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Christopher Nolan Presents: Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass
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Directed by Quay Brothers • Animation • 2024 • 76 minutes
A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a son, Jozef, visiting his dying father in a remote Galician Sanatorium. Upon arrival, Jozef finds the Sanatorium entirely moribund and run by a dubious Doctor Gotard, who tell...
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MovieThe Pied Piper
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Czech director Jiří Barta's stop-motion animated masterpiece, based on "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of narrow streets and weird Gothic arches inspired by German Expression. A savage portrait of greed run amok and one of the great masterpieces of stop-...
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The Mysterious Castle In The Carpathians
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A unique and almost indescribable mix of Gothic fiction, steampunk gadgetry (designed by Czech animation wizard Jan Švankmajer), slapstick comedy and romantic opera, director Oldřich Lipský's wonderfully bonkers mystery has elements of Terry Gilliam, Mel Brooks and "The Benny Hill Show." Based on...
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MoviePrague Nights
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Directed by Miloš Makovec, Evald Schorm, Jiří Brdečka • Drama • 1969 • 100 minutes
The long-lost Sixties Czech occult horror anthology film Prague Nights is filled with magic, giant golems and satanic visitors. In the vein of horror anthologies like Bava’s Black Sabbath, this long-unseen gem is ...
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MovieThe Golden Fern
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Czech director Jiří Weiss's breathtaking B&W fairy tale is one of the most unjustly neglected treasures of 1960s fantasy filmmaking with overtones of Cocteau's BEAUTY & THE BEAST. A handsome young shepherd (Vít Olmer) stumbles across a magical golden fern in the forest. A stunning forest fairy (...
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Initials S.G.
Directed by Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia • Drama • With Diego Peretti, Julianne Nicholson • 2019 • 98 minutes
Down on his luck, an aging Serge Gainsbourg wannabe struggles with an acting career he can't seem to get on track, an affair he doesn't want, and a crime he didn't mean to commit.
"Peret...
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MovieHeroic Times
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Hungarian director József Gémes' animated portrait of the supposedly "heroic" age of medieval knights and kings, a sprawling and bloody tapestry of ruthless combat to rival "Game Of Thrones." Based on an epic narrative poem by famed 19th century Hungarian writer János Arany.
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Becoming Astrid
Directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen • Drama • With Alba August • 2018 • 123 minutes
Teenaged Astrid Lindgren (Alba August), who later went on to write the Pippi Longstocking series, leads a carefree life with her family in the forests and fields of rural Sweden. Restless and eager to break ...
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Gaadi - Children Of The Sun
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From Prasanna Vithanage, one of Sri Lanka's most acclaimed directors, comes this sweeping historical drama of a Sinhala noble woman (Dinara Punchihewa) forced to choose between suicide or marriage to a low-caste outcast (Sri Lankan star Sajitha Anuththara) -- the two opposites are forced to depen...
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MovieThe Devil's Bride
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In the early 1970s, behind the Iron Curtain, Lithuanian director Arūnas Žebriūnas created one of the wildest rock operas of the decade. A mash-up of TOMMY, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and THE WICKER MAN filled with ecstatic hippie orgies in heaven, legions of female demons on hors...
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Fish & Cat
Directed by Shahram Mokri • Drama • With Ainaz Azarhoush, Abed Abest • 2013 • 142 minutes
A group of attractive young Iranian kite-flying enthusiasts gather at a dismal lake, near a restaurant where two sinister characters straight out of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE are serving up grisly fare in Ira...
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My Sailor, My Love
Directed by Klaus Härö • Drama • With James Cosmo, Catherine Walker • 2023 • 103 minutes
Howard (James Cosmo) is a widowed sailor living alone on the coast of Ireland and struggling to care for himself. His daughter, Grace (Catherine Walker), hires Annie (Bríd Brennan) to help out around the hou...
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The Outcasts (w/ Cyril Cusack)
Directed by Robert Wynne-Simmons • Drama • With Cyril Cusack, Mary Ryan • 1982 • 106 minutes
A major rediscovery for fans of folklore, fantasy and folk horror, the long-lost Irish film THE OUTCASTS was directed by Robert Wynne-Simmons, famed for writing on BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW. THE OUTCASTS pla...
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The Captain
Directed by Robert Schwentke • Drama • With Max Hubacher • 2018 • 118 minutes
Based on the arresting true story of the Executioner of Emsland, The Captain follows a German army deserter, Willi Herold (Max Hubacher), after he finds an abandoned Nazi captain’s uniform in the final weeks of World W...
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Harvie Krumpet
Directed by Adam Elliot • Animation • With Geoffrey Rush • 2003 • 22 minutes
Oscar-winning animated half hour 'biography' of a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck. Inspiringly, Harvie learns many lessons in...
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Micro Budget
Directed by Morgan Evans • Drama • With Brandon Micheal Hall, Patrick Noth • 2024 • 88 minutes
When Terry discovers he's about to be a father, he does what any other sane person would do. He moves himself and his nine-months-pregnant wife from Iowa to Los Angeles to shoot a low-budget indie movi...
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First One In
Directed by Gina O'Brien • Drama • With Kat Foster, Georgia King • 2020 • 97 minutes
Thrown off a popular reality show in disgrace, unemployed real estate agent Madi Cooke (Kat Foster), teams with a group of misfit tennis players in a do-or-die match against Bobbi Mason (Georgia King)--an overac...
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MovieThe Heirloom
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A desperate filmmaker is seized by inspiration when he and his girlfriend adopt a traumatized rescue dog. This sets off a riotous chain of new challenges on how to deal with this addition to the household. The couple each pursue their own deepheld individual questions surrounding trust, purpose a...
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MovieOther People's Children
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When dedicated high school teacher Rachel (Virginie Efira) falls in love with Ali (Roschdy Zem), it’s not long before she also falls for his 4-year-old daughter Leila. The adolescent giddiness of Rachel and Ali’s late night rendezvous and secret sleepovers evolves into the familiar warmth of fami...
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The Trouble with Jessica
Directed by Matt Winn • Drama • With Alan Tudyk, Shirley Henderson, Rufus Sewell • 2025 • 89 minutes
Married couple Sarah (Shirley Henderson) and Tom (Alan Tudyk) are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed to find a buyer for their stylish London home. ...
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The Temple Woods Gang
Directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche • Drama • With Régis Laroche, Philippe Petit, Marie Loustalot • 113 minutes
A gang of small-time criminals in a working-class French suburb stage a daring heist against a mysterious Saudi Prince.
“One of the most fascinating and consistently surprising auteurs t...
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MovieThe Time It Takes
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In this deeply personal film about her relationship with her legendary filmmaker father, Francesca Comencini’s virtuosic work of cinematic autobiography paints a richly emotional picture of their changing bond during the Years of Lead. Nominated for six Donatello Awards.
“The Time it Takes is a ...
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MovieWho By Fire
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A getaway at a secluded log cabin in the forest becomes the site of escalating, multigenerational tensions and anxieties in this disquieting, impeccably mounted coming-of-age drama from Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage. Ostensibly a merry reunion between well-known film director Blake Cadieux ...
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California Solo (w/ Robert Carlyle)
Directed by Marshall Lewy • Drama • With Robert Carlyle • 2012 • 93 minutes
Lachlan MacAldonich is former Britpop rocker who has settled into a comfortably numb existence in farm country just outside Los Angeles. By day, he works on an organic farm and travels regularly to the city’s farmers’ ma...
