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Sex and Lucia (2001)Lucía y el sexo
Lucia is a young waitress working in a restaurant in the centre of Madrid. After the loss of her long-term boyfriend, a writer, she seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island. There, bathed in an atmosphere of fresh air and dazzling sun, Lucia begins to discover the dark corners of her past relationship, experienced as if through the forbidden passages of a novel which the author allows her to read from afar. - Director:
- Julio Medem
- Cast:
- Paz Vega, Tristán Ulloa, Najwa Nimri
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Landscape in the Mist (1988)Topio Stin Omichli
Two children, Voula (Tania Palaiologou) and her young brother Alexander (Michalis Zeke), run away from their Athens home to search for their father, whom their mother has told them lives in Germany. Boarding an express train, the children begin an epic journey into the chaos of the world and away from the innocence of childhood. Beautifully photographed by Giorgios Arvanitis and referencing several of Angelopoulos' earlier works, this extraordinary coming of age tale paints a dark portrait of Greece in the eighties - a country caught between its past and present, struggling to find a place in the future. - Director:
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Cast:
- Michalis Zeke, Tania Palaiologou, Stratos Tzortzoglou
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The Hunters (1977)Oi kynigoi
Whilst crossing a snowy mountainside, a group of modern-day hunters are astonished to discover the corpse of a Greek guerrilla fighter from the 1949 civil war with wounds still fresh. At the subsequent inquest set up to explain the impossible phenomenon, the group is called upon to give evidence. As they speak of their experiences during the civil war and the years that followed, each is revealed to be in part responsible for the man's death. Highly symbolic and at times surreal, the country's political right is held to account for its past crimes in Theo Angelopoulos' impassioned and powerful film. - Director:
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Cast:
- Mairi Hronopoulou, Eva Kotamanidou, Aliki Georgouli
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Alexander the Great (1980)O Megalexandros
The most controversial film by Theo Angelopoulos tells the story of the Greek bandit Alexander (Omero Antonutti) at the turn of the twentieth century. Escaped from prison, he kidnaps a party of English aristocrats and demands as ransom that his band of anarchist socialists are granted amnesty and that landowners turn their property over to the local peasants. But when the group reaches its mountain stronghold, internal tensions arise which threaten to bring about disaster. Taking inspiration from ancient cultural myth and actual historical events, Angelopoulos' visually stunning film presents a challenging and complex portrait of a revolutionary leader. - Director:
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Cast:
- Omero Antonutti, Grigoris Evangelatos, Norman Mozzato
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The Reconstruction (1970)Anaparastasi
Theo Angelopoulos' first feature tells the compelling true story of a crime of passion. In a remote village in Northern Greece, a middle-aged woman and her lover murder her husband and bury the body in the garden. But as they attempt to flee the country, their escape plan fails and they return to the village just as the investigation into the husband's disappearance begins. Largely performed by the people of the village where the actual murder took place, 'The Reconstruction' is a multi-layered study of a crime and of the wider problems facing Greek society, which marked Angelopoulos as a filmmaker of great talent and individuality. - Director:
- Theo Angelopoulos
- Cast:
- Toula Stathopoulou, Yannis Totsikas, Thanos Grammenos
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The Beekeeper (1986)O Melissokomos
Distinguished Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos directs the great Marcello Mastroianni in this extraordinary and beautifully photographed tale of self-discovery. Mastroianni plays Spyros, a schoolmaster of late middle-age who is disenchanted and unfulfilled by life. Deciding to undertake a solitary journey to find emerging springtime flowers for his cherished beehives, Spyros encounters a young female hitchhiker with whom he begins to become obsessed. Charged with quiet emotional intensity, The Beekeeper' is a moving and powerful film about a man's struggle to find release from the spectre of the past. - Director:
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Cast:
- Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani
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Before the Rain (1994)Antes de la lluvia
Before the Rain unravels within an unstable and hostile climate where ingrained anxiety and Fears of the past and present and political unrest lead to hate and violence. Comprising of three stories, Words, Faces and Pictures. Each focus on conflicted love haunted by a greater context. Both doomed by history and complicated by love. In Words we meet Kiril a young monk who has taken a vow of silence in a reclusive monastery. He meets Zamira a young Albanian girl who stands accused of murder and on the run from a revenge mob. In Faces we meet Aleksander, a disillusioned war photographer just returned from assignment and hoping to rekindle and relocate his affair with Anne a married London based picture editor. The final story, Pictures, sees Aleksander return to his native village in Macedonia, now politically divided. Despite the cost, he helps Hana, his first love, whose daughter is accused of murder. Set mostly in Macedonia during the early 1990s the film occupies a time just after the countries independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. - Director:
- Milcho Manchevski
- Cast:
- Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Grégoire Colin
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No Man's Land (2001)Nicija Zemlja
Against the sunny landscape of a Bosnian summer, two enemy soldiers are trapped in a trench in no man's land. The world's press watch as a French UN sergeant battles with a British colonel to negotiate their safety. And the only people who speak the same language are the men fighting each other for survival in the trench. Surprisingly funny, strikingly moving, 'No Man's Land' is a portrait of the petty normality, not only of one particular war, but of all conflicts everywhere. - Director:
- Danis Tanovic
- Cast:
- Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic
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An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (2013)Epizoda u životu beraca željeza
Winner of 2 Silver Bears at the Berlin Film Festival, the film reconstructs (using the actual people involved) a real incident that became a national scandal - Nazif and his wife Senada are from Bosnia's Roma community, living with their two young daughters in a remote village. Nazif makes just enough to keep them going, by salvaging metal from old cars. But when Senada has a miscarriage and requires surgery, she does not have the card for free treatment. Though the sum being asked is not huge, it's far beyond Nazif's means. Each day that Senada continues without being operated on risks death from septicaemia. With time running out, Nazif must desperately try to raise the money from more and more scrap whilst pleading for help from state institutions that try to ignore him. It's both an expose of the plight of the poor in the region, and a depiction of one Roma family's huge courage and will to survive. - Director:
- Danis Tanovic
- Cast:
- Nazif Mujic, Senada Alimanovic, Semsa Mujic
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A Very Long Engagement (2004)Un Long Dimanche De Fiancailles
From the highly acclaimed Director and star of 'Amelie', comes the truly amazing story of one woman's journey to discover the truth behind her lover's disappearance, whilst battling against the secrecy and absurdity of War. In 1919, Mathilde (Audrey Tautou) was 19 years old. Two years earlier, her fiance Manech (Gaspard Ulliel) left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was "killed on the field of battle". It's written in black and white on the official notice. But Mathilde refuses to believe it. If Manech had died, she would know. A former sergeant tells her in vain that Manech died in the no man's land of a trench named Bingo Crepescule, in the company of four other men condemned to die for self-inflicted wounds. Her path ahead is full of obstacles but Mathilde is not frightened. Anything is possible to someone who is willing to challenge fate... - Director:
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Cast:
- Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster
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Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981)Sjecas li se, Dolly Bell
The acclaimed debut feature by celebrated filmmaker Emir Kusturica is a bittersweet coming-of-age tale set amidst the uproar of 1960's Sarajevo. As Hollywood movies begin to find their way into the country, sixteen year-old Dino (Slavko Stimac) becomes seduced by the glamour of the gangster films that flash before his eyes at the local cinema and he decides to follow a life of crime. Falling in with a band of petty crooks, Dino's future seems set until a liaison with local prostitute Dolly Bell (Ljiljana Blagojevic) turns his world upside down in a way not even the movies could have prepared him for. - Director:
- Emir Kusturica
- Cast:
- Slavko Stimac, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ljiljana Blagojevic
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When Father Was Away on Business (1985)Otac na sluzbenom putu
Celebrated Balkan filmmaker Emir Kusturica won his first Palme d'Or, the Cannes Film Festival's highest honour, for this exuberant portrait of 1950s Yugoslavia, as seen through the eyes of six-year-old Malik. As the country resists the pressures of Stalinism, many find themselves taken away 'on business' by the police for making imprudent statements against the government. But Malik's father Manojlovic finds himself imprisoned for an altogether less noble reason when his affair with the mistress of a high-ranking party official is discovered. Naively believing his Papa to be away on business, Malik must face up to life's sometimes poignant, often comic tribulations without him. - Director:
- Emir Kusturica
- Cast:
- Moreno D'E Bartolli, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Mirjana Karanovic
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The City of Lost Children (1995)La cité des enfants perdus
'The City of Lost Children' is a dazzling fantasy adventure from Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, creators of 'Delicatessen'. They bring their surreal vision to the story of Krank (Daniel Emilfork), a tormented scientist who sets about kidnapping local children in order to steal their dreams and so reverse his accelerated ageing process. When Krank's henchmen kidnap his brother, local fisherman and former circus strongman One sets out on a journey to Krank's nightmarish laboratory, accompanied by Miette (Judith Vittet), an orphan girl who has her own. - Director:
- Marc Caro
- Cast:
- Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork
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Tears for Sale (2008)Carlston Za Ognjenku
Tears for Sale is a darkly eccentric comedy which is part fairy tale and part political allegory exploring the nature of war and dealing with love and loss, as well as clearly satirizing local myths and customs. Richly photographed, it's an equal to many contemporary European films, one of the most expensive Serbian films ever made and still one of its most popular films. It's a joyous, colourful and sensual experience that echoes absurdist dramas such as Delicatessen, Tales from The Golden Age, the saucy sexual humour of Jamon Jamon, and the many fantasy worlds of Terry Gilliam. - Director:
- Uros Stojanovic
- Cast:
- Katarina Radivojevic, Sonja Kolacaric, Stefan Kapicic
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Cows (1992)Vacas
In 1875, while fighting in the trenches at Biscay, an army sergeant, Carmelo Mendiluze, learns that a neighbour from his village, Manuel Ilegorri, has joined his exhausted battalion. Desperate for news of his child's birth, he befriends the inexperienced soldier. Before long, Manuel's cowardly and selfish actions bring about tragic consequences. Thirty years later, the sons of Mendiluze and Iriguibel harbour deep-seated feelings of resentment towards one another, but their shared skill in the local art of log cutting – known as aizcolari – means that their fates remain interconnected. Before long, however, it will be the relationships between the sons and daughters of the two men that ensures that the families' histories are destined to become linked forever… Set against a backdrop of some of the key moments in Spanish history, Vacas beautifully explores the complex and intricate relationship between three generations of two Basque families. - Director:
- Julio Medem
- Cast:
- Emma Suárez, Carmelo Gómez, Ana Torrent
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