Drama
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Dark Habits (1983) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Entre tinieblas
director: Pedro Almodóvar actor: Cristina Sánchez Pascual / Will More …
other title: L'indiscreto fascino del peccato / Negros Hábitos …
After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for fallen women.
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Fail Safe (1964) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Fail Safe
director: Sidney Lumet actor: Henry Fonda / Walter Matthau …
other title: A prova di errore / Fejl-sikker …
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.
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Ikiru (1952) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb Melon Log WikiData
生きる
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Takashi Shimura / Haruo Tanaka …
other title: Vivere / At leve …
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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High and Low (1963) TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
天国と地獄
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: Anatomia di un rapimento / Himmel og helvede …
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake.
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Night and Fog in Japan (1960) NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
日本の夜と霧
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Miyuki Kuwano / Fumio Watanabe …
other title: Notte e nebbia in Giappone / Nacht und Nebel über Japan …
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
Nov. 22, 2025 to watch "A film about the failure of left-wing anti-imperialists. '16 years later, nothing much had changed,' to quote a more recent one on the same theme... Highly theatrical and innovative." 4/5
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1960s Drama Japan
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New Wave (2025) IMDb NeoDB Douban
New Wave
director: Richard Linklater actor: Guillaume Marbeck / Zoey Deutch …
other title: Nouvelle Vague
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, creating a treatment with Truffaut about a gangster couple.
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Come and See (1985) NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
Иди и смотри
director: Elem Klimov actor: Aleksei Kravchenko / Olga Mironova …
other title: Va' e vedi / Gå og Se …
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
Nov. 19, 2025 watched
Wrenching tale of a boy during the Nazi invasion of the USSR and the horrors he witnesses. Based on tales of survivors brought to the screen by director Elem Klimov after a years-long battle with Soviet censors in his last film, and especially scary now that fascism is on the rise again.

Watched in #EuroKino #WatchParty on Mastodon
1980s Drama ElemKlimov EuroKino Tragedy
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The Crossing Guard (1995) IMDb WikiData
The Crossing Guard
director: Sean Penn actor: Jack Nicholson / David Morse …
other title: 3 giorni per la verità / Acerto Final …
Unable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was before, swears to kill the man responsible for her death.
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Once Were Warriors (1994) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Once Were Warriors
director: Lee Tamahori actor: Rena Owen / Temuera Morrison …
other title: Once Were Warriors - Una volta erano guerrieri / A Alma dos Guerreiros …
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
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3 Idiots (2009) Douban IMDb NeoDB WikiData TMDB
3 Idiots
8.0 (27 ratings) director: Rajkumar Hirani actor: Aamir Khan / R. Madhavan …
other title: 3 Idiotas
Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university, Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus upside down—along with the lives of his two newfound best friends. Together, they make life miserable for "Virus," the school’s uptight and heartless dean. But when Rancho catches the eye of the dean's daughter, Virus sets his sights on flunking out the "3 idiots" once and for all.
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The War Game (1966) NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
The War Game
director: Peter Watkins actor: Michael Aspel / Kathy Staff …
other title: La Bombe / El juego de la guerra
A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. After backing the film's development, the BBC refused to air it, publicly stating "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting." It debuted in theaters in 1966 and went on to great acclaim, but remained unseen on British television until 1985.
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Mad Love (1985) TMDB
L'Amour braque
director: Andrzej Żuławski actor: Sophie Marceau / Tchéky Karyo …
other title: Amour braque - L'amore balordo / Skør kærlighed …
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie.
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The Doom Generation (1995) TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban
The Doom Generation
director: Gregg Araki actor: Rose McGowan / James Duval …
other title: Doom Generation / Doom - Geração Maldita …
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex- and violence-filled journey through a United States of psychos and quickie marts.