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Paris, Texas

Paris, Texas

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 8.1

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier...

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Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 8

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitabl...

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Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel...

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Alice

Alice

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 7.4

A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animal...

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Lola

Lola

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1981 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building...

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The NeverEnding Story

The NeverEnding Story

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 7.3

While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a you...

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Tokyo-Ga

Tokyo-Ga

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 7.3

German director Wim Wenders made this documentary in which he tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu. When Wenders visits Tokyo for the first time, he finds a very d...

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Ballad of the Little Soldier

Ballad of the Little Soldier

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Ballad of the Little Soldier is a 1984 documentary film about child soldiers in Nicaragua.

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Cobra Verde

Cobra Verde

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 6.9

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the notorious bandit and im...

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Lightning over Water

Lightning over Water

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Director 'Nicholas Ray' is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own film Hammett (1983) in Hollywood, but flies to New York to help Ray r...

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