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Tokyo Story (1953)
東京物語
★ 9.0 10 ratings
Yasujirō Ozu actor: Chishū Ryū / Chieko Higashiyama …
other title: Viaggio a Tokyo / Viagem a Tóquio …
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
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Seven Samurai (1954)
七人の侍
★ 9.2 26 ratings
Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshiro Mifune / Takashi Shimura …
other title: I sette samurai / De syv samuraier …
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
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In the Mood for Love (2000)
花樣年華
★ 8.5 69 ratings
Wong Kar-Wai actor: Tony Leung Chiu-wai / Maggie Cheung …
other title: Disponível Para Amar / In The Mood For Love …
In Hong Kong of 1962, Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow, a journalist, move into neighbouring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their respective spouses creates an intimate bond between them.
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Summer Palace (2006)
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★ 8.3 85 ratings
Lou Ye actor: Hao Lei / Guo Xiaodong …
other title: Une Jeunesse chinoise / 颐和园
Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.
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Insomnia (1997)
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Erik Skjoldbjærg actor: Stellan Skarsgård / Maria Mathiesen …
other title: Insomnia - Todesschlaf
Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the killer goes awry, and Jonas mistakenly shoots Erik. The suspect escapes, and a frightened Jonas pins Erik's death on the fugitive. Jonas continues to pursue the killer as he seeks to protect himself; however, his mounting guilt and the omnipresent sun plague him with an insomnia that affects his sanity.
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Not Quite Hollywood (2008)
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Mark Hartley actor: Phillip Adams / Glory Annen …
other title: Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
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Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1998)
男生女相：華語電影之性別
Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang actor: Ang Lee / Leslie Cheung …
other title: Yang ± Yin: Gender im chinesischen Kino / 男生女相：華語電影之性別 …
An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively explored than in any other national cinema. Utilizing both film excerpts and interviews with many leading directors and academics, the film examines topics such as male bonding in kung fu movies, depictions of same-sex bonding and physical intimacy, the emphasis on women's grievances in melodramas, and the career of Yam Kim-Fai, a Hong Kong actress who spent her life portraying men on and off the screen.
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Rouge (1987)
胭脂扣
★ 7.5 12 ratings
Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang actor: Anita Mui / Leslie Cheung …
Amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong, a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family fall in love and embrace death by suicide pact. Fifty years later, her ghost returns to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself.
To watch May 21, 2026
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A Samurai in Time (2024)
侍タイムスリッパー WikiData IMDb NeoDB
★ 8.2 6 ratings
Junichi Yasuda actor: Makiya Yamaguchi / Norimasa Fuke …
other title: 侍タイムスリッパー
A samurai who gets hit by lightning wakes up to find himself on a film set in the present day and starts to work as an extra on samurai films.
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Iron Monkey (1993)
黃飛鴻之鐵馬騮
Yuen Woo-Ping actor: Yu Rongguang / Donnie Yen …
other title: O Macaco de Ferro / El mono de hierro (Iron Monkey) …
In this Hong Kong variation of Robin Hood, corrupt officials of a Chinese village are robbed by a masked bandit known as "Iron Monkey", named after a benevolent deity. When all else fails, the Governor forces a traveling physician into finding the bandit.
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The Fruit Machine (1988)
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Philip Saville actor: Emile Charles / Tony Forsyth …
other title: Wonderland / The Fruit Machine – Rendezvous mit einem Killer
Eddie and Michael are two 16-year-old gay friends from Liverpool. Berated by his father for his camp behavior, Eddie runs away from his Liverpool home and joins Michael, a streetwise hustler, who is also on the run.
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Sexmission (1984)
Seksmisja
Juliusz Machulski actor: Olgierd Łukaszewicz / Jerzy Stuhr …
other title: Sex Mission: Misión en el futuro / Seksmisja …
Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, World War III breaks out and life has been wiped off the surface of Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.
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Down Terrace (2010)
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Ben Wheatley actor: Robin Hill / Robert Hill …
After serving jail time for a mysterious crime, Bill and Karl get out of jail and become preoccupied with figuring out who turned them in to the police. On top of that, the "family business" is on the rocks, and the motley crew of criminals who operate out of Down Terrace aren't feeling terribly trusting of one another. It might look like an ordinary house, but at Down Terrace, the walls are closing in..
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Jackdaw (2024)
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Jamie Childs actor: Oliver Jackson-Cohen / Jenna Coleman …
A former motocross champion and army veteran, now caring for his younger brother. Broke, he agrees to do an open water pick up of a mysterious illegal package in the North Sea. A resulting double cross and his brother’s disappearance set him and his old bike on a violent nocturnal odyssey through England’s northern rust belt.
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Johnny Stecchino (1991)
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Roberto Benigni actor: Roberto Benigni / Nicoletta Braschi …
other title: Zahnstocher-Johnny / Johnny Palillo …
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
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Resurrection (2025)
狂野时代
★ 6.0 32 ratings
Bi Gan actor: Jackson Yee / Lei Gung …
other title: Résurrection / 狂野时代
Follows a woman whose consciousness falls into the "eternal time zone" during a surgical procedure. In the year 2068, she wakes up to find she’s the only living being in a world lying in ruins. Trapped in many dreams, she finds a bionic half-man half-robot corpse and tries to wake it up by telling endless stories—a metaphorical tale recounting almost a century of solitude for China. The android then wanders within her stories and its senses gradually awaken. At the end of her stories, she must make a choice: return to the real world or remain alone with this bionic being, for whom she’s beginning to develop real feelings.
To watch May 7, 2026