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A drama that charts the emotional odyssey of a struggling novelist whose life is turned upside down one wintry night following a fatal car accident. The incident sets him on a soul searching, decades long journey towards redemption, a quest that profoundly touches the lives of both his girlfriend and the accident victim's mother.
42) The decoy bride
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English
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When the world's media descend on the remote Scottish Island where a Hollywood actress is attempting to get married, a local girl is hired as a decoy bride to put the paparazzi off the scent.
43) Faults
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English
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Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit Ansel, one of the world's foremost experts on mind control to kidnap and deprogram her. However, once the process is underway, Ansel realizes he may not be the one in control.
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A not so average family wrestles with Satan in a house from hell in this heavy metal charged shocker. Diehard metal head and struggling artist Jesse moves with his wife and daughter to a middle of nowhere Texas town, unaware that the new house they got for an unbelievable deal comes with a grisly history. Disturbing demonic goings on culminate with the appearance of Ray. He's the home's former resident, and he's here to do the Devil's bidding.
Series
Criterion collection volume 644
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Deutsch
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A documentary tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch. Includes many performances of her most famous creations.
46) Kidulthood
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English
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When a young girl in West London hangs herself after being constantly bullied, a group of kids from her school take to the streets in retaliation.
47) England is mine
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English
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A portrait of Morrissey and his early life in 1970s Manchester before he went on to become the lead singer of seminal alternative rock band The Smiths.
48) Glastonbury
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English
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Uncut performances by Beck, Foo Fighters, Paul McCartney, the White Stripes, and many more! Also contains interviews with James Brown, Coldplay, Moby and more!
49) Franklyn
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English
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Preest is a masked vigilante detective who is searching for his nemesis on the streets of Meanwhile City, a monolithic metropolis ruthlessly governed by faith and religious fervor. Esser is a broken man who is searching for his wayward son amongst the rough streets of London's homeless. Milo is a heartbroken thirty-something desperately trying to find a way back to the purity of first love. Emilia is a beautiful art student whose suicidal art projects...
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Carol: Two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. A young woman in her twenties, Therese is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol, an alluring woman trapped in...
51) Young Adam
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English
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The film focuses on Joe; a young drifter who finds work on a barge owned by Les and Ella. They happen upon the corpse of a young woman floating in the water and it is evident Joe knows more that he will admit. Meanwhile, Joe and Ella have an affair.
52) Ping pong
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A documentary about eight competitors in the World Over-80 Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia. They are all in their 80s and 90s; one Australian woman is a centurion. Most of the players have been athletes all their lives, but one woman took the sport up as an octogenarian after suffering a stroke. The advanced masters scene is like those in other sports, with rivalries, egomania and even dirty tricks. Losing doesn't get any less painful...
53) To kill a king
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English
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Following the Civil War of 1645 two heroes, Lord Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, emerge as triumphant, if conflicting leaders of England. Fairfax secretly plans to return the King to power, defying his friend and the people of England.
54) Song of names
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English
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An emotional detective story spread over two continents and a half-century. Beneath the film's stunning and pulsing musical revelations burn the horror of war, and the lost souls extinguished from history.
55) High-rise
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English
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Dr. Laing is the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class. But as power outages become more frequent and building flaws emerge, particularly on the lower floors, the regimented social strata begins to crumble and the building becomes a battlefield in a literal class war.
56) Paris, Texas
Series
Criterion collection volume 501
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English
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After four years' absence, a social dropout reappears in L.A. to claim his abandoned son and then heads to Texas to reunite the boy with his mother.
57) Pina
Series
Criterion collection volume 644
Language
Deutsch
Description
The boundless imagination and physical marvels of the work of the German modern-dance pioneer Pina Bausch leap off the screen in this tribute by Wim Wenders. Shot in 3D, it is a remarkable visual experience and a vivid representation of Bausch's art, enacted by a group of talented dancers from her company.
58) Tale of tales
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English
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Salma Hayek and John C. Reilly are Queen and King in this gory, gorgeous grown-up fairytale full of princes and princesses, sorcerers and fairies,and fearsome monsters and ogres. Three story strands interweave with one another in this film from director Matteo Garrone. In one tale, Hayek plays a jealous queen who forfeits her husband's life. In another, Cassel plays a king whose passion is stoked by two mysterious sisters.
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"An epic love story that spans childhood into adulthood, the film follows Heathcliff, an outsider taken in and given a home by a benevolent Yorkshire farmer, Earnshaw. Heathcliff develops a passionate relationship with the farmer's teenage daughter, Catherine, inspiring the envy and mistrust of his rough-hewn son, Hindley. Years later, when Earnshaw dies, the young adults must finally confront the intense feelings and destructive rivalries that have...
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Three critically-acclaimed British romances featuring talented casts. In Becoming Jane, a dashing young man offends an emerging writer's sense and sensibility. In Brideshead Revisited, Charles Ryder is invited to a charming aristocrat's estate where he is seduced by the opulent lifestyle. In Jane Eyre, Jane finds herself in a passionate romance with a handsome, yet mysterious, gentleman.