Tag: woman director
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Blood Diner
Two cannibalistic brothers kill various young women to make their flesh part of a new special dish at their rundown restaurant while seeking blood sacrifices to awaken a dormant Egyptian goddess.
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Robot Carnival
An anthology of various tales told in various styles with robots being the one common element among them.
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Smiling-Sad Willow-Tree
The heroes of fairy tales and myths and fairy tale props appear in the film.
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Angry Harvest
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who’s now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon’s a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn’t…
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On the Loose
A trilogy of stories set in and around Glebe (Sydney) examining the transition from school to uncertain future for three young people.
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Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique…
Vadim, a part-time dump truck driver in Leningrad, picks up an extremely young woman, along with a newborn baby. Vadim is forced to spend the rest of his day with Anna, helping her untangle herself from unpleasant, dramatic, and even tragic situations – and she and she alone is to blame for all of them.…
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Broken Rainbow
Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.
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National Lampoon’s European Vacation
The Griswolds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and so pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but they just don’t know how to be be good tourists. Besides, they have trouble taking holidays in countries where they CAN speak the language.
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Pianoforte
Maria studies at the university while her boyfriend Paolo is an established journalist. Both are drug addicts. Maria and Paolo try to detox with the help of a specialized clinic but it doesn’t last long: back from a trip during which they proved to themselves that they could resist without drugs, both fall victim to…
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Hard Scandal Performance
A woman who runs a prosperous oden shop by herself. A report writer who is a regular there senses something is wrong with her, and becomes interested in the landlady, so he decides to interview her. Then, it turns out that the husband of the landlady, who was an employee of a top-class trading company,…
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The Illegal Immigrant
The lead, arrested and processed after a police raid on a Canal St. clothing workshop. He has no status in HK, where he’d swam, or the US, where he arrived as a stowaway, to avoid metal detectors which would pick up the bullets still in his body.
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Desperately Seeking Susan
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife’s fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.
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The Sekkan 2: kairaku-hen
Two girls who want to become masochists are trained by a sadistic woman and turned into lovers.
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Smooth Talk
Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger.
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Real Genius
When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn that the military wants to use it as a weapon, they decide to thwart the plan.
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My Name Ain’t Suzie
Hungry for fun, American soldiers crowd the bars of late-’50s Hong Kong. Staffed with handpicked young girls from the countryside, the Lucky Bar is the most popular of them all, and Shui Mei is the smartest and keenest of the apprentices working there. She soon catches the eye of Jimmy, who every evening wanders from…
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Seven Women, Seven Sins
Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amongst the world’s most renown: Helke Sander (Gluttony), Bette Gordon (Greed), Maxi Cohen (Anger), Chantal Akerman (Sloth), Valie Export (Lust), Laurence Gavron (Envy), and Ulrike Ottinger (Pride). Each filmmaker had the liberty…
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Invitation
The main character is Anna, an outstanding pediatrician. She survived the harsh years of war in a concentration camp and cannot accept the behavior of her daughter Natalia, who uses her connections and cares only about material goods. Anna is reminded of 1939, when Piotr, who had been missing for forty-five years, arrives in Poland.…
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Magdalena Viraga
Story of A Red Sea Crossing. Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East LA, this film is about the inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing her pimp.
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The Check is in the Mail…
Meet Richard Jackson – a man fed up with the insanity of “plastic” suburban living. Rallying his befuddled family around him, Richard mounts an outrageously comic assault on credit card craziness, “Yuppie” status symbols and “the system” in general!