Palme d’Or winners Movies

Parasite Parasite 8.5 2h 12min
Parasite
IMDb: 8.5
2h 12min

All unemployed, Ki-taek’s family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

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Shoplifters Shoplifters 7.9 2h 1min
Shoplifters
IMDb: 7.9
2h 1min

After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them.

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The Square The Square 7.1 2h 31min
The Square
IMDb: 7.1
2h 31min

A prestigious Stockholm museum’s chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.

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I, Daniel Blake I, Daniel Blake 7.8 1h 40min
I, Daniel Blake
IMDb: 7.8
1h 40min

A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

Dheepan Dheepan 7.2 1h 55min
Dheepan
IMDb: 7.2
1h 55min

Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.

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Winter Sleep Winter Sleep 8.0 3h 16min
Winter Sleep
IMDb: 8
3h 16min

Aydin, a retired actor, owns a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal and his sister Necla, who is coping with her recent divorce. During the winter, snow covers the ground and boredom brings the return of old memories, pushing Aydin to flee…

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Blue Is the Warmest Color Blue Is the Warmest Color 7.7 3h
Blue Is the Warmest Color
IMDb: 7.7
3h

Adèle’s life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

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Love (Amour) Love (Amour) 7.9 2h 7min
Love (Amour)
IMDb: 7.9
2h 7min

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple’s bond of love is severely tested.

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The Tree of Life The Tree of Life 6.8 2h 19min
The Tree of Life
IMDb: 6.8
2h 19min

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 6.7 1h 54min
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
IMDb: 6.7
1h 54min

Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.

The White Ribbon The White Ribbon 7.8 2h 24min
The White Ribbon
IMDb: 7.8
2h 24min

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.

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The Class The Class 7.5 2h 8min
The Class
IMDb: 7.5
2h 8min

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 7.9 1h 53min
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
IMDb: 7.9
1h 53min

Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.

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The Wind That Shakes the Barley The Wind That Shakes the Barley 7.5 2h 7min
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
IMDb: 7.5
2h 7min

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O’Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend’s farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.

The Child The Child 7.4 1h 35min
The Child
IMDb: 7.4
1h 35min

Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.

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Fahrenheit 9/11 Fahrenheit 9/11 7.5 2h 3min
Fahrenheit 9/11
IMDb: 7.5
2h 3min

Michael Moore’s view on what happened to the United States after September 11; and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Elephant Elephant 7.1 1h 21min
Elephant
IMDb: 7.1
1h 21min

Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent. The film chronicles the events surrounding a school shooting.

The Pianist The Pianist 8.5 2h 30min
The Pianist
IMDb: 8.5
2h 30min

The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman’s experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

The Son’s Room The Son’s Room 7.3 1h 39min
The Son’s Room
IMDb: 7.3
1h 39min

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

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Dancer in the Dark Dancer in the Dark 7.9 2h 20min
Dancer in the Dark
IMDb: 7.9
2h 20min

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life’s troubles – even if just for a moment – by dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.

Rosetta Rosetta 7.4 1h 35min
Rosetta
IMDb: 7.4
1h 35min

Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.

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Eternity and a Day Eternity and a Day 7.9 2h 17min
Eternity and a Day
IMDb: 7.9
2h 17min

Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home.

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Taste of Cherry Taste of Cherry 7.7 1h 35min
Taste of Cherry
IMDb: 7.7
1h 35min

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

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The Eel The Eel 7.3 1h 57min
The Eel
IMDb: 7.3
1h 57min

White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he’s away, suddenly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he returns to live in a small village, opens a barber shop (he was trained as a barber in prison) and talks almost to no-one except for the eel he “befriended” in prison. One day he finds the unconscious body of Keiko, who attempted suicide and reminds him of his wife. She starts to work at his shop, but he doesn’t let her become close to him.

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Secrets & Lies Secrets & Lies 8.0 2h 22min
Secrets & Lies
IMDb: 8
2h 22min

A middle-aged London factory worker is shocked when the mixed-race daughter she gave up at birth decides to track her down. At first she denies she is her mother. All family members become emotional, as everyone’s secrets are exposed.

