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Plot Summary:
The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: experimental
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Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970)
Plot Summary:
A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Third World, sleeps around, and attempts to rethink his place within the revolution after the events of the 1968 May uprising in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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New Wave (1990)
Plot Summary:
A hitchiker (Alain Delon) is taken in by a wealthy industrialist (Domiziana Giordano).
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: avant garde, experimental, art film
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Vesna Goes Fast (1996)
Plot Summary:
Vesna, a Czech girl, arrives in Italy without money and, because of poverty, is forced into prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Open Letter To The Evening News (1970)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to shake up the complacent Italian Communist Party, a group of leftist radicals sends an incendiary letter to a major evening newspaper declaring their intention to volunteer to fight American troops in Vietnam as a political statement against the war.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: intellectual
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Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977)
Plot Summary:
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison is a 1977 Italian drama directed by Lino Del Fra.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: political
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China Is Near (1967)
Plot Summary:
A pair of working class lovers - a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Deux fois (1968)
Plot Summary:
Deux fois is a 1968 experimental film by Jackie Raynal. Raynal stars in the film, her first as a director; she had previously worked for several years as a film editor, most notably for films in Éric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" series (she was, reportedly, the youngest professional editor in France at the time). The film's title, which literally translates as Twice and is sometimes translated into English as Twice Upon a Time, refers to the occasional repetition of scenes or actions.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Our Lady of the Turks (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man (Carmelo Bene) can not bear to be part of society. He considers himself a "jerk" and so invents its own philosophy, which involves the destruction of his land of Puglia where all citizens are devoted to the Catholic religion. However, the man can not destroy the belief of the pilgrims of Salento, because a woman would prevent that. It is an unknown "Santa Margherita", which tries to divert man from his weird and impossible philosophy. Successive scenes of the film show various situations unreal and dream in which the two protagonists try to obtain the best one on the other. After a blasphemous dialogue between monks, the man includes his whole philosophy in a Moorish building. In fact, this seems to have been the scene of the massacre of the famous 800 Martyrs of Otranto, which are considered by the scetic man the absolute death of Christianity.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: experimental, aesthetic, avant garde
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Mario and the Magician (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Twenties: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmann's have to realize the upcoming and growing fascism and their children are fascinated by a magician visiting the town. Soon nothing is as usual. The times are changing.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 127 min
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Gulag Vorkuta (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two dissidents, fall in love in a Marxist USSR Gulag death camp. As their friends die, they commit to the seeming impossible, escape, but both must first answer their deepest moral questions about the meaning of life, sacrifice and freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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Segreti segreti (1985)
Plot Summary:
Laura participates in terrorist attack against a magistrate; a member of her commando is shot to death. Such begins the story of women: Maria and Rosa, the mother and sister of the killed terrorist; Gina, the old nanny of Laura; her mother Marta and Renata, her friend; and finally Giuliana, the magistrate before whom the terrorist will reveal her secret. And Laura will be the common thread that links each of the personal stories, determining their destiny, sometimes tragic, and discovering silence and complicity that does not seek.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
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Fontamara (1980)
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Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags:
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Sicily! (1999)
Plot Summary:
A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags:
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Partner (1968)
Plot Summary:
In PARTNER, Bernardo Bertolucci conflated his interests in psychoanalysis, nonlinear narrative, and Godard to create a uniquely avant-garde work unlike anything in his ouevre. The film is loosely based on Dostoyevsky's novel THE DOUBLE and concerns an alienated, puckish young man named Jacob (Pierre Clementi) who confronts his own double. Jacob allows his doppelganger to take over his life; the second Jacob commandeers his predecessor's theater class in the hopes of creating living theater--as a violent act of social revolution. The idea of students wreaking havoc was not an unfamiliar one in 1968, and Bertolucci refuses to take Jacob's dangerous intellectual posturing lightly. The second Jacob is a handsome killer, the first a handsome weakling who must find the courage to resist his baser self. Bertolucci matches inspired plot points with arresting images, including visual film references and the bright color schemes that would later become his trademark.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, avant garde, art house, weird
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New old (1979)
