Films I have nominated for Doubling the Canon

by RogerTheMovieManiac88 | created - 06 Mar 2023 | updated - 1 month ago | Public

A list of films I have nominated for DtC since first taking part in 2018

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2. Bauk (1974)

16 min | Documentary, Short

About the killing of unborn children.

Director: Zivko Nikolic

Votes: 22

4. N[eon] (2002)

28 min | Short

A man wanders through a desolate Venice, finding old masks, dead books and a naked ghost.

Director: Dave McKean | Stars: Eileen Daly, Eamonn Collinge, John Cale

Votes: 101

5. Geranium (2004)

12 min | Animation, Short, Romance

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Director: Lucie Sunkova

7. Another Kind of Girl (2015)

5 min | Documentary, Short

For three months, a group of Syrian girls living in Jordan's Za'atari Refugee Camp participated in a media workshop to document their everyday lives - how it looks, feels and sounds from ... See full summary »

Director: Khaldiya Jibawi

Votes: 22

8. Zhila-byla devochka (1944)

Approved | 72 min | Drama, War

Woven around the daily lives of two children, nine-year-old Nastenka and five-year-old Katia, this is a story of the 17 months' siege of Leningrad and of the people and families shattered ... See full summary »

Director: Viktor Eysymont | Stars: Nina Ivanova, Natalya Zashchipina, Ada Voytsik, Aleksandr Larikov

Votes: 169

9. Viagem aos Seios de Duília (1965)

105 min | Drama

Single retired civil servant decides to return to his hometown to meet his first and only love. But the woman he finds is just a spectre of his memory.

Director: Carlos Hugo Christensen | Stars: Rodolfo Mayer, Nathália Timberg, Oswaldo Louzada, Lícia Magna

Votes: 92

10. Vula (1965)

Drama

In the House of Marriages, the young couples are paraded one after other. The newlyweds sign the register, kiss and receive congratulations. The picture fades out and another house takes ... See full summary »

Director: Nikola Korabov | Stars: Nadezhda Randzheva, Ivan Manov, Lyuben Boyadzhiev, Dimitar Hadzhiyanev

Votes: 9

11. La discrète (1990)

94 min | Drama, Romance

There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, ... See full summary »

Director: Christian Vincent | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Judith Henry, Maurice Garrel, Marie Bunel

Votes: 1,066 | Gross: $0.23M

12. Vihir (2009)

120 min | Drama

Sameer and Nachiket are relatives and friends. Nachiket, who is the more mature of the two, wants to escape his stifling surroundings. Sameer does not understand this. Then one day, ... See full summary »

Director: Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni | Stars: Mohan Agashe, Madan Deodhar, Girish Kulkarni, Parna Pethe

Votes: 304

13. Possession (1944)

80 min | Crime, Drama

The middle-aged manufacturer Jens Steen is on his way to his summer house by the sea to rest for a few days. All alone. At the same time, the 20-year-old Else Petersen is out on the road ... See full summary »

Director: Bodil Ipsen | Stars: Johannes Meyer, Berthe Qvistgaard, Aage Fønss, Poul Reichhardt

Votes: 56

15. The Girl and the Oak (1955)

82 min | Drama

Smilja is a little girl living in Dalmatian Zagora. One day, her mother dies under a small oak tree and she is left without parents. Luckily, she gets adopted and continues to nurture the ... See full summary »

Director: Kresimir Golik | Stars: Tamara Miletic, Ljuba Tadic, Miodrag Popovic-Deba, Andrej Kurent

Votes: 94

16. Il mare (1962)

110 min | Drama

A well known actor comes to off-season Capri to unwind and meets a teenaged boy. The attraction is immediate and mutual but before their relationship can get off the ground, an alluring ... See full summary »

Director: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi | Stars: Umberto Orsini, Françoise Prévost, Dino Mele, Renato Scala

Votes: 150

17. Herrenpartie (1964)

92 min | Drama, War

A German choir consisting of eight men is on a vacation in Yugoslavia. Most are middle-aged former Nazis. They arrive at a village populated solely by women who avoid contact with the men. ... See full summary »

Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Götz George, Hans Nielsen, Rudolf Platte, Reinhold Bernt

Votes: 121

18. Passacaglia y Fuga (1975)

18 min | Short

Filmed almost entirely inside a house on the outskirts of S.C. Bariloche, on the shores of Lake Nahuel Huapi, along a winter and early spring.

