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1) Roma
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With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuaron recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo, the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals
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Seymour 'Swede' Levov, a once-legendary high school athlete, is a successful businessman married to an ex-beauty queen, Dawn. When Swede and Dawn's daughter disappears after being accused of a violent crime, Swede's perfect life is broken forever and he is left to make sense out of the chaos.
6) Albert Nobbs
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A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
7) Deepwater
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A young orphaned drifter (Nat) sets out in pursuit of a farm job in Wyoming. Along the way he comes across a car accident and saves the life of the driver, who offers him a handyman job in the town of Deepwater, West Virginia. Nat is unknowingly lured into a world where nothing is as it seems.
9) Swingers
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Mike is a not-very-confident comedian-actor, an L.A. transplant from New York who cannot go two minutes without returning to the subject of his ex-girlfriend, with whom he is still obsessed six months after they split up. His slickster buddy Trent is a would-be producer, and Rob is weighing an offer to play Goofy at Disneyland. In between bit parts, they play golf, or video games, and go to parties. To make up for this lack of success, they earnestly...
10) Sunset Song
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Follows the life of a Scottish farm girl, Chris, as she searches for her independence against the odds, in an epic rite of passage story set just before the First World War.The war and the struggles Chris endures test her resolve for love and her idyllic country farm life.
11) Reel Paradise
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The extraordinary story of one American family's unique adventure running a cinema in one of the most isolated villages on the planet.
12) Diner
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Set in 1959, a band of long-time buddies since high school gather at a local diner to share their escapades and make sense of their lives. As one by one they drift off to join the mainstream of life they still cling to their shared boyhood dreams.
13) The Rum Diary
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Tired of the noise and madness of New York, journalist Paul Kemp moves to Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper. Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Kemp becomes obsessed with the fiancee of Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. When he is recruited by Sanderson to write favorably about his latest unsavory scheme, Kemp is presented with the choice to use his words for the corrupt businessman's financial...
15) Liberty Heights
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The town is Baltimore and the year is 1954, a season of dramatic social flux that Levinson explores through the eyes of a Jewish family.
16) Colossal
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Gloria is an out-of-work party girl who, after getting kicked out of her apartment by her boyfriend, is forced to leave her life in New York and move back to her hometown. When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, South Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this far-off phenomenon. Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the...
18) Diner
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Set in Baltimore in 1959, a group of school buddies meet and socialize before they go off on their separate ways.