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De Arm Van Jezus

2003 · ★ 8

Jakob Yzermans is an American salesman looking for his roots in Rotterdam. He thinks his father (Hendrik Yzermans) has left Holland with the money he took from his collegues. Jakob is trying to get the money together to repay the money. While doing so he encounters more and more problems.

Bioscope

2008 · ★ 6.8

Set in the second decade of the 20th century, this is a story of cinema entering villages of Kerala. The protagonist Diwakaran gets attracted to the new machine, bioscope, at an exhibition by Frenchman DuPont, who does bioscope shows on the coasts of Tamil Nadu.

Barton Fink

1991 · ★ 7.5

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

The White Sound

2001 · ★ 7

Lukas, a young schizophrenic man, has to deal with a new town, a new relationship, and the paranoia in his head.

A Woman in Transit

1984 · ★ 5.8

Even though the protagonist of the Canadian Femme De L'Hotel is a female filmmaker, one would think twice before suggesting that this effort by Swiss-born director Lea Pool is autobiographical. Paule Baillargeon portrays a well-known director who returns to her home town of Montreal to film a high-budget musical drama. At her hotel, Paule has a brief but unsettling encounter with a suicidal elderly woman (Louise Marleau). This element of the plot is briefly forgotten as we get to know the actors in Paule's current project. Then she meets the old lady again, and with mounting incredulity Paule discovers that the actual events in the woman's life mirror the fictional events in the director's film.

Small Change

1976 · ★ 7.1

The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges most their age experience.

Day for Night

1973 · ★ 7.8

A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

The Room

Two trajectories of exile intersect for a short moment somewhere in a simple room, where two men, two strangers, will finally be able to face their own destinies.

Serbis

2008 · ★ 6.1

A struggling family owns a Filipino porn theater where prostitutes conduct their business.

The Bad and the Beautiful

1952 · ★ 7.3

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

Chaplin

1992 · ★ 7.4

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.

I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive

2009 · ★ 5.9

Now a taciturn adult, an adoptee finds his biological mother and strikes up a relationship fraught with tension and emotion.