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Waking Life (2001)Despertando a la vida
Join Wiley Wiggins as he searches for answers to life's most important questions in world that may or may not be reality.- Director:
- Richard Linklater
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- Ethan Hawke, Trevor Jack Brooks, Lorelei Linklater
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Il Bidone (1955)Il bidone
Augusto (Broderick Crawford), Picasso (Richard Basehart) and Roberto (Franco Fabrizi) are small-time conmen who play elaborate tricks on the poor and the credulous. But their cruelty and lack of morality is tested when Augusto is reunited with his estranged daughter and Picasso is faced with his loving wife's disapproving patience. Featuring excellent performances from Crawford, Basehart and Giulietta Masina against a colourful backdrop of sharply observed characters this sincere social drama is by turns comic, bitter and tragic. - Director:
- Federico Fellini
- Cast:
- Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina
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Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970's Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo (Germano Gilioli) and Luciana (Marisa Solinas), marry but must hide it from her employer; plus, they need a room of their own. A billboard of Anita (Anita Ekberg) provocatively selling milk gives a prudish crusader for public decency more than he can handle. The wife of a count whose escapades with call girls make the front page of the papers decides to work to prove her independence, but what is she qualified to do? A buxom carnival-booth manager who owes back taxes offers herself for one night in a lottery: a nerdy sacristan and a jealous cowboy make for a lovers' triangle. In each, women take charge, but not always happily. - Director:
- Vittorio De Sica
- Cast:
- Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider
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Dazed and Confused (1993)Dazed & Confused
America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Among the best teen films ever made, 'Dazed and Confused' eavesdrops on a group of seniors-to-be and incoming freshmen. A launching pad for a number of future stars, the first studio effort by Richard Linklater also features endlessly quotable dialogue and a blasting, stadium-ready soundtrack. Sidestepping nostalgia, 'Dazed and Confused' is less about "the best years of our lives" than the boredom, angst, and excitement of teenagers waiting...for something to happen. - Director:
- Richard Linklater
- Cast:
- Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey
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La Strada (1954)La strada
Sold by her impoverished mother to Zampano (Anthony Quinn), a brutish fairground wrestler, waif-like Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina) lives a life of drudgery as his assistant. After taking to the road with a travelling circus, a budding relationship with II Matto/The Fool (Richard Basehart), a gentle-natured, tightrope walking clown, offers a potential refuge from her master's clutches. Trapped by her own servile nature, Gelsomina waivers, and Zampano's volcanic temper erupts with tragic consequences. Characteristically mingling elements of biography with metaphor and symbolism, 'La Strada' also combines an easygoing charm with a far harder edged realism in the form of domestic violence and decaying, desolate towns. Masina - Fellini's wife - is astonishing in the central role and what with the evocative Nino Rota score and Otello Martelli's ravishing photography, it's little wonder that 'La Strada' was the winner of the first official Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. - Director:
- Federico Fellini
- Cast:
- Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart
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Based on a true story set in Carthage, Texas, the local funeral director Bernie Tiede (Jack Black) was one of the town's most beloved residents. Everyone loved Bernie, so it came as no surprise when he befriended Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), a wealthy widow known for her sour attitude, though when he killed her, he went to great lengths to create the illusion that she was still alive. - Director:
- Richard Linklater
- Cast:
- Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey
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Joint Security Area (2000)JSA / Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok JSA
Gunfire breaks out in the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea, leaving two North Korean soldiers dead while a wounded South Korean soldier (Lee Byung-hun) flees to safety. With the tenuous peace between the two warring nations on a knife-edge, a neutral team of investigators, headed by Swiss Army Major Sophie Jean (Lee Young-ae), is dispatched to question both sides to determine what really happened under cover of darkness out in no-man's land. - Director:
- Chan-wook Park
- Cast:
- Yeong-ae Lee, Byung-hun Lee, Kang-ho Song
