Yip Man aka Ip Man (Hong Kong , 2008)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1 Release Year - 2008 Country - Hong Kong Genres - Action | Biography | Drama IMDB page Synopsis: First part of the two sets of films - Ip Man & Ip Man 2 A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. Ip Man is the award winning film adaptation about the life story of Ip Man, the grand master of the Wing Chun style of kung fu and sifu (master)...

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Rashômon aka Rashomon (Japan , 1950)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.4 Release Year - 1950 Country - Japan Genres - Crime | Drama | Mystery IMDB page Synopsis: A crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways. A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashômon. The priest and the woodcutter are recounting the story of a murdered samurai whose body the woodcutter discovered...

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Incendies (Canada , 2010)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.2 | Metacritic - 82 Release Year - 2010 Country - Canada Genres - Drama | Mystery | War IMDB page | Metacritic page Synopsis: A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Scorched, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending...

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Yôjinbô aka Yojimbo (Japan , 1961)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.4 Release Year - 1961 Country - Japan Genres – Action | Crime | Drama IMDB page Synopsis: First part of the Yojimbo - Sanjuro two films set A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town. Sanjuro, a wandering samurai enters a rural town in nineteenth century Japan. After learning from the innkeeper that the town is divided between two gangsters,...

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Shichinin no samurai aka Seven Samurai (Japan , 1954)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.8 | Metacritic - 99 Release Year - 1954 Country - Japan Genres - Adventure | Drama IMDB page | Metacritic page Synopsis: A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves. A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves,...

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Tsubaki Sanjûrô aka Sanjuro (Japan , 1962)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1 Release Year - 1962Country - JapanGenres - Action | Drama | Thriller IMDB page Synopsis : Second part of the Yojimbo - Sanjuro two films set (sequel of Yojimbo) A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent. A group of idealistic young men, determined to clean up the corruption in their town, are aided by a scruffy, cynical...

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Persona (Sweden , 1966)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.2 Release Year - 1966Country - SwedenGenres - Drama | Fantasy IMDB page Synopsis : A nurse is put in charge of an actress who can't talk and finds that the actress's persona is melding with hers. A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer....

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Underground (Yugoslavia , 1995)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1 Release Year - 1995Country - YugoslaviaGenres - Comedy | Drama | War IMDB page Synopsis : The film uses the epic story of two friends to portray and satirize the history of Yugoslavia since the Second World War. The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations. A black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans doesn't mention to the workers...

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Kakushi-toride no san-akunin aka The Hidden Fortress (Japan , 1958)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1 Release Year - 1958Country - JapanGenres - Action | Adventure IMDB page Synopsis : Lured by gold, two greedy peasants escort a man and woman across enemy lines. However, they do not realize that their companions are actually a princess and her general. The story follows two greedy peasants in feudal Japan, Tahei and Matashichi, who are returning home from a failed attempt to profit from a war between neighboring...

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Zwartboek aka Black Book (Netherlands , 2006)

Ratings - IMDB - 7.9 | Metacritic - 71 Release Year - 2006 Country - Netherlands Genres - Drama | Thriller | War IMDB page | Metacritic page Synopsis: In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance. Awards – Nominated for BAFTA Film Award Won the Young Cinema Award for best international film at the Venice International Film Festival Won...

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Central do Brasil aka Central Station (Brazil , 1998)

Ratings - IMDB - 7.9 | Metacritic - 80 Release Year - 1998Country - Brazil Genres - Drama IMDB page A Very Special Emotional Experience "An odyssey of simple problems, simple emotional discoveries, [and] a relationship full of knots" - Richard Schickel "Bravura performance by the Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro" - Janet Maslin , NYT Synopsis : An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who write letters for illiterate...

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Salinui chueok aka Memories of Murder (South Korea , 2003)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1 | Metacritic - 82 Release Year - 2003 Country - South Korea Genres - Crime | Drama | Mystery IMDB page Synopsis: Two rural cops and a special detective from the capital investigate a series of brutal rape murder. Their crude measures become more desperate with each new corpse found. Based on a true case. In 1986, in the province of Gyunggi, in South Korea, a second young and beautiful woman is found dead, raped...

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La jetée (France , 1962)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.3 Release Year - 1962Country - FranceGenres - Short | Drama | Romance IMDB page Synopsis : Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. The film runs for 28 minutes and is in black and white. Time travel, still images, a past, present and future and the aftermath of World War III. The tale of a man, a slave, sent back and forth, in and out of time,...

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Nuit et brouillard aka Night and Fog (France , 1955)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.6 Release Year - 1955Country - FranceGenres - Documentary | Short | History IMDB page Synopsis : The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside. One of the most vivid depictions of the horrors of Nazi Concentration Camps. Filmed in 1955 at several concentration camps in Poland, the film combines new color and black and white footage...

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