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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) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
New Wave
5.8 (8 ratings) 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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Trespasses (Limited Series) (2025) TMDB NeoDB Douban
Trespasses Season 1 part of TV Series: Trespasses
director: 道恩·沙德福思 actor: 洛拉·佩蒂克鲁 / 汤姆·库伦 …
1975年，在贝尔法斯特郊外的一个小镇。一个晚上，天主教教师库什拉在她家开的酒吧里工作，酒吧里聚集着各种人群，包括驻扎在当地的士兵。库什拉遇到了迈克尔，一个年长的已婚新教徒男人，他经常为爱尔兰共和军嫌疑人辩护，并与一群富有文化气息的波西米亚人交往，这些人让库什拉既愤怒又好奇。两人来自截然不同的世界，库什拉知道这样的关系会带来各种麻烦，但他们却无法抗拒对彼此的吸引。
在一个话多可能招致性命之危、危险潜伏于阴影中的地方，在恐惧与偏执之中，库什拉与迈克尔的禁忌之恋点燃并炽烈燃烧……
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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
8.3 (31 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) IMDb 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.
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Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb
Birdman of Alcatraz
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Burt Lancaster / Karl Malden …
other title: L'uomo di Alcatraz / Manden fra Alcatraz …
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
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Stalag 17 (1953) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Stalag 17
director: Billy Wilder actor: William Holden / Robert Strauss …
other title: Bag pigtråd i Stalag 17 / Inferno nº 17 …
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak.
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Strictly Ballroom (1992) TMDB Douban IMDb
Strictly Ballroom
director: Baz Luhrmann actor: Paul Mercurio / Tara Morice …
other title: Strictly Ballroom: De forbudte trin / Ballroom - Gara di ballo …
Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?
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Big Night (1996) IMDb TMDB
Big Night
director: Campbell Scott / Stanley Tucci actor: Stanley Tucci / Tony Shalhoub …
other title: A Grande Inauguração / Big Night - Nacht der Genüsse …
Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.
Aug. 4, 2025 watched
Originally saw it in the cinema when it came out. Rewatched in #SundayFunnies #WatchParty on Mastodon.
1990s Comedy Drama Dramedy IanHolm
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Boiler Room (2000) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Boiler Room
director: Ben Younger actor: Giovanni Ribisi / Vin Diesel …
other title: 1 km da Wall Street / O Primeiro Milhão …
A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm and is on the fast track to success—but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.