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Sutherland Trophy
Created in 1958, the Sutherland Trophy was awarded annually by the British Film Institute to "the maker of the most original and imaginative [first or second feature] film introduced at the National Film Theatre during the year". In 1997, the criteria changed to honour the maker of the most...
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L'avventura
L'avventura (The Adventure) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and developed from his initial story. Monica Vitti and Gabriele Ferzetti star. It is noted for its careful pacing which puts a focus on visual composition and...
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The Falls
The Falls is a 1980 film directed by Peter Greenaway. It was Greenaway's first feature-length film after many years making shorts. It does not have a traditional dramatic narrative; it takes the form of a mock documentary in 92 short parts.
The...
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You Can Count on Me
You Can Count on Me is a 2000 movie, starring Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin, and Matthew Broderick. Written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, it tells the story of Sammy, a single mother living in a small town and her complicated...
The Fabulous Baker Boys
The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) is an American romantic drama film written and directed by Steve Kloves, and starring Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges as two brothers struggling to make a living as lounge jazz pianists in Seattle. In desperation, they...
Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story (東京物語, Tōkyō Monogatari) is a 1953 Japanese film directed by Yasujiro Ozu. It tells the story of a couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children, but find their children are too absorbed in their own lives to spend much time...
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L'Amour fou
L'amour fou is a 1969 movie directed by Jacques Rivette.
L'amour fou follows the dissolution of the marriage between Claire, an actress (played by Bulle Ogier), and Sebastien, her director (Jean-Pierre Kalfon). It is black and white with two...
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In the Realm of the Senses
In the Realm of the Senses (Japanese: 愛のコリーダ, Ai no Korīda, lit. Bullfight (Spanish: Corrida) of Love; French: L'Empire des sens) is a 1976 Franco-Japanese film directed by Nagisa Oshima. It is a fictionalised and sexually explicit treatment of an...
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Vacas
Vacas (English: Cows) is a 1992 Spanish film, written and directed by Julio Médem. The film stars Carmelo Gómez, Emma Suárez, Ana Torrent, and Karra Elejade. An eerie family saga set in rural Basque Country, the cryptic film follows the intertwined...
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Osama
Osama (Persian: أسامة) is a 2003 film made in Afghanistan by Siddiq Barmak. It tells a story about a young girl who disguises as a boy, Osama, that shows life under the Taliban, and was the first film to be shot entirely in that country since 1996,...
Pierrot le fou
Pierrot le fou is a 1965 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo. The film is based on Obsession, a novel by Lionel White. It was Jean-Luc Godard's tenth feature movie, released between Alphaville and Masculin,...
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Apur Sansar
Apur Sansar (Bengali: অপুর সংসার Opur Shôngshar, yr. The World of Apu), also known as The World of Apu, is the third and final part of The Apu Trilogy, about a boy named Apu in early twentieth century Bengal, directed by Satyajit Ray.
Released in...
Tarnation
Tarnation is a 2003 documentary film by Jonathan Caouette.
The film was created by Caouette from over 20 years of hundreds of hours of old Super 8 footage, VHS videotape, photographs, and answering machine messages to tell the story of his life and...
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Ratcatcher
Ratcatcher is a 1999 film written and directed by Lynne Ramsay. It is her debut feature film and was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
The film tells the story of James, a 12-year-old boy living in an...
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The Pathfinder
Pathfinder (original title in Sami: Ofelaš and in Norwegian: Veiviseren) is a 1987 Norwegian film, directed by Nils Gaup. The movie is based on an old Sami legend.
It was the first full-length film in Sami, and it was nominated for the Academy Award...
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Samurai Rebellion
Rebellion, also known as Samurai Rebellion, is a 1967 Japanese film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. Its original Japanese title is Jōi-uchi: Hairyō tsuma shimatsu (上意討ち 拝領妻始末), which translates as Rebellion: Dealing with the Bestowed Wife.
The movie...
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Proof
Proof is a 1991 Australian film by Jocelyn Moorhouse starring Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot and Russell Crowe. It was chosen as "Best Film" at the 1991 Australian Film Institute Awards, along with 5 other awards, including Moorhouse for "Best...
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Yeelen
Yeelen is a 1987 Malian film directed by Souleymane Cissé. It is filmed in the Bambara and Fula languages, and is based on a legend told by the Bambara people. The story is a heroic quest narrative featuring magic and precognition. It stars Issiaka...
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Il Posto
Il Posto (1961) is an Italian film directed by Ermanno Olmi.
The film tells the story of Domenico, a young man applying for a job at a big city corporation. He goes through a bizarre series of exams, physical tests and interviews before landing a...
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Hamlet
Hamlet (Russian: Гамлет) is a 1964 film adaptation in Russian of Shakespeare's play of the same title, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak. It was directed by Grigori Kozintsev, and stars Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Prince Hamlet.
Grigori...
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Sans Soleil
Sans Soleil (Sunless in English) is a 1983 film by French director Chris Marker. The title is from the song cycle Sunless by Modest Mussorgsky. Sans Soleil is a meditation on the nature of human memory and the inability to recall the context and...
