50 auteurs, 50 great films (50 titles)

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M

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• M (1931)
  Starring: Peter Lorre,  Otto Wernicke
  Director: Fritz Lang
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  In Fritz Lang's startling and exquisite film M, fear stalks the streets of Berlin in the form of a serial child murderer whose grisly accomplishments are so heinous even the criminal minds of the underworld want him dead. Filmed in post-Weimar Germany during the infancy of the Nazi state, this tale ..read more »
  
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The Cloud Capped Star

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• The Cloud Capped Star on DVD (1960)
  Starring: Gita De,  Niranjan Roy,  Gita Ghatak
  Director: Ritwik Ghatak
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  Ritwik Ghatak's lauded drama follows a young refugee from Pakistan as she tries to make ends meet for her family on the rough streets of Calcutta.
  
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Life Is A Miracle

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• Life Is A Miracle on DVD (2004)
  Starring: Slavko Stimac,  Natasa Solak,  Vesna Trivalic
  Director: Emir Kusturica
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  Bosnia, 1992. Luka, a Serbian engineer from Belgrade,has installed himself in a village in the middle of nowhere with his opera singer wife, Jadranka, and their son,Milos. Luka is preparing to build the railroad that will transform the region into a tourist's paradise. Utterly engrossed in his ..read more »
  
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The Story of Qiu Ju

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• The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)
  Starring: Li Gong,  Peiqi Liu,  Liuchun Yang
  Director: Yimou Zhang
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  A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice...
  
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Day Of Wrath

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• Day Of Wrath on DVD (1943)
  Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
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  The events in a nineteenth century Danish community which sees an accusation of witchcraft levelled against the wife of a Cathedral Notary. Danish dialogue.
  
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The Man Without A Past

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• The Man Without A Past on DVD (2002)
  Starring: Markku Peltola,  Kati Outinen,  Juhani Niemela
  Director: Aki Kaurismaki
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  An unidentified man gets severely beaten by a trio of thugs and ends up in the hospital, where he dies--but suddenly reawakens without knowing who he is. He wanders into a small, poverty-stricken community where families live in small containers and a night out means dinner at the Salvation Army. ..read more »
  
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Night And Fog

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• Night And Fog on DVD (1955)
  Starring: Jean Cayrol,  Michel Bouquet
  Director: Alain Resnais
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  Documentary which attempts to address the unanswerable questions relating to the Holocaust. Features new film footage of the abandoned site of Auschwitz alongside archived footage filmed by both the Allied Forces and the Nazis.
  
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Les Biches

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• Les Biches on DVD (1968)
  Starring: Stephane Audran,  Jacqueline Sassard,  Jean-Louis Trintignant
  Director: Claude Chabrol
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  Claude Chabrol crafts a complex social allegory in LES BICHES, a subtle and intricate tale of desire, despair, and murder. Released in March of 1968, just months before the May 1968 student revolts in Paris, Chabrol filtered the ever-increasing class struggle in France into the compelling tale of ..read more »
  
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Claire's Knee

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• Claire's Knee (1970)
  Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy,  Aurora Cornu,  Beatrice Romand
  Director: Eric Rohmer
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  In Eric Rohmer's CLAIRE'S KNEE, Jerome (Jean-Claude Brialy), a handsome diplomat on vacation in the scenic Alpine village of Talloires, is coaxed into doing a strange favor for his friend Aurora (Aurora Cornu), a novelist working on a new book. Echoing Vladimir Nabokov's novel LOLITA, in which the ..read more »
  
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Jules Et Jim

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• Jules Et Jim on DVD (1961)
  Starring: Oskar Werner,  Jeanne Moreau,  Henri Serre
  Director: Francois Truffaut
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  Possibly the most acclaimed of Truffaut's films, 'Jules et Jim' tells of two men in love with a capricious, amoral woman. The photography highlights some of Europe's most stunning locations, from Paris to the Austrian Alps
  
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