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  • Seven Samurai
    Japan - 1954
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    Set in 16th Century Japan, Akira Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai' follows the plight of a defenseless farming village that lives in constant fear of marauding bandits. The ...
  • Dersu Uzala
    Soviet Union (USSR) - 1975
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    It is the story of an elderly guide and Goldi hunter (Maxim Munzuk), who, at the turn of the century, agrees to shepherd a Russian explorer (Yuri Solomin) and a troop of ...
  • Oldboy
    South Korea - 2003
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    'Oldboy' features Choi Min-sik as a Korean businessman who is suddenly kidnapped and confined in a cell with only a television set. He makes various efforts to escape and ...
  • Parasite
    South Korea - 2019
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    A peculiar tale about two families who are worlds apart yet somewhat alike portrays a striking reality of the world we live in. Gi Taek (Song Kang-ho) and his family are ...
  • Hero
    China - 2002
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    2003 Foreign Language Oscar nominee. At the height of China's Warring States period, the country was divided into seven kingdoms: Qin, Zhao, Han Wei, Yan, Chu and Qi. For ...
  • Tokyo Story
    Japan - 1953
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    An elderly couple visit their children in Tokyo, only to be passed around from family to family.
  • Pather Panchali
    India - 1955
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    Tells the story of a Bengali family driven by bad fortune. The father, Harihara, is a secular clerk, healer, dreamer and poet. Sabajaya, the mother, works to feed the ...
  • Aparajito (The Unvanquished)
    India - 1956
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    The second chapter in director Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy ('Pather Panchali', 'Aparajito', 'The World of Apu'). Following Apu and his family to the city, Ray explores the ...
  • The World of Apu
    India - 1959
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    Forced to abandon his education, Apu´s prospects look bleak until fate intervenes in the form of an insane bridegroom. To save the abandoned bride from public disgrace, ...
  • Harakiri
    Japan - 1962
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    A ronin, a masterless samurai, requests permission to commit an honorable ritual suicide at the home of a powerful but sadistic warlord. The warlord is reluctant to ...
  • In the Mood for Love
    Hong Kong - 2000
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    Two couples meet and live in a building mainly inhabited by the Shanghai community. The husband of one couple, Chau, meets the beautiful wife of the second couple, ...
  • Akira
    Japan - 1988
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    Neo-Tokyo has risen from the ashes of World War III to become a dark and dangerous megalopolis infested with gangs and terrorists. The government seethes with corruption ...
  • Bin-jip (3-Iron)
    South Korea - 2004
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    A young drifter enters strangers' houses - and lives - while owners are away. He spends a night or a day squatting in, repaying their unwitting hospitality by doing ...
  • Turtles Can Fly
    Iran - 2004
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    2004: San Sebastian International Film Festival: Winner Golden Shell. In a village in Iraqi Kurdistan, on the border between Iran and Turkey, the villagers desperately ...
  • The Handmaiden
    South Korea - 2016
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    1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with ...
  • Spirited Away
    Japan - 2001
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    10-year old Chihiro becomes trapped in a forbidden world of gods and magic when her parents take her to investigate the other side of the tunnel. In order to survive, ...
  • Grave of the Fireflies
    Japan - 1988
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    A Japanese boy of 14 and his 4 year old sister, attempt to seek refuge from the atrocities of World War II in the small city of Kobe. In post-World War II Japan, a ...
  • Ring
    Japan - 1998
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    After the death of her cousin Tomoko, reporter Reiko hears stories of a videotape that kills everyone who sees it exactly one week after viewing. At first she discounts ...
  • A Separation
    Iran - 2011
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    Nader (Peyman Moaadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) argue about living abroad. Simin prefers to live abroad to provide better opportunities for their only daughter, Termeh. ...
  • Princess Mononoke
    Japan - 1997
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    A prince is infected with an incurable disease by a possessed boar/god. He is to die unless he can find a cure to rid the curse from his body. It seems that his only hope ...
  • Yojimbo
    Japan - 1961
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    In the 19th century, in a Feudal Japan, a samurai arrives to a rural village that is divided between two groups; neither side is particularly honorable. As he shows his ...
  • Ghost in the Shell
    Japan - 1995
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    The year is 2029. The world has become intensively information oriented and humans are well-connected to the network. Crime has developed into a sophisticated stage by ...
  • The Eye
    Hong Kong - 2002
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    A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for when she realised she could even see ...
  • Memories of Murder
    South Korea - 2003
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    South Korea in 1986 under the military dictatorship: Two rural cops and a special detective from the capital investigate a series of brutal rape murder. Their rude ...
  • The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
    Japan - 2003
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    Blind Zatoichi makes his living by gambling and giving massages. But behind his humble facade, Zatoichi is a master swordsman, gifted with lightning–fast draw and strokes ...
  • The Chaser
    South Korea - 2008
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    Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them ...
  • Taste of Cherry
    Iran - 1997
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    An Iranian man drives his truck in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
  • Ran
    Japan - 1985
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    A reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that he's about to ...
