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Festival Winners: Venice - Golden Lion
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Venice Film Festival Winners: Golden Lion
  • Poor Things
    Ireland - 2023
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    Bella Baxter is a young girl brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry ...
  • All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
    United States - 2022
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    It follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
  • Happening
    France - 2021
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    France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape ...
  • Nomadland
    United States - 2020
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    Fern is a woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
  • Joker
    United States - 2019
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    Year 1981. In Gotham City, mentally-troubled Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) works as a clown-for-hire and lives with his mother, Penny. Arthur, whose motivation in life ...
  • Roma
    Mexico - 2018
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    "Roma" follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to ...
  • The Shape of Water
    United States - 2017
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    An other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa ...
  • The Woman Who Left
    Philippines - 2016
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    For Horacia Somorostro, living has become a veritable reclusión perpetua, an imprisonment. Life’s spins and randomness have been very difficult, vicious and inexplicable ...
  • From Afar
    Venezuela - 2015
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    Wealthy middle-aged Armando lures young men to his home with money. He doesn’t want to touch, only watch from a strict distance. He also follows an elderly businessman ...
  • A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
    Sweden - 2014
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    A story centered on a pair of traveling salesmen who peddle novelty items.
  • Sacro GRA
    Italy - 2013
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    After the India of Varanasi’s boatmen, the American desert of the dropouts, and the Mexico of the killers of drugtrade, Gianfranco Rosi has decided to tell the tale of a ...
  • Pieta
    South Korea - 2012
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    Working for loan sharks, a cruel man (Lee Jung-Jin) gets money from debtors one way or the other. One day, a woman (Jo Min-Su) appears in front of him, apologizing for ...
  • Faust
    Russia - 2011
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    Set in the 19th century, it is a free interpretation of the Faust legend and its literary adaptations by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Thomas Mann. The dialogue is in German.
  • Somewhere
    United States - 2010
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    Stephen Dorff plays Johnny Marco, an excess-loving actor who is forced to reassess his life when his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning) arrives without warning. Movie ...
  • Lebanon: The Soldier's Journey
    Israel - 2009
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    The First Lebanon War, June, 1982. A lone tank and a platoon of paratroopers are dispatched to search a hostile town that has been bombarded by the Israeli Air Force. The ...
  • The Wrestler
    United States - 2008
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    Back in the late ’80s, Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, twenty years later, he ekes out a living performing for ...
  • Lust, Caution
    Taiwan - 2007
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    Shanghai, 1942. The World War II Japanese occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs. Mak, a woman of sophistication and means, walks into a café, places a ...
  • Sanxia haoren (Still Life)
    China - 2006
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    Coalminer Han Sanming comes from Fengyang in Shanxi to the Three Gorges town Fengjie to look for his ex-wife whom he has not seen for 16 years. The couple meet on the ...
  • Brokeback Mountain
    United States - 2005
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    The story of two young men, Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 sheepherding in the harsh, high ...
  • Vera Drake
    United Kingdom - 2004
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    London, 1950: Vera Drake lives with her husband Stan and their grown-up children, Sid and Ethel. They are not rich, but they are a happy, close family. Vera cleans ...
  • The Return
    Russia - 2003
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    In contemporary Russia young brothers Vanya and Andrey have grown a deep attachment to each other to make up for their fatherless childhood. Running home after a fight ...
  • The Magdalene Sisters
    Ireland - 2002
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    The Magdalene Asylums in Ireland were run by the Sisters of Mercy on behalf of the Catholic Church. Young girls were sent there by families or orphanages and once there, ...
  • Monsoon Wedding
    India - 2001
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    Set in New Delhi, as the Verma family prepare for their daughter's arranged marriage, the father of the bride, Lalit Verma (Shah), and his wife endure the ups and downs ...
  • The Circle
    Iran - 2000
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    Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
  • Not One Less
    China - 1999
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    In a remote mountain village, the teacher must leave for a month, and the mayor can find only a 13-year old girl, Wei Minzhi, to substitute. The teacher leaves one stick ...
  • The Way We Laughed
    Italy - 1998
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    Set in Turin in the late 1950s two brothers, who have emigrated from Sicily, strive for better things with the older working to enable the younger to study and escape ...
  • Hana-bi
    Japan - 1997
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    Nishi is a cop whose wife is slowly dying of Leukemia. One of his partners gets shot on the job and is confined to a wheel chair for the rest of his life and becomes ...
  • Michael Collins
    Ireland - 1996
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    Starting with Ireland's bloody Easter Rebellion of 1916 and ending with his untimely death, this epic film tells the charged story of Michael "Mickey" Collins. An IRA ...
  • Cyclo
    Vietnam - 1995
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    A young man who struggles through life by earning some money with his bicycle-taxi in Saigon (Ho-Chi-Min-City) gets contact to a group of criminals. They introduce him to ...
  • Vive l'amour
    Taiwan - 1994
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    Yang Kuei-Mei and Chen Chao-Jung (both from the hit comedy "Eat Drink Man Woman") star as May, a chic and seductive real estate agent, and Ah-jong, a street merchant. ...
  • Before the Rain
    FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia) - 1994
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    The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one ...
  • Short Cuts
    United States - 1993
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    Robert Altman interweaves the different everyday stories of Los Angeles who are seemingly unconnected to each other. Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts ...
  • Three Colours: Blue
    France - 1993
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    Three Colors: Blue is the first part of Kieslowski's trilogy on France's national motto: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Blue is the story of Julie who loses her ...
  • The Story of Qiu Ju
    China - 1992
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    A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated ...
  • Close to Eden
    Soviet Union (USSR) - 1991
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    Gombo is a simple man who lives in the vast grassy fields of China with his wife, two children, and mother. The most interesting aspect of the film is the dragonfly Gombo ...
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
    United States - 1990
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    Showing events from the point of view of two minor characters from Hamlet, men who have no control over their destiny, this film examines fate and asks if we can ever ...
  • A City of Sadness
    Taiwan - 1989
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    First part of the trilogy in the history of Taiwan by Hou Hsiao-hsien. These deliveries would be "The Puppetmaster" (1993) and "Good Men, Good Women" (1995).
  • The Legend of the Holy Drinker
    Italy - 1988
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    The story of a Pole who is saved from destitution by a generous stranger and the difficulty he faces in repaying the debt. Venice Film Festival: Golden Lion.
  • Au revoir les enfants
    France - 1987
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    During the winter of 1943, Julien Quentin, a pampered mother's boy who acts tough to the students at the school but is actually a soft kid who wets the bed, leaves his ...
  • The Green Ray
    France - 1986
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    The 5th of Eric Rohmer's six-part "Comedies & Proverbs" series. Abandoned by the friend she was supposed to be holidaying with, Delphine has to make other plans for her ...
  • Vagabond
    France - 1985
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    It is the dark story of a female drifter named Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire). The film opens as Mona's frozen body is found in a drainage ditch and proceeds to tell her story ...
  • The Year of the Quiet Sun
    Poland - 1984
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    Shortly after WWII an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in deep love. Eventually he will return to USA and both expect that she will soon ...
  • First Name: Carmen
    France - 1983
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    First Name: Carmen tells the parallel stories of a quartet rehearsing Beethoven and a group of young people robbing a bank, supposedly to get the funds to make a film. ...
  • The State of Things
    Germany - West Germany (FRG) - 1982
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    A story about a group of film producers making a science fiction movie in the exteriors of Portugal.The black and white movie talks about a world-wide nuclear ...
  • The German Sisters
    Germany - West Germany (FRG) - 1981
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    Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while ...
  • Atlantic City
    Canada - 1980
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    Lou is a small time gangster, who thinks he used to be something big. He meets up with a younger girl, Sally, who is learning to be a croupier. Her husband turns up with ...