Plot Summary:
Experimental film.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Love and Anger (1969)
Plot Summary:
Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: anthology, spiritual, art house
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Hannah (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hannah is the intimate portrait of a woman’s loss of identity as she teeters between denial and reality. Left alone grappling with the consequences of her husband’s imprisonment, Hannah begins to unravel. Through the exploration of her fractured sense of identity and loss of self-control, the film investigates modern day alienation, the struggle to connect, and the dividing lines between individual identity, personal relationships, and societal pressures.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: social
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Justine (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman dealing with the loss of her husband, the struggle of parenthood and finding work in a new state finds solace in her relationship with an 8 year old physically disabled girl named Justine who she takes care of.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Azzurro (2000)
Plot Summary:
75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Italy, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Our Music (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Luc Godard's poetic meditation on war, violence and defeat. The film is structured in three parts. The three segments are "Hell", "Purgatory", and "Heaven". The first segment is a montage of war images from documentary and fictional sources. The second concerns two young Jewish women attending a European arts conference in Sarajevo. The final segment concerns the after life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: philosophical, intellectual, meditative, atmospheric, serious, political, experimental, avant garde, clever, contemplative
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Film socialisme (2010)
Plot Summary:
A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Our humanities. Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, avant garde, philosophical, political, offbeat, gloomy
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From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979)
Plot Summary:
'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a text regarding the myths of antiquity, each set in the appropriate landscape. Pavese's The Moon and the Bonfires looks back on the violent deaths of Italian anti-Fascist resistance fighters; Dialogues with Leucò is a series of dialogues between heroes and gods, connecting myth and history and returning to an ambiguous stage in the creation of distinctions, such as that between animal and human, which are fundamental to grammar and language itself. Such a juxtaposition of political engagement with profoundly contemplative issues such as myth, nature, and meaning points to the characters of Empedocles and Antigone in the Hölderlin films.' (From "Landscapes of resistance. The German Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub" by Barton Byg).
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: experimental
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Joy of Learning (1969)
Plot Summary:
Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile's subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: avant garde, eros, tense, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, talky
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Hail Mary (1985)
Plot Summary:
In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must school Joseph to accept Mary's pregnancy, while Mary comes to terms with God's plan through meditations that are sometimes angry and usually punctuated by elemental images of the sun, moon, clouds, flowers, and water.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: avant garde, controversial, disturbing, erotic, psychedelic, spiritual, art house, mind bending, surreal, absurd
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La chinoise (1967)
Plot Summary:
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: political, philosophical, artsy, art house, cult classic, thought provoking, clever, humorous, realistic, talky
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Just Great (1972)
Plot Summary:
Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: political, surreal, sincere, thought provoking, clever, serious, realistic, witty, contemplative, talky
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My Life to Live (1962)
Plot Summary:
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: art house, philosophical, intellectual, black and white, visual, atmospheric, serious, depressing, erotic, inspirational
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Exit: A personal history (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young man travels to Holland for an assisted suicide. The young man was convinced that this was his only way of ending an existence that he considered to lack any dignity.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: experimental, atmospheric, contemplative, psychological, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, surreal, gloomy
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Communists (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blocks of language (French, Italian, German), and from this ruckus emerges the history of the world, yes, History with a capital H, and from the same movement, the political hope of its being overtaken. So this is an adventure film, about the Human adventure, still one that is always, in the end, overtaken by Nature. (Arnaud Dommerc).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: experimental, thought provoking, atmospheric, serious, realistic, political
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Hands Over the City (1963)
Plot Summary:
Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi’s Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real-estate speculation that has devastated Naples’s civilian landscape moves breathlessly from a cataclysmic building collapse to the backroom negotiations of civic leaders vying for power in a city council election, laying bare the inner workings of corruption with passion and outrage.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, suspenseful, clever, serious, political, neo noir, political thriller, art film, poliziottesco