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  • Dahomey
    France - 2024
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    November 2021. 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Along with ...
  • On the Adamant
    France - 2023
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    The Adamant is a unique day-care centre. A floating structure located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering the ...
  • Alcarràs
    Spain - 2022
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    For as long as they can remember, the Solé family has spent every summer picking the peaches in their orchard in Alcarràs, a small village in Spain’s Catalonia region. ...
  • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
    Romania - 2021
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    It explores the relationship between the individual and society by showing what happens when a young secondary-school teacher (Katia Pascariu) posts an amateur porn clip ...
  • Sheytan vojud nadarad
    Iran - 2020
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    Four stories on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty, asking to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.
  • Synonyms
    France - 2019
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    In Paris, things do not exactly get off to a good start for Yoav. He knocks on the door of a flat, only to discover the place is empty and, while he is taking a bath ...
  • Touch Me Not
    Romania - 2018
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    On the fluid border between reality and fiction, 'Touch Me Not' follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian. Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid ...
  • On Body and Soul
    Hungary - 2017
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    A slaughterhouse in Budapest is the setting of a strangely beautiful love story. No sooner does Mária start work as the new quality controller than the whispers begin. At ...
  • Fire at Sea
    Italy - 2016
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    A documentary shot on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa during the European migrant crisis, and sets the migrants' dangerous Mediterranean crossing against a background of ...
  • Taxi
    Iran - 2015
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    Documentary, Self: Jafar Panahi, Hana Saeidi ...
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    A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being ...
  • Black Coal, Thin Ice
    China - 2014
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    Northern China, 1999. The grisly discovery of several corpses is made in a small town. A bloody incident during the attempt to capture the alleged murderer leaves two ...
  • Child's Pose
    Romania - 2013
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    Wealthy Bucharest architect Cornelia fights to keep her disaffected adult son Barbu out of jail following a careless car accident that claims the life of a young child. ...
  • Caesar Must Die
    Italy - 2012
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    The performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar comes to an end and the performers are rewarded with rapturous applause. The lights go out; the actors leave the stage and ...
  • A Separation
    Iran - 2011
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    Nader (Peyman Moaadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) argue about living abroad. Simin prefers to live abroad to provide better opportunities for their only daughter, Termeh. ...
  • Honey
    Turkey - 2010
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    Six-year-old Yusuf has just begun attending primary school where he is learning how to read and write. His father, Yakup, is a beekeeper. He goes about his trade deep ...
  • The Milk of Sorrow (The Scared Breast)
    Peru - 2009
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    Fausta (Magali Solier) suffers from the scared breast, a strange illness that is transmitted by mothers who have been raped or mistreated during their pregnancy or ...
  • Elite Squad
    Brazil - 2007
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    Between 1997 and present day, "Tropa de Elite" shows the actual security situation of Rio de Janeiro. Without enough resources from the government, the military police ...
  • Tuya's Marriage
    China - 2006
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    Living conditions are deteriorating for those who lead a rural existence in north-western Mongolia. China's industry is expanding - even into this inhospitable region - ...
  • Esma's Secret - Grbavica
    Bosnia and Herzegovina - 2006
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    2006: Berlin Film Festival: Golden Bear. Single mother Esma lives with her 12-year-old daughter, Sara, in post-war Sarajevo. Sara wants to go on a school trip and Esma ...
  • U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha
    South Africa - 2005
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    First performed on 3 March, 1875, Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” has since become one of the most popular operas in the history of music. The opera’s librettists, Henri Meilhac ...
  • Head-On
    Germany - 2004
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    Cahit is a German Turk at his late 30's. He has given up with his life after his beloved wife's death, and he's living a miserable life right in the core of cocaine and ...
  • In This World
    United Kingdom - 2002
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    Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient In This World follows young Afghan Jamal (impressive newcomer Jamal Udin Torabi) and his ...
  • Bloody Sunday
    United Kingdom - 2002
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    In documentary style, Paul Greengrass' BLOODY SUNDAY, which chronicles the events of January 30, 1972 in Derry, Ireland, is filmed with gritty gray realness. Surrounding ...
