77m; Germany
Director: F.W. Murnau
Cast: Emil Jannings
Synopsis: An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society.
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The Last Peasants (2003)
150m; Romania
Director: Angus MacQueen
Synopsis: THE LAST PEASANTS tracks three families through a remote village in Romania’s Maramures area. the film looks at the changes imposed on the local community by the collapse of Communism and the new relationship with Western Europe.
Last Stand Farmer (1975)
30m; U.S.
Director: Richard Brick
Synopsis (IMDB): Filmed in Orange County, Vermont, featuring Kenneth and Helen O’Donnell and their draft horses, Last Stand Farmer, is a documentary record, filmed through four seasons, of the life and philosophy of an elderly hill farmer and his struggle to keep his 19th century farm operation going. Soon after he viewed the finished film, Kenneth O’Donnell died, his widow sold the farm and moved away the following spring.
Last Train Home (2009)
82m; China/Canada
Director: Lixin Fan
Synopsis: Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos, as all at once, a tidal wave of humanity attempts to return home by train. It is the Chinese New Year. The wave is made up of millions of migrant factory workers. The homes they seek are the rural villages and families they left behind to seek work in the booming coastal cities. It is an epic spectacle that tells us much about China, a country discarding traditional ways as it hurtles towards modernity and global economic dominance. Last Train Home, an emotionally engaging and visually beautiful debut film from Chinese-Canadian director Lixin Fan, draws us into the fractured lives of a single migrant family caught up in this desperate annual migration.
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Le Franc (1994)
44m; France
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty
Cast: Dieye Ma Dieye, Aminata Fall and Demba Bâ
Synopsis (IMDB): A penniless, fast-thinking musician buys a lottery ticket which he glues to his back door, in hopes of eventually retrieving his instrument from his exasperating landlady. The ticket wins, and our hero begins a harrowing odyssey throughout his shanty town, carrying the door on his shoulder all the time
The Last Supper (La última cena) [1976]
120m; Cuba
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Cast: Nelson Villagra, Silvano Rey and Luis Alberto García
Synopsis (IMDB): A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.
The Last Supper (1995)
92m; U.S.
Director: Stacy Title
Cast: Courtney B. Vance, Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard and Annabeth Gish
Synopsis (IMDB): A group of idealistic, but frustrated, liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering rightwing pundits for their political beliefs.
Le Jour Se Leve (1939)
93m; France
Director: Marcel Carné
Cast: Jean Gabin, Jacqueline Laurent and Arletty
Synopsis: A disastrous love triangle is played out against the background of working class Paris.
Le Million (1931)
83m; France
Director: Rene Clair
Synopsis: An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.
The Learning Tree (1969)
107m; U.S.
Director: Gordon Parks
Cast: Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke and Estelle Evans
Synopsis (IMDB): The story, set in Kansas during the 1920’s, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values
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