Death of a Cyclist (Spanish: Muerte de un ciclista) is a 1955 social realist Spanish drama film directed by Juan Antonio Bardem and starring Italian actress Lucia Bosè, who was dubbed into Spanish by Elsa Fábregas. It won the FIPRESCI Award at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.
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Kedi is a 2016 Turkish documentary film directed by Ceyda Torun about the many stray cats that live in Istanbul. It premiered at the !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival on 21 February 2016 before being given a North American theatrical release on 10 February 2017. It debuted on the YouTube Red streaming service on 10 May 2017. It was released on DVD in the U.S. on 14 November 2017. The film received critical acclaim, and grossed over $4 million. Time magazine listed it as one of its top ten films of 2017.
Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis, starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. It tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker and a homeless street hustler whose lives cross paths when they are unknowingly made part of an elaborate bet. Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis also star. The storyline is often called a modern take on Mark Twain's classic 19th-century novel The Prince and the Pauper.The film was written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod and was produced by Aaron Russo. It was released to theaters in North America on June 8, 1983, where it was distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film earned over US $90 million during its theatrical run in the United States, finishing as the fourth highest earning film of the year and the second highest earning R-rated film of 1983.Denholm Elliott and Jamie Lee Curtis won the awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role, respectively, at the 37th British Academy Film Awards. The film was nominated for several additional awards including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy at the 41st Golden Globe Awards.
In Buenos Aires, the bitter and methodic Roberto
is a lonely man and the owner of a hardware store. Roberto collects
bizarre worldwide news in an album as a hobby and his acquaintance Mari
has an unrequited love for him, but Roberto is always evasive. One day,
Roberto sees a Chinese named Jun being expelled from a taxi while he is
watching the landing of airplanes in the airport and he helps the man to
stand up. Jun does not speak Spanish and shows a tattoo with an address
on his arm. Roberto heads to the spot with Jun and discover that the
place belonged to Jun's uncle that sold it three and half years ago.
Roberto goes with Jun to the police station, to the China's embassy and
to a Chinese neighborhood to seek out his uncle but it is a fruitless
search. Roberto lodges Jun in his house and after a series of incidents,
he finds a delivery boy to translate Jun and he learns the dramatic
story of his life.
The Homesman is a 2014 historical period drama set in the 1850s Midwest, directed by Tommy Lee Jones. The screenplay by Jones, Kieran Fitzgerald and Wesley Oliver was based on the 1988 novel of the same name by Glendon Swarthout. The film stars Jones and Hilary Swank and also features Meryl Streep, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Hailee Steinfeld, John Lithgow and James Spader.
