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Poster for 3 Days in Quiberon

2018 · ★ 6.3 (61)

1981, Quiberon, a small village on the coast of Brittany, France. Hilde Fritsch arrives to visit her old friend who has retreated to a spa hotel to escape the daily pressures of her life. Her friend is world-famous star Romy Schneider, but together, they appear like two regular women who are just happy to be reunited. Yet it quickly becomes apparent that Hilde is supposed to offer the support the sensitive actress needs to be able to truly face her own demons.

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Poster for The Private Life of a Cat

1946 · ★ 7.2 (42)

An intimate study of the life of a domestic cat, taking place over a period of months as she gives birth to a litter of kittens and cares for them as they grow.

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Poster for Angela

2019 · ★ 7.4 (4)

Angela collects diagnostics of diseases she has never had, but a new friendship might bring this peculiar collection to an end.

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Poster for The Port

2019 · ★ 4.9 (7)

Kira is a teenager who is left disabled after a car accident. Her father is a boxing coach and he refuses to accept her situation. He believes that it could be overcome with a special training simulator to rehabilitate her. During this difficult period, Kira meets Andrey. With falling in love her life is changed in an unexpected way. They both face new and daunting challenges, and only the irrepressible desire to live and love can lead them to overcome the mistakes of their youth.

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1984 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Puppet animated film based on a fairytale by the Brothers Grimm.

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Poster for Cop Festival: New Beginning

2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films.

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Poster for Willy Kyrklund

2002 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Short documentary portrait of the acclaimed author and poet.

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1977 · ★ 5.0 (1)

Ben (Françoise Lebrun) is a woman who never gets to do what she really wants to do and is the victim of everybody and everything. Benedict is her imaginary creation: the girl who would respond with strength and mastery to situations she can only submit to. She is married to a cad who says he only married her because she was pregnant, and now he wants his freedom. Her real love is a fellow medical student, who shows some interest in her. Nonetheless, she remains faithful to her unenthusiastic husband, until she becomes pregnant again. At this point, she begins to act more like the Benedict of her dreams and less like the "Ben" she has lived as until now.

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Poster for WAGs

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

They are both new in Berlin: Judith, the girlfriend of promising young professional footballer Ronny, and Dina, who has followed a top Bulgarian player to Hertha BSC. On Saturdays, they watch their husbands' games together with the other players' wives, otherwise they have nothing to do. While Dina has already got used to being a player's wife, for Judith this life is still new and exciting. Because Dina believes she recognizes herself in the naïve provincial girl, she decides to rescue Judith.

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2011 · ★ 10.0 (1)

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2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mira adores her father. She is constantly striving for his attention. While he is busy saving the world, she has to take care of her little sister. However, Mira would rather spend her time outside skateboarding, without responsibilities - like any other child her age. After a troubled night, she grows to realize that she needs to put herself first.

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Poster for Colonial Rocks

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

A chance meeting of an art activist and a pompous Sunday painter at a public statue of Winston Churchill turns into a public event of insults in this political satire.

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Poster for Little Girls

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Little Girls is a glimpse into the definition of “beauty” as witnessed through the eyes of three women at different life stages. These women suffer the consequences of believing physical attractiveness is their primary asset both in society, and in their own minds.

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Poster for Love Etc.

2011 · ★ 4.0 (5)

LOVE ETC. is a witty, poignant and humorous exploration about the universal stages of love, depicted through five real stories over the course of one year in New York City. Young, old, gay, straight – everyone has experienced love – and the joy and frustration that come with it. From teen romance to a decades-long marriage; newlyweds to a recent divorcee, and even a bachelor so frustrated in his search that he chooses to have children without a partner, LOVE ETC. documents the intimate journeys of engaging characters aged 18-89 who reflect the city’s diversity, and takes an honest look at life's most challenging pursuit.

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Poster for Chunmiao

1975 · ★ 5.0 (1)

During the Cultural Revolution, the director of a farm collective studies medicine on her own in order to provide a more effective alternative to the collective's "capitalist" health care clinic, then investigates and exposes a sinister plot by the clinic's staff.

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Poster for Glass Charmers

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In a timeless and remote universe, two enchanters are bewitching a strange being made of melted glass. But somehow, they end up falling under the spell of this sacred ritual: the one we call creation.

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Poster for The Exotic Time Machine

1998 · ★ 3.7 (12)

A time machine transports two curious pleasure seekers to the deepest reaches of the erotic past, where they enjoy historical adventures beyond imagination.

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Poster for Baek-il

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The Korean legend of Ungnyeo, a bear reborn as a woman, becomes a percussive and mesmerizing riff on the themes of transformation and quarantine. Produced as part of the 13th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

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Poster for Mysterious Behaviors

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A naïve, shapeshifting extraterrestrial embeds herself on campus to research the mysterious behaviors of Earthling college students. Through her mistakes and misadventures, twisted relationships and a tortuous romance, she learns that humans aren’t as primitive as she at first believed.

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Poster for The Woman Who Wanted to Kill Someone

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young woman gets up one day and decides to take the law into her hands.

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