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La Cage aux Folles (1978)The Mad Cage
Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault) - a middle-aged gay couple who are the manager and star performer at a glitzy drag club in Saint-Tropez - agree to hide their sexual identities, along with their flamboyant personalities and home decor, when the ultraconservative parents of Renato's son fiancée come for a visit. This elegant comic scenario kicks off a wild and warmhearted French farce about the importance of nonconformity and being true to oneself. A breakout art-house smash in America, Edouard Molinaro's 'La Cage aux Folles' inspired a major Broadway musical and the blockbuster remake 'The Birdcage'. But with its hilarious performances and ahead-of-its-time social message, there's nothing like the audacious, dazzling original movie. - Director:
- Édouard Molinaro
- Cast:
- Ugo Tognazzi, Jacques Balutin, Michel Serrault
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The year is 1901. Two ships sail off the north coast of Germany. One of the ships, the 'Dulcibella' , is a weather-beaten ex-lifeboat owned by a young Englishman, Arthur Davies, on a sailing holiday. The other is an opulent yacht owned by an apparently wealthy German, Dollmann. Davies becomes increasingly suspicious of Dollmann's behaviour. Could he be a spy? Wanting answers, Arthur contacts a friend in the Foreign Office who joins him aboard, only for them to be threatened by Dollmann and told to leave the area. Instead the two become even more involved and discover a German plot to invade Britain. They must get word urgently to British intelligence, but there are many forces who wish to keep them silent. - Director:
- Tony Maylam
- Cast:
- Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Simon MacCorkindale
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Johnny (David Thewlis) is a frenetic and destructive outsider who tears through the lives of others like an emotional tornado. On the run from Manchester, he seeks sanctuary with his ex-girlfriend Louise (Lesley Sharp) in London, where he immediately targets her vulnerable housemate Sophie (Katrin Cartlidge) with his unique blend of predatory charm. From there he embarks on a nocturnal odyssey across the city, dragging other disaffected souls into his orbit as he spirals towards his own personal apocalypse. - Director:
- Mike Leigh
- Cast:
- David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge
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The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)The Spy in Lace Panties
Doris Day plays a Girl Friday at a hush-hush aeronautics think tank. When colleagues suspect she's an espionage agent, Jennifer chaotically sets out to clear her name. Looney Tunes alumnus Frank Tashlin directs with a cartoonist's sensibility - or zany insensibility -embracing everything from spy guises to push-button chaos in a futuristic kitchen. - Director:
- Frank Tashlin
- Cast:
- Doris Day, Rod Taylor, Arthur Godfrey
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"A Rainy Day in New York" tells the story of college sweethearts, Gatsby (Timothée Chalamet) and Ashleigh (Elle Fanning), whose plans for a romantic weekend together in New York City are dashed as quickly as the sunlight turns into showers. The two are soon parted, and each has a series of chance meetings and comical adventures they will discover that, while you only live once, once is enough if you find the right person. - Director:
- Woody Allen
- Cast:
- Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Liev Schreiber
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Pillow Talk (1959)Problemas de alcoba
The uninhibited story of a carefree bachelor and a carefree career girl and the hilarious things that happen when they tangle. Rock Hudson is Brad Allen, a songwriter and notorious playboy. Doris Day is Jan Morrow, a pert interior decorator. Together they share a party line over which they develop an intense dislike for one another. But when Brad eventually matches Jan's voice to her face and figure, the events that follow in this uproarious romantic comedy succeed in giving new meaning to the phrase "All's fair in love and war". - Director:
- Michael Gordon
- Cast:
- Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
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On a desolate stretch of desert highway, weary travellers - two men on the run from their past, a band on their way to the next gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation - are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales of terror and remorse on the open road. - Director:
- Roxanne Benjamin
- Cast:
- Chad Villella, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Kristina Pesic
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American Splendor (2003)Huy hoàng kiểu Mỹ
Grinding out a living as a filing clerk in a Clevland hospital, Harvey Pekar relieves the monotony of his daily routine discussing everything from rock 'n' roll and the decline of American culture to new flavours of jellybeans. For Harvey, life in all its unpredictable glory becomes an obsession and he begins to record his observations in a collection of stories he calls 'American Splendor'. As grumpy as it is hilarious, the first edition of American Splendor is eventually published - with a little help from legendary comic book illustrator Robert Crumb - and the cantankerous curmudgeonly Harvey becomes a hero for millions of Americans. He achieves critical acclaim, celebrity status and, most unlikely of all, finds true love. Before camcorders, before webcams, before reality TV, there was Harvey Pekar. This is the true and extraordinary story of his life. - Director:
- Shari Springer Berman
- Cast:
- Paul Giamatti, Shari Springer Berman, Jason Stevens
