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Plot Summary:
In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the 69-year-old man on stage, but from his 39-year-old self on the tape he chooses to listen to. On the 'awful occasion' of his birthday, Krapp was then and is now in the habit of reviewing the past year and 'separating the grain from the husks'. He isolates memories of value, fertility and nourishment to set against creeping death 'when all my dust has settled'.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: crying, minimal cast
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Lena owns a forgotten bar next to a highway where the trucks zip by but rarely stop. She is eight months pregnant and has been abandoned by her former lover, Colonel Mattos, of the São Paulo police. One day, she meets Vilela, a former policeman wanted for a crime he committed in São Paulo. Colonel Mattos was Vilela's superior, and his presence is continually felt by the pair. Two further elements add texture to the plot - the inhospitable landscape and the new baby's crying, which slowly makes life unbearable for the couple. Based on an original stage play by Fernando Bonassi, the film delves into the souls of two Brazilians isolated in one of the country's nameless reaches. A love story and a metaphor taken to extremes: a glimpse at an unequal society which excludes many of its citizens, pushing them into violent adventures of love and death.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min
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An art student is thrown out of college. Depressed, he comes up with the Party of Dynamic Erection, a near fascist "party" that promotes male sexual dominance and which attracts a couple of other unsavoury confused characters.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Happy Days is an adaptation of Samuel Beckett's challenging absurdist drama, a play most would deem unfilmable. Faithfully adhering to Beckett's minimalist original, a black parody of love, marriage, and our search for meaning in an unfathomable universe, the piece consists of but two pathetic characters. One, wife Winnie, spends the duration of the drama half-buried in a pile of dirt; in true Beckett fashion, her predicament is never explained. The other character, husband Willie, is almost never seen. Dublin stage and screen veteran Rosaleen Linehan, in the lead, is exceptional as the trapped woman clinging to the empty, arbitrary routines and rituals of life, ever hopeful that 'this is going to be a happy day.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 79 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 57
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 381
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Duration: 92 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
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IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 14
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 140
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Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 662
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Nerolio (1996)
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This film depicts three episodes in the life of the highly eccentric, unabashedly homosexual Italian filmmaker Per Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini was best known to Americans for his film The Gospel According to St. Matthew. However, in his native Italy, he was at least as well known for his writing and poetry as for his filmmaking. In the first episode, Pasolini (Marco Cavicchioli) waxes poetic about the beauty of young men during a visit to Sicily. The second and more interesting segment concerns a meeting with a young man who visits Pasolini thinking that though he is an old has-been, Pasolini may be able to do him a favor. Pasolini twigs to the boy's intentions, and a sparring session ensues. The final episode shows him picking up a young man at Rome's train station and the events that led to his beating death in 1975.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 87
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 214
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 247
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 409
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 179
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Country: France, USA
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Waiting for Godot (2001)
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Votes: 376
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IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Votes: 5000
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IMDB Votes: 174
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 341
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IMDB Votes: 571
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IMDB Votes: 244
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IMDB Votes: 6000
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IMDB Votes: 422
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IMDB Votes: 386
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