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The Emigrants / The New Land (1972)Utvandrarna / Nybyggarna
This monumental mid-nineteenth-century epic from Jan Troell charts, over the course of two films, a Swedish farming family's voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world. Movie legends Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann give remarkably authentic performances as Karl Oskar and Kristina, a couple who meet with one physical and emotional trial after another on their arduous journey. The precise, minute detail with which Troell depicts their story - which is also that of countless other people who sought better lives across the Atlantic - is a wonder to behold. Engrossing at every step of the way, the duo of 'The Emigrants' and 'The New Land' makes for perhaps the greatest screen drama about the settling of America. - Director:
- Jan Troell
- Cast:
- Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg
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Atlantic City (1980)Atlantic City, USA
On the Boardwalk of Dreams, everyone has a fantasy. Once the Queen of Resorts, Atlantic City has become the seedy Queen of Rackets. And with the legalisation of gambling, small-time gangsters like Lou (Burt Lancaster) are the losers; running numbers for the Mob can no longer offer a livelihood. But aging Lou's life changes abruptly when he becomes involved with Dave (Robert Joy), a young dope dealer, and his estranged wife, the beautiful and ambitious Sally (Susan Sarandon). Working at the Casino oyster bar whilst taking a rigorous course in blackjack dealing, she dreams of a glamorous new life in the casinos of Monte Carlo. When Dave is killed, Lou and Sally find themselves thrown together in a real-life escapade involving love, money, dope and danger. - Director:
- Louis Malle
- Cast:
- Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid
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A coming-of-age comedy about love, life and friendship starring British rising stars Jessica Brown Findlay and Felicity Jones. From the moment they meet, seventeen-year-old wild child Emelia and shy, sensible Beth are firm friends despite their differences. Beth is desperate to break free from her eccentric, dysfunctional family - her father Jonathan, a once famous writer suffering from writer's block and her outspoken and single-minded mother Joa, who cannot hide her resentment at having given up a once promising acting career. Before long, Emelia is bringing her own brand of chaos to the household with explosive consequences. - Director:
- Niall MacCormick
- Cast:
- Felicity Jones, Jessica Brown-Findlay, Sebastian Koch
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How does bitter convict Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) cope with a lifetime of solitary confinement? The answer, in a sense, comes from above - in the form of a feeble sparrow he finds in the isolation yard. Stroud brings this new-found companion to his cell, nurses it to health and, from that point on, there's no turning back. Despite having only a third grade education, and no hope of parole, Stroud becomes a renowned ornithologist - and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind prison walls than many in the outside world will ever know. - Director:
- John Frankenheimer
- Cast:
- Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter
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The Quiet Girl (2022)An Cailín Ciúin
CoIm Bairead's beautifully understated feature debut finds a young girl coming to terms with loss and the importance of family in rural Ireland. Cait (Catherine Clinch), a quiet, neglected young girl, is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. At first intimidated by her new environment, she quickly blossoms in the care of Eibhlin (Carrie Crowley) and her farmer husband, Sean (Andrew Bennett). As this new home becomes an idyll for her, Cait senses that something is plaguing her new foster parents - an unspoken pain that Eibhlin and Sean never discuss, which Cait's youthful curiosity begins to uncover. - Director:
- Colm Bairéad
- Cast:
- Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett
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Bern (August Diehl) and Gudrun (Lena Lauzemis) begin a passionate love affair set against the backdrop of 1960s West Germany. Following the war there has been a stifling atmosphere of provincialism, but a new mood has captured the imagination of the young. Setting out to challenge the establishment, Bern and Gudrun become part of a global uprising, joining forces with leftist writers and political activists. However, Gudrun's passion makes her join the infamous German terrorist group "The Baader Meinhof Gang", and the lovers' paths are set to take very different courses. - Director:
- Andres Veiel
- Cast:
- August Diehl, Lena Lauzemis, Alexander Fehling
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The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)El hombre que nunca estuvo
Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), a barber in a small northern California town. Ed is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' (Frances McDormand) infidelity presents Ed with an opportunity for blackmail that he thinks will help him to change it. However, Ed's scheme unravels and lays bare even darker secrets before leading to murder. - Director:
- Joel Coen
- Cast:
- Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco
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Willem Dafoe stars in a career defining performance as a reluctant father figure to the residents of a motel set against the backdrop of a Disneyland resort. From critically acclaimed director Sean Baker (Tangerine) 'The Florida Project' is a wonderful film about the innocence of childhood and the social divide that often touches all sides of humanity. - Director:
- Sean Baker
- Cast:
- Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe
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Director Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of his favorite blues artists: Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. Part history, part personal pilgrimage, the film tells the story of these lives in music through an extended fictional film sequence, rare archival footage, present-day documentary scenes and covers of their songs by contemporary musicians such as Shemekia Copeland, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Garland Jeffreys, Chris Thomas King, Cassandra Wilson, Nick Cave, Los Lobos, Eagle Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid, James "Blood" Ulmer, Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt, Marc Ribot, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lucinda Williams and T-Bone Burnett. - Director:
- Wim Wenders
- Cast:
- Shemekia Copeland, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Garland Jeffreys
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Nixon (1995)Ніксон
Warmonger or peacebringer? Oliver Stone's hard hitting portrayal of 'Tricky Dicky', the president everyone loves to hate; his battles with the CIA, his personal intrigues with J. Edgar Hoover, his plans for world peace with Henry Kissinger, his apocalyptic vision of Vietnam, Watergate, the cover-ups, and the skeletons in the cupboard... - Director:
- Oliver Stone
- Cast:
- Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe
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One Night in Miami (2020)One Night in Miami...
