Little Fish (2005)

In Sydney, Tracey Heart is a thirty-two years old manager of a video shop, an ex-heroin addict whose been clean for four years. She is trying to raise $40,000 to buy a shop for computer games next door to the rental and to become partner of her boss; but based on her negative records, the banks deny the loan. Tracey takes care of her junkie stepfather Lionel Dawson, unsuccessfully trying to make him quit his heroin habit. When her former boyfriend Jonny returns from Vancouver, Tracey's mother Janelle fears a fall for Tracey, while she blames Jonny for the car accident where her son Ray lost a leg. When Ray and Jonny associate with Moss, the assistant of the retired criminal boss Bradley 'The Jockey' Thompson, in drug dealing, Tracey is convinced by Jonny to join them and raise the necessary money for her business during the weekend.

Director

Rowan Woods

Stars

Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving

Subs: English, Portuguese

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/h78Cj6nVhpY

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American Friends (1991)

Reverend Francis Ashby (Sir Michael Palin), a senior Oxford don on vacation alone in the Alps, meets vacationing American Miss Caroline Hartley (Connie Booth) and her companion Miss Elinor Hartley (Trini Alvarado), the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both of the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.

Director

Tristram Powell

Writers

Michael Palin, Tristram Powell

Stars

Bryan Pringle, Fred Pearson, Michael Palin, Alfred Molina, Susan Denaker.

Music by Georges Delerue

Subtitles: English

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/n6KW_52b8HI

Closed Circuit (Circuito chiuso) - 1978

After a man is shot dead in his seat during a matinee showing of a Spaghetti Western, the police prevent everyone inside the cinema from leaving in an effort to nab the culprit. Director Giuliano Montaldo Stars Giovanni Di Benedetto, Umberto Gradi, Elisabetta Virgili A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof (1968) The characters watch this movie in the cinema theater. Subtitles: English

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/HskTapXZzzw

Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha parvaz mikonand) - 2004

On the Kurdish refugee camp on the Iraqi-Turkish border, the boy Satellite is the leader of the kids. He commands them to clear and collect American undetonated minefields in the fields to sell them in the street market and he installs antennae for the villagers. He goes with the local leader to buy a parabolic antenna to learn the news about the eminent American invasion but nobody speaks English and Satellite that knows a couple of words is assigned to translate the Fox News. When the orphans Agrin and her armless brother Hengov and the blind toddler Riga come from Halabcheh to the camp, Satellite falls in an unrequited love for Egrin. But the girl is traumatized by a cruel raid in her home, when her parents were murdered and she was raped. She wants to leave Riga behind and travel with her brother Hengov to another place, but he does not agree with her intention.

Director & Writer

Bahman Ghobadi

Stars

Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal

Subs: English, Portuguese

YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/mYjbf-eECd0

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Manto (Nandiata Das) - 2018

The film follows the most tumultuous four years in the life of Manto and that of the two countries he inhabits - India and Pakistan. In Bombay's seedy-shiny film world, Manto and his stories are widely read and accepted. But as sectarian violence engulfs the nation, Manto makes the difficult choice of leaving his beloved Bombay. In Lahore, he finds himself bereft of friends and unable to find takers for his writings. His increasing alcoholism leads him into a downward spiral. Through all of this, he continues to write prolifically, without dilution. This is the tale of two emerging nations, two faltering cities, and one man who tries to make sense of it all.

Director & Writer

Nandita Das

Stars

Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rasika Dugal, Tahir Raj Bhasin

Subs: English,

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The Red Tent (1969)

The commander of a failed 1928 Arctic airship expedition is remembering the events of the "Italia" airship flight, crash, and subsequent rescue efforts. The "ghosts" of people involved in the events appear in his memories to assist him in determining his guilt in the affair. The reminiscences are mixed with the real action: the flight of the "Italia", the air rescue operation from Kings Bay airfield, the expedition of the "Krassin" ice-breaker. A sort of human touch is added by the ever beautiful C.C. playing Malmgren's girlfriend.

