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In the Mood for Love (2000)

Set in Hong Kong, Singapore and Cambodia in the 1960s, Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) is a film that luxuriates in the feeling of being in love – without ever turning into a love story. Its central characters, Mr Chow and Mrs Chan, are tenants in next-door apartments in Hong Kong who discover that their respective spouses are having an affair.

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Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)

A portrait of a poor Tokyo neighbourhood during the last decades of the Tokugawa regime.

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The Adversary (1970)

The first of Ray’s Calcutta Trilogy, adapted from Sunil Gangopadhyay’s novel, is set in the turbulent years of the communist Naxalite movement of the late 1960s. Siddhartha is a middle-class college graduate in search of a job amid the social turmoil. Alienated from his communist brother and his socially ambitious sister, his appearance at a farcical job interview plays out as dark comedy.

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Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

Shining a light on the gay subcultures of the 1960s Tokyo underground, Toshio Matsumoto’s pop-art masterpiece Funeral Parade of Roses did what few films of the international new wave era ever did: put queer experience front and centre.