In a Catholic boarding school during the Nazi occupation of France, Julien Quietin, played by Gaspard Manesse as the character based around Malle, is no ordinary student, he is intelligent and different from the others. A new student arrives at the school one day and becomes a sort of intellectual rival to Julien, but, after some early hostilities, the boys begin to connect and eventually become good friends. Malle does not rely on overly dramatic sequences where not necessary as a way to build
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CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS (1966)
CertificationPG Our Rating
During the German Occupation a young trainee railway guard at a remote country station desperately tries to lose his virginity. He finally succeeds with the station master's wife. Satiric, anti-heroic, humorous and balanced tragi-comedy. Generally considered the finest Czech new wave film.
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COME AND SEE (1985)
Certification15 Our Rating
Elem Klimov's powerful, mesmerising and dynamic award winning feature has been deservedly hailed as one of the greatest war films ever produced.
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DONNIE DARKO (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Hailed as the best film debut since Eraserhead, Donnie Darko's instant cult status and mainstream success are well deserved.
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DONNIE DARKO: DIRECTOR'S CUT (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
Hailed as the best film debut since Eraserhead, Donnie Darko's instant cult status and mainstream success are well deserved.
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GHOST WORLD (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
Enid and Rebecca have made it through high school and are out in the real world. But is the real world ready for them? Based on Daniel Clowes cult comic of the same title, this is a teen flick for everyone who hates teen flicks. The ever-cynical duo are put in situations they hate (running into girls they hate, taking art classes that they hate...) and take it out on the unsuspecting. Trying to to make your way in the post-high school world is hard enough but when you've got attitudes like En
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LES QUATRE CENTS COUPS (1959)
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Truffaut's first feature, the melancholy and revealing portrait (semi-autobiographical) of an adolescent boy growing up in Paris. We see the intense, destructive family background followed by an escape from reform school. Beautifully perceptive performances make this one of Truffaut's finest works.
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MADE IN BRITAIN (1979)
Certification18 Our Rating
Alan Clarke's work is renowned for it's starkly realistic and often disturbing portrayal of British society, and this is no exception. Tim Roth is outstanding as the snarling anarchistic skinhead car-thief who has no wish to be "saved" by his concerned social worker. Black, bleak and brilliant.
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MY SUMMER OF LOVE (2004)
CertificationU Our Rating
Mona’s teenage life defines the word ‘crap’, not tragic, just without hope; her brother is the only family she has left and he’s found God in the same obsessively sociopathic way that he originally found booze, while a weekly hump in the back of a van with a married man actually constitutes fun rather than repetitive sexual abuse. Into this world wanders Tamsin, pretty, pretentious, spoilt but ignored and with a dangerous sense of mischief born of arrogance and naivety. An intense relationship b
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PATHER PANCHALI (1955)
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First installment of "The Apu Trilogy". Apu, the young son of an impoverished family, begins life in a small Bengali village. Here he tastes his first experiences of the world some happy, some sad, but always portrayed with compassion and a realism that's almost painful. Poetic and stunning.
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