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Dogville (2003)The Film 'Dogville' as Told in Nine Chapters and a Prologue
Grace (Nicole Kidman), a beautiful fugitive on the run, hides in the isolated town of Dogville, where she goes to work in return for protection. But when the mob tracks her down, the town suddenly demands a better deal, and she learns the hard way that in Dogville, goodness is relative. But Grace has a secret and it is a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever began to bare its teeth... - Director:
- Lars Von Trier
- Cast:
- Nicole Kidman, John Hurt, Paul Bettany
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It is the fall of 1957 in Connecticut, Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) is returning home from a day of errands. Her husband, Frank (Dennis Quaid), is expected home for a dinner engagement. There's only one problem, no one has heard from Frank all afternoon. What begins as a curious shapshot of 1950's American values is soon transformed into a tangle of competing conflicts, igniting Cathy's friendships with her formidable gardner, Raymond (Dennis Haysbert), her plucky best friend and her maid. As secrets are revealed, Cathy is faced with choices that spur hatred and gossip within the community. - Director:
- Todd Haynes
- Cast:
- Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert
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When homicide detective Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) is called to investigate the murder of a leading astrophysicist (Mamie Gummer) in New Orleans, she is confronted by a mystery that begins to affect her in ways she had never expected. As the investigation deepens, a darker world is slowly revealed and she must use all of her skills and experience to piece together fragments of a wider conspiracy that lies behind the murder. - Director:
- Carol Morley
- Cast:
- Patricia Clarkson, Toby Jones, James Caan
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Hailed as the British debut of the year, and the discovery of a major new talent, Joanna Hogg’s film deals with Anna, a fortyish childless woman who, leaving her partner at home, joins the family of an old friend at a Tuscan villa. Rather than the adults, she finds herself drawn to the company of the teenagers, but discovers she can never really be part of either group. Kathryn Worth gives a highly praised performance as the awkward outsider Anna, and rising new actor Tom Hiddleston also shines as the manipulative eldest son, Oakley. - Director:
- Joanna Hogg
- Cast:
- Kathryn Worth, Harry Kershaw, Emma Hiddleston
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The New Eve (1999)La Nouvelle Eve
The French "Bridget Jones diaries". Camille (Karin Viard), a neurotic Parisian in weekly therapy, is desperate to find the right man. She tries everything from sex parties to accosting men in the street. Even the unrelentingly romantic truck driver, Ben (Sergi Lopez) is not enough. Her brother (Laurent Lucas) and Lesbian friend both try to help her get a grip. All to no avail until she falls in love with Alexis (Pierre-Loup Rajout), a Socialist Party activist and promptly joins the party becoming an ardent activist. Can Camille make Alexis love her and get him away from his wife? Can she get her life back on the straight and narrow? - Director:
- Catherine Corsini
- Cast:
- Karin Viard, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Catherine Frot
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Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley), is bursting with raw talent, charisma and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville. Her mum Marion (Julie Walters) has had a bellyful of Rose-Lynn's Nashville nonsense. Forced to take responsibility, Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house (Sophie Okonedo). 'Wild Rose' is an uplifting story with an original soundtrack about family, dreams and reality, and three chords and the truth. - Director:
- Tom Harper
- Cast:
- Jessie Buckley, Matt Costello, Jane Patterson
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The latest from the unique imagination of Peter Strickland, 'In Fabric' is a delirious retail nightmare that blends Euro-infused horror with absurdist dark humour, to ghostly effect. Set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period at a mysterious Thames Valley department store, the film follows the journey of a cursed artery-red dress as it passes from person to person with devastating consequences. - Director:
- Peter Strickland
- Cast:
- Gwendoline Christie, Sidse babett Knudsen, Caroline Catz
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From acclaimed filmmaker Terence Davies, 'A Quiet Passion' is a powerful study of' 19th Century poet Emily Dickinson that features a stunning performance from Cynthia Nixon. Spanning a rebellious schoolgirl youth to her later years as a reclusive writer, Davies elegantly explores the hopes, dreams and desires of a woman who wrote some of the most important poems in American literature that still resonate today. - Director:
- Terence Davies
- Cast:
- Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Duncan Duff
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Black Angel (2002)Senso '45
