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No Bears
Original version with English subtitles
Director
Jafar Panahi
Cast
Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaser, Bakhtiyar Panjeei, Mina Kavani, Narges Delaram, Abdolreza Heydari, Amir Davar, Darya Alei
Plot Outline
Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.
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The Bikeriders
Original English version
Director
Jeff Nichols
Cast
Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist, Boyd Holbrook, Norman Reedus, Michael Abbott Jr., Damon Herriman
Plot Outline
Kathy, a strong-willed member of the Vandals who's married to a wild, reckless bikerider named Benny, recounts the Vandals' evolution over the course of a decade, beginning as a local club of outsiders united by good times, rumbling bikes and respect for their strong, steady leader Johnny. As life in the Vandals gets more dangerous, and the club threatens to become a more sinister gang, Kathy, Benny and Johnny are forced to make choices about their loyalty to the club and to each other.
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Kinds of Kindness
Original English version
Director
Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast
Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, Hunter Schafer, Merah Benoit
Plot Outline
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
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MaXXXine
Original English version - Currently not included in the 'nonstop Kinoabo'
Director
Ti West
Cast
Mia Goth, Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito, Kevin Bacon
Plot Outline
In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.
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Love Lies Bleeding
Original English version
Director
Rose Glass
Cast
Kristen Stewart, Katy O'Brian, Ed Harris, Dave Franco, Jena Malone, Anna Baryshnikov, Orion Carrington, Eldon Jones, Catherine Haun
Plot Outline
Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.
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In Our Day
Original version with English subtitles
Director
Hong Sang-soo
Cast
Kim Minhee, Song Sunmi, Ki Joobong, Park Miso, Ha Seongguk
Plot Outline
Sangwon (Kim Minhee), an actress recently returned to South Korea, is temporarily staying with her friend, Jungsoo (Song Sunmi), and her cat, Us. Elsewhere in the city, the aging poet Uiju (Ki Joobong) lives alone, his cat having recently passed away. On this ordinary day, each of them has a visitor: Sangwon is visited by her cousin, Jisoo (Park Miso) and Uiju, by a young actor, Jaewon (Ha Seongguk). Each of them wants to learn about a career in the arts. But they also have bigger questions.
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La chimera
Original version with English subtitles
Director
Alice Rohrwacher
Cast
Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Alba Rohrwacher, Isabella Rossellini, Vincenzo Nemolato, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Giuliano Mantovani, Gian Piero Capretto, Melchiorre Pala
Plot Outline
Just out of jail, crumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of tombaroli accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective of itinerant grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up.
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Ripples of Life
Original version with English subtitles
Director
Wei Shujun
Cast
Huang Miyi, Yang Pingdao, Yang Zishan, Kang Chunlei, Liu Yang, Wang Jiajia, Liang Ming, Jin Yang, Nan Cui
Plot Outline
Follows a big star who brings a film crew to her remote hometown for a shoot, and while the production is afflicted by disagreements between the crew, a bored local restaurant owner finds excitement to be the stand-in for the star.
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Joker: Folie à Deux
Original English version
Director
Todd Phillips
Cast
Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga
Plot Outline
A sequel to the 2019 film 'Joker'.
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Anora
Original English version
Director
Sean Baker
Cast
Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Karren Karagulian, Yuriy Borisov, Vache Tovmasyan, Ivy Wolk, Luna Sofía Miranda, Ross Brodar, Lindsey Normington
Plot Outline
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
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Emilia Pérez
Original version with English subtitles
Director
Jacques Audiard
Cast
Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Edgar Ramírez, Mark Ivanir, James Gerard, Eric Geynes, Agathe Bokja
Plot Outline
Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.
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Nosferatu
Original English version
Director
Robert Eggers
Cast
Bill Skarsgård, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Simon McBurney, Ralph Ineson, Paul Maynard
Plot Outline
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
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Mickey 17
Original English version
Director
Bong Joon-ho
Cast
Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, Steven Yeun, Holliday Grainger
Plot Outline
Mickey 17 is an "expendable", a disposable employee, on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of its memories intact.
