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Hotel Terminus: The Life And Times Of Klaus Barbie (Marcel Ophüls)
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Directed by Marcel Ophüls • Documentary • With Klaus Barbie, Claude Lanzmann, Marcel Ophüls • 1988 • 267 minutes
A brilliant and epic Academy Award-winning examination of the Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon", HOTEL TERMINUS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KLAUS BARBIE weaves t...
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Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story
Directed by Jon Alpert • Documentary • 2003 • 75 minutes
Assembled by DCTV co-founder, award-winning documentarian Jon Alpert, LATIN KINGS: A STREET GANG STORY follows the notorious New York gang's ex-leader, Antonio "King Tone" Fernandez. Under house arrest at the time of filming, Fernandez ins...
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Sibyl (Justine Triet)
Directed by Justine Triet • Drama • With Virginie Efira, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sandra Hüller • 101 minutes
A sly, sultry character study from filmmaker Justine Triet, SIBYL follows a psychotherapist (Virginie Efira) who decides to quit her practice and return to writing instead. As Sibyl starts d...
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Pastorale 1943
Directed by Wim Verstappen • Drama • With Pim de la Parra, Rutger Hauer • 1978 • 128 minutes
Submitted for the 1978 Academy Awards -- Best Foreign Film, Wim Verstappen's Pastorale 1943 is a war drama centered on the Dutch resistance during World War II, starring Derek de Lint, Sylvia Kristel, Ru...
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My Brooklyn
Directed by Kelly Anderson • Documentary • With Jamel Shabazz, Craig Steven Wilder, Kelly Anderson • 2012 • 76 minutes
My Brooklyn follows director Kelly Anderson's journey, as a Brooklyn gentrifier, to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood. The film documents the redevelopment of Ful...
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This Is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth
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For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world.
Yung Chang’s This Is Not a Movie captures Fisk in action—feet on the ground, notebook in hand, as he travels into landscapes devastated by war, ferreting out the facts and... -
Kin-dza-dza!
Directed by Georgiy Daneliya • Drama • With Stanislav Lyubshin, Levan Gabriadze • 1986 • 133 minutes
Imagine Andrei Tarkovsky circa Solaris directing Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and you'll come close to the existential weirdness of this loopy Soviet-era sci-fi comedy. Two...
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Youth (Homecoming)
Directed by Wang Bing • Documentary • 2024 • 160 minutes
Shi Wei, a young migrant garment worker, flops back onto a pile of soft fabric bundles on his workshop’s floor, cellphone in hand. “Shit, I’m exhausted,” he says to the boss who’s trying to get him to sew more clothing before the Lunar New...
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Lost Illusions
Directed by Xavier Giannoli • Drama • With Benjamin Voisin, Cécile De France, Vincent Lacoste • 2022 • 150 minutes
Lucien de Rubempré (Benjamin Voisin) is an ambitious and unknown aspiring poet in 19th century France. He leaves his provincial town, arriving in Paris on the arm of his admirer, Lo...
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The Nature of Love
Directed by Monia Chokri • Drama • With Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Monia Chokri, Francis-William Rhéaume • 2024 • 111 minutes
Sophia, a 40-year-old philosophy professor, has been in a stable and conventional marriage to Xavier for a decade. From gallery openings to endless di...
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World War III (Houman Seyedi, w/ Mohsen Tanabandeh)
Directed by Houman Seyedi • Drama • With Mohsen Tanabandeh, Mahsa Hejazi • 2022 • 107 minutes
Winner of the Orizzonti Awards for Best Film and Actor at the Venice Film Festival 2022, director Houman Seyedi's mysterious thriller/drama focuses on an anonymous day laborer (Mohsen Tanabandeh) who is...
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The Cruise (Bennett Miller)
Directed by Bennett Miller • Documentary • With Timothy "Speed" Levitch • 1998 • 76 minutes
Sailing the streets of Manhattan atop a double-decker bus, Timothy "Speed" Levitch waxes philosophical as the city's most eccentric tour guide. Speed's bombastic and psychedelic poetry is captured in the ...
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La Commune (Paris, 1871)
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Inside a giant warehouse in a working-class Parisian suburb, Peter Watkins (The War Game, Edvard Munch) assembles a cast of over 200 non-professional actors (though their amateur status is undetectable). Basing their work upon thorough historical research, they will attempt to re-create the event...
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The Battle of Chile
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On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende's democratically-elected Chilean government was overthrown in a bloody coup by General Augusto Pinochet's army.
Patricio Guzman and five colleagues had been filming the political developments in Chile throughout the nine months leading up to that...
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Gemma Bovery
Directed by Anne Fontaine • Drama • With Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng • 2015 • 99 minutes
In this vibrant seriocomic re-imagining of Flaubert’s literary classic Madame Bovary, life imitates art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma Bovery (Gemma Arterton) and her fur...
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I Like Killing Flies
Directed by Matt Mahurin • Documentary • With Kenny Shopsin • 2004 • 78 minutes
In 2002, an unusual eatery called Shopsin's loses its lease after 32 years. Filmmaker Matt Mahurin goes inside the diner to figure out its gastronomic appeal, and paint a portrait of its colorful owners Kenny and Eve...
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Surviving Progress
Directed by Mathieu Roy & Harold Crooks • Documentary • 2011 • 86 minutes
Technological advancement, economic development, population increase—are they signs of a thriving society? Or too much of a good thing? Executive Produced by Martin Scorsese, this provocative documentary explores the conce...
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Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov)
Directed by Alexander Sokurov • Documentary • With Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth • 2016 • 87 minutes
Set against the backdrop of the Louvre Museum’s history and artworks, master director Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) applies his uniquely personal vision onto stage...
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Milking the Rhino
Directed by David E. Simpson • Documentary • With None listed on IMDB • 2008 • 83 minutes
A ferocious kill on the Serengeti… dire warnings about endangered species… These clichés of nature documentaries ignore a key feature of the landscape: villagers just off-camera, who navigate the dangers an...
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Time Regained
Directed by Raúl Ruiz • Drama • With Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez • 2018 • 163 minutes
Raúl Ruiz’s most ambitious literary adaptation and considered his greatest cinematic achievement. An Official Selection at both the Cannes and New York Film Festivals and starring an out...
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A Real Job (w/ Adèle Exarchopoulos & Vincent Lacoste)
Directed by Thomas Lilti • Drama • With Vincent Lacoste, François Cluzet, Adèle Exarchopoulos • 2024 • 102 minutes
In A Real Job, director Thomas Lilti (Hippocrates, The Freshman) turns his humanistic eye to an overlooked subject: the personal and professional lives of school teachers. Lacking s...
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Black is... Black Ain't
Directed by Marlon Riggs • Documentary • 1995 • 87 minutes
Having grappled with the stereotypes imposed upon black people by white America, Riggs turned his attention to another fraught issue: the definitions of “blackness” that African-Americans impose on each other. Weaving together poetry, co...
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Slap the Monster on Page One
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Days before a general election a young girl is raped and murdered. Bizanti (Gian Maria Volonté), the editor of a right-wing newspaper uses the story to help the conservative candidate his paper supports.
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Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Drama • With Yavuz Bingöl, Hatice Aslan • 2008 • 106 minutes
Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, Three Monkeys is a moving, visually unforgettable triumph from the Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Thear Tree)
An ambitious p...