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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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Come and See (1985) NeoDB IMDb Skybridge TMDB Douban WikiData
Иди и смотри
8.7 (7 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) Skybridge 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 Skybridge NeoDB WikiData TMDB
3 Idiots
8.3 (38 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 Skybridge
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 IMDb WikiData Douban Skybridge
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.