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Ana Yurdu / Motherland (2015) Senem Tüzen, Esra Bezen Bilgin, Nihal G. Koldas, Semih Aydin, Drama

Nesrin, an urban upper-middle class woman, goes back to her parents’ old village in Anatolia to finish a novel and live out her dream of being a writer. Read More »
Hamlet liikemaailmassa / Hamlet Goes Business (1987) Aki Kaurismäki, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen, Comedy, Drama, Romance

A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that decides to move into the rubber duck market. But Hamlet is suspicious of the circumstances surrounding his father’s death…
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Pirosmani (1969) Giorgi Shengelaia, Avtandil Varazi, Dodo Abashidze, Givi Aleksandria, Biography

This film is about the great Georgian painter – primitivist Niko Pirosmanashvili (1862-1918). An unknown, self-taught painter roams the streets of a city, painting his pictures. Read More »
L’ultimo gladiatore / Messalina vs. the Son of Hercules (1964) Umberto Lenzi, Richard Harrison, Marilù Tolo, Philippe Hersent, Adventure, Drama

While fighting in Britain, Roman forces commanded by Caligula capture the noble warrior, Glaucus. Read More »
Raging Bull (1980) Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Biography, Drama, Sport

When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he’s a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he’s a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment.
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Indivisibili / Indivisible (2016) Edoardo De Angelis, Angela Fontana, Marianna Fontana, Antonia Truppo, Drama

Daisy and Violet are twin sisters on the verge of turning 18. They are blessed with beautiful voices and are sought after to sing at weddings, communions and baptisms.
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Chrieg / War (2014) Simon Jaquemet, Sascha Gisler, Benjamin Lutzke, Ella Rumpf, Drama

The whole world is against Fifteen-year-old Matteo. He has no friends and his parents seem to live in a different universe.
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Signorina Effe (2007) Wilma Labate, Filippo Timi, Valeria Solarino, Sabrina Impacciatore, Drama

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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La fuggitiva (1941) Piero Ballerini, Jole Voleri, Anna Magnani, Clelia Matania, Drama

In the absence of the biological mother, too busy pursuing her theatrical career, we see the glorification of the maternal surrogate, a woman who is a paragon of sacrifice and self-abnegation. La Fuggitiva is also a film in which a child actress takes a prominent role.
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Starman (1984) John Carpenter, Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

Jenny Hayden never did get over the death of her husband. So when an alien life form decides to model “himself” on the husband, Jenny is understandably confused if not terrified. The alien, or Starman, as he is called, has a deadline to meet, and kidnaps Jenny in order to meet it.
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Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Crime, Drama, Mystery

JJ ‘Jake’ Gittes is a private detective who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases. He is hired by Evelyn Mulwray when she suspects her husband Hollis, builder of the city’s water supply system, of having an affair.
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Contact (1997) Robert Zemeckis, Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway has long been interested in contact to faraway lands, a love fostered in her childhood by her father, Ted Arroway, who passed away when she was nine years old leaving her then orphaned. Her current work in monitoring for extraterrestrial life is based on that love and is in part an homage to her father.
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Colors (1988) Dennis Hopper, Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso, Action, Crime, Drama

A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear.
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Mangrove (2011) Frédéric Choffat, Julie Gilbert, Lucia, Patrick Pasquier, Vimala Pons, Drama

A young woman travels with her child to a remote coast on the Pacific in southern Mexico where she grew up. She had lived with her father in a house on the beach until her beloved, a young fisherman from the neighbouring village died a brutal death, causing her to flee. Years later she returns to make peace with the ghosts of the past.
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