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Luigi Comencini – A cavallo della tigre AKA On the Tiger’s Back (1961)
This well-acted though conventional comedy-drama by director Luigi Comencini features comic Nino Manfredi in the title role of Giacinto, a…
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Victor von Plessen – Kopfjäger von Borneo aka Headhunters of Borneo (1936)
Baron Victor von Plessen’s “Kopfjäger von Borneo” (1936) is a magnificent early ethnographic film. A painter, ornithologist and ethnographer, von…
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Mikael Kristersson – Falkens öga AKA Kestrel’s Eye (1998)
Quote:From a bird’s point of view atop a 13th century church, the human world seems alien and weirdly self-absorbed. People…
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Lajos Koltai – Sorstalanság AKA Fateless (2005)
synopsis – AMG: One young man’s devastating voyage through the Holocaust sets the stage for this powerful drama. Gyorgy “Gyurka”…
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Andrew Horn – Doomed Love (1984)
Quote:Depressed after losing his lover a long time ago, Andre visits a psychiatrist. While in the doctor’s waiting room, he…
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Martín Rejtman – Silvia Prieto (1999)
Quote:A minimalist deadpan comedy involving drifting characters and objects, this film focuses on Silvia Prieto, a rather unexceptional young woman…
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Martín Rejtman – Los Guantes Mágicos AKA The Magic Gloves (2003)
Alejandro is a taxi driver about thirty- five years is suddenly in the midst of separations, violent weather changes, sudden…
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Kazuo Kuroki – Suri aka Pickpocket (2000)
Quote:Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped…
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Jianqi Huo – Nashan naren nagou AKA Postmen in the Mountains (1999)
Postmen in the Mountains (Chinese: 那山那人那狗; pinyin: Nàshān nàrén nàgǒu; literally “That Mountain, That Man, That Dog”) was a 1999…
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