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In a remote Transylvanian town where tradition binds the community, historic resentments start to bubble to the surface with the arrival of new immigrant workers who have been hired by the local factory. Gripping, breathtaking and powerful, 'R.M.N. ' is the new work from Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), one of the masters of European cinema. - Director:
- Cristian Mungiu
- Cast:
- Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Barladeanu
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War Pony (2022)Beast
23-year-old Bill (Jojo Bapteise Whiting) is determined to do anything to live the American Dream, and 12-year-old Matho (LaDainian Crazy Thunder) can't wait to grow up, but a series of destructive decisions put them into a corner - and force them to deal with the realities of the world around them. A powerful tale of hope and belonging, "War Pony" is the acclaimed and utterly compelling directorial debut from Riley Keough and Gina Gammell. - Director:
- Gina Gammell
- Cast:
- Anjeliq Aurora, Sean Baker, Iona Red Bear
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After meeting a newly orphaned girl named Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal), con man Hoses Pray (Ryan O'Neal), who may or may not be Addie's father, is enlisted to deliver the newly orphaned Addie to her aunt in Missouri. Shortly after however, the two realise that together they make an efficient scam-artist duo. Adventure ensues as the pair blaze through the American Midwest, stealing, swindling, and selling the moon... - Director:
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Cast:
- Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn
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A Geisha (1953)Gion bayashi
Mizoguchi's Gion Bayashi - made directly between Ugetsu Monogatai and Sansho Dayu - is set in the world of the courtesan. Contrasting two different types of geisha - on one hand, Eiko (Wakao Ayako), a sixteen-year old orphan wishing to be taken in and trained; on the other, Miyoharu (Kogure Michiyo), an older, more experienced geisha, who agrees to mentor the younger woman - they live under the same roof in difficult personal circumstances. 'Gion Bayashi' is a fascinating, subtle insight into the loves of these women in 1950's Japan. - Director:
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Cast:
- Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu
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Current (1963)Sodrásban
A group of friends on the cusp of adulthood gather to spend a carefree day sunbathing, swimming and flirting at the riverside. When one disappears, a frantic search begins - and recriminations ensue - exposing the underlying rivalries, class divisions, and sexual tensions between them. Often cited as the first film of the Hungarian New Wave, Istvan Gaal's beautifully-shot debut contemplates the transience of youth and the impermanence of memory. Echoing Antonioni's 'L'Awentura' and Kurosawa's 'Rashomon', 'Current' is a haunting existential drama that announced a new generation in Hungarian cinema. - Director:
- István Gaál
- Cast:
- Andrea Drahota, Mária Mezei, Marianna Moór
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Fire Will Come (2019)O que arde
Amador (Amador Arias) has been imprisoned for setting fires. When released, he moves back to his hometown, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his elderly mother, Benedicta (Benedicta Sanchez), and their three cows. Amador does not speak much and remains guarded and stern when the villagers make small talk with him. He becomes aware that there is gossip about his past. Life goes by slowly and simple, domestic routines are carried out daily. Amador has a chance encounter with Elena (Elena Fernandez), a local veterinarian who has been studying abroad, which hints at a possible romance or at least a meaningful human connection. The rhythm of nature persists until a fire starts to devastate the region and Amador is unfairly blamed for it. - Director:
- Oliver Laxe
- Cast:
- Amador Arias, Benedicta Sánchez, Inazio Abrao
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At a lavish ceremony hosted by her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist), the wedding of Justine (Dunst, in an award winning performance) and her fiance Michael (Alexander Skarsgard, True Blood) is marred by fractious familial exchanges and Justine's battle with her own inner demons. Meanwhile, the mysterious planet Melancholia emerges from behind the sun and appears to be headed on an apocalyptic collision course with the Earth... - Director:
- Lars Von Trier
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- Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland
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In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families - one of white landholders, one of Black tenant farmers - are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with cowriter Virgil Williams, crafts a uniquely American tragedy, imbuing bitter historical realities with a timeless weight. Featuring bone-deep performances from Rees's ensemble cast - including Carey Mulligan, Mary J. Blige, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, and Jonathan Banks - and backed by Rachel Morrison's darkly burnished cinematography, Mudbound is a searing humanist study of inheritance, based upon Hillary Jordan's novel. - Director:
- Dee Rees
- Cast:
- Jason Mitchell, Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke
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Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance. - Director:
- Celine Song
- Cast:
- Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro
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The Woman of Rumour (1954)Uwasa No Onna
The film offers a contrasting portrait of attitudes and mores concerning love and relationships. Set in a modern Kyoto geisha house, the eponymous woman in the rumour is Hatsuko, madame of her own geisha house. When Hatsuko ends up pursuing the same man as her daughter, Yukiko, both women are forced to confront their attitudes towards each other and the family business. - Director:
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Cast:
- Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomoemon Otani, Yoshiko Kuga
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Tropical Malady (2004)Sud pralad
Garlanded with awards, Apichatpong's visionary film exists in dual realms, exploring connected themes of love and desire in a radically different way. A fractured love story is interrupted by a feverish night-time odyssey into the heart of the jungle where shape-shifting spirits and tigers abound. The conscious and the subconscious, the modern and the ancient, reality and myth; all become magically entwined in this hypnotic, mysterious drama. - Director:
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Cast:
- Banlop Lomnoi, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Huai Dessom
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In the Realm of the Senses (1976)Ai No Corrida
Based on a true story, this is the story of one of Japan's most notorious scandals. An ex-prostitute enters service in a household and promptly begins an obsessive and sexually perverse affair with the master. What starts as a casual diversion escalates into a passion that holds no bounds. The intensity of the affair and the couple's mutual appetite for exploring the physical and sexual limits of their love-making completely overwhelms them and the strain of the relationship takes its toll on all concerned. - Director:
- Nagisa Ôshima
- Cast:
- Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima
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The Lure (2015)Córki dancingu
This genre-defying horror-musical mash-up - the bold debut of Polish director Agnieszka Smoczyriska - follows a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczyriska's imagining. The director gives fierce teeth to her viscerally sensual, darkly feminist twist on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid", in which the girls' bond is tested and their survival threatened after one sister falls for a human. A coming-of-age fairy tale with a catchy synth-fueled soundtrack, outrageous song-and-dance numbers, and lavishly grimy sets, The Lure explores its themes of emerging female sexuality, exploitation, and the compromises of adulthood with savage energy and originality. - Director:
- Agnieszka Smoczynska
- Cast:
- Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska, Kinga Preis
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A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neowestern mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles's masterful film - novelistic in its intricacy and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast, including Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, and Kris Kristofferson - quietly subverts national mythmaking and lays bare the fault lines of life at the border. - Director:
- John Sayles
- Cast:
- Chris Cooper, John Griesemer, Elizabeth Peña
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Cairo Conspiracy (2022)Walad Min Al Janna / Boy from Heaven
The gripping and critically acclaimed new thriller from Tarik Saleh, follows Adam (Tawfeek Barhom), a young man who is offered the ultimate privilege: to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Shortly after his arrival in the city, the university's highest-ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, suddenly dies and Adam becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt's religious and political elite. As he struggles to balance a range of competing interests that favour different leaders, he soon finds that he must fight for his very survival as the succession intensifies. - Director:
- Tarik Saleh
- Cast:
- Tawfeek Barhom, Fares Fares, Mohammad Bakri
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