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Battle In Heaven (Batalla En El Cielo) (Country: Mexico/France/Germany/Belgium; Year: 2005; Director: Carlos Reygadas; Writer: Carlos Reygadas; Stars: Marcos Hernandez, Anapola Mushkadiz, Berta Ruiz, David Bornstien, Rosilanda Ramirez)
An ugly taxi driver and the prostitute daughter of a general go at it and at it and (yawn).
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Godzilla (Gojira) (Country: Japan; Year: 1954; Director: Ishiro Honda; Writer: Takeo Murata, Ishiro Honda, from an original story by Shigeru Kayama; Stars: Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kochi, Akihiko Hirata, Fuyuki Murakami, Sachio Sakai, Toranosuke Ogawa, Ren Yamamoto, Toshiaki Suzuki, Ken Hayashi, Keiji Sakakida, Seijiro Onda, Kin Sugai)
The original Japanese monster lizard movie - Ban The Bomb!
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The Sacrifice (Offret) (Country: Sweden, UK, France; Year: 1986; Director: Andrei Tarkovsky; Writer: Andrei Tarkovsky; Stars: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Tommy Kjellqvist, Allan Edwall, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Sven Wollter)
Faced with the destruction of everything he loves, a father offers himself to God as a sacrifice in its stead.
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The Wayward Cloud (Tian bian yi duo yun) (Country: France, Taiwan; Year: 2005; Director: Tsai Ming-liang; Writer: Tsai Ming-liang; Stars: Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi)
During a drought, the people of Taipei develop an obsession with watermelon.
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