For those interested in more details about the adventure, I suggest this book: The Polar adventure : the "Italia" tragedy seen at close quarters, by Odd Arnesen.

https://archive.org/details/polaradventureit00arne/page/n7/mode/2up

For Brazilian audience: 

Este filme já existe na plataforma YouTube. Há uma ou algumas sem legendas e uma dublada (Herbert Richers), mas o áudio da dublagem está muito baixo e temos que aumentar muito o nível do som para ouvir razoavelmente e em algumas partes do filme a dublagem desaparece.

Assim, essa versão do meu blog é uma versão legendada, com legendas em Inglês e Português. O protagonista, Peter Finch, está muito bem no papel de Umberto Nobile, mas acho que o ator Maximilian Schell poderia ter sido melhor para o papel , por ele ter o rosto quase idêntico ao de Nobile. Tanto Peter Finch como Hardy Kruger, que faz o piloto que salva Nobile, já haviam feito um filme um tanto parecido, O Vôo do Fênix, 4 anos antes.

Director

Mikhail Kalatozov

Stars

Sean Connery, Peter Finch, Claudia Cardinale.

Subs: English, Portuguese

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/KScG9DWdcT8

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Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri eccellenti) - 1976

Gifted director Francesco Rosi masterfully helms this elegant, compelling and wonderfully stylish paranoid thriller that concerns the valiant investigations of Inspector Rogas(Lino Ventura) as he unearths some dark, unsettling truths in this particularly confounding case. Various high profile judges are being assassinated by a mysterious sniper, are these the crazed retributions of a lone, vengeance-seeking individual with a murderous grudge against these ageing magistrates, or, is this a vile political conspiracy of far-reaching consequence?

Director

Francesco Rosi

Stars

Lino Ventura, Tina Aumont, Max von Sidow, Fernando Rey

Music by Piero Piccione

Subs: English, Spanish.

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/lRH1LTplRHk

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The Chase (1946)

Returning a lost wallet gains unemployed veteran Chuck Scott a job as chauffeur to Eddie Roman, a seeming gangster whose enemies have a way of meeting violent ends. The job proves nerve-wracking, and soon Chuck finds himself pledged to help Eddie's lovely, fearful, prisoner-wife Lorna to escape. The result leaves Chuck caught like a rat in a trap, vainly seeking a way out through dark streets. But the real chase begins when the strange plot virtually starts all over again.

Director

Arthur Ripley

Stars

Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Steve Cochran and Peter Lorre as Gino.

Subs: English, Spanish.

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/EdkILE4pHWY

Skin (2008)

The true story of Sandra Laing (Okonedo), a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their 'white' little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows her thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world.

Director

Anthony Fabian

Stars

Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige

Subs: English, Portuguese

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/ehWuYGbCrtw

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Canada, Poland, United States

Fernando Di Leo was a well-respected director who near-perfected the poliziotteschi genre during the 1970's, taking a genre spear-headed by the likes of Italian film-makers Umberto Lenzi and Carlo

Lizzani and delivering tough-as-nails stories about brutish men in a brutish world. Milano Calibro 9, or simply Caliber 9, is one of Di Leo's most highly-regarded works, kicking off his Milieu trilogy (followed by Manhunt and concluded by The Boss) for which he is now best remembered for. And the film is terrific - inspiring future directors such as John Woo and Quentin Tarantino, Milano Calibro 9 begins with an explosion of violence that serves as a warning of what is to come.

Director

Fernando Di Leo

Stars

Gastone Moschin, Barbara Bouchet, Mario Adorf, Lionel Stander.

Music by Luis Bacalov.

Subs: English, Spanish.

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/61Tb84NRuHY

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Everybody's Fine - Stanno tutti bene - (1990)

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates) and a father of five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit to know how they live. The film is a veritable travelogue across contemporary Italy, as Matteo journeys to Naples, Rome, Florence, Milan, and Turin to search for each of his sons.

Director

Giuseppe Tornatore

Writers

Massimo De RitaTonino GuerraGiuseppe Tornatore

Stars

Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan , Valeria Cavalli

Music by Ennio Morricone

Subs: English

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/2u0UxbqpU_A

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