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Claude Lelouch – Le chat et la souris AKA Cat and Mouse (1975)
Synopsis: A jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case involving the mysterious death and/or suicide of a wealthy entrepreneur. The chief suspect is his...
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Henri Verneuil – Le Casse aka The Burglars (1971)
Quote: Comments : Henri Verneuil’s The Burglars has a bit of a cult reputation for an infamous car chase through Greece – fully deserved for that lone, incredible sequence – but more than thirty years...
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John Dahl – The Last Seduction (1994) (HD)
Synopsis A devious sexpot steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme....
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst – Das Bekenntnis der Ina Kahr AKA The Confession of Ina...
Synopsis: ‘Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Warned by her friends and relatives that Jurgens is a bad job, impulsive Ina Kahr...
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Horst E. Brandt & Heinz Thiel – Heroin (1968)
This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting location shots (border checkpoint to West Berlin, the Gellert bath in Budapest, and more). The plot...
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Masahiro Shinoda – Kaseki no mori AKA The Petrified Forest (1973)
Synopsis: Based on novel by Shintaro Ishihara, this is a human drama about the complex relationship of parent and child. Haruo spends his time working in a university hospital when he meets a...
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Raoul Ruiz – Trois vies & une seule mort AKA Three Lives and Only One Death...
Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni stars as man who shares four names and four personalities (which is the real one?). This mysterious figure is the link between four different, yet strangely similar,...
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Franz Novotny – Exit… nur keine Panik AKA Exit… But No Panic (1980)
Quote: The Year is 1980 and it’s Summer in Vienna Most people outside of Austria will rarely get a chance to see this movie, but if you get a chance like this, don’t let it pass as you as you’re on...
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Petr Kazda & Tomás Weinreb – Já, Olga Hepnarová AKA I, Olga Hepnarova (2016)
Olga Hepnarova was a young, lonely lesbian outsider from a coldhearted family who couldn’t play the part society had chosen for her. Her paranoid self-examination and inability to connect with other...
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Claude Sautet – L’arme à gauche AKA The Dictator’s Guns (1965)
Synopsis: Jacques Cournot, a freelance skipper, is hired by Mr Hendrix in Santo Domingo, first of all to advise him regarding the acquisition of a sailing boat. After a thorough inspection of a...
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Robert Bresson – Pickpocket (1959)
Quote: Michel is an inscrutable young man – neatly dressed, mild mannered, intelligent – hardly the type whom one would suspect to be a pickpocket. And perhaps, that is reason that he does it. Robert...
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Max Nosseck – Dillinger (1945)
Synopsis: Willie Sutton robbed banks during the Depression because, he explained, “That’s where the money is.” Former Indiana farmboy John Dillinger also knew where the money was. And his string of...
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Bob Quinn – Poitín AKA Poteen (1978)
Poitin is widely regarded as a classic of Irish cinema. It tells the story of a Conamara moonshiner, his daughter and two cheating agents who they outwit and bring to a tragic end. The story has a de...
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Elio Petri – L’assassino AKA The Ladykiller of Rome (1961)
Quote: The film is a frequently clever examination of a cynical social climber who finds himself in trouble. Arrested at his home and complete with a phoney alibi to cover his infidelity, our...
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Henri Decoin – Les Inconnus dans la Maison aka Strangers in the House (1942)
Synopsis: Since his wife left him, almost twenty years ago, the once brilliant lawyer Loursat has slumped into a life of despondency and drunkenness. He lives in a vast empty house with his teenage...
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Krótki film o zabijaniu AKA A Short Film About Killing...
Quote: Death from the very beginning — a rat decomposing in the water, a cat hanging from a railing as giggling children run off. In Krzysztof Kieslowski’s expansion of the Decalogue: Five segment...
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Yilmaz Güney – Aç kurtlar AKA The Hungry Wolves (1969)
Synopsis: Memed is a fugitive with a sole purpose to find and execute bandits in the mountains. When a rich landowner wants to avenge the death of his father, he hires Memed as a bounty hunter....
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Noboru Tanaka – Edogawa Ranpo ryôki-kan: Yaneura no sanposha AKA Watcher in...
Watcher in the Attic is a 1976 Japanese film in Nikkatsu’s Roman porno series, directed by Noboru Tanaka and starring Junko Miyashita. In 1923 Tokyo Lady Minako is the owner of a shabby boarding house...
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René Clément – La baby-sitter aka Jeune fille libre le soir (1975)
Quote: Whatever one says about the plot of this film is going to be a spoiler. Let’s just say that a girl takes a baby-sitting job for one night and in the morning finds that things are not what they...
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Shun’ya Itô – Hanazono no meikyu AKA Labyrinth Romanesque (1988)
Based on Edogawa Ranpo Award winner “Hanazono no Meikyu” by Yoko Yamazaki. A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel....
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