Genre: Art House Movies
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Young & Wild (2012)
Cast: Alicia Rodriguez, Aline Kuppenheim, María Gracia Omegna …
Directed by: Marialy Rivas
Though her devout family believes her to be pious and dutiful, 17-year-old Daniela secretly runs a sex confession site for teens with desires like hers. In spite of priests and parents…
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Arirang (2011)
Cast: Ki-duk Kim
Directed by: Ki-duk Kim
Named for a Korean folk song, writer-director Ki-duk's Kim's film is in part a documentary look at his career as a moviemaker, and also a deeply personal statement of his beliefs…
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Outside Satan (2011)
Cast: David Dewaele, Alexandra Lematre, Aurore Broutin …
Directed by: Bruno Dumont
In this allegorical drama, a homeless man who may be more than he seems relentlessly wanders the open countryside -- often accompanied by a teenage girl who feeds him -- and indulges in an…
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Faust (2011)
Cast: Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk …
Directed by: Aleksandr Sokurov
The legendary German tale is transplanted to the 19th century, where the title character -- a thinker and iconoclast -- makes a deal with the devil and trades away his soul for limitless…
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Avalon (2011)
Cast: Johannes Brost, Peter Carlberg, Carl Johan De Geer …
Directed by: Axel Petersén
Sixty-year-old party organizer Janne still lives in the '80s and joins forces with old partner Klas to open an elite nightclub named Avalon, after the Roxie Music hit. But when a tragedy…
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Abendland (2011)
Directed by: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter's penetrating documentary takes a nocturnal look at the contemporary Western world -- explicitly its wealth and exclusivity -- illuminating patterns of…
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Film Socialisme (2010)
Cast: Catherine Tanvier, Christian Sinniger, Jean-Marc Stehlé …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Listen in on the musings of a war criminal, an American singer and other compelling characters as they travel aboard a Mediterranean cruise ship. Jean-Luc Godard introduces technical errors…
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The Legend is Born: Ip Man (2010)
Cast: Yu-Hang To, Siu-Wong Fan, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo …
Directed by: Herman Yau
This martial arts biopic follows the early years of Ip Man -- the master who would one day become Bruce Lee's mentor -- as he perfects his Wing Chun style of combat against a small army…
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Cast: Thanapat Saisaymar, Jenjira Pongpas, Sakda Kaewbuadee …
Directed by: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Under the care of his dedicated sister-in-law, terminally ill Uncle Boonmee spends his final days reminiscing about his past lives with the recently arrived ghost of his dead wife and his…
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My Joy (2010)
Cast: Viktor Nemets, Vladimir Golovin, Aleksey Vertkov …
Directed by: Sergei Loznitsa
When a wrong turn takes truck driver Georgy (Viktor Nemets) into unfamiliar Russian countryside, he's drawn into the mix of strange locals, including corrupt cops, a war veteran, a…
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The Final Girl (2010)
Cast: Wendy Delorme, Véronique Lindenberg, Judy Minx …
Directed by: Todd Verow
Director Todd Verow's moody psychological drama follows the tangled lives of three Parisian women inextricably drawn toward one another as they try to learn the fate of an enigmatic…
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The World According to Shorts Presents: L'Origine de la Tendresse and Other Tales (2010)
Cast: Isabelle Nanty, Elsa Lévy, Eugene Berthier …
Directed by: Alain-Paul Mallard, Jeanne Paturle, Cécile Rousset …
This program includes Alain-Paul Mallard's title short film as well as five others from notable French filmmakers who seek expression through fiction, animation and documentary, among…
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Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2010)
Cast: Anselm Kiefer
Directed by: Sophie Fiennes
Modern artist Anselm Kiefer and his monumental landscape creation at Barjac, France -- a vast complex including lakes, bridges, caves and galleries displaying Kiefer's other work -- are…
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Follow Me (2010)
Cast: Karl Fischer, Oskar Freitag, Daniela Holtz …
Directed by: Johannes Hammel
One family lays bare its unique brand of misery in this artfully jarring film that uses a fragmented narrative, black-and-white images juxtaposed with Super 8 home movies, and two actresses…
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Andante (2010)
Cast: Sarah Adler, Uri Avrahami, Edna Balelius …
Directed by: Assaf Tager
Set in an otherworldly future, this postapocalyptic tale rests on an unsettling concept: that society has become so sleepless, it must buy its dreams from a shadowy man who runs a profitable…
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The Servant (2010)
Cast: Seung-beom Ryu, Kim Joo-hyuck, Dal-su Oh …
Directed by: Dae-woo Kim, Kim Dae-woo
A servant falls in love with a girl whom his master also desires. Although the girl loves the servant, she also longs to improve her station in life. The two make a secret deal so the girl…
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Dogtooth (2009)
Cast: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia …
Directed by: Giorgos Lanthimos
Homeschooled siblings who grow up cut off from society create an idyllic alternate universe, which is shattered when their father lets in an outsider -- a female security officer brought home…
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Carmel (2009)
Cast: Amitai Ashkenazi, Ben Eidel, Samuel Fuller …
Directed by: Amos Gitai
Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai -- a war veteran whose son fights in the conflict that has seized the region -- interweaves a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Middle East's bloody and complex…
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The Sound of Insects (2009)
Cast: Peter Mettler, Alexander Tschernek
Directed by: Peter Liechti
Based on an incredible true story and Shimada Masahiko's subsequent novella Until I Am a Mummy, this fusion of peaceful imagery, evocative sounds and macabre journal entries reconstructs…
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The Misfortunates (2009)
Cast: Kenneth Vanbaeden, Valentijn Dhaenens, Koen De Graeve …
Directed by: Felix Van Groeningen
A teen boy lives with his father and three uncles at his grandmother's house. Every day he is faced with their drinking, fighting and laziness. He must find a way to escape this…
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Eden Is West (2009)
Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Juliane Köhler, Juliane Kohler …
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
Riccardo Scamarcio stars as Elias, a migrant worker trying to get from Greece to the city of dreams: Paris. But his journey turns out to be an obstacle course in this epic drama from…
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Love Exposure (2008)
Cast: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Ando …
Directed by: Sion Sono, Shion Sono
Desperate to please his sin-obsessed Catholic priest father, young Yu (Takahiro Nishijima) takes to sinning big time, becoming a master of up-skirt photography and perfecting the ninja moves…
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Il Divo (2008)
Cast: Anna Bonaiuto, Flavio Bucci, Giorgio Colangeli …
Directed by: Paolo Sorrentino
Paolo Sorrentino directs this superbly entertaining docudrama about the colorful life and political career of Italy's Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti and his party's decades-long…
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Ashes of Time Redux (2008)
Cast: Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung …
Directed by: Kar Wai Wong
In ancient China, swordsman Ouyang Feng (Leslie Cheung) retreats to the desert to recover from the sting of an affair gone wrong. With a hardened heart, he subcontracts out killings to bounty…
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The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
Cast: Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier …
Directed by: Agnès Varda
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical…