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Tôru Murakawa – Mottomo kiken na yuugi AKA The Most Dangerous Game (1978)
Quote:Hitman Narumi is asked to rescue a kidnapped businessman who is involved in an air defense project. Narumi nearly succeeds…
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz – Matka Joanna od aniolów AKA Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)
In the seventeenth century, Father Suryn arrives in Ludyn, a village on what was then the eastern border of Poland,…
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Hasan El-Saifi – Mamnou Fi Laylat El-Dokhla AKA Forbidden on the Wedding Night (1975)
Tahseen loves his girlfriend Mona but her controlling and domineering mother Zareefa is against their marriage and believes her daughter…
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Atif Yilmaz – Dul bir kadin AKA A Divorced Woman (1985)
Quote:Among those who made interesting women’s films in the 1980s, and in the centre of the controversy about a feminist…
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Claude Pinoteau – Le silencieux AKA Escape to Nowhere (1973)
Shortly after a delegation of Russian nuclear physicists arrives in London, one of their number, a man named Haliakov, is…
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Christoph Schlingensief – Das Deutsche Kettensägen Massaker AKA The German Chainsaw Massacre (1990)
Quote:Sounding like some cheap pastiche, The German Chainsaw Massacre comes as a surprisingly independent feature, able to stand on it’s…
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Alain Delon & Robin Davis – Le battant AKA The Fighter AKA Ice (1983)
Synopsis:Jacques Darnay (Delon) is released after having served ten years in prison for robbing a jewelry store. Much about that…
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Jan Nemec – Oratorio for Prague [+Extra] (1968)
One of the most powerful documentaries ever made, Oratorio for Prague contains the only footage from the Soviet-led invasion of…
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Maria Silvia Bazzoli & Christian Lelong – Moustapha Alassane, cinéaste du possible AKA Moustapha Alassane’s Cinema of Possibilities (2009)
Moustapha Alassane is a living legend in African cinema. His adventures take us to the era of “pre-cinema”, to the…
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