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I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016)Wo bu shi Pan Jin Lian
Acclaimed filmmaker Feng Xiaogang and superstar Fan Bingbing (X-Men: Days of Future Past) team up for this intriguing tale of a wronged womans fight for justice and revenge. When Li Xuelian (Bingbing) and her husband stage a fake divorce to secure a second apartment reserved for single citizens, everything seems to go to plan. However, when he then remarries, only to a different woman, Li is determined to seek retribution against both him and the bureaucracy that casts her out of society. Based on Liu Zheyuns subversive novel, this is a darkly comedic social satire that transcends all cultures in a uniquely stylish fashion. - Director:
- Xiaogang Feng
- Cast:
- Chengpeng Dong, Bingbing Fan, Wei Fan
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Savage Three / Like Rabid Dogs (1976)Fango bollente / Come cani arrabbiati
The 1970's were a time of intense uncertainty and instability in Italy. Political corruption and widespread acts of left and right-wing terrorism, alongside a breakdown in social cohesion and a loss of trust in public institutions such as the government and police, created a febrile atmosphere of cynicism, paranoia and unexploded rage. Throughout this period, these sentiments found expression in a series of brutal, often morally ambiguous crime thrillers which tapped into the atmosphere of violence and instability that defined the so-called Years of Lead.
Savage Three (1975)
The Savage Three are three young men, fresh into the world, who work together at a computer analysis company. All three appear to be calm, level-headed, well-educated young men with the world at their fingertips. They are best friends, working togther by day and playfully carousing at night. Dominated by the Ovidio, played by the handsome Joe Dallesandro, the three young men soon evolve from well-mannered professionals to violent criminals.
Like Rabid Dogs (1976)
Tony (Cesare Barro) is the young member of an upper class Roman family; he lives a hectic double life, and under the guise of good student, he likes to persecute and kill prostitutes in the company of a couple of friends.- Director:
- Mario Imperoli
- Cast:
- Piero Santi, Annarita Grapputo, Paola Senatore
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Chocolat (2016)Monsieur Chocolat
From circus to theatre, from anonymity to fame, "Chocolat" is the incredible true story of how Rafael Padilla Chocolat (Omar Sy), escaped slavery to become the first black stage performer in France. Performing a lead role in a circus pantomime act in Paris, Chocolat shot to stardom with his partner, Charles Footit (James Thierree), as the pair's unprecedented double act sent shock waves through conservative Parisian society. However, as their fame grew so did the gambling and discrimination, taking a toll on the duo's friendship and their lives. - Director:
- Roschdy Zem
- Cast:
- Omar Sy, Julia Effertz, James Thiérrée
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Goodbye Berlin (2016)Tschick
While his mother is in rehab and his father is on a 'business trip' with his assistant, 14-year-old outsider Maik (Tristan Göbel) is spending the summer holidays bored and alone at his parents' villa, when rebellious teenager Tschick (Anand Batbileg) appears. Tschick, a Russian immigrant and an outcast, steals a car and decides to set off on a journey away from Berlin with Maik tagging along for the ride. So begins a wild adventure where the two experience the trip of a lifetime and share a summer that they will never forget. - Director:
- Fatih Akin
- Cast:
- Tristan Göbel, Aniya Wendel, Justina Humpf
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Mädchen in Uniform (1931)Mädchen in Uniform / Girls in Uniform
After the death of her mother, sensitive teenager Manuela (Hertha Thiele) is sent off to a strict Prussian boarding school and encounters sympathetic teacher Fraulein von Bernburg (Dorothea Wieck). But when Manuela's fondness for her teacher turns into a romantic attachment, it becomes a school-wide scandal. Based on a play by Christa Winsloe and directed by Leontine Sagan, 'Madchen in Uniform' is an undisputed landmark of queer cinema and a key film of the Weimar era that also carries a potent anti-fascist message. - Director:
- Leontine Sagan
- Cast:
- Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele, Emilia Unda
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I Was at Home, But (2019)Ich war zuhause, aber / I Was at Home, But...
