Beyond Hollywood: Foreign Language Movies (35 titles)

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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

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• Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon on DVD (2000)
  Starring: Chow Yun Fat,  Michelle Yeoh,  Zhang Ziyi
  Director: Ang Lee
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  Known for making films about familial relationships, director Ang Lee surprised everyone with his martial arts epic CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON. Based on a novel by Wang Du Lu, CROUCHING TIGER starts with the revenge plot common in the wuxia stories that Lee loved as a child, then adds a ..read more »
  
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Ghost In The Shell

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• Ghost In The Shell on DVD (1996)
  Starring: Richard George,  Mimi Woods,  William Frederick
  Director: Mamoru Oshii
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  Set in the year 2029 and following World Wars III and IV, a Japanese-led Asian block dominates world affairs. The alliance maintains its international supremacy through its elite security force whose cybernetically enhanced operatives tackle an array of hi-tech terrorists and other threats to ..read more »
  
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Ghost In The Shell 2 - Innocence

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• Ghost In The Shell 2 - Innocence on DVD (2005)
  Starring: Akio Ohtsuka,  Atsuko Tanaka,  Koichi Yamadera
  Director: Mamoru Oshii
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  It is the year 2032, and the line between humans and machines has been blurred almost beyond distinction. Humans have forgotten that they are human, and those that are left co-exist with cyborgs--human spirits inhabiting entirely mechanized bodies, and dolls--robots with no human elements at all. ..read more »
  
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Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society

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• Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex ... on DVD
  Starring: Michael McCarty,  Dean Wein,  Yutaka Nakano
  Director: Tomoki Kyoda
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  The year is 2034; two years after Major Motoko Kusanagi left Public Security Section 9, the elite counter-terrorist and anti-crime unit specializing in cyber warfare. In that time, Section 9 has increased its appointed personnel to 20 operatives, with Togusa taking over as leader of the unit.
  
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The Devil's Backbone

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• The Devil's Backbone on DVD (2001)
  Starring: Marisa Paredes,  Eduardo Noriega,  Frederico Luppi
  Director: Guillermo del Toro
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  During the Spanish Civil War, newly orphaned Carlos (Fernando Tielve) is taken to a school for the children of those who died fighting against fascism. He is given the bed that formerly belonged to Santi, a boy who recently died during an attack in which a bomb dropped, landing in the school's ..read more »
  
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Pan's Labyrinth

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• Pan's Labyrinth on DVD (2006)
  Starring: Ivana Baquero,  Sergi Lopez,  Maribel Verdu
  Director: Guillermo del Toro
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  Accompanied by her parents, Ofelia moves from a large Spanish city to a more rural area in the North of the country. Faced with the upheaval of moving home, an abusive stepfather and the general unpleasantness surrounding Franco's victory in 1944, Ofelia enters an imaginary world of creatures and ..read more »
  
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Hero

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• Hero on DVD (2002)
  Starring: Jet Li,  Maggie Cheung,  Ziyi Zhang
  Director: Yimou Zhang
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  Jet Li stars in this Academy Award-nominated martial-arts masterpiece takes place amidst the turmoil of China's "Warring States" period. An orphan fighter (Jet Li) presents himself to an avaricious king, bearing the weapons of three assassins (Donny Yen, Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung) in exchange ..read more »
  
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House Of Flying Daggers

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• House Of Flying Daggers on DVD (2004)
  Starring: Andy Lau,  Ziyi Zhang,  Takeshi Kaneshiro
  Director: Yimou Zhang
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  Near the end of the Tang Dynasty, police deputies Jin (Kaneshiro) and Leo (Lau) tangle with Mei (Zhang), a dancer suspected of having ties to a revolutionary faction known as the House of Flying Daggers. Enraptured by her, the deputies concoct a plan to save her from capture, and Jin leads her ..read more »
  
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Curse Of The Golden Flower

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• Curse Of The Golden Flower on DVD (2006)
  Starring: Chow Yun-Fat,  Gong Li Gong,  Gong Jay
  Director: Yimou Zhang
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  China, AD928. A royal family reunion cooks up the usual array of betrayals, poisonings, back-stabbings, front-stabbings and wholesale carnage of loyal warriors.
  
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Howl's Moving Castle

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• Howl's Moving Castle on DVD (2004)
  Starring: Chieko Baisho,  Takuya Kimura
  Director: Hayao Miyazaki
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  When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking home.
  
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