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Parasite (South Korea, 2019)
Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Parks' home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.
Director: Joon-Ho Bong
Starring: Kang-Ho Song, Lee Sun-Kyun, Jo Yeo-Jeong, Woo-sik Choi, So-dam Park
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Roma (Mexico, 2018)
With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuaron recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo, the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals.
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Starring: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina De Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta
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Shoplifters (Japan, 2018)
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft, and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Mayu Matsuoka, Kiki Kilin, Jyo Kairi
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Birds of Passage (Colombia, 2018)
The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture and ancestral traditions at stake.
Director: Cristina Gallego
Starring: Natalia Reyes, Carmina Martinez, Jose Acosta, Jhon Narvaez, Greider Meza
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Aquarius (Brazil, 2016)
Clara, a vibrant former music critic, avid swimmer, grandmother, cancer survivor, willing lover and widow with flowing tresses, is the only remaining apartment owner in a gracious older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. As the builder’s tactics to remove Clara become increasingly hostile, Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with.
Director: Kleber Mendonca Filho
Starring: Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos
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Train to Busan (South Korea, 2016)
While a zombie-virus breaks out in South Korea, a couple of passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
Director: Sang-Ho Yeon Starring: Yoo Gong, Soo-An Kim, Yu-Mi Jeong
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Io Sono l'Amore (Italy, 2010)
The wealthy Recchi family has undergone sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr. has named a successor to the reins of his company, and surprised everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi and grandson Edo. But Edo had always dreamed of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio. To make matters worse, the very foundation of the entire family may be totally shattered after Tancredi's wife Emma falls deeply in love with Antonio and begins a passionate love affair. Includes a commentary.
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Marisa Berenson, Edoardo Gabbriellini
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Let the Right One In (Sweden, 2008)
A young boy who is constantly being bullied at school makes friends with the new girl in the neighborhood. When strange disappearances and murders start happening in the town, all signs point to the new girl and her father, who only come out at night.
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Starring: Lina Leandersson, Kare Hedebrant
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Tsotsi (South Africa, 20006)
A young man running with a criminal gang on the streets of Johannesburg, Tsotsi - a nickname meaning thug - is immersed in a world of violence that seems to leave him unaffected, until he discovers an infant in the backseat of a car he has stolen.
Director: Gavin Hood
Starring: Presley Chweneyagae, Mothusi Magano, Israel Matseke-Zulu
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Pan's Labyrinth (Spain, 2006)
A dark fable set five years after the end of the Spanish Civil War. Eleven-year-old Ofelia comes face to face with the horrors of fascism when she and her pregnant mother are uprooted to the countryside, where her new stepfather, a sadistic captain in General Franco's army, hunts down Republican guerrillas who refuse to give up the fight. The violent reality in which she lives merges seamlessly with a fantastical interior world when Ofelia meets a faun in a decaying labyrinth.
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdu, Doug Jones, Alex Angulo, Cesar Vea
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City of God (Brazil, 2003)
After watching The Tender Trio during the 1960’s rob motels and gas stations, Li’l Ze learns the tricks of the trade and owns the city in the 1970’s. He rules through violence and fear wiping out any rival gang in his path. The only good in his life is his best friend who helps him keep his sanity.
Director: Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund
Starring: Phellipe Haagensen, Leandro Firmino, Alexandre Rodrigues
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Devdas (India, 2002)
The tragic story of Devdas, a wealthy young man, who is loved by two women--a courtesan and his childhood sweetheart whom his family will not accept because of differing social classes.
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Madhuri Dixit
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Y Tu Mamá También (Mexico, 2001)
A pair of Mexico City teenagers from different classes who, after their girlfriend's jet off to Italy for the summer, are bewitched by a gorgeous older Spanish woman they meet at a wedding. When she agrees to accompany them on a trip to a faraway beach, the three forms an increasingly intense and sensual alliance that ultimately strips them both physically and emotionally bare.
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Starring: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ana Lopez Mercado, Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal
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Battle Royale (Japan, 2000)
In the near future, the ecomony has collapsed, unemployment has soared and juvenille crime has exploded. Fearful of their nation's youth, the Japanese government passes the BR Law: Each year, a 9th grade class is sent to a remote island where they will be locked into exploding neck collars, given a random weapon, and forced to hunt and kill each other until there is only one survivor left.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Starring: Chiaki Kuriyama
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All About My Mother (Spain, 1999)
Grief-stricken Manuela returns to Barcelona after the death of her son to search for the boy's father, and in the process becomes caregiver to an extended family of colorful characters.
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth, Antonia San Juan
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Run Lola Run (Germany, 1998)
The story of two young lovers who find themselves with very little time when a shady deal goes awry. Manni, who works for the mob, has 20 minutes to find 100,000 missing Deutsche marks. Lola is the only one who can rescue him from his fate.
Director: Tom Tykwer
Starring : Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Joachim Król, Armin Rohde, Heino Ferch, Suzanne von Borsody, Sebastian Schipper
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8 1/2 (Italy, 1963)
A semi-autobiographical film of Fellini about a film director (Mastroianni) who finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. He fantasizes at a resort to get away from the pressures of wife and staff.
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni
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Wild Strawberries (Sweden, 1957)
Traveling to receive an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borgis, is forced to face his past, and come to term with his faults and accept the inevitability of his approaching death. His story is told through flashbacks and fantasies, dreams and nightmares, in a startling voyage of self-discovery and renewed belief in mankind.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Victor Sjostrom, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand
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Bicycle Thieves (Italy, 1949)
In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari
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The Rules of the Game (France, 1939)
A scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners, in which a weekend at a marquis's countryside chateau lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haute bourgeois acquaintances. The film was a victim of tumultuous history: it was subjected to cuts after premiere audiences rejected it in 1939, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II. It wasn't reconstructed until 1959. That version, which has stunned viewers for decades, is presented here.
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Roland Toutain, Nora Gregor, Marcel Dalio, Mila Parely
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