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Tango libre (2012) Frédéric Fonteyne, François Damiens, Sergi López, Jan Hammenecker

A prison guard is attracted to a woman at his weekly tango class. They meet again when she visits her husband in the prison where he works Read More »
Bullhead AKA Rundskop (2011) Michaël R. Roskam, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Jeanne Dandoy

In Sint-Truiden, cattle farmer Jacky visits a distant relative and intimidates him into selling cows. 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 »
Battle Circus (1953) Richard Brooks, Humphrey Bogart, June Allyson, Keenan Wynn

Nurse Lt. Ruth McGara is assigned to a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) unit near the front lines of the Korean War. Read More »
4 (2004) Chetyre – Ilya Khrzhanovskiy

Meat merchant Oleg, prostitute Marina, and piano tuner “simply Volodya” drop into an all-night bar in Moscow Read More »
The Dream of Garuda AKA Kôkyû sôpu tekunikku 4: Monzetsu higi (1994) Takahisa Zeze, Takeshi Itô, Saki Kurihara, Shirô Shimomoto

A convicted rapist, Ikuo is released from prison and goes in pursuit of the woman he raped, Mieko. Read More »
Five Easy Pieces (1970) Bob Rafelson, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush

Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading Read More »
The Europeans (1979) James Ivory, Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy

It’s the mid-nineteenth century. Adult siblings Felix Young and Eugenia Munster were born and raised in Europe Read More »
Lady of the Stable AKA Umagoya no reijô (1991) Hisayasu Satô, Yukinojô, Mineo Sugiura, Rie Asai

Yuu is living with her Ryusei horse on the edge of the sea. Read More »
Epicentro (2020) Hubert Sauper, Oona Chaplin

Waves crashing over a breakwater at the edge of the sea—this dramatic opening image conveys the vital spirit 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 »
Impromptu (1991) James Lapine, Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin

1830s Paris. Novelist George Sand, who is known to be writing her memoirs, is causing a sensation in the literary scene Read More »
Temple of the Golden Pavilion AKA Kinkakuji (1976) Yoichi Takabayashi, Saburô Shinoda, Toshio Shiba, Katsuhiko Yokomitsu

The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist Priest. Read More »
Albert (1985) Frantisek Vlácil, Jaroslav Filip, Jan Kacer, Peter Debnar

Story of an extraordinary musician, violinist, who was famous, but his alcoholism led him to poverty. Read More »