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The Mother of Tears (Italian title: La Terza madre, The Third Mother) is a 2007 Italian/American supernatural horror film written and directed by Dario Argento. The film stars Asia Argento, Daria Nicolodi, Moran Atias, Udo Kier, and Coralina Cataldi...
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| x American Teen |
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American Teen is a 2008 documentary film directed by Nanette Burstein (On the Ropes, The Kid Stays in the Picture) and produced by 57th & Irving. It competed in the Documentary Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the...
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| x You, the Living |
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You, the Living (Swedish: Du levande) is a 2007 Swedish black comedy film written and directed by Roy Andersson. The film is an exploration on the "grandeur of existence," centered around the lives of an overweight woman, a disgruntled psychiatrist,...
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| x I Served the King of England |
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I Served the King of England (Czech: Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále) is a 2006 Czech film, directed by Jiří Menzel and based on the novel of the same name by Bohumil Hrabal. This film is Menzel's sixth adaptation of the works of Hrabal for film....
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| x The Warlords |
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The Warlords, previously known as The Blood Brothers (simplified Chinese: 投名状; traditional Chinese: 投名狀; pinyin: tóu míng zhuàng), is a 2007 award-winning Chinese/Hong Kong epic war film directed by Peter Chan and starring Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi...
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| x Forbidden Lie$ |
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Forbidden Lie$ is an Australian documentary released in September 2007.
"Forbidden Lie$" tells the story of Norma Khouri author of the book, Forbidden Love - purportedly the true story of "Dalia" a young muslim woman in Jordan murdered by her family...
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| x Los Cronocrímenes |
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Los Cronocrimenes (a.k.a. Timecrimes) is a 2007 science fiction film written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo. The movie deals with time travel, crime and pulp. The film stars Karra Elejalde, Bárbara Goenaga, and Nacho Vigalondo.
Hector (Karra...
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| x Aleksandra |
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Alexandra (Russian: Александра) is a 2007 Russian film about the Second Chechen War, written and directed by Aleksandr Sokurov. It was nominated for the Golden Palm award in 2007.
The film received positive reviews from critics, although other...
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| x Ballast |
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Ballast is a 2008 film directed by Lance Hammer. It competed in the Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the awards for Best Director and Best Cinematography. The film received 6 nominations in the 2009 Film...
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Secrecy is a 2008 documentary film directed by Harvard University professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss. According to its website, it "is a film about the vast, invisible world of government secrecy," and features interviews with a variety of...
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| x The Judge and the General |
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The Judge and the General is a 2008 feature-length documentary film about Juan Guzmán's attempts to bring Augusto Pinochet to justice for human rights crimes.
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| x Up the Yangtze |
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Up the Yangtze (Chinese: 沿江而上; pinyin: yánjiāng érshàng; literally "Along the River") is a 2007 documentary film directed by Chinese-Canadian director Yung Chang. The film focuses on people affected by the building of the Three Gorges Dam across the...
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| x Ice People |
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Ice People is a documentary film directed by Anne Aghion about the research of Allan Ashworth and Adam Lewis in Antarctica. Produced by Dry Valleys Productions, this 2008 film portrays the scientists discovering fossils from 13.9 million years ago....
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| x A Girl Cut in Two |
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A Girl Cut in Two (French: La Fille coupée en deux) is a 2007 French comedy film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Ludivine Sagnier, François Berléand, and Benoît Magimel. The film was released in France in August 8, 2007 and a limited release...
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| x The Art of Negative Thinking |
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| x Flow: For Love of Water |
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Flow: For Love of Water (2008) is a documentary film directed by Irena Salina and produced by Steven Starr. It examines the global water crisis and presents a case against the growing privatization of the world's fresh water supply, a supply that...
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| x Recycle |
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Recycle is a 2008 film directed by Al Massad.
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| x Stranded: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains |
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Stranded: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains is a 2008 film directed by Gonzalo Arijon.
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| x Megane |
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Megane is a 2007 film directed by Naoko Ogigami.
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| x Umbrella |
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Umbrella is a Chinese documentary film directed by Du Haibin and released in 2007. The film documents the experiences of modern rural China, particularly five social groups: students, soldiers, tradespeople, and peasants. Du's stated goal with the...
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| x The Aquarium |
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The Aquarium is a 2008 film directed by Yousry Nasrallah.
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| x Go Go Tales |
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Go Go Tales is an independent 2007 film by Abel Ferrara.
It stars Willem Dafoe as a strip club owner and co-stars Bob Hoskins. As of 2008, it been seen only at selected film festivals, and has not yet received either cinema distribution or DVD...
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| x Kaalbela |
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kaalbela (Bengali: কালবেলা Calcutta My Love) is a 2009 Bengali film directed by Goutam Ghosh .The film is starring Parambrata Chatterjee, Paoli Dam, Santu Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee.This film set against the background of the Naxalite...
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| x All is Forgiven |
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| x Ask Not |
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| x Barcelona (A Map) |
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| x Dainipponjin |
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| x Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind |
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| x Walt & El Grupo |
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| x Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film that tells the story of bank robbers Butch Cassidy (played by Paul Newman) and his partner The Sundance Kid (played by Robert Redford), based loosely on historical fact.
The film was...
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| x Le amiche |
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Le Amiche (The Girlfriends in English) is a 1955 Italian black-and-white drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. It is adapted from Cesare Pavese's 1949 novella Tra donne sole and centers on Roman Courtier Clelia (Eleonora Rossi Drago), who...
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| x Battle for Terra |
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Battle for Terra, originally screened as Terra, is a 2007 computer animated science fiction film, based on a short film of the same name about a peaceful alien planet which faces destruction from colonization by the displaced remainder of the human...
