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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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Poster for The Waiting City

2010 · ★ 5.9 (9)

An outwardly happy Australian couple journey to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements have yet to be finalized. Soon, the intoxicating mystic power of the Indian city pulls them in separate and unexpected directions, and the vulnerability of their marriage begins to reveal itself.

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2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Every day, Rosa opens her store. Today, something will be different.

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Poster for Disorder

2015 · ★ 5.7 (228)

An ex-soldier with PTSD is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy Lebanese businessman while he's out of town.

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Poster for Lost in Africa

2010 · ★ 3.2 (4)

Simon, an adopted boy of a Danish couple visiting Kenya with his mother, goes missing in Kibera slum. When his mother offers a reward on TV, the kidnappers are on the run.

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Poster for Before Stonewall

1984 · ★ 6.5 (30)

New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips and personal recollections to construct an audiovisual history of the gay community before the Stonewall riots.

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Poster for Dark Spring

1970 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Ingemo Engström’s graduation film DARK SPRING was made at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film in Munich, where she began studying in 1967. After the premiere at a festival in Mannheim, Uwe Nettelbeck wrote in "Filmkritik": "Films like DARK SPRING […] do not translate into the language of those who immediately think they know what such films are about […] But more, DARK SPRING is the film of a woman and a women’s film in which women say something, namely: how they see things."

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Poster for Fantastic Flowers

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Fantastic Flowers is a compilation of short silent films produced between 1906 and 1920, displaying amazing colours that were applied to each frame using the Pathécolor process, or other similar stencilling techniques. Bonsoir – La Fée aux fleurs (1906) / [Bloemenvelden Haarlem] (1909) / Les Chrysanthèmes (1907) / Le Chrysanthème, roi de l’automne (1914) / [Les Tulipes] (1907) / Les Fleurs dans les jardins (1914) / L’Après-midi d’une japonaise (1920) / The Beauty Thief ([1920]) / La Fée printemps (1906) / [Het schoonste uit de natuur] (1912?) / La Culture du dahlia (1911) / [Hollandse Tulpen en Klompen] (1920?) / Fabrication des fleurs artificielles (1911) / [Bonsoir tableau] (1906)

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1976 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Music “Quartet in F” by Maurice Ravel, performed by Max Mathews. Subtly colored images combining microphotography and computer generated images with unique editing sequences that propel the viewer into a spiral-like endless vortex. Three music tracks were produced by the Groove System – a computer-controlled sound synthesizer.

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2015 · ★ 6.0 (2)

Three women of different ages and backgrounds meet in the waiting room of an ophthalmologist’s office. Overhearing the conversation of the two older women, the young woman Sasha learns of the tragedy they experienced in the war. The indifference she felt towards them until that moment is replaced by a sense of closeness and connection. However, the chance to share this is irreversibly lost.

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Poster for Yvone Kane

2015 · ★ 5.0 (4)

After her daughter's death, Rita returns to the African country of her childhood to investigate the death of Yvone Kane, a former political activist and guerrilla fighter. There, she becomes embroiled in a journey into the past of a land haunted by war and evil.

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1998 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Boy with time bomb standing on golden meadow

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2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A mother and daughter go on vacation and have a unique, shared experience.

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2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A woman and a man shimmy nude across a bed while their three pet 20-year old water frogs wiggle in their nearby tank, all celebrating who they are independently and together. Before making this film, Sachs had “the jitters” – a feeling of nervousness before something important happens – but then she got over it and pulled out her Bolex camera and started shooting. Commissioned for the Century of 16mm celebration to mark the 100-year anniversary of 16mm motion picture film.

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1985 · ★ 1.0 (1)

A César award winning short film about a young actress who has to disguise her pregnancy bump in order to keep working.

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Poster for Belair

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Between February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian censorship that reveal today images of an unique freedom.

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Poster for Contactado

2020 · ★ 5.0 (1)

An aging self-proclaimed prophet who revisits his past as a spiritual guru after an eager young follower entices him to return to preaching.

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