AKA: L' Età Di Cosimo De Medici; L' Eta Di Cosimo De Medici; The Age Of Cosimo De Medici; The Exile Of Cosimo; The Power Of Cosimo; Leon Battista Alberti Italy: 1972 TV Shows/Movies / Drama
Plot: Rossellini’s three-part series (The Exile of Cosimo, The Power of Cosimo, and Leon Battista Alberti) is like a Renaissance painting come to life, a portrait of fifteenth-century Florence, ruled by the Medici political dynasty.
AKA: The Aki Kaurismäki Collection Vol. 1; Aki Kaurismaki's Proletariat Trilogy; Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy; Shadows In Paradise; Ariel; The Match Factory Girl; Workers' Trilogy; Underdog Trilogy Finland: 2007 Dark Comedy / Art
Plot: This three-disc set contains Kaurismäki's acclaimed "Workers' Trilogy", which finds Kaurismäki at the height of his sardonic humanist powers. Includes "Shadows In Paradise", "Ariel", and "The Match Factory Girl".
AKA: Workers' Trilogy; Underdog Trilogy Finland: 1988
Turo Pajala, Susanna Haavisto, Matti Pellonpää (Matti Pellonpaa) Drama / Dark Comedy
Plot: In this dryly comic and satirical melange of road movie and film noir, a newly-unemployed Lapland miner sets off in a Cadillac convertible for a fresh start in Helsinki, joined by a meter maid Irmeli and her young son.
Plot: Hailed as the finest Soviet film of its decade, The Ascent follows the path of two peasant soldiers, cut off from their troop, who trudge through the snowy backwoods of Belarus seeking refuge among villagers.
Plot: In one of his own favorite roles, Vincent Price portrays legendary swindler James Addison Reavis, who, in 1880, concocted an elaborate and dangerous hoax to name himself as the "Baron" of Arizona and therefore inherit all the land in the state.
Plot: Rossellini’s daring outline of the life of religious philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623–62), who argued for science and intellect amid an atmosphere of superstition and ignorance, is as visually spare as it is full of intimate drama.
AKA: Descartes Italy: 1974 TV Shows/Movies / Drama
Plot: Mathematician, scientist, and writer René Descartes (1596–1650) is relentlessly determined to establish the primacy of reason in Rossellini’s portrait of the travails of the "father of modern philosophy."
Japan: 1967
Jo Shishido (Joe Shishido), Chitose Kobayashi, Jerry Fujio Crime / Action/Adventure
Plot: One of Japanese cinema's supreme emulations of American noir, Takashi Nomura's "A Colt Is My Passport" is a down-and-dirty but gorgeously photographed yakuza film starring Joe Shishido as a hard-boiled hit man caught between rival gangs.
AKA: Kris Sweden: 1946
Marianne Lofgren, Inga Landgre Drama / Art
Plot: Jenny decides to re-claim her eighteen-year-old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who has raised her. And Nelly receives a crash course in adult corruption and wrenching heartbreak.
Plot: Ex-con Togawa is coerced by a mob boss into organizing an armored car heist. But after the ragtag team is assembled for the job, Togawa learns that all is not what it seems. Cue the double (and triple) crosses!
Plot: Includes the following seven documentary features by Louis Malle: "Vive Le Tour", "Humain, Trop Humain", "Place De La Republique", "Phantom India", "Calcutta", "God's Country", and "...And The Pursuit Of Happiness".
AKA: Eclipse Series 18: Dušan Makavejev: Free Radical; Eclipse Series 18: Dusan Makavejev: Free Radical; Man Is Not A Bird; Love Affair, Or The Case Of The Missing Switchboard Operator; Innocence Unprotected Yugoslavia: 2009 Art / Drama
Plot: Includes the following three Dušan Makavejev flix on 3 discs: "Man Is Not A Bird", "Love Affair, Or The Case Of The Missing Switchboard Operator", and "Innocence Unprotected".
AKA: Soshun; Inizio Di Primavera [Italian Title] Japan: 1956
Chikage Awashima, Ryo Ikebe, Teiji Takahashi, Keiko Kishi Art / Drama
Plot: A young man is bored with the dreary predictability of his life and has an affair with the office flirt, which understandably causes him some trouble with his wife...
AKA: The Autumn Of The Kohayagawa Family; Kohayagawa-Ke No Aki; Kohayagawake No Aki Japan: 1961
Ganjiro Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, Yoko Tsukasa, Michiyo Aratama Drama
Plot: This penultimate film by Yasujiro Ozu examines the difficulties faced by the sake-making Kohayagawa family as they struggle to adapt their traditional values to a rapidly changing post-war Japan.
Plot: Hirayama agrees to let his friends find a suitable match for his daughter Setsuko. But when Setsuko's boyfriend makes a surprise call to ask for her hand, he is furious to hear he's not even been considered for her partner...
AKA: A Human Condition; Human, Too Human France: 1973 Documentary
Plot: A meditative investigation of the inner workings of a French automotive plant. Louis Malle's French-set documentary reveals the director's eternal fascination with, and respect for, the everyday lives of everyday people.
Plot: In Koreyoshi Kurahara's directorial debut, rebel matinee idol Yujiro Ishihara stars as a former boxer working as a restaurant manager, who saves a beautiful, suicidal club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
Plot: Samuel Fuller makes his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford (played by Red River’s John Ireland), who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
AKA: Children Of Tokyo; Umarete Wa Mita Karedo Japan: 1932 Comedy / Drama
Plot: One of Ozu's most popular films is a blithe portrait of the financial and psychological toils of one family, as told from the rascally point of view of a couple of stubborn little boys. Ozu later remade the film as "Good Morning".
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