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The Apple

1980 ★ 4.5

In a pseudo-futuristic 1994, a square couple enter the corrupt world of the music industry, and subsequently a maze of drugs, sex, and temptation. The Apple (19

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Please Hold the Line

2020 ★ 8.2

An audiovisual allegory on communication – this film follows cable technicians in four different countries (Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova) as they visit t

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Snowpiercer

2013 ★ 6.9

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels arou

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Theorem

1968 ★ 7.0

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sor

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Germany Year 90 Nine Zero

1993 ★ 6.7

The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his way from the

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The Working Class Goes to Heaven

1971 ★ 7.8

After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups. The Working Class Goes to Heave

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Bloodfist 2050

2005 ★ 4.0

Alex Danko descends into the ultra-violent underworld of extreme martial-arts to find his brother's killer with the help of hardened Detective Ramirez and his b

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The Outer Threat

2026 ★ 0.0

After making a groundbreaking extraterrestrial discovery, astrophysicists Daniel and Michelle are forced to flee from home with their family — pursued through t

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Parallel Course

1979 ★ 0.0

A remote rocket-station in the desert is on the point of launching a nuclear-powered rocket when an alien craft appears, at first playing havoc with computer re

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The Botanist

2026 ★ 5.0

In a remote village in Xinjiang, a young Kazakh boy named Arsin, who finds solace in the company of plants. He soon meets Meiyu, a spirited Han girl whose unpre

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Animal Farm

1999 ★ 5.7

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot

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Macario

1960 ★ 8.7

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil,

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Defending Your Life

1991 ★ 6.9

Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where

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Estômago: A Gastronomic Story

2007 ★ 7.9

In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent young man i

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Dolls

2002 ★ 7.5

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story

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Werckmeister Harmonies

2001 ★ 7.8

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction. Drama dramatic bleak tense

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Ten

1971 ★ 6.4

The good-natured scholar Christian-Theodore arrives in a small country where miracles occur. He falls in love with the beautiful Princess, whose marriage is a m

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Safe

1995 ★ 6.9

Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis. Drama introspective slow-burn atmospheri

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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

1970 ★ 6.9

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she exper

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Tito and the Birds

2019 ★ 6.3

Tito is a shy 10-year-old boy who lives with his mother. Suddenly, an unusual epidemic starts to spread, making people sick whenever they get scared. Tito quick

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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

1989 ★ 7.3

When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad m

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The Howl

1970 ★ 4.8

A young bride flees the ceremony with a stranger and, together, they set off on an epic journey though increasingly bizarre lands. They encounter talking animal

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Monster in the Closet

1986 ★ 4.9

After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor band together

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Hoshi Shinichi no Fushigina Fushigina Tanpen Dorama

2022 ★ 8.0

Hoshi Shinichi is the "God of Short Stories" who published more than 1001 short stories during his lifetime, some of which are included in textbooks and continu

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