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Poster for Rally Chicks

2008 · ★ 4.3 (9)

Follows two girls living in Sweden in the 1960s who both dream about becoming rally drivers.

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1995 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Happi

2019 · ★ 8.0 (1)

Happi is a comedy drama that tells the amazing story of survival of a social misfit set in Mumbai. The film is all about a man, who is content with what he earns as his needs are few and thus, he is comfortable being a misfit. He earns by making people laugh as well as by singing at Cafe Bombay.

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Poster for Forever & Always

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A couples journey through sickness and health.

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Poster for Honeymoon

2014 · ★ 5.4 (617)

On her honeymoon, a young bride sleepwalks into the woods surrounding a secluded cabin. When she returns, she looks the same—but something about her is terrifyingly different.

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Poster for Monique

2002 · ★ 5.2 (41)

Suffering from depression and marital problems, Alex mistakenly orders a life-size doll, whom he names "Monique". With the help of Monique, Alex turns his life around; however she soon becomes the envy of his friends and wife.

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Poster for Falling

2006 · ★ 4.7 (9)

Five former high school friends reunite for an evening of fun, remembrance and sadness in this Altmanesque portrait of female friendship. A look at how youthful idealism turns into adult pragmatism, and how one can fight such changes, from the director of Free Radicals.

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Poster for Comedy Chingonas

2021 · ★ 2.3 (3)

Danny Trejo and Izabella Alvarez host an hour of no-holds-barred stand-up from a group of hilarious Latina comics, filmed live at the HA Comedy Festival in San Antonio.

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Poster for Mehua

2017 · ★ 5.6 (14)

Two young women are about to receive the great honor of being sacrificed to their Mexica gods; but the cruel and bloody ritual does not go as expected.

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Poster for Our Nationhood

2003 · ★ 7.0 (1)

In this feature-length documentary, Indigenous filmmaker and artist Alanis Obomsawin chronicles the determination and tenacity of the Listuguj Mi'kmaq people to use and manage the natural resources of their traditional lands. The film provides a contemporary perspective on the Mi'kmaq people's ongoing struggle and ultimate success, culminating in the community receiving an award for Best Managed River from the same government that had denied their traditional rights.

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Poster for Kin

2012 · ★ 10.0 (1)

A reclusive young woman is paid a surprise visit from her estranged brother, who comes bearing bad news and a mysterious gift.

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Poster for Minus 9

1997 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This short film is based upon a book of tales "Exemplary Crimes" by Max Aub who, in his turn, was inspired by real testimonies that describe crimes straightforwardly. The Testimonies are individual confessions by different persons that have nothing in common but the fact that all committed murder.

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1995 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young teenaged girl tries to get affection from her cold-hearted mother in this gentle French drama. 14-year old Rosine lives somewhere in northern France where the cold rain continually falls. It is a metaphor for her life. Her mother Marie had her when she was only 16 and now wants little to do with her. She spends most of her nights out on the town. Rosine hungers for her mother's love. She is almost obsessed with getting it. She is frustrated because she never does. One day Pierre, her father shows up from the blue and Mare gladly takes him in. Rosine is a good sport and likes that he takes an interest in her. The brief respite from gloom doesn't last as Pierre soon begins to beat Marie and eventually rapes Rosine. The traumatized girl tries to get her mother to admit the incident, to pay attention to the hurting child, but Marie just doesn't care. Marie has no choice but to run away from home and make her own way.

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Poster for Augustine

2012 · ★ 5.2 (70)

Set in Belle Époque France, the story follows nineteen-year-old "hysteria" patient Augustine, the star of Professor Charcot's experiments in hypnosis, as she transitions from object of study to object of desire.

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Poster for Cachaça

1997 · ★ 6.7 (3)

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Poster for Love Me Tender

2025 · ★ 6.2 (6)

At the end of summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s had relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he files to strip her of their son’s custody. Then begins a struggle of several years for Clémence to defend her right to be a mother and a woman – free to make her own choices.

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Poster for The Dinner Guest

2024 · ★ 6.0 (2)

Icíar and Fernando are young. They are both going through the most traumatic experience of their short lives: the loss of a parent. But Fernando and Icíar can neither share the pain nor the strategies for dealing with it. They live in different times. Fernando in 1977 in Bilbao faces the kidnapping of his father by ETA. Icíar in 2011 in Navarra faces her mother's fulminating cancer.

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2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Grizzlies

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Starting with teenagers at Dairy Queen and ending with boomers at book club, Nancy and her adult daughter Allison must find the courage to fiercely protect each other from their respective bullies.

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Poster for Rumbos

2016 · ★ 6.1 (38)

During a long night of August, some people have different experiences that leave a deep impression in them. Linked by a radio night show, all them cross the city of Barcelona, not knowing that their fates will collide with each other in unexpected ways.

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