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Stuart Heisler – The Glass Key (1942)
Quote: This is a solid remake of the 1935 film of the same name about big-city political corruption, and it starred Edward Arnold as the corrupt political boss and George Raft as his loyal lieutenant....
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Hsiao-Hsien Hou – Ni luo he nu er AKA Daughter of the Nile (1987)
Synopsis: The eldest daughter of a broken and troubled family works to keep the family together and look after her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime. Review: At first sight, you...
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Lewis Seiler – You Can’t Get Away with Murder (1939)
Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart plays mobster Frank Wilson, the heavy headlining this crime thriller that sprung from the pen of Sing-Sing’s warden himself! Based on the play “Chalked Out” by Warden Lewis...
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Ben Wheatley – Free Fire (2016)
Quote: Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shootout and a game of survival....
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Nobuo Nakagawa – Onna shikeishû no datsugoku AKA Death Row Woman (1960)
Synopsis: A Hitchcockian narrative and noirish atmosphere characterise this effective, taut thriller, made the same year as the director’s magnum opus, JIGOKU (Hell). Set in the present day, DEATH ROW...
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Houda Benyamina – Divines (2016)
Quote: A street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down. Quote: The film that came out of nowhere at Cannes this...
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Robert Montgomery – Lady in the Lake (1947)
Synopsis: The camera shows Phillip Marlowe’s view from the first-person in this adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s book. The detective is hired to find a publisher’s wife, who is supposed to have run...
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Lino Brocka – Macho Dancer (1988)
Macho Dancer is a 1988 Philippine film, directed Lino Brocka, which explores the harsh realities of a young, poor, rural gay man, who after being dumped by his American boyfriend, is forced to make a...
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Bigas Luna – Tatuaje, primera aventura de Pepe Carvalho AKA Tattoo, the First...
Summary from filmaffinity: On a beach in Barcelona, the body of a young man is discovered. His face eaten by fish, tattooed on his arm is the phrase: “I was born to revolutionize hell”. So begins a...
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Aarne Tarkas – Yö on pitkä AKA The Night Is Long (1952)
Synopsis: Åke Strandberg has managed to get a fine education and a good job at the bank, but he wants more. He wants to get rich no matter what. After holidays with his girl Rita, he comes back to...
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Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie – Good Time (2017)
Quote: After a heist goes awry, a bank robber tries to free his brother from Rikers Island, all in one night....
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Felix E. Feist – The Basketball Fix (1951)
A college basketball star collaborrates with organized crime and becomes involved in ‘point shaving.’ A sportswriter tries to get him back on the right track. (from IMDB)...
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Otto Preminger – Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Quote: Dana Andrews is brutal metropolitan police detective Dixon, who despises all criminals because his father had been one. When the cops pick up two-bit gambler Ken Paine (Craig Stevens) as a...
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Virginie Despentes & Coralie – Baise-moi AKA Fuck me (2000)
Two young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men – and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences. Baise-moi (Fuck Me)...
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Lino Brocka – Jaguar (1979)
Poldo, a lowly security in a publishing firm, dreams to be rich. He becomes the personal bodyguard to his employer’s son, Sonny, when he impresses the latter with his courage and skills during a...
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Jalal Moghadam – Farar az Taleh AKA Escape From The Trap (1971)
Quote: A great Iranian film , unfortunately unknown in and out of Iran, 23 April 2008 Author: Armand Erfanian from United Kingdom *** This review may contain spoilers *** Farar az Tale is an unknown...
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Baltasar Kormákur – Eiðurinn AKA The Oath (2016)
From cinemaperspective.com When filmmakers possess a signature style that can be identified across their body of work, they are sometimes referred to as an auteur of cinema. It’s a term that might get...
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Virginie Despentes & Coralie – Baise-moi AKA Fuck Me (2000)
Quote: Two young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men – and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences. Baise-moi...
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Serdar Akar – Gemide AKA On Board (1998)
Quote: A sequel to Laleli’de Bir Azize, and with the collaboration of practically the same team, Gemide is the story of four sailors who sit around the ship and spend their time smoking pot. Their...
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Barbara Loden – Wanda (1970)
Quote: Winner of the Critics Prize in Venice in 1970, Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970) was, as the New York Times meekly puts it, “a critical hit but failed to create excitement at the box-office” (New...
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