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Athina Rachel Tsangari's acclaimed film tells the strange tale of Marina, a withdrawn young woman who lives with her ailing father in a Greek factory town. Finding the human species strange and repellent she keeps her distance, choosing to observe life through Sir David Attenborough's nature documentaries and the sexual education lessons she receives from her only friend. Bella. - Director:
- Athina Rachel Tsangari
- Cast:
- Ariane Labed, Yorgos Lanthimos, Vangelis Mourikis
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Reincarnation (2005)Rinne
Representing the third J-Horror release, this terrifying ghost story from the director of the critically acclaimed Grudge is yet another high calibre instalment. In a film that merges stories from past and present, a young actress gets a role in a new film that is based on a series of horrific murders committed in the 1970s. During pre-production she appears to experience the murders as though they are happening around her, resulting in the discovery of an 8mm camera that she consequently has developed, with terrifying consequences. A supernatural whodunnit that's handled with real style. One of the year's most atmospheric and involving mysteries that has put Japanese horror firmly back on the map. - Director:
- Takashi Shimizu
- Cast:
- Yûka, Karina, Kippei Shîna
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Japanese grand master Akira Kurosawa's eloquent examination of the nuclear holocaust in Nagasaki as seen through the eyes of a survivor and her four grandchildren, 44 years later. The grandmother recalls the history of her family and Japanese society. As she searches for an understanding of the past, she falls into despair over the loss of her husband in the blast as its anniversary draws near. - Director:
- Akira Kurosawa
- Cast:
- Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa
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Eastern Promises (2007)Promesas peligrosas
After a young teenage mother dies during childbirth, midwife Anna resolves to try to trace the baby's relatives. Guided by the girl's personal diary she meets Seymon, the charming proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant who impeccably masks his cold and brutal acts as the head of one London's most notorious Eastern European crime families. Seymon's volatile son Kirill, who is also part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood, and the family's mysterious driver, Nikolai, soon cross her path as Anna accidentally unleashes the full fury of the Vory... - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Naomi Watts, Tatiana Maslany, Viggo Mortensen
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A History of Violence (2005)Una historia violenta
Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is living a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife (Maria Bello) and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana, but one night their idyllic existence is shattered when Tom foils a vicious attempted robbery in his diner. Sensing danger, he takes action and saves his customers and friends in the self-defence killings of two-sought-after criminals. Heralded as a hero, Tom's life is changed overnight, attracting a national media circus, which forces him into the spotlight. Uncomfortable with his newfound celebrity, Tom tries to return to the normalcy of his ordinary life only to be confronted by a mysterious and threatening man (Ed Harris) who arrives in town believing Tom is the man who's wronged him in the past. As Tom and his family fight back against this case of mistaken identity and struggle to cope with their changed reality, they are forced to confront their relationships and the divisive issues which surface as a result. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris
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Tokyo Sonata (2008)Tôkyô sonata
When Ryuhei Sasaki (played by Teruyuki Kagawa) is unceremoniously dumped from his 'safe' company job, his family's happy, humdrum life is put at risk. Unwilling to accept the shame of unemployment, the loyal salaryman decides not to tell anyone, instead leaving home each morning in suit and tie with briefcase, spending his days searching for work and lining up for soup with the homeless. Outstanding performances; serene, elegant direction; and Kurosawa's trademark chills are evident as he ratchets up the unsettling atmosphere and the grim hopelessness of Sasaki's unemployment. - Director:
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Cast:
- Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi
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Bright Future (2003)Akarui mirai
Friends Mamoru and Yuji are aimless young men stuck in dead-end jobs in a dreary factory in Tokyo. Mamoru, the more antisocial of the two, is obsessed with his pet project of acclimating a poisonous jellyfish to fresh water by gradually changing the water in its tank. One night, he inexplicably murders his boss' family and is sentenced to death. Yuji, left to continue the jellyfish experiment, befriends Mamoru's estranged father, Shin-ichiro, and the two form a bond. But Yuji's attachment to the jellyfish is even stronger, and problems arise when he accidently releases the poisonous creature into the canals of Tokyo. - Director:
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Cast:
- Joe Odagiri, Tadanobu Asano, Tatsuya Fuji
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Creepy (2016)Kurîpî: Itsuwari no rinjin
