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Wolf
🇪🇸 Spain The 1970sBased on a true story. In the 70s, during the last stages of Franco's dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested because of his connection to some terrorists who have just committed a murder. The secret service see in him an ideal candidate to infiltrate the terrorist band ETA and become a mole, so they try to offer him a deal if he will do so.
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The President's Barber
The 1960s The 1970sA well-meaning but politically naive barber gets pulled into the inner circle of the South Korean dictator Park Chung-Hee, with rather baleful consequences for his hapless family. This sharp political satire covers roughly twenty years in South Korean political history, from the viewpoint of the barber's son.
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Jasmine Women
Shanghai The 1970s The 1980s The 1950s The 1930sZhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen plays the great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother. The film recounts this family, the mistakes they make, and a cycle that the granddaughter breaks out of.
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Once Upon a Time in High School
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1970sA model student transfers to the notorious Jungmoon High School known for its severe corporal punishment by teachers and power struggles between school gangs.
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Almost Brothers
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970s The 2000sWe all have two lives: the one we dream of and the one we live. — The strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970s, they meet in prison: Miguel was there for political reasons, and Jorge, as a common criminal.
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Hollywood North
Ontario The 1970sThe making of a serious, Canadian art house film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is forced to compromise his vision to accommodate his drug-addled star, his leading lady and his venal backers.
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The Sun Assassinated
🇩🇿 Algeria The 1960s The 1970sThe poet Jean Sénac is also a radio presenter. A Pied-noir, he opted to stay in Algeria after the country achieved independence in 1962. Ten years later he is monitored by the police of the present regime. His poems have a large public following and his radio show is a great success, especially with the young. The poet allies himself with two students, aspiring playwrights Hamid and Belkacem, to fight for the freedom and culture of Algerian youth.
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Redeemer
The 1970sCélio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.
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À tout de suite
The 1970sA girl from bourgeoisie discovers the pleasures of banditism, following her lover in his lifestyle.
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Evel Knievel
Montana Ohio Nevada Ontario The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sLive hard. Ride fast. Regret nothing. — Legendary daredevil Robbie "Evel" Knievel (George Eads) is profiled in this action-packed biopic helmed by John Badham. Long before extreme sports became ubiquitous, the hard-living exhibitionist vaulted his motorcycle over steep canyons, crates of venomous snakes and snarling cougars. But as Knievel amassed wealth and world records (along with 35 broken bones), his taste for liquor and ladies equaled his appetite for adventure.
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The Mystery of Natalie Wood
New York California The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sUses accounts from family, friends, and acquaintances to tell the story of Natalie Wood and how she started young, acting in the spotlight, making the transition from a childhood actress to serious actress, dating the top names in Hollywood, her life and marriage to her husband, Robert Wagner,and her biggest fear that ended up being the cause of her death
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Shanghai Story
Shanghai The 1960s The 1970sThe film follows the rise and fall of a family in Shanghai. Once wealthy and capitalist, the family unraveled during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. Their home, once a French concession mansion, was converted into a multi-family dwelling.
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Shyamol Chhaya
The 1970sAs twelve people are being taken to safety during a war, their stories start unraveling.
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Veera Kannadiga
🇮🇳 India The 1970s The 2000sA man protects a slum and strives to keep its inhabitants safe from the negative elements. He also aims to avenge his father's death against the criminals who killed him.
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Mystic River
Massachusetts The 2000s The 1970sWe bury our sins, we wash them clean. — The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy.
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Good Bye Lenin!
🇩🇪 Germany The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sThe German Democratic Republic lives on -- in 79 square meters! — Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
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Big Fish
Alabama 🇫🇷 France 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sAn adventure as big as life itself. — Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.
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House of 1000 Corpses
Texas The 1970sYou'll never get out alive. — Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
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American Splendor
Ohio The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sOrdinary life is pretty complex stuff — An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Texas The 1970sBased on a true story... — After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
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The Best of Youth
🇳🇴 Norway 🇮🇹 Italy The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 2000sThe Possibilities Were Endless... — Spanning nearly four decades, from 1966 to 2003, this generational epic follows the different life paths of two Italian brothers from a middle-class family through some of the most significant events of recent Italian history.
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Secondhand Lions
Texas The 1970s The 1960s"Secondhand Lions" follows the comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.
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Radio
South Carolina The 1970sHis courage made them champions. — High school football coach, Harold Jones befriends Radio, a mentally-challenged man who becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, South Carolina. Their friendship extends over several decades, where Radio transforms from a shy, tormented man into an inspiration to his community.
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Silmido
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1970s The 1960sOn 31 January 1968, 31 North Korean commandos infiltrated South Korea in a failed mission to assassinate President Park Chung-hee. In revenge, the South Korean military assembled a team of 31 criminals on the island of Silmido to kill Kim Il-sung for a suicide mission to redeem their honor, but was cancelled, leaving them frustrated. It is loosely based on a military uprising in the 1970s.
