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  • The Fire Within picture
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    The Fire Within (1966)

    An alcoholic French intellectual (Maurice Ronet) sets a date to die, then shoots himself.

  • A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries picture
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    A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)

    An expatriate U.S. couple (Kris Kristofferson, Barbara Hershey) raise a daughter (Leelee Sobieski)...

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    Raven's End (1970)

    A young wanna-be novelist yearns to escape the urban slum he where he lives with his alcoholic...

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    23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)

    A blind London playwright (Van Johnson) overhears a kidnap plot and thwarts it with his girlfriend...

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    The Prize (1963)

    One Nobel Prize winner (Paul Newman) in Stockholm discovers a communist plot to replace another...

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    Altered States (1980)

    A psychophysiologist (William Hurt) experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has...

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    Wives and Lovers

    A married couple, just barely getting by, has their luck change drastically when the husband finally...

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    Aldous Huxley: The Gravity of Light

    A multilayered visual essay that weaves back and forth between Huxley's writings, teachings and...

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    Snapshots

    In this experimental film, everyone enacts roles written from the player's lives; everyone plays...

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    The Ister (2006)

    A 3000km journey up the Danube river to the heart of Europe.

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    Get Bruce (1999)

    Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Crystal and others pay tribute to the man who has collaborated on some of...

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    Satansbraten

    This fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic...

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    Baghban (2003)

    A tale of a of a family where the parents (Amitabh and Hema) sacrifice everything to nurture their...

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    Year of the Gun (1991)

    An ex-U.S. writer (Andrew McCarthy) in Rome does a book about the terrorist Red Brigades, which they...

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    If You Could See What I Hear (1982)

    A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan.

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    Innocent Sorcerers

    A young bachelor doctor is torn between committing to his fashion model girlfriend and the problems...

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    Making Love (1982)

    A TV executive (Kate Jackson) finds out her doctor husband (Michael Ontkean) of eight years has a...

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    My Favorite Year (1982)

    A rookie writer (Mark Linn-Baker) tries to keep an old swashbuckler (Peter O'Toole) sober for his...

  • Elisa, Vida Mia picture
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    Elisa, Vida Mia

    Father and daughter reunite after a 20 year separation.

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    Bright Young Things (2004)

    After losing the manuscript of his first novel, a penniless writer (Stephen Campbell Moore) must...

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    The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1959)

    The flamboyant Victorian wit (Peter Finch) sues the Marquess of Queensberry for a sodomy slur, but...

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    Poetry in Motion

    Director Ron Mann has put together readings by 24 different poets (after filming a total of 60...

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    Who Was That Lady? (1960)

    After his wife (Janet Leigh) catches him kissing a pretty coed, a chemistry professor (Tony Curtis)...

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    Forever, Lulu (1987)

    An unlucky European woman (Hanna Schygulla) in New York finds drugs, money and a photo signed by a...

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    Black Ice (1992)

    A young woman on the run from a murderous rogue government agent hooks up with a pony-tailed taxi...

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    The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997)

    Neal Cassady (Thomas Jane), '60s counterculture icon, seeks a conventional life with a suicidal...

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    Bachelor in Paradise (1961)

    An advice-to-the-lovelorn writer (Bob Hope) falls for the only single girl (Lana Turner) in a town...

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    Claire of the Moon (1992)

    A novelist (Trisha Todd) and a psychiatrist (Karen Trumbo) bicker their way to bed as roommates at a...

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    Martin (H)

    Martin is the name shared by both father and son, yet beyond that they have little else in common. A...

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    Klassikko

    A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen