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  • Ran
    Japan - 1985
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    A reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that he's about to ...
  • The Boat
    Germany - West Germany (FRG) - 1981
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    With the once-feared wolfpacks reduced to 12 lone U-boats, Captain Lehmann-Willenbrock (Jürgen Prochnow) sets out once more to hunt allied shipping. Now it's a different ...
  • A Place in the World
    Argentina - 1992
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    Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; ...
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Taiwan - 2000
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    Two master warriors (Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh) are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocrat (Zhang ...
  • Strawberry and Chocolate
    Cuba - 1993
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    David (Vladimir Cruz) is a student and ardent Communist whose personal life is in something of a slump; his girlfriend recently left him to marry another man after he ...
  • Ju Dou
    China - 1990
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    A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's ...
  • Breaking the Waves
    Denmark - 1996
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    Drama set in a repressed, deeply religious community in the north of Scotland, where a naive young woman named Bess McNeil meets and falls in love with Danish oil-rig ...
  • All About My Mother
    Spain - 1999
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    A Greek saying states that only women who have washed their eyes with tears can see clearly. This saying does not hold true for Manuela. The night a car ran over her son ...
  • The 400 Blows
    France - 1959
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    14-year-old Antoine Doinel has troubles at home and at school. Ignored and neglected by his parents, his relationship with his mother is further strained when he ...
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
    France - 1990
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    Cyrano de Bergerac (Gérard Depardieu) is a renowned swordsman and poet throughout Paris with one not-so-small defect, his nose. This physical attribute has caused Cyrano ...
  • The Best Intentions
    Sweden - 1992
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    The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. In 1909, poor theology student Henrik Bergman falls in love with Anna Åkerbloom, the daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After ...
  • 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 ...
  • Breathless
    France - 1960
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    The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, Breathless is story of the love between Michel Poiccard, a ...
  • Federico Fellini's 8½
    Italy - 1963
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    Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), a filmmaker who is at a crisis point in his life and his work, struggles to make a new movie. This creative block triggers his ...
  • Life Is Beautiful
    Italy - 1997
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    Guido - a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colourful imagination and an irresistible sense of humour - has won the heart of the woman he loves and has ...
  • La dolce vita
    Italy - 1960
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    On assignment to chronicle the lives of the rich and famous Italian aristocracy in a gossip column for a Roman newspaper, Marcello (Mastroianni) floats from one fabulous ...
  • Il Postino: The Postman
    Italy - 1994
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    A simple postman’s eyes are opened to a world of amorous possibilities when he delivers letters to one of the most romantic poets of the 20th century in this lyrical ...
  • Cinema Paradiso
    Italy - 1988
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    A young boy named Salvatore in a small Italian village is overjoyed when the local movie projectionist (Philippe Noiret) reveals to him the mysteries of moviemaking, ...
  • 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 ...
  • Dersu Uzala
    Soviet Union (USSR) - 1975
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    It is the story of an elderly guide and Goldi hunter (Maxim Munzuk), who, at the turn of the century, agrees to shepherd a Russian explorer (Yuri Solomin) and a troop of ...
  • Fanny and Alexander
    Sweden - 1982
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    The story is set in 1907 Uppsala, Sweden, and deals with a young boy named Alexander, his sister Fanny, and their well-to-do family, the Ekdahls. The siblings' parents ...
  • Burnt by the Sun
    Russia - 1994
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    Russian filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov is also the star of this tragic 1994 drama about the last happy season in the life of a Bolshevik hero's family. The year is 1936, and ...
  • Underground
    Yugoslavia - 1995
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    'Underground' takes a look at the modern history of Yugoslavia through the often absurd misadventures of two friends over several decades. The film begins in Belgrade in ...
  • Casque d'or
    France - 1952
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    In an open-air dance hall, the members of Leca's gang are relaxing with their ladies. One of them, Marie, aka "Casque d'Or" (Golden Helmet) meets Manda, a carpenter. Her ...
  • The Snail's Strategy (La estrategia del caracol)
    Colombia - 1993
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    A group of tenants living in an old house are confronted with having to move out due to a renovation project the city has undertaken. The tenants decide to unite and come ...
  • 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 ...
  • Like Water for Chocolate
    Mexico - 1992
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    The passionate Tita (Lumi Cavazos) is in love with Pedro (Marco Leonardi), but her controlling mother (Regina Torne) forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro instead ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 Leopard
    Italy - 1963
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    Set in 1860s Sicily, it portrays the decline of an aristocratic family under the crushing weight of political change. The film traces the waning of the noble home of ...
  • The Dreamlife of Angels
    France - 1998
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    Isa is twenty years old, her only piece of luggage is a rudsack, and she has an optimistic attitude to the hardships of life. She arrives in Lille, after passing through ...
