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Pestonjee
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Pestonjee

1988
Extrovert Pesi (A. Kher) and shy Piroj (Shah) are both in love with Jeroo (Azmi). Pesi marries her and also draws close to the widowed lawyer Soona (K. Kher). Piroj is transferred away from Bombay and returns later to find that Jeroo had a miscarriage and that Pesi now prefers Soona's company. When Pesi dies, Soona, who has borne him a son, pays for his funeral. Based on a short story by Karanjia written in the early 1950s.

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  • Vijaya Mehta
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    Doña Bárbara
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    Doña Bárbara

    1998
    When young lawyer Santos Luzardo (Jorge Perugorría) returns home to the family ranch, he plans to sell off the property and put his troubled past behind him once and for all, but winds up falling under the spell of femme fatale Doña Bárbara (Esther Goris). As it turns out, making a clean break is going to be more difficult than he expected. Betty Kaplan directs this 1998 adaptation of Rómulo Gallegos's classic novel.

    Directed by:

  • Betty Kaplan
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    Winter Evening in Gagry
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    Winter Evening in Gagry

    1985
    Once a renowned tap dancer, Alexei Ivanovich Beglov (Yevgeni Yevstigneyev) now coaches a variety dance group. But when his students see footage of their instructor in his prime on Russian TV, it's as if they're seeing him for the first time. Now, they're eager to learn Beglov's lost art -- and Beglov is eager to pass on his secrets. Together, they resurrect a work from his 1950s repertoire to include in their new program.

    Directed by:

  • Karen Shakhnazarov
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    From the East
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    From the East

    1993
    Director Chantal Akerman offers this meditative film that captures the sights and sounds of a trek through East Germany, Poland, the Baltic states and Russia, filmed in the days just after the Berlin Wall came down. Eschewing narration in favor of minimalist images from everyday life, this graceful visual poem reveals the striking beauty of Eastern European lands as they began to emerge from decades behind the Iron Curtain.

    Directed by:

  • Chantal Akerman
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    Kissed by Winter
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    Kissed by Winter

    2005
    Consumed with grief in the wake of her young son's tragic death, a Norwegian doctor (Annika Hallin) breaks all ties with her husband and begins a new life, retreating to the relative void of a remote country town. Once there, she finds herself embroiled in an investigation surrounding the death of a Muslim immigrant by getting dangerously close to the man (Kristoffer Joner) everyone suspects of committing the crime.

    Directed by:

  • Sara Johnsen
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    La Ciénaga
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    La Ciénaga

    2001
    Written and directed by Lucrecia Martel, this allegorical slice-of-life follows two families thrown together at a tumbledown vacation home near the end of a sweltering summer in a northwest Argentine province. While middle-aged Mecha (Graciela Borges) and her disaffected husband (Martín Adjemián) lounge around the grungy swimming pool in an alcoholic haze, her visiting cousin Tali (Mercedes Morán) tends her brood with little help from her spouse.

    Directed by:

  • Lucrecia Martel
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    Mommy Is Coming
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    Mommy Is Coming

    2012
    With things growing a bit stale in the bedroom, lesbian couple Claudia and Dylan agree to seek sexual experiences outside their relationship. Dylan discovers new pleasures at a sex club, while Claudia, in drag as Claude, finds a surprising partner.

    Directed by:

  • Cheryl Dunye
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    Lourdes
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    Lourdes

    2009
    Confined to a wheelchair for most of her life, lonely Christine (Sylvie Testud) devises a plan to change her circumstances by journeying to Lourdes, the small town in the foothills of the Pyrenees, where many flock to be healed. The journey yields startling results for our isolated hero in director Jessica Hausner's Austrian drama, an official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival.

    Directed by:

  • Jessica Hausner
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    The Ring Finger
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    The Ring Finger

    2005
    After losing part of her finger in an industrial accident, gorgeous Iris (Olga Kurylenko) takes a job as an assistant to a man (Marc Barbé) running a lab where people bring keepsakes to be preserved -- and enters his strange, slightly disturbing reality. As she becomes ensconced in an odd, sensuous world of fetishes, ghosts and hauntingly silent unclaimed mementos, Iris falls into a steamy, bizarre affair with her boss in this erotic drama.

