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Martin Scorsese's world cinema project volume no. 4
Criterion collection volume 1144
Criterion collection volume 1143
Criterion collection volume 1144
Criterion collection volume 1143
Language
Portuguese
Description
Sambizanga: Set during the Angolan War of Independence, a young women makes her way from the outskirts of Luanda toward the city's center, looking for her husband after his arrest by the Portugese authorities.
Prisioneros de la tierra: Desperate men are entrapped into indentured labor on a jungle yerba mate plantation under the brutal foreman Kohner-- a situation made tenser by the fact that both Kohner and a worker named Podeley love Andrea, the...
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Martin Scorsese's world cinema project volume no. 4
Criterion collection volume 1146
Criterion collection volume 1145
Criterion collection volume 1146
Criterion collection volume 1145
Language
Persian
Description
Chess of the wind: A murder mystery awash in period atmosphere plays out inside a candlelit mansion, where a web of greed, violence, and betrayal ensnares potential heirs as they vie over their matiarch's estate.
Muna Moto: In a Cameroonian village, the rigid customs governing courtship and marriage mean that a betrothed couple, though deeply in love, can be torn apart by the lack of a dowry and another man's claiming of the young woman.
Series
Martin Scorsese's world cinema project volume no. 4
Criterion collection volume 1148
Criterion collection volume 1147
Criterion collection volume 1148
Criterion collection volume 1147
Language
Hungarian
Description
Two girls on the street: Two upwardly moblie working women-one a musician in an all-female band, the other a bricklayer- join forces in their attempts to make it in Budapest, supporting each other through changing fortunes, the advance of lecherous men, and the highs and heartbreaks of love.
Kalpana: A dancer is determined to open a cultural center and breathe new life into India's traditional artistic forms. Meanwhile, the evident adoration between...
4) Soleil Ô
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Français
Description
Soleil Ô follows a starry-eyed immigrant as he leaves West Africa and journeys to Paris in search of a job, a community, and intellectual engagement- but soon discovers a hostile society where his very presence engenders fear and resentment.
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Español
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Lucía: Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the Cuban war of independence (with Spain), the 1930s, and the 1960s.
After the curfew: A hero of revolution returns to civilian life to find the new society very different from the ideals he fought for.
6) Pixote
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Language
Portuguese
Description
With a blend of harsh realism and aching humanity, Pixote offers an electrifying look at youth fighting to survive on the bottom rung of Brazilian society, and a stinging indictment of the country's military dictatorship and police.
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Language
Français
Description
Soleil Ô: A native of Mauritania is delighted when he is chosen to work in Paris. However, he is disappointed when he sees racial inequity as blacks are relegated to manual labor while less skilled whites are given preferential treatment.
Downpour: A well educated and humble teacher arrives in a new city and at a new job in the pre-revolutionary Iran. He falls in love with a hardworking underprivileged young woman that nurses her very old mother...
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Language
Portuguese
Description
Pixote: The life of a boy in the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution and drugs.
Dos monjes: In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them. Javier, a consumptive musician, fell in love with and was betrothed to Anita. When his old friend...