Search: Starring Maria de Medeiros

The Forbidden Room (2015)

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What is quite wonderful in all this flowing and "fade, fade, fade," fading is that the characters and their stories belong to no one specifically. They belong to a cinematic spirit world and maybe nobody even wanted them.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5

A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.
L'Homme De Ma Vie (1992)

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If you'll forgive the stereotype, it should be more French, damnit.

Keith Dudhnath · 1.5 out of 5

A woman searches for the man of her dreams.
Moi, Cesar (2003)

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Richard Berry is seemingly unable to decide whether he is making a children's film or a film starring children, intended for an older audience.

Keith Hennessey Brown · 3 out of 5

Three French children go to London to find one of their fathers.
My Life Without Me (2003)

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The performances break your heart, not because the subject matter has a built in Love Story factor, but because they are so good.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5

Young mother dying of cancer plans for life after her death.
Pasolini (2014)

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Pasolini's unfinished life remains painfully unresolved, as it should be.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5

A look at the final day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Pulp Fiction (1994)

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Excitement shivers through each scene with quirky, individual peculiarity.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5

Killers and junkies interact and outeract in a merry-go-mayhem ensemble of violent eccentricity.
Reflection In A Dead Diamond (2025)

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For something so lovely, it is hard-edged, and it sparkles with visual wit.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5

When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.
The Saddest Music In The World (2003)

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Hilarious throughout.

Andrea Mullaney · 4.5 out of 5

Depression-era melodrama where beer baroness runs competition to discover the saddest music in the world.
Two Fridas (2018)

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Though Mauro Herce's cinematography is strong, Yasin struggles to take us beyond the look to the feel of the women's relationship.

Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5

A drama with roots in the historic character of Judith Ferreto, the nurse of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, who spent her latter days in Costa Rica.