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First Blood and The Shining
125 Rue Montmartre
(Country: France; Year: 1959; Director: Gilles Grangier; Writer: André Gillois, Michel Audiard, André Gillois, Gilles Grangier, Jacques Robert; Stars: Lino Ventura, Andréa Parisy, Robert Hirsch, Dora Doll, Jean Juillard, Pierre Collet, Lucien Raimbourg, Pierre Mirat, Alfred Adam, Jean Desailly, Marc Arian, Marcel Bernier, Christian Brocard, Henri Crémieux, Georges Demas)
Trouble brews for a newspaper seller when he saves a drowning stranger.
Cinecittà - I mestieri del cinema Bernardo Bertolucci
(Country: Italy; Year: 2019; Director: Mario Sesti)
The last interview with Bertolucci, who recalls his work.
La Cité De La Peur (Le Film de les Nuls)
(Country: France; Year: 1994; Director: Alain Berbérian; Writer: Alain Chabat, Dominique Farrugia, Chantal Lauby; Stars: Chantal Lauby, Alain Chabat, Dominique Farrugia, Gérard Darmon, Sam Karmann, Patrick Lizana, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Eric Prat, Marc de Jonge, Valérie Lemercier, Tchéky Karyo, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Daniel Gélin, Eddy Mitchell, Hélène de Fougerolles)
Cult comedy.
Diary Of A Nurse (Hushi riji)
(Country: China; Year: 1956; Director: Tao Jin; Stars: Wei Li, Jian Suhua, Huada Tang, Danfeng Wang, Wei Li, Jian Suhua, Huada Tang, Danfeng Wang)
A nurse faces jealousy from her fiance and trouble at work when she goes to work in a remote part of the country.
The Doors
(Country: US; Year: 1991; Director: Oliver Stone; Writer: J Randal Johnson, Oliver Stone; Stars: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley, Michael Madsen, Billy Idol, Kathleen Quinlan, Kevin Dillon, Michael Wincott)
Biopic of Jim Morrison and his Sixties iconic rock band.
Miracle In Milan and The Doors
Easy Rider
(Country: US; Year: 1969; Director: Dennis Hopper; Stars: Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson)
Two bikers head on down to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Roaring down the highway, travelling light and sleeping rough, they encounter the jagged edges of a deeply divided country.
First Blood (Rambo: First Blood)
(Country: US; Year: 1982; Director: Ted Kotcheff; Writer: Michael Kozoll, William Sackheim, Sylvester Stallone; Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Richard
Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill
McKinney, Jack Starrett, Michael
Talbott, Chris Mulkey, John
McLiam, Alf Humphreys, David
Caruso, David L. Crowley)
Sylvester Stallone in first Rambo
movie.
Forman Vs Forman
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2019; Director: Helena Trestikova, Jakub Hejna)
Documentary about the director.
The Golden Age (L'Age d'Or)
(Country: France; Year: 1930; Director: Luis Buñuel; Writer: Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Marquis de Sade; Stars: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst, Artigas, Lionel Salem, Germaine Noizet, Duchange, Bonaventura Ibáñez, Jean Aurenche, Jacques B. Brunius, Luis Buñuel, Jean Castanier, Juan Castañe, Pancho Cossío)
Surrealist film about a man and a woman whose attempts to consummate their passion hit problems.
The Horse Thief (Dao ma zei)
(Country: China; Year: 1986; Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian, Peicheng Pan; Writer: Rui Zhang; Stars: Daiba, Jiji Dan, Drashi, Gaoba, Jamco Jayang, Rigzin Tseshang, Daiba, Jiji Dan, Drashi, Gaoba, Jamco Jayang, Rigzin Tseshang)
A man struggles to look after his family without committing bad deeds.
Making Waves: The Art Of Cinematic Sound and Loves Of A Blonde
Kanal (They Loved Life)
(Country: Poland; Year: 1957; Director: Andrzej Wajda; Writer: Jerzy Stefan Stawinski, Jerzy Stefan Stawinski; Stars: Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Tadeusz Gwiazdowski, Stanislaw Mikulski, Emil Karewicz, Vladek Sheybal, Teresa Berezowska, Zofia Lindorf, Janina Jablonowska)
One of Wajda’s first films, it asks us to bear witness to the activities of a group of resistance fighters in the last hours of their lives.
