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Accattone (1961)

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Plague, The (2025)

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Central Park (1989)

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Amoeba (2025)

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F for Fake (1973)

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Devi (1960)

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It Was Just an Accident (2025)

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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)

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January 17, 2021August 30, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Caught in the Net (2020)

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  • 2020, Czech Republic, Documentary
  • 1 Comment

Highly uncomfortable but essential viewing as this Czech documentary-cum-social experiment attempts to bring to light the dark, paedophilic world of online sexual abuse of children. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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January 3, 2021August 10, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Blackpink: Light Up the Sky (2020)

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  • 2020, Documentary
  • 1 Comment

Thereโ€™s probably nothing new for die-hard Blinks, but for new fans (like myself), this is a no-frills but highly-effective introduction to the four K-pop queens who are slaying the world.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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December 30, 2020June 25, 2022 by Eternality Tan

City Dream (2019)

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  • 2019, China, Documentary
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An old feisty street seller and his poor family fight for their right to make a living as local authorities demand their relocation in this engrossing, and at times, hilarious documentary filmed in pre-COVID Wuhan. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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November 29, 2020July 31, 2021 by Eternality Tan

13th (2016)

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  • 2016, Ava DuVernay, Documentary, USA
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It may sometimes feel too didactic, but this documentary about the proliferation of prisons in the US as set in the context of racial inequality has its moments of shocking power.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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October 26, 2020February 5, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Notturno (2020)

  • Rosi, Gianfranco
  • 2020, Documentary, Gianfranco Rosi
  • 3 Comments

Shot over three years in the Middle East, Rosiโ€™s beautiful and graceful documentary pits the human desire for normalcy against the unending cycles of death and destruction. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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October 17, 2020February 5, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Fire at Sea (2016)

  • Rosi, Gianfranco
  • 2016, Documentary, Gianfranco Rosi
  • 4 Comments

A deserving Golden Berlin Bear winner that powerfully documents the troubling migrant crisis from the vantage point of an Italian island and her life-goes-on inhabitants.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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October 15, 2020March 14, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Sacro GRA (2013)

  • Rosi, Gianfranco
  • 2013, Documentary, Gianfranco Rosi
  • 4 Comments

Interesting and dull at the same time, this ‘documentary movie’ operates as a series of vignettes of people who live next to an enormous ring road around Rome.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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October 10, 2020October 31, 2023 by Eternality Tan

‘Til Madness Do Us Part (2013)

  • Wang Bing
  • 2013, China, Documentary, Hong Kong, Wang Bing
  • 2 Comments

Wang Bingโ€™s extraordinary observational documentary shows us what itโ€™s like in a mental asylum in Chinaโ€”for four gruelling hours, we find ourselves full of human empathy and incapable of rendering judgment.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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October 4, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Shakuhachi: One Sound One Life (2019)

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  • 2019, China, Documentary
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A conventional documentary about an unconventional instrumentโ€”the ancient shakuhachiโ€”and the people who seek spiritual clarity through playing it.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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October 3, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Inmates (2017)

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  • 2017, China, Documentary
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This 5-hour long observational documentary shot in a psychiatric ward in Northeast China humanises patients diagnosed with mental illnesses and gives them tremendous empathy and dignity.ย ย 

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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