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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
@ishmaellasting@mastodonapp.uk
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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Primitive War (2025) WikiData IMDb
Primitive War
director: Luke Sparke actor: Jeremy Piven / Tricia Helfer …
During the Vietnam War, a recon unit ventures to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing platoon. They soon find themselves in a fight for their lives against an unexpected enemy — prehistoric dinosaurs.
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Trouble in Mind (1985) IMDb WikiData
Trouble in Mind
director: Alan Rudolph actor: Kris Kristofferson / Keith Carradine …
other title: Stati di alterazione progressiva / Vidas em Conflito …
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the hypnotic Rain City.
Nov. 22, 2025 to watch https://watch.plex.tv/en-GB/movie/trouble-in-mind
https://tubitv.com/es-mx/movies/264339/trouble-in-mind

"standout... a flawed, timely, neo-noir set in the fascist future of the 80’s"
@ryan@social.miyaku.media
1980s AlanRudolph AlbertHall DirkBlocker Divine
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The Octagon (1980) WikiData IMDb
The Octagon
director: Eric Karson actor: Chuck Norris / Karen Carlson …
other title: Mænd uden nåde / A Fortaleza Secreta …
Scott James, a veteran martial arts expert, is recruited as the protector of the wealthy and beautiful Justine after she becomes the target of a ninja clan. When Scott finds out that his ruthless arch-nemesis, McCarn , is involved with the stealthy and dangerous criminals, he is eager to settle old scores. Soon Scott is facing off against McCarn and the entire ninja horde in an effort to take them all down.
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The Impostors (1998) IMDb WikiData
The Impostors
director: Stanley Tucci actor: Oliver Platt / Stanley Tucci …
other title: Gli imbroglioni / Os Impostores …
Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find themselves pursued by the law aboard a cruise ship.
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Tai-Chi Master (1993) TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
太极张三丰
8.4 (5 ratings) director: Yuen Woo-Ping actor: Jet Li / Michelle Yeoh …
other title: Batalha de Honra / Tai Chi …
Falsely accused for cheating in a martial arts competition, two boyhood friends are banished from their Shaolin Temple and go their separate ways. As adults, they join opposing sides in a civil war. When one betrays the other, they settle their differences mano-a-mano.
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014) IMDb WikiData
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
director: Mark Hartley actor: Molly Ringwald / Dolph Lundgren …
other title: The Electric Boogaloo / Electric Boogaloo …
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
Nov. 16, 2025 to watch Produced by the same folks who made the excellent 'Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks' (2019) seen in #KungFuSat

Maybe future viewing for #MondayActionMovie ? ;)
2010s CannonFilms Documentary
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Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Reflet dans un diamant mort
7.0 (9 ratings) director: Bruno Forzani / Hélène Cattet actor: Fabio Testi / Yannick Renier …
other title: Reflection In A Dead Diamond / Reflet dans un diamant mort
When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d'Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.
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The Man from Hong Kong (1975) NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
直搗黃龍
director: Brian Trenchard-Smith actor: Jimmy Wang Yu / George Lazenby …
other title: Der Mann von Hongkong / L'Homme de Hong Kong …
Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong to question him. After the alleged criminal is assassinated, Inspector Leng and the Sydney police try to hunt down those responsible and hope to solve their case along the way.
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Kontroll (2003) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Kontroll
director: Nimród Antal actor: Sándor Csányi / Zoltán Mucsi …
A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, and the fellow ticket inspectors on his team who work aboard the subterranean Budapest Metro. A tale about racing along the tracks, and about a mysterious serial killer. And a tale about love.
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Relay (2025) NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
Relay
director: David Mackenzie actor: Riz Ahmed / Lily James …
other title: Relay: Informazioni pericolose / The Negotiator …
A broker of lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten them breaks his own rules when a new client seeks his protection to stay alive.
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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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The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Draughtsman's Contract
director: Peter Greenaway actor: Anthony Higgins / Janet Suzman …
other title: I misteri del giardino di Compton House / Tegnerens kontrakt …
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
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Mona Lisa (1986) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mona Lisa
director: Neil Jordan actor: Bob Hoskins / Cathy Tyson …
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.