  • Gloria
    United States - 1980
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    Jack Dawn and his family are eliminated by the mob, because he was their accountant and was feeding information to the FBI. However his six-year-old Puerto Rican son, ...
  • Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed
    Germany - West Germany (FRG) - 1968
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    The film is made in a collage style, featuring newsreels and quotations from philosophers alongside the story of a failing circus whose owner, Leni (Hannelore Hoger), ...
  • Belle de jour
    France - 1967
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    Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead ...
  • The Battle of Algiers
    Italy - 1966
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    A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian War (1954-1962) from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has ...
  • Sandra of a Thousand Delights
    Italy - 1965
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    Sandra comes back to Volterra, in Tuscany, the little town where she spent her childhood. She is with her American husband, Andrew. She wishes to pay homage to her father ...
  • Red Desert
    Italy - 1964
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    Antonioni's first color film depicts a woman traumatized by an auto accident who finds herself permanently alienated in her urban milieu.
  • Hands Over the City
    Italy - 1963
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    Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi's Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film ...
  • Ivan's Childhood
    Soviet Union (USSR) - 1962
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    The film is centered around a 12 year old Russian boy, Ivan, whose parents died at the hands of Germans invading Russia during the Second World War. In striving ...
  • Last Year in Marienbad
    France - 1961
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    A cinematic puzzle, Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad is a radical exploration of the formal possibilities of film. Beautifully shot in Cinemascope by Sacha Vierny, ...
  • Tomorrow Is My Turn
    France - 1960
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    Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German farm as forced laborers. In the ensuing years they become deeply involved ...
  • Il generale Della Rovere
    Italy - 1959
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    Genoa, 1943. Grimaldi is a swindler, pretending to be a colonel in the Italian army to get money from the family of people put into jail by the Nazis. Once caught, the ...
  • The Great War
    Italy - 1959
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    Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the ...
  • The Rickshaw Man
    Japan - 1958
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    1958: Venice Film Festiva: Golden Lion. Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorite of the town. Matsu helps an ...
  • Aparajito (The Unvanquished)
    India - 1956
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    The second chapter in director Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy ('Pather Panchali', 'Aparajito', 'The World of Apu'). Following Apu and his family to the city, Ray explores the ...
  • Ordet (The Word)
    Denmark - 1955
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    In a conservative, super-pious Danish town, the widower Morten Borgen -- the father of three boys -- cuts against the grain of the community with his constant heretical ...
  • Romeo and Juliet
    Italy - 1954
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    Adaptación del clásico de William Shakespeare. La versión de Castellani es probablemente la mejor adaptación del drama de Shakespeare gracias sobretodo a la fidelidad del ...
  • Forbidden Games
    France - 1952
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    The story focuses on Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), a five-year-old refugee from Paris taken in by a peasant family after her parents are killed during a bombardment of a ...
  • Rashomon
    Japan - 1950
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    In 12th century Japan, Masako (Machiko Kyo) and her husband Takehiro (Masayuki Mori) are attacked in the woods by armed bandit Tajomaru (Toshiro Mifune), who then murders ...
  • Let Justice Be Done
    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.
  • Manon
    France - 1949
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    An adaptation of Abbe Prevost's classic French novel 'Manon Lescaut', updated to post-World War II France, in which a former French Resistance activist rescues Manon from ...
  • Hamlet
    United Kingdom - 1948
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    William Shakespeare's tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the ...
  • The Strike
    Czechoslovakia - 1947
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    The first Czechoslovak film to receive the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, The Strike is a cornerstone example of political agitprop. Set amidst a worker's ...
  • The Southerner
    United States - 1945
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    Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and ...
  • The Great King
    Germany - 1942
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  • Bengasi
    Italy - 1942
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    A widowed woman relives her harrowing war memories of the Italian defeat by the British at Bengasi. This film portrays the British in a most unfavorable light, as a bunch ...
  • Uncle Kruger
    Germany - 1941
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  • The Iron Crown (La corona di ferro)
    Italy - 1941
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    Between classical mythology and Hollywood hankerings, the film tells the story of a boy repudiated by his own land, his growth and his redemption. Everything begins from ...
