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    The Wicker Man (1974)

    A police sergeant (Edward Woodward) comes to a Scottish isle where a local lord (Christopher Lee)...

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    Orpheus (1950)

    A Left Bank poet (Jean Marais) loves a princess (María Casares) who rides with motorcycle messengers...

  • Dante's Inferno picture
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    Dante's Inferno (1924)

    Bearing only a tenuous connection to Dante Alighieri's epic poem, the 1924 Dante's Inferno bears...

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    Diabel

    Though presumably dealing with the Prussian army's invasion of Poland in 1793, this ambitious and...

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    Manna From Heaven (2002)

    A nun organizes her relatives and friends to repay God for the money they all found 30 years ago.

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    Auch Zwerge Haben Klein Angefangen

    Dwarves take overa correctional institution and try to break free of a society that mocks them.

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    The Flying Dutchman

    Set in the 16th century, a surreal tale of gold, betrayal and a foundling boy's quest for his...

  • Crimes of the Future picture
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    Crimes of the Future (1984)

    Set in the future, when women have been extinguished and the remaining men must absorb the...

  • Beau Travail picture
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    Beau Travail (2000)

    This film focuses on an ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his once glorious life, leading...

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    White Man's Burden (1995)

    A black factory owner (Harry Belafonte) spends the weekend with a white ex-employee (John Travolta)...

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    Barocco (1976)

    A crook murders his double and takes his place and his girlfriend. Together, they blackmail a...

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    Angel Face (1952)

    A socialite (Jean Simmons) and her chauffeur (Robert Mitchum) are accused of killing her father and...

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    Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

    The revolutionary upheaval of 1968 rocked Europe, and led to many changes. For a while, it was...

  • A Midnight Clear picture
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    A Midnight Clear (1992)

    A young GI (Ethan Hawke) and his squad have a strange encounter with Germans in the Ardennes forest,...

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    Massacre at Central High (1976)

    A high school transfer student, pushed to the edge by a trio of brutal bullies, resorts to murder to...

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    The Shooting

    A woman (Millie Perkins), two bounty hunters and a gunman (Jack Nicholson) ride into a desert and...

  • The Children of Heaven picture
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    The Children of Heaven (1999)

    Two fearful children (Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Sediqi) look for a pair of missing shoes, then...

  • The Second Coming picture
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    The Second Coming

    A suicidal widower falls for an escapee from a mental institution. Based on a novel by Walker Percy.

  • The Bet Collector picture
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    The Bet Collector (2008)

    Revolves around 'jueteng', the game of numbers dating back to the Philippines' Spanish colonial...

  • The Thief of Paris picture
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    The Thief of Paris (1967)

    When a young boy is bilked of his inheritance by a crooked uncle/guardian, he grows up to become a...

  • Watership Down picture
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    Watership Down (1978)

    Courageous rabbits embark on a perilous journey to a new home in this animated adaptation of the...

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    Keep Cool

    Xiao Shuai pursues the woman he loves, An Hong, all around Beijing. He wants to discover where she...

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    Duelle

    This film chronicles the strange battle among a pair of beings from the sphere of the sun or moon,...

  • Dune picture
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    Dune (1984)

    Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan) leads the fight for vital spice on a desert planet in the year...

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    Blue Flame (1995)

    A cop has to fight two Aliens which he himself created.

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    The Tin Drum (1980)

    In the East Prussia of Danzig before the war, three-year-old Oskar Matzerath decides to stop...

  • The Holy Mountain picture
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    The Holy Mountain

    "The Alchemist" is a man who assembles a group of people from all walks of life and renames them for...

  • Calendar picture
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    Calendar (1994)

    A woman (Arsinée Khanjian) stays in Armenia after her photographer husband (Atom Egoyan) completes...

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    Grow Your Own

    An English community gets testy when a refuge family is granted a plot of land on which to grow...

  • Lord of the Flies picture
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    Lord of the Flies (1963)

    English schoolboys (James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards), stranded on a desert island without...