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All About My Mother (Spanish)
Grief-stricken Manuela returns to Barcelona after the death of her son to search for the boy's father, and in the process becomes caregiver to an extended family of colorful characters.
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, Antonia San Juan
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End of the Century (Spanish)
Lucio Castro offers both a sun-soaked European travelogue and an epic, decades-spanning romance. When Ocho, a 30-something Argentine poet on vacation in Barcelona, spots Javi, a Spaniard from Berlin, the attraction is subtle but persistent. After a missed connection on the beach, a third chance encounter escalates to a seemingly random hookup. But are these two merely beautiful strangers in a foreign city, or are they part of each other's histories, and maybe even their destinies.
Director: Lucio Castro
Starring: Juan Barberini, Ramon Pujol, Mia Maestro
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First Love (Japanese)
A noir-tinged yakuza film blending genres in the story of a young boxer and a call girl, who fall passionately in love while getting innocently caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Becky, Sakurako Konishi, Masataka Kubota
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Fritz Lang's Indian Epic (German)
An architect and a beautiful temple dancer flee from a power-mad rule in India. A two-film set that includes 'The Tiger of Eschnapur' and 'The Indian Tomb'.
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walther Reyer
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Girls of the Sun (French)
Somewhere in Kurdistan, Bahar, commander of the battalion, is preparing to liberate her hometown from the hands of extremists, hoping to find her son who is held, hostage. A French journalist, Mathilde, comes to cover the attack and bear witness to the story of these exceptional warriors. Since their lives have been turned upside down, they find themselves fighting for women, life, and liberty.
Director: Eva Husson
Starring: Golshifteh Farahani, Emmanuelle Bercot
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The Harvesters (African)
In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, and emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercly religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother.
Director: Etienne Kallos
Starring: Alex Van Dyk, Juliana Venter
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Hotel by the River (Korean)
An aging poet, Younghwan, summons his two estranged sons to a solitary hotel beside the Han River because he feels his death is near. While waiting for them to arrive, he meets two women out walking in the new-fallen snow and is struck by their angelic beauty. But the women have come to the hotel to do some healing of their own. As Younghwan moves between the women and his sons, he also moves between his two minds: one that walks on the street and the other that communes with the eternal.
Director: Sang-Soo Hong
Starring: Ki Joobong, Kim Minhee, Seonmi Song
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Hypnosis to be Happy (Spanish)
At the start of Pilar and Felipe's friendship, Felipe decides not to waste any time and, surprisingly, proposes marriage. With an outright refusal, their relationship spins into a desperate and alarming, if adventurous, new direction. Pilar is introduced to Felipe's most intimate mantra, one that has kept him afloat in his worst existential crises: a memorized hypnotic speech from an archaic seventies cassette. Forced English subtitles.
Director: Victor Audiffred
Starring: Ericka Ramirez, Anton Araiza
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I Killed My Husband! (Spanish)
A desperate woman accidentally murders her unfaithful husband the morning of a big party being thrown in his honor. Somehow, she must survive the pain of heartbreak amidst a night of celebration without being found out.
Director: Francisco Lupini
Starring: Maria Conchita Alonso, Bernard Bullen, Rafael de la Fuente
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Petit Soldat (French)
Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement. Anna Karina (in her first collaboration with Godard, whose camera is visibly besotted with her) is beguiling as the mysterious woman with whom Forestier becomes infatuated.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Anna Karina, Michel Subor, Henri-Jacques Huet, Paul Beauvais
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Museo (Spanish)
Well into their 30s, Juan Nunez and Benjamin Wilson still can’t seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents’ homes. Instead, they wallow in comfortable limbo a suburb of Mexico City. On a fateful Christmas Eve, however, they decide it’s finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all of Mexican history, looting the country's iconic National Anthropology Museum in an act worthy of the Ocean’s Eleven crew.
Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Simon Russell Beale, Lisa Owen, Leonardo Ortizgris
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Port of Shadows (French)
Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance at life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, when acts of both revenge and kindness turn him into front-page news. The film starkly portrays an underworld of lonely souls wrestling with their own destinies, a quintessential example of poetic realism, one of the classics of the golden age of French cinema.
Director: Marcel Carne
Starring: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michele Morgan, Pierre Brasseure, Robert Le Vigan, Edouard Delmont, Raymond Aimos, Roger Legris
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Ringu (Japanese)
A group of teenage friends are found dead, their bodies grotesquely contorted, their faces twisted in terror. Reiko, a journalist and the aunt of one of the victims, sets out to investigate the shocking phenomenon, and in the process uncovers a creepy urban legend about a supposedly cursed videotape, the contents of which causes anyone who views it to die within a week, unless they canpersuade someone else to watch it, and, in so doing, pass on the curse.
Director: Hideo Nakata
Starring: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yuko Takeuchi, Hitomi Sato
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Roma (Spanish)
With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuaron recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo, the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals.
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Starring: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina De Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta
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Synonyms (French)
Yoav, a disaffected young Israeli who flees Tel Aviv for Paris to start a new life. Desperate to erase his origins, Yoav sees France as his only hope for salvation. He vows not to utter a single word of Hebrew, his French dictionary becoming his constant companion. He is swiftly befriended by a strange young French couple who enmesh him in a very Parisian love triangle.
Director: Nadav Lapid
Starring: Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire, Louise Chevillote
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