Underground Underground 8.1 2h 50min
Underground
IMDb: 8.1
2h 50min

Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko’s surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslavian Civil War of the 1990s as Marko realizes that the situation is ripe for exploitation.

Pulp Fiction Pulp Fiction 8.9 2h 34min
Pulp Fiction
IMDb: 8.9
2h 34min

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster’s moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

Farewell My Concubine Farewell My Concubine 8.1 2h 51min
Farewell My Concubine
IMDb: 8.1
2h 51min

Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop an act entitled “Farewell My Concubine” that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou marries Juxian, Doutzi becomes jealous, the beginnings of the acting duo’s explosive breakup and tragic fall take root.

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The Piano The Piano 7.5 1h 57min
The Piano
IMDb: 7.5
1h 57min

After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man named Alisdair Stewart. Making little attempt to warm up to Alisdair, Ada soon becomes intrigued by his Maori-friendly acquaintance, George Baines, leading to tense, life-altering conflicts.

The Best Intentions The Best Intentions 7.7 3h 2min
The Best Intentions
IMDb: 7.7
3h 2min

The story of Ingmar Bergman’s parents. In 1909, poor theology student Henrik Bergman falls in love with Anna Åkerbloom, the daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After their wedding Henrik becomes a priest in the north of Sweden. After a few years Anna can’t stand living in the rural county with the uncouth people. She returns to Uppsala, Henrik stays in the north.

Barton Fink Barton Fink 7.6 1h 56min
Barton Fink
IMDb: 7.6
1h 56min

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Wild At Heart Wild At Heart 7.2 2h 5min
Wild At Heart
IMDb: 7.2
2h 5min

Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula’s mom has hired to kill Sailor.

Sex, Lies, and Videotape Sex, Lies, and Videotape 7.2 1h 40min
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
IMDb: 7.2
1h 40min

A sexually repressed woman’s husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.

Pelle the Conqueror Pelle the Conqueror 7.8 2h 37min
Pelle the Conqueror
IMDb: 7.8
2h 37min

The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest form of life. Pelle starts to speak Danish but is still harassed as a foreigner. But none of them wants to give up their dream of finding a better life than the life they left in Sweden.

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Under the Sun of Satan Under the Sun of Satan 6.7 1h 38min
Under the Sun of Satan
IMDb: 6.7
1h 38min

Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.

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The Mission The Mission 7.4 2h 5min
The Mission
IMDb: 7.4
2h 5min

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portugese aggressors.

When Father Was Away on Business When Father Was Away on Business 7.7 2h 16min
When Father Was Away on Business
IMDb: 7.7
2h 16min

Tito’s break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested unfortunates. His family is now forced to cope with the situation and wait for his release from prison.

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Paris, Texas Paris, Texas 8.1 2h 25min
Paris, Texas
IMDb: 8.1
2h 25min

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

The Ballad of Narayama The Ballad of Narayama 7.8 2h 10min
The Ballad of Narayama
IMDb: 7.8
2h 10min

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse he/she would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.

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The Road The Road 8.0 1h 47min
The Road
IMDb: 8
1h 47min

When five Kurdish prisoners are granted one week’s home leave, they find to their dismay that they face continued oppression outside of prison from their families, the culture, and the government.

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Missing Missing 7.7 2h 2min
Missing
IMDb: 7.7
2h 2min

Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to a South American country to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a right-wing military takeover. Accompanied by his son’s wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the right-wing dictatorship.

Man of Iron Man of Iron 7.3 2h 36min
Man of Iron
IMDb: 7.3
2h 36min

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.

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Kagemusha Kagemusha 7.9 2h 42min
Kagemusha
IMDb: 7.9
2h 42min

Akira Kurosawa’s lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.

All That Jazz All That Jazz 7.8 2h 3min
All That Jazz
IMDb: 7.8
2h 3min

Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him – his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.