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In the 1840's, acclaimed self-taught palaeontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) works alone on the wild and brutal Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis. The days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother. When one such tourist, Roderick Murchison (James McArdle), arrives in Lyme on the first leg of a European tour, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte (Saoirse Ronan), who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Mary, whose life is a daily struggle on the poverty line, cannot afford to turn him down but, proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, she clashes with her unwanted guest. They are two women from utterly different worlds. Yet despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably. - Director:
- Francis Lee
- Cast:
- Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones
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Ted Bundy (2002)Bundy
A chilling combination of boy-next-door good looks and a murderously deranged psyche made Ted Bundy one of the most notorious and complex of all modern day serial killers.Ted's relationship with his girlfriend is good, except that he keeps suggesting things she doesn't want to do. Undeterred, Ted looks elsewhere for a means to satisfy his dark desires and begins living out his fantasies by luring, tormenting and murdering a slew of unsuspecting women, leaving no trace for the police to solve the chain of apparently motiveless crimes. Told in shocking detail from the deranged point of view of Bundy himself, Matthew Bright's twisted and, at times, darkly comic film captures the disturbed world of one of the most infamous serial killers of all time. - Director:
- Matthew Bright
- Cast:
- Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Bliss, Julianna McCarthy
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Little Miss Sunshine (2006)Pequeña Miss Sunshine
Take a hilarious ride with the Hoovers, one of the most endearingly fractured families in comedy history. Father Richard (Greg Kinnear) is desperately trying to sell his motivational success programme... with no success. Meanwhile, "pro-honesty" mom Sheryl (Toni Collette) lends support to her eccentric family, including her depressed brother (Steve Carell), fresh out of the hospital after being jilted by his lover. Then there are the younger Hoovers - the seven-year-old, would-be beauty queen Olive (Abigail Breslin) and Dwayne (Paul Dano), a Nietzsche-reading teen who has taken a vow of silence. Topping off the family is the foul-mouthed grandfather (Alan Arkin), whose outrageous behaviour recently got him evicted from his retirement home. When Olive is invited to compete in the "Little Miss Sunshine" pageant in fat-off California, the family piles into their rusted-out VW bus to rally behind her - with riotously funny results. - Director:
- Jonathan Dayton
- Cast:
- Steve Carell, Regis Philbin, Toni Collette
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Based on Peter Rock's novel 'My Abandonment', 'Leave No Trace' revolves around a teenage girl (Thomasin McKenzie) and her father (Ben Foster) who have lived undetected for years in Forest Park, a vast wood on the edge of Portland, Oregon. A chance encounter leads to their discovery and removal from the park and into the charge of a social service agency. They try to adapt to their new surroundings until a sudden decision sets them on a perilous journey into the wilderness seeking complete independence and forcing them to confront their conflicting desire to be part of a community or a fierce need to live apart. - Director:
- Debra Granik
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- Thomasin McKenzie-Harcourt, Ben Foster, Jeffery Rifflard
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84 Charing Cross Road (1986)Zwischen den Zeilen
Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft), a feisty New York writer, mails a letter to a small London bookshop requesting some rare English classics. Frank Doel (Anthony Hopkins), the reserved English bookseller, answers her request, beginning a touching and humorous correspondence that spans two continents and two decades. Hanff's acerbic wit starkly contrasts Doel's aloof British demeanor, but their mutual love of books forms a bond that deepens with each passing year. Their intimate, richly detailed letters draw us into their lives as Helene and Frank share their dreams, hopes, sorrows and joys — and in doing so, develop a lasting and extraordinary friendship. - Director:
- David Hugh Jones
- Cast:
- Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench
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Gaspar Noe, director of the hugely controversial 'Irreversible', 'Enter the Void' and 'Love', makes a triumphant return with 'Climax' - a visually dazzling feast of music and mayhem, and perhaps his most critically acclaimed work to date. Following a successful rehearsal, a dance troupe set about celebrating with a party. But when it becomes apparent that someone has spiked the sangria, the joyous atmosphere soon transforms into a nightmarish hellscape of violence and twisted carnality as the dancers begin to turn on each other in an orgiastic frenzy. Inspired equally by the worlds of modern dance and esoteric arthouse-horror (chief among them, Dario Argento's Suspiria and Andrzej Zutawski's Possession), 'Climax' - which pulses towards its astonishing conclusion with a thumping score by the likes of Daft Punk, Aphex Twin and Gary Numan - illustrates a director at the height of his hallucinatory filmmaking powers. - Director:
- Gaspar Noé
- Cast:
- Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub
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"Lucky" follows the spiritual journey of Harry Dean Stanton's character 'Lucky', a cantankerous, self-reliant 90 year old atheist, and the quirky characters that inhabit the Arizona town where he lives. Having out-lived and out-smoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely independent Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration, leading towards that which is so often unattainable: enlightenment. Released in the US just days after Stanton's death at age 91, 'Lucky', is at once a love letter to the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton as well as a meditation on mortality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection. - Director:
- John Carroll Lynch
- Cast:
- Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston
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