    Directed by:

  • Diane Bertrand
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    Shake It All About
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    Shake It All About

    2001
    Jacob and Jorgen are a longstanding gay couple. After Jacob finally proposes to an overjoyed Jorgen, something entirely unexpected happens in this offbeat comedy: At a party, Jorgen kisses a woman ... and that woman is Jacob's sister-in-law.

    Directed by:

  • Hella Joof
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    Like a Dream
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    Like a Dream

    2009
    The death of a pet cat sends Chinese immigrant Max (Daniel Wu) into a recurring nightmare, where he's haunted by the face of a grieving woman (Yolanda Yuan). But when Max meets the woman in real life, she's nothing like her dreamy doppelgänger. Is it purely coincidental, or is there a real connection brewing between them? Clara Law directs this haunting tale of modern-day severance and relocation set in New York, Shanghai and Taipei.

    Directed by:

  • Clara Law
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    The Nymph
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    The Nymph

    1996
    This early film from controversial Italian director Lina Wertmüller -- the first woman to receive an Academy Award nomination for directing -- probes the narrow-mindedness that bubbles to the surface of a small town when a young virgin (Lucia Cara) is violently raped. Using a novel by Demenico Rea as inspiration for the tragic plot, Wertmüller skewers provincial prejudice and cries injustice at innocence lost.

    Directed by:

  • Lina Wertmuller
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    The Rider Named Death
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    The Rider Named Death

    2005
    Based on the 1909 novel &NFi;The Pale Horse&NFi_; by Boris Savinkov, this Russian drama from director Karen Shakhnazarov follows the members of a social revolutionary group who believe they're carrying out political justice by assassinating a series of high-ranking government officials. With the grand duke next on their hit list, Georges, Erna, Vanya, Heinrich and Fyodor must grapple with their own motivations for taking part in organized murder.

    Directed by:

  • Karen Shakhnazarov
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    Cindy Does Not Love Me
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    Cindy Does Not Love Me

    2010
    Franz, a carefree bartender with no grand ambitions, falls in love with the purposeful Maria and begins to question his life choices. When Maria suddenly disappears, Franz discovers that she was also involved with David, his polar opposite. Determined to find their lost love, Franz and David team up for a journey that takes them to a psychiatric facility that treated Maria. Now friends, the men continue on to Denmark, where more obstacle await.

    Directed by:

  • Hannah Schweier
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    Two Legged Horse
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    Two Legged Horse

    2008
    After a fierce competition, Mirvais wins the job of carrying a wealthy family's disabled son to and from school on his back every day, like a horse, in this touching drama from acclaimed Persian filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf. The two boys soon develop a unique bond, but the wealthy child is disappointed when he realizes that his secret wish will go unfulfilled: for Mirvais to be transformed into a real horse.

    Directed by:

  • Samira Makhmalbaf
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    Dreaming About You
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    Dreaming About You

    1992
    Two teenage friends (Jose Alonso and Socorro Bonilla) spend their summer break preparing for the sexual conquests they hope to experience. That is, until one of the boys is visited by his older, more sexually aggressive cousin, Azucena (Leticia Perdigon). Ushering her naïve cousin into the world of sex could take more work than Azucena realized.

    Directed by:

  • Marisa Sistach
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    Now and Then
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    Now and Then

    1995
    Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, they reconcile experiences with boys, secrets, bullies and more. Lesli Linka Glatter directs; Gaby Hoffmann, Ashleigh Aston Moore, Cloris Leachman, Thora Birch and Christina Ricci co-star.

    Directed by:

  • Lesli Linka Glatter
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    Now and Then (1995)
    A heartwarming movie about four childhood girlfriends who, in adulthood reunion, relive their experience of the life-changing summer of 1970, including a mystery death, divorce, standing up to the boys, first kiss, and the meaning of true friendship. Each explores her unique identity amidst family and friends. Beautifully directed by Lesli Linka Glatter.
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