Apocalypse Now Apocalypse Now 8.4 2h 27min
Apocalypse Now
IMDb: 8.4
2h 27min

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, ”does not exist, nor will it ever exist.” His goal is to locate – and eliminate – a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

The Tin Drum (Die Blechtromme) The Tin Drum (Die Blechtromme) 7.5 2h 22min
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtromme)
IMDb: 7.5
2h 22min

Oskar is born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday.

The Tree of Wooden Clogs The Tree of Wooden Clogs 7.8 3h 6min
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
IMDb: 7.8
3h 6min

The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. The boy has to wake up very early and walk several miles to get to the school. One day the boy’s shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy other. What can they do?

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Padre Padrone Padre Padrone 7.3 1h 54min
Padre Padrone
IMDb: 7.3
1h 54min

The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father.

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Taxi Driver Taxi Driver 8.2 1h 54min
Taxi Driver
IMDb: 8.2
1h 54min

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.

Chronicle of the Years of Fire Chronicle of the Years of Fire 7.4 2h 57min
Chronicle of the Years of Fire
IMDb: 7.4
2h 57min

The beginings of the Algerian Revolution as seen through the eyes of a peasant.

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The Conversation The Conversation 7.7 1h 53min
The Conversation
IMDb: 7.7
1h 53min

Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired by a mysterious client’s brusque aide to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco’s Union Square, Caul and his associate Stan manage to record a cryptic conversation between them. Tormented by memories of a previous case that ended badly, Caul becomes obsessed with the resulting tape, trying to determine if the couple are in danger.

The Hireling The Hireling 6.6 1h 35min
The Hireling
IMDb: 6.6
1h 35min

Based on the novel by L. P. Hartley, The Hireling is a dissection of antiquated but hardly dormant British class distinctions as a lonely socialite and her chauffeur become more than friends.

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Scarecrow Scarecrow 7.2 1h 52min
Scarecrow
IMDb: 7.2
1h 52min

Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.

The Mattei Affair The Mattei Affair 7.6 1h 56min
The Mattei Affair
IMDb: 7.6
1h 56min

Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed, one minute before it should land at Milan airport. Officially, he died of a flight accident. Actually, many journalists explored other plausible reasons for the untimely landing of the small aircraft.

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The Go-Between The Go-Between 7.2 1h 56min
The Go-Between
IMDb: 7.2
1h 56min

British teenager Leo Colston (Dominic Guard) spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian (Julie Christie). Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the “go-between” for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess (Alan Bates), a handsome neighboring farmer.

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The Working Class Goes to Heaven The Working Class Goes to Heaven 7.6 2h 5min
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
IMDb: 7.6
2h 5min

A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.

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MASH MASH 7.4 1h 56min
MASH
IMDb: 7.4
1h 56min

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

if…. if…. 7.4 1h 51min
if….
IMDb: 7.4
1h 51min

Satire about a traditional English boys’ boarding school, where social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. But three Lower Sixth students, leader Mick Travis, Wallace and Johnny decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.

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Blowup Blowup 7.5 1h 51min
Blowup
IMDb: 7.5
1h 51min

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he accidentally captures on film the commission of a murder. The fact that he has photographed a murder does not occur to him until he studies and then blows up his negatives, uncovering details, blowing up smaller and smaller elements, and finally putting the puzzle together.

A Man and a Woman A Man and a Woman 7.5 1h 42min
A Man and a Woman
IMDb: 7.5
1h 42min

A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens’ boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that each is a widow.

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The Birds, the Bees and the Italians The Birds, the Bees and the Italians 7.6 1h 55min
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
IMDb: 7.6
1h 55min

An anthology film that presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso. In the first story, a husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair. In the second, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town’s husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them. In the third, men of the town all seduce a promiscuous teenager, but her father eventually reveals that she is underage, and they face prosecution for statutory rape.