Adapted by Kemp Powers from his acclaimed play, the feature directorial debut of Academy Award-winning actor Regina King puts viewers in a room with four icons at the forefront of Black American culture, as they bond, clash, bare their souls, and grapple with their places within the sweeping change of the civil rights movement. February 25,1964, has gone down in history as the day that the brash young boxer Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) defeated Sonny Liston, but what happened after the fight was perhaps even more incredible: Ali, civil rights leader Malcolm X, NFL great Jim Brown, and "King of Soul" Sam Cooke all came together at a Miami motel. Electric with big ideas and activist spirit, 'One Night in Miami...'plunges us into the midst of an intimate, ongoing conversation - and a defining moment in American history. - Director:
- Regina King
- Cast:
- Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Paul Zindel, Paul Newman's second film as director stars his wife Joanne Woodward as an abusive, over-bearing mother raising her two daughters, Matilda and Ruth (Nell Potts and Roberta Wallach), in an atmosphere of bitterness and hatred. 'The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds' is a powerful, searingly unsentimental and ultimately transformative drama, with a trio of towering performances from the three female leads at its core. - Director:
- Paul Newman
- Cast:
- Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Roberta Wallach
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The latest from director Pat Collins, 'Song of Granite' is a critically acclaimed, lyrical and unconventional profile of the life of the complex and enigmatic Joe Heaney - one of the greats of traditional Irish singing (sean nos), and the country that made him. Shaped by die myths, fables and songs of his upbringing in the west of Ireland in the early 1900s, the film charts Heaney's emergence as a gifted artist and how his career success came at a personal cost as he journeyed from rural Connemara dirough Glasgow and eventually to New York City. - Director:
- Pat Collins
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- Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhride, Michael O'Chonfhlaola, Macdara Ó Fátharta
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The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann
Based on the internationally best-selling novel by Jonas Jonasson, this is the wonderful and unlikely story of a 100-year-old man who decides it's not too late to start over. After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home. A big celebration for his 100th birthday is in the works, but Allan really isn't interested. Instead, he climbs out of a window and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey - involving a gang of criminals, murderers, a suitcase stuffed with cash, an elephant and an incompetent policeman. It would be the adventure of a lifetime for anyone else, but Allan has a larger-than-life back-story. Not only has Allan witnessed some of the most important events of the twentieth century, but he has actually played a key role in them, including the invention of the atomic bomb and sharing meals and more with everyone from U.S. presidents to Russian tyrants. For a hundred years, Allan Karlsson rattled the world, and now he's on the loose again... - Director:
- Felix Herngren
- Cast:
- Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, David Wiberg
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Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)Bad Day at Hondo
Folks in Black Rock have their own way of welcoming mysterious, one-armed stranger John J. Macreedy. He's welcome to leave. Or they'll make sure he leaves in a pine box. Two-time Academy Award winner Spencer Tracy plays World War II veteran Macreedy, who keeps his own counsel about why he's come to Black Rock and who keeps his wits about him when confronted with threats and violence. Director John Sturges ramps up the tension while revealing Macreedy's mission and the town's grim secret. Robert Ryan, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin are among the town's thugs and lap dogs. - Director:
- John Sturges
- Cast:
- Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
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