Nora inu - Akira Kurosawa [1949]

 

Stray Dog [1949]

During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective seeks advice from a seasoned colleague while trying to track down his stolen Colt pistol.

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Ta'm e guilass - Abbas Kiarostami [1997]

 Taste of Cherry [1997]

An Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.

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La battaglia di Algeri - Gillo Pontecorvo [1966]

 The Battle of Algiers [1966]

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

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Voskhozhdenie - Larisa Shepitko [1977]

 

The Ascent [1977]

Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

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Suna no onna - Hiroshi Teshigahara [1964]

 Woman in the Dunes [1964]

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

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The Devils - Ken Russell [1971]

 

The Devils [1971]

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.

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L'armée des ombres - Jean-Pierre Melville [1969]

 

Army of Shadows [1969]

An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.

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