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Wild River (1960)Río salvaje
Set in the early 1930's and filmed on location in the Tennessee Valley, Wild River features Montgomery Clift as an idealistic Tennessee Valley Authority agent who is assigned the task of convincing the locals to move from their property so that a beneficial dam can be built. One major barrier stands in his way, a feisty old woman (the estimable Jo Van Fleet) who simply refuses to budge from her land. Elia Kazan's masterful recreation of a troubled and complex period in American history is marked not only by its astounding locations, its first rate performances (alongside Van Fleet, Lee Remick excels as the holdout's granddaughter and look out also for an uncredited Bruce Dern in his first screen role) but by its forward thinking and undeniably powerful social liberalism. - Director:
- Elia Kazan
- Cast:
- Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet
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A Fantastic Woman (2017)Una mujer fantástica
Marina Vidal's life is thrown into turmoil following the sudden death of her partner, Orlando. Met with suspicion from the police and contempt from her lover's relatives. As tensions rise between her and Orland's family, she is evicted from their shared home and banned from attending his funeral. But faced with the threat of losing everything, Marina finds the strength to fight back. Sebastián Lelio returns with a groundbreaking, deeply humane and Oscar-winning story about a trans woman's fight for acceptance. Anchored by a powerhouse performance from rising star Daniela Vega, 'A Fantastic Woman' is an urgent call for compassion. - Director:
- Sebastián Lelio
- Cast:
- Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco
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In Depression-era Albany, N.Y., Francis Phelan (Jack Nicholson) has become an alcoholic vagabond after guilt over accidentally killing his infant son led him to desert his family. Over the course of several days, he ambles from gritty job to dirty bar to makeshift sleeping quarters. By chance, he encounters fellow itinerant drinker and his sometime lover, Helen Archer (Meryl Streep). Together, they wax nostalgic about their haunted pasts. - Director:
- Hector Babenco
- Cast:
- Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Carroll Baker
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A family of Oregonian loggers, led by patriarch Henry (Hnery Fonda), live and work by the family motto 'never give an inch.' When the townspeople go on strike, the determined Stamper family refuse to join in, and continue logging. When Henry is incapacitated by a broken arm it is left to his son Hank (Paul Newman) to take charge and pull the family together. Whilst Hank is distracted by the family's struggle to meet their targets, his bored wife Viv (Lee Remick), is reconnecting with the errant Leland (Michael Sarrazin), Hank's brother who has suddenly reappeared after leaving the town ten years before. When sabotage by the townspeople destroys vital logging equipment, Henry turns to increasingly desperate methods, and events threaten to build to an explosive climax. - Director:
- Paul Newman
- Cast:
- Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick
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In a cosy corner of Brooklyn on a sweltering afternoon, best friends Lilly (Dakota Fanning) and Gerri (Elizabeth Olsen) bump into a handsome, enigmatic stranger who quickly becomes an object of both their affections. Lilly finds herself growing closer to David (Boyd Holbrook) and as she struggles to tell Gerri, becomes increasingly caught between loyalty to her friend and her new found love. However, when tragedy strikes Gerri's family, Lily's controversial actions to help her devastated best friend create only disappointment and anger and leave Lilly with the very real possibility that she might lose both relationships. How the girls resolve this situation will be a lesson for the rest of their lives, defining love as impossible without truth and the only thing that really sets you free. - Director:
- Naomi Foner
- Cast:
- Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, Sterling Jones
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In Front of Your Face (2021)Dangsin-eolgul-apeseo
After years living abroad, former actress Sangok (Lee Hyeyoung) is back in Seoul, staying with her sister Jeongok (Cho Yunhee) in her high-rise apartment. Whilst Sangok becomes re-accustomed to life in Korea, the sisters have a lie-in, enjoy breakfast in a cafe and visit a restaurant owned by Jeongok's son. But as the detail of Sangok's day accrue (a spill on her blouse, an encounter at her childhood home), it becomes clear that there is much she is not revealing. These mysterious circumstances may have something to do with her decision to meet with film director Jaewon (Kwon Haehyo) to discuss her return to acting. - Director:
- Sang-soo Hong
- Cast:
- Yunhee Cho, Lee Hye-yeong, Hae-hyo Kwon
