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Georges Méliès – Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les Géants AKA...
Quote: Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput, the inhabitants of which are no more than six inches tall. He later travels to Brobdingnag, a country populated by giants. Quote: Méliès himself plays...
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Karel Zeman – Bláznova kronika AKA The Jester’s Tale (1964)
Synopsis: The Thirty Years’ War is seen from the point of view in this satirical slapstick comedy that combines engravings, old cartoons, montages, special effects, and film. The positions of both...
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Terry Gilliam – The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
Quote: In the 19th century, a fortress is under siege from the Turkish Army. While the attack is going on, the town’s people are in the theatre, watching a play based on the life of notorious tall...
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William Castle – Shanks (1974)
Shanks is not so much a movie as an hallucinatory experience. World-renowned mime Marcel Marceau plays a dual role as a mute puppeteer and an eccentric inventor. The inventor dies, passing along his...
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Eckhart Schmidt – E.T.A. Hoffmanns Der Sandmann AKA The Sandman (1993)
Synopsis: Daniel and Clara are on a vacation in Italy. In the form of the mysterious “Sandman” Coppola, a figure from Daniel’s childhood, returns to haunt him, while he succumbs to an obsessive love...
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Rahul Sadasivan – Bramayugam AKA The Age of Madness (2024)
Quote: In ancient Kerala, where Tantra/Maya held sway, Thevan, a novice singer from a caste of folk singers (Paanan), narrowly escapes from slavers and finds himself lost. While fleeing, he stumbles...
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Anton Adasinsky – Süd Grenze. (aka South Border.) (2001)
Quote: One time you find yourself in a park, on a bench, looking into space, and for a second you forget which country you are in, whether it’s morning or evening; you are pierced by a pang of...
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Tolgay Ziyal – Kizil maske AKA The Red Mask AKA The Phantom (1968)
This was produced, directed, and written by Çetin Inanç, the protege of Yilmaz Atadeniz (who gave world the Kilink films.) Inanc went on to produce a whole ton of Turkish films, both craptacularly...
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Robert Wynne-Simmons – The Outcasts (1982)
Scripted and directed by the writer of The Blood on Satan’s Claw, this eerie folklorish tale is set in 19th‑century Ireland amid an isolated rural community where poverty and superstition are rife....
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Philippe Lifchitz – La prima donna (1964)
Synopsis: A story of “La Pasta”, a renowned prima donna, and her extraordinary rival. La.prima.donna.1964.DVDRip.x264.AC3.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 10mn 17sSize: 160 MiBVideoCodec:...
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Teinosuke Kinugasa – Yôsô AKA Bronze Magician (1963)
A Buddhist priest becomes also a magician, dedicating himself to the protection of life wherever it’s needed, whereupon he finds himself in direct service of the Queen. Political intrigue tightens...
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Luis Buñuel – El ángel exterminador AKA The Exterminating Angel (1962)
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room… and over the next few days all the elaborate pretenses and facades that they’ve built up by virtue of...
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Francis Ford Coppola – B’Twixt Now and Sunrise [The Authentic Cut] (2011 – 2022)
Quote: Writer Hall Baltimore, in career decline, comes to a small town during a book tour, and becomes involved in the murder investigation of a young girl. In a dream, he is approached by a youthful...
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Luis Buñuel – Simón del desierto AKA Simon of the Desert (1965)
Simon of the Desert is Luis Buñuel’s wicked and wild take on the life of devoted ascetic Saint Simeon Stylites, who waited atop a pillar surrounded by a barren landscape for six years, six months, and...
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Masaaki Yuasa – Yoru wa mijikashi aruke yo otome AKA The Night Is Short, Walk...
As a group of teens go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as “The Girl with Black Hair” experiences a series of surreal encounters with the local nightlife – all the while unaware of...
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Christoph Engel – Das Zaubermännchen AKA Rumpelstiltskin and the Golden...
Quote: A boastful miller pretends that his daughter Marie can spin straw into gold, and so she is locked into a room full of straw and ordered to spin it into gold by the next morning. A little man...
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Nikolay Lebedev – Volkodav iz roda Serykh Psov AKA Wolfhound (2006)
Synopsis: Doomed to die, he managed to survive, and now his mission is to avenge the annihilation of his tribe. He is the great warrior who calls himself Volkodav, and he is the last man from the...
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Alberto Rondalli – Agadah (2017)
Plot: A hieratic Count sits in his elegant mansion finishing his writings – Alphonse, a young Waloon officer, rides through the Murgia to reach his regiment in Naples but soon finds himself...
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Claude d’Anna – Trompe l’oeil AKA The Broken Mirror (1975)
Summary: Anne lives with her husband in Belgium where she works as a restorer of paintings. When she becomes pregnant, she finds herself remembering a picture she did some time ago and of which she...
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Tsui Hark – Ching Se AKA Green Snake (1993)
Two snakes reformed into two beauties. White Snake chose pedagogue Xian Xu as her husband and enjoyed human life, while Green Snake played around every day. Jealous to White Snake, Green Snake kept on...
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