Asia Argento
1) Dark Glasses
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After an eclipse, an escort crashes her car while fleeing a killer and loses her sight. Acting as her eyes is a young boy who survived the accident. But the killer won't give up his victim.
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This documentary explores Frida's art as well as her photos, clothes and personal objects not always accessible to the public. But who was Frida in real life? And how much energy and vitality are released from her paintings even when they portray pain and suffering? The film rolls out in a journey in search of Frida, into the heart of Mexico, amid cactuses, monkeys, deer and parrots, alternating exclusive interviews, with period documents, evocative...
3) The Islands
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Ivan is desperate due to lack of work. One day, looking for a job, he arrives at an island where he finds himself stuck, penniless and unable to return home, namely the squalid apartment he shares with his sick father. When help arrives, almost magically, he meets a mute young woman, Martina. In Italian with English subtitles. Starring Asia Argento, Ivan Franek, and Giorgio Colangeli.
5) Agony
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A discontented woman must decipher visions of her forgotten childhood and confront a spectral "Lady in Red," whose secret unlocks a terrifying destiny.
7) Trauma
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In this heart-pounding thriller by Italian horror legend Dario Argento, a young man tries to help an escaped psychiatric patient find the serial killer who murdered her parents. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
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When beautiful police detective Anna Manni follows the bloody trail of a sophisticated serial murderer/rapist through the streets of Italy, the young woman falls victim to the bizarre "Stendhal Syndrome" - a hallucinatory phenomenon which causes her to lose her mind and memory in the presence of powerful works of art.
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Ethically charged, controversial, and confusing, JT’s life and death sprang open a Pandora’s box of powerful questions about literature and culture, identity and celebrity, and the reality of the society we live in. Fraud? Art? Sociopathy? Complicity? THE CULT OF JT LEROY is a testament to this bizarre and elaborate story that has captured the attention and fascination of the world’s media, and perplexes to this day. JT LeRoy was a teen prostitute,...
11) XXX
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Xander is a notorious underground thrill-seeker who, until now, has been deemed untouchable by the law. But when he goes over the line with his latest stunt, he's faced with two options - either infiltrate a ruthless Russian crime ring for the government, or go to jail. Xander turns spy and now this new breed of secret agent is out to take down the enemies of justice with his own style of no-holds-barred action.
12) Misunderstood
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Asia Argento directs Charlotte Gainsbourg in this hip, funny coming-of-age story about a young girl with a vivid imagination.
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A collection of DVDs featuring five royal-themed films into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
The King's speech: This is the story of King George VI of Britian, his impromptu ascension to the throne, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.
Victoria & Abdul: Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Mary Queen of Scots: Queen of France at sixteen,...
15) Trauma
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A young man tries to help a teenage European girl who escaped from a clinic hospital after witnessing the murder of her parents by a serial killer and they try to find the killer before the killer finds them.
16) The Keeper
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When an apparently exemplary cop abducts and secretly imprisons a beautiful dancer, a deadly battle of wills between captor and captive ensues.
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From the brightness of the early 90s to the modern darkness, without falling into rhetoric, the leitmotif of the film is irony, sometimes bitter, in the story of the many well-known characters who describe unrepeatable meeting places, situations and encounters. There are many witnesses of the Capitoline scene of the 90s: Marco Giallini, Asia Argento, Ivano De Matteo, Coccoluto. All together they form a mosaic that gives the current image of Rome:...
18) XXX
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Xander Cage is a notorious underground thrill-seeker who, until now, has been deemed untouchable by the law. But when crack NSA Agent Gibbons convinces Cage to infiltrate a ruthless Russian crime ring, this new breed of secret agent (code name: XXX) takes down the enemies of justice with a vengeance.