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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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Knife in the Water (1962)Nóz w wodzie
A vain sports reporter (Leon Niemczyk) and his beautiful but frustrated wife are on their way to the lake, for a days sailing, when they nearly run over a young hitch-hiker (Zygmunt Malanowicz). The couple invite the hitch-hiker to join them on their boat which triggers a battle of wits between the two men as they jostle for superiority. But will the hitch hikers obession with his knife cause the tension to end in tragedy... - Director:
- Roman Polanski
- Cast:
- Leon Niemczyk, Anna Ciepielewska, Roman Polanski
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Detachment is a visually and emotionally striking film from director Tony Kaye, featuring a powerhouse performance by Adrien Brody as a teacher who takes a substitute job in a brutal high school. As he attempts to get to grips with the troubled students and disillusioned staff his life is dramatically changed by his relationships with three very different women. - Director:
- Tony Kaye
- Cast:
- Adrien Brody, Christina Hendricks, Marcia Gay Harden
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Amid an explosive political landscape, three young film buffs are drawn together by their shared passion for movies... and for each other! Left alone while their parents are on holiday, twins Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel) invite American exchange student Matthew (Michael Pitt) to stay with them. So begins an intense, erotic voyage of sexual discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and anything is possible! - Director:
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Cast:
- Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green
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Charles Bubbles (Albert Finney) is a famous writer from a bleak industrial town. His divorced wife (Billie Whitelaw) and son live on a farm he bought for them near his home town while he lives in a London townhouse, detached from reality. Wretched in his wealth, Charlie stumbles through life drunk, debauched and dull, until he decides to go home again to revisit his ex-wife and child in the North. - Director:
- Albert Finney
- Cast:
- Albert Finney, Colin Blakely, Billie Whitelaw
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"The Disaster Artist" is based on the making of Tommy Wiseau's cult-classic disasterpiece 'The Room' ("The Greatest Bad Movie of All Time"). Director and star James Franco transforms the true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau - an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable - into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. - Director:
- James Franco
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- James Franco, Dave Franco, Ari Graynor
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The story about the special bond between a father and his daughter. Actor Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is leading the fast-paced lifestyle of a tabloid celebrity. He's comfortably numb with his life of women and pills when his 11-year-old daughter, Cleo (Elle Fanning), unexpectedly arrives at his room at Hollywood's legendary Chateau Marmont hotel. Their time together encourages Johnny to re-question his life in ways he never expected. - Director:
- Sofia Coppola
- Cast:
- Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, Chris Pontius
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This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results. One of the most provocative films about art ever made, Exit Through the Gift Shop is a chaotic study of low-level criminality, comradeship and incompetence. By turns shocking, hilarious and absurd, this is an enthralling modern-day fairytale... with bolt cutters. - Director:
- Banksy
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- Banksy, Space Invader, Mr. Brainwash
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From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin, the directors of 'Meru', comes 'Free Solo' a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world's most famous rock...the 3,200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park...without a rope. Celebrated as one of the greatest athletic feats of any kind, Honnold's climb set the ultimate standard: perfection or death. Succeeding in this challenge places his story in the annals of human achievement. 'Free Solo' is an edge-of-your seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an athlete who challenges both his body and his beliefs on a quest to triumph over the impossible, revealing the personal toll of excellence. The result is a triumph of the human spirit that represents what The New York Times calls "a miraculous opportunity for the rest of us to experience the human sublime". - Director:
- Jimmy Chin
- Cast:
- Dierdre Wolownick, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin
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Damnation (1988)Kárhozat
In a small Hungarian town lives Karrer (Miklós Székely B.), a listless and brooding man who has almost completely withdrawn from the world, but for an obsession with a singer in the bar he frequents. The first film in which Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr's fully realised his mesmerising and apocalyptic world view is an immaculately photographed and composed study of eternal conflict: the centuries-old struggle between barbarism and civilization. - Director:
- Béla Tarr
- Cast:
- Gábor Balogh, János Balogh, Péter Breznyik Berg
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L'Avventura (1960)The Adventure
The plot concerns a yachting trip by a small group of jaded socialites, including Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), an aging architect who sold out for easy money long ago, his mistress Anna (Lea Massari), and her friend Claudia (Monica Vitti), who doesn't fit in with the wealthy jet-setters' dissolute ethics. When Anna disappears during a tour of a volcanic island, Claudia initially blames Sandro's emotionally barren behavior toward her. As they search the island, however, Claudia and Sandro grow closer and - when it is apparent that Anna is gone forever - become lovers. Unfortunately, Sandro cannot find anything decent inside himself and betrays Claudia with a local prostitute. Caught in the act, Sandro has a heartrending breakdown on a desolate beach, but Claudia silently forgives him. - Director:
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Cast:
- Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The ninth film from the writer-director features a large ensemble cast and multiple storylines in a tribute to the final moments of Hollywood's golden age. - Director:
- Quentin Tarantino
- Cast:
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie
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Pain and Glory (2019)Dolor y gloria
Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas) is a veteran film director, afflicted by multiple ailments, the worst of which is his inability to continue filming. His physical condition doesn't allow it and, if he can't film, his life has no meaning. His mixture of medications, along with the occasional flirtation with heroin, means that Salvador spends most of his days prostrate and forlorn. This drowsy state transports him back to reflect on his childhood in the 60's, when his family emigrated to Paterna, a village in Valencia, in search of prosperity, through to the appearance of his first desire and his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80's. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he may also find his salvation. - Director:
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Cast:
- Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia
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La Piscine (1969)The Swimming Pool
Jacques Deray's 1969 classic 'La Piscine' is set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, where Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) and Marianne (Romy Schneider) are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game. - Director:
- Jacques Deray
- Cast:
- Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet
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Meg Ryan stars in this dark psychological thriller, where desire and death mix in the shadows of New York. Frannie (Meg Ryan) is a lonely but determined woman living alone in Manhattan, who becomes involved in an investigation, following the gruesome slaying of a young woman in her neighbourhood. It soon appears that she may know more about the murder than she thinks< after witnessing what could have been the prelude to the crime. Drawn to the homicide detective investigation the case, she discovers the dark side of passion when she embarks on a risky and turbulent affair with him. But as the death toll rises, each victim getting closer to Frannie, she begins to wonder if her new lover is hiding a deadly secret! - Director:
- Jane Campion
- Cast:
- Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh
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