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The Heiresses (2018)Las Herederas
Chela (Ana Brun) and Chiquita (Margarita Irun), both descended from wealthy families in Asuncion, Paraguay, have been together for over 30 years. But recently, their financial situation has worsened, and they begin to sell off their inherited possessions. When their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality as she begins to break out of her shell to explore a personal and intimate revolution... - Director:
- Marcelo Martinessi
- Cast:
- Ana Brun, Margarita Irun, Ana Ivanova
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Pacific Northwest. 1983 AD. Outsiders Red Miller (Nicolas Cage) and Mandy Bloom (Andrea Riseborough) lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand (Linus Roache), Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire. - Director:
- Panos Cosmatos
- Cast:
- Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache
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"Lucky" follows the spiritual journey of Harry Dean Stanton's character 'Lucky', a cantankerous, self-reliant 90 year old atheist, and the quirky characters that inhabit the Arizona town where he lives. Having out-lived and out-smoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely independent Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration, leading towards that which is so often unattainable: enlightenment. Released in the US just days after Stanton's death at age 91, 'Lucky', is at once a love letter to the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton as well as a meditation on mortality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection. - Director:
- John Carroll Lynch
- Cast:
- Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston
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Blissfully Yours (2002)Sud Sanaeha
Innovative and enigmatic, Blissfully Yours is a languid celebration of the pleasures of the moment. In Apichatpong's heady, sensual and playful film, a leisurely road trip and a picnic in the jungle give way to uninhibited emotion and eroticism. A meditation on happiness, superstition, politics and sexuality, nothing really happens except that it happens with a purpose. Blissfully Yours confirms the reputation of one of the most distinctive new filmmakers in world cinema. - Director:
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Cast:
- Kanokporn Tongaram, Min Oo, Jenjira Jansuda
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Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is a respected but less-than-perfect surveillance expert who is wracked with self-doubt and carrying a heavy conscience since his work led to the death of two of his subjects. So when he comes to believe that his latest assignment - eavesdropping on a pair of young lovers - may end in murder, Harry can no longer avoid confronting the moral consequences of his chosen profession. - Director:
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Cast:
- Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield
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The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie
During Napoleon's invasion of Spain, two soldiers discover a strange manuscript at an Inn. The book chronicles the adventures of Alfonso van Worden (Zbigniew Cybulski). Alfonso's passage through the dangerous Sierra Morena mountains is repeatedly interrupted by seemingly random encounters with an assortment of larger than life figures. Tunisian princesses inform Alfonso that he is their cousin and their betrothed; an occult scholar ensnares Alfonso with confounding stories about feuds between Merchants and hardships faced by gypsies. And of course, Alfonso never did expect the Spanish Inquisition. - Director:
- Wojciech Has
- Cast:
- Zbigniew Cybulski, Iga Cembrzynska, Elzbieta Czyzewska
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Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a successful restaurant chain, the ingratitude of her materialistic firstborn (a diabolical Ann Blyth) becomes a venomous serpent's tooth, setting in motion an endless cycle of desperate overtures and heartless recriminations. Recasting James M. Cain's rich psychological novel as a murder mystery, this bitter cocktail of blind parental love and all-American ambition is both unremittingly hard-boiled and sumptuously emotional. - Director:
- Michael Curtiz
- Cast:
- Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
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Film Worker (2017)Filmworker
It's a rare person who would give up fame and fortune to toil in obscurity for someone else's creative vision. Yet, that's exactly what Leon Vitali did after his acclaimed performance as Lord Bullingdon in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon. The young actor surrendered his thriving career to become Kubrick's loyal right-hand man. For more than two decades, Leon played a crucial role behind-the-scenes helping Kubrick make and maintain his legendary body of work. The complex, interdependent relationship between Leon and Kubrick was founded on devotion, sacrifice and the grueling, joyful reality of the creative process. By entering their unique world we come to understand how the mundane gives rise to the magnificent as timeless cinema is brought to life at its most practical and profound level. - Director:
- Tony Zierra
- Cast:
- Leon Vitali, Ryan O'Neal, Danny Lloyd
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There is a moment in everyone’s life when childhood ends and adulthood begins. For Jon and Wendy Savage, that moment is now. Plucked from their everyday, ordinary lives, these two self-centered siblings must suddenly care for their estranged, elderly father. What follows is a hysterically funny and irreverent look at life, love and mortality through one of the most surreal experiences facing families today. - Director:
- Tamara Jenkins
- Cast:
- Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco
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Award-winning director Paul Wright (For Those in Peril) explores our complex connection to the land we live in with an archival remix drawn from more than 100 years of Britain on film. With a new score by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp), 'Arcadia' embarks on a visceral sensory journey through the seasons, exploring the beauty, brutality, magic and madness of our changing relationship with both the land and each other. This fresh new work crafted from the past is a folk horror wrapped in an archive film; get ready for a very strange trip indeed... - Director:
- Paul Wright
- Cast:
- Laura Rennie, Ian Sexon
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Mysterious motorcycle racer, Luke (Ryan Gosling), desperately tries to connect with a former lover, Romina (Eva Mendes), who secretly gave birth to the stunt rider's son. In an attempt to provide for his new family, Luke quits the carnival life and commits a series of bank robberies aided by his superior riding ability. The stakes rise as Luke is put on a collision course with an ambitious police officer, Avery Cross (Bradley Cooper), looking to quickly move up the ranks in a police department riddled with corruption. - Director:
- Derek Cianfrance
- Cast:
- Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes
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Le Plaisir (1952)Le plaisir
Adapted from three short stories by Guy de Maupassant, each tells a tale of pleasure. The first tells the story of an old man who regains his youth with the aid of a magic mask, in the second a prostitute has a romantic encounter and the final story concerns two young lovers, an artist and his model. 'Le Plaisir' is a delicate portrait of love and desire. - Director:
- Max Ophüls
- Cast:
- Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Simon
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Madame De. (1953)The Earrings of Madame de... / Madame de...
When, beset by debt, Madame de... (Danielle Darrieux) decides to sell a pair of earrings that were a wedding gift from her husband Andre (Charles Boyer), she unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events that will have serious consequences, not only for the Parisian couple but for Andre's mistress and for an Italian Baron (Vittorio De Sica) who purchases the, by then, much-travelled jewellery. - Director:
- Max Ophüls
- Cast:
- Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica
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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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Rendez-vous in Paris (1995)Les rendez-vous de Paris
Rohmer's delightful film explores the highs and lows of a trio of twenty-something love affairs in the French capital. With a fine cast of exceptional young actors, each story uses as a backdrop a variety of stunningly photographed locations, among them Montpamasse, the Marais and the city's many parks and gardens. This triptych combines all those themes cherished by Rohmer aficionados: seduction, elegant language and love for a city called Paris. - Director:
- Eric Rohmer
- Cast:
- Clara Bellar, Antoine Basler, Mathias Mégard
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