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Top divorce attorney Miles Massey (George Clooney) has got it all. Serial gold-digger Marilyn Rexroth (Catherine Zeta-Jones) wants it all. A hilarious battle of deceit and cunning ensues when Miles falls for Marilyn, with each one trying to outsmart the other. Underhand tactics, deceptions and an undeniable attraction escalate as Marilyn and Miles square off in this classic battle of the sexes. - Director:
- Joel Coen
- Cast:
- George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Bob Thornton
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Masculin, Feminin (1966)Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis
Godard's seventh feature is set against a background of an edgy France gripped by political upheaval, the Vietnam war and an election year in which De Gaulle kept his grip on power, much to the frustration of the disgruntled left... Told in fifteen precise vignettes, Goddard skilfully paints a picture of French youth using the oddball relationship between Paul (Jean-Pierre Leaud), just demobbed from the army and politically aware, and Madeleine (Chantel Goya), an aspiring pop star. Their relationship is a struggle between consumerism and idealism, which the director exploits with considerable wit and aplomb. Besides being a superb study of contemporary French society in the late Sixties, this film marked the emergence of Jean-Luc Godard as a powerful auteur boldly examining the attitudes of an emerging youth culture in the political climate of which he was a part. - Director:
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast:
- Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert
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Winner of three Academy Awards including best picture, "Moonlight" is a breath-taking coming-of-age story and the best reviewed film of the year. "Moonlight" follows the story of Chiron (Ashton Sanders) from his early childhood in his depressed Miami neighbourhood to adulthood in Atlanta as he navigates the dangers of drugs, violence, family, love and sexuality. - Director:
- Barry Jenkins
- Cast:
- Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp, Duan Sanderson
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Loveless (2017)Nelyubov
Zhenya (Maryana Spivak) and Boris (Aleksey Rozin) are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page - even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha (Matvey Novikov). Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears. - Director:
- Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Cast:
- Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin
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San Francisco - Crime novelist Dashiell Hammett (Frederic Forrest) is investigating the mysterious disappearance of beautiful Chinese cabaret actress Crystal Ling (Lydia Lei). Hammett shortly realises that he's not the only one looking for her and that his investigation could compromise local figures linked to pornography traffic. - Director:
- Wim Wenders
- Cast:
- Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner
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Memories of Murder (2003)Salin ui Chu-eok
In 1986 Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, after two women are found raped and murdered, Seoul detective Seo Tae-yoon (Sang-kyung Kim) is brought in to help local detective Park Doo-man (Kang-ho Song) with the investigation. As more bodies are found, the pair realise they have a serial killer on their hands. Inspired by true events, Bong Joon Ho's sophomore feature blends true-crime with social satire and even comedy is his typically masterful fashion. - Director:
- Joon-Ho Bong
- Cast:
- Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim, Roe-ha Kim
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Querelle (1982)Querelle - Ein Pakt mit dem Teufel
Querelle is a sailor on shore leave in the French port of Brest. Following an argument, in which he stabs and kills his drug-smuggling partner, he seeks shelter in a nearby brothel. There he befriends the predatory madam, Lysiane (Jeanne Moreau), who leads him into his first homosexual encounter. From then on Querelle embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and sometimes violent sexual self-discovery that will transform him forever from the man he once was... - Director:
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Cast:
- Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau
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Force Majeure (2014)Turist
The sun is beaming and the ski slopes are spectacular for Tomas, his wife Ebba and their two children. However, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant an avalanche suddenly bears down upon the happy diners. As the wall of snow gets ever closer, Tomas makes a split-second decision in a moment of panic that will engulf and shake his relationship with his wife and children and leave him struggling to reclaim his role as the family patriarch. - Director:
- Ruben Östlund
- Cast:
- Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren
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Kings of the Road (1976)Im Lauf der Zeit
The final part of Wim Wenders' loose trilogy of road movies (following on from Alice in the Cities and Wrong Move), Kings Of The Road (aka in the course of time) has been hailed as one of the best films of the 1970s and remains Wenders' most remarkable portrait of his own country. After driving his car at high speed off road and into a river, losing all his worldly possessions, Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler) hitches a ride with Bruno Winter (Rudiger Vogler), who travels across Germany's hinterland repairing projectors in run-down cinemas. Along the way, the two men meet people whose lives are as at odds with the modern world as their own. In attempting to reconcile their past, the two men find themselves increasingly at odds with each other. - Director:
- Wim Wenders
- Cast:
- Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer
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Le Corbeau (1943)The Raven
A veritable masterpiece of French cinema, Henri-Georges Clouzot's 'Le Corbeau' is a dark and subversive study of human nature. A wave of hysteria sweeps the small provincial town of St. Robin when a series of poison-pen letters signed "Le Corbeau" appear, denouncing several prominent members of society. Starting with the village doctor, the slow trickle of sinister letters soon becomes a flood and no one is safe from their mysterious accusations. Condemned by the political left and right and the church upon its release in 1943, Clouzot was banned from filmmaking for two years after making the film. - Director:
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Cast:
- Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey
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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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Christian (Claes Bang), a respected curator of a contemporary art museum in Stockholm, is gearing up to launch a new show, 'The Square', a daring installation examining altruism and our duty to help others. However, Christian's own views on social responsibility are put to the test when he becomes the victim of scam, forcing him to question the world around him and his place in it. - Director:
- Ruben Östlund
- Cast:
- Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West
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The Return (2003)Vozvrashcheniye
The life of two brothers is shattered by the sudden appearance of their father, whom they know only from a 10 year old photograph. Is he really their father? Why has he come back after so many years? The boys find some answers on a remote and desolate island travelling with this man who turned their lives upside down. - Director:
- Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Cast:
- Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko
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"Suburbicon" is a cold-blooded thriller set in the peaceful streets of suburbia. Here, the picket-fenced homes and manicured lawns look like the perfect place to raise a family... but when a home invasion turns deadly, Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon) and Margaret (Julianne Moore) soon discover that they must turn to blackmail, violence and revenge in order to survive. - Director:
- George Clooney
- Cast:
- Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Oscar Isaac
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An Autumn Tale (1998)Conte d'automne
Rohmer's light-hearted comedy, set amongst the vineyards of the Rhone Valley, concludes his film cycle 'The Tales Of The Four Seasons'. Best friends Magali, a widow, and Isabelle, a happily married bookshop owner, have known each other since childhood. Although Magali enjoys her life as a winegrower, she admits she would relish some male companionship: a confession that prompts Isabelle to secretly find her a man. After placing a lonely hearts ad, Isabelle chooses a suitor, but finds that things don't quite go according to plan... - Director:
- Eric Rohmer
- Cast:
- Marie Rivière, Béatrice Romand, Alain Libolt
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