Los Olvidados (The Young And The Damned)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 1950; Director: Luis Buñuel; Writer: Luis Alcoriza, Max Aub, Luis Buñuel, Juan Larrea, Pedro de Urdimalas; Stars: Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán, Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo, Alma Delia Fuentes, Francisco Jambrina, Jesús Navarro, Efraín Arauz, Sergio Villarreal, Jorge Pérez, Javier Amézcua, Mário Ramírez, Ernesto Alonso, Victorio Blanco, Rubén Campos)
Violence in the slums of Mexico City.
Loves Of A Blonde (Lásky jedné plavovlásky)
(Country: Czechoslovakia; Year: 1965; Director: Milos Forman; Writer: Milos Forman, Milos Forman, Jaroslav Papousek, Jaroslav Papousek, Ivan Passer, Ivan Passer, Václav Sasek; Stars: Hana Brejchová, Vladimír Pucholt, Vladimír Mensík, Ivan Kheil, Jirí Hrubý, Milada Jezková, Josef Sebánek, Josef Kolb, Marie Salacová, Jana Novaková, Jarka Crkalová, Tána Zelinková, Zdena Lorencová, Jan Vostrcil, Antonín Blazejovský)
A factory manager persuades the army to send men to the area, to boost the morale of his young female workers, deprived of male company since the local boys have been conscripted.
Making Waves: The Art Of Cinematic Sound
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Midge Costin; Writer: Bobette Buster; Stars: Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, Walter Murch, Ben Burtt, Gary Rydstrom, Ioan Allen, Richard L. Anderson, Karen Baker Landers, Bobbi Banks, Richard Beggs, Anna Behlmer, Mark Berger, Ryan Coogler, Sofia Coppola, Dane A Davis, Peter J. Devlin, Teri E Dorman, Teresa Eckton)
Explores the impact of movie sound through insight from cinema’s biggest directors and their go-to sonic
collaborators.
Miracle In Milan (Miracolo a Milano)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1950; Director: Vittorio De Sica; Writer: Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Mario Chiari, Adolfo Franci; Stars: Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabo, Brunella Bovo, Anna Carena, Alba Arnova)
An allegorical neorealist fantasy examining social dynamics in post-war Italy.
The Golden Age and Plogoff, Des Pierres Contre Des Fusils
Moulin Rouge
(Country: UK; Year: 1952; Director: John Huston; Writer: Pierre La Mure, Anthony Veiller, John Huston; Stars: José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon, Claude Nollier, Katherine Kath, Muriel Smith, Mary Clare, Walter Crisham, Harold Kasket, Georges Lannes, Lee Montague, Maureen Swanson, Tutte Lemkow, Jill Bennett, Theodore Bikel)
Fictionalised drama about the later years of Tolouse Lautrec.
Nazarín
(Country: Mexico; Year: 1958; Director: Luis Buñuel; Writer: Julio Alejandro, Luis Buñuel, Benito Pérez Galdós, Emilio Carballido; Stars: Marga López, Francisco Rabal, Rita Macedo, Ignacio López Tarso, Ofelia Guilmáin, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Noé Murayama, Rosenda Monteros, Jesús Fernández, Ada Carrasco, Antonio Bravo, Aurora Molina, David Reynoso, Efraín Arauz, Manuel Arvide)
A priest is hated by everyone... except the local prostitute.
La Passione Di Anna Magnani
(Country: France; Year: 2019; Director: Enrico Cerasuolo)
The story of actress Anna Magnani told via archive footage.
Plogoff, Des Pierres Contre Des Fusils
(Country: France; Year: 1980; Director: Nicole Le Garrec; Stars: Nicole Le Garrec, Daniel Yonnet, Nicole Le Garrec, Daniel Yonnet)
Documentary about objections to a nuclear power plant.
Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1975; Director: Lina Wertmüller; Writer: Lina Wertmüller; Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore, Piero Di Iorio, Enzo Vitale, Roberto Herlitzka, Lucio Amelio, Ermelinda De Felice, Bianca D'Origlia, Francesca Marciano, Mario Conti, Barbara Valmorin, Emilio Salvatore, Aristide Caporale)
An Army deserter tries anything and everything to survive a German prison camp.
The Woman Who Dared and Seven Beauties
The Shining
(Country: US, UK; Year: 1980; Director: Stanley Kubrick; Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson, based on the novel by Stephen King; Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd, Joe Turkel)
After moving his family to a remote hotel with a troubled past, a writer gradually loses his mind.
Les Silences De Johnny
(Year: 2019; Director: Pierre-William Glenn)
Portrait of the actor Johnny Hallyday by his friend.
Toni
(Country: France; Year: 1934; Director: Jean Renoir; Writer: Jean Renoir, Jacques Levert, Carl Einstein; Stars: Charles Blavette, Celia Montalván, Édouard Delmont, Max Dalban, Jenny Hélia, Michel Kovachevitch, Andrex, Paul Bozzi, Vincent Florio, Jacques Levert, Charles Blavette, Celia Montalván, Édouard Delmont, Max Dalban, Jenny Hélia)
Drama about an Italian migrant who moves to Provence.
Twenty Years Of African Cinema (Caméra d’Afrique, African Cinema: Filming Against All Odds)
(Country: Tunisia, France; Year: 1983; Director: Férid Boughedir; Writer: Férid Boughedir)
Documentary of two decades of African film.
The White Caravan (Tetri karavani)
(Country: Soviet Union; Year: 1964; Director: Tamaz Meliava, Eldar Shengelaia; Writer: Merab Eliozishvili; Stars: Imedo Kakhiani, Ariadna Shengelaia, Giorgi Kikadze, Spartak Bagashvili, N. Kalapidini, Merab Eliozishvili, Kote Toloraia, Dodo Abashidze, Gogutsa Kuprashvili, Ioseb Taralashvili, Valentin Donguzashvili, A. Abovian, V. Bochorishvili, G. Isaeva, G. Khulordava)
Against a rugged landscape and the forces of nature, a group of shepherds, led by the experienced Martia, move their flock to winter pastures. Martia's son, Gela meets Maria, a fisher girl. They fall in love. But his obsession with living in the city ultimately prevails.
La Passione Di Anna Magnani and The White Caravan
The White Snake Enchantress (Hakujaden, Panda And The Magic Serpent)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1958; Director: Taiji Yabushita; Writer: Shin Uehara, Taiji Yabushita, Seiichi Yashiro; Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Mariko Miyagi, Virginia Blackman, Lisa Lu, George Matsui, Jodie McDowell, Sara Meric, Marvin Miller, Bob Neuman, Miiko Taka, Fernando Tejada, Mel Welles, Hisaya Morishige, Mariko Miyagi, Virginia Blackman)
The first colour anime feature film.
The Witness (A tanu)
(Country: Hungary; Year: 1969; Director: Péter Bacsó; Writer: Péter Bacsó, János Ujhelyi; Stars: Ferenc Kállai, Lajos Öze, Béla Both, Zoltán Fábri, Lili Monori, Károly Bicskey, György Kézdy, József Horváth, Róbert Rátonyi, György Bálint, Pál Bánó, Mária Dudás, Tibor Fehér, Károly Garamszegi, György Györffy)
Faced with severe food shortages and trying to save his large family from starvation, the simple dike keeper József Pelikán has no other option but to kill his pig, which he has saved from collectivisation but when word gets out he becomes embroiled in political intrigue
The Woman Who Dared (Le Ciel Est à Vous)
(Country: France; Year: 1943; Director: Jean Grémillon; Stars: Madeleine Renaud, Charles Vanel, Jean Debucourt, Raymonde Vernay, Léonce Corne, Raoul Marco)
In a provincial town, the wife of an aviator-turned-garage mechanic becomes obsessed with flying.
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