Holy Motors

The Lovers on the Bridge
(Les amants du Pont-Neuf)

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• France • 1991
• Director Leos Carax
• Cast Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Klaus-Michael Grüber, Edith Scob, Georges Aperghis, Daniel Buain
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on

Romance develops between two young vagrants eking out a harsh existence on Paris' oldest bridge.

The Holy Mountain
(La montaña sagrada)

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• Mexico, United States • 1973
• Director Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Cast Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders, Juan Ferrara, Adriana Page, Burt Kleiner
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Amazon Video, Alamo on Demand, FlixFling, IndieFlix

An alchemist assembles a group to replace the immortal gods at the top of Holy Mountain in this searing satirical drama.

Tokyo!
(도쿄!)

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• France, Japan, Korea • 2008
• Director Michel Gondry
• Cast Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Ayumi Ito, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Nao Omori, Denden
• Genre Drama
• Available on Amazon Video, Topic, Alamo on Demand, Kanopy, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Freevee Amazon Channel

Three short films that glance at the imaginative aspects of Tokyo life.

Dog Days
(Hundstage)

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• Austria • 2001
• Director Ulrich Seidl
• Cast Maria Hofstätter, Alfred Mrva, Franziska Weisz, Christine Jirku, Viktor Hennemann, Georg Friedrich
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on Kanopy

A series of vignette storylines woven into a tapestry of loneliness and quiet desperation.

Antichrist

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• Denmark, Germany, France • 2009
• Director Lars von Trier
• Cast Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
• Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
• Available on DIRECTV, Curia, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Kanopy, YouTube, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel

When nature turns evil, true terror awaits.

Enter the Void

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• France, Germany, Italy • 2009
• Director Gaspar Noé
• Cast Paz de la Huerta, Nathaniel Brown, Cyril Roy, Olly Alexander, Masato Tanno, Ed Spear
• Genre Drama, Fantasy
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC+ Amazon Channel, YouTube, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel

The spirit of a drug addict embarks on a psychedelic tour of life after death.

Pola X

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• France, Switzerland, Germany • 1999
• Director Leos Carax
• Cast Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve, Delphine Chuillot, Laurent Lucas, Šarūnas Bartas
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on No streaming locations found.

An erotically charged descent into madness.

Dogtooth
(Κυνόδοντας)

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• Greece • 2009
• Director Yorgos Lanthimos
• Cast Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Angeliki Papoulia, Hristos Passalis, Mary Tsoni, Anna Kalaitzidou
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Shudder, Curia, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, Alamo on Demand, Kino Now, Kanopy, Tubi TV, YouTube

A teenager confined to a family compound with her siblings concocts an escape plan.

Melancholia

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• Denmark, Sweden, France • 2011
• Director Lars von Trier
• Cast Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Alexander Skarsgård
• Genre Drama, Science Fiction
• Available on Apple iTunes, Magnolia Selects, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Crackle, Vudu, VUDU Free, Kanopy, fuboTV, Plex, Tubi TV, YouTube, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, FlixFling

Enjoy it while it lasts

Boy Meets Girl

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• France • 1984
• Director Leos Carax
• Cast Denis Lavant, Mireille Perrier, Carroll Brooks, Maïté Nahyr, Elie Poicard, Christian Cloarec
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Vudu, VUDU Free, Kino Now, Kanopy, YouTube

Mauvais Sang

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• France, Switzerland • 1986
• Director Leos Carax
• Cast Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Michel Piccoli, Hans Meyer, Julie Delpy, Carroll Brooks
• Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Hoopla, Vudu, Kino Now, Kanopy, YouTube

A love that burns quickly but lasts forever.

Cold Fish
(冷たい熱帯魚)

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• Japan • 2010
• Director Sion Sono
• Cast Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Denden, Asuka Kurosawa, Megumi Kagurazaka, Hikari Kajiwara, Tetsu Watanabe
• Genre Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
• Available on Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, realeyz, YouTube

When Shomoto’s competition in the tropical fish business, Murata, becomes friends with him, everything is not as it seems.

Amour

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• Austria, France, Germany • 2012
• Director Michael Haneke
• Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, William Shimell, Ramón Agirre, Rita Blanco
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, YouTube

Love never ends.

Tabu

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• Portugal, Germany, Brazil • 2012
• Director Miguel Gomes
• Cast Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Henrique Espírito Santo, Carloto Cotta, Isabel Muñoz Cardoso, Ivo Müller
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Kino Now, Kanopy

When Pilar's befriended neighbour Aurora dies, he starts to dig into her past.

Leviathan

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• France, United Kingdom, United States • 2012
• Director Véréna Paravel
• Cast Declan Conneely, Johnny Gatcombe, Adrian Guillette, Brian Jannelle, Clyde Lee, Arthur Smith
• Genre Documentary
• Available on Mubi, Mubi Amazon Channel, Topic, DocAlliance Films, Google Play Movies, Vudu, YouTube, Apple iTunes, Kanopy

The very waters that once inspired Moby Dick, this film captures the harsh, unforgiving world of fishermen in starkly haunting, yet beautiful detail.

Reality
(Réalité)

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• France, Belgium, United States • 2014
• Director Quentin Dupieux
• Cast Alain Chabat, Jonathan Lambert, Élodie Bouchez, Kyla Kenedy, Eric Wareheim
• Genre Comedy
• Available on AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel, DIRECTV, Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube

An aspiring director is given 48 hours by a producer to record an Oscar-worthy groan of pain.