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1) Two women
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The beautiful Natalya is married to Arkadi, a rich but older landowner. Bored with her life, she catches the eye of the handsome Mikhail. Might this flirtation develop into something more? Not once the young, attractive Aleksei arrives as tutor to Natalya's son. Natalya falls for Aleksei, but so does her teenage step-daughter Vera. Suddenly Natalia's seemingly idyllic life has turned into a complex web of unrequited love, guilt, lust and jealousy....
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Fox Lorber volume FLV5213
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A coming of age story about a vicar's daughter who longs for the things she was denied growing up in a conservative household.
3) Holy boom
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In a run-down urban area of Athens, during the Holy Week of Easter, the lives of four people change dramatically when 17-year-old Ige blows up the neighborhood mailbox. The explosion destroys documents of vital importance to each of them. The film shifts between the various characters as they continue to find ways to survive, eventually learning to rely on one another despite the generational and racial differences that set them apart.
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A cantankerous old man and a resourceful young girl strike up an unlikely friendship after she breaks into his home to escape immigration police. Featuring stellar performances by Jurgen Prochnow, Pegah Ferydoni, and Milena Pribak in her acting debut, this poignant first feature from Jakob Zapf is a timely and heartfelt story of courage and compassion.
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"Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sámi girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930's and race biology examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture"--IMDb.
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As she does every morning, Lucie joins her colleagues at the office with a smile. It's a working day just like any other. Then suddenly, all activity in the office stops and attention turns toward a window of the building across the way and a banner reading 'Man Alone.' Is it a hoax? A cry for help? Everyone has their own interpretation, and will try to discover what lies behind the mysterious message.
8) Remembrance
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In a daring escape Tomasz, a young Polish political prisoner, rescues his Jewish fiancé Hannah. With the Nazis in pursuit, Hannah and Tomasz make their way into hiding. Chaos ensues and the two are torn apart and each becomes convinced that the other is lost.
9) Reflection
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In 2014, Ukrainian surgeon Serhiy enlists to fight Russian military forces in the Donbass region, where enemy soldiers capture him. Now a prisoner of war, Serhiy is forced to witness horrifying scenes of humiliation and violence at the hands of the Russian invaders, his medical background co-opted to dispense mercy killings to the tortured. After his release, he returns to his comfortable middle-class apartment, still suffering from the trauma of...
10) Bad roads
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Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbass during the war. There are no safe spaces and no one can make sense of just what is going on. Even as they are trapped in the chaos, some manage to wield authority over others. But in this world, where tomorrow may never come, not everyone is defenseless and miserable. Even the most innocent victims may have their turn at taking charge.
Series
Criterion collection volume 907
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G.W. Pabst brought the war movie into a new era with his first sound film, a mercilessly realistic depiction of the nightmare that scarred a generation, in the director's native Germany and beyond. Digging into the trenches with four infantrymen stationed in France in the final months of World War I, Pabst illustrates the harrowing ordeals of battle with unprecedented naturalism, as the men are worn away in body and spirit by firefights, and the disillusion...
12) Phone
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After writing a series of articles about pedophilia, the journalist Ji-won receives threatening calls on her cellular and she changes her number. Her close friend Ho-jung and her husband Chang-hoon invite Ji-won to move to their house in Bang Bae that is empty and closed. When the young daughter of her friends Young-Su answers a phone call in her mobile phone, the girl screams and changes her behavior, feeling a great attraction for her father and...
13) Koyla
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Gauri, a young village woman, is tricked into marriage with Raja, a wicked old man, who has sent her a photograph of his handsome servant Shankar. She falls in love with Shankar, they escape together but are recaptured.
14) Apnea
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Everything is quiet. No one can hear you or your thought. You don't have to speak, you don't even have to breath, Dimitris, a 23 year-old swimmer, who knows very well the liberating silence and isolation of the water, dives into the water of a dark pool after achieving success in the European Championship swimming competition. He has fulfilled the dream of a lifetime, but feels emptier than ever. As he lets his body float in the water, memories from...
16) Mila =: Apples
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Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities. Prescribed daily tasks on cassette tapes so he can create new memories and document them on camera, Aris slides back into ordinary life, meeting Anna, a woman who is also in recovery. Through images deadpan, strange and surreal, Greek writer-director Christos Nikou posits a...
18) Drunken master
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Being the mischievous son of a martial arts school master, Wang Feihong fritters away his time fooling around and making troubles instead of learning Kung fu. Being sent to his uncle for disciplined kung fu training, Wang Feihong decides he must learn "Drunken Boxer" after several escape attempts and being humiliated by a local assassin.
19) Sword master
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The Third Young Master is renowned in all the land for his godlike swordsmanship but has become weary of violence. But there are those who refuse to let him off so easily: his spurned lover who wants bloody revenge, a beautiful young courtesan, and a mysterious challenger who seeks a duel to the death.
20) 102 not out
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Dattatraya Vakharia is a 102 year old man who wants to break the record of oldest living male. There's just one problem he must find a way to change the sad and grumpy demeanor of his 75 year old son.
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