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The Night of Counting the Years (1969) IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData NeoDB
المومياء
director: Shadi Abdel Salam actor: Ahmed Marei / Ahmed Hegazi …
other title: La mummia / La momie …
Set in 1881, a year before the start of British colonial rule, it is based on the true story of the Abd el-Rasuls, an Upper-Egyptian clan that had been robbing a cache of mummies they have discovered at tomb DB320 near the village of Kurna, and selling the artifacts on the black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members made a crucial decision when the Antiquities Service arrived.
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Cairo Station (1958) TMDB IMDb
باب الحديد
director: Youssef Chahine actor: Farid Shawqy / Hind Rostom …
other title: Stazione centrale / Estação Central do Cairo …
Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.
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Tokyo Story (1953) NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban
東京物語
director: 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) TMDB Douban IMDb NeoDB Bangumi YetiWatch NeoDB Test WikiData
七人の侍
9.1 (21 ratings) director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō 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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Himizu (2012) Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
ヒミズ
director: Sion Sono actor: Shōta Sometani / Fumi Nikaido …
other title: Himizu - Dein Schicksal ist vorbestimmt / ヒミズ
Two 14-year-olds from troubled, abusive homes come together sharing misery and pain. In the aftermath of an earthquake, the classmates learn how to survive while relying on one another for emotional and physical support.
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In the Mood for Love (2000) TMDB IMDb NeoDB DeaDvey's Reviews WikiData Douban
花樣年華
8.6 (57 ratings) director: Wong Kar-Wai actor: Tony Leung / 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) TMDB IMDb NeoDB
颐和园
8.3 (81 ratings) director: 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) TMDB IMDb
Insomnia
director: 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) IMDb WikiData
Not Quite Hollywood
director: 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) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
男生女相：華語電影之性別
director: Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang actor: Tony Rayns / Chang Cheh …
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) NeoDB WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
胭脂扣
7.8 (6 ratings) director: 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.
May 21, 2026 to watch
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A Samurai in Time (2024) WikiData NeoDB IMDb
侍タイムスリッパー
8.2 (6 ratings) director: 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.