Harvie Krumpet - Adam Elliot [2003]

 

Harvie Krumpet [2003]

The odd biography of a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck. 

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Låt den rätte komma in - Tomas Alfredson [2008]

 

 

Let The Right One In [2008]

Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl. 

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Banshun - Yasujirô Ozu [1949]

 

Late Spring [1949]

Noriko is 27 years old and still living with her widowed father. Everybody tries to talk her into marrying, but Noriko wants to stay taking care of her father. 

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Tôkyô sonata - Kiyoshi Kurosawa [2008]

 

 

Tokyo Sonata [2008]

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.

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Tôkyô monogatari - Yasujirô Ozu [1953]

 

 

Tokyo Story [1953]

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city; but the children have little time for them. 

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The Dead Zone - David Cronenberg [1983]

 

 

The Dead Zone [1983]

A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic detective ability. 

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Wandâfuru raifu - Hirokazu Koreeda [1998]

 

 

After Life [1962]

After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity. 

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Sanma no aji - Yasujirô Ozu [1962]

 

 

An Autumn Afternoon [1962]

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter. 

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The Man from Earth - Richard Schenkman [2007]

The Man from Earth [2007]

An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.

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The Station Agent - Thomas McCarthy [2003]

 

 

The Station Agent [2003]

When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss. 

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Linda Linda Linda - Nobuhiro Yamashita [2005]

Linda Linda Linda [2005]

A music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival.

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Mary and Max - Adam Elliot [2009]

 

 

Mary and Max [2009]

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. 

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Tian mi mi - Peter Chan [1996]

Comrades, Almost a Love Story [1996]

Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other they somehow keep missing out.

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Sita Sings the Blues - Nina Paley [2008]

 

 

Sita Sings the Blues [2008]

An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. 

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Rosetta - Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne [1999]

 

Rosetta [1999]

Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job. 

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12.01 PM - Jonathan Heap [1990]

12.01 PM [1990]

A short similar in plot to "Groundhog Day", but more serious. A man is stuck living his life in the same 59 minute time frame. He tries various methods of finding out why, eventually consulting a physicist.

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in Youtube (version 2) 

El día de la bestia - Álex de la Iglesia [1995]

The Day of the Beast [1995]

A basque priest finds by means of a cabalistic study of the bible that the anti-christ is going to be born on Christmas day in Madrid. Helped by a heavy-metal fan and by the showman of a TV esoteric program, he will try to invoke the devil to find out the place of birth and kill the baby.  

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Tonari no Totoro - Hayao Miyazaki [1988]

 

 

  

 My Neighbor Totoro [1988]

When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wonderous forest spirits who live nearby. 

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Aruitemo aruitemo - Hirokazu Koreeda [2008]

 

 

Still Walking [2008]

Still Walking is a family drama about grown children visiting their elderly parents, which unfolds over one summer day. The aging parents have lived in the family home for decades. Their son and daughter return for a rare family reunion, bringing their own families with them. They have gathered to commemorate the tragic death of the eldest son, who drowned in an accident fifteen years ago. Although the roomy house is as comforting and unchanging as the mother's homemade feast, everyone in the family has subtly changed. 

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Cinemania - Angela Christlieb, Stephen Kijak [2002]

 

Cinemania [2002]

This documentary about the culture of intense cinephilia in New York City reveals the impassioned world of five obsessed movie buffs. The filmmakers expose this delightfully deranged cult by capturing the daily lives of its members. Interviews in movie houses, on the street and in the homes of the subjects tell the story of each individual. Many cannot hold a job, or choose not to. All of them have demoted the importance of the real world, giving all of their attention to the fantasy world of the movies. These human encyclopedias of cinema see two to five films a day, and from 600 to 2,000 films per year. Many have no physical sex lives, living instead in a world of romance with stars like James Dean or Audrey Hepburn. In Cinemania, Hollywood's biggest fans become the true stars. This is the story of their lives, their memories, their unbending habits and the films they love.

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Ponette - Jacques Doillon [1996]

 

Ponette [1996]

An extremely captivating movie on how a little girl copes with her mother's death. She withdraws from all the people around her, waiting for her mother to come back. She tries waiting, and when her mother still doesn't appear, tries magic chants, praying to God, and then becoming a child of God, to have some power over Him. All to no avail. But then, when she is in despair, her mother does come back.

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Cha no aji - Katsuhito Ishii [2004]

 

 

The Taste of Tea [2004]

A spell of time in the life of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Though her husband is busy working at an office, Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project at home. Uncle Ayano has recently arrived, looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo for several years. Meanwhile, Yoshiko's daughter Sachiko is mainly concerned with why she seems to be followed around everywhere by a giant version of herself.

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