Reeling from the news, Anne lets Francois fall prey to his jealous imagination. Obsessed with the idea that she may have cheated on him, Francois decides to stay up all night. As he wanders, desolate, through the streets of Paris, he comes across his rival sitting in a cafe with a blonde-haired woman. Intrigued, he follows them. A young woman catches on to what he's up to and accosts him in an alley of the Buttes-Chaumont. - Director:
- Eric Rohmer
- Cast:
- Philippe Marlaud, Marie Rivière, Anne-Laure Meury
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You Were Never Really Here (2017)A Beautiful Day
From celebrated British director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin), 'You Were Never Really Here' is a powerful and intensely thrilling reworking of the crime genre. A tormented but brutal hired gun sets out to rescue a young girl from a sex ring, only to find himself weathering a storm of violent vengeance when matters go awry. Featuring a career best performance from Joaquin Phoenix as a solitary and deeply troubled underworld mercenary, 'You Were Never Really Here' is a stylish and brutal tale of vengeance and corruption. - Director:
- Lynne Ramsay
- Cast:
- Joaquin Phoenix, Cristina Dohmen, Dante Pereira-Olson
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Mild-manner Charlie Driggs (Jeff Daniels) thinks he's a closet rebel - until he meets a real one. Sexy, free-spirited and totally reckless, Lulu (Melanie Griffith) hijacks Charlie for an outrageous spree filled with offbeat sex, petty larceny and hilarious mayhem. But when Lulu's psychotic ex-con husband Ray (Ray Liotta) puts the brakes on their joyride, Charlie suddenly realizes that his walk on the wild side may not only cost him his job and his girlfriend - it just might cost him his life. - Director:
- Jonathan Demme
- Cast:
- Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, George 'Red' Schwartz
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Mountains May Depart (2015)Shan He Gu Ren
Jia Zhangke's eighth feature is an intimate yet epic drama spanning several decades which charts the impact of China's move towards capitalism on the lives of one family. Divided into three parts (set in 1999, 2014 and Australia in 2025), 'Mountains May Depart' follows the life of Shen Tao (played by Jia's regular collaborator Zhao Tao) and her family through 26 tumultuous years. Perhaps his most ambitious film yet, Jia's film is an astute, humane study of how the emergent culture of capitalist materialism and the forces of globalisation have impacted on Chinese society and family life. - Director:
- Zhangke Jia
- Cast:
- Tao Zhao, Yi Zhang, Jing Dong Liang
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