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Playground (2021)Un Monde
Nora (Maya Vanderbeque), an anxious 7-year-old, must return to school despite her distress and longing to stay with her dad. Despite Nora's age, she soon becomes responsible for her older brother, Abel (Günter Duret), who is being tormented by the other kids. This puts Nora in a quandary - should she tell the adults or remain silent out of solidarity with her brother? Once Nora discovers Abel soaking wet, she feels compelled to take action, but just makes things worse. The authorities at school generally turn a blind eye, and her father remains powerless, kept at a distance from the confines of the school. An eventual confrontation between Nora and Abel leads to a startling climax. - Director:
- Laura Wandel
- Cast:
- Maya Vanderbeque, Jean-François Ravagnan, Günter Duret
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Byron Orlok (Boris Karloff) is a retiring horror-star bidding farewell to the limelight. Bobby Thompson (Tim O'Kelly) is an unassuming but disturbed Vietnam veteran who suddenly embarks on a murderous shooting rampage. As Byron makes one final public appearance, their worlds collide as Bobby brings carnage to a suburban Los Angeles drive-in cinema. - Director:
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Cast:
- Don Steele, Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff
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On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the French Republic De Roller (Benoît Magimel) is a calculating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad perception of his role brings him to navigate the high-end establishment as well as shady venues where he mingles with the locals. Especially since a persistent rumour has been going around: the sighting of a submarine whose ghostly presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing. - Director:
- Albert Serra
- Cast:
- Benoît Magimel, Pahoa Mahagafanau, Marc Susini
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Welcome to the Sonic Catering Institute, a creative retreat for artists whose work occupies a place somewhere between avant-garde music and outre cuisine. Run by the eccentric Jan Stevens (Gwendoline Christie), the three-week workshop is playing host to a three-piece outfit comprising the severe and unbending Elie di Elie (Fatma Mohamed), the troubled Lamina Propria (Ariane Labed) and the electronically-obsessed Billy Rubin (Asa Butterfield). Their journey at the institute is documented by "dossierge" Stones (Makis Papadimitriou), whose digestive troubles are as turbulent as the creations his subjects are producing. But relations between the band members are deteriorating, their host's psyche is unravelling and the in-house doctor (Richard Bremmer) is driving everyone to distraction with his classical text pedantry. - Director:
- Peter Strickland
- Cast:
- Harry Alexander, James Hyland, Paolo Bafico
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The Third Generation (1979)Die dritte Generation
One of Fassbinder's most controversial films, ‘The Third Generation' is a savage and absurdist satire about a group of incompetent bourgeois terrorists, for whom violent radicalism has become a s lifestyle. The group kidnap a well-connected businessman but are soon divided by in-fighting and paranoia. A provocative indictment of the Baader-Meinhoff urban terrorists of the 70s, Fassbinder’s film mocks his protagonists’ moral and ideological fallibilities with grotesque visual and perverse humour. - Director:
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Cast:
- Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess
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Renowned filmmaker Douglas Sirk directed this internationally acclaimed story of the very, very rich whose lack of morality and character leads to ruin and death. The stunningly photographed films stars Robert Stack as Kyle Hadley, the never-do-well son of Texas magnate Robert Keith whose dynasty begins to crumble due to the activities of his pleasure-seeking brood. Along for the downhill ride is an all-star cast that includes Lauren Bacall as Stack's unfortunate wife, Rock Hudson as his best friend and Dorothy Malone who picked up a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Kyle's nymphomaniac sister. - Director:
- Douglas Sirk
- Cast:
- Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack
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Trapped on her family's isolated farm, Pearl (Mia Goth) must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she's seen in the movies, Pearl finds her ambitions, temptations, and repressions all colliding in this stunning, technicolor-inspired origin story of X's iconic villain. - Director:
- Ti West
- Cast:
- Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright
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Testament of Orpheus (1959)Le testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi!
