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Tokyo Express
In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing in the coast's wind and cold, the police...
Night Train to Lisbon
Night Train to Lisbon follows Raimund Gregorius, a 57-year-old Classics scholar, on a journey that takes him across Europe. Abandoning his job and...
I’m Not Scared
One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a...
Is Mother Dead
A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle aged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns...
Take Six: Six Portuguese Women Writers
The six authors in this anthology are remarkable Portuguese women writers, all born in the first half of the twentieth century: Sophia de Mello...
The Double
Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He...