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Michael Mann – Thief (1981)
Quote:Coming closer to his dream of leading a normal life, a professional safecracker agrees to do a job for the…
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Joseph Losey – Secret Ceremony (1968)
Quote:Beautifully dark movie which grants Mia Farrow the freedom to showcase the strange range of her gift. Elizabeth Taylor stays…
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Ermanno Olmi – La circostanza AKA The Circumstance (1973)
Synopsis:‘The bourgeois family Olmi observes here is caught in a process of disintegration that hardly requires the promptings of a…
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Cristian Mungiu – Occident AKA West (2002)
Quote:Occident is a bittersweet comedy that focuses on the growing tendency of Eastern European youth to migrate west. When the…
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Manoel de Oliveira – A Caixa aka Blind Man’s Bluff (1994)
Quote:One of Manoel de Oliveira’s masterpieces, A Caixa (The Box) / Blind Man’s Bluff is an adaptation, in parable form,…
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Oxide Chun Pang – Som and Bank: Bangkok for Sale AKA One Take Only (2001)
Mak, a street urchin in Bangkok, dreams of being a tough gangster. He earns some money as a drugs runner.…
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Elliot Silverstein – Cat Ballou (1965)
Synopsis:When hired gun Tim Strawn (Lee Marvin) kills her rancher father, Cat Ballou (Jane Fonda) becomes an outlaw set on…
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James Hill – A Study in Terror (1965)
Synopsis:In this Sherlock Holmes tale, Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary 19th-century British sleuth (John Neville) is on the trail of Jack…
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Akira Kurosawa – Sugata Sanshirô AKA Judo Saga (1943)
Synopsis:Sanshiro Sugata (Susumu Fujita) wants to learn jujitsu. But after he witnesses the power of judo firsthand, he abandons his…
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