Around The World In 49 Films (49 titles)

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The Battle Of Algiers

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• The Battle Of Algiers on DVD (1965)
  Starring: Brahim Haggiag,  Jean Martin,  Saadi Yacef
  Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
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  The Battle Of Algiers authentically recreates the life-and-death struggle that took place in Algiers from 1954 to 1957, when the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) began a guerrilla war against the French, using terrorism. The French sent paratroopers, which led to a regrettable catalogue of ..read more »
  
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Bombon El Perro

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• Bombon El Perro on DVD (2004)
  Starring: Juan Villegas,  Walter Donado,  Rosa Valsechi
  Director: Carlos Sorin
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  In Patagonia, a mechanic who dreams of a different life starts to think big after his adopted pup wins first prize at a local dog show.
  
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Walkabout

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• Walkabout on DVD (1970)
  Starring: Jenny Agutter,  John Meillon,  Lucien John
  Director: Nicolas Roeg
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  After a pair of British children are abandoned in the Australian outback, they join up with a young Aborigine who is performing his traditional, coming-of-age rite of passage, the Walkabout. A commentary on pastoral simplicity versus cosmopolitan clutter, this haunting film marked Nicholas Roeg's ..read more »
  
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The Counterfeiters

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• The Counterfeiters on DVD (2007)
  Starring: Karl Markovics,  August Diehl,  Devid Striesow
  Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
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  The true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian. After getting arrested in a German concentration camp in 1944, he agrees to help the Nazis in an organized counterfeit operation set up to help finance the war effort.
  
  Rate this: 73% from 21,412 members

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Man Bites Dog

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• Man Bites Dog on DVD (1992)
  Starring: Remy Belvaux,  Andre Bonzel,  Benoit Poelvoorde
  Director: Remy Belvaux,  Andre Bonzel,  Benoit Poelvoorde
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  A documentary crew is fascinated by the charismatic, unrepentant serial killer whose crimes they set out to objectively chronicle. But as the violence escalates, they become more and more complicit in his shocking actions. A disturbingly low-key satire of the connection between violence and the media.
  
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Black God White Devil

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• Black God White Devil on DVD (1964)
  Starring: Geraldo Del Rey,  Yoná Magalhães
  Director: Glauber Rocha
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  Widely considered to be the greatest Brazilian film of all time, Black God, White Devil (Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol) influenced such major filmmakers as Martin Scorsese and Sergio Leone and is Glauber Rocha s finest and most moving work. This masterpiece of cinema makes its in its UK theatrical ..read more »
  
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Videodrome

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• Videodrome on DVD (1982)
  Starring: James Woods,  Peter Dvorsky,  Deborah Harry
  Director: David Cronenberg
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  Sleazy cable TV programmer Max Renn (Woods) encounters a strange new program known as VIDEODROME. Under its mysterious influence, Max's fantasies seem to come to life as strange things begin to happen and reality is not what it seems. Unmistakable weirdness from cult director Cronenberg.
  
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Raise The Red Lantern

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• Raise The Red Lantern (1991)
  Starring: Gong Li,  Ma Jingwu,  Jingwu Ma
  Director: Zhang Yimou
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  China, 1920. One master, four wives.
  
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Vampires in Havana

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• Vampires in Havana (1985)
  Starring: Manuel Marin,  Margarita Aguero,  Frank Gonzalez
  Director: Juan Padron
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  Funny animated film brought to the US from Cuba about a scientist that invents a potion that allows vampires to be able to live under the rays of the sun. When the word gets out to the vampires of the world, they fly to Cuba to gain control of the potion. It becomes a battle between the American ..read more »
  
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Lunacy

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• Lunacy (2005)
  Starring: Pavel Liska,  Jan Triska,  Anna Geislerova
  Director: Jan Svankmajer
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  Jean Berlot, a disturbed young man befriend a Marquis whose house is the site of a number of disturbing events and then willingly enters a mutinous asylum to try and restore control to the allegedly captured staff.
  
  Rate this: 61% from 17 members

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