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Last updated March 28, 2024

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Kagemusha

1980 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 Stars

Three warlord clans are battling for control of medieval Japan. When the leader of the Takeda clan, Lord Shingen (Tatsuya Nakadai), is mortally wounded, he orders that his death be kept secret from his enemies. The clan searches for a "shadow warrior," an exact double, to take his place. Now, a thief named Kagemusha (Nakadai in a double role) must fight for an empire in this stunning film from legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.
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A Woman Is a Woman

1961 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 Stars

Striptease artist Angela (Anna Karina) is desperate to have a child, but her boyfriend, Emile (Jean-Claude Brialy), isn't as anxious. Although he cares for Angela and wants to keep their relationship going, he's not ready for that kind of responsibility. Instead, he suggests that she get together with his buddy Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo) -- a proposal Angela ultimately accepts, to Emile's shock and dismay. Frenchman Jean-Luc Godard directs.
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The Island

2007 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 Stars

Father Anatoli (portrayed by former Russian rock star Pyotr Mamonov) lives a hermitlike existence in a remote Russian Orthodox monastery, where he's visited by people who believe he has the power to heal, see the future and exorcise demons. But Anatoli's odd behavior confuses his fellow monks, who are unaware that he's tortured by a past sin and considers himself an unworthy fraud. Pavel Lungin directed this poignant parable.
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Holy Motors

2012 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 Stars

This surreal drama from France follows DL, who becomes many different individuals living very different lives over a 24-hour period -- switching effortlessly from man to woman, impoverished to affluent, young to old, and even assassin to family man.
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Inch' Allah Dimanche

2001 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 Stars

An Algerian woman leaves her homeland to join her husband in France. In a land and culture foreign to her, she struggles against her mother-in-law's tyranny and her husband's distrustful bitterness as she adjusts to her life in exile.
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The Sacrifice

1986 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 Stars

This double bill packages Andrei Tarkovsky's final film, The Sacrifice, with a documentary chronicling the production of the film. In The Sacrifice, a birthday party is interrupted by news that World War III has begun and mankind faces annihilation.
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Tales of the Night

2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 Stars

In this elaborately animated collection of six exotic tales, three friends meet nightly in a dilapidated cinema, where magic brings to life the adventures of lovely princesses, fierce werewolves, courageous peasant lads and lively dragons.
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Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

2000 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 Stars

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boukber are a group of urchins living on the hard streets of Casablanca, their everyday lives filled with violence, begging and indifference. To survive, the four youths create a bond of friendship and family among them.
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Betty Blue

1986 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 Stars

A woman who is prone to irrational bouts of fury begins a steamy romance with a handyman and writer in this Oscar-nominated drama. Eventually, her psychological scars begin to wreak havoc on their relationship.
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Dogtooth

2009 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 Stars

Homeschooled siblings who grow up cut off from society create an idyllic alternate universe, which is shattered when their father lets in an outsider -- a female security officer brought home to satisfy his son's libido.
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The Sound of Insects

2009 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 Stars

Based on an incredible true story and Shimada Masahiko's subsequent novella &NFi;Until I Am a Mummy&NFi_;, this fusion of peaceful imagery, evocative sounds and macabre journal entries reconstructs a nameless man's agonizing death by self-imposed starvation.
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Witnesses

2004 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 Stars

Told via different viewpoints, this political drama explores ethnic hatred and moral ambiguity against the backdrop of war. As Croatian police probe the murder of a Serb, the truth proves elusive and subjective in an atmosphere of deep-seated enmity.
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California Dreamin'

2007 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 Stars

When a NATO train on a mission is stalled by a village functionary (Razvan Vasilescu), the Marines escorting the train (Armand Assante and Jamie Elman) are besieged by the mayor, love-struck local women and striking factory workers, all trying to use the delay to their own advantage. Based on an actual incident, this is the final film by acclaimed Romanian director Cristian Nemescu, who died a few weeks after its completion.
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Eternity and a Day

