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Paul Schrader – Light of Day (1987)
Quote:The siblings Patty and Joe live in an industrial suburb. While Patty’s ambition is their rock band “The Barbusters” only, Joe also cares for the family and the upbringing of Patty’s young son...
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Woody Allen – Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably...
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Damien Chazelle – Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009)
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench is about the often uneasy but always beautiful relationship between music and love. It tells the story of a young Boston jazz musician who drifts from affair to...
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Lloyd Corrigan – Dancing Pirate (1936)
Charles Collins stars in Dancing Pirate as a dance teacher from Boston who is tricked into joining a band of pirates, leading him to be fitted for a noose in California. Compared to “Douglas Fairbanks...
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Melvin Van Peebles – Don’t Play Us Cheap (1972)
Film version of Melvin Van Peebles’ Broadway musical. A pair of devil-bats take human form and crash a Harlem house party in an attempt to break it up. But somehow, their attempts to ruin the party...
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Alfred E. Green – The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)
The rise and rise of the Fabulous Dorsey brothers is charted in this whimsical step down memory lane, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey play themselves in this vehicle for their excellent music. From being...
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Uday Shankar – Kalpana (1948)
The only film by the visionary dancer and choreographer Uday Shankar is a utopian dream of cultural renewal and a celebration of Indian dance in all its variety. Unfolding as an epic film within a...
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João Nicolau – Technoboss (2019) (HD)
The start of Luís Rovisco’s old age isn’t exactly cheerful. Already in his sixties, he’s still roaming the country by himself, carrying out his tasks — increasingly less real — as sales director for...
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John Greyson – Zero Patience (1993)
Zero Patience is a 1993 Canadian musical film written and directed by John Greyson. The film examines and refutes the urban legend of the alleged introduction of HIV to North America by a single...
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Norman Z. McLeod – Isn’t It Romantic? (1948)
In rural 19th-century Indiana, the three daughters of a Civil War veteran are courted by three young men–one a sophisticated city slicker who sells phony oil stock, the second a local eccentric and...
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Alberto Cavalcanti – Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti AKA Herr Puntila and...
This first film adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play about class distinctions was made in 1955 in the Vienna Rosenhügel studios, but it was only premiered five years later. Curt Bois plays the rich...
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Mark Robson – Valley of the Dolls (1967) (HD)
Quote:Cutthroat careerism, wild sex, and fierce female protagonists are all on offer in this adaptation of Jacqueline Susann’s sensational and wildly popular novel. Patty Duke, Barbara Parkins, and...
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Jirí Menzel – Zlocin v santánu aka Crime in the Night Club (1968)
Quote:The charming singer Clara Regina has many admirers. Even the minister of justice fights for her favour, especially enchanted by Clara’s lullaby. Clara’s successes with men are watched with...
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Becoming Traviata – Traviata et nous AKA Becoming Traviata (2012)
Natalie Dessay prepares to take on the role of Violetta in this documentary about the staging of Verdi’s masterwork at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in France....
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Charles Walters – Spreadin’ the Jam (1945)
A young woman who is unable to pay her rent gets some unexpected help when the other tenants throw a last-minute rent party in her apartment. In the process, they all charm the landlady out of a...
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Hui Shi – Tian xian pei AKA Fairy Couple (1955)
Based on the legendary story of Dong Yong and the Seventh Fairy Princess, Marriage of the Fairy Princess is a retelling of how a celestial maiden spies a dutiful young man and, taking pity on him,...
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Fritz Lang – You and Me (1938)
The last installment of Lang’s “social trilogy,” You and Me (preceded by Fury and You Only Live Once) was an ambitious experiment but ultimately a box-office failure. A studied attempt to craft a...
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Ken Hughes – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Synopsis:While truant from school, young siblings Jeremy and Jemima meet the beautiful Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), who falls for their widowed father, Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke), and...
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Karl Hartl – Mozart AKA The Life and Loves of Mozart (1955)
If you agonized through “Amadeus”, cringing at the depiction of a giggling buffoon and his featherbrained Constanze, shuddering at the underlying premise that God gave the gift to the wrong man for...
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Nico Manzano – Yo y Las Bestias (2021)
An alternative rock band’s singer-guitarist starts a solo career, seeking inspiration as Venezuela’s crisis roils, accompanied by The Beasts, two masked and mysterious beings. Yo y las bestias.mkv...
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