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81) Amnesia
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Film Movement
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English
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Ibiza, the early nineties, Jo is a 25-year-old music composer. He has come over from Berlin and wants to be part of the nascent electronic music revolution, ideally by getting a job first as a DJ in the new nightclub on the island. Martha has been living alone in her house facing the sea for forty years. One night Jo knocks on her door. Her solitude intrigues him. They become friends even as the mysteries around her accumulate: that cello in the corner...
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Film Movement
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English
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"[One of] the 10 best films I saw at SXSW 2015... [with] the most explosively uncomfortable dinner party scene ever."- Ryan Lattanzio, Indiewire When Davis Green's alluring young cousin Alexis appears on his doorstep one night, he discovers that a side of his family has been kept secret from him. Against his father's wishes, Davis travels to rural, upstate New York to meet his other cousins. While wrestling with a taboo attraction to one another,...
83) God's slave
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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
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Ahmed, trained since childhood as an Islamic terrorist, is assigned to execute a suicide bombing at a synagogue. David is a cold-blooded Israeli special agent who will stop at nothing to prevent the attack. But neither man is defined solely by their extremist views. Ahmed, posing as a doctor, lives happily with his wife and young son; though David's marriage is on the rocks, he remains devoted to his wife and daughter. With time running out before...
84) Men Go to Battle
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Film Movement
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English
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Bracing for another winter on their struggling farm in rural Kentucky, brothers Henry and Francis have become suffocatingly close. When a rift forms between them, they are left to find out separately what the approaching Civil War will bring. Winner of Best New Narrative Director at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. "*An instant classic Western*." - Richard Brody, ***The New Yorker***
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Film Movement
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Nederlands
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Schneider, a hitman, gets a call from Mertens on the morning of his birthday. He has a last-minute assignment for Schneider who refuses the request because it is his birthday. Mertens insists that it is an important matter. When they meet in Mertens' office, Schneider is told that the target is Ramon Bax, a writer. He lives alone in a secluded place. "It's an easy job. With a little luck you're back home before noon." Schneider accepts the assignment....
86) Secrets of war
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Film Movement volume 13, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Nederlands
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Tuur and Lambert are best friends in a Nazi-occupied Dutch village who pass their days playing soldiers and exploring local caves, mimicking a war that seems far removed from their everyday life. When Maartje joins their class, the young girl immediately stands out as different from her classmates. Yet the boys embrace their new friend, forming a unique bond based on shared adventures, secrets and mischief. Ultimately, the realities of war even find...
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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Deutsch
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Told in fourteen fixed-angle, single shot, individual tableaus that parallel Christ's journey to his own crucifixion, this film is both an indictment of fundamentalist faith and the articulation of an impressionable teen's struggle to find her own path in life. Though from the outside Maria lives in the modern world, her family and her heart are faithful to a Catholic radicalism that requires sacrifice and devotion at every turn. As she struggles...
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Film Movement volume 13, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Bulgarian
Description
Nade is an honest, hard-working elementary school teacher struggling to keep her life together. With the home she shares with her alcoholic husband and young daughter on the brink of repossession and no money to her name, Nade resorts to measures her former self, untouched by the realities of economic desperation and moral compromise, would have found depraved.
89) Breathe
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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
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Seventeen-year-old Charlie is frustrated with her parents and bored with her life. Enter Sarah, a confident and charismatic new transfer student imbued with an intoxicating air of boldness and danger. The two form an instant connection, but this intimacy also triggers feelings of jealousy and anger, setting them on a dangerous trajectory towards an inevitable yet unforseen collapse.
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Film Movement volume 14, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Korean
Description
"Haemoo depicts the harrowing events that unfold in the fog-covered seas for a fishing crew engaged in human smuggling. Award-winning actor Kim Yoon Seok stars as the struggling captain who turns to human smuggling in order to keep his fishing boat financially afloat. While transporting ethnic Koreans from China across the Yellow Sea, however, things go terribly wrong, and desperation spirals into tragedy and terror"--YesAsia.com.
91) My king
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
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Admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident, Tony becomes dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers while looking back on a turbulent relationship she experienced with megalomaniac Georgio. Who is this man that she loved so deeply, and how did she allow herself to submit to this suffocating and destructive passion? For Tony, the physical work of healing may finally set her free.
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Korean
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100-year old lovebirds, Byong-man Jo and Gye-Yeul Kang, have been inseparable companions for the past 76 years. Observing this fragile couple for 15 months, director Moyoung Jin acts as a fly-on-the-wall, capturing the tender moments of their twilight days as the two face the inevitable reality that their time together will soon be approaching an end.
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Film Movement volume 14, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
Afghanistan 2014. As the withdrawal of troops approaches, Captain Antares Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned a surveillance mission in a remote valley of Wakhan, on the border of Pakistan. Despite Antares and his men's determination, control of the secluded valley will slowly fall out of their hands. One dark night, soldiers begin to mysteriously disappear in the valley.
94) The Teacher
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Film Movement volume year 15, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Slovak
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Directed by Jan Hřebejk (Director of the **Oscar**-nominated *Divided We Fall*) and loosely inspired by true events, the film is a very dark comedy about an elementary school teacher who uses her students to manipulate their parents for her own gain. Winner of the Best Actress Award (Zuzana Mauréry) at the **Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Chicago International Film Festival.** *"An intelligent and universally...
95) Theeb
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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
Arabic
Appears on these lists
World War I Collection Spotlight - Films
World War I Collection Spotlight - Homefront
World War I Collection Spotlight - Middle East, Africa, and Asia
World War I Collection Spotlight - Homefront
World War I Collection Spotlight - Middle East, Africa, and Asia
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1916. While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother Theeb in a traditional Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving desert. The brothers' quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently deceased father, Hussein agrees to lead them on the long...
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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Italiano
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Florence, Thirteenth Century. The "Black Death" is spreading. Ten kids (three boys and seven girls) decide to escape and to seek shelter in the countryside, away from the horrible consequences of the plague. In order to kill time, each kid tells a particular story, but no matter how different their stories may be, they all have one aspect in common: love. A love that will help the characters cope with the numerous uncertainties of a very arduous age....
97) 1944
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
2017.
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Estonian
Description
The year is 1944. As the Battle of Tannenberg Lines rages, Estonia finds itself helplessly trapped in the crossfire of two opposing forces. With the Red Army on the offensive, the severely outnumbered SS dig in to repel the Soviet avance on the Third Reich. Half of their infantry are local Estonian recruits, drafted from Siberian labor camps, and sent back to their homeland wearing enemy uniforms. Forced to fight against their own brothers, these...
98) After the storm
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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
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Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. After the death of his father, his aging mother and beautiful ex-wife seem to be moving on with their lives. Renewing contact with his initially distrusting family, Ryota struggles to take back control of his existence and to find a lasting place in the life of his young son.
99) Apprentice
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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Malay
Description
A story about a correctional officer who befriends the chief executioner of a prison and becomes his trainee.
100) Bad lucky goat
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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Creole
Description
After accidentally killing a bearded goat with their father's truck, two incompatible siblings in their teenage years embark on a journey of reconciliation.
Not recommended for ages under 17 without parental permission
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