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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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The Golden Door (2006)Nuovomondo
In a desolate corner of the Sicilian countryside, a family's apparently changeless life of hardship and toil is interrupted by tales of the New World and its inhabitants, of the riches of this paradise. Salvatore makes the momentous decision to sell all he has - his land, his home, his livestock - and to take his children and aged mother to a better life across the ocean. As Salvatore embarks on his epic journey, he meets a mysterious English woman, Lucy (Charlotte Gainsbourgh), and their destinies begin to entwine as, amid a harrow crossing, a love story begins to unfold. To become citizens of the New World, they must die a little and be reborn. They must leave behind the antiquated customs and superstitions of their homeland - they must be strong in body and healthy in mind, learn to obey and swear loyalty - if they wish to pass through the Golden Door. - Director:
- Emanuele Crialese
- Cast:
- Charlotte Gainsbourg, Robert Allyn, Adriana Angrisano
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Experience the breathtaking global phenomenon that has captivated audiences around the world. Written for the screen and directed by Christopher Nolan, 'Oppenheimer' thrusts audiences into the mind of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), whose landmark work on the Manhattan Project created the first atomic bomb. - Director:
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast:
- Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
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Adapted from the classic novel by Charles Dickens, 'The Personal History of David Copperfield' brings to life one of the author's most cherished characters. From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield (Dev Patel) is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all. - Director:
- Armando Iannucci
- Cast:
- Dev Patel, James Daniel Wilson, Hugh Laurie
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Drive My Car (2021)Doraibu mai kâ
Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 'Drive My Car' is a masterful, moving and multi-award winning film based on a short story by Haruki Murakami. When the wife of Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a stage actor and director, suddenly passes away, she leaves behind a secret. Two years later, Kafuku meets Misaki (Toko Miura), a reserved young woman assigned to be his chauffeur on a work trip to Hiroshima. As they spend time together, Kafuku confronts the mystery of his wife that quietly haunts him. - Director:
- Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
- Cast:
- Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima
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In a time when a man's life wasn't worth the price of a bullet, ruthless cattleman Blaise Starrett (Robert Ryan) begins a feud with local towns folk that can only escalate towards violence. But when renegade army officer Jack Bruhn (Burl Ives) rolls into town with his sadistic gang of cold blooded killers and starts taking hostages, action must be taken and differences put aside in the name of survival. "Day of the Outlaw" is an engrossing, tense and occasionally somber film filled with stark imagery and dark heroes. Men are pitted against each other in the cruel, unforgiving elements of a bleak, isolated far west. - Director:
- André De Toth
- Cast:
- Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise
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Set in a small Nevada town where tensions are running high thanks to a spate of cattle rustling, things reach boiling point when cowboy Larry Kinkaid is murdered. With the sheriff out of town, the residents form a posse and head to Ox-Bow Canyon to find the three men they believe to be guilty - including Dana Andrews and Anthony Quinn in early major roles - and enact their own form of justice. - Director:
- William A. Wellman
- Cast:
- Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes
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Jeremiah Johnson (1972)Crow Killer
Soured by civilisation, Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford) sets out in the mid-1800's to be a mountain man, seeking solitude in a wilderness whose purity he never questioned. His first Rocky Mountain winter almost kills him. Starving and nearly frozen, he finds refuge with a wily old trapper (Will Geer) whose survival teaching includes going eyeball to eyeball with a grizzly. - Director:
- Sydney Pollack
- Cast:
- Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton
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Death Rides a Horse (1967)Da Uomo a Uomo
The gunmen who killed five defenceless people made one big mistake. They should have killed six! John Phillip Law lives for one purpose - to avenge the massacre off his family by the four bandits who occupy positions of authority in the new, 'civilised' West. Now, fifteen years later, he learns that one of the gang (Lee Van Cleef) is being released from prison and is seeking the men who framed him. Together they form an unholy alliance - a dynamic duo combining raw, untamed youth and the experience only a master gun-fighter can offer in the Wild West. - Director:
