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Fallen Leaves (2023)Kuolleet Lehdet / Dead Leaves
Fallen Leaves is a timeless, hopeful and ultimately satisfying love story about two lonely souls' path to happiness - and the numerous hurdles they encounter along the way. Set in contemporary Helsinki, and shot through with Kaurismaki's typically playful, idiosyncratic style and deadpan humor, this tender romantic tragicomedy is a timely reminder of the potency of movie-going from one of cinema's living legends. - Director:
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Cast:
- Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Janne Hyytiäinen
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)La primavera de una solterona
Edinburgh, 1932. The world is on the cusp of change and at the forefront, leading the charge is the estimable Miss Brodie (Maggie Smith), teacher at the Marcia Blaine School for girls. As a new term begins for Miss Brodie, she is fully prepared. For whatever the subject, Miss Brodie is adept at bringing it around to the experiences girls should look forward to when they too are in their prime. Meanwhile Miss Brodies personal life is not so clear cut, torn as she is between the passionate advances of a young married artist, and the more conservative desires of a mature associate, she nevertheless manages to walk a strident path somewhere between the two. But Miss Brodies philosophy for living rubs up against the schools rigid moral standards, and when one of her young charges is inspired into a tragic act of foolhardy bravery, an act of almost religious betrayal follows that will shake the firm convictions of Miss Brodie to the core. - Director:
- Ronald Neame
- Cast:
- Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens
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Ida (2014)Sister of Mercy
From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski comes "Ida", a poignant and powerfully told drama about 18-year-old Anna, a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, who is preparing to become a nun when she discovers that her real name is Ida and her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation. This revelation triggers a heart-wrenching journey into the countryside, to the family house and into the secrets of the repressed past, evoking the haunting legacy of the Holocaust and the realities of postwar Communism. Powerfully written and eloquently shot, "Ida" is a masterly evocation of a time, a dilemma, and a defining historical moment. - Director:
- Pawel Pawlikowski
- Cast:
- Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik
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Touch of Spice (2003)Politiki kouzina
Fanis (Georges Corraface / Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos / Markos Osse) is a man torn between his Greek ethnicity and his emotional roots in Turkey, the country of his birth. Using the device of cuisine as a metaphor for national identity and personal feelings, we see Fanis grow from a boy whose grandfather imparts culinary and philosophical expertise from the Aladdin's cave of his spice shop, to a young man with a true passion for food. Deported to Greece with his family as a young boy, Fanis returns home after 35 years for an emotional reunion with his grandfather...and his first love. A bitter sweet journey of the senses, set against the historical backdrop of the deportation of thousands of Greeks from Istanbul, this is one of the biggest Greek films of all time. - Director:
- Tassos Boulmetis
- Cast:
- Georges Corraface, Ieroklis Michaelidis, Renia Louizidou
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"The Old Oak" is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, but it's also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline. TJ Ballantyne (Dave Turner) the landlord hangs on to 'The Old Oak' by his fingertips, and his predicament is endangered even more when the pub becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees who are placed in the village without any notice. In an unlikely friendship TJ meets a curious young Syrian Yara (Ebla Mari) with her camera. Can they find a way for the two communities to understand each other? So unfolds a deeply moving drama about their fragilities and hopes. - Director:
- Ken Loach
- Cast:
- Dave Turner, Ebla Mari, Claire Rodgerson
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The Wild Pear Tree (2018)Ahlat Agaci
Sinan (Dogu Demirkol) returns from his studies in the city of Canakkale to his parents' home in the small rural town of Can. He hopes to publish a book of essays and short stories (or what he describes as a "quirky auto-fiction meta-novel"). But his teacher father Idris (Murat Cemcir) is an addictive gambler, so much so that his mother and sister have become reluctantly accustomed to making do without food or electricity. And so Sinan, with his writing dreams, worrying that we will be reduced after army service to teaching in the remote East, wanders around town, visiting his grandparents, encountering old friends, all the while looking for funding for his book. - Director:
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Cast:
- Murat Cemcir, Bennu Yildirimlar, Dogu Demirkol
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Wayne left home because of an argument about pies. Cyril would like to machine gun the Royal family. Rupert and Laetitia Boothe-Brain play yuppie sex games, while deep in suburbia Valerie fails to arouse her husband Martin with a suggestion that he be Michael Douglas and she a virgin. Mrs Bender gets locked out of her house and is criticised by her neighbour for selfishly occupying a whole house in an increasingly fashionable area. And Cyril's girlfriend Shirley wants to start a family, but gets no encouragement from Cyril, who feels that the world should be spared more babies until everyone already here has a job, a place to live and enough to eat. - Director:
- Mike Leigh
- Cast:
- Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré
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Elle (2016)Oh!