Angela Schanelec's beautifully elusive and allusive films are enigmatic explorations of everyday human dilemmas. Winner of the 'Best Director' prize at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival, 'I Was at Home, But...' is a tender, profoundly moving portrait of a family living with love and loss. Exquisitely subtle and deeply affecting, the film avoids easy exposition, trusting the audience to find connections in its elliptical narrative. Schanelec's elegantly radical films have a potent and mysterious power, achieving a masterful balance of quiet poetry, wry humour and raw emotion. - Director:
- Angela Schanelec
- Cast:
- Thorbjörn Björnsson, Esther Buss, Martin Clausen
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Rubika Shah's energising film charts a vital national protest movement - Rock Against Racism (RAR), formed in 1976. 'White Riot' blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches. As neo-Nazis recruited the nation's youth, RAR's multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance. The campaign grew from Hoxton fanzine roots to 1978's huge antifascist carnival in Victoria Park, featuring X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse, Tom Robinson and of course The Clash, whose rock star charisma and gale-force conviction took RAR's message to the masses. - Director:
- Rubika Shah
- Cast:
- Red Saunders, Dennis Bovell, Mykael S. Riley
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Glory (2016)Slava
Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov's follow-up to 'The Lesson' is a social parable about a humble man who gets unwillingly celebrated. Railway linesman Tsanko (Stefan Denolyubov) finds lots of bank notes on the tracks. When he reports the money rather than pocketing it, the Ministry of Transport - embroiled in a scandal - takes the opportunity to parade their new hero. But Tsanko might not be a PR person's dream. Yet compared to PR head Julia (Margita Gosheva), he's an angel. When Julia removes his watch - a Russian-made Slava (Glory), inscribed and presented to him by his father - for the ceremony to present him with a new one, it sets off a chain of events that threatens to bring down the Ministry thanks to a combination of corruption, irresponsibility and arrogance. - Director:
- Kristina Grozeva
- Cast:
- Stefan Denolyubov, Margita Gosheva, Ana Bratoeva
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Forbidden Games (1952)Jeux Interdits
1940, Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), a young French girl, is orphaned in a Nazi air attack during the battle of France. She is befriended by Michel (Georges Poujouly), the son of a poor farmer whose family take her in to their home to care for her. Together the two children forge a tight bond, attempting to come to terms with the realities of the death and destruction that surrounds them by creating their own reality, building their own small graveyard to bury dead animals they find. In this sealed universe they have created, Paulette and Michel experience their first and most wonderful love story. - Director:
- René Clément
- Cast:
- Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée
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Time Out (2001)L'emploi du temps
Vincent (Aurelien Recoing) seems to contentedly spend weeks on the road, busy with business trips and meetings. He shares vague details with his loving wife, Muriel (Viard) and their three children. But Vincent's professional life is fiction. Unable to bear telling family and friends that he lost his consulting position weeks ago, he invents, in meticulous detail, a prestigious new job for himself in Geneva. But telling lies becomes a full-time occupation and, to maintain his lost income, he betrays even his friends in shady investment deals. All Vincent wanted was a release from a suffocating professional life, yet somehow allow his family's life to continue as before. Now, the ever-growing tension of Vincent's world is quickly closing in... - Director:
- Laurent Cantet
- Cast:
- Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard, Serge Livrozet
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This tragic story deals with the short-lived reign of Mary Stuart. Surrounded by scheming Lords including her own brother, James Stuart, Mary seeks the comfort of Lord Bothwell, a close friend who shortly becomes a love interest. However marriage seems impossible and Mary becomes coerced into marrying weakling Lord Darnley, heir to the English throne. Meanwhile the queen of England, Elizabeth Tudor begins to feel insecure and plots to destroy the marriage, having Damley killed by the Lords. With the help of Lord Bothwell, Mary remains on the throne and soon they marry, only to be separated 20 days later when Mary is made a prisoner and Bothwell forced to leave the country. Mary moves to England under the deceitful guidance of Elizabeth, and upon arrival is yet again made a prisoner. However Mary's legacy remains with the birth of her son who will one day take the English throne. - Director:
- John Ford
- Cast:
- Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge
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Supplies are dwindling. Troops are hopelessly outnumbered. But even in defeat there is victory. The defenders of the Philippines - including PT-boat skippers John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) and Rusty Ryan (John Wayne) - will give the U.S. war effort time to regroup after the devastation of Pearl Harbor. Director John Ford's World War II tale knows its battle-scarred topic first-hand. Montgomery was himself a Pacific PT-boat commander and a valorous Bronze Star recipient. Ford filmed the Academy Award - winning documentary Battle of Midway. And Wayne creates a portrait of patriotic resolve as only he can. They Were Expendable salutes all who expended themselves during some of the war's bleakest hours. - Director:
- John Ford
- Cast:
- Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed
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Young Mr Lincoln marked the first collaboration between Henry Fonda and legendary director John Ford; a relationship that was to see them working together on classics such as My Darling Clementine and The Grapes of Wrath. A brilliant biopic focusing on the early years of Abraham Lincoln, Young Mr Lincoln stars Fonda as the man who would go on to become one of the key figures in American history, in a performance which many consider to be his finest. The film follows Lincoln as he leaves his small-town beginnings in a Kentucky cabin to start practicing law before eventually agreeing to go into politics. Fonda claimed that playing Lincoln 'was like playing Jesus Christ', and he brings amazing depth to the role in a film that has gone on to take its place in Hollywood history. - Director:
- John Ford
- Cast:
- Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver
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Heading South (2005)Vers Le Sud
On the sun-drenched island of Haiti at the end of the 1970s, tourists idle away their vacations in the palm-fringed paradise of the beach hotels. Brenda, Ellen and Sue, three North American women, converge on the island looking for flirtation, relaxation and respite from their mundane jobs and marriages. They find exactly what they are looking for in Legba, an enigmatic local Adonis-like boy, whose beauty and passion captivates them all and who leads them away from the gilded cage of tourism and opens their eyes to the poverty and dangers of living in Haiti in the midst of the "Baby Doc" Duvalier dictatorial regime. - Director:
- Laurent Cantet
- Cast:
- Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young, Louise Portal
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An aging politician tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950's when TV started to play a bigger part in politics. Based loosely on the career of multi-term Boston Mayor James Michael Curley (Spencer Tracy), this film examines the good and evil inherent in politics and all the things that go into an election. Michael's uphill battle to stay in office is set against the political machinery that preyed on ethnic hatred and old-time money. - Director:
- John Ford
- Cast:
- Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster
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