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Hitler: A Film from Germany
Hitler: A Film from Germany (German title: Hitler - ein Film aus Deutschland; U.S. title: Our Hitler) is a 1977 experimental film directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, produced by Bernd Eichinger, and co-produced by the BBC. It starred Heinz Schubert,...
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Elippathayam
Elippathayam (The Rat Trap) (1981) is an Indian feature film written and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. It is critically considered by many to be one of the most outstanding piece in Adoor Gopalakrishnan's filmography.
This film documents the...
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Red Road
Red Road is a 2006 British film directed by Andrea Arnold. It tells the story of a CCTV security operator who observes through her monitors a man from her past. It is named after, and partly set at, the Red Road flats in Barmulloch, Glasgow,...
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Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (German: Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach) is a 1968 film by the French filmmaking duo of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. It was their first full-length feature film, and reportedly took a decade to finance...
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The Warrior
The Warrior (2001) is a multi-award winning film by British-Indian filmmaker Asif Kapadia. It stars Bollywood actor Irfan Khan as Lafcadia, a warrior in feudal Rajasthan who attempts to give up the sword.
The film is in Hindi and was filmed in India...
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The Conformist
The Conformist (Italian: Il conformista) (1970) is a political drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The screenplay was written by Bertolucci based on the novel The Conformist (1951) by Alberto Moravia. The film features Jean-Louis Trintignant...
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Persepolis
Persepolis is a 2007 animated film based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Satrapi with Vincent Paronnaud. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the...
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The Scent of Green Papaya
The Scent of Green Papaya (Vietnamese: Mùi đu đủ xanh, French: L'Odeur de la papaye verte) is a Vietnamese-language film produced in France by Lazennec Production, and directed by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung.
The film won the Caméra d...
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The Apple
The Apple (Persian: سیب, translit. Sib) is the 1998 film directorial debut by Samira Makhmalbaf, daughter of the acclaimed Iranian director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The film is based on a true story and features the real people that actually lived it....
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Yellow Earth
Yellow Earth (simplified Chinese: 黄土地; traditional Chinese: 黃土地; pinyin: Huáng tǔ dì) is a 1984 Chinese drama film. It was the directorial debut for Chen Kaige. The film's notable cinematography is by Zhang Yimou. At the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards...
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Muriel ou Le temps d'un retour
Muriel (French: Muriel ou le temps d'un retour, literally Muriel, or the Time of a Return) is a 1963 film by French film director Alain Resnais. Muriel followed Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) and Last Year at Marienbad (1961) and was Resnais' second...
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The Travelling Players
The Travelling Players (Greek: Ο Θίασος; O Thiassos) is a 1975 Greek film directed by Theo Angelopoulos that traces the history of mid-20th Century Greece from 1939 to 1952. It is a towering classic of world cinema, and often considered one of the...
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The Hour of the Furnaces
The Hour of the Furnaces (Spanish: La hora de los hornos) is a 1968 film directed by Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas.
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Paris Belongs to Us
Paris Belongs to Us (French title: Paris nous appartient, sometimes translated as Paris Is Ours) is a 1960 mystery film directed by Jacques Rivette and starring Betty Schneider. Begun in 1957 and completed three years later, it was then-critic...
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Four Nights of a Dreamer
Four Nights of a Dreamer (French: Quatre nuits d'un rêveur) is a 1971 French drama film directed by Robert Bresson and starring Isabelle Weingarten. It is one of the few Bresson films still unavailable on DVD or VHS.
Like several other films made...
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La vie de Jésus
La vie de Jésus (English: The Life of Jesus) is the 1997 debut feature film by Bruno Dumont (director). Winner of the prestigious BFI Sutherland Trophy, Camera d’Or at Cannes, the Prix Jean Vigo, European Discovery of the Year at the European Film...
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Carnages
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The Silences of Palace
The Silences of the Palace (Arabic: صمت القصور, Samt el qusur) is a 1994 Tunisian film written and directed by Moufida Tlatli. It was the first featured-length movie to be directed by a woman in the Arab World.
The film is about a 25 year old woman...
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Tulpan
Tulpan is a 2008 Kazakh comedy-drama film. The film is directed by Sergey Dvortsevoy and distributed by Zeitgeist Films. Tulpan is Kazakhstan's 2009 Academy Awards official submission to Foreign Language Film category.
To a barren wasteland of a...
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Bayan Ko: My Own Country
Bayan Ko: My Own Country (Filipino: Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim) is 1984 Filipino drama film directed by Lino Brocka. The film was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
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Ajami
"Spiralling violence slowly permeates the emotional fabric of Ajami, a fourfold Middle Eastern saga that slowly blends into one monumental story of woe. The film is jointly directed by an Israeli, Yaron Shani, and a Palestinian, Scandar Copti, who...
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Kong bu fen zi
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Martha
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For the Living and the Dead
"Almost 20 years ago director Kari Paljakka saw a television interview with a couple who had recently lost their youngest son in a domestic accident. He was deeply affected by the candid and coherent description of their experiences following their...
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Bob's Weekend
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On the Wire
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Comrades
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Sürü
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Die Berührte
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Two Stage Sisters
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