The film’s central love story is interwoven with the massive strike that blocked Fiat for 35 days in Turin in 1980.
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Pakeezah / The Pure One (1972) Kamal Amrohi, Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari, Raaj Kumar, Musical, Romance, Drama
A girl, whose mother dies of sorrow from her husband’s family’s rejection, grows up singing and dancing like her mother. She works as a dancing girl and is courted by a prince, but can think only of a man she has never met, who left her a message on the train. She dreams of him and cannot dance, becomes frightened and runs into the night.
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La Dolce Vita (1960) Federico Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Comedy, Drama
Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome’s elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
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Red Room: The Forbidden King Game (1999) Daisuke Yamanouchi, Hiroshi Kitasenju, Sheena Nagamori, Mayumi Ookawa, Horror, Thriller, Exploitation
How low would you go to win a million dollars? Just how desperate are you for the cash? Desperate enough to enter the Red Room? In this latest and most vicious game show to emerge from the Japanese underground, four contestants (a husband and wife on the edge of divorce, and two sisters) are locked in the Red Room to draw cards in the “king game.”
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Flamingo Road (1949) Michael Curtiz, Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, Drama, Romance
Carnival dancer Lane Bellamy finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by corrupt political boss Titus Semple. Lane becomes romantically involved with sheriff Fielding Carlisle, a weakling whose career is being driven by Titus.
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Le rapport Darty (1989) Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Politics, Philosophy
A daring deconstruction of consumerist behaviour featuring a robot and Miss Clio Darty, with a voiceover by Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, this philosophical “report,” like so many of Godard’s commissions, was rejected by its funders.
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Prospero’s Books (1991) Peter Greenaway, John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc, Drama, Fantasy
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the ‘The Tempest’.
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La captive du désert / Captive of the Desert (1990) Raymond Depardon, Sandrine Bonnaire, Dobi Koré, Fadi Taha, Drama
Based on the ordeal of Francoise Claustre, who was taken hostage by the Toubous, a nomadic tribe in the African desert.
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Fires on the Plain / Nobi (1959) Kon Ichikawa, Eiji Funakoshi, Mantarô Ushio, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Drama, War
It is the Philipines, 1945. The Japanese Imperial Army has been reduced to a ragtag mob hiding in the jungles. Among them is Pvt. Tamura.
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Curdled (1996) Reb Braddock, William Baldwin, Angela Jones, Bruce Ramsay, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Gabriella, a Colombian immigrant, is obsessed with understanding violent crime. The current string of murders by “The Blue Blood Killer” of affluent Miami socialites provides her with fodder for her scrapbook of death.
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El rey del Once / The Tenth Man (2016) Daniel Burman, Alan Sabbagh, Julieta Zylberberg, Usher Barilka, Comedy, Drama
After years away, Ariel (Alan Sabbagh) returns to Buenos Aires seeking to reconnect with his father Usher, who founded a charity foundation in Once, the city’s bustling Jewish district where Ariel spent his youth.
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True North (2006) Steve Hudson, Peter Mullan, Martin Compston, Gary Lewis, Drama, Thriller
The skipper of the Scottish trawler PD-100 has worked for more than thirty-two years to buy his fishing vessel but is bankrupt and near to lose his ship to the bank.
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The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) Archie Mayo, John Cromwell, Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, Adventure, Biography, Romance
Marco Polo travels from Venice to Peking, where he quickly discovers spaghetti and gunpowder and falls in love with the Emperor’s daughter.
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The Man Between (1953) Carol Reed, James Mason, Claire Bloom, Hildegard Knef, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
In the Post-World War II, the British Susanne Mallison travels to Berlin to visit her older brother Martin Mallison, a military that has married the German Bettina Mallison. The naive Susanne snoops on Bettina and suspects that she is hiding a secret from her brother.
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The Tao of Steve (2000) Jenniphr Goodman, Donal Logue, Ayelet Kaznelson, John Hines, Comedy, Drama, Romance
In his early 30s, the beer-bellied Dex has things figured out. He’s widely read in philosophy, he’s studied Steve McQueen the prototypical cool American hero, and he’s distilled Buddhism and Taoism into three laws that make him a hit with women: don’t express desire, do something heroic in front of her, then retreat.
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