  • Spirited Away
    Japan - 2001
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    10-year old Chihiro becomes trapped in a forbidden world of gods and magic when her parents take her to investigate the other side of the tunnel. In order to survive, ...
  • Intimacy
    France - 2001
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    Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for ...
  • Magnolia
    United States - 1999
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    In a single day in Los Angeles, a number of interconnected lives are changed forever. A lonely police officer (John C. Reilly) falls in love with a disturbed cocaine ...
  • The Thin Red Line
    United States - 1998
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    1942, Guadalcanal. US soldiers land on the island, hoping to take it back from the Japanese. At first, they encounter no resistance. C for Charlie company ventures into ...
  • Central Station
    Brazil - 1998
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    Dora, a dour old woman, works at a Rio de Janeiro central station, writing letters for customers and mailing them. She hates customers and calls them 'trash'. Josue is a ...
  • The People vs. Larry Flynt
    United States - 1996
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    In THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT, Milos Forman expertly directs the viewer's sympathy toward Larry Flynt (Woody Harrelson in a superb performance): smut peddler, misogynist, ...
  • Sense and Sensibility
    United Kingdom - 1995
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    When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and ...
  • The Bait
    France - 1995
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    Three adolescents, a girl who serves as the priming and two boys, kill two men cold blooded who were known by the girl only for to steal the money of them. With the money ...
  • In the Name of the Father
    Ireland - 1993
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    Based on Gerry Conlon's autobiography, 'Proved Innocent', Jim Sheridan's 'In the Name of the Father' tells the story of a man wrongfully imprisoned in 1974 for the ...
  • The Wedding Banquet
    Taiwan - 1993
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    Simon and Wei-Tung are a gay couple living together in Manhattan. To defer the suspicions of Wei-Tung's parents, Simon suggests a marriage of convenience between Wei-Tung ...
  • Woman Sesame Oil Maker (The Women From The Lake Of Scented Souls)
    China - 1993
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    If money can't buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Her husband is lazy and drinks; her son ...
  • Grand Canyon
    United States - 1991
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    Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely ...
  • The House of Smiles
    Italy - 1991
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    It depicts a romance between an old man and an old woman inside a care home. The film won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, but has never been released in the English-speaking world.
  • Music Box
    United States - 1989
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    Hungarian immigrant Mike Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) has done well for himself since arriving in the USA nearly 50 years ago. He is particularly proud of his daughter, ...
  • Larks on a String
    Czechoslovakia - 1969
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    Prague in the early 1950's. Bourgeois elements are being re-educated by working in a scrapyard full of the detritus of industrial society. The volunteer workers comprise ...
  • Rain Man
    United States - 1988
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    Callous hustler Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is busy working on his next deal when he receives word that his estranged father has died. After traveling back to Ohio from ...
  • Red Sorghum
    China - 1988
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    In 1930s China a young woman is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the ...
  • The Teme
    Soviet Union (USSR) - 1979
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    A self-pitying but popular playwright drives to Vladimir to relax with a doting female student and another writer. He's convinced his writing is of no lasting value, but ...
  • Stammheim - Die Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe vor Gericht
    Germany - West Germany (FRG) - 1986
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    Stammheim is a 1986 West German film directed by Reinhard Hauff. It tells the story of the trial in Stammheim Prison of the Baader-Meinhof Group of left-wing terrorists.
  • The Woman and the Stranger
    Germany - East Germany (GDR) - 1985
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    Two German soldiers captured by the Russians in World War I become close friends. Richard shares intimate stories about his wife Anna, and Karl falls in love with her in ...
  • Wetherby
    United Kingdom - 1985
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    Set in the town of Wetherby in West Yorkshire, the film focuses on Jean Travers, a middle-aged spinster schoolteacher. One evening, she invites married friends for a ...
  • Love Streams
    United States - 1984
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    A quirky character drama about a writer and his sister who struggle to find love despite their personal problems.
  • The Beehive
    Spain - 1982
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    As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the ...
  • Ascendancy
    United Kingdom - 1982
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    Connie is a member of the British landowning "Ascendancy" in Ireland after WWI. Through a chance friendship with a British soldier, she learns how sheltered she has been, ...
