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Testosterone
Comedy directed by Giorgos Panousopoulos, starring Dimitris Liakopoulos, Natalia Dragoumi, Dimitra Matsouka and Maria Zorba. A young sailor is shipwrecked on an island full of women, but his early euphoria soon turns into a living hell when he realizes he can’t escape their clutches. (In Greek) Hostage Drama directed by Constantine Yiannaris, starring Stathis Papadopoulos, Theodora Tzimou, Arto Apartian and Minas Hadzisavvas. A young Albanian migrant in Greece hijacks a bus full of passengers and takes it on a grueling 20-hour trip to his homeland, but once there, the game is really up. (In Greek) A Talking Picture Comedy drama directed by Manoel de Oliveira, starring Leonor Silveira, Filipa de Almeida, John Malkovich, Irene Papas and Catherine Deneuve. A history teacher on a sea voyage from Portugal to India teaches her daughter about life and the past as they stop at historically significant sites along the way and meet a string of accomplished women. (In Portuguese/French/English) In Good Company Comedy drama directed by Paul Weitz, starring Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson and Marg Helgenberger. Middle-aged ad exec Dan Foreman is ready for anything — except a new boss who’s young enough to be his son and, as it turns out, ends up sleeping with his daughter. Querelle Fassbinder drama of 1982, starring Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau and Laurent Malet. A sailor in Brest finds that his brother is the lover of the local saloon owner’s wife and agrees to a game of dice in which if he wins he beds her, and if he loses he has to agree to her husband’s sexual advances. (In German) Constantine Comic book-based science-fiction thriller directed by Francis Lawrence, starring Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LeBeouf and Djimon Hounsou. The supernatural detective Constantine teams up with a skeptical cop to solve her sister’s death and their investigation leads them into a world of demons and angels.
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