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Lure 654 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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Cantinflas 379 Points Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes) is beloved throughout the Spanish-speaking world and is considered by many to be the Mexican Charlie Chaplin. This biopic traces his life as a young entertainer, who struggles to become a star in Mexico, while Broadway producer, Mike Todd, struggles to make Around the World in 80 Days in the U.S. A twist of fate brings the two together and they go on to win the Oscar for Best P ... Item View » |
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Rec 380 Points A beautiful TV reporter and her cameraman are doing a routine interview at a local fire station when an emergency call comes in. Accompanying the firefighters to a nearby apartment, the news team begins recording the bloodcurdling screams coming from inside an elderly woman's unit. After authorities seal off the building to contain the threat, the news crew, firefighters and residents are trapped to face a l ... Item View » |
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Shoot to Kill 253 Points A CITIFIED FBI AGENT TEAMS UP WITH A WILDERNESS TRACKER TO HUNT A MURDEROUS EXTORTIONIST THROUGH THE RUGGED MOUNTAINS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.RatingRFormatDVD ... Item View » |
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Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest 224 Points The final installment of Stieg Larsson's "Millennium" trilogy, following The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest finds Lisbeth Salander fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corrupt government in ... Item View » |
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Rare Exports-a Christmas Tale 608 Points Young Pietari lives with his stern reindeer-herding father Rauno in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, an enormous excavation at a nearby mountain disturbs the locals and captures Pietari's curiosity. When Rauno's raindeer herd is mysteriously slain and the children in town go missing, Pietari realizes that the dig has unearthed the evil Santa Claus of local lore - who no one wants coming to town. Pie ... Item View » |
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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 » |
