Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's adaptation of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal. Yup, it's that vague, but strangely moving. Whoever kicked away this guy's financial crutches was an enemy of mystic art! Alejandro Jodorowsky is considered a genius by many and a fraud by others, so please make your own mind up.
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L'AGE D'OR (1930)
Certification15 Our Rating
The film opens as a young woman sits compliantly while Buñuel takes a razor and slices her eye open. What follows is a surrealist exposition. The film focuses on a man's attempt to make love to a woman, who always seems out of reach. He is grabbed by two men and led around the streets, staring into images which become animated. The film has its unpleasant moments; a man executes his young son for a minor offence, a blind man is assaulted crossing a road, but Bunuel's savage humour is always evid
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LA BELLE ET LA BETE (1946)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Cocteau's version of the famous fairytale which, with its fantastic set design, set standards never bettered. The love story between woman and beast, in a fantasy world inside his enchanted castle, is both erotic and tragic, and this bewilderingly, beautiful and mystifying film is often seen as an allegory for a wounded France recovering from the Nazi occupation. Pure genius.
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MIRACLE IN MILAN (1951)
Certification12 Our Rating
Vittorio De Sica's award-winning masterpiece, Miracle in Milan, is one of the watershed films of the Italian cinema renaissance.
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ORPHEE (1949)
Certification15 Our Rating
Cocteau re-works the Greek myth in contempory terms as Death, a beautiful woman, helps the poet Orpheus rescue his lover from hell. Imaginative, memorable, baffling and beautiful. One of the most poetic movies in the history of cinema.
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THE DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY (1947)
CertificationU Our Rating
Using the framing story of a man who discovers how to craft and sell dreams to a series of anxious clients, Richter allotted each dream (seven in all) to various Surrealists/Dadaists; Max Ernst, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp and Alexander Calder amongst others. For four decades one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde Hans Richter's ‘Dreams That Money Can Buy', shot for just $25,000, went on to win the Venice Film Festival Award for the best original contribution to the progres
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THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973)
Certification18 Our Rating
"Thief, if you don't want to die, kill your money !"
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THE TALES OF HOFFMAN (1951)
CertificationU Our Rating
Powell and Pressburger's follow-up to The Red Shoes is a trio of stories concerning the perils and heartbreak of unrequited love. Although at times uneven and perilously close to kitsch, Hoffman remains a lavish and sumptuous spectacle of dance, music and film.
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VAMPYR: THE STRANGE ADVENTURE OF ALLAN GRAY (1932)
CertificationU Our Rating
Allan Grey stops at a rural inn near a castle and starts to have strange hallucinations. Allan visits the castle, where the daughter is suffering from anaemia, which her father believes to be the result of a vampire. After the undead off the dad, Allen gens up on the lore and tracks down the evil spirit.
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WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS (1960)
CertificationPG Our Rating
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse's finest hour, a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko, played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine, who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo's very modern post-war Ginza district. Sly, resourceful, but trapped, Keiko comes to embody the conflicts and struggles of a woman trying to establish her independence in a male-dominated society. A profoundly moving masterpiece.
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