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Now showing — Blue Velvet · 5 works
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Betty Blue is a 1986 film from France, associated with Jean-Jacques Beineix. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Blue Collar is a 1978 American crime drama film directed by Paul Schrader in his directorial debut. Written by Schrader and his brother Leonard, the film stars Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto. The film is both a critique of union practices and an examination of life in a working-class Rust Belt enclave.
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Blue Giant is a 2023 anime title tied to Yuzuru Tachikawa and Hiromi Uehara and Japan. It keeps the animated field legible through atmosphere, genre range, and exact-title recall.
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While most young girls make an effort to show off their feminine charms, Futaba Yoshioka deliberately behaves like she wants to repel anyone who might be attracted to her. Ostracized by her female classmates in middle school for being a little too popular with the boys, she desperately strives to avoid a similar sit...
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A mixed-race swordsmith seeks revenge in Edo-period Japan. Animated action as identity story.
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Also in the field · 3
- The Blue Castle Books
- True Blue Music
- Blue Music
- Blue Collar Film
- Betty Blue Film