- Giulio Petroni
- Cast:
- Lee Van Cleef, Cantori Moderni Di Alessandroni, John Phillip Law
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Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston star as an oddball team of modern-day cattle rustlers in this quirky, inventive portrait of the no-longer-wild West. If you're ready for a little not-so-innocent frontier fun, for some desire under the elms and some smouldering glances at the OK Corral, then head straight for 'Rancho Deluxe'. Montana's Big Sky country is the setting for this whacked-out Western that literally litters the landscape with the crazed descendants of those hardy pioneers whose covered wagons have been replaced by ubiquitous pickup trucks. Among these deviated denizens are Slim Pickens as a crafty old stock detective, Harry Dean Stanton and Richard Bright as a pair of clumsy cowhands, and Clifton James and Elizabeth Ashley as a bored couple from Schenectady who bought their ranch with the profits from a chain of beauty parlours. - Director:
- Frank Perry
- Cast:
- Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley
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1876. The Black Hills Indian Cession, two weeks after Custer's last stand. Witness the birth of an American frontier town - and the ruthless power struggle between its just and unjust pioneers. In an age of plunder and greed, the richest gold strike in American history draws a mob of restless misfits to an outlaw settlement where everything - and everyone - has a price. The settlers, ranging from an ex-lawman to a scheming saloon owner to the legendary Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, share a constant restlessness of spirit, and survive by any means necessary. Welcome to Deadwood...a hell of a place to make your fortune. - Director:
- Walter Hill
- Cast:
- Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker
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The Age of Shadows (2016)Secret Agent
During the Japanese occupation, a group of freedom fighters smuggle explosives to destroy facilities controlled by the Japanese forces. A group of resistance fighters led by the leader's second in command try to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul. It's a game of cat-and-mouse as it's up to a Korean-born Japanese police officer to infiltrate the resistance at all costs by befriending an antique dealer who's involved in the plot but never exposed. - Director:
- Jee-woon Kim
- Cast:
- Byung-hun Lee, Yoo Gong, Kang-ho Song
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The Army of Crime (2009)L'Armee du crime
Their personal motives are steeped in tragedy. Their objective is to fight tyranny in the name of freedom. Their methods are deadly and explosive. This is the untold story of one of the most notorious and feared sects of the French resistance during WWII. A tense, uncompromising portrayal of how a disparate group of outsiders, from varying nationalities, joined forces to create an unstoppable underground army. This is also the story of Missak Manouchian, an Armenian poet and self-proclaimed pacifist who is suddenly thrown into a world where violence and conflict are the only means of survival. - Director:
- Robert Guédiguian
- Cast:
- Simon Abkarian, Virginie Ledoyen, Robinson Stévenin
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Official Competition (2022)Competencia Oficial
Independent cinema darling and Cannes Palme d'Or-winning filmmaker Lola Cuevas (Penelope Cruz) is approached by ageing business mogul Humberto Suarez (Jose Luis Gomez) to make a film that he hopes will be his legacy for the world. Intended as an adaptation of a much-loved literary work, Cuevas has more experimental intentions than some turgid piece of heritage cinema. Given carte blanche over the casting she pits acclaimed but stiflingly snobbish 'Actor' Ivan Torres (Oscar Martinez) against handsome but superficial screen icon Felix Rivero (Antonio Banderas), believing that the inevitable tension between the two can only help the film's dynamic. She couldn't be more right, as the three gather lora nine-day rehearsal that sees each pushed to their wits' end and underpins Cuevas' belief that art is suffering. - Director:
- Mariano Cohn
- Cast:
- Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Óscar Martínez
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Decision to Leave (2022)Heojil kyolshim
What happens when an object of suspicion becomes a case of obsession? When detective Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) arrives on the murder scene, he begins to suspect the dead man's wife Seo-rae (Tang Wei) may know more than she initially lets on. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, Hae-joon finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire, proving that the darkest mysteries lurk inside the human heart. - Director:
- Chan-wook Park
- Cast:
- Hae-Il Park, Wei Tang, Jung-hyun Lee
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