Directors: Jorge Honik, Laura Honik

Votes: 42

19. Pandora's Mirror (1981)

X | 94 min | Adult, Fantasy

A woman goes into an antique shop to buy furniture, and notices a large mirror, which the owner refuses to sell, claiming that it's possessed. She persuades him to let her borrow it for a ... See full summary »

Director: Shaun Costello | Stars: Veronica Hart, Jamie Gillis, Sandra Hillman, Frederick Foster

Votes: 250

20. Un été inoubliable (1994)

82 min | Drama, Romance, War

Romania in the 1920s. Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) refuses the advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to ... See full summary »

Director: Lucian Pintilie | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Claudiu Bleont, Olga Tudorache, George Constantin

Votes: 1,103 | Gross: $0.07M

21. Le cou de la girafe (2004)

84 min | Drama

Mathilde (Louisa Pili), a precocious 10-year-old, insists that her grandfather, Paul (Claude Rich), help her find his ex-wife (Mathilde's maternal grandmother), Madeleine (Monique Melinand)... See full summary »

Director: Safy Nebbou | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Claude Rich, Louisa Pili, Darry Cowl

Votes: 351

22. West (2013)

R | 102 min | Drama

65 Metascore

She Can See Her Future, But Can't Escape Her Past.

Director: Christian Schwochow | Stars: Jördis Triebel, Tristan Göbel, Jacky Ido, Anja Antonowicz

Votes: 1,035

23. Blue Jay (I) (2016)

Unrated | 80 min | Drama, Romance

69 Metascore

Meeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high-school sweethearts reflect on their shared past.

Director: Alex Lehmann | Stars: Mark Duplass, Sarah Paulson, Clu Gulager, James Andrews

Votes: 20,758 | Gross: $0.01M

24. Homecoming (1928)

Passed | 78 min | Drama, Romance, War

Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany before Richard, and is sheltered by ... See full summary »

Director: Joe May | Stars: Lars Hanson, Dita Parlo, Gustav Fröhlich, Theodor Loos

Votes: 219

25. Huo shan qing xue (1932)

100 min | Drama

A warlord's nephew lusts for farmer Song Ke's sister. When Song refuses, the whole family is thrown into jail and the sister commits suicide. The father dies of grief and Song lives with ... See full summary »

Director: Yu Sun | Stars: Li-li Li, Junli Zheng, Ying Tan, Tianxiu Tang

Votes: 73

26. Thru the Mirror (1936)

Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Mickey has been reading Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There", and falls asleep. He finds himself on the other side of the mirror, where the furniture is ... See full summary »

Director: David Hand | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Clarence Nash, Purv Pullen, Walt Disney

Votes: 2,797

27. Ala-Arriba! (1942)

94 min | Drama, Romance

In a village of poor fishermen in the North of Portugal, João Moço and Julha fall in love. Unfortunately they belong to two different fisher castes and the community as well as their respective families condemn their love...

Director: José Leitão de Barros | Stars: Ilidio Rocha Silvestre, Elsa Bea-Flor, João Moço, Nicolau

Votes: 106

28. Double Cross (1951)

85 min | Crime, Drama

Pietro, an honest businessman, is wrongly accused of the murder of his business associate and jailed. Actually the man is alive and has set him up to avoid bankruptcy. Pietro's life is ... See full summary »

Director: Riccardo Freda | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Gianna Maria Canale, Armando Francioli, Arnoldo Foà

Votes: 87

29. Road Back (1959)

92 min | Crime, Drama

Dan, Freddy and Carda are roaming about Prague thinking of how to get some money. They decide to break into the box-office of a cinema, but a passer-by interferes. Freddy loses his jacket ... See full summary »

Director: Václav Krska | Stars: Eduard Cupák, Josef Vinklár, Jana Dítetová, Oldrich Slavík

Votes: 31

30. Once Upon a Tram (1960)

22 min | Documentary, Short

Take a ride on the last tram from Dublin (Ireland) on a short trip to Howth Head Co.Dublin, with almost poetic narration by Cyril Cusack. (1959)

Directors: James G. Maguire, John Sarsfield | Star: Cyril Cusack

Votes: 8

31. Noktirne (1966)

79 min | Drama, War

End of the Spanish Civil War. Republicans retreat across the Pyrenees to France. A Latvian soldier, Zorzs, and a French nurse, Iveta, accidentally meet.

Director: Rostislav Goryayev | Stars: Pola Raksa, Gunars Cilinskis, Aleksandr Lemberg, Juris Plavins

Votes: 33

32. Errigal (1970)

14 min | Documentary, Short

A fantasy-like documentary that presents two mountains (Mount Muckish and Mount Errigal) in County Donegal in Ireland as rivals.

