The grapes of movies
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Drama
Salaam Bombay!
Mira Nair · 1988
After destroying his older brother's motorbike in retaliation for his constant bullying, 11-year-old Krishna is sent to a traveling circus to earn money to pay for the bike's repairs, but soon winds up in the streets of Bombay's poorest slums. There, he befriends the drug dealer Chillum and young prostitute Sola Saal, while trying to make enough money at a neighborhood tea stall to repay his debt to his family.
Where Is The Friend's House?
Abbas Kiarostami · 1987
An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
Love Exposure
Sion Sono · 2008
A Catholic teenager’s desperate pursuit of sin leads him into a surreal underworld of voyeurism, cult control, and fractured identity, as love becomes both his salvation and his undoing.
Call Me by Your Name
Luca Guadagnino · 2017
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.
Precious
Lee Daniels · 2009
Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret; She can't read.
Chungking Express
王家衞 · 1994
Dos historias de amor independientes que se desarrollan en el popular barrio turístico de Tsimhatsui, en Hong Kong. La primera describe el fugaz encuentro entre un joven policía en plena crisis amorosa y una misteriosa mujer fatal traficante de drogas. La segunda se centra en el singular romance entre un solitario y sencillo agente de policia y la joven camarera del pobre bar donde aquél suele comer.
Crime
Mysterious Skin
Gregg Araki · 2005
En 1981, Brian tenía ocho años y estaba sentado en el banquillo durante un partido de la liga juvenil de béisbol. Cinco horas después despierta en el sótano de su casa con una hemorragia nasal y sin recuerdos. Brian moja la cama y tiene pesadillas, también inventa: fue abducido por extraterrestres. Y pasa el tiempo, Brian llega a la adolescencia, torpe, acomplejado y entregado a la causa OVNI, también Neil, su compañero de infancia, se ha hecho mayor. Neil es la antítesis de Brian, él es sexy, jugador estrella y experto en juegos con hombres adultos con los que nunca se compromete. Mientras Brian encuentra en Avalyn Friesen, una discapacitada obsesionada con sus experiencias en la tercera fase, la posibilidad de asumir sus experiencias inhibidas, Neil huye a nueva York a rozar el lado peligroso.
The Silence of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme · 1991
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
City of God
Fernando Meirelles · 2002
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
Zodiac
David Fincher · 2007
The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.
Action
Léon: The Professional
Luc Besson · 1994
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.

Django Unchained
2012
Kill Bill
Fantasy
Pan's Labyrinth
Guillermo del Toro · 2006
In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
History
Farewell My Concubine
Chen Kaige · 1993
In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.
Uncategorized

I Saw the TV Glow
Jane Schoenbrun · 2024
In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, however, questions begin to arise about why the show sometimes seems more real than their own lives. In the pale glow of the television, their view of reality begins to crack.

Memoirs of a Geisha
2005

Madame X
Lucky Kuswandi · 2010

Amélie
Jean-Pierre Jeunet · 2001
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?
Leaf on a Pillow
Garin Nugroho · 1998
The Indonesian society is seen through a middle-aged lady's eyes in her daily encounters with the street children who work and live off the harsh and sleazy world of adults.

Marlina si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak
Mouly Surya · 2017
Mulholland Drive
David Lynch · 2001
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Kes
Ken Loach · 1970
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.
