Description: 1900-2021. Modern, neo-retro, film noir, comedy, classic Hollywood, early horror, experimental, navel gazing, New Wave, and art movies and shows - where the lack of color is a statement and cinematography is king.
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The Last Picture Show
( 1971 )
In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
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Manhattan
( 1979 )
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
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The Notorious Bettie Page
( 2006 )
The life of Bettie Page, a 1950s pin-up model and one of the first sex icons in America, who became the target of a Senate investigation because of her risqué bondage photos.
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Angel-A
( 2005 )
A beautiful woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together.
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Tetro
( 2009 )
Bennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self. Bennie's discovery of his brother's near-finished play might hold the answer to understanding their shared past and renewing their bond.
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The Whispering Star
( 2016 )
A feminine android delivers packages to the scattered humans in the galaxy. With years to spare the android and us have time to contemplate what it is to be human.
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The Man Who Laughs
( 1928 )
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
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Eyes Without a Face
( 1962 )
A surgeon causes a car accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.
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The Eyes of My Mother
( 2016 )
A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.
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Sunset Boulevard
( 1950 )
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
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Lola
( 1962 )
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
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Wuthering Heights
( 1939 )
A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
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Dead Man
( 1996 )
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange Native American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
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Shanghai Express
( 1932 )
A notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved.
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Rashomon
( 1951 )
The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
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The Grapes of Wrath
( 1940 )
An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
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Persona
( 1967 )
A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.
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Beauty and the Beast
( 1947 )
A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.
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Beauty and the Beast (Short 2021)
Our program for the evening has been composed by and for grown-ups, who haven't lost their child soul. Eternal history, the tale of Belle-Rose. As known as Beauty and the beast. Warning, some images are likely to offend homophobic sensitivity.
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Footlight Parade
( 1933 )
Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.
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Notorious
( 1946 )
The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
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Ivan's Childhood
( 1963 )
During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
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I Am Cuba
( 1964 )
Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man
( 1989 )
A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.
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Underworld U.S.A.
( 1961 )
A teenager who witnesses the murder of his father vows to exact revenge on the four mobsters involved in the killing.
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Marketa Lazarová
( 1967 )
A grim portrayal of the shift from Paganism to Christianity in medieval central Europe - as a young virgin promised to God is kidnapped and raped by a marauder who her religious father seeks to kill in return.
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The Cranes Are Flying
( 1960 )
Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
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La Jetée (Short 1962)
( 1962 )
The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
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Psycho
( 1960 )
A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.
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Bicycle Thieves
( 1949 )
In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
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Letter Never Sent
( 1960 )
Four geologists search for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia.
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Kafka
( 1992 )
Kafka works during the day at an insurance company, where events lead him to discover a mysterious underground society with strange suppressive goals.
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Down by Law
( 1986 )
Two men are framed and sent to jail, where they meet a murderer who helps them escape and leave the state.
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Paths of Glory
( 1957 )
A colonel defends three of his soldiers in a court-martial after they abandon a suicidal attack.
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Khrustalyov, My Car!
( 1999 )
Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin's hands.
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Hard to Be a God
( 2014 )
In the distant future, a space traveler from Earth breaks a special law and interferes with the history of another, Medieval-like planet.
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Killer's Kiss
( 1955 )
Ready to catch a train to his hometown, a washed-up boxer tells us about the strange and twisty events that happened to him the past couple of days.
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Belfast
( 2021 )
Belfast, 15 August 1969. Surrounded by sporadic violence and growing danger, nine-year-old Buddy finds himself confronted with the ugly reality of sectarian conflict. And, as the suffocating stranglehold of increasing turmoil tightens around his once-peaceful working-class neighbourhood, Buddy tries his best to understand The Troubles--after all, someone must be responsible for forcing people to flee their homes. Now, Buddy's family must come face to face with a nearly impossible, life-altering decision: stay or start packing?
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C'mon C'mon
( 2021 )
When his sister asks him to look after her son, a radio journalist embarks on a cross-country trip with his energetic nephew to show him life away from Los Angeles.
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The French Dispatch
( 2021 )
Faced with the impending dissolution of The French Dispatch, a factual weekly report on various subjects, old-school editor-in-chief Arthur Howitzer Jr. assembles the crème de la crème of the magazine's loyal expatriate journalists for one final issue. Against the backdrop of picturesque Ennui-sur-Blasé, Paris, France, three main articles unfold, pivoting around tormented genius artists, statuesque prison officers, flamboyant critics, moody idealists, conflicted ace reporters, legendary chefs, and, of course, the police.
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Being the Ricardos
( 2021 )
Follows Lucy and Desi as they face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
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Malcolm & Marie
( 2021 )
A filmmaker returns home with his girlfriend following a celebratory movie premiere as he awaits what's sure to be imminent critical and financial success. The evening suddenly takes a turn as revelations about their relationships begin to surface, testing the strength of their love.
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Gunda
( 2021 )
Documentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.
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Faya Dayi
( 2021 )
A spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar, immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf Sufi Muslims chewed for centuries for religious meditations - and Ethiopia's most lucrative cash crop today.
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El Planeta
( 2021 )
El Planeta is a dark comedy exploring contemporary poverty, female desire, and the always complicated filial relationships of mothers and daughters. A daughter forced to return home after the death of her father, reconnects with her eccentric mother, hustling to maintain the semblances of their middle-class lifestyle in the face of an impending eviction. Over the course of the week we watch as the daughter's hopes are tested as she attempts to use her sexuality as a means of escape. meanwhile the mother grifts her way into definite security -the care of a jail cell.
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Time
( 2020 )
Fox Rich is a fighter. The entrepreneur, abolitionist and mother of six boys has spent the last two decades campaigning for the release of her husband, Rob G. Rich, who is serving a 60-year sentence for a robbery they both committed in the early 90s in a moment of desperation. Combining the video diaries Fox has recorded for Rob over the years with intimate glimpses of her present-day life, director Garrett Bradley paints a mesmerizing portrait of the resilience and radical love necessary to prevail over the endless separations of the country's prison-industrial complex.
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Ripley
( 2024 )
Ripley follows Tom Ripley, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, who is hired by a wealthy man to try to convince his vagabond son, Dickie Greenleaf, who is living a comfortable, trust-funded ex-pat life in Italy, to return home. Tom's acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.
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Blue Jay
( 2016 )
Meeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high-school sweethearts reflect on their shared past.
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Aferim!
( 2016 )
Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
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In Search of a Midnight Kiss
( 2008 )
Broke and alone on New Year's Eve, Wilson just wants to spend the rest of a very bad year in bed. But, when his best friend convinces him to post a personal ad, he meets a woman bent on finding the right guy to be with at midnight.
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The Day He Arrives
( 2011 )
A professor in the film department at a provincial university goes to Seoul to meet his senior, who works as a film critic, and stays in a northern Seoul village for three days.
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Mutual Appreciation
( 2007 )
Alan is a musician who leaves a busted-up band for New York, and a new musical voyage. He tries to stay focused and fends off all manner of distractions, including the attraction to his good friend's girlfriend.
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The Apartment
( 1960 )
A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but office politics and his own romantic hopes complicate matters.
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All About Eve
( 1950 )
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
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Double Indemnity
( 1944 )
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
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It's a Wonderful Life
( 1947 )
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
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Breathless
( 1961 )
A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
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