Director: Patrick Carey

Votes: 11

34. Rahm (2016)

104 min | Drama

A virtuous woman has to choose between her honour or saving her brother's life in a Sufi interpretation of William Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure'.

Director: Ahmed Alauddin Jamal | Stars: Sanam Saeed, Nayyar Ejaz, Sajid Hasan, Seeret Jafri

Votes: 57

35. Une vie ailleurs (2017)

96 min | Drama, Family

It's been four years since Sylvie's son Felipe was abducted by his father Pablo after their divorce. Having been let down by the French officials who had succeeded in tracking both them down, only to let them escape again, Sylvie has now decided to take matters into her own hands.

Director: Olivier Peyon | Stars: Isabelle Carré, Ramzy Bedia, María Dupláa, Virginia Méndez

Votes: 238

36. From the Four Corners (1942)

15 min | Drama, Short

Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them understand why they're fighting.

Director: Anthony Havelock-Allan | Stars: J. Johnston, W. Atkinson, R. Gilbert, Leslie Howard

Votes: 120

37. Vagabunda (1950)

86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Tired of working in seedy places, a stripper turns to prostitution in the streets.

Director: Miguel Morayta | Stars: Antonio Badú, Leticia Palma, Luis Beristáin, Irma Dorantes

Votes: 33

38. Stendalì (Suonano ancora) (1960)

13 min | Documentary, Short

A funeral lamentation is sung by women in a dialect so old that it came from the ancient Greeks who once colonized in that part of southern Italy.

Director: Cecilia Mangini | Star: Lilla Brignone

Votes: 64

39. Tifusari (1963)

13 min | Animation, Drama, Short

The film was inspired by Jure Kastelan's famous poem. Aleksandar Marks' woodcut-style drawings graphically depict hallucinations of sick partisans marching through wastelands.

Director: Vatroslav Mimica | Star: Zlatko Crnkovic

Votes: 58

40. The Game of Love (1967)

8 min | Short

A young woman and man are riding bikes through nature, having a good time. When she speeds up, he loses her, and after a while he stumbles across her bike without any trace of her. He ... See full summary »

Director: Vladimir Momcilovic | Stars: Predrag Ejdus, Zlata Numanagic

Votes: 7

41. Osenniye svadby (1968)

78 min | Drama

A poetic story about the first love of the village girl Natasha, loyal to the memory of the deceased fiancé. In peacetime, the heroine's fiancé blew up on a land mine that remained on the ... See full summary »

Director: Boris Yashin | Stars: Valentina Telichkina, Vsevolod Safonov, Konstantin Sorokin, Yevgeny Perov

Votes: 58

42. Monangambé (1968)

16 min | Short

Abuses by the Portuguese slave traders in their colony of Angola are depicted through the torture of one prisoner, based on ignorance and incomprehension.

Director: Sarah Maldoror | Stars: Carlos Pestana, Noureddine Dreis, Mohamed Zinet, Athmane Sabi

Votes: 75

43. Requiem for Sally (1979)

18 min | Short, Drama

Two parents mourn the loss of their daughter in a car accident.

Director: Terence McDonald | Stars: Noeleen Ball, Gordon Fulton

44. Mascara (1983)

X | 75 min | Adult, Drama

Harriet lives a repressed existence, working as a secretary in a Manhattan office. After discovering that her boss is secretly seeing a prostitute named Lucy, Harriet works up the courage ... See full summary »

Directors: Henri Pachard, Roberta Findlay | Stars: Bobby Astyr, Bobbie Burns, Mistress Candice, Lee Carroll

Votes: 250

45. Permission (1987)

137 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Meeting accidentally five years after their divorce, a couple reflects on how their marriage collapsed despite transparency.

Director: Gulzar | Stars: Rekha, Naseeruddin Shah, Anuradha Patel, Rammohan Sharma

Votes: 1,716

46. Eye of God (1997)

R | 84 min | Crime, Drama

We see two stories told over four time lines, which wind down to a devastating ground zero collision, as we watch a double tragedy unfold in a small Oklahoma town. The two stories are told ... See full summary »

Director: Tim Blake Nelson | Stars: Mary Kay Place, Nick Stahl, Chris Freihofer, Woody Watson

Votes: 1,266

48. March, march! Tra-ta-ta! (1964)

78 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Directed by Raimondas Vabalas, an eccentric and buffoonish tragicomedy and a satirical pamphlet, making fun of chauvinism and petty politicians.