Italy - 1945: The war and Fascism is coming to an end. Livia, the wife of a high-ranking ministry official is on her way to Venice in order to meet Helmut Schultz (Gabriel Garko), an SS Lieutenant with whom she is having an affair. During the trip she relives the high points of the torrid sexual abandonment that has shaped her destiny. Once in Venice she finds the city in chaos, but amongst the madness, a surprise awaits Livia (Anna Galiena)...a surprise that sees her personal setbacks reflected in historic and political events. - Director:
- Tinto Brass
- Cast:
- Anna Galiena, Gabriel Garko, Franco Branciaroli
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Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) lives in contented retirement until her tranquil life is suddenly disrupted. The dark secrets she's been hiding since her university days have been uncovered by M15. She finds herself in their custody, accused of providing intelligence to the KGB. Cut to 1938 where Joan is a promising physics student at Cambridge University. There she falls for a young communist named Leo Galich (Tom Hughes) and through him, begins to see the world in a new light. After graduation, Joan secures a job in a weapons research facility where she comes to the realisation that the world is on the brink of nuclear disaster. Now Joan is forced to answer an impossible question: exactly what price would she pay for peace? - Director:
- Trevor Nunn
- Cast:
- Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore
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This stylish Wong Jing production is a prime example of what makes Hong Kong's fantasy movies so unique and visually stunning. It follows the lustful progress of a wealthy squire who has one obsession which is to bed more women than any other man in history! However, although he is proud of his own sexual prowess, he is extremely strict with his own daughter, Yau (Loletta Lee). When she is sent away to study, he has her disguised as a man and fitted with a special chastity device to protect her from men like himself. However, she falls in love with a handsome swordsman who is pursuing the deadly Mirage Lady (Shu Qi), who has the power to drain her enemies by seducing them! The plot thickens when the lecherous Squire marries off his dim-witted son to a beautiful girl, not knowing that she is really the Mirage Lady in disguise. Now it is up to the daughter, Yau, aided only by her handsome swordsman--her fellow student with his mechanical penis--to save the world from sexual domination by the irresistible Mirage Lady... - Director:
- Chin Man Kei
- Cast:
- Shu Qi, Loletta Lee, Xu Jin Jang
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The Captive (2000)La captive
Acclaimed director Chantal Akerman becomes the latest filmmaker to take inspiration from Marcel Proust’s epic masterwork 'In Search of Lost Time'. Adapted from the fifth volume, 'The Captive' tells the story of Ariane, who lives under her lover Simon’s surveillance in a grandiose Parisian apartment. Simon harbours an obsessional need to know everything about her. He has her accompanied everywhere she goes and subjects her to endless questioning. Knowing of Ariane’s attraction to women, Simon imagines that she leads a double life, which only serves to increase his desire for her. Akerman’s film is an elegantly constructed and compelling meditation on love, desire and obsession. - Director:
- Chantal Akerman
- Cast:
- Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy
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The Succulent Succubus (2011)Kairaku no sekai: Miradashimasho!
Momo (Celebrity Japanese porn star Sho Nishino) is unlucky in love and even unluckier in life. Having been diagnosed with an illness that gives her just six months to live, she meets a succubus who offers to grant her one wish in return for her soul. 'The Succulent Succubus' is an erotic comedy starring two of Japan's biggest adult stars; Sho Nishino and Asami. - Director:
- Mototsugu Watanabe
- Cast:
- Shô Nishino, Asami, Minami Aoyama
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A Fantastic Woman (2017)Una mujer fantástica
Marina Vidal's life is thrown into turmoil following the sudden death of her partner, Orlando. Met with suspicion from the police and contempt from her lover's relatives. As tensions rise between her and Orland's family, she is evicted from their shared home and banned from attending his funeral. But faced with the threat of losing everything, Marina finds the strength to fight back. Sebastián Lelio returns with a groundbreaking, deeply humane and Oscar-winning story about a trans woman's fight for acceptance. Anchored by a powerhouse performance from rising star Daniela Vega, 'A Fantastic Woman' is an urgent call for compassion. - Director:
- Sebastián Lelio
- Cast:
- Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco
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Happy as Lazzaro (2018)Lazzaro Felice
Lazzaro (talented newcomer Adriano Tardiolo) is a beautiful peasant whose sweet nature makes people mistake him for simple-minded. He happily does the bidding of anyone in his local village, which is ruled over by the evil Marchesa (Nicoletta Braschi). He finds an unlikely friend in the Marchesa's petulant son Tancredi (Tommaso Ragno / Luca Chikovani), who convinces his hapless ally to help him stage a dramatic incident to secure a ransom. 'Happy as Lazzaro' follows the adventures of this young man living on the margins of his society, who can seemingly travel through time, arriving in the big city and appearing as a fragment of the past lost in the modern world. - Director:
- Alice Rohrwacher
- Cast:
- Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Alba Rohrwacher
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