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L'Atalante L'Atalante
L'Atalante and Vagabond
L'Atalante (Country: France; Year: 1934; Director: Jean Vigo; Writer: Jean Guinée, Albert Riéra, Albert Riéra, Jean Vigo, Jean Vigo; Stars: Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre, Maurice Gilles, Raphaël Diligent, Claude Aveline, René Blech, Lou Bonin, Fanny Clar, Charles Dorat, Paul Grimault, Genya Lozinska, Gen Paul)
A newly married couple struggle with their relationship aboard a ship.
Little Forest (Country: South Korea; Year: 2018; Director: Yim Soon-rye; Writer: Hwang Seong-gu Hwang, Daisuke Igarashi; Stars: Kim Tae-ri, Ryu Jun-yeol, Moon So-ri, Jin Ki-joo)
No job, bad romance, and terrible grades... Nothing's going to plan in young Hye-won's big-city life. On impulse, she puts her unsolved issues behind her and returns to her hometown, where she begins to experience the pleasures of a simple life.
Roman Holiday (Country: US; Year: 1953; Director: William Wyler; Writer: Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter; Stars: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power, Harcourt Williams) , Trailer
A journalist falls in love with a beautiful stranger without realising she's a princess.
Touki Bouki (Country: Senegal; Year: 1973; Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty; Writer: Djibril Diop Mambéty; Stars: Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Aminata Fall, Ousseynou Diop, Christoph Colomb, Ndou Labia, Mustapha Ture)
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
Vagabond (Country: France; Year: 1985; Director: Agnès Varda; Writer: Agnès Varda; Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane, Francis Balchère, Jean-Louis Perletti, Urbain Causse, Christophe Alcazar, Dominique Durand, Joël Fosse, Patrick Schmit, Daniel Bos, Katy Champaud, Raymond Roulle, Henri Fridlani, Patrick Sokol, Pierre Imbert)
After a woman's body is found in a ditch, we see her final weeks unfold.
Touki Bouki Touki Bouki
Touki Bouki and Little Forest
Wanda (Country: USA; Year: 1970; Director: Barbara Loden; Writer: Barbara Loden; Stars: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Frank Jourdano, Valerie Manches, Dorothy Shupenes)
Barabara Loden's brilliant one-off, independent, classic road-movie, in which heroine Wanda embarks on an odyssey of petty crime across seedy middle America.
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