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Lars von Trier – Orchidégartneren AKA The Orchid Gardener (1977)
Lars von Trier submitted this film as part of his application to film school. Many of the aesthetic and thematic…
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Mario Monicelli & Steno – Guardie e Ladri aka Cops and Robbers (1951)
In Rome, during the Americans with their Marshall plan helps, a thief Totò makes the life of a cop Aldo…
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Alexander Payne – Citizen Ruth (1996)
“Ruth Stoops is a poor indigent drug-user (a huffer – inhaling glue and paint for a high) whose down and…
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Jean Garret – A Mulher Que Inventou o Amor AKA The Woman Who Invented the Love (1979)
The plot: Doralice is a simple minded woman romantically fascinated by marriage. However, when she is raped by a butcher,…
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Tsui Hark – Dao aka The Blade (1995)
After the master of the Sharp Manufacturer saber factory abdicates and appoints On, his least popular worker, as his successor,…
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Marcel Carné – Hôtel du Nord (1938)
Quote:L`Hôtel du Nord is an award-winning novel of the first Prix du Roman Populist and is a loose collection of…
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Jean-Luc Godard – Le Gai Savoir aka Joy of Learning (1969)
Quote: Patricia Lumumba and Emile Rousseau stumble across each other one night in an abandoned television studio. They meet for…
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Rafael Gil – Mare nostrum (1948)
Rafael Gil directed a number of films during the ’40s and ’50s. He started out co-directing three films with Gonzalo…
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Nicole Védrès – Paris 1900 [English version] (1947)
Quote: One of the most important documentary films made in France, Paris 1900 vividly conveys the mood of a world…
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