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All the Colors of the Dark The lurid story of a psychotic criminal whose drug dependence drives him to murder. Every maniac has his day…    more      Allegro Non Troppo Animated masterpiece which is set to the music of six classical works which include Ravel's "Bolero," and Stravinsky's "Firebird." Comic live action is interspersed between animated segments…    more      Almost Human A film depicting the gruesome realities of life in the Mafia. Guilio Sacchi, an underworld crime leader, rises above the ranks of Mafia hitmen to become the most savage killer in Milan as he kidnaps a businessman's daughter…    more      Alphaville With 1965's ALPHAVILLE--part sci-fi action film, part noir thriller--the acclaimed French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard achieves a stunningly clinical futurism using absolutely no special visual effects. The result is a moving, original film that, with its abstract, political, and intellectual themes, essentially redefines the apocalyptic…    more      Amarcord Federico Fellini's AMARCORD, an acclaimed semiautobiographical episodic drama, examines life in a small Adriatic village just before Mussolini's reign in the 1930s. As the weather changes and spring arrives, the village holds a festival in which it burns a symbolic bonfire and celebrates new life. This gathering in the central square…    more      Angel on the Right A movie from Tajikistan director Jamshed Usmonov, ANGEL ON THE RIGHT follows the fortunes of Hamro (Maruf Pulodzoda) as he returns to his native country after 10 years spent living in Moscow. Having languished in a Russian jail for most of the time, the former criminal hopes to return to Tajikistan to help his ailing mother who is close…    more