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War Requiem

War Requiem

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 6.6

A film with no spoken dialogue, just follows the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem, which include WWI soldier poet Wilfred Owen's poems reflecting the war's horrors. It shows the sto...

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Caravaggio

Caravaggio

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 6.5

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

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The Last of England

The Last of England

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 6.5

The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.

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The Tempest

The Tempest

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 6.4

Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence brings thes...

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The Garden

The Garden

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1990 IMDB Rating: 6.4

A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them....

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The Angelic Conversation

The Angelic Conversation

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.2

The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the juxtaposition of slow moving homo-erotic images and opaque la...

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Sebastiane

Sebastiane

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Film Age rating: 18 Year: 1976 IMDB Rating: 6.2

Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard to the rank of common soldier and banishes him to a remote coastal outpost where his fellow soldiers...

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Jubilee

Jubilee

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Film Age rating: 18 Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 6

Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.

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