Gui tu lie che - Lixin Fan [2009]

 

Last Train Home [2009]

A couple embarks on a journey home for Chinese new year along with 130 million other migrant workers, to reunite with their children and struggle for a future. Their unseen story plays out as China soars towards being a world superpower.

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It's a Wonderful Life - Frank Capra [1946]

 

It's a Wonderful Life [1946]

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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Amour - Michael Haneke [2012]

 

 

Amour [2012]

Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

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Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte - Michael Haneke [2009]

 

 

The White Ribbon [2009]

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?

             

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Paterson - Jim Jarmusch [2016]

 

Paterson [2016]

A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.

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Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock [1958]

 

Vertigo [1958]

A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her. 

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Close-Up: Rewatching film classics

Marnie - Alfred Hitchcock [1964]

 

 

 

 

Marnie [1964]

Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.

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12 Angry Men - Sidney Lumet [1957]

 

 

12 Angry Men [1957]

A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence.

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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - F.W. Murnau [1927]

 

 

 

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans [1927]

An allegorical tale about a man fighting the good and evil within him. Both sides are made flesh - one a sophisticated woman he is attracted to and the other his wife.

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Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot - Jacques Tati [1953]

 

 

 

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday [1953]

Monsieur Hulot comes to a beachside hotel for a vacation, where he accidentally (but good-naturedly) causes havoc. 

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The Kid - Charles Chaplin [1921]

 

The Kid [1921]

The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy. 

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Ikuru - Akira Kurosawa [1952]

 

 

Ikuru [1952]

A bureaucrat tries to find a meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

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China's Van Goghs - Yu Haibo, Yu Tianqi Kiki [2016]

 

 

China's Van Goghs [2016]

An intimate portrait of a peasant-turned oil painter transitioning from making copies of iconic Western paintings to creating his own authentic works of art.

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Les plages d'Agnès - Agnès Varda [2008]

The Beaches of Agnès [2008]

Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.

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La noire de... - Ousmane Sembene [1966]

 

 

Black Girl [1966]

A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.

             

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Loong Boonmee raleuk chat - Apichatpong Weerasethakul [2010]

 

 

 

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives [2010]

Dying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm.

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Umimachi Diary - Hirokazu Koreeda [2015]

 

 

Our Little Sister [2015]

A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother's home and the arrival of their thirteen-year-old half sister.

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