A photo-journalist, returning from a fruitless trip to the States, has a small child, Alice, dumped on him in a New York airport. The pair journey across Germany searching for her home town, whose name and address Alice can't remember, the only clue they have is a photograph of her grandmother's front door with no house number and no one in the shot. Full of low-key charm, an eminently watchable road movie that closely foreshadowed "Paris Texas".
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BADLANDS (1974)
Certification18 Our Rating
He was 25-years-old, combed his hair like James Dean. She took music lessons and could twirl a baton, she was 15. For a while they lived together in a tree house then in 1959, she watched while he killed a lot of people. A tale of two dumb kids going nowhere who achieved infamy in the US Midwest. The original to films like Natural Born Killers and True Romance. Sheen, Spacek and Malick debut in this impressive cult classic Brilliant - watch it!
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IN THIS WORLD (2002)
Certification15 Our Rating
We follow young Jamal on the long dangerous land journey from a refugee camp on the Pakistan Afghanistan border thru' Iran, Turkey, Italy and France to the new Mecca; London. Minimalist in dialogue and very naturalistic. Superb.
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INTO THE WEST (1992)
CertificationPG Our Rating
A magical story of two young boys who flee from their grim and hopeless urban Irish tinker slum. Their saviour comes in the unlikely guise of a mysterious white horse, but when the horse is sold to an evil farmer, they must steal it back and escape to the west coast. Beautiful and moving fairytale.
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MORVERN CALLAR (2002)
Certification15 Our Rating
Morvern Callar is a young Scottish lass with an attitude to life that provides it with few demands, but when she finds her boyfriend dead on the floor one morning and the manuscript to his just finished book not far away, it would seem life (and her dead beau) is offering her the opportunity to blag herself a future. Morvern Callar is a striking movie, cool offbeat and like Lynne Ramsay's previous, 'Ratcatcher', it's a blemishless observation of the human psyche.
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PARIS TEXAS (1983)
Certification15 Our Rating
Winner of the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. A story of one man's harrowing odyssey to return his seven-year-old son to the woman he once loved and lost. A brilliantly atmospheric and emotional movie with a great soundtrack by Ry Cooder.
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THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Made almost contemporaneously with the 1930s setting, this authentically portrays the poverty and repression of the migrant 'Okies', evicted from their dustbowl farms and treated like slaves in California. Adapted from Steinbeck's book, often called 'THE Great American Novel' and with outstanding performances coming from Henry Fonda (Tom Joad) and John Carradine (John Casey) a preacher with a fondess for vice, but a true heart... fantastic.
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THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA (2005)
Certification15 Our Rating
When Melquides Estrada is found murdered it is presumed he's just another illegal immigrant and consequently of no concern to the American authorities. Buried in an unnamed pauper's grave it would seem that is the end of the matter, but Melquaides knew a good man in ranch foreman Pete Perkins, a tough as nails individual determined to see justice done and honour the wishes of his dead friend. 'Three Burials' is a mesmerising tale of friendship, revenge and redemption, driven by a dominating perf
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