Directors: Raimondas Vabalas, Gediminas Karka | Stars: Leon Stanevicius, Valdas Mikolas Jatautis, Birute Zibaite, Donatas Banionis

Votes: 36

52. Tommaso (1967)

11 min | Short, Drama

The industrial city of Brindisi is the setting for this film, the tension between the bright promises of the industrial world and the not-so-bright reality of a young worker, in one of Mangini's most emblematic works.

Director: Cecilia Mangini

Votes: 32

53. A Grande Cidade ou As Aventuras e Desventuras de Luzia e Seus 3 Amigos Chegados de Longe (1966)

80 min | Crime, Drama

Luzia comes from the backwoods of Northeast Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, in search of her fiancé. But soon she'll find out he has turned into a dangerous criminal and is being looked after by the police.

Director: Carlos Diegues | Stars: Leonardo Villar, Anecy Rocha, Antonio Pitanga, Joel Barcellos

Votes: 160

54. Yerankyuni (1967)

84 min | Drama

The movie tells the life story and friendship of five blacksmiths in town of Leninakan during the war and the years preceding it - as told by the son of one of the blacksmiths.

Director: Henrik Malyan | Stars: Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Sos Sargsyan, Pavel Arsenov

Votes: 142

55. The Beauty (1969)

71 min | Drama, Family

Little Inga considers herself pretty and is pampered by her mother and other children in her housing block, until a new boy with questionable habits arrives and calls her ugly in her face.

Director: Arunas Zebriunas | Stars: Inga Mickyte, Lilija Zadeikyte, Arvidas Samukas, Tauras Ragalevicius

Votes: 540

56. The Day Passed (1971)

83 min | Drama, Romance

Schoolmates who loved each other, but didn't say it meet again years later.

Director: Arif Babayev | Stars: Leila Shikhlinskaya, Häsän Mämmädov, D. Abdullayeva, Chingiz Alioglu

Votes: 329

58. Vanadzins (I) (1978)

15 min | Animation, Short

Little Hawk fantasizes being out in the ocean with his father until a storm blows through.

Director: Arnolds Burovs

Votes: 29

59. Sour Grapes (1974)

76 min | Drama

Far behind the lines Vahe receives the news of his father's death. Small boy neither could accept it nor reconcile himself with the new family of his mother who married to another man. The ... See full summary »

Director: Bagrat Oganesyan | Stars: A. Isahakyan, Sos Sargsyan, H. Azizyan, Alla Tumanian

Votes: 96

60. En el balcón vacío (1962)

48 min | Drama

A woman who was a child refugee from the Spanish Civil War is now living as an adult in Mexico City. She tries to remember the traumatic events of her childhood.

Director: Jomí García Ascot | Stars: Alicia Bergua, Martín Bergua, María Luisa Elio, Belina García

Votes: 117

61. Moteris ir keturi jos vyrai (1983)

91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Story set in a Baltic fishermen's settlement at the turn of the 20th century. The film's heroine keeps losing one husband after another, but there's always someone from the family to come and take care of her children and her house.

Director: Algimantas Puipa | Stars: Jurate Onaityte, Antanas Surna, Vidas Petkevicius, Saulius Balandis

Votes: 130

62. Stick and Bone (1968)

70 min | Drama

An old man pays for a woman to live with him as his wife but soon discovers that she is sleeping with his son.

Director: Nicolás Sarquís | Stars: Héctor da Rosa, Miguel Ligero, Ramón 'Moncho' Beron, Ramón Franco

Votes: 32

63. La sangre y la semilla (1959)

82 min | Drama

Plaquita, the widow of a Paraguayan officer, rescues a wounded sergeant who has been a companion of her husband. She takes care of him and nurtures him back to health. But they only have ... See full summary »

Director: Alberto Dubois | Stars: César Alvarez Blanco, Ernesto Baez, Raul Valentino Benítez, Leandro Cacavellos

Votes: 18

65. Dubravka (1967)

80 min | Family, Romance

A coming of age drama. Dubravka, a teenage girl who lives in a resort town by the Black Sea, approaches adolescence.

Director: Radomir Vasilevsky | Stars: Lina Braknyte, Niele Vikiraite, Vitali Fadeyev, Kostya Usatov

Votes: 150

66. Sandu Follows the Sun (1962)

66 min | Drama

A story about a boy walking across the town following sun.

Director: Mikhail Kalik | Stars: Nika Krimnus, Tatyana Bestayeva, Nikolay Volkov, Georgiy Georgiu

Votes: 218

67. The Orderly (1933)

76 min | Drama

Philippe, the order of an old colonel, surprises the wife of his boss in the arms of a young lieutenant. So that he remains silent, she offers herself to him.

Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: Marcelle Chantal, Jean Worms, Fernandel, Alexandre Rignault

Votes: 46

68. Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements (1931)

54 min | Documentary

Without sound, in three movements. Title cards declare that what a person likes and his manner of liking them reveals character. There are long looks at forms and rhythms. The film begins ... See full summary »

Director: Henwar Rodakiewicz

Votes: 159

69. Desperate Remedies (1992)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune ... See full summary »

Directors: Stewart Main, Peter Wells | Stars: Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Kevin Smith, Lisa Chappell, Cliff Curtis

Votes: 409 | Gross: $0.07M

70. 24 Horas de Sonho (1941)

92 min | Comedy

A young woman suddenly decides to end her own life. But before putting the plan into practice, she stays in a luxury hotel, pretending to be a baroness.

Director: Chianca de Garcia | Stars: Dulcina de Moraes, Odilon Azevedo, Conchita de Moraes, Aristóteles Penna

Votes: 28

71. Desires Within Young Girls (1977)

X | 102 min | Adult

Mother wants her daughters to have a well-off life, so she helps them find rich husbands.

Director: Richard Kanter | Stars: Georgina Spelvin, Clair Dia, Annette Haven, John Leslie

Votes: 206

72. The Witch (1952)

80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears and drives the men of the village crazy. ... See full summary »

Director: Roland af Hällström | Stars: Mirja Mane, Toivo Mäkelä, Hillevi Lagerstam, Sakari Jurkka

Votes: 477

73. Frauen sind keine Engel (1943)

80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Director Richard Anden and his screenwriter take a cruise on a luxury liner, avoiding all feminine attempts to get a movie contract, including the ship singer. When he unexpectedly ... See full summary »

Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Marte Harell, Axel von Ambesser, Margot Hielscher, Curd Jürgens

Votes: 56

74. Zare (1927)

72 min | Drama

Immediately prior to the Russian Revolution, a young shepherd Seydo and his girlfriend Zare struggle for their right to a happy love in a Yazidi Kurdish village in Russian Armenia.

Director: Amo Bek-Nazaryan | Stars: Maria Tenazi, Hrachia Nersisyan, Avet Avetisyan, Olga Gulazyan

Votes: 127

75. Pour don Carlos (1921)

90 min

In late 19th century Spain, a civil war plays out in the Basque region between supporters of the pretender Carlos VIII and the republican government, with the feisty Allegria inspiring the Carlists.

Directors: Jacques Lasseyne, Musidora | Stars: Musidora, Stephen Weber, Abel Tarride, Ramiro Arrué

Votes: 42

76. Woman of Evil (1947)

87 min | Drama

On a small island in the middle of the river where Tramontana almost always blows, some losers tear each other to pieces .

Director: Edmond T. Gréville | Stars: Charles Vanel, Jean Chevrier, Héléna Bossis, Margo Lion

Votes: 89

77. Mød mig paa Cassiopeia (1951)

101 min | Romance, Comedy, Musical

A stage writer desperate for inspiration acquires a muse straight out of Greek mythology. She bedazzles everyone she meets, but will the play be done in time, and will earthly life win the muse over?

Director: Torben Anton Svendsen | Stars: Bodil Kjer, Lily Broberg, Hans Kurt, Poul Reichhardt

Votes: 314

78. Untitled 77-A (1977)

6 min | Documentary, Short, Action

The film contains the despair of an artist's desire for creation on ruthless censorship, rebel, and anxiety in the mid-70s when it was politically and socially depressed.

Director: Ok-hee Han | Stars: Young-sik Kim, Myoung-ok Kwak, Jin-tack Lee, Sung-kwon Son

Votes: 10

79. Taifuken no onna (1948)

68 min | Crime, Drama

A gang of 4 pirates, down on their luck, head for a weather-tracking station on an outlying island, intending to hold the weather-trackers hostage and raid their next incoming supply ship. ... See full summary »

Director: Hideo Ôba | Stars: Sô Yamamura, Setsuko Hara, Takashi Kanda, Kamon Kawamura

Votes: 57

80. Doctor Nicholson and the Blue Diamond (1913)

71 min | Crime, Thriller

Count Jules de Barton, a nobleman on hard times, seeks his fortune in America.

Stars: Anton De Verdier, Edith Buemann, Holger Reenberg, Axel Christensen

Votes: 47

82. Uno que ha sido marino (1951)

85 min | Comedy

Gags and love, Chilean-style.

Director: José Bohr | Stars: Eugenio Retes, Hilda Sour, Arturo Gatica, Eduardo Naveda

Votes: 23



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