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Peter Greenaway – The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Quote:The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her…
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Marc Lawrence – Daddy’s Deadly Darling AKA Pigs (1973)
Synopsis:Lynn Hart is a disturbed young woman who escapes from a mental hospital where she was committed for killing her…
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Gordon Douglas – Claudelle Inglish (1961)
SynopsisClaudelle Inglish, the teenage daughter of a Georgia sharecropper, is in love with Linn Varner, a farmboy. Claudelle’s mother, Jessie,…
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Jean Negulesco – The Gift of Love (1958)
The Gift of Love is a remake of 1946’s Sentimental Journey, with Lauren Bacall in the role originated by Maureen…
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Pierre Pinaud – Les Miettes AKA Crumbs (2007)
A factory worker lives in a small house and does her shopping at the local store. One morning as she’s…
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Andrey A. Tarkovskiy – Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer (2019)
The documentary recounts Tarkovsky’s life and work, letting the director tell the story himself, as he shares with us his…
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Xiaoshuai Wang – Dijiutianchang AKA So Long, My Son (2019)
‘We’re waiting to grow old’. This sentence briefly sums up Yaoyun and his wife Liyun’s bitter realisation about their lives.…
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Yoshiaki Kawajiri – Jûbei ninpûchô AKA Ninja Scroll (1993)
Quote:A vagabond swordsman is aided by a beautiful ninja girl and a crafty spy in confronting a demonic clan of…
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Leonid Gaidai – Kavkazskaya plennitsa AKA Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1966)
Leonid Gaidai’s irreverent comedy updates a Leo Tolstoy story for modern Soviet times, in the Caucasus region. Shurik, a naive…
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