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Dheepan 654 Points On the losing side of a civil war in Sri Lanka, a Tamil soldier (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) poses as the husband and father of two other refugees in order to escape their ravaged homeland. Arriving in France, the makeshift "family" sets about establishing a new life--only to find themselves once again embroiled in violence on the mean streets of Paris. A heartrending saga of three strangers united by circumstan ... Item View » |
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Dheepan 825 Points On the losing side of a civil war in Sri Lanka, a Tamil soldier (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) poses as the husband and father of two other refugees in order to escape their ravaged homeland. Arriving in France, the makeshift "family" sets about establishing a new life--only to find themselves once again embroiled in violence on the mean streets of Paris. A heartrending saga of three strangers united by circumstan ... Item View » |
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Embrace of the Serpent 764 Points At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the r ... Item View » |
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Wadjda 507 Points WADJDA is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn't be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so th ... Item View » |
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Pelle the Conqueror 763 Points A poor Swedish farmer raises his son in a strange Danish land. Directed by Bille August. Oscar for best foreign-language film.RatingPG-13FormatBlu-ray ... Item View » |
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Pelle the Conqueror 607 Points A poor Swedish farmer raises his son in a strange Danish land. Directed by Bille August. Oscar for best foreign-language film.RatingPG-13FormatDVD ... Item View » |
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Lure 825 Points This genre-defying horror-musical mash-up--the bold debut of Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska--follows a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director gives fierce teet ... Item View » |
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Gloria 379 Points Gloria is a "woman of a certain age" but still feels young. Though lonely, she makes the best of her situation and fills her nights seeking love at social dance clubs for single adults. Her fragile happiness changes the day she meets Rodolfo. Their intense passion, to which Gloria gives her all, leaves her vacillating between hope and despair -- until she uncovers a new strength and realizes that, in her gold ... Item View » |
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Blue Hawaii 257 Points A pineapple tycoon's rebellious son turns island tour guide with his girlfriend.RatingPGFormatDVD - Widescreen ... Item View » |
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Hitch Hike 608 Points In Northern Italy, WWI has turned into a bloody stalemate. Bogged down in their trenches on a barren highland, the men of an Italian infantry division have been given one objective: retake a commanding height from the enemy. Unfortunately, the tactical ingenuity of general Leone, the unpopular division commander, consists of supplementing frontal attacks against machine-guns with medieval fighting schemes. Hi ... Item View » |
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Frantz 729 Points Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), Frantz recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's lost generation : Anna (21 year-old Paula Beer in a breakthrough performance), a bereft young German woman whose fiance, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien (Pierre Niney, Yves Saint Laurent), ... Item View » |
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President 530 Points The President and his family rule the land with a draconian fist, enjoying a privileged and luxurious existence at the expense of his miserable and oppressed subjects. After a coup d'etat uproots his position of power, the President's wife and daughters are flown out of the country as he stays behind with his grandson, who is too young to grasp the unfolding events. After his personal escort and bodyguards tu ... Item View » |
