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Fallen Leaves
Director :
Aki Kaurismäki
Released: 2023
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Ansa works as a shelf stacker, Holappa in a metal factory. They fail to meet and then meet and fail again. Drink, sackings, ennui, shitjobs, life and romance blossoms.
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04 Jan '25
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4 Jan '25
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The 2020s
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The Other Side of Hope
Toivon tuolla puolen
Director :
Aki Kaurismäki
Released: 2017
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Refugee lands in Finland and meets would-be restauranteur
Full synopsis 123 words
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5.5 from 2 Rating(s)
24 Mar '18
28 May '24
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24 Mar '18
28 May '24
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The 2010s
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The Man Without A Past
Mies vailla menneisyyttä
Director :
Aki Kaurismäki
Released: 2002
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Synopsis extract:
A man arrives by train in Helsinki and sleeps in a park and gets beaten close to death by 3 ...
Full synopsis 105 words
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(no review)
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1 Apr '24
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The 2000s (the noughties)
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Perfect Days
Director :
Wim Wenders
Released: 2023
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Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.
Full synopsis 20 words
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09 Mar '24
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9 Mar '24
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The 2020s
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Bird
Director :
Andrea Arnold
Released: 2024
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Life in the arsehole of England
Full synopsis 36 words
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31 Dec '23
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31 Dec '24
31 Jan '24
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The 2020s
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EO
Director :
Jerzy Skolimowski
Released: 2022
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The world as seen by a donkey as he is passed from human to human
Full synopsis 281 words
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20 Jan '24
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20 Jan '24
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The 2020s
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Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
Director :
Pawo Choyning Dorji
Released: 2019
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Trainee teacher gets assigned to remotest school in the world
Full synopsis 251 words
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12 Nov '23
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12 Nov '23
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The 2010s
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The Old Oak
Director :
Ken Loach
Released: 2023
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Syrian refugees and an ex-coal mining community
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06 Oct '23
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6 Oct '23
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The 2020s
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The Rooof
Il Tetto
Director :
Vittorio De Sica
Released: 1956
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Newlyweds needing a place of their own find that if the can put up a house overnight without the police finding it and it has a door and a roof then it can't be demolished
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12 Aug '23
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12 Aug '23
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The 1950s
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Belfast
Director :
Kenneth Branagh
Released: 2021
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Growing up in a time of troubles
Full synopsis 22 words
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29 Jul '23
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29 Jul '23
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The 2020s
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Holy Spider
Director :
Ali Abbasi
Released: 2022
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Serial killer in Mashhad, Iran murdering prostitutes with 'no progress'from the police until a female journalist from Tehran investigates.
Full synopsis 266 words
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20 May '23
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20 May '23
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The 2020s
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The Beasts
Director :
Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Released: 2022
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No summary or synopsis provided
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12 Apr '23
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12 Apr '23
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The 2020s
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Farha
Director :
Darin J. Sallam
Released: 2021
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Based on true story of a 16 yo girl's experience of the Nakba when Palestinians were driven from their homelands by Israel (with British support)
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16 Feb '23
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16 Feb '23
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The 2020s
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Im Westen nichts Neues
Director :
Edward Berger
Released: 2022
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Intense action sequences punctuated by quiter moments always with an undercurrent of tension
Full synopsis 44 words
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04 Feb '23
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4 Feb '23
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The 2020s
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Boy
Director :
Taika Waititi
Released: 2010
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11yo boy growing up in a coastal township with absent father and dead mother - father returns with 2 pals and they start looking for treasure he buried
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28 Jan '23
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28 Jan '23
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The 2010s
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North Country
Director :
Niki Caro
Released: 2005
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Sexual harrassment in an Iopen-cast iron mine leads to landmark legal case. Based on true story.
Full synopsis 181 words
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21 Jan '23
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21 Jan '23
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The 2000s (the noughties)
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Omar
Director :
Hany Abu-Assad
Released: 2013
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Love story between Omar and Nada set in the occupied West Bank.
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19 Oct '22
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19 Oct '22
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The 2010s
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Honeyland
Medena zemja
Directors :
Tamara Kotevska , Ljubomir Stefanov
Released: 2019
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In a deserted village in mountainous north Macedonia 50 year old Hatidze keeps semi-wild bees and cares for her mother.
Full synopsis 130 words
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20 Sep '22
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20 Sep '22
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The 2010s
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A Ciambra
Director :
Jonas Carpignano
Released: 2017
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Synopsis extract:
In 'The Ciambra', a small Romani community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. ...
Full synopsis 103 words
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14 May '22
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14 May '22
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The 2010s
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Microhabitat
unlisted director
Released: 2018
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Young woman working as cleaner leaves her flat after rent increase and couch-surfs round her old buddies.
Full synopsis 8 words
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31 Mar '22
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31 Mar '22
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The 2010s
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Pickpocket
Director :
Xiao Wu
Released: 1997
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A pickpocket in China
Full synopsis 17 words
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19 Feb '22
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19 Feb '22
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The 1990s
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Tom at the Farm
Director :
Xavier Dolan
Released: 2013
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Macho gay power games after Tom's lover dies and Tom visits the family for the funeral.
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15 Jan '22
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15 Jan '22
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The 2010s
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Limbo
Director :
Ben Sharrock
Released: 2020
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A group of refugees billeted on a Scottish Island awaiting results of asylum requests.
Full synopsis 83 words
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06 Jan '22
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6 Jan '22
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The 2020s
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Nomadland
Director :
Chloé Zhao
Released: 2020
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A woman living in a camper van across Arizona, Nevada, Nebraska
Full synopsis 135 words
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24 May '21
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24 May '21
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The 2020s
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County Lines
unlisted director
Released: 2019
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Teenage boy gets sucked into drug running to support family
Full synopsis 46 words
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15 May '21
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15 May '21
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The 2010s
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