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Technically speaking, every film made outside of the Hollywood studio system can be described as world cinema. That’s every independent picture made in the US, and every feature ever made in every other country. That’s a lot of movies to collect under a single banner. Really though, when we talk about world cinema, we mean the good stuff. The important stuff. The stuff that made us think. From the silent days of Lang and Eisenstein to the French New Wave of Godard and Truffaut right through to the Spanish sex comedies of Pedro Almodovar and the modern horror masterpieces knocked out by the Japanese, World Cinema provides a welcome break from mainstream Hollywood entertainment.
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 | Battle Royale 2 - Requiem
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Set three years following the events portrayed in 'Battle Royale', one of the survivors, Shuya Nanahara, has become a notorious anti-government terror...
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 | Big Boss, The(2000)
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A young man travels to Bangkok to take up work in an ice factory. His discoveries find him fighting for justice and his life.
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 | Central Station
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Dora is a lonely older woman whose life seems to have no point. Things change, however, when she befriends a homeless orphan, Josue, and she slowly re...
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 | L'Homme Du Train
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The story of two very different men who meet at a train station in a provincial French town. The pair develop a friendship out of respect for each oth...
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 | Taxi(1998)
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Daniel is starting a new career as a taxi driver, he's speed crazy and has modified his car to go so fast that even police radar can't spot him!. When...
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 | Butterfly And Sword
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This swordfighting tale starring Joey Wang as "Butterfly", four fighters all parry and thrust their way through a deliriously-paced yarn.
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 | Iceman Cometh, The
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Two medieval warriors are frozen in ice and then thawed out in present-day Hong Kong. The honourable fighter flounders in modern times while his evil ...
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 | Armour of God II: Operation Condor
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Condor is an adventurer who is hired to track down a lost hoard of gold, buried in the North African desert during the Second World War. Our hero is j...
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 | Armour Of God(2001)
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Some religious artefacts called 'The Armour of God' must be borrowed back from an antique dealer in order that a girl may be rescued from an evil cult...
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 | 2046
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Hong Kong-based filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai moves back and forth in time as he re-examines and amplifies the themes from his film 'In the Mood For Love' in...
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