Jean Cocteau was not only a director but also an artist, poet, playwright and novelist. He was widely regarded as one of the most pioneering and important avant-garde directors cinema has produced. Though often described as a poet first and foremost, Cocteau's films were also infused with the phantasmorgorical surrealist imagery and rich symbolism characteristic of all his work. Jean Cocteau gave the cinema a truly abstract piece of work as his swansong, in which the mind of a poet (played by Cocteau himself) takes control of reality, twisting and re-moulding it until it bears not the slightest resemblance to reality as we know it in real life. - Director:
- Jean Cocteau
- Cast:
- Jean Cocteau, Françoise Arnoul, Claudine Auger
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The Seventh Seal (1957)Det sjunde inseglet
As the Black Death continues to wipe out the population of Europe, knight Antonius Block (Max von Sydow) returns from the Crusades, disillusioned and worn. When suddenly Death (Bengt Ekerot) appears before him, he asks for the chance to live, proposing a game of chess to decide his fate. The knight takes his squire, a troupe of traveling players and a deaf and dumb girl under his protection as the game is played out. One by one Death exacts his toll, and it is up to Block to stall his opponent for as long as possible if he is to help save the lives of those he is trying to protect. All the while, the villages and towns about them fall further into ruin and religion takes a stranglehold on those desperate for a means of survival. - Director:
- Ingmar Bergman
- Cast:
- Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot
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Deborah Kerr (in the performance of her career) plays the emotionally repressed vicar's daughter who takes up a job as a governess to two seemingly angelic orphans. Gradually coming to believe that the children are possessed by the perverse spirits of their former governess and her sadistic lover, she begins to see manifestations of the ghosts prowling the huge gothic mansion of Bly House. Director Jack Clayton sustains a superbly haunting atmosphere throughout the film, and like James' original work, cleverly retains the ambiguity of wether the ghosts are real or the products of the governess's fevered imagination. Aided by Freddie Francis's exquisitely inventive and atmospheric CinemaScope photography, we, like the governess, are never quite sure what unspoken horrors are lurking beyond the edge of the frame and are kept guessing until the film's tragic conclusion. - Director:
- Jack Clayton
- Cast:
- Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins
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3 Women (1977)Three Women / Robert Altman's 3 Women
The film tells the story of three women who live in an apartment block in the California desert. Shy, quiet girl Pinky (Sissy Spacek), arrives without a past or identity and starts working in a nursing home. Here she meets Millie (Shelley Duvall), they strike up a friendship and become roommates. A third woman Willie, (Janice Rule) is a pregnant artist. She expresses her fears and fantasies by painting murals of male aggression and victimized women on the bottom of swimming pools. Willie is a silent troubled character, whose husband is a drunk. Willies' troubled ways and the extraordinary characters of Mille and Pinky are at the centre of a series of strange events that cause their identities to change and morph in unexpected ways, creating one person. - Director:
- Robert Altman
- Cast:
- Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule
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Godland (2022)Vanskabte Land
In the late 19th century, Denmark regards Iceland as its territory, which extends beyond matters of geography and governance to the spiritual health of the population. So Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove), a Lutheran priest, is sent by the Church of Denmark to establish a parish. Ever an optimist, Lucas believes his faith will guide him, even when he is warned of the obstacles, including a people who may be less than welcoming. 'Godland' makes the most of a breathtakingly austere Icelandic landscape in its story of a man on a singular mission. - Director:
- Hlynur Palmason
- Cast:
- Elliott Crosset Hove, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Victoria Carmen Sonne
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Japanese grand master Akira Kurosawa's eloquent examination of the nuclear holocaust in Nagasaki as seen through the eyes of a survivor and her four grandchildren, 44 years later. The grandmother recalls the history of her family and Japanese society. As she searches for an understanding of the past, she falls into despair over the loss of her husband in the blast as its anniversary draws near. - Director:
- Akira Kurosawa
- Cast:
- Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa
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Marcel (voice of Jenny Slate) is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colourful existence with his grandmother Connie (voice of Isabella Rossellini). Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. But when a documentary filmmaker discovers them amongst the clutter of his Airbnb, the short film he posts online brings Marcel millions of passionate fans, as well as unorecendented dangers and a new hone at finding his long-lost family. - Director:
- Dean Fleischer-Camp
- Cast:
- Jenny Slate, Joe Gabler, Shari Finkelstein
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A White, White Day (2019)Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur
Father, grandfather, policeman, widower. In a remote Icelandic town, Ingimundur (Ingvar Sigurdsson), an off-duty police chief begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. - Director:
- Hlynur Palmason
- Cast:
- Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Hilmir Snær Guðnason
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