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Grassland (2022)
The truth carries a heavy burden, whether it is said that it sets off a storm, or it remains in the heart that disturbs man Between telling the truth and revealing a secret or being silent and expedient, one is preferable to the
Kanal (1957)
In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaws sewer system to escape the German encirclement
Neverlost (2010)
A sleeping pill thrusts Josh from his current banal existence to one that he had lost years earlier As the walls of his own psychosis slowly start to close in around him, Josh must race to save the love he once had
Scyla (1967)
Beach bum Gregory spots the lovely Scyla sunbathing on the beach and immediately becomes infatuated with her However, Gregorys possessive witch old flame Circe gets jealous when she finds out about his obsession with Scyla and c
Kung Fu Zohra (2022)
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Mighty Uke (2010)
Mighty Uke travels the world to discover why so many people of different nations, cultures, ages and musical tastes are turning to the ukulele to express themselves, connect with the past, and with each other
The California Reich (1975)
A documentary about the Nazi party in America
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies
Immacolata and Concetta: The Other Jealousy (1980)
A love story between two women in the Naples outskirts, a universe so far away from the glare of modernity, turbid, rural, completely naked in its ugliness and sorrow, where people are talking
Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)
Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life
Pushing Dead (2016)
When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a 100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much In this new era of sort of universal care, can he take on a helpless burea
About him her (2023)
Crossed phone lines in 1989 lead to a life changing conversation between two strangers, who eventually meet in an unusual way
In Old California (1942)
During the California Gold Rush, Boston pharmacist Tom Craig sets up shop in Sacramento where he clashes with local town crook Britt Dawson