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The Knack… and How to Get It The Knack… and How to Get It 6.3 1h 24min
The Knack… and How to Get It
IMDb: 6.3
1h 24min

In England, the times are a changing: it’s mods and rockers. On the day Nancy gets off the London train, cases in hand, looking for the YWCA, Colin has had enough of missing out on the sexual revolution. He begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal Tolen to teach him ’the knack’ – how to score with women. Serendipitously, Colin and his new lodger Tom meet up with Nancy while Colin’s buying a bed larger than Tolen’s. The three hit it off, but their simple fun ends when Tolen meets Nancy. Colin is jealous but impotent, and Tolen both attracts and…

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 7.8 1h 31min
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
IMDb: 7.8
1h 31min

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother’s chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy’s return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

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The Leopard The Leopard 7.9 3h 6min
The Leopard
IMDb: 7.9
3h 6min

As Garibaldi’s troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family’s accustomed level of comfort and political clout.

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The Given Word The Given Word 8.3 1h 38min
The Given Word
IMDb: 8.3
1h 38min

Zé is a very poor man whose most prized possession is his donkey. When his donkey falls terminally ill, Zé makes a promise to Saint Bárbara: If his donkey recovers, he will carry a cross – like Jesus – all the way from his city to Saint Bárbara’s church, in the state capital. Upon the recover of his donkey, Zé leaves on his journey. He makes it to the church, but the priest refuses to accept the cross once he discovers the context of Zé’s promise.

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Viridiana Viridiana 8.1 1h 31min
Viridiana
IMDb: 8.1
1h 31min

Viridinia is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit to her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridinia resembles his dead wife. Virdinia has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridinia becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

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The Long Absence The Long Absence 6.9 1h 34min
The Long Absence
IMDb: 6.9
1h 34min

Therese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband. But he is suffering from amnesia and she tries to bring back his memory of earlier times.

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La Dolce Vita La Dolce Vita 8.0 2h 54min
La Dolce Vita
IMDb: 8
2h 54min

Episodic journey of an Italian journalist scouring Rome in search of love.

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Black Orpheus Black Orpheus 7.4 1h 40min
Black Orpheus
IMDb: 7.4
1h 40min

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu’s vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

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The Cranes Are Flying The Cranes Are Flying 8.3 1h 35min
The Cranes Are Flying
IMDb: 8.3
1h 35min

Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris’ family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.

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Friendly Persuasion Friendly Persuasion 7.3 2h 17min
Friendly Persuasion
IMDb: 7.3
2h 17min

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It’s not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?

The Silent World The Silent World 7.0 1h 26min
The Silent World
IMDb: 7
1h 26min

The Silent World (French: Le Monde du silence) is a 1956 French documentary film co-directed by the famed French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and a young Louis Malle. The Silent World is noted as one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color. Its title derives from Cousteau’s 1953 book The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure. The film was shot aboard the ship Calypso. Cousteau and his team of divers shot 25 kilometers of film over two years in the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the…

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Marty Marty 7.7 1h 30min
Marty
IMDb: 7.7
1h 30min

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. Marty meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher, realising their emotional connection, he promises to call but family and friends try to convince him not to.

Gate of Hell Gate of Hell 7.1 1h 29min
Gate of Hell
IMDb: 7.1
1h 29min

A samurai performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. The warrior falls in love with her, but becomes distraught when he finds out that she is already married.

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The Wages of Fear The Wages of Fear 8.2 2h 11min
The Wages of Fear
IMDb: 8.2
2h 11min

In the South American jungle, supplies of nitroglycerine are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers on the rough remote roads where the slightest jolt can result in death.

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Two Cents Worth of Hope Two Cents Worth of Hope 7.0 1h 50min
Two Cents Worth of Hope
IMDb: 7
1h 50min

The film is the third in director Castellani’s “young love” trilogy (the first two being Sotto il sole di Roma (1948) and È primavera…(1950)). The story concerns the romance between Carmela (Fiore) and Antonio (Musolino). The ardor is one-sided at first, but Carmela is a determined young woman, willing to scale and conquer any obstacle in pursuing her heart’s desire. Once he’s “hooked,” Antonio scurries from job to job to prove his financial viability. Faced with the hostility of their parents, Carmela and Antonio symbolically shed themselves of all responsibilities to others in a climactic act of stark-naked bravado.