  • Veronika Voss
    Germany - West Germany (FRG) - 1982
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    Munich, 1955: A sports journalist meets Veronika Voss, an UFA actress who supposedly had an affair with Goebbels. Now declining, Voss is kept by her "kind" doctor, Dr. ...
  • Fast, Fast
    Spain - 1981
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    Angela begins to hang around with Pablo and his gang of young robbers. They who want to escape from the marginal environment in which they live. To do so, they need to ...
  • Heartland
    United States - 1979
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    A recent widow (Ferrell) and her daughter travel to Wyoming in 1910, to work as housekeeper for a stern rancher (Torn). Once there she decides to try and homestead a ...
  • Palermo or Wolfsburg
    Germany - West Germany (FRG) - 1980
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    An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by ...
  • David
    Germany - West Germany (FRG) - 1979
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  • Trout
    Spain - 1978
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  • What Max Said
    Spain - 1978
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  • Ascensor (S)
    Spain - 1978
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    A group of four strangers are stranded together on an elevator.
  • The Ascent
    Soviet Union (USSR) - 1977
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    Set in WWII, it tells the story of two Soviet partisans who break from their squad to find food for the civilians they are escorting to the next safe encampment. They ...
  • Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
    United States - 1976
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    Buffalo Bill (Paul Newman) plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, ...
  • Adoption
    Hungary - 1975
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    Single factory worker Kata, 43, wants to have a child with her long-time secret lover, a married man called Joska. He doesn't like the idea. Kata befriends teenage ...
  • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
    Canada - 1974
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    It took a pair of Canadian ex-pats to beat Hollywood at its own game. The nascent Canadian film industry of the seventies suffered from two shortcomings when it came to ...
  • Distant Thunder
    India - 1973
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    The action, which occurs in a tiny village in 1943, during World War II, is based on the man-made famine that caused the deaths of five million inhabitants of Colonial ...
  • The Canterbury Tales
    Italy - 1972
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    Based on the medieval narrative poem The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It is the second film in Pasolini's 'Trilogy of Life'. The adaptation covers eight of the ...
  • The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
    Italy - 1970
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    In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading families, wealthy, aristocratic, urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol ...
  • Early Works
    Yugoslavia - 1969
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    This film took the top honor at the 1969 Berlin Film Festival. After a series of documentaries, this marks the directorial debut for Zelimir Zilnik. It takes a decidedly ...
  • Who Saw Him Die?
    Sweden - 1968
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    A weak and tormented teacher is pushed to the limit by his obnoxious students.
  • The Departure
    Belgium - 1967
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    A fast-paced comedy about a young Belgian car nut and hairdresser's apprentice, his girlfriend, and their legal and illegal attempts to get a Porsche under him for his ...
  • Cul-de-sac
    United Kingdom - 1966
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    A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle. The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful French wife, are initially the ...
  • Alphaville
    France - 1965
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    Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is at odds with the city's ruler, an evil ...
  • Dry Summer
    Turkey - 1964
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    Dry Summer is a film of passion. A passion for water as well as the obsessive passion created by forbidden love. […] Dry Summer is a film of captivity… Authorities at the ...
  • Bushido, Samurai Saga
    Japan - 1963
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    Episodic chronicle of one family's lineage and how it has been affected by the strict code of deference to the feudal lords.
  • The Devil
    Italy - 1963
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    Sordi gives a deep and touching comic performance as an Italian fur merchant who is going to Sweden for the first time to attend the annual fur auctions in Stockholm. The ...
  • A Kind of Loving
    United Kingdom - 1962
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    A young man, inching his way up from working-class traditions via a white-collar job, finds himself trapped by the frightening reality of his girlfriend's pregnancy and ...
  • La notte (The Night)
    Italy - 1961
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    In Milan, after visiting dear friend Tommaso Garani that is terminal in a hospital, the writer Giovanni Pontano goes to a party for the release of his last book, and his ...
  • El lazarillo de Tormes
    Spain - 1959
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    Film based on an anonymous spanish novel from the XVI century.
  • The Cousins
    France - 1959
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    Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul's flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always ...
  • Wild Strawberries
    Sweden - 1957
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    It explores the disillusionment of an elderly physician, Professor Isak Borg, as he reflects upon his life and begins to perceive his mortality. As he travels to Lund to ...
  • 12 Angry Men
    United States - 1957
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    Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion?
  • Invitation to the Dance
    United States - 1956
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    This is a movie where three entirely different stories are told though dancing. Words are not used and the style of dancing is different for each part. Kelly is a clown ...
  • The Rats
    Germany - West Germany (FRG) - 1955
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  • Hobson's Choice
    United Kingdom - 1954
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    David Lean backs up vicious wit with tender romance in this thrilling adaptation of Harold Brighouse's play. As Henry Hobson, a tyrannical bootshop owner, Charles ...
  • The Wages of Fear
    France - 1953
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    In a wretched South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As ...
  • One Summer of Happiness
    Sweden - 1951
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    Student Göran is vacationing on his uncle's farm. On the first day he meets the 17-year old Kerstin, who lives on a farm nearby. The young people in the area are trying ...
  • Four in a Jeep
    Switzerland - 1951
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  • ...Sans laisser d'adresse
    France - 1951
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    Thérèse Ravenaz is a charming young woman but also the victim of a seducer who abandoned her as soon as he was told she was expecting a baby. To trace her unworthy lover, ...
  • Beaver Valley
    United States - 1950
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    Fondly remembered by so many schoolkids, Beaver Valley was the second of the True Life Adventure series and won the Oscar for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel, for 1950. ...
  • Justice est faite
    France - 1950
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    The Marshal summons the jury and an insight is given into the background of the seven jurors who are to decide on the guilt of the accused, a sick man's mistress on trail for his mercy killing.
  • Cinderella
    United States - 1950
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    Animation, Voice: Ilene Woods ...
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    Disney's adaptation of the beloved fairy tale became a classic in its own right, thanks to some memorable tunes (including "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes," ...
Movies from this Rating List. (Click on a movie to rate it)
  • Dahomey
  • On the Adamant
  • Alcarràs
  • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
  • Sheytan vojud nadarad
  • Synonyms
  • Touch Me Not
  • On Body and Soul
  • Fire at Sea
  • Taxi
  • Black Coal, Thin Ice
  • Child's Pose
  • Caesar Must Die
  • A Separation
  • Honey
  • The Milk of Sorrow (The Scared Breast)
  • Elite Squad
  • Tuya's Marriage
  • Esma's Secret - Grbavica
  • U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha
  • Head-On
  • In This World
  • Bloody Sunday
  • Spirited Away
  • Intimacy
  • Magnolia
  • The Thin Red Line
  • Central Station
  • The People vs. Larry Flynt
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • The Bait
  • In the Name of the Father
  • The Wedding Banquet
  • Woman Sesame Oil Maker (The Women From The Lake Of Scented Souls)
  • Grand Canyon
  • The House of Smiles
  • Music Box
  • Larks on a String
  • Rain Man
  • Red Sorghum
  • The Teme
  • Stammheim - Die Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe vor Gericht
  • The Woman and the Stranger
  • Wetherby
  • Love Streams
  • The Beehive
  • Ascendancy
  • Veronika Voss
  • Fast, Fast
  • Heartland
  • Palermo or Wolfsburg
  • David
  • Trout
  • What Max Said
  • Ascensor (S)
  • The Ascent
  • Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
  • Adoption
  • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
  • Distant Thunder
  • The Canterbury Tales
  • The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
  • Early Works
  • Who Saw Him Die?
  • The Departure
  • Cul-de-sac
  • Alphaville
  • Dry Summer
  • Bushido, Samurai Saga
  • The Devil
  • A Kind of Loving
  • La notte (The Night)
  • El lazarillo de Tormes
  • The Cousins
  • Wild Strawberries
  • 12 Angry Men
  • Invitation to the Dance
  • The Rats
  • Hobson's Choice
  • The Wages of Fear
  • One Summer of Happiness
  • Four in a Jeep
  • ...Sans laisser d'adresse
  • Beaver Valley
  • Justice est faite
  • Cinderella
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