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| x 500 Days of Summer |
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"The freshness of Marc Webb’s love-me/love-me-not love story is epitomized by its perfectly framed tag lines…Boy meets Girl—Boy falls in love—Girl doesn’t. What else can you say about a postmodern love story? Not only is this delightfully surprising...
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| x The Age of Stupid |
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The Age of Stupid (2009) is a film by Franny Armstrong, director of McLibel and founder of 10:10, and first-time producer Lizzie Gillett. The Executive Producer is John Battsek, producer of One Day in September.
The film is a drama-documentary...
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| x Tiro en la cabeza |
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Tiro en la cabeza is a 2008 film directed by Jaime Rosales.
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| x Beast Stalker |
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Beast Stalker (traditional Chinese: 證人; simplified Chinese: 证人; pinyin: Zhèngrén) is a 2008 Hong Kong action film directed by Dante Lam and starring Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung, Zhang Jing-Chu, and Liu Kai-Chi.
15th Hong Kong Film Critics Society...
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| x Unmade Beds |
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"With his startlingly visceral and original second feature, Unmade Beds, Alexis Dos Santos manifests an exuberant London where unbridled longing and zeal plunge nubile expats into lusty adventures and momentous encounters. When wide-eyed Spaniard...
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| x La Mission |
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"Set in the colorful, seedy streets of the San Francisco district that bears its name, La MISSION is a story of redemption imbued with the curative power of Aztec tradition. Feared, yet respected, as the baddest Chicano on the block, Che (Benjamin...
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| x AL MáS ALLá |
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| x Art & Copy |
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ART & COPY is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time -- people who've profoundly...
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| x Bluebeard |
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"Boudoir philosopher Catherine Breillat’s bloody chamber piece takes an outrageously deadpan approach to Charles Perrault’s grisly bedtime story about the aristocratic ogre who marries and murders a series of wives. Her Bluebeard is a middle-aged...
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| x The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story |
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| x Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country |
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Burma VJ (English: Burma VJ Reporting from a Closed Country) is a documentary film directed by Anders Østergaard. It follows the September 2007 uprisings against the military regime in Burma. It was filmed entirely on hand-held cameras, and the...
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| x California Company Town |
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| x Confessional |
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Confessional is an internationally awarded mockumentary indie film by Jerrold Tarog and Ruel Dahis Antipuesto. It won Best Film in the First Features Section of 10th Osian Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema in New Delhi, India.
On a trip to Cebu to...
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| x Fay Grim |
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Fay Grim is a 2006 film by writer/director Hal Hartley. It premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released in theaters across America on May 18, 2007, with a DVD release the following Tuesday, May 22, in conjunction with...
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| x Il caimano |
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Il Caimano (English: The Caiman, referring to the caiman) is an Italian comedy-drama movie released in 2006, directed by Nanni Moretti and featuring Silvio Orlando and Margherita Buy.
Focusing on Silvio Berlusconi's vicissitudes, it was released...
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| x Jindabyne |
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Jindabyne is a 2006 Australian drama film adapted from the Raymond Carver short story, So Much Water So Close to Home, by award-winning director Ray Lawrence and starring an ensemble cast including Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Deborra-Lee Furness,...
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Paprika (パプリカ, Papurika) is a Japanese animated science fiction film, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1993 novel of the same name, about a research psychologist who uses a device that permits therapists to help patients by entering their dreams.
The...
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| x The Old Garden |
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The Old Garden (오래된 정원) is a 2006 South Korean film. It is directed by Im Sang-soo and stars Yeom Jeong-ah, Ji Jin-Hee and Yoon Yeo-Jung. It is adapted from a best-selling novel by Hwang Suk-young. It premiered at the 2006 San Sebastian Film...
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| x Black Sheep |
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Black Sheep is a New Zealand made comedy horror film directed by Jonathan King. North American distribution rights were acquired by The Weinstein Company and IFC Films. The Weinstein Company released the film on DVD on October 9, 2007 under their...
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| x Fritt Vilt |
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Cold Prey (Norwegian: Fritt Vilt, lit. "Open Season") is a 2006 Norwegian horror film, directed by Roar Uthaug. It premiered in Norway on October 13, 2006 and received mostly positive reviews and was hailed as one of the best modern Norwegian horror...
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| x Hana |
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Hana, known in Japan as Hana yorimo Nao (花よりもなほ), is a 2006 Japanese black comedy by director Hirokazu Koreeda.
The story takes place in the year 1702. It concerns a young samurai, Sozaemon who has come from Matsumoto to Edo to take his revenge...
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| x Ad-lib Night |
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Ad-lib Night (아주 특별한 손님, 2006) is the third film by South Korean director Lee Yoon-ki. It tells the story of a group of boys from the country who have come to Seoul to find the runaway daughter of a dying man to be with him on his death bed. The...
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| x Once |
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Once is a 2007 Irish musical film written and directed by John Carney. Set in Dublin, this naturalistic drama stars musicians Glen Hansard (of popular Irish rock band The Frames) and Markéta Irglová as struggling musicians. Collaborators prior to...
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Strange Culture is a 2007 documentary film directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. It stars Tilda Swinton and Thomas Jay Ryan.
It premiered January 19, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz...
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| x Ostrov |
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Ostrov (Russian: Остров, The Island) is a 2006 Russian biographical film about a fictional 20th century Eastern Orthodox monk. The film closed the 2006 Venice Film Festival, proved to be a moderate box-office success and won both the Nika Award and...
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| x Bamako |
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Bamako is a 2006 film directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, first released at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2006 and in Manhattan by New Yorker Films on February 14, 2007.
The film depicts a trial taking place in Bamako, the capital of Mali, amid...
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