  • 2046
    Hong Kong - 2004
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    He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went ...
  • Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    South Korea - 2003
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    A wise old monk (Oh Young-soo) is master to a young student, and remains so throughout the changing seasons of the younger monks life. In springtime the young monk is a ...
  • Paradise Now
    Palestine - 2005
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    24 Hours in the Life of a terrorist. Khaled and Said are two young Palestinians who have been friends from childhood recruited to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. ...
  • Return of the Dragon (Way of the Dragon)
    Hong Kong - 1972
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    Tang Lung (Bruce Lee) arrives in Rome to help his cousins in the restaurant business. They are being pressured to sell their property to the syndicate, who will stop at ...
  • The Wayward Cloud
    Taiwan - 2005
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    Taipei is besieged by a drought so extreme, citizens have taken to drinking watermelon juice and bathing in rooftop reservoirs. In its scarcity, the value of water is ...
  • Train to Busan
    South Korea - 2016
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    Sok-Woo and his daughter Soo-Ahn are boarding the KTX, a fast train that shall bring them from Seoul to Busan. But right at the moment of their departure, the train ...
  • The House of Small Cubes (S)
    Japan - 2008
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    As his town is flooded by water, an aged widower is forced to add additional levels onto his home with bricks (cubes) in order to stay dry. But when he accidentally drops ...
  • Ong Bak: Muay Thai Warrior
    Thailand - 2003
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    When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.
  • Farewell My Concubine
    China - 1993
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    "Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who ...
  • Ju-on: The Grudge
    Japan - 2002
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    An eerie tale of a family who is brutally killed in their own home leaving behind an evil spirit lurking in the shadows. When an unknowing homecare worker enters the ...
  • A Better Tomorrow
    Hong Kong - 1986
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    A death-hardened cop battles the Hong Kong underworld, including his own brother who joins the bad guys. This progenitor of Woos "heroic violence" films introduces the ...
  • Fireworks
    Japan - 1997
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    Nishi is a cop whose wife is slowly dying of Leukemia. One of his partners gets shot on the job and is confined to a wheel chair for the rest of his life and becomes ...
  • The Host
    South Korea - 2006
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    Hee-bong (Byun Hee-bong) is the owner of a small food stand in the Han River Citizen's Park, selling squid, candy and beer to people who have come out to enjoy the sun. ...
  • Kikujiro
    Japan - 1999
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    Tokyo, the present. Masao, an only child, lives with his grandmother. His only friend leaves for his summer holiday. Finding a photograph of his mother with an address, ...
  • My Sassy Girl
    South Korea - 2001
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    Based on an anonymous diary posted on the internet, MY SASSY GIRL is the touching true story of a dolt in love. The object of his affection is a hard-drinking chick who ...
  • The Killer
    Hong Kong - 1989
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    In this bloody tale of loyalty and friendship, Chow Yun-Fat is Jeffrey, an assassin who wishes to leave the business so he can take care of Jennie, the beautiful lounge ...
  • Tales of Ugetsu
    Japan - 1953
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    In the civil wars of 16th century Japan, two ambitious peasants want to make their fortunes. The potter Genjuro intends to sell his wares for vast profits in the local ...
  • The Road Home
    China - 1999
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    A man returns to the village where he was raised to help his mother arrange his father's funeral in this romantic drama about the courtship of his parents and the value ...
  • The Protector
    Thailand - 2005
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    TOM-YUM-GOONG is the story of a young man named Kham (Tony Jaa) whose life is turned upside down when an international mafia syndicate, based in Australia , captures his ...
  • Ip Man
    Hong Kong - 2008
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    A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun.
  • Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
    South Korea - 2002
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    Mr. Vengeance tells the story of Ryu a deaf-mute, has a sister that needs a kidney transplant. Recently laid off at his factory, he has to find other ways to obtain 10 ...
  • Raise the Red Lantern
    China - 1991
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    China in the 1920's. After her father's death, 19 year-old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerfull family. 50 year-old Chen has already three ...
  • Rashomon
    Japan - 1950
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    In 12th century Japan, Masako (Machiko Kyo) and her husband Takehiro (Masayuki Mori) are attacked in the woods by armed bandit Tajomaru (Toshiro Mifune), who then murders ...
  • My Blueberry Nights
    Hong Kong - 2007
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    A young woman (Norah Jones) takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters along the ...
  • The Grandmaster
    Hong Kong - 2013
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    The story of martial-arts and the soul of China civilization. Two kung fu masters —Ip Man (Tony Leung), the man who trained Bruce Lee, and Gong Er (Zhang Ziyi), who comes ...
  • Shaolin Soccer
    Hong Kong - 2001
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    Shaolin was an art practiced through the ages; a skill mastered in the heart. In Shaolin Soccer, it is so much more than a philosophy for six young believers. It is a ...
  • My Neighbor Totoro
    Japan - 1988
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    Two young girls, Satsuke and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuke and Mei ...
  • House of Flying Daggers
    China - 2004
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    It is 859AD, and the Tang Dynasty, one of the most enlightened empires in Chinese history at its height, is in decline. The Emperor is incompetent and the government is ...
