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Since time immemorial, the simple-minded boisterous people of Malava, a small Polish town near the border of imperial Russia, have lived on horse-stealing, horse-trading and horse-smuggling.

Life changes abruptly when a Russian garrison, commanded by Captain Stoloff (Yul Brynner), occupies the town and, in the name of the Czar, requisitions all the horses for the Russian-Japanese War. With no more horses to steal, Kifke (Eli Wallach) cannot afford to marry Estusha (Lainie Kazan) and all the young men in the village are likely to be incorporated into the Russian army. This state of affairs cannot continue and Zanvill (Oliver Tobias) will take care of things.

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Frankie (Gary Busey) and Patch (Robbie Robertson) have a system. Frankie wears clown makeup and sits in the dunk-tank cage, howling insults at midway passersby. Patch is out front collecting dollars from marks eager to make Frankie and his big mouth take a dive.

It's a good town-to-town living for the two pals. Then Donna (Jodie Foster) came along. A charismatic star trio energizes this grit-and-glitter slice of carnival life that's as atmospheric as a stroll down midway USA. Indeed, music man Robertson, who co-produced and penned the story on which the screenplay was based, once worked as a carny. He and his collaborators ensure that time spent with the impressive sights and unique personalities of this traveling show will be downright unforgettable.

Bored with her possessive husband while cruising on an Ocean liner, Stephanie (Mathilda May) is offered the opportunity to swap her life with that of a young woman who has thrown herself overboard. Her new identity catapults her into a life of prostitution and abuse which she both abhors and adores.

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The story follows Adam Beckett (Zach Galligan), a young aspiring artist who dreams of becoming great but struggles to find his place in the world. After failing an art test in New York City, he is forced to take a dull government job controlling traffic lights.

However, he soon discovers that the city is secretly run by a shadowy group of influential old men.

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A heist film tinged with black comedy, the story begins in 1991, with Estonia having just declared its independence from the Soviet Union. A band of gangsters hatch a plan to hijack the small Baltic nation's $1 billion worth of bullion, about to return to the capital after years of hiding in Paris.

Toivo (Ivo Uukkivi), a naive electrician, is commissioned to perform the key element in the plan - plummeting the city to darkness on the appointed midnight hour. Not a hardened criminal, Toivo is encouraged by his very pregnant wife to take the job. What follows is an edge-of-your-seat story involving childbirth, blackout, politics, and above all, love.

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'Kaagaz Ke Phool' is the story of a creative spirit pitted against a system that understands creativity only in terms of commercial success. Narrated in flashback, it is about the rise and fall of a famous filmmaker, Suresh.

Though an enormous success professionally, he has a failed marriage and a daughter, Pammi, who is in a boarding school. The turning point in his life comes when he makes a film about Devdas with an unknown girl, Shanti, cast as Parvati. Both are a runaway success and rumours about Shanti and Suresh's friendship become public and reach Pammi, who comes back to appeal to Shanti to stay out of her father's life and allow her parent's marriage another chance. Moved by Pammi's plea Shanti throws it all up to go and teach in a village school. Shanti's departure drives Suresh to alcohol and a downhill slide in his career. Eventually he gets a chance to make a comeback film -only if it stars Shanti. Does Suresh agree? Will Shanti help him make his comeback? Does Suresh come back from the edge of despair and hopelessness?

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The Psychotronic Video Guide describes this film as: 'the strongest most imaginative, and visual witch movie since Ken Russell's The Devils'.

It tells of the strange friendship between two young girls, Justine and Alucarda, and how their relationship destroyed the lives of those around them in a torrent of blood, death and damnation. This legendary lost film contains images that will shock and disturb.

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A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos.

Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's farm in northern England where there will hopefully be food and safety for all of them. Along the way, they encounter hostile soldiers, biker gangs, and all manner of people who are all too willing to take advantage of travelers for a mouthful of food.

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This visually inventive shocker tells the story of a suicidal teenager (Rie Kuwana) who's forced to watch her parents lovemaking from inside a locked cello case with a peephole, then sexually abused by her father after her mother's suspicious death.

But is her tragic tale true, or is it merely a novel being written by wheelchair-bound author Taeko (Masumi Miyazaki)? Japanese director Sion Sono helms this reality-bending fantasy.

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'Footnote' is the tale of a great rivalry between a father and son, two eccentric professors, who have both dedicated their lives to work in Talmudic Studies. The father, Eliezer, is a stubborn purist who fears the establishment and has never been recognised for his work.

His son, Uriel, is an up-and-coming star in the field, who appears to feed on accolades, endlessly seeking recognition. Then one day, the tables turn. When Eliezer learns that he is to be awarded the Israel Prize, the most valuable honor for scholarship in the country, his vanity and desperate need for validation are exposed. His son, Uriel, is thrilled to see his father's achievements finally recognised but, in a darkly funny twist, is forced to choose between the advancement of his own career and his father's. Will he sabotage his father's glory?

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Fans of inspirational dramas about the life-changing power of education will be touched by this moving, mostly true story of famed East L.A. math teacher Jaime Escalante (Edward James Olmos), who finds himself in a classroom of rebellious remedial students.

Escalante stuns fellow faculty members with his plans to teach the kids AP calculus. But no one expects the mostly Hispanic teens (including Lou Diamond Phillips) to overcome the odds.

"Report" is a fragmentary, harrowing attempt to come to terms with the circumstances of the Kennedy assassination, and especially, in light of the infamous Zapruder tape that captured the event, to understand what it means to document or report on an event like this.

In this 16 minute short, a director faces a rebellion of sorts when his star tells him she is fed up having to appear naked in pretty well every scene. What follows is an incoherent sequence of scenes - many with female nudity - and it's left entirely to the viewer to determine what it all means.

Filmed it Ghana, the film depicts the annual ceremony of the Hauku cult, a social and religious movement which was widespread in French colonial Africa from the 1920's to the 1950's. In a shared trance, the participants begin to mimic the elaborate military ceremonies of their colonial occupiers…

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A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the soundtrack speaks of his despair, makes impressionistic statements and little songs, quotes Greta Garbo and Maria Montez, tells the story of a lonely little

boy and (in drag) tells the story of a woman (Madame Nescience) who dreams of herself as the mother superior of a convent of sexual perversion.