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NIGHT AND FOG
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Alain Resnais' searing, unforgettable film on Nazi concentration camps is a devastating record of man's inhumanity, playing like a collective, haunted memory.
I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG
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The charismatic Paul Muni (Scarface) stars in Mervyn LeRoy's gripping tale about an innocent man brutally victimized by the criminal justice system.
IMITATION OF LIFE (1934&59)
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Douglas Sirk's remake of the 1934 soaper is a moving tale of friendship between a white actress (Lana Turner) and the black mother who becomes her maid.
STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL
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Shot in the Gobi Desert, this moving documentary chronicles a family's desperate attempts to save a baby that was born snow white and rejected by its mother.
AU HASARD BALTHAZAR
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Robert Bresson's masterpiece follows the tragic journey of Balthazar, a sad-eyed donkey who experiences a series of cruelties as he's passed from owner to owner.
FIRE WITHIN, THE
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Louis Malle's painful portrait of self-destruction, capturing the final two days of an alcoholic French writer upon his brief release from a rehab clinic.
WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE
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Spike Lee's epic documentary on Hurricane Katrina. "The sheer volume of suffering and misery chronicled by the  film is crushing" (Stephen Holden, NY Times).
BARAN
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A moving love story about a young Iranian construction worker and his rival, an immigrant laborer from Afghanistan...who turns out to be a teenage girl.
TOKYO STORY
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Ozu's deceptively simple story of an elderly couple who travels to Tokyo to visit their married children, only to be politely ushered off to a hot springs resort.
PATHER PANCHALI
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The opening entry of Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy is a fiercely naturalistic, devastating portrait of poverty and despair. With music by Ravi Shankar.