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A two-fisted adventure tale set in South America, feature stars Cary Grant as the tough-talking head of an air-freight service operating in the dangerous Andes Mountains. Jean Arthur co-stars as a vacationing showgirl competing with Rita Hayworth for Grant's affections. A potent combination of humor, romance and action... - Director:
- Howard Hawks
- Cast:
- Jean Arthur, Cary Grant, Richard Barthelmess
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Scarface (1932)Scarface: The Shame of the Nation
Generally regarded to be the best of the classic gangster films, 'Scarface' tells the exciting story of organised crime's brutal control over Chicago during the Prohibition era. Paul Muni gives an electrifying performance as Tony Carmonte, an ambitious criminal with a ruthless drive to be the city's top crime boss. Directed by the legendary Howard Hawks, 'Scarface' was a groundbreaking film which established both Paul Muni and George Raft as major Hollywood stars, while influencing all gangland films to follow. - Director:
- Howard Hawks
- Cast:
- Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley
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The Handmaiden (2016)Ah-ga-ssi
In 1930s Korea, during Japanese occupation, Sookee (Tae-ri Kim) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on an enchanting and lavish estate with her domineering uncle. Yet Sookee has a secret, she has been recruited by a swindler posing as an illustrious Count to spy on the Lady so he can eventually seduce her and steal her fortune. However, this swindler is not the only one with a desire to seduce. - Director:
- Chan-wook Park
- Cast:
- Min-hee Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo
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Featuring Marilyn Monroe's legendary rendition of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend", this fun musical comedy is a knockout. Marilyn and Jane Russell star as two showgirls who set sail on a luxury liner bound for France. Hijinks on the high seas ensue as Lorelei (Monroe) and Dorothy (Russell) discover they're being tailed by a private detective hired by the father of Lorelei's landlocked boyfriend. By the time the ship reaches Paris, a missing diamond tiara lands the girls in hot water, but by following their hearts, they'll get out of trouble and on to the altar. - Director:
- Howard Hawks
- Cast:
- Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn
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I'm a Cyborg (2006)Ssaibogeujiman gwaenchanha / I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
I'm A Cyborg, the latest film from the Korean director Park Chan-wook, is a madcap fantasy, screwball romance. Young-goon is admitted to a mental institution, believing herself a cyborg, she charges herself with a transistor radio. Il-soon a fellow inmate steals the other inmates' personality traits and believes he is fading and will one day turn into a dot. When Young-goon refuses to eat, Il-soon decides it's his job to get her on her feet again. This charming, tender and visually arresting film cements Park Chan-wook's reputation as one of the most gifted and playful filmmakers working today. - Director:
- Chan-wook Park
- Cast:
- Su-jeong Lim, Rain, Hie-jin Choi
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Legendary producer-director Howard Hawks teams with two equally legendary stars, John Wayne and Robert Mitchum, in this classic Western drama. Mitchum plays to perfection an alcoholic but gutsy sheriff who relentlessly battles the dark side of the wild West, ruthless cattle barons and crooked "businessmen". 'The Duke' gives an equally adept performance as the sheriff's old friend who knows his way around a gunfight. - Director:
- Howard Hawks
- Cast:
- John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan
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8½ (1963)Otto e mezzo / Eight and a Half
Marcello Mastroianni is (Fellini's alter ego) Guido, a successful filmmaker who, embarking on his next film, discovers he has a complete "director's block": he has no story to tell! Harassed by his producers, his mistress (Sandra Milo) and his wife (Anouk Aimee), while struggling to find the inspiration for his film, he increasingly retreats in dreamy recollections of his life and lovers, until fantasy, memories and reality merge in the director's mind - and on screen, in an astonishing, masterful spectacle, culminating in an electrifying triumph of optimism. As Guido-Federico says at the end of 8 1/2: "Life is a party, let's live it together!" - Director:
- Federico Fellini
- Cast:
- Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale
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His Girl Friday (1940)Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday
Chicago Morning Post editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) is about to lose his ace reporter and former wife Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) to Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy). Then a late breaking story involving the impending execution of an anarchist who escapes and is hidden from the police by the former husband and wife throws the pair together once again. - Director:
- Howard Hawks
- Cast:
- Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
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