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The acclaimed new film tells the startlingly original and brutally honest story of 15 year-old Mia, brilliantly played by winner Katie Jarvis. A feisty and fiercely independent outsider, Mia is ostracised from her friends and lives uneasily with her volatile mother (Kierston Wareing) in a tough Essex estate from which she longs to escape. But the unexpected arrival of her mother's handsome and charismatic new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender) sparks a catalogue of events that threaten to turn Mia's world upside down. - Director:
- Andrea Arnold
- Cast:
- Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing
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Denzel Washington (as Tobin Frost) plays the most dangerous renegade from the CIA, who comes back onto the grid after a decade on the run. When the South African safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead. - Director:
- Daniel Espinosa
- Cast:
- Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Robert Patrick
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Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)Sálvese quien pueda
A computer operator (Whoopi Goldberg) at a bank is plunged into an exciting world of international intrigue, danger and romance when her terminal gets an S.O.S. from "Jumpin' Jack Flash", a British spy stranded in Eastern Europe. She is soon matching wits with the deadliest members of the espionage community from the CIA to the KGB. - Director:
- Penny Marshall
- Cast:
- Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, John Wood
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The Big Hit (2020)Un Triomphe
Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett's famous play Waiting for Godot. When he is allowed to take the colorful band of convicts on a tour outside of prison, Etienne finally has the chance to thrive. - Director:
- Emmanuel Courcol
- Cast:
- Kad Merad, David Ayala, Lamine Cissokho
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Fall in love with Adam, the delightful, romantic story about two strangers in search of an extraordinary connection. Hugh Dancy delivers an unforgettable performance as a brilliant, yet awkward, astronomy buff, who is drawn out of his sheltered existence by his beautiful and outgoing new neighbour, Beth (Rose Byrne). But can true love survive when two very different worlds collide? - Director:
- Max Mayer
- Cast:
- Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)Einst kommt der Tag
The talents of acclaimed director Vincente Minnelli and legend Barbra Streisand combine to bring this Broadway production to the screen in grand fashion. Streisand is Daisy Gamble, a kooky chain-smoker desperate to kick the habit. She finds the perfect cure in the form of Dr. Marc Chabot (Yves Montand), a psychiatrist who uses hypnosis. However, when Daisy goes into a trance, she can regress into past lives and different personalities - including "Melinda", a 19th-century English coquette. And before you can say "amour," Dr. Marc has fallen in love with the enthralling, elusive Melinda... while Daisy, in turn, finds herself falling head-over-heels for the handsome hypnotist! - Director:
- Vincente Minnelli
- Cast:
- Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart
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It is the near future and society is crumbling. John Nada (Roddy Piper) is a struggling labourer who drifts into town and makes a deadly discovery - society has been invaded by aliens from another dimension who are controlling the Earth through mind control. Armed with only a submachine gun and a pair of special sunglasses, can Nada infiltrate the aliens' transmitting station and reveal their true forms? - Director:
- John Carpenter
- Cast:
- Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster
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The Prince and Me (2004)El príncipe y yo
Paige (Julia Stiles) has her future all mapped out. A ambitious pre-med student at the university of Wisconsin, she's vowed nothing will deter her from becoming a doctor. Until she meets Edvard (Luke Mably), the dashing playboy Crown Prince of Denmark who's trying to escape a life he never chose. He's enrolled incognito at Paige's school to "find himself" and to take a detour from his destiny as King. Paige and "Eddie" end up as lab partners and discover there's more chemistry between them than just the classroom variety. Will he step away from his place in the Danish monarchy to be with her? Will she lose sight of her dream to become a doctor? - Director:
- Martha Coolidge
- Cast:
- Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, Miranda Richardson
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Ryan Gosling stars as Colt Seavers, a battle-scarred stuntman fresh off an almost career-ending accident. Colt is persuaded to return to his stunt career when he's told his ex, Jody (Emily Blunt), is directing a film and asked for him specifically. With hopes of winning back the love of his life, Colt returns to set only to find the movie's leading man missing and production in peril. Ensnared in an increasingly wild conspiracy, he must solve the mystery to save Jody's film and get one last shot with her. What could possibly go wrong? - Director:
- David Leitch
- Cast:
- Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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