From legendary filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, 'Elle' is a gripping psychological noir thriller. Starring iconic actress Isabelle Huppert in a career-defining role, 'Elle' follows Michele LeBlanc (Huppert), founder and CEO of a successful video game company, who is attacked in her own home. Upending our expectations, Michele begins to track down her assailant, and soon they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game, one that at any moment may spiral out of control. - Director:
- Paul Verhoeven
- Cast:
- Isabelle Huppert, Oury Milshtein, Laurent Lafitte
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Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (2004)Trilogia: To Livadi Pou Dakryzei
The unmistakable vision of Greek cinema master Theo Angelopoulos, 'The Weeping Meadow' is the first part in a celluloid trilogy that spans a wide-ranging historical panorama. In 1919, as Greek refugees flee Odessa and the invading Red Army for their homeland, the story of the forbidden love affair between the beautiful young Eleni (Alexandra Aidini) and Alexis (Nikos Poursanidis) begins. After giving birth to twin sons, the couple elope to Thessaloniki in an attempt to start anew. But their lives are shattered by the country's political turmoil and such calamitous events as World War II and the Greek Civil War. Angelopoulos' sweeping epic is a magnificent, visually stunning reflection on the turbulent history of Greece in the 20th Century. - Director:
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Cast:
- Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis
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Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)Di qiu zui hou de ye wan
Luo (Jue Huang) returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years before. Luo recalls the death of an old friend, Wildcat (Hong-Chi Lee), and searches for his lost love Wan Qiwen (Wei Tang) who continues to haunt him. Bi's film sculpts time and space with huge virtuosity. With talismanic cues and motifs of uncanny doubling, the film is bisected, its first half recast in the second through a vertiginous, trance-inducing, hour-long single take in 3D. A hypnotic study of hazy memory, lost time, and flight, 'Long Day's Journey into Night' take you on a nocturnal, labyrinthine voyage. - Director:
- Gan Bi
- Cast:
- Wei Tang, Jue Huang, Sylvia Chang
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Daisies (1966)Sedmikrásky
A satirical, subversive, surreal and irreverent story of rebellion, Vera Chytilova's classic film is arguably the most adventurous and anarchic Czech movie of the 1960's. Two young women, both named Marie (Ivana Karbanová / Jitka Cerhová), revolt against a degenerate and decayed society by attacking symbols of wealth and bourgeois culture in hilarious and mind-warpingly innovative ways. Defiant feminist statement? Nihilistic, avant-garde comedy? Refreshingly uncompromising, Daisies is a riotous, punk-rock poem of a film that remains a cinematic enigma and continues to provoke, stimulate and entertain audiences and influence filmmakers even today. - Director:
- Vera Chytilová
- Cast:
- Jitka Cerhová, Marie Cesková, Ivana Karbanová
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One Fine Morning (2022)Un beau matin
Celebrated writer-director Mia Hansen-Love (Things to Come, Father of My Children) makes a wise and wistful return with 'One Fine Morning', a profoundly moving portrayal of love, loss and contemporary womanhood, featuring a career-best performance from Lea Seydoux. Set in Paris, Seydoux plays Sandra - a young, widowed mother who juggles her job as a translator with caring both for her young daughter and elderly father. Sandra's life is further complicated when she embarks on a passionate affair with Clement, an old friend in an unhappy marriage. Also starring Melvil Poupaud and Pascal Gregory, this Cannes Film Festival award-winner is a gently poignant romantic drama shot through with the director's characteristically charming touch. - Director:
- Mia Hansen-Løve
- Cast:
- Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud
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The Clan (2015)El Clan
Buenos Aires, the early 1980s: In an affluent suburb a seemingly normal family goes about life, interacting with the locals, playing rugby and, for the young ones, falling in love. But underneath this veil is a dark underbelly... their family business is kidnap, extortion and murder. Welcome to the home of the Puccios and the astonishing true story of Argentina's most notorious crime family. - Director:
- Pablo Trapero
- Cast:
- Guillermo Francella, Peter Lanzani, Lili Popovich
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Marshland (2014)La Isla Mínima
Spain's deep-south, 1980. In a small village frozen in time - close to the labyrinth of the marshlands and rice paddies - a serial killer has taken residence and caused the disappearance of several adolescents that no one seems to have missed. But, when two young sisters disappear during the annual festivities, their mother forces an investigation that brings two homicide detectives from Madrid to try and solve the mystery. Juan and Pedro both have extensive experience in homicides yet are very different in methods and style. They will soon face obstacles for which they were not prepared and become ensnared in a web of intrigue fed by the apathy and introverted nature of the locals. Nothing is what it seems in this isolated and opaque region and the investigation encounters unexpected difficulties. Both men realise they must put aside their professional differences if they are to stop the person responsible for the disappearance of the sisters before more young - Director:
- Alberto Rodríguez
- Cast:
- Javier Gutiérrez, Raúl Arévalo, María Varod
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Train to Busan (2016)Busanhaeng
As an unidentified virus sweeps the country, the Korean government declares martial law. As the country descends into chaos, one city, Busan, is rumoured to have successfully fended off the virus outbreak and remains the only beacon of hope for those not yet infected. But when the virus breaks out on an express train to Busan, passengers on board must fight for their own survival...453 km from Seoul to Busan. The struggle to survive. Get on board to stay alive! - Director:
- Sang-ho Yeon
- Cast:
- Terri Doty, Yoo Gong, Eun-kyung Kim
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