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Gertrud (1964)Гертруда
'Gertrud' is the story of a woman's search for a romantic ideal of total and perfect love. A once famous singer now in her early forties, Gertrud makes the decision to leave her lawyer husband for her lover, a young composer. Discovering the next day that her lover has betrayed her, and is unable to give her his total love, Gertrud rejects both husband and lover, choosing a life of solitude and study over the compromise of love that is merely half-measure. - Director:
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Cast:
- Nina Pens Rode, Gurli Plesner, Bendt Rothe
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Cul-De-Sac (1966)Ćorsokak
Donald Pleasence and Francoise Dorleac play a mismatched couple - he effeminate and petulant, she sensual and enigmatic - who share a bizzare sexual relationship, living in a remote castle. Their very isolation from the world prevents their eccentric partnership from foundering. Only an outsider can disrupt their make-believe lifestyle. That disruption arrives in the belligerent form of Richard and Albert, two oddball gangsters straight out of a 1940's film noir, wounded, desperate and on the run. They demand shelter, and as Richard waits for instructions from his gangland boss, he slips into a dangerous round of gameplaying with his unwilling hosts. But it seems that Richard is not always to have the upper hand. With its larger-than-life performances, wicked black humour and superb use of striking outdoor locations - the film was shot on Holy Island in Northumberland - Polanski has created an exceptional film which is very different to but no less memorable than Repulsion. - Director:
- Roman Polanski
- Cast:
- Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander
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Based on Peter Rock's novel 'My Abandonment', 'Leave No Trace' revolves around a teenage girl (Thomasin McKenzie) and her father (Ben Foster) who have lived undetected for years in Forest Park, a vast wood on the edge of Portland, Oregon. A chance encounter leads to their discovery and removal from the park and into the charge of a social service agency. They try to adapt to their new surroundings until a sudden decision sets them on a perilous journey into the wilderness seeking complete independence and forcing them to confront their conflicting desire to be part of a community or a fierce need to live apart. - Director:
- Debra Granik
- Cast:
- Thomasin McKenzie-Harcourt, Ben Foster, Jeffery Rifflard
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The epic story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorset labourers deported to Australia in the 1830s as punishment for their trade union activities.
- Director:
- Bill Douglas
- Cast:
- Keith Allen, Dave Atkins, Stephen Bateman
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Time of the Gypsies (1988)Dom za vesanje / Cigani lete u nebo
Perhan (Davor Dujmovic) is a Gypsy teenager with the ability to move objects with his mind. A criminal named Ahmed (Bora Todorovic) convinces him to leave his devoted grandmother (Ljubica Adzovic) and loving girlfriend, and to use his powers to make some money illegally. While becoming a man and learning the trade of crime, the boy searches for his sister (who was supposed to have a leg operation) and tries to save money to realize his fantasy of returning home to marry the woman of his dreams. - Director:
- Emir Kusturica
- Cast:
- Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic, Ljubica Adzovic
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Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017)Mary to majo no hana
Young Mary follows a mysterious cat into the nearby forest and discovers an old broomstick and the strange Fly-by-Night flower, a rare plant that blossoms once every seven years. Together, the flower and the broomstick whisk Mary above the clouds, and far away to Endor College - a school of magic run by headmistress Madam Mumblechook and the brilliant Doctor Dee. But there are terrible things happening at the school, and when Mary tells a lie, she must risk her life to try and set things right. - Director:
- Hiromasa Yonebayashi
- Cast:
- Hana Sugisaki, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Yûki Amami
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Breathless (1960)À bout de souffle
A small time crook, Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), chased by the police after stealing a car, shoots one of them and flees. Back in Paris he finds an American girlfriend (Jean Seberg) and succeeds in seducing her. He convinces her to go to Italy with him. But the police have discovered the murderer's identity and are on his trail... - Director:
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast:
- Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger
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Bunch of Kunst (2015)Bunch of Kunst Documentary / Live at SO36
Documentary focusing on British punk duo Sleaford Mods. Directed by Christine Franz, the film chronicles the career of the Nottingham duo, comprised of Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn, and managed by Steve Underwood, and documents their journey from their initial, creative bedroom collaborations to mainstream success and performing their songs about working-class life and anti-austerity Britain at the Glastonbury Festival. Also included is a CD of the band's live performance at Berlin's SO36 recorded in June 2015. - Director:
- Christine Franz
- Cast:
- Andrew Fearn, Steve Ignorant, Sleaford Mods
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Journalist Tom Crane (James Hazeldine) discovers he possesses remarkable psychic powers. He is recruited to join expert parapsycholoists Roy Martindale (John Carlisle) and Anne Reynolds (Louise Jameson) in Department 7, a top-secret government agency assigned to investigate strange and supernatural phenomenon, and the untapped potential of the human mind. Crane joins the team hoping it will help him find and get revenge on the man responsible for the death of his wife, the powerful rogue psychic Edward Drexil (Cyril Luckham). Together, Department 7 aims to bring down the mysterious organisation Omega, which seeks to use mind control powers to take over the world. On their way they will undertake dangerous missions that take them beyond the realms of science into a twilight world of terrifying paranormal activity. - Director:
- Norman Stewart
- Cast:
- James Hazeldine, Louise Jameson, John Carlisle
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The adventures of John, Stephen and Liz are still fondly remembered as one of the most imaginative and popular childrens programmes of all time.