1998 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 Stars

When Alexandre (Bruno Ganz), a famed Greek author, learns he hasn't long to live, he sets aside his current project and soon meets an Albanian immigrant street urchin (Achileas Skevis), whom he rescues from slave traders. On a journey to reunite the boy with his family, the two share a bus ride with several musicians and a poet (Fabrizio Bentivoglio). This dreamlike drama won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Light of My Eyes

2001 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 Stars

Enraptured by a beautiful single mother struggling to save both her shop and custody of her little girl, a gentle young man possessed of a vivid imagination begins secretly paying her debts.
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Taxi Zum Klo

1981 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 Stars

German director Frank Ripploh takes an autobiographical approach to filmmaking with this comic exploration of gay life in Berlin in which he plays -- who else? -- himself. Working by day as a teacher, Frank explores his sexuality by night but keeps his lifestyle a secret from his students. Things change when he meets an attentive lover named Bernd (Bernd Broaderup), who may force him to live out in the open.
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Code Unknown

2000 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 Stars

This drama interweaves the stories of an actress, her photojournalist boyfriend, a young teacher of African descent and a Romanian illegal immigrant. On a bustling Paris street corner, their lives intersect for a fleeting moment.
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Private Property

2006 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 Stars

A divorcée and her sons engage in a battle that threatens to destroy the family in this riveting drama. Pascale (Isabelle Huppert) lives with her adult twins, aimless François (Yannick Renier) and headstrong Thierry (Jeremie Renier), in a renovated Belgian farmhouse. When Pascale considers selling it to open a bed and breakfast, her children, who want to preserve the status quo, raise objections with disastrous results.
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Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

2010 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 Stars

Modern artist Anselm Kiefer and his monumental landscape creation at Barjac, France -- a vast complex including lakes, bridges, caves and galleries displaying Kiefer's other work -- are the focus of this documentary from Sophie Fiennes.
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Montenegro

1981 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 Stars

Housewife Marilyn Jordan (Susan Anspach) seems to have everything she could possibly want -- a successful husband, two beautiful children and a palatial house by the sea ... until she meets a group of Yugoslavian immigrants at the airport. Before you can say "unbridled abandon," Marilyn finds herself swept up in a bohemian world of dangerous pleasures and newfound freedom in this surreal black comedy.
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Tristana

1970 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 Stars

After her mother's death, young Tristana goes to live with her guardian, an older man who breaks through his facade of respectability and seduces her. She repays him a hundredfold, preying on his jealousy and taunting him with perverse whimsies.
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Novo

2002 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 Stars

Suffering from complete amnesia as the result of a recent accident, office worker Graham (Eduardo Noriega) also lacks the ability to retain new memories. The upshot is that every time he has sex with Irene (Anna Mouglalis), one of the secretaries in the office, he forgets about it an hour later, so every time is the first time. Think of this winsome romantic dramedy as a cross between 50 First Dates and Memento.
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Wolves in the Snow

2004 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 Stars

When a wronged wife kills her philandering husband, she opens the door to his secret life of gangsters, violence and money laundering. Now, she's being pursued by her late husband's unsavory colleagues as she navigates a dangerous new world.
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Ward No. 6

2009 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 Stars

When the head of a mental hospital irritates his subordinates, he winds up being committed as a patient in his own facility. Filmed on location in a functioning mental institution, this unconventional drama is based on a story by Anton Chekhov.
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My Joy

2010 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 Stars

When a wrong turn takes truck driver Georgy (Viktor Nemets) into unfamiliar Russian countryside, he's drawn into the mix of strange locals, including corrupt cops, a war veteran, a prostitute and a mysterious Gypsy woman -- all of whom may lead him to a dead end. Russian documentary filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa directs this drama, a Cannes festival entry that co-stars Olga Shuvalova and Vlad Ivanov.
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