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Trainspotting(1996)

16
| 1h 34min | Drama, Crime
4.0/5 (with 4,547 votes)

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.

Directed by Danny Boyle - With Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Ewan McGregor, ...

PlayTime(1967)

1h 55min | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 230 votes)

Clumsy Monsieur Hulot finds himself perplexed by the intimidating complexity of a gadget-filled Paris. He attempts to meet with a business contact but soon becomes lost. His roundabout journey parallels that of an American tourist, and as they weave through the inventive urban environment, they intermittently meet, developing an interest in one another. They eventually get together at a chaotic restaurant, along with several other quirky characters.

Directed by Jacques Tati - With Jacques Tati, France Rumilly, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Alice Field, André Badin, André Fouché, ...

Short Cuts(1993)

3h 7min | Drama, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 262 votes)

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.

Directed by Robert Altman - With Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Jack Lemmon, Julianne Moore, Matthew Modine, Tim Robbins, ...

Pickpocket(1959)

1h 15min | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 208 votes)

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.

Directed by Robert Bresson - With Marika Green, Martin LaSalle, Jean Pélégri, Pierre Étaix, César Gattegno, Henri Kassagi, ...

Trafic(1971)

1h 36min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 71 votes)

Mr. Hulot is the head designer of the Altra Automotive Co. His latest invention is a newfangled camper car loaded with outrageous extra features. Along with the company's manager and publicity model, Hulot sets out from Paris with the intention of debuting the car at the annual auto show in Amsterdam. The going isn't easy, however, and the group encounters an increasingly bizarre series of hurdles and setbacks en route.

Directed by Jacques Tati - With Jacques Tati, Franco Ressel, Maria Kimberly

The Bothersome Man(2006)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 97 votes)

Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched.

Directed by Jens Lien - With Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Petronella Barker, Birgitte Larsen, Per Schaanning, Sigve Bøe, Ellen Horn, ...

Lonely Are the Brave(1962)

1h 47min | Western
3.7/5 (with 61 votes)

A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.

Directed by David Miller, Kirk Douglas - With Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, Carroll O'Connor, George Kennedy, Karl Swenson, ...

East Is East(1999)

1h 37min | Drama, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 89 votes)

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.

Directed by Damien O'Donnell - With Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Chris Bisson, Jimi Mistry, ...

Shower(1999)

1h 32min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

An aged father and his younger, mentally challenged son have been working hard every day to keep the bathhouse running for a motley group of regular customers. When his elder son, who left years ago to seek his fortune in the southern city of Shenzhen, abruptly returns one day, it once again puts under stress the long-broken father-son ties. Presented as a light-hearted comedy, Shower explores the value of family, friendship, and tradition.

Directed by Zhang Yang - With Zhu Xu, Pu Cunxin, Jiang Wu, Ding Li, Du Jiayi, He Bing, ...

The Burden(2017)

14min | Music, Animation
3.6/5 (with 10 votes)

A shopping center along a large highway is the scene of an apocalyptic musical. Animation with a strong sense of form set to auto-tuned music by Klungan. About liberation through great catastrophy.

Directed by Niki Lindroth von Bahr

The London Nobody Knows(1967)

53min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Based on Geoffrey Fletcher’s book, this captivating documentary exposes the real London of the swinging sixties. Turning its back on familiar sights, the film explores the hidden details of a crumbling metropolis. With James Mason as our Guide, we are led on an tour of the weird and wonderful pockets of London from abandoned music-halls to egg breaking factories.

The Girl in the Rumor(1935)

55min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but is running into financial trouble, causing him to tamper with his stock; Meanwhile, his long-time mistress yearns for something more serious. Amidst this, the older sister is introduced to a well-off suitor: A university boy, much more intrigued by the less traditional little sister. A doddering grandfather, an officious uncle and busybody neighbors also don't make the lives of the hardworking members of the family any easier.

Directed by Mikio Naruse - With Sachiko Chiba
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Method Sampling: How to Build the Future Together(2023)

55min | Documentary, Music

Method Sampling is explored through the works of a hip-hop orchestra, a disabled choreographer, a self-taught Black mycologist, a tiny house builder and a critical theorist.

Marmalade(2022)

26min | Comedy, Drama

An aging drag queen struggles to find her place in the modern drag world.

Small Mall(2004)

1h 7min | Documentary, Comedy
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A Eurovision singer, Iceland's strongest woman, a male model, a plumber who wants to direct movies. They all work in the shopping mall that this documentary focuses on ... most of them want to get out, even just to the bigger mall down the road.

Weizenbaum. Rebel at Work(2007)

1h 20min | Documentary

At a time when the German capital, Berlin, was struggling with famine after World War II, Joseph Weizenbaum was soldering and programming the world's first computers. He created the first banking computer in the world, was perhaps one of the first computer nerds ever and pursued an unprecedented career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the "mighty" MIT in Cambridge, where he invented the first virtual persona, ELIZA/DOCTOR, a program that engaged humans in conversation with a computer. Later, Weizenbaum was branded as a heretic when he began to criticize his colleagues in public. After retiring as a full professor at MIT, he left the United States and is now living in Berlin-Mitte again. Joseph Weizenbaum eventually became a "preacher", strictly demanding responsibility of each individual scientist, condemning war and arguing that mankind have become insane.

Bharata(2023)

Drama, Kids & Family

Embarrassed about his identity and culture, a meek Indian high-schooler decides to attend an American university to pursue his passion for film. But in doing so, he causes a rift in his fundamentalist family.