Willem Dafoe
1) Opus Zero
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Opus Zero tells the story of a destructive composer, Paul, played by Willem Dafoe who's looking for the meaning of isolation and silence after the loss of his dad.
2) The Hunter
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Willem Dafoe plays a mercenary sent by a shadowy corporation to the untamed wilderness of Tasmania to track down a tiger thought to be extinct, whose genetic code holds the secret to a dangerous weapon.
3) Tom & Viv
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In 1915, Tom and Viv elope, but her gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry doesn't bring in enough to live, but her mother is happy Viv has found a tender and discreet husband.
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In this powerful, true story, boxer Salamo Arouch (Willem Dafoe) is interned in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz with his family and friends. For the amusement of his captors, Salamo is forced to fight his fellow inmates in brutal contests that send the loser to the gas showers. Salamo's prowess in the ring is both his salvation and his nightmare, as his "victories" condemn others to death. Still he fights on, hoping to somehow save his father and friends...perhaps...
7) Odd Thomas
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In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
8) Platoon
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Platoon is the story of every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. Chris Taylor arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and the anger growing within himself.
10) Bad country
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In 1983, a veteran Baton Rouge detective, Bud Carter, infiltrates the most powerful criminal enterprise in the South. After taking down its top lieutenant and contract killer, Jesse Weiland, the detective convinces him to become an informant. Jesse sets out to help bring down the entire organization, including its architect, Lutin.
13) A woman
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Julie, an innocent young woman, meets a mysterious man, who turns out to be a famous American novelist; Max Oliver. Devastated by the recent death of his wife, the beautiful dancer Lucia Giordano, who's the subject of Oliver's latest book A Woman: Max is rescued out of his darkness by Julie. He falls in love with her and immediately invites her to go live with him in his beach house in the picturesque Mediterranean village of Salento, Italy.
14) Pasolini
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Renegade filmmaker Abel Ferrara explores the final days of another rebellious artist, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The film follows him as he works on his controversial classic Salò o le centoventi giornate di Sodoma, or the 120 Days of Sodom, and leads up to his brutal murder on the beach in Ostia on the outskirts of the city.
15) Existenz
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During a demonstration of a new virtual reality game called eXistenZ, the system's designer is violently attacked. The action explodes as the world's real-life dangers begin to merge with the fantasy of the game.
16) The river
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An exploration of the timeless relationship between human civilization and Earth's rivers. Spanning six continents, this visual and musical tour-de-force is by turns celebratory, cautionary, and ultimately hopeful that we are beginning to understand rivers in all their complexity and fragility. Narrated by Oscar Nominee Willem Dafoe. With music by the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Radiohead.
17) Tommaso
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An older American expat living in Rome with his young wife and their daughter is disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent, unexpected blows to his self-esteem. He wades through this late chapter of his life with an increasingly impaired grasp on reality as he prepares for his next film.
18) Poor things
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The tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality...
19) The loveless
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A group of bikers on their way to the Florida Cycle Races stop for lunch in a small town diner. While repairs are being made on their motorcycles, their macho leader flirts with a waitress while his henchmen intimidate the diner's clientele. As night approaches, rednecks descend on the tiny restaurant and the stage is set for a violent and tragic showdown.
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Tomorrow at 4:44 AM the world is going to come to an end. As panic hits the Earth's population, two lovers seclude themselves in a Manhattan high-rise and decide to spend their last moments in existence together. Accepting their doomed fate, the pair discovers more about themselves and each other in a few short hours than most do in an entire lifetime.