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King Hu: 1932-1997 2012 star_border 8
Documentary about Chinese film director King Hu.

Japanese Cinema: New Territories 2011
This documentary by Hubert Niogret looks at the revival of Japanese cinema during the 1990s.

Return to Manila: Filipino Cinema 2010
Documentary about the history of Philippine cinema.

Stolen Tangos 2002 star_border 5
In Paris, a young Argentine screenwriter attempts to escape his daily routine through a fictional story set in Argentina. This attracts the attention of those around him, including Alice, a young actress. But his story gradually escapes him and he becomes inextricably entangled in dreams and reality.

Paco the Infallible 1979 star_border 5
In Madrid of the 20's, many women were hired as wet nurses for middle class families. Milk is paid very well, so women are turning to the honest services of Paco, glazier by trade, which completes his monthly salary getting pregnant the clients who pay for it.

Dog's Dialogue 1979 star_border 6.5
A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.

Roberte 1979 star_border 4.2
Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. He submits his wife to a perverse custom: the laws of hospitality or prostitution of the wife by the husband.

Tell Her That I Love Her 1977 star_border 6.6
Industrious accountant David Martinaud claims to be visiting his parents every weekend, but it's merely a cover for the labor-intensive refurbishing of his country cottage. The reason for David's secrecy is that his childhood crush, Lise, lives nearby, and, although she's married, he still believes they'll get together. His devotion to the idea borders on mania, and, when Lise's husband is accidentally killed, he quickly spirals out of control.

The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died 1977 star_border 5.2
A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins relationships with two lonely women.

Surreal Estate 1976 star_border 4.6
An English novelist is lured, with disconcerting and disorienting results, into purchasing a crumbling mansion by what he imagines are the deliberately "literary" ploys of its housekeeper and two mysterious, lurking women.

The Crystal Cradle 1976 star_border 7.7
An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life.

The Best Way to Walk 1976 star_border 6.6
In 1960, Marc and Philippe are counselors at a summer camp in the French countryside. One night, Marc finds Philippe dressed and made up as a woman, and from now on, he will keep on humiliating Philippe.

La Cecilia 1976 star_border 6.7
At the end of the nineteenth century, Italian anarchists, ten men, one woman, libertarian, collectivist emigrate to Brazil to start a leaderless community, without hierarchy, without a boss without police, but not without conflict nor passion.

Thomas 1975
In Troyes, Thomas, the son of a bourgeois family, is in the final stages of his adolescence. He's almost an adult when he discovers that his mother has a lover. At the same time, he realizes that his father is turning a blind eye, and that the estranged couple are only together for show. Thomas rebels, but has to hide his dismay and satisfy his great need for tenderness at the same time.