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Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
🇮🇳 India The 1970sSet against the backdrop of the Indian Emergency, the movie tells the story of three youngsters in the 70s, when India was undergoing massive social and political changes. The movie's title is taken from the couplet of Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.
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Off the Map
The 1970sAn 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to terms with love and loss.
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Good Morning, Night
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970sThe 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
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I'm Not Scared
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970sWho can you trust when everyone's a suspect? — While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town baddie Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell about his discovery, eventually spilling the beans to his closest friend. Michele's parents learn of his discovery and warn him to forget what he saw
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Gacy
Wisconsin Illinois The 1970s The 1950sFriend. Neighbor. Killer. — Based on a true story of serial killer a model citizen, loving father and husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his house which he shared with his family.
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The Pentagon Papers
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1970sHis greatest act of patriotism was an act of treason. — This compelling political drama is based on the true story of high-ranking Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who, during the Nixon era, strove to preserve American democracy by leaking top-secret documents to the New York Times and Washington Post. The documents in question would eventually become famous as the Pentagon Papers, which revealed the true reasons for U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
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S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
🇰🇭 Cambodia The 1970sDocumentary of the S-21 genocide prison in Phnom Penh with interviews of prisoners and guards. On the search for reasons why this could have happened.
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When Stand Up Stood Out
Massachusetts The 1970s The 1980sDocumentary covering what came to be known as "The Boston Gold Rush" of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Boston stand-up comedians like Dennis Leary, Steven Wright and Colin Quinn burst upon the national scene, giving audiences a taste of the hard-edged social and political commentary that came out of that city.
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Travelling Light
South Australia The 1970sSometimes the only way to find yourself, is to get a little lost — Set in the early 70s, Travelling Light follows the story of two sisters growing up in surburban Adelaide.
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The Night We Called It a Day
The 1970sBased on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.
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Waiting for the Clouds
The 1970sA member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her youth. However, events cause her to face her own past.
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Good Fences
Connecticut The 1970sSet in the 1970s, Tom Spader is an attorney who is determined to end what he has dubbed "the colored man's losing streak." When his winning of a high-profile case thrusts him into the limelight, he decides to moves his wife and their two kids out of their mixed lower-middle-class town and into the posh enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Terminal Bar
New York The 1970s The 1980sA fascinating pictorial history of a New York City bar whose customers, from the hard-drinking working class Irish to the coiffed African American gay male, continually transform its focus during its 10-year reign.
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Kuxa Kanema: O Nascimento do Cinema
🇲🇿 Mozambique The 1970sKuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema is a 2003 documentary by Margarida Cardoso on the National Institute of Cinema (INC), created by President Samora Machel following the 1975 independence of Mozambique.
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The Ring
Washington The 2000s The 1970sBefore you die, you see. — It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, until four teenagers all met with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape. Allowing her investigative curiosity to get the better of her, Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring.
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City of God
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970s The 1960s The 1980sIf you run, you're dead... if you stay, you're dead again. — Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes...
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Austin Powers in Goldmember
California England Tokyo Prefecture 🇬🇺 Guam The 2000s The 1970sHe's still evil... He's still deadly... and he's still surrounded by frickin' idiots! — The world's most shagadelic spy continues his fight against Dr. Evil. This time, the diabolical doctor and his clone, Mini-Me, team up with a new foe—'70s kingpin Goldmember. While pursuing the team of villains to stop them from world domination, Austin gets help from his dad and an old girlfriend.
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Sichuan Province The 1970sDuring the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor’s beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
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24 Hour Party People
England The 1970s The 1980sShare the Ecstacy! — Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.
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Bloody Sunday
Northern Ireland The 1970sThe dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
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The Sum of All Fears
Maryland Virginia 🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1970s The 2000s27,000 nuclear weapons. One is missing. — When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
🇲🇽 Mexico New York Massachusetts Pennsylvania California 🇫🇮 Finland 🇩🇪 Germany The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sSome things are better left top secret. — Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
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Baader
🇩🇪 Germany The 1970sAndreas Baader starts out as a small-time criminal. In Berlin, he is recruited by a revolutionary cell. They plan to overthrow the state.
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Solino
🇩🇪 Germany The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sThe movie portrays the story of an Italian family emigrated in Germany in the 1970s. Romano (Gigi Savoia), the father, decides to open a pizzeria which, by mutual decision with the wife Rosa (Antonella Attili), will call Solino, leaving his sons Gigi and Giancarlo to work there. A hostile relationship comes to life between the father and his sons, which will end up in the escape of the boys from family.
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Snow Dogs
Florida Alaska Alberta The 1970s The 2000sGet ready for mush hour! — When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.
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Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
🇨🇳 China 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1970sA movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1970s kung-fu film, weaving the new and old together. As the main character, The Chosen One, Oedekerk sets off to avenge the deaths of his parents at the hands of kung-fu legend Master Pain. Along the way he encounters some strange characters.
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