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The Eye Above the Well AKA Het oog boven de put (1988) Johan van der Keuken
A poetic depiction of life and ritual in the south Indian state of Kerala. Read More »
Amsterdam Global Village (1996) Johan van der Keuken, Julika Marijn
“I am far away on a distant journey through my own city”, filmmaker Johan van der Keuken says at the end of his four-hour portrait of Amsterdam. Read More »
El bonaerense (2002) Pablo Trapero, Jorge Román, Mimí Ardú, Darío Levy
Zapa is a locksmith in a quiet and little town lost somewhere in the province of Buenos Aires. Read More »
Time of Love AKA Nobat e Asheghi (1995) Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Shiva Gered, Abdurrahman Palay, Menderes Samancilar
Part one: A brown-haired man finds out that his wife cheats on him with a blonde-haired man. Read More »
Hassan and Nayima AKA Hasan wa Naimah (1959) Henry Barakat, Muharram Fuad, Suad Husni, Mohammed Tawfik
Hajj Mitwalli is keen to acquire money and land. His daughter Naimah falls in love with Hasan Read More »
Mad Emperor: Ludwig II AKA Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs (1955) Helmut Käutner, O.W. Fischer, Marianne Koch, Paul Bildt
King Ludwig II of Bavaria is frustrated, having to accept parliament’s will to join Bismarck, rather he his cultured Habsburg friends, in wars. Read More »
Morphine AKA Morfiy (2008) Aleksey Balabanov, Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Andrey Panin
The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. Read More »
Bamako (2006) Abderrahmane Sissako, Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura Traoré, Maimouna Hélène Diarra
Bamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work Read More »
Games of Clouds and Rain AKA Les jeux des nuages et de la pluie (2013) Benjamin de Lajarte, Simon Yam, Heling Li, Audrey Dana
Li Qin leaves her temperamental husband and unknowingly provides a trail for a detective who has been, for months, secretly devoted to her. Read More »
My Apprenticeship AKA V lyudyakh (1939) Mark Donskoy, Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina, Varvara Massalitinova
For the family really no money, Alexei began to make a living. Everything was limited to dirty chores Read More »
Ride Lonesome (1959) Budd Boetticher, Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts
A wanted murderer, Billy John, is captured by Ben Brigade, a bounty hunter, who intends to take him to Santa Cruz to be hanged. Read More »
Machuca (2004) Andrés Wood, Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Read More »
That Hamilton Woman (1941) Alexander Korda, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray
Sir William Hamilton, a widower of mature years, is British ambassador to the Court of Naples. Read More »
Play Misty for Me (1971) Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills
Disc jockey Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) attracts the amorous attentions of a demented fan named Evelyn Draper (Jessica Walter). Read More »