CFB's Greatest Movies by Country, Chapter 12: China

1. Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
2. To Live (1994)
3. Farewell My Concubine (1993)
4. The World (2004)
5. Xiao Wu (1997)
6. Platform (2000)
7. Spring in a Small Town (1948)
8. Ju Dou (1990)
9. The Horse Thief (1986)
10. Street Angel (1937)
11. Yellow Earth (1984)
12. 2046 (2004)
13. Life on a String (1991)
14. The Goddess (1934)
15. Devils on the Doorstep (2000)
16. The Blue Kite (1993)
17. This Life of Mine (1950)
18. Still Life (2006)
19. The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)
20. The Black Cannon Incident (1986)

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CFB's Greatest Movies by Country, Chapter 11: Hungary

1. Love (1971)
2. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
3. Sátántangó (1994)
4. The Red and the White (1967)
5. The Round-Up (1966)
6. Damnation (1987)
7. Mephisto (1981)
8. Hukkle (2002)
9. Fateless (2005)
10. Merry-Go-Round (1956)
11. The Witness (1969)
12. White Palms (2006)
13. Sinbad (1971)
14. Red Psalm (1972)
15. Beloved Electra (1974)
16. Sunshine (1999)
17. My Way Home (1965)
18. Hanussen (1988)
19. My Twentieth Century (1989)
20. Kontroll (2003)

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CFB's Greatest Movies by Country, Chapter 10: Argentina

1. The Official Story (1985)
2. Nine Queens (2000)
3. Historias Mínimas (2002)
4. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
5. A Place in the World (1992)
6. Rebellion in Patagonia (1974)
7. Man Facing Southeast (1986)
8. The City of No Limits (2002)
9. Last Days of the Victim (1982)
10. Burnt Money (2000)
11. Sur (1988)
12. Time for Revenge (1981)
13. God Reward You (1948)
14. Son of the Bride (2001)
15. Camila (1984)
16. Ashes from Paradise (1997 )
17. Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going (1995)
18. Bolivia (2001)
19. La Ciénaga (2001)
20. Bombon El Perro (2004)

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CFB's Greatest Movies by Country, Chapter 1: Russia

1. Andrei Rublev (1966)
2. Stalker (1979)
3. Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
4. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
5. Dersu Uzala (1975)
6. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
7. Mirror (1975)
8. Solaris (1972)
9. Ivan the Terrible (1944-1946)
10. Come and See (1985)
11. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
12. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
13. Earth (1930)
14. The Colour of Pomegranates (1968)
15. I Am Cuba (1964)
16. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
17. The Girl with the Hat Box (1927)
18. King Lear (1971) (Kozintsev)
19. Outskirts (1933)
20. House of Fools (2002)

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A.V. Club: The Best Films of the '00s

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
2. 25th Hour (2002)
3. There Will Be Blood (2007)
4. No Country for Old Men (2007)
5. Memento (2000)
6. Spirited Away (2001)
7. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
8. Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
9. The New World (2005)
10. Children of Men (2006)
11. Time Out (2001)
12. Before Sunset (2004)
13. Grizzly Man (2005)
14. Talk to Her (2002)
15. Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
16. Almost Famous (2000)
17. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
18. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
19. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
20. The Squid and the Whale (2005)
21. Zodiac (2007)
22. United 93 (2006)
23. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
24. A One and a Two... (2000)
25. Together (2000)
26. The Incredibles (2004)
27. What Time Is It There? (2001)
28. Morvern Callar (2002)
29. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
30. WALL·E (2008)
31. In the Mood for Love (2000)
32. AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
33. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
34. American Psycho (2000)
35. Waking Life (2001)
36. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
37. A History of Violence (2005)
38. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (2003)
39. The Prestige (2006)
40. City of God (2002)
41. The Dark Knight (2008)
42. The Child (2005)
43. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
44. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
45. Audition (1999)
46. Adaptation (2002)
47. Moulin Rouge (2001)
48. Crimson Gold (2003)
49. Gerry (2002)
50. Oldboy (2003)

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Love Object (2003)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Writer/Director: Robert Parigi

Cinematographer: Sidney Sidell

Composer: Nicholas Pike

Cast: Desmond Harrington, Melissa Sagemiller, Udo Kier, Rip Torn, Robert Bagnell, Brad Henke, John Cassini

A quiet instruction manual writer, under a great deal of pressure at work, orders a very expensive live size sex doll from the internet, which he models on his pretty new assistant Lisa, with whom he tentatively begins a relationship, much to the chagrin of Nikki, his rubber friend, in Parigi’s excellent directorial debut: a creepy, thoughtful, and well acted horror film. Iain.Stott

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Murk (2005)

Recommended

Denmark/UK

Feature Film

Original Title: Mørke

Director: Jannik Johansen

Writers: Anders Thomas Jensen, Jannik Johansen

Cinematographer: Rasmus Videbæk

Composer: Antony Genn

Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Nicolas Bro, Lærke Winther Andersen, Laura Drasbæk, Lotte Bergstrøm, Anne Sophie Byder, Morten Lützhøft, Lisbet Lundquist

When his sister, severely disabled and brain-damaged following a suicide attempt, apparently kills herself on her wedding night, Jacob, a journalist, feels a great sense of guilt and grief; but when he uncovers information about her husband’s past that puts the cause of her death in doubt, he sets out for the small town of Mørke in search of answers, in this viscerally acted, thoroughly unpredictable, and often quite remarkable if only just about credible thriller. Iain.Stott

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