culture [social culture]
  • The Terminal picture
    Movies

    The Terminal (2004)

    Unauthorized to enter the United States, an Eastern European (Tom Hanks) befriends a flight...

  • America's Heart and Soul picture
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    America's Heart and Soul (2004)

    Filmmaker Louis Schwartzberg examines the beauty of the United States and the spirit of its...

  • Fuck picture
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    Fuck (2006)

    Filmmaker Steven Anderson explores the origin of a certain expletive and tries to ascertain what...

  • A Man Called Horse picture
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    A Man Called Horse (1970)

    Captured by Dakotas, an English lord (Richard Harris) survives their rituals, absorbs their culture...

  • Crossing the Bridge--The Sound of Istanbul picture
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    Crossing the Bridge--The Sound of Istanbul (2006)

    Fatih Akin examines diverse music performed by the denizens of Istanbul, Turkey. Rap, experimental...

  • Ghost World picture
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    Ghost World (2001)

    The lives of best friends (Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson) diverge after high-school graduation and...

  • Driving Miss Daisy picture
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    Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

    An Atlanta widow (Jessica Tandy) and her chauffeur (Morgan Freeman) reflect the changing times, from...

  • Pulse picture
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    Pulse (2005)

    Bewildered residents (Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Aso, Koyuki) of Tokyo investigate strange events linked...

  • The Linguists picture
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    The Linguists

    Specialists document languages in Siberia, India and Bolivia that are on the verge of extinction.

  • High Hopes picture
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    High Hopes (1989)

    A satirical look at today's London through the eyes of yuppies, anti-establishment sixties...

  • Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia picture
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    Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia

    Seven Western women travelling on the Trans-Mongolian railway are abducted by a band of Mongolian...

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn picture
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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)

    Mark Twain's boy hero (Eddie Hodges) rafts the Mississippi with slave Jim (Archie Moore) and meets a...

  • Rhyme & Reason picture
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    Rhyme & Reason (1997)

    Filmmaker Peter Spirer chronicles hip-hop music with interviews and performance clips.

  • Divorce Iranian Style picture
    Movies

    Divorce Iranian Style (1998)

    A 16-year-old, married at the age of 14 to a man more than twice her age, explains that she...

  • Combination Platter picture
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    Combination Platter (1993)

    A portrait of Chinese illegal immigrants who are caught between two cultures, but belong to neither....

  • Gyakufunsha Kazoku picture
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    Gyakufunsha Kazoku (1986)

    In this original satire of a consumer family in a consumer society gone over the edge, the family in...

  • The Killing Fields picture
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    The Killing Fields (1984)

    Newsman Sydney Schanberg (Sam Waterston) loses his friend Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor) in the 1975 fall...

  • Appunti per un'orestiade Africana picture
    Movies

    Appunti per un'orestiade Africana (1975)

    The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a...

  • Yasemin picture
    Movies

    Yasemin

    In this German and Turkish romance, a cocky young man joins a judo class and bets his male...

  • Camping Cosmos picture
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    Camping Cosmos (1997)

    On a Belgian beach at Camping Cosmos. The delegate send by the Ministry is confronted with sex and...

  • Pootie Tang picture
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    Pootie Tang (2001)

    Although he speaks an indecipherable language, a superhero (Lance Crouther) protects children from a...

  • The Return of a Man Called Horse picture
    Movies

    The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)

    An English lord (Richard Harris) returns to America and finds his Dakota brothers enslaved by a...

  • Maryam picture
    Movies

    Maryam (2002)

    An Iranian-born teenager living in suburban New Jersey thinks of herself as simply an American until...

  • Close to Eden picture
    Movies

    Close to Eden (1992)

    A shepherd searches for contraceptives to obey China's population control laws and befriends a...

  • Our Music picture
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    Our Music (2004)

    Divided into three "kingdoms" -- Enfer (Hell), Purgatoire (Purgatory) and Paradis (Paradise) --...

  • Gay Sex in the 70s picture
    Movies

    Gay Sex in the 70s (2005)

    Filmmaker Joseph Lovett focuses on the post-Stonewall era of gay sexuality leading up to the...

  • Never On Sunday picture
    Movies

    Never On Sunday (1960)

    An American intellectual (Jules Dassin) tries to reform a happy prostitute (Melina Mercouri) in...

  • Cry For Happy picture
    Movies

    Cry For Happy (1961)

    A Navy photographer (Glenn Ford) and his three-man team occupy a Tokyo geisha house mistaken for an...

  • The Frisco Kid picture
    Movies

    The Frisco Kid (1979)

    A greenhorn Polish rabbi (Gene Wilder) goes cross-country to San Francisco with a Wild West bank...

  • The Scalphunters picture
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    The Scalphunters (1968)

    A fur trader (Burt Lancaster) and a cultured slave (Ossie Davis) have run-ins with Indians and...