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Othello Othello 7.5 1h 30min
Othello
IMDb: 7.5
1h 30min

When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes it hard. He allies himself with Iago, who has his own grudge against Othello, and the two conspire to bring Othello down. When their first plan, to have him accused of witchcraft, fails, they plant evidence intended to make him believe Desdemona is unfaithful.

Miss Julie Miss Julie 7.2 1h 30min
Miss Julie
IMDb: 7.2
1h 30min

Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman’s daughter, falls for Jean, her father’s bitter servant.

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Miracle in Milan Miracle in Milan 7.6 1h 37min
Miracle in Milan
IMDb: 7.6
1h 37min

Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Toto leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. The squatters discover oil in the land and Toto sees a vision of the old woman who gives him a magic dove that will grant him anything he wishes.

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The Third Man The Third Man 8.1 1h 33min
The Third Man
IMDb: 8.1
1h 33min

Set in postwar Vienna, Austria, ”The Third Man” stars Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, who arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to find him dead. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a ”third man” present at the time of Harry’s death, running into interference from British officer Maj. Calloway and falling head-over-heels for Harry’s grief-stricken lover, Anna.

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Iris and the Lieutenant Iris and the Lieutenant 6.9 1h 26min
Iris and the Lieutenant
IMDb: 6.9
1h 26min

The officer Robert Motander is invited to a dinner with his upper-class relatives. During the dinner he observes the beautiful young house-maid, Iris. He suggests that the two of them go out to see a movie. This is the beginning of love story that Robert’s relatives will do anything to stop. A working-class mistress will do but a working-class fiancée? Never!

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Pastoral Symphony Pastoral Symphony 6.9 1h 50min
Pastoral Symphony
IMDb: 6.9
1h 50min

A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.

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Men without Wings Men without Wings 6.4 1h 19min
Men without Wings
IMDb: 6.4
1h 19min

After an attack against the guard of the Third Reich, Nazi repression intensifies, and the Czechoslovakian resistance’s organized sabotage in an aircraft factory leads to Gestapo shootings.

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The Lost Weekend The Lost Weekend 7.9 1h 41min
The Lost Weekend
IMDb: 7.9
1h 41min

Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst… but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.

Red Meadows Red Meadows 6.7 1h 25min
Red Meadows
IMDb: 6.7
1h 25min

A suspense tale revolving around the memories of a Danish saboteur as he awaits his execution in a German war-time prison.

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Brief Encounter Brief Encounter 8.0 1h 26min
Brief Encounter
IMDb: 8
1h 26min

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.

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The Last Chance The Last Chance 6.5 1h 44min
The Last Chance
IMDb: 6.5
1h 44min

Escaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border and find themselves leading a multi-national party of refugees for the Italian underground.

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Rome, Open City Rome, Open City 8.0 1h 43min
Rome, Open City
IMDb: 8
1h 43min

ROME, OPEN CITY is a landmark in film history. Filmed in secrecy during the Nazi occupation of Italy, the film shows a realistic portrayal of the underground resistance in Italy in 1945. The film has strong impacting imagery with its mix of fiction and reality that strengthened Italian Neo-realism and the film industry.

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The Turning Point The Turning Point 6.0 1h 48min
The Turning Point
IMDb: 6
1h 48min

A Soviet 1945 film directed by Fridrikh Ermler based on a screenplay by Boris Chirskov. The film was one of the Cannes top prize winners of 1946.

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Portrait of Maria Portrait of Maria 7.3 1h 16min
Portrait of Maria
IMDb: 7.3
1h 16min

A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria (Dolores del Río), a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael (Pedro Armendáriz), who has fallen in love with her.

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Union Pacific Union Pacific 7.1 2h 15min
Union Pacific
IMDb: 7.1
2h 15min

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows’ agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau’s partner Dick Allen is Jeff’s war buddy and rival suitor for engineer’s daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?