  • The Stationmaster
    Germany - 1940
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    When two russian captains of cavalry came to a German post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago. He begins to tell the story: Ten years ago a comrade ...
  • The Siege of the Alcazar
    Italy - 1940
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  • Cardinal Messias
    Italy - 1939
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    The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic Church. He comes back ...
  • Olympia
    Germany - 1938
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    Riefenstahl's film of the 11th Olympic Games which took place in Berlin from August 1st to August 16th, 1936, has won numerous awards and is widely considered by film ...
  • Luciano Serra, Pilot
    Italy - 1938
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    Successful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves his family and becomes a pilot in America. In the 30s, his son in ...
  • Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
    Italy - 1937
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    Mussolini's government, in addition to making the railroads run on time (and other items not so good), could also produce a movie on a lavish scale, including over 6000 ...
  • Christine
    France - 1937
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    After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger ...
  • The Emperor of California
    Germany - 1936
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  • Casta diva
    Italy - 1935
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    Martha Eggerth heads the cast of Casta Diva, but the central character is famed Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini, here played by American actor Phillips Holmes. Paying ...
  • Anna Karenina
    United States - 1935
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    Anna Karenina (Garbo), a young Russian woman trapped in a loveless marriage, meets and falls in love with Count Vronsky (Fredric March), a member of the Russian army. ...
  • Loyalty of Love
    Italy - 1934
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    Hot on the heels of Dinero ed Amore, Loyalty of Love was the second of two Guido Brignone-directed films released within same week. Like the earlier picture, Loyalty is a ...
  • Man of Aran
    United Kingdom - 1934
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    Robert J. Flaherty’s award-winning Man of Aran uses stunning location photography and brilliant montage editing to build a forceful drama of life on the Aran Islands. ...
Movies from this Rating List. (Click on a movie to rate it)
  • Poor Things
  • All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
  • Happening
  • Nomadland
  • Joker
  • Roma
  • The Shape of Water
  • The Woman Who Left
  • From Afar
  • A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
  • Sacro GRA
  • Pieta
  • Faust
  • Somewhere
  • Lebanon: The Soldier's Journey
  • The Wrestler
  • Lust, Caution
  • Sanxia haoren (Still Life)
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Vera Drake
  • The Return
  • The Magdalene Sisters
  • Monsoon Wedding
  • The Circle
  • Not One Less
  • The Way We Laughed
  • Hana-bi
  • Michael Collins
  • Cyclo
  • Vive l'amour
  • Before the Rain
  • Short Cuts
  • Three Colours: Blue
  • The Story of Qiu Ju
  • Close to Eden
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
  • A City of Sadness
  • The Legend of the Holy Drinker
  • Au revoir les enfants
  • The Green Ray
  • Vagabond
  • The Year of the Quiet Sun
  • First Name: Carmen
  • The State of Things
  • The German Sisters
  • Atlantic City
  • Gloria
  • Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed
  • Belle de jour
  • The Battle of Algiers
  • Sandra of a Thousand Delights
  • Red Desert
  • Hands Over the City
  • Ivan's Childhood
  • Last Year in Marienbad
  • Tomorrow Is My Turn
  • Il generale Della Rovere
  • The Great War
  • The Rickshaw Man
  • Aparajito (The Unvanquished)
  • Ordet (The Word)
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Forbidden Games
  • Rashomon
  • Let Justice Be Done
  • Manon
  • Hamlet
  • The Strike
  • The Southerner
  • The Great King
  • Bengasi
  • Uncle Kruger
  • The Iron Crown (La corona di ferro)
  • The Stationmaster
  • The Siege of the Alcazar
  • Cardinal Messias
  • Olympia
  • Luciano Serra, Pilot
  • Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
  • Christine
  • The Emperor of California
  • Casta diva
  • Anna Karenina
  • Loyalty of Love
  • Man of Aran
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