Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens - Alain Ughetto [2022]

 

No Dogs or Italians Allowed [2022]

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Ughetto family dreamed of a better life abroad. Luigi Ughetto crosses the Alps and starts a new life in France, changing the fate of his beloved family forever.

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La tortue rouge - Michael Dudok de Wit [2016]

 The Red Turtle [2016] 

A man is shipwrecked on a deserted island and encounters a big red turtle, which changes his life.

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Mâdada yo - Akira Kurosawa [1993]

 

Madadayo [1993] 

Following World War II, a retired professor approaching his autumn years finds his quality of life drastically reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with his adoring students.

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Santa Marta - Duas Semanas no Morro - Eduardo Coutinho [1987]

 

Santa Marta - Duas Semanas no Morro [1987]

The daily life in a shantytown in the north part of Rio de Janeiro, with 10,000 people living in bad conditions, their problems and the issue of police violence.

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Boca De Lixo - Eduardo Coutinho [1992]

Boca De Lixo [1992] 

The daily routine of poor people of Itaoca, São Gonçalo, state of Rio de Janeiro, who make a living out of revolving garbage.

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Cabra Marcado Para Morrer - Eduardo Coutinho [1985]

 Man Marked for Death, 20 Years Later [1985]

A filmmaker returns to Northeast Brazil after twenty years to resume his film (a profile of assassinated peasant leader João Pedro Teixeira) which was shut down by a right-wing military coup in 1964.

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Il vangelo secondo Matteo - Pier Paolo Pasolini [1964]

 The Gospel According to St. Matthew [1964]

The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Film shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.

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La grande bellezza - Paolo Sorrentino [2013]

The Great Beauty [2013]

 Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

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The Red Shoes - Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger [1948]

The Red Shoes [1948]

A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.

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The 39 Steps - Alfred Hitchcock [1935]

 

The 39 Steps [1935]

A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.

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Kiga kaikyô - Tomu Uchida [1965]

 

A Fugitive from the Past [1965]

Three thieves escape from a heist, one of them killing the other two. He is sheltered by a prostitute and sought after by the police, but only after ten years his true motivation unravels.

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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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Once Upon a Time in America - Sergio Leone [1984]

 

Once Upon a Time in America [1984]

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

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