78.2% from 58 members

Ultra stylish romance
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Reconstruction
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Maria Bonnevie, Krister Henriksson
Director: Christoffer Boe
Certificate: 
Reconstruction turns romantic drama inside out, laying bare the emotions and psychology of passion in an explosion of images. Protagonist, Alex, a photographer, and beautiful Aimee, meet by chance and fall in love in the course of one intense day in Copenhagen. After just one night together, both ..read more »
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51%
from 1,134 member

Gem of a slow-burner with love in 3 different eras.
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Three Times
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Qi Shu, Chang Chen, Gong Li
Director: Hou Hsiao Hsien
Certificate: 
The film features three different stories of love and memory through three time periods, 1966, 1911 and 2005. The first, "A Time for Love," hinges on the meeting of soldier boy Chen with pool hall hostess May and his subsequent search for her. The second episode, "A Time for Freedom," deals with a ..read more »
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54%
from 781 members

Ebbing, lyrical portrait of lonliness and loss.

Period drama Samurai-style.

Kieslowski for Dummies, but it's so polished and clever.
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Hell
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Emmanuelle Beart, Karin Viard, Marie Gillain
Director: Danis Tanovic
Certificate: 
In Paris in the 1980s, a man, fresh from his release from prison, is rejected by his wife. After a violent confrontation he throws himself from his apartment window, witnessed by his three young daughters. In present day Paris, the sisters, now grown up, live their own lives. The family bonds ..read more »
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58%
from 2,214 members

Brooding, romantic, gorgeous tale of regret.

Devastatingly powerful film on how war effects innocents.
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Innocent Voices
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Carlos Padilla, Leonor Varela, Xuna Primus
Director: Luis Mandoki
Certificate: 
A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him
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76%
from 1,111 member

Bergman, more Autumn Sonata than Scenes From a Marriage.
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Saraband
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Borje Ahlstedt
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Certificate: 
Reuniting the cast of "Scenes from a Marriage" (1973), the film details the relationship between Marianne and her ex-husband JOhan, whom she visits after 30 years. Before long she finds herself embroiled in a family feud stemmed by the hatred a son has for his father...
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59%
from 1,138 member

Sweet samurai love-story, perfect in its own little way.
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Twilight Samurai
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi
Director: Yoji Yamada
Certificate: 
Hiroyuki Sanada, who played Ujio in Edward Zwick's Hollywood epic THE LAST SAMURAI, stars in a different kind of samurai film in Yoji Yamada's poignant drama THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI. Sanada plays the title character (Seibei Iguchi), who gets his nickname because he is a lowly worker who chooses to go ..read more »
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72%
from 4,432 members

This moving story has to be seen to be believed.
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