Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.
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Guillermo Del Toro’s 2021 film stars Bradley Cooper as an ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words. He hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous. Cate Blanchett, Rooney mara, Toni Collette, and Willem Dafoe make up this all-star cast.
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A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother’s new wife and her teen…
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This French body horror film follows woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident who embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who’s reunited with his missing son after 10 years.
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The story is about a young boy named Lubicchi and a trashman named Poupelle who meet on a…
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Masahiro Shinoda was a pioneer in Japanese new wave noirs, and he applies his mastery of mood and character to the yazuka genre in Pale Flower. When a gangster is released from prison, he tries to find his footing in the gambling underworld of his gang when he encounters a wealthy and beautiful thrill seeker who draws him into her web. Together and apart they enter a self-destructive spiral.
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Kurosawa’s Stray Dog plays like a Hollywood detective noir set in gritty post-war Tokyo.
Japanese cinema legend Toshiro Mifune gives a raw and magnetic performance as a young detective who loses his gun and tries to save face by tracking it down before reporting it stolen. His search leads him to the slums and criminal underbelly of the city, where a veteran detective helps him find it before it’s used in a violent crime.
With experimental shots and lingering scenes, this early Kurosawa hints at the master director that was to come.
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One of director Masaki Kobayashi’s greatest films, Samurai Rebellion is set in the Edo period of Japan, where…
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It’s a Summer Film! is a new teen romcom out of Japan that’s simultaneously an ode to creative youth and a love letter to filmmaking in all forms.
Barefoot and her teen friends set out to make an awesome samurai film for their school film fest. They’ve got only a small tripod and an iPhone, while their snooty classmates with high tech filmmaking gear make a romcom.
With humor, heart, and an unexpected sci-fi twist, Sôshi Masumoto’s 2020 film is refreshing, sincere, and the kind of movie you’ll catch yourself smiling at in a dark theater.
A stylish and profound silent film from Yasujiro Ozu — director of Tokyo Story and Late Spring — Dragnet Girl stands alone in the gangster (yakuza) genre.
True to Ozu, the film is intimately focused on family and the interpersonal relationships between career hardened criminal Joji, his jealous girlfriend, and an innocent shop girl who gets pulled into his world.
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