Based on a 2008 incident that rocked the town of Gloucester, Massachusetts, this debut feature by French sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin centers on five close pals at a high school in seaside Lorient who all agree to get pregnant and raise their children collectively.
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In accordance with the Mayan doomsday calendar, "mutated" neutrinos emanating from the sun trigger spectacular CGI disasters on earth that culminate in a global flood.
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Dramas about the porn industry range from expressions of puritanical rage (Paul Schrader's Hardcore) to celebrations of open sexuality (Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights); this one manages to avoid both extremes, as well as anything else that might make it worth watching.
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Both of D.W. Griffith's sound films—Abraham Lincoln (1930) and The Struggle (1931)—were scorned as archaic when they came out, which helps explain why he wasn't allowed to direct again for the 17 remaining years of his life.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini's first film is neo-neorealism, set in the slums and back alleys familiar from De Sica and Fellini but directed with a cold dispassion that belongs to Pasolini alone.
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After the battered body of a rent boy is pulled out of the Rhone, two Lyonnaise homicide detectives (Gilbert Melki and Emmanuelle Devos) begin canvassing his teenage peers, sifting through his cell phone records, and tracing his recent online activities.
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Socially isolated by Asperger’s syndrome (a variant of autism), a handsome young technology wiz (Hugh Dancy) overcomes his awkwardness to find love with the cheerful schoolteacher next door (Rose Byrne).
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This 1969 chamber drama by Czech director Frantisek Vlacil serves as a parable for the tense and resentful relations between Czechs and Germans after World War II.
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You'd never guess it, but the title heroine is actually a refurbished bus, and this nicely made 1994 comedy-drama could be described as an Australian Easy Rider, with Sydney drag queens instead of bikers and no apocalyptic ending.
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Welsh novelist Sarah Waters specializes in Victorian tales of lesbian romance: her debut novel, Tipping the Velvet was adapted into a rollicking BBC miniseries in 2002, and her third novel, Fingersmith, yielded a second series three years later.
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In this 2010 drama, three Rwandan kids walk the 3,000 miles to South Africa for the 2010 World Cup, gathering a ragtag crew that helps them surmount some obstacles.
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Frank Borzage, one of the great romantic filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age, directed this Depression-era story (1932) of young lovers pulled apart by their respective families.
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