Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)
Chinese law mandates that a young woman (Lu Lu) leave her family and travel to the Tibetan countryside for manual labor in 1975.
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The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
In an allegory of life after Gen. Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, life in a remote village in the 1940s is calm and uneventful. Two little girls see a "Frankenstein" movie, and one of them starts wandering the countryside in search of this kind creature.
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Betrayed (2018)
Russian gangsters kidnap a corrupt politician's daughter when they learn he's been cooperating with a rival cartel.
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The Blue Angel (1930)
Josef von Sternberg's classic tells of a middle-aged professor whose obsession with a young cabaret singer leads to his downfall.
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Hero (2002)
Flashbacks reveal how a warrior (Jet Li) stopped the elusive assassins (Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) who tried to kill the emperor of China.
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Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
A Communist commandant finds himself surrounded by the Polish resistance during the closing days of World War II.
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Throne of Blood (1957)
A Japanese version of "Macbeth" features a samurai (Toshirô Mifune), his scheming wife (Isuzu Yamada) and a flurry-of-arrows finale.
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Wild Strawberries (1957)
An old Swedish professor (Victor Sjöström) sees his life pass by in a series of nightmarish flashbacks.
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Stray Dog (1949)
Two detectives (Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura) track one's stolen revolver into the underworld of late-1940s Tokyo.
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Suddenly (2002)
Two lesbians (Carla Crespo, Veronica Hassan) force a lonely, overweight saleswoman (Tatiana Saphir) into a cab and take her on a road trip.
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