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The Devils (1971) Ken Russell, Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun Read More »
The Spanish Apartment AKA L’auberge espagnole (2002) Cédric Klapisch, Romain Duris, Judith Godrèche, Kelly Reilly
A man eager to learn Spanish gets an education he wasn’t expecting in this comedy drama. Read More »
The Year of Awakening AKA El año de las luces (1986) Fernando Trueba, Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdú, Verónica Forqué
April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe Read More »
Nothing Ventured AKA Nicht ohne Risiko (2004) Harun Farocki
What venture capital or VC for short actually means is explained the film itself. Read More »
Operation Autumn AKA Operação Outono (2012) Bruno de Almeida, John Ventimiglia, Diogo Dória, Nuno Lopes
Operation Autumn is a political “thriller” about the covert operation of the assassination Read More »
Zhou Yu’s Train AKA Zhou Yu de huo che (2002) Zhou Sun, Li Gong, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Honglei Sun
Zhou Yu, a ceramic decorative artist, travels twice a week from her hometown of San Ming to Chongyang Read More »
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures AKA Cinema Aspirinas e Urubus (2005) Marcelo Gomes, João Miguel, Peter Ketnath, Madalena Accioly
A road movie about a German man who went to the Northeast of Brazil in 1942 to sell Aspirin. Read More »
Microhabitat AKA Sogongnyeo (2017) Jeon Go-Woon, Esom, Jae-hong Ahn, Jae-Hyun Choi
31 year old Miso is barely getting by in Seoul. Her joys in life are: cigarettes, one glass Read More »
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2006) Jasmila Zbanic, Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Leon Lucev
Set against the backdrop of a former Yugoslavia of the nineteen-nineties Read More »
The Dauphin AKA O Delfim (2002) Fernando Lopes, Rogério Samora, Alexandra Lencastre, Rui Morisson
Portugal, late sixties. Tomás Palma Bravo, the Dauphin, is the heir to a world in decay. Read More »
Mutum (2007) Sandra Kogut, Thiago da Silva Mariz, Wallison Felipe Leal Barroso, Maria Juliana Souza de Oliveira
Thiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Read More »
The Room Next Door AKA La stanza accanto (1994) Fabrizio Laurenti, Mark Benninghoffen, Thomas Patrick, Mary Sellers
Martin Yakobowsky is a brilliant lawyer whose family originally comes from Poland. Read More »
The Quartet AKA O Quatrilho (1995) Fábio Barreto, Glória Pires, Patricia Pillar, Alexandre Paternost
The story of two immigrant couples: Teresa and Angelo; Pierina and Massimo. Read More »
25 Fireman’s Street AKA Tüzoltó utca 25. (1973) István Szabó, Lucyna Winnicka, Margit Makay, Károly Kovács
On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated Read More »