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Lynch/Oz (2023)
6.8 / 10

Documentary

Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore...

Exergo (2024)
0 / 10

Documentary, Drama

A young woman who has just started a job at an art museum writes an email to a friend she lived with until recently. The other woman, also young,...

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
6.3 / 10

Comedy, Drama

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children...

Vampir Cuadecuc (1972)
6 / 10

Documentary

An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction...

F for Fake (1973)
7.411 / 10

Documentary

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his...

Cremaster 4 (1995)
6 / 10

Fantasy

CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward...

La Camargue (1966)
5.5 / 10

Documentary

A short 6-minute essay-documentary by Maurice Pialat on the region in which much of the action of Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble unfolds.

Visions of Europe (2004)
4.9 / 10

Documentary, Comedy, Drama

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Magnicidios Poe (2017)
2 / 10

Documentary, Comedy, Animation

The sarcastic account of the assassination of five Spanish politicians between 1870 and 1973 is mixed with the narration of five short stories by...

Lejano Interior (2020)
10 / 10

Documentary, Fantasy

A "cinematic object" by Mariano Llinás, divided into 9 chapters, based on the poetry of Henri Michaux.

Obit (2017)
6.4 / 10

Documentary

How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys...

Treblinka (2016)
2 / 10

Present, past and future merge in the wagons of a train that crosses Eastern Europe in the XXI century: Poland, Russia, Ukraine. The slogan of the...

Blue Diary (1997)
5.2 / 10

Drama

Through voiceover and static San Francisco landscapes this experimental narrative short tells the melancholy story of a butch dyke pining over a one...

Land of Dreams (1988)
7 / 10

Documentary

"Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he...

Desolate Rome (1995)
4 / 10

Documentary

Chronicles of a male homosexual drug addict in 1980's in voice-over with long take scenes from Rome, television snippets of news of Gulf War and...

Filmfarsi (2019)
2 / 10

Documentary

A found-footage essay, Filmfarsi salvages low budget thrillers and melodramas suppressed following the 1979 Islamic revolution.

The So-Called Caryatids (1984)
6.2 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of...

Pineapple (2020)
0 / 10

Documentary

A short made during quarantine. - "I feel like I'm coming out of hibernation. I did not learn anything, I did not developed personal growth, nor...

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story (1989)
6.5 / 10

Documentary

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years...

On Memory (2021)
8 / 10

Documentary, Animation

Musing on the nature of memory, Don Hertzfeldt recounts stories about a kiss from The King, a floating child in a backyard and a giant foot.