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David Mamet – House of Games (1987)

Synopsis:A famous psychologist, Margaret Ford, decides to try to help one of her patients get out of a gambling debt. She visits the bar where Mike, to whom the debt is owed, runs poker games. He...

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Ann Hui – Woo Yuet dik goo si AKA The Story of Woo Viet (1981)

Quote:Hong Kong, 1980. The Vietnam War has been over for five years and the ethnic cleansing of Chinese has begun. As the “boat people”, refugees of Vietnam, flood out of the country, Hong Kong...

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Peter Strickland – Katalin Varga (2009)

Katalin Varga is a 2009 directorial debut of Peter Strickland, he used the money from a bequest from his uncle to fund the project. Filmed over several years in a Hungarian-speaking part of the...

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George Fitzmaurice & Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast – Raffles (1930)

Synopsis:A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life–he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed “The Amateur Cracksman”. When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to...

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António-Pedro Vasconcelos – Call Girl (2007)

Maria (Soraia Chaves) a sensual call girl, is hired by Mouros (Joaquim de Almeida) to seduce Meireles (Nicolau Breyner), the Mayor of Vilanova, so that he can authorize a multinational to build a high...

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John Gilling – The Quiet Woman (1951)

Quote:Having previously been married to a criminal, Jane Foster (Jane Hylton) takes over a coastal pub named ‘The Quiet Woman’ to start a new life with the help of her loyal and protective employee...

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Mervyn LeRoy – Gentleman’s Fate (1931)

Synopsis:Pre-code melodrama starring John Gilbert as Jack Thomas, rich, penthouse-dwelling playboy with a brand new fiancee named Marjorie (Leila Hyams) and his own English “gentleman’s gentleman”...

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Béla Tarr &Ágnes Hranitzky – A londoni férfi AKA The Man from London (2007) (HD)

SynopsisMaloin leads a simple life without prospects at the edge of the infinite sea; he barely notices the world around him, has already accepted the slow and inevitable deterioration of life around...

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Richard Fleischer – Compulsion (1959)

Quote:Compulsion is a compelling, stylish thriller, loosely based on the famous 1924 murder trial of thrill-killers Loeb and Leopold, two homosexual students who murdered a young boy to demonstrate...

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Marcel Carné – Le Jour se lève aka Daybreak (1939)

Marcel Carné and Jacques Prevert’s classic of French poetic realism stars Jean Gabin in one of his most famous roles as François, a rough, barrel-chested loner who hides out in his apartment awaiting...

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Samuel Fuller – The Crimson Kimono (1959) (HD)

Quote:Two detectives seek a stripper’s killer in the Japanese quarter of Los Angeles, but a love triangle threatens their friendship. 6.56GB | 1 h 21 min | 1920×1040 | mkv...

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Sidney Lanfield & Frank Tashlin – The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)

Damon Runyon’s Broadway fable The Lemon Drop Kid was filmed twice by Paramount Pictures, but only the 1934 version with Lee Tracy paid more than lip service to the original Runyon story. The second...

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Henry Levin – Convicted (1950)

Quote:From Spencer Selby’s Dark City:Serving time in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, a man becomes hard and embittered. One of several noirs which were remade from thirties crime pictures....

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Juan Antonio Bardem – Muerte de un ciclista AKA Death of a Cyclist (1955)

Synopsis:A couple traveling through the countryside strike a man on a bicycle. When they get out of their car to examine him, they find that he is injured but not dead. But instead of helping the man,...

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Seijun Suzuki – Ukigusa no yado AKA Inn Of The Floating Weeds (1957)

Another Kayo-eiga (Pop Song Film), inspired by the hit Ukikusa No Yado sung by Hachiro Kasuga. Although the singer has a co-starring role, the movie was designed as a star vehicle for the new Nikkatsu...

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Luis Buñuel – Le journal d’une femme de chambre AKA Diary of a Chambermaid...

Quote:This wicked adaptation of the Octave Mirbeau novel is classic Luis Buñuel. Jeanne Moreau is Celestine, a beautiful Parisian domestic who, upon arrival at her new job at an estate in provincial...

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John Ford – The Whole Town’s Talking (1935)

Synopsis:Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He’s never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he...

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Arthur Lubin – Footsteps in the Fog (1955)

Synopsis:To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that far from dying of gastroenteritis his wife was slowly poisoned by her husband –...

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Alberto Lattuada – Senza pietà AKA Without Pity (1948)

Filmed in 1948 as Senza Pieta, this Alberto Lattuada-directed effort came to America the following year as Without Pity. The film’s sensitive subject matter caused problems in distribution and...

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Samuel Fuller – House of Bamboo (1955)

Synopsis:In Tokyo, a ruthless gang starts holding up U.S. ammunition trains, prepared to kill any of their own members wounded during a robbery. Down-at-heel ex-serviceman Eddie Spannier arrives from...

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