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The Bothersome Man
7.2

The Bothersome Man

May. 26, 2006

The Bothersome Man

Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment – even a ...
Whale Rider
7.5

Whale Rider

Jan. 30, 2003

Whale Rider

On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, ...
East Is East
6.9

East Is East

May. 14, 1999

East Is East

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an ...
Trafic
7.1

Trafic

Apr. 16, 1971

Trafic

Mr. Hulot is the head designer of the Altra Automotive Co. His latest invention is a newfangled camper car loaded with outrageous extra features. ...
PlayTime
7.9

PlayTime

Dec. 16, 1967

PlayTime

Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in the age of technology reached their creative apex with ...
Shower
7.5

Shower

Sep. 13, 1999

Shower

Shenzhen businessman, Da Ming, goes home to Beijing when he thinks his father has died. He finds his father hard at work at the family’s ...
The London Nobody Knows
7.6

The London Nobody Knows

Jan. 01, 1967

The London Nobody Knows

Based on Geoffrey Fletcher’s book, this captivating documentary exposes the real London of the swinging sixties. Turning its back on ...
Lonely Are the Brave
7.6

Lonely Are the Brave

May. 24, 1962

Lonely Are the Brave

A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the ...
Work Hard Play Hard
7.0

Work Hard Play Hard

Apr. 12, 2012

Work Hard Play Hard

A film about non-territorial office space, multi-mobile knowledge workers, Blackberries and Miles&More. A road movie discovering the working ...
Short Cuts
7.7

Short Cuts

Sep. 05, 1993

Short Cuts

Multi-storied, fish-eyed look at American culture with some 22 characters intersecting–profoundly or fleetingly–through each ...
Pickpocket
7.7

Pickpocket

Dec. 16, 1959

Pickpocket

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his ...
The Burden
7.0

The Burden

Jan. 27, 2017

The Burden

A shopping center along a large highway is the scene of an apocalyptic musical. Animation with a strong sense of form set to auto-tuned music by ...
The Girl in the Rumor
6.7

The Girl in the Rumor

Dec. 22, 1935

The Girl in the Rumor

A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a “moga” (“modern girl”). Their widowed father runs ...