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Poster for L'Inconnu de Strasbourg

1998 · ★ 5.0 (3)

Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul to flee before the police arrive. After Jean-Paul drives away, he picks up a hitchhiker. When the car, stolen by the hitchhiker, explodes, police believe the dead hitchhiker is Jean-Paul. Madeleine takes up with Jean-Paul's brother, Bastien, while Jean-Paul, arriving in Strasbourg, is mistaken for the heir to a fortune. The detective on the case spends more time writing crime novels than investigating real-life crimes.

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Poster for Fish Head

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Ofelia is a 17-year-old girl who wastes her time hanging out with her friend Daphne, baking pot brownies and selling them around town. One day, while visiting her friend's workplace, she is captivated by a newly arrived fish. On impulse, she decides to steal it. However, this separates the two friends. Ofelia decides to look for Daphne in all the places they used to hang out.

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2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Annie is surprised to find that her new carer happens to be a man, a manly man, a very manly man. This beautiful and funny piece takes a dark turn with devastating consequences when Annie is let down by the system that is meant to take care of her.

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Poster for Bