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Adventures of Juan Quin Quin, The
Juan Quin Quin, a poor but shrewd farmer, lives on his wits in pre-revolutionary Cuba - as a circus performer, a bull-fighter, a coffee planter, even playing the part of Christ with a traveling theatre company. Then he joins the Revolution....



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Agnes and His Brothers
Agnes and his brothers have little in common except an eccentric father, relationship problems that are screwing up their lives, and a suspicion that there is a distinct possibility those two things are connected.



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Almost Brothers: Global Lens Collection
This searing look at the class struggle of Brazil over a period of four decades is told through the closely linked yet fatally divided lives of Miguel, a middle-class white rebel, and Jorge, his black childhood friend.



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Almost Peaceful
Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restart their lives and rekindle their capacity for happiness in the shadow of unspeakable horrors.



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Amada
This classic from the director of Lucía is set in 1914 Havana. Privileged but unhappily married, Amada falls in love with her cousin Marcial, a young man with revolutionary designs. Will she follow her passion and escape her unfaithful husband?



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Angel on the Right: Global Lens Collection
Ten years after leaving Tajikistan, the gangster Hamro is tricked into returning to his home village, where he must confront old foes, debts, his tradition bound mother and a son that he didn’t know he had.



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Apaches: DEFA Collection
In this Western created by Communist East Germany’s legendary DEFA Film Studios, a young Apache warrior sets out to avenge the extermination of his tribe on the eve of the Mexican-American war.



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Architects, The: DEFA Collection
Filmed as East Germany crumbled, this somber, finely drawn portrait of life in East Berlin is one of the first fiction films to deal both with both East Germany and the reunification period.



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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: Empire Collection
Based on the best-selling novel set during China�s cultural revolution, this acclaimed film is about two young men who are sent to a remote mountain village for a Maoist re-education.



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Berlin Schönhauser Corner: DEFA Collection
In this landmark film about rebellious youth, a group of teenagers meet daily on Schönhauser Street in East Berlin to dance to rock n’ roll, swap Western goods and escape the control of their parents and the State.



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Border Cafe: Global Lens Collection
A young widow takes over her late husband's truck stop café, staying in the kitchen so as not to cause a scandal in Iran's conservative society. But her brother-in-law, out of familial obligation, wants to take her as a wife and also take over the café.



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Born in '45: DEFA Collection
Banned in 1966, this sexually frank film, bursting with the stylistic energy of Neo-Realism and the French New Wave, centers on two newlyweds who are going crazy living together in their tiny flat and decide to divorce.



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Bridesmaid, The
Directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the novel by Ruth Rendell. It's love at first sight when Senta falls into the life of handsome young Philippe, but Philippe soon discovers that Senta's life is shrouded in mystery.



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Brothers In Trouble- VHS
A Film by Udayan Prasad. A funny and moving portrait of the secret lives and loves of a group of Pakistani "illegals" in 1960's Britain.



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Buffalo Boy: Global Lens Collection
In 1940s Vietnam, a young man takes up with a band of nomadic buffalo herders and discovers freedom, violence and love - but also secrets about his past that will change his life forever.



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Butterfly, The
Eight-year-old Elsa and her mother move in next to Julien, an ornery old entomologist with a lavish butterfly collection in his apartment.



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Carbide and Sorrel: DEFA Collection
A hilarious and rare classic of German cinema, CARBIDE AND SORREL is a road trip adventure set in the last days of World War II.



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Caterina in the Big City
In this coming of age drama from Italy, Caterina moves from a provincial seaside town to politically-charged, class-conscious Rome. As her parent’s marriage disintegrates, Caterina finds comfort in her extended family and a budding romance.



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Cecilia
Considered one of Cuba’s most controversial films ever, this award-winning classic from Humberto Solás tells the story of the son of a rich colonial family who falls in love with a proud, beautiful but poor mulatto girl in 1830s Cuba.



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Chingachgook:The Great Snake: DEFA Collection
In this Western created by Communist East Germany’s legendary DEFA Film Studios, French colonists are fighting the English, and each use Indian tribes as their allies.



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Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures: Global Lens Collection
Johann, a young German opposed to Hitler’s war, travels the roads of Brazil where he meets Ranulpho, a sharp-tongued hitchhiker. But as Brazil enters the war against Germany and Johann is ordered home, each man must decide his own fate.



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Clandestinos
One of the most commercially successful of all Cuban films, this action-packed political thriller chronicles the romance between two young revolutionaries in 1950s Havana as they fight for their lives against Batista’s secret service.



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Commune, La (Paris 1871)
In Peter Watkins' powerful masterpiece, a cast of hundreds re-create the events of the Paris Commune of 1871 as competing camera crews capture the drama as it unfolds.



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Council of the Gods: DEFA Collection
Based on testimony from the Nuremberg Trial of chemical giant I.G. Farben, this is the story of the collaboration between international corporations and Nazi scientists, whose research contributed to the death of millions.



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Cow, The
In a small village in Iran, Hassan cherishes his cow more than anything in the world. The Cow won great acclaim at the Venice Film Festival after being smuggled out of Iran in 1971.



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Cuban Masterworks Collection, The
Five masterworks from revolutionary Cuba. Beautifully restored and directed by three legendary filmmakers, they reveal a unique perspective of their country – one which Americans are unaccustomed to seeing.



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Cup Final
A Film by Eran Riklis. When an Israeli soldier is captured by a band of PLO fighters en route to Beirut, a passion for soccer leads to a tale of shared humanity.




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DEFA Sci-Fi Collection
Newly remastered and packed with fascinating bonus materials, this collection features three seminal works from the legendary DEFA film studio: The Silent Star, Eolomea and In the Dust of the Stars.



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Dad on the Run
A Film by Dante Desarthe. Fueled by klezmer and set in the Paris night world, Dad On The Run is an intelligent & hilarious screwball comedy involving Bar Mitzvahs, frozen fish and a misplaced foreskin.




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Dam Street: Global Lens Collection
During a time of rigid moral code in China, a sixteen year old girl living in small town discovers she is pregnant, and is forced to put her child up for adoption. Ten years later, a marriage proposal probes the depth of her unresolved past.



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Daniella By Night
A Film by Max Pecas. Original sex kitten Elke Sommer is Daniella, a beautiful model who arrives in Rome and becomes involved in a murderous spy plot.




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Daughter of Keltoum: Global Lens Collection
A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace - an isolated Berber settlement in the mountainous desert landscape of Algeria - to find her biological mother, who she has never met.



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Day Silence Died, The- VHS
A Film by Paolo Agazzi. A sheltered Bolivian town changes forever when a mysterious stranger sets up a radio and loudspeakers for the townspeople to air their dirty laundry.



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Deserted Station
In this lyrical and intimately nuanced story conceived by Abbas Kiarostami and starring Leila Hatami, a photographer and his young wife are stranded in a remote Iranian village after their car breaks down.



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Details of a Duel- VHS
A Film by Sergio Cabrera. Set in the Andes in the 1950's, a local school teacher and the town butcher must fight a duel to the death over an unnamed woman.



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Disenchanted , The
A Film by Benoit Jacquot. A beautiful 17 year old school girl (Judith Godreche) who lives with her younger brother and ailing mother in Paris must come to terms with three different men in her life.




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Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday
A Film By Didier Le Pecheur. Starring Elodie Bouchez (Dreamlife of Angels) and Jean-Marc Barr (Dancer in the Dark) this provocative, disturbing film takes you on a dangerous sexual odyssey.




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Dreaming Lhasa
Karma, a Tibetan filmmaker from New York, goes to India to make a documentary about former political prisoners who have escaped from Tibet. There she embarks on a journey into Tibet's fractured past and a voyage of self-discovery.



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Dreaming of Rita- VHS
A Film by Jon Lindstrom. A romantic adventure about a young mother who helps her widowed father search for an old flame, as she too is pursued by her husband and baby.



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Electric Shadows
From one of China's newest cinematic voices comes a charming tale about the days when the cinema enchanted China's masses, and audiences breathed and dreamed as one.



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Embalmer, The
A Film by Matteo Garrone. Middle aged, tiny Peppino is a taxidermist who meets a very tall and attractive young waiter named Valerio at the zoo. When Valerio falls for Deborah, a beautiful young woman, a battle of wills ensues.



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Eolomea: DEFA Collection
A sci-fi classic from the legendary DEFA studio. A mysterious message - “Eolomea” - is received on Earth from space. Within days, eight ships disappear, and a space station goes silent. What is Eolomea- and who on Earth knows about it?



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Fine Dead Girls: Global Lens Collection
A lesbian couple rent an apartment in a seemingly quiet building, but what initially appears as a safe love haven quickly turns into a nightmare. Fine Dead Girls has been named one of the best Croatian movies of the last decade.



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First Love and Other Pains & One of Them
Delighting gay festival-goers around the world, these two audience favorites explore the phenomenon of first love - the discovery, the thrill, the fear, and the heartache.




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Freud Leaving Home- VHS
A Film by Susanne Bier. At 25, Freud still lives at home with her parents, but just when her mother's 60th birthday approaches she falls in love and finally attempts to leave her nest.



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Fuse: Global Lens Collection
In this bitingly funny story set in Bosnia two years after the civil war, a small town is turned upside down trying to create a squeaky clean image of itself as it prepares for a visit by President Bill Clinton.



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GFI Africa Collection
Four films from the Global Lens Collection. Titles included are Daughter of Keltoum, Hollow City, The Night of Truth and Rachida.



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