The Slaves of JedikiahJaunt back to a time when a group of gifted youngsters were Planet Earth's only protection against a legion of evil villains and intergalactic terrors. The Tomorrow People are homo superiors - the next stage of human evolution. Armed with telekinetic abilities, teleportation, a secret base and a futuristic talking computer, The Tomorrow People enthralled a legion of children in the early 1970s and is remembered today as one of the most imaginative and popular children's programmes of the decade. 14 - year old Stephen has been haunted by strange voices and terrifying nightmares. He believes he must be going mad, until the mysterious Carol pays him a visit to explain that he is being watched by the Tomorrow People who have been tracking his psychic cries for help. Stephen is "breaking out" and it is now time for him to join with Carol, John, Kenny and Tim in their intergalactic quest to stop wars and put the world in order. But his transformation into homo superior has also caught the attention of the evil shape-changing robot Jedikiah who needs Stephen's telepathic powers to free his spaceship from Earth's orbit. Will Jedikiah succeed, and if so what terrible fate will he then bring to bear on the Planet Earth?
The Medusa Strain
Their names are John, Stephen, Carol and Kenny... they seem to be just ordinary kids, perhaps a bit quieter than most, but they are The Tomorrow People, forerunners of a new race... the homo superior. Gifted with superhuman powers they are nature's response to man's aggression: a new species, wiser and more peace loving than homo sapiens, and until more of their race evolve, these four have intergalactic responsibility for the future of Planet Earth. The Tomorrow People are back to pit their wits and telekinetic abilities against the most terrifying villains in all time and space. Intent on revenge, the sinister robot Jedikiah embarks on a new and even more dangerous attempt to destroy the Tomorrow People. This time enlisting Count Rabowski the space pirate from the year 2526, Jedikiah hatches an audacious plan involving freezing time and the theft of the Crown Jewels. Who are the mysterious Eternal Order of the Guardians of the Time Lanes? Will Rabowski succeed in strangling the development of Earth's telepaths at its root? How can the Tomorrow People possibly emerge triumphant?
The Vanishing Earth
It's time once again to buckle your belts and jaunt back to the 1970s as the intergalactic teenage force for good, The Tomorrow People, return for a third thrilling story - "The Vanishing Earth". In an adventure that takes in a fairground's haunted house, an alien spaceship and a trip to the seaside, the Tomorrow People find themselves pitted against the terrifying Spidron, an evil villain with the ability to conjure up earthquakes and volcanoes at will. Seemingly hell bent on the destruction of all humanity, only the Tomorrow People stand in the way of the full force of Spidron's fury. How can the Tomorrow People defeat a menace able to inflict such catastrophic damage? Is the end of the world finallv at hand?- Director:
- Paul Bernard
- Cast:
- Philip Gilbert, Sammie Winmill, Nicholas Young
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An astonishing portrait of youth on the American fringe, 'American Honey' is told through the eyes of a vivacious teenage rebel who joins a group of fellow misfits hustling and partying their way across the country. Bursting with electric, primal energy, 'American Honey' is an immersive, exhilarating odyssey of heartbreaking beauty - a generation-defining film that celebrates the defiant resilience of youth in pursuit of the American Dream. - Director:
- Andrea Arnold
- Cast:
- Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough
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One of the most highly acclaimed films of the year, 'Leviathan' is a thrilling, immersive documentary that takes you deep inside the dangerous world of commercial fishing. Filmed off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts - at one time the whaling capital of the world as well as Melville's inspiration for 'Moby Dick'- it is today the country's largest fishing port with over 500 ships sailing from its harbor every month. Leviathan follows one such vessel, a hulking groundfish trawler, into the surrounding murky black waters on a six weeks-long fishing expedition. But instead of romanticizing the labor or partaking in the longstanding tradition of turning fisherfolk into images, filmmakers Lucien Castiang-Taylor and Verena Paravel present a vivid, almost-kaleidoscopic representation of the work, the sea, the machinery and the players, both human and marine. Employing an arsenal of cameras that passed freely from film crew to ship crew; that swoop from below sea level to astonishing bird's-eye views, the film that emerges is unlike anything that has been seen before. Entirely dialogue-free, but mesmerizing and gripping throughout, it is a cosmic portrait of one of mankind's oldest endeavours. - Director:
- Lucien Castaing-Taylor
- Cast:
- Brian Jannelle, Adrian Guillette, Arthur Smith
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Filmed over four years, 'Personal Best' follows up-and-coming British sprinters, on their journey from the grassroots of athletics to the international stage. With the 2012 Olympics at the forefront of their minds, the film is both a gripping portrait of the athletes in training and competition, and a deeply personal account of their lives unfolding - revealing victory, defeat, agony, ecstasy and the simple trials of growing up. Featuring James Ellington, who qualified for the Team GB 2012 athletics squad, and Jeanette Kwakye, 100m Olympic finalist in Beijing 2008, as well as high ranking sprint hurdler Richard Alleyne and up and coming eighteen year old sprinter Omardo Anson, 'Personal Best' is an inspiring and genuine portrait of Britain's young sprinters as they strive towards their dreams, and wait on the start line for the gun to fire. - Director:
- Sam Blair
- Cast:
- James Ellington, Jeanette Kwakye, Richard Alleyn
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Hit by a falling object in a freak accident, an unnamed man (Tom Sturridge) awakens from a coma with a large compensation settlement and his memory gone. As precious fragments return, he uses his wealth to physically reconstruct the visions, leading him to an unsolved crime and the secret of his undoing. - Director:
- Omer Fast
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- Tom Sturridge, Cush Jumbo, Ed Speleers
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Season of the Witch (1972)Hungry Wives
On the surface, Joan Mitchell (Jan White) has it all - family, friends, and a beautiful home equipped with all the latest appliances. But when a neighbour educates her on the practice of witchcraft, Joan believes she's discovered the perfect antidote to her monotonous suburban existence, and embarks upon a dark path that will lead to a shocking conclusion. - Director:
- George A. Romero
- Cast:
- Jan White, Raymond Laine, Ann Muffly
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