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Good Non Violent Or Agenda Pushing Movies To Watch

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  1. Ralf Mannheim

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    You'll find some more in the Criterion "Three Reasons" series in their Youtube channel. For example,

    Wild Strawberries



    Babette's Feast - Pope Francis' favorite movie



    Children of Paradise



    Also,

    Cinema Paradiso - a great movie about growing up and movies

     
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    Bicycle Thieves



    The Scent of Green Papaya



    War and Peace - Bondarchuk's magnificent version; there is some violence because war is involved, but what dominates is actually drama on an epic scale (bonus: no CGI)

     
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    Modern Times



    Perfumed Nightmare by Kidlat Tahimik (Quiet Thunder) - any agenda's understated because it's wrapped around Lat Am-inspired magic realism



    Raise the Red Lantern



    La Strada

     
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    The 400 Blows



    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - a very good example of the "angry young men" works



    The Loved One - one of my favorite comedies



    Picnic at Hanging Rock

     
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    Some of the greatest humanist movies in the world:

    Tokyo Story




    Twenty-Four Eyes



    The Naked Island - a fascinating movie that also has only one line of dialogue



    L'avventura

     
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    Blowup - one of my favorite murder mysteries, with almost no violence, and is actually about something else



    Camouflage



    O Brother Where Art Thou - believe it or not, a funny reworking of Homer's Odyssey





    Billy Elliot

     
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    La Grande Illusion



    The Seventh Seal



    The Third Man



    Black Girl

     
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    The Golden Coach



    The Age of Innocence



    This is How We are Now, How Were You Then? (Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon?) - a fascinating play on Voltaire's Candide



    Here's a nice bonus: the movie is now offered for free, and with subtitles

    T-Bird and Me (T-Bird at Ako; "t-bird" is slang for lesbian)



    It's about a club dancer jailed for killing a rich man's son who tried to rape her, and a wealthy, top female lawyer who wants to defend the dancer to prove herself but secretly does so because she has doubts about her sexuality. In short, it's filled with multiple agendas that ironically cancel each other out, leading to an unexpected ending, and involves what is supposed to be banal melodrama but surprisingly leads to a plot and pacing that not only works but looks almost perfect.
     
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    I'm more into American cinema and English, I do have a problem with vision also don't watch movies with words typed in.
    I'm not a woman well-traveled so don't care for foreign films. The Great Waltz I liked but it was in English and about a man whose music I heard my whole life. I'm sure it would have been great to travel as you did when I was younger but never had the opportunity. Thanks Raif.
     
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    The Age of Innocence ' looks good.May watch that one tonight or soon.
     
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    No Die Hard? The quintessential Christmas movie.
     
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    But.....but.....Kristy McNicol? Really?
     
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    I t was a good movie. And I don't know who Kristy is, since I forgot most of the stars in the movie anyway.:oops:.
     
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    Thanks for the suggestion but I can't see good enough to watch movies in foreign languages with CC. Plus I miss the movie reading the translation's into English.
     
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    I don't know who she is,but it was a good movie.
     
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