  • Late Spring
    Japan - 1949
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    A widower who lives with his daughter wants her to get married, but she doesn't want to leave him alone. He will pretend that he is about to marry in order to convince ...
  • Infernal Affairs
    Hong Kong - 2002
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    A tightly wound thriller which centers on two Hong Kong police officers - one a gang mole on the force and the other an undercover cop in the gang - who share the same ...
  • The Fall
    India - 2006
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    Hollywood, in the twenties. An action sequence stuntman is hospitalized after a fall that leaves him unable to walk. There he finds the support of Alexandria, a young ...
  • The Scent of Green Papaya
    Vietnam - 1993
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    A little girl, Mui, went to a house as a new servant. The mother still mourns the death of her daughter, who would have been Mui's age. In her mind she treated Mui as her ...
  • The Life of Oharu
    Japan - 1952
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    It tells the story of Oharu, a 50-year-old woman who suffers the strict conventions of 17th century Feudal Japan. She becomes the lover of a man, but when they are ...
  • Curse of the Golden Flower
    China - 2006
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    The plot concerns the volatile balance of power between the King (Chow Yun Fat) and the Queen (Gong Li) and his three sons, which entails betrayal, deceit and passion, ...
  • Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
    South Korea - 2005
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    Lady Vengeance tells the story of Kum-ja, a woman who takes revenge after serving 13 years in jail in place of an evil man who abducts and kills a 6-year-old boy. Two ...
  • Confessions
    Japan - 2010
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    Impassive before a class where lack of interest and disorder reign, a teacher begins a long monologue that culminates in an overwhelming revelation: the accident that ...
  • Rumble in the Bronx
    Hong Kong - 1995
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    Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. ...
  • In the Realm of the Senses
    Japan - 1976
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    The film for which Oshima earned worldwide fame and marked a new era in the way sexuality was portrayed in cinema. The true story of Sada Abe, the woman who killed and ...
  • The Mission
    Hong Kong - 1999
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    Triad boss Lung, who has just escaped being killed in an assasination attempt hires the killers Curtis, James, Mike, Roy and Shin for his protection. Their grown ...
  • Exiled
    Hong Kong - 2006
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    Two hired killers, arriving from Macau to execute a colleague who is trying to start a new life, must face a dilemma when two other ex-partners try to disrupt their ...
  • Castaway on the Moon
    South Korea - 2009
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    'Castaway on the Moon' tells the story of a man whose life is falling apart. His girlfriend has left him, he's in debt and a failure at business. Feeling that there's no ...
  • The Chess Players
    India - 1977
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    Set in colonial India in 1856. The British Resident of the East India Company (Richard Attenborough) has observed that the monarch of Lucknow, which is in his trading ...
  • Dark Water
    Japan - 2002
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    An economically disadvantaged woman undergoes an ugly custody battle for her daughter, which descends into a supernatural maelstrom.
  • Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
    Hong Kong - 1991
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    A young man with superhuman strength is incarcerated at a prison run by corrupt officials and seeks to use his martial arts to clean up the system.
  • I Saw the Devil
    South Korea - 2010
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    Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even begin to imagine and his ...
Movies from this Rating List. (Click on a movie to rate it)
  • Seven Samurai
  • Dersu Uzala
  • Oldboy
  • Parasite
  • Hero
  • Tokyo Story
  • Pather Panchali
  • Aparajito (The Unvanquished)
  • The World of Apu
  • Harakiri
  • In the Mood for Love
  • Akira
  • Bin-jip (3-Iron)
  • Turtles Can Fly
  • The Handmaiden
  • Spirited Away
  • Grave of the Fireflies
  • Ring
  • A Separation
  • Princess Mononoke
  • Yojimbo
  • Ghost in the Shell
  • The Eye
  • Memories of Murder
  • The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
  • The Chaser
  • Taste of Cherry
  • Ran
  • 2046
  • Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
  • Paradise Now
  • Return of the Dragon (Way of the Dragon)
  • The Wayward Cloud
  • Train to Busan
  • The House of Small Cubes (S)
  • Ong Bak: Muay Thai Warrior
  • Farewell My Concubine
  • Ju-on: The Grudge
  • A Better Tomorrow
  • Fireworks
  • The Host
  • Kikujiro
  • My Sassy Girl
  • The Killer
  • Tales of Ugetsu
  • The Road Home
  • The Protector
  • Ip Man
  • Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
  • Raise the Red Lantern
  • Rashomon
  • My Blueberry Nights
  • The Grandmaster
  • Shaolin Soccer
  • My Neighbor Totoro
  • House of Flying Daggers
  • Late Spring
  • Infernal Affairs
  • The Fall
  • The Scent of Green Papaya
  • The Life of Oharu
  • Curse of the Golden Flower
  • Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
  • Confessions
  • Rumble in the Bronx
  • In the Realm of the Senses
  • The Mission
  • Exiled
  • Castaway on the Moon
  • The Chess Players
  • Dark Water
  • Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
  • I Saw the Devil
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