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    Oedipus Rex

    Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, writer, and film director, translated and adapted Sophocles...

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    Translated from the Norwegian and with a movie by the same name that was nominated for an Oscar, this is an eccentric and truly funny ...

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  • Provides descriptions of 76 famous operas covering plot, dialogue, historical overview of each, and advice for listening and appreciat...

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  • Taxi
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    Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010.  In a courageous a...

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  • This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...

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    In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...

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Movies for adults and children in all of Sawa's world languages

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  • Language:  German
    Genre:  Documentary
    Director :  Vanessa Lapa

    On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds of private letters, documents, diaries, and photographs. The Decent One makes use of these materials to sketch the biography and expose the inner mind, ideals, plans and secrets of SS commander and...

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  • Language:  German
    Genre:  Drama, Thriller
    Cast:  Laia Costa, Frederick Lau
    Director :  Sebastian Schipper

    This film is not a movie; it's not about a bank robbery. It is a bank robbery. Victoria was shot in one single take. Two hours and eighteen minutes. No cuts. No CGI. No cheap tickets. No expensive ones, either. Just one shot.

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  • Language:  Persian
    Genre:  Romance, Thriller
    Cast:  Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi
    Director :  Ana Lily Amirpour

    Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is stalking the town's most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom . . . blood red. B&W

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  • Language:  Persian
    Genre:  Comedy, Drama
    Director :  Jafar Panahi

    Internationally acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been officially banned from filmmaking since 2010.  In a courageous act of artistic and political defiance he has made three features since then including Jafar Panahi's Taxi.  In Taxi he drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up...

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  • Language:  Spanish
    Genre:  Comedy
    Cast:  Robert Lorie, Paul Chamberlain, Ashly Burch
    Director :  Kenny Riches

    A funny, offbeat portait of Miami, The Strongest Man follows Beef (Robert Lorie), an anxiety-ridden Cuban construction worker and his Korean friend Conan (Paul Chamberlain), as their lives get bumped off track the moment they agree to attend a spiritual meditation class.

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  • Language:  Spanish
    Genre:  Documentary
    Director :  Patricio Guzman

    Masterfully explores the significance of water in Chile's vast history and culture, examining the indigenous tribes of the Western Patagonian waterways and the tragic journey of Jemmy Button, who in 1830 was bought by the English Navy for the price of a mother-of-pearl button.

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  • Language:  Spanish
    Genre:  Comedy, Drama
    Cast:  Tenoch Huerta, Leonardo Ortizgris, Sebastian Aguirre
    Director :  Alonso Ruizpalacios

    Ever since the National University strike broke out, Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and Santos (Leonard0 Ortizgris) have been living in angst-ridden limbo. Education-less, motionless, purposeless, and unsure of what the strike will bring. They begin to look for strange ways to kill time. But their routine is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of...

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  • Language:  Arabic, Hebrew
    Genre:  Animation, Documentary
    Director :  Amer Shomali, Paul Cowan

    Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army's pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared "a threat to the national security of the state of Israel."

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  • Language:  Arabic
    Genre:  Documentary
    Director :  Andrea Kalin, Oliver Lukacs

    Award-winning Red Lines provides cinematic boots on the ground, offering a rare window into the Syrian conflict, taking us from the trenches to geopolitical jockeying and becoming, a long the way, a searing expose of an ongoing humanitarian crisis.

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  • Language:  Hebrew
    Genre:  Drama
    Cast:  Sarit Larry, Avi Schnaidman
    Director :  Nadav Lapid

    The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ulitmately consumed, by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student.

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  • Language:  German
    Genre:  Drama
    Cast:  Jonas Nay
    Director :  Edward Berger, Samira Radsi

    A coming-of-age story within a suspenseful thriller, set against the real events, culture wars and political realities of Germany in the 1980s.

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