Tag: woman director
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The Death of Empedocles
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin’s 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
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Student Exchange
Carol and Neil are are successful in terms of grades, but not very popular at their highschool. When Carol comes to know that two foreign exchange students from France and Italy were redirected to another school, she figures she and Neil could take their places and be in the middle of public interest for one…
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Princess Fragrance
Princess Fragrance is a 1987 Hong Kong film based on Louis Cha’s novel The Book and the Sword. The film is a sequel to The Romance of Book and Sword, which was released earlier in the same month and was also directed by Ann Hui.
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Hotel Colonial
Marco Veniera goes to Bogotá, Colombia to find his brother, Luca who supposedly committed suicide. In his search, he meets fiery and exotic Irene Costa, who leads him into the depths of the Amazon jungle. But it’s every man for himself. And brotherly love turns to hate.
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Little Dorrit
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors’ prison in London. Amy and her family’s world is transformed when her employer’s son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family’s mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives…
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Stripped to Kill
A Los Angeles policewoman’s partner has her pose as a stripper to lure a killer of strippers.
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Monday Morning
Frivolous girl falls in love with a young construction worker. He trusts her and decides to include her in his team of workers. In the beginning, she is happy, but soon starts to feel the tensions between the people in the team. Hypocrisy and demagogy fill her with indignation and she does not keep silent…
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To Kill a Priest
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
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Purple People Eater
A kid plays the old novelty song “Purple People Eater” and the creature actually appears. The two then proceed to help an elderly couple who are being evicted by their greedy landlord.
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Face Like a Frog
A frog is driving his alligator-shaped car when he is stopped by a shapely she-frog who steps into the road. She tells him that her house is haunted, so he goes along to assist.
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Cadillac Dreams
Cadillac Dreams is a 1988 American short film directed by Matia Karrell. In the film, a young drug runner’s dreams of being a great inventor give way to the equally unlikely dream of living to be 20. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
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The Jester and the Queen
The movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation – a medieval Czech jester entertains a German king and his French wife, or a modern Czech villager helps a Bavarian hunter and his French wife find wild boar in Bohemia – the story switches back and forth between the two plots and time-periods.
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Maya and the Starboy
The story about a class of star-boys who travel with their research spaceship to “Outdoor School” to see life on Earth. Since they wear “snurke” – a kind of shiny badges, they are invisible to Earthlings. But the star-boy Gubang’s desire to meet the Earthlings in personal is so strong that he can not resist.…
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Permanent Record
David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he’s smart, musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year in high school, his band is trying to get a recording session. Therefore, David’s suicide leaves everyone, especially his best friend and bandmate, Chris, with a lot of questions.