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William Friedkin – The French Connection (1971)
Quote: “The French Connection” is routinely included, along with “Bullitt,” “Diva” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” on the short list of movies with the greatest chase scenes of all time. What is not...
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Sogo Ishii – Bakuretsu toshi AKA Burst City (1982)
Quote: Those looking for examples of the importance of Sogo Ishii in the development of Japanese cinema, and his abilities as a filmmaker, need to look no further than Burst City. At first sight a...
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Abel Ferrara – King of New York (1990)
King of New York is a 1990 crime drama film, starring Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso, Wesley Snipes, Victor Argo, Giancarlo Esposito, and Steve Buscemi. It was directed by...
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Karel Reisz – Who’ll stop the rain (1978)
Plot summary from DVD Verdict: Ray Hicks (Nolte) is an ex-Marine who served in Vietnam first in combat and now as a merchant seaman, which allows him to come and go between Vietnam and the US. This...
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Albert Pyun – The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
Alan Mount (IMDB) said this: “This movie which came out at around the same time as “CONAN THE BARBARIAN” is the better film. It is a rip-roaring fantasy adventure which has elements of Harryhausen’s...
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Antonio Margheriti – Con la rabbia agli occhi aka Death Rage (1976)
Plot / Synopsis In the star’s final big screen role, Yul Brynner plays Peter Marciani, a former mob assassin who comes out of retirement to track down the man who killed his brother, but he finds that...
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George Gittoes – Tailor Story (2011)
“Gittoes’s work often asks two questions: what are the experiences of other artists working and surviving in war zones? Or, what is his moral responsibility as an artist-correspondent? When Gittoes...
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J. Lee Thompson – Taras Bulba (1962)
Plot synopsis:The spectacular hordes of Cossack horsemen flying across the steppes to do battle with first one enemy and then another are the highlights of this otherwise thinly scripted costume drama...
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Ki-duk Kim – Hae anseon aka The Coast Guard (2002)
Quote:Perhaps the reason why this movie is getting such a bad rap is mainly a fault of its well-meaning, but still incoherent style and narrative structure. I have not read any articles on this movie...
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Tarek Ehlail – Chaostage (2009)
Germany during a normal summer weekend. Punks, Skins and autonomous groups – in case they meet each other this will end up in chaos – this happens during the Chaostage (chaos days). The movie tells a...
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Marcel Ophüls – Faites vos jeux, mesdames AKA Make your Bets, Ladies (1965)
SynopsisExciting Eddie Constantine outing finds Eddie playing a special agent searching for missing NATO weapons. When he encounters a scientist who has invented a ring that emits a paralysis spray,...
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Jerry Thorpe – The Venetian Affair (1967)
Quote:After an American diplomat inexplicably explodes a bomb during an international peace conference in Venice, killing himself and everyone in the room, CIA boss Frank Rosenfeld calls ex-agent Bill...
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Riccardo Freda – Il cavaliere misterioso AKA The Mysterious Rider (1948)
Quote:However trivial – or downright ridiculous – the plot may become, Freda shows a mastery of sheer cinematic style that puts most of the more highly-touted Italian directors to shame. Like Minnelli...
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Sang-ok Shin – Cheonnyeon ho AKA A Thousand Year Old Fox (1969)
IMDB:Once upon a time, under the reign of the three kingdoms, there was a woman who tempts a Buddhist priest named Cho. She is a one-thousand-year-old fox who intends to reincarnate as a human being....
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William Friedkin – To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Quote: Worthy of the director of “French Connection,” the pace of this set- in-LA action thriller immediately draws the view in and never lets up. A car chase in the best traditions of “Bullitt” and...
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Michael Cimino – Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Plot Synopsis [AMG]As much an eccentric character study as a road movie, Michael Cimino’s directorial debut follows the adventures of a quartet of misfits in their life of crime. Retired thief...
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Leonardo Favio – Juan Moreira (1973)
AllMovie wrote:In this amazing and complex Argentine historical drama, much of the true story of the 19th-century assassin Juan Moreira comes to the screen. At the time of its release, this Argentine...
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Robert Day – Tarzan and the Great River (1967)
Plot:Tarzan is summoned to Brazil by an old friend to stop an evil tribal cult from destroying native villages and enslaving the survivors. The Lord of the Jungle is accompanied on his quest by a...
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Richard T. Heffron – Trackdown (1976)
SYNOPSIS: IMDB review:“Rugged Montana rancher Jim Calhoun (an earnest and effective performance by Jim Mitchum) searches the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles for his naive 17-years-old runaway sister...
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Vladimir Motyl – Beloe solntse pustyni AKA White Sun of the Desert (1970)
One of classics of the Soviet cinema and the most popular film of the Soviet era. A soldier of the Red Army named Sukhov has been fighting in the Russian Civil War in Russian Asia for many years. Just...
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