Cu Li Never Cries
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Cu Li Never Cries

This contemplative Vietnamese drama unfolds as a meditation on memory, inheritance, and the spectral…

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Winter A-Go-Go
Sci-Fi Winter A-Go-Go

This 1965 Columbia Pictures release stands as a time capsule of mid-sixties youth culture, a beach-party picture transplanted to the…

YEAR 1941 RUNTIME 89m RATING 73/100
Cu Li Never Cries
Sci-Fi Cu Li Never Cries

This contemplative Vietnamese drama unfolds as a meditation on memory, inheritance, and the spectral persistence of the past in a nation…

YEAR 1987 RUNTIME 92m RATING 78/100
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
Sci-Fi Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.

This experimental film occupies the liminal space between cinema and installation art, constructing a sensory experience that defies…

YEAR 2017 RUNTIME 116m RATING 82/100
Midnight Matinee
Horror Midnight Matinee

This Canadian horror film positions itself at the intersection of genre cinema and the self-reflexive tradition of movies about movies,…

YEAR 1938 RUNTIME 143m RATING 90/100
I Lost My Heart to a Turk
Sci-Fi I Lost My Heart to a Turk

This Turkish-German co-production navigates the fraught cultural geography of love across borders, telling the story of Eva Bender, a…

YEAR 1986 RUNTIME 182m RATING 73/100
Casseta & Planeta: A Taça do Mundo é Nossa!
Sci-Fi Casseta & Planeta: A Taça do Mundo é Nossa!

A blistering comedic artifact from Brazil's celebrated humor collective Casseta & Planeta, this 2003 satire weaponizes the nation's most…

YEAR 1947 RUNTIME 152m RATING 98/100
The Unspoiled Diamond
Sci-Fi The Unspoiled Diamond

Obayashi Nobuhiko's 1982 chamber piece, released internationally under the deceptively simple title 'The Unspoiled Diamond,' represents a…

YEAR 2012 RUNTIME 170m RATING 77/100
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Sci-Fi Downton Abbey: A New Era

Simon Curtis's 2022 continuation of the Crawley family saga arrives as a masterclass in heritage cinema, a genre that British filmmakers…

YEAR 2015 RUNTIME 131m RATING 85/100

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