  • Seven Samurai
    Japan - 1954
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    Set in 16th Century Japan, Akira Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai' follows the plight of a defenseless farming village that lives in constant fear of marauding bandits. The ...
  • L'avventura
    Italy - 1960
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    A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Antonioni’s penetrating study of ...
  • Dear Diary
    Italy - 1993
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    Film divided into three episodes, which reflects the life and opinions of Nanni Moretti. In "On my Vespa" is an approach to daily life in Rome during the month of August; ...
  • An Autumn Tale
    France - 1998
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    The final instalment in Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons. Magali is a middle-aged widow and wine-grower living in the Rhone valley. She pines for a new man in her ...
  • I Hired a Contract Killer
    Finland - 1990
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    After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life rather than allow himself to sink into further despair. ...
  • La reine Margot
    France - 1994
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    Paris, August, 1572 – a troubled time in the history of France, a country torn by wars and religious strife. To appease the Protestants, the queen mother, Catherine ...
  • Amelie
    France - 2001
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    Bursting with imagination and having seen her share of tragedy and fantasy, Amelie (Audrey Tautou) is not like the other girls. When she grows up she becomes a waitress ...
  • Bicycle Thieves
    Italy - 1948
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    After nearly two years of unemployment, Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani) finally finds work posting bills. But he needs a bicycle to do the job. Unfortunately, he was forced ...
  • La Règle du jeu
    France - 1939
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    André Jurieu (Roland Toutain), a French aviation hero, has fallen in love with Christine de la Chesnaye (Nora Gregor), who is married to wealthy aristocrat Marquis Robert ...
  • Antonia's Line
    Netherlands - 1995
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    In an anonymous Dutch village, a sturdy, strong-willed matriarch looks back upon her life, the generations of family and friends gathered around her table, and ponders the cyclical nature of time.
  • All Things Fair
    Sweden - 1995
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    Malmoe, Sweden during the Second World War. Stig is a 15 year old pupil on the verge of adulthood. Viola is 37 years old and his teacher. He is attracted by her beauty ...
  • Rome, Open City
    Italy - 1945
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    Based on real events, it tells the story of several Italian Resistance fighters battling fascism in Nazi-occupied Rome. When Gestapo agents raid an apartment where ...
  • 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 ...
  • Death in Venice
    Italy - 1971
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    In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, a few years before the outbreak of the Great War, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) ...
  • Hiroshima mon amour
    France - 1959
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    A young French actress is making an anti-war film in the rebuilt Japanese city of Hiroshima, which was devastated in a nuclear bomb blast at the end of the Second World ...
  • Babette's Feast
    Denmark - 1987
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    In 19th century Denmark, two adult sisters live in an isolated village with their father, who is the honored pastor of a small Protestant church that is almost a sect ...
  • Rocco and His Brothers
    Italy - 1960
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    It is the story of a poor family torn apart by lust and greed. Rocco (Alain Delon), a soft-spoken, idealistic young man who must deal with turmoil and competition when he ...
  • Raise the Red Lantern
    China - 1991
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    China in the 1920's. After her father's death, 19 year-old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerfull family. 50 year-old Chen has already three ...
  • Amores Perros
    Mexico - 2000
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    Alejandro Gonzalez Iniarritu makes an electrifying directorial debut with AMORES PERROS, an energetic, assured motion picture that jumps off the screen with a seemingly ...
Movies from this Rating List. (Click on a movie to rate it)
  • Ran
  • The Boat
  • A Place in the World
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • Strawberry and Chocolate
  • Ju Dou
  • Breaking the Waves
  • All About My Mother
  • The 400 Blows
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • The Best Intentions
  • Au revoir les enfants
  • Breathless
  • Federico Fellini's 8½
  • Life Is Beautiful
  • La dolce vita
  • Il Postino: The Postman
  • Cinema Paradiso
  • Three Colours: Blue
  • Dersu Uzala
  • Fanny and Alexander
  • Burnt by the Sun
  • Underground
  • Casque d'or
  • The Snail's Strategy (La estrategia del caracol)
  • Wild Strawberries
  • Like Water for Chocolate
  • Central Station
  • Monsoon Wedding
  • The Leopard
  • The Dreamlife of Angels
  • Seven Samurai
  • L'avventura
  • Dear Diary
  • An Autumn Tale
  • I Hired a Contract Killer
  • La reine Margot
  • Amelie
  • Bicycle Thieves
  • La Règle du jeu
  • Antonia's Line
  • All Things Fair
  • Rome, Open City
  • Hana-bi
  • Death in Venice
  • Hiroshima mon amour
  • Babette's Feast
  • Rocco and His Brothers
  • Raise the Red Lantern
  • Amores Perros
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