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Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Kubo and the Two Strings
7.9 (7 ratings) director: Travis Knight actor: Art Parkinson / Charlize Theron …
other title: Kubo e la spada magica / Kubo - Den Modige Samurai …
Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as discover his own magical powers.
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Possession (1981) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Possession
7.8 (16 ratings) director: Andrzej Żuławski actor: Isabelle Adjani / Sam Neill …
other title: Possessão / La posesión
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
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Slings & Arrows (2003) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Slings & Arrows
director: Bob Martin / Susan Coyne … actor: Paul Gross / Stephen Ouimette …
other title: Slings and Arrows
This darkly comic Canadian series follows the fortunes of a dysfunctional Shakespearean theatre troupe at the fictional New Burbage Festival, exposing the high drama, scorching battles, and artistic miracles that happen behind the scenes.
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Night and Fog in Japan (1960) NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
日本の夜と霧
7.6 (5 ratings) 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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Japan 1960s Drama
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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 IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
Иди и смотри
8.5 (6 ratings) director: Elem Germanovich Klimov actor: Aleksei Kravchenko / 奥尔加·米罗诺娃 …
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
War Tragedy USSR 1980s Drama
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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 (36 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.