Based on a novel by Yutaka Maekawa, "Creepy" follows ex-police detective and criminal psychologist Takakura (Hidetoshi Nishijima), who moves to a quiet suburban town seeking peace and quiet. When a former colleague asks for his assistance on a case involving a disappearing family his investigation leads him to cast suspicions on his peculiar new neighbour. - Director:
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Cast:
- Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Toru Baba
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Journey to the Shore (2015)Kishibe no tabi
Mizuki's husband, Yusuke, drowned at sea three years ago. When he suddenly returns home, she, far from surprised, instead wonders what took him so long. Together they embark on a journey to meet the people who helped him on his journey in a world where the living and the dead coexist in an unassuming manner. - Director:
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Cast:
- Eri Fukatsu, Tadanobu Asano, Masaaki Akahori
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New York is in turmoil, the age of capitalism is drawing to a close and Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson), a high finance golden boy, is chauffeured across the city in his extravagant limousine. As the day goes by, an eruption of wild activity unfolds on the city's streets. Eric's empire collapses and as his paranoia intensifies he starts to realize his assassination is imminent. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon
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Drawn from true-life events, a feature takes a glimpse into the turbulent relationships between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) his mentor Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) , the troubled but beautiful young woman who comes between them. Also starring Vincent Cassel as Otto Gross, a debauched patient who is determined to push the boundaries... David Cronenberg directs this exploration of sensuality, where ambition and deceit set the scene for the pivotal moment when Jung, Freud and Sabina come together and split apart, forever changing the face of modern thought. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen
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Spider (2002)Павук
Spider (Ralph Fiennes) is a strange and fragile character... having experienced such a traumatic childhood, which resulted in spending a long time in a mental institution, he returns to the streets of the East End of London where he grew up. The sights, sounds and the smells of those streets begin to awaken the deeply buried memories of his childhood. At the centre of these memories is the great trauma of losing his mother (Miranda Richardson )... Spider believes that his father, Bill Cleg (Gabriel Byrne), murdered her so that he could move a prostitute into the house in her place. As Spider claws through the falsehoods he has woven around himself, he finally begins to arrive at the truth of his life and his mother's death... The truth, which will take him to the very limits of his faltering sanity...Spider, a supremely moving portrait of one man's struggle. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne
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Naked Lunch (1991)David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch
Former junkie William Lee (Peter Weller) makes ends meet as an exterminator. But when he and his wife Joan (Judy Davis) discover the hallucinatory properties of the powder he uses to kill bugs, they become hooked, and their world is changed forever. Insects speak, typewriters mutate and talk, interdimensional beings reveal themselves, identities fracture and blur; nothing and no one is quite what it seems. When Bill, underthe influence of drugs, or the bugsthat have begun talking to him, shoots his wife, he flees to Interzone, at once a place and a state of mind, where things only get stranger. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm
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The near future: eXistenZ is the ultimate game, brainchild of the hip, hyper and sexually alluring Allegro Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Once downloaded via a bioport implanted into the players' spine, eXistenZ promises an experience that will shatter forever the line between fantasy and reality. At its launch armed fanatics burst in, determined to destroy the game and its creator. Forced to run for her life, Allegra's sole ally is a young security guard (Jude Law). Together they seek refuge in the only place the gaming goddess feels safe - the world where existence ends and eXistenZ begins. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm
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Director David Cronenberg based this controversial and stylish psychological horror on a bizarre true story...Jeremy Irons delivers a disturbing performance as twin Gynaecologists Elliot and Beverly Mantle. Intrigued by the mysteries of sex and anatomy, the brothers grow from inseparable playmates to world-renowned specialists. Sharing their women, Elliot and Beverly seem inseparable. The entrance of Claire (Geneviève Bujold), an actress seeking fertility treatment, changes their relationship forever. Both twins seduce her but shy, sensitive Beverly falls in love and attempts to break free from his charming brother with catastrophic consequences. - Director:
- David Cronenberg
- Cast:
- Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske
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