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The Return (2003)Vozvrashcheniye
The life of two brothers is shattered by the sudden appearance of their father, whom they know only from a 10 year old photograph. Is he really their father? Why has he come back after so many years? The boys find some answers on a remote and desolate island travelling with this man who turned their lives upside down. - Director:
- Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Cast:
- Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko
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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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Neon Bull (2015)Boi Neon
Gabriel Mascaro's sensual, subversive 'Neon Bull' unfolds within the macho world of traditional Brazilian rodeo, the vaquejada. Iremar is one of a motley gang of bull wranglers who travel from rodeo to rodeo, living an arduous itinerant life on the fringes of society. But each aspires to a better future and, after-hours, Iremar strives to fulfil his dream of becoming a fashion designer. Balancing provocative realism with improvisational drama, 'Neon Bull' is a celebration of its characters and their everyday lives as well as their obstinate capacity to dream. Filmed in mesmerizing, hypnotic visuals, it explores the lives of its protagonists with fierce, funny, sweaty intimacy, lyrically subverting its macho domain. - Director:
- Gabriel Mascaro
- Cast:
- Juliano Cazarré, Maeve Jinkings, Josinaldo Alves
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Gerard Depardieu stars in this dramatic recounting of the power struggle between the leading figures of the French revolution, Danton and Robespierre. With the new republic in place Robespierre heads the 'Committee for Public Safety' and has begun his 'Reign of Terror', flushing out any dissenting voices and sending them to Guillotine. Danton returns to Paris after his self-imposed exile to call an end to the bloodshed, but in doing so makes a dangerous enemy of his former ally. - Director:
- Andrzej Wajda
- Cast:
- Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro
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A young girl is found murdered and the police are lead to the reclusive Monsieur Hire. His neighbours dislike him and think him strange. Living a mundane existence his greatest pleasure is to watch Alice who lives in the opposite apartment. One night she catches sight of his pallid face at the window, illuminated momentarily by a flash of lightning. Her initial fear gives way to seemingly intentions as they are dawn into each others lives. - Director:
- Patrice Leconte
- Cast:
- Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier
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Coup De Torchon (1981)Clean Up
Set in the French-African colony of Senegal in 1938, 'Coup de Torchon' is a gripping French Noir starring Philippe Noiret and Isabelle Huppert. Noiret is the unremarkable village policeman, Lucien Cordier, who is a source of amusement to all those around him, including his wife and his superiors at work. Happy to turn a blind eye when required, Cordier is unambitious and quiet-living - until one day he decides to take action. Becoming a Machiavellian avenging angel, he begins to execute his own brand of vigilante justice. - Director:
- Bertrand Tavernier
- Cast:
- Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran
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Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981)Sjecas li se, Dolly Bell
The acclaimed debut feature by celebrated filmmaker Emir Kusturica is a bittersweet coming-of-age tale set amidst the uproar of 1960's Sarajevo. As Hollywood movies begin to find their way into the country, sixteen year-old Dino (Slavko Stimac) becomes seduced by the glamour of the gangster films that flash before his eyes at the local cinema and he decides to follow a life of crime. Falling in with a band of petty crooks, Dino's future seems set until a liaison with local prostitute Dolly Bell (Ljiljana Blagojevic) turns his world upside down in a way not even the movies could have prepared him for. - Director:
- Emir Kusturica
- Cast:
- Slavko Stimac, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ljiljana Blagojevic
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The Watchmaker of St. Paul (1973)L'Horloger de Saint-Paul
Adapted from a Simenon novel and written in collaboration with legendary screenwriters Aurenche and Bost, The Watchmaker Of St. Paul was Tavernier's debut feature. An ordinary man, the watchmaker of the title, finds his well ordered life blown apart by the discovery that his son is wanted for murder. Deeply shocked, The Watchmaker is forced to explore his own actions and ideals in a search for answers. His journey leads him to question old relationships, as well as forging new ones, as a wary understanding begins to form between him and the police inspector investigating the crime. - Director:
- Bertrand Tavernier
- Cast:
- Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis
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Pelle the Conqueror (1987)Pelle erobreren
In one of the most acclaimed foreign films of our time, Max Von Sydow stars as labourer Lasse Karlsson, who leaves hard times in his native Sweden searching for a better life for himself and his son Pelle (Pelle Hvenegaard). But upon their arrival in Denmark, they find even harsher conditions when they are forced to live and work on a brutal farm. As father and son struggle to survive the cruelties of their new life, they face an epic journey full of passion, pain and the extraordinary triumph of the human spirit. - Director:
- Bille August
- Cast:
- Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske
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The South (1983)El Sur
Recalling her youth in 1950s northern Spain, Estrella revisits her relationship with her beloved father Agustin, raised in the south, and realises how little she knew of him and his secrets. Victor Erice's delicate and mysterious film reveals his abiding fascination with memory and loss, missed opportunities and the links between private dreams and political realities. The performances, like the meticulously lit compositions and evocative soundtrack, are superb; Omero Antonutti is a charismatic Agustin, while Sonsoles Aranguren and Iciar Bollain shine as, respectively, the young and teenaged Estrella. Exquisitely beautiful, profoundly moving. - Director:
- Víctor Erice
- Cast:
- Omero Antonutti, María Massip, Sonsoles Aranguren
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Time of the Gypsies (1988)Dom za vesanje / Cigani lete u nebo
Perhan (Davor Dujmovic) is a Gypsy teenager with the ability to move objects with his mind. A criminal named Ahmed (Bora Todorovic) convinces him to leave his devoted grandmother (Ljubica Adzovic) and loving girlfriend, and to use his powers to make some money illegally. While becoming a man and learning the trade of crime, the boy searches for his sister (who was supposed to have a leg operation) and tries to save money to realize his fantasy of returning home to marry the woman of his dreams. - Director:
- Emir Kusturica
- Cast:
- Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic, Ljubica Adzovic
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He's an orphan... at the start of his journey. A journey to survive. Few films have captured the raw essence of the wild like director Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Bear. This film, set in the majestic mountains of British Columbia in 1885, centres on a precocious bear cub and an old Grizzly as they struggle to endure the harsh wilderness and survive their deadliest foe - man. - Director:
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Cast:
- Tchéky Karyo, Bart the Bear, Youk the Bear
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In the 1850's two British officers, Capt. Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin) and Lt John Speke (lain Glen) set out on a spectacular adventure to discover the source of the Nile. They are warned that great dangers await them but against all odds they push on deeper and deeper into the magnificent, untamed African wilderness, where no Western man had ever gone. As the difficult journey takes its toll, Burton and Speke forge a strong bond. A bond that one will eventually betray. But history will be the judge as the two intrepid explorers venture into realms perilous to both body and soul in their quest for the secret of the Nile. - Director:
- Bob Rafelson
- Cast:
- Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant
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A Short Film About Love (1988)Krotki Film o Milosci
Krysztof Kieslowski?'s 'A Short Film About Love' was expanded from one of the most lyrical episodes in 'Dekalog', his celebrated cycle of short films based on the Ten Commandments. A young man falls in love with an older woman who lives across the courtyard in the same Warsaw apartment block. He watches her and her succession of lovers until she becomes aware of his spying and confronts him with a sexual invitation. - Director:
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Cast:
- Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Stefania Iwinska
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The Measure of a Man (2015)La loi du marché
This gripping and intelligent film by Stephane Brize is in the social realist tradition of the Dardennes and of Laurent Cantet, examining the dehumanizing effects of unemployment and also the workplace itself. At the age of 51 and after twenty months of unemployment, Thierry (Vincent Lindon) starts a new job in security at a supermarket that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept in order to keep his hard-won job is the central question that Measure of a Man (La Loi du Marche) addresses. - Director:
- Stéphane Brizé
- Cast:
- Vincent Lindon, Christophe Rossignon, Karine de Mirbeck
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