Dying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm.

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, movies

An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.

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Directed by Kei Kumai. With Eiji Okuda, Toshirô Mifune, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Gô Katô. Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death. Years before: Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in…

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“I believe many of you here haven't watched Stalker? Or at least haven't watched it more than 20 times, like I have”. Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche - in Moscow, 2009. // Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. With Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko. A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

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I once watched Edmond with my mom once. It was slightly uncomfortable.

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From the opening titles, with their circling spiral imagery, to the dramatic final scene this is a movie that takes you to a different time and place. Specifically, to a San Francisco of the past; full of deserted parks, discrete rooming houses, oddly menacing art galleries and florists where the customers enter and exit through the back door.

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Gosh, I had totally forgot Rodney Dangerfield plays the abusive dad! // Directed by Oliver Stone. With Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield. Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

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After a nuclear accident in the north of Spain, a vast exclusion zone was set up to contain the risk of radioactive propagation a series of murders leads Héctor, the police chief who survived the catastrophe, to embark on an investigation to find the culprit.

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Feels like summer 1997 to me. // Directed by Sebastián Silva. With Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann, Juan Andrés Silva, Agustín Silva. As Jamie travels in Chile, he invites an eccentric woman to join his group's quest to score a fabled hallucinogen, a move that finds him at odds with his new companion, until they drink the magic brew on a beach at the edge of the desert.

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Directed by Gene Wilder. With Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise. The younger brother of the consulting detective tries to steal Sherlock's glory by solving an important case assisted by an eccentric Scotland Yard detective and a lovely but suspicious actress.

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