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The Seventh Continent on DVD (1989)
Starring: Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer
Director: Michael Haneke
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Georg and his wife Anna realize how monotonous and isolated their life is when their daughter Eva, in a desperate attempt to get attention, suddenly pretends to be blind.
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The Cranes are Flying on DVD (1960)
Starring: Tatiana Samojlova, Alekei Batalov, Vasili Merkuryev
Director: Mikheil Kalatozishvili, Mikhail Kalatozov
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Winner of both the Palme d'Or and Best Actress Award at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival as well as two BAFTA nominations in 1959, The Cranes are Flying is a masterpiece of visual storytelling, and was one of the first post-war Soviet films to receive international acclaim. It is a tragic World War ..read more »
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Salesman on DVD (1969)
Starring: Jamie Baker, Paul Brennan, Melbourne I. Feltman
Director: Albert Maysles
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A landmark documentary, Salesman captures in vivid detail the bygone era of the door-to-door salesman. While laboring to sell a gold-embossed version of the Holy Word, Paul Brennan and his colleagues target the beleaguered masses -- then face the demand of quotas and the frustrations of life on the ..read more »
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Mouchette on DVD (1967)
Starring: Paul Hebert, Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert
Director: Robert Bresson
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Robert Bresson's sombre drama is an unsentimental take on a teenager's tragic home life. 14-year-old Mouchette is an inarticulate peasant girl, whose mother is terminally ill, and whose father, an alcoholic, abuses her. Unloved and seeing no hope for the future, Mouchette contemplates taking her ..read more »
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Rosetta on DVD (1999)
Starring: Emilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione, Anne Yerneaux
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
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Young and impulsive Rosetta, lives with her alcoholic mother, and moved by despair she will do anything to maintain a job.
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Badlands on DVD (1973)
Starring: Ramon Bieri, Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek
Director: Terrence Malick
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A garbage collector (Martin Sheen) and his impressionable girlfriend (Sissy Spacek) kill her father when he disapproves of their relationship, and embark on a homicidal trail of destruction across the Midwestern United States. Based on the true case of Starkweather and Fugate in the 1950s, Terrence ..read more »
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Black Narcissus (1946)
Starring: Kathleen Byron, Jenny Laird, Judith Furse
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
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British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger once again deliberately courted controversy and censorship with their 1947 adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel. Deborah Kerr and Kathleen Byron play the head nuns at an Anglican hospital/school high in the Himalayas. The nuns' well-ordered ..read more »
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Rosemary's Baby on DVD (1968)
Starring: Ruth Gordon, John Cassavetes, Tony Curtis
Director: Roman Polanski
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In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), move into the Bramford, an old New York City ..read more »
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Celine And Julie Go Boating on DVD (1974)
Starring: Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Juliet Berto
Director: Jacques Rivette
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This magical tale recounts the adventures of Julie and the flamboyant Celine, a kind of White Rabbit who leads Julie right though the Looking Glass into a world of her imagination.
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The Five Obstructions on DVD (2003)
Starring: Majken Algren Nielsen, Jorgen Leth, Claus Nissen
Director: Jorgen Leth, Lars Von Trier
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A novel but remarkably un-gimmicky experiment in filmmaking occurs when we watch 'Dogme 95' co-founder Lars von Trier challenge his older mentor Jorgen Leth to remake Leth's 1968 short film, 'The Perfect Human.' The catch: Leth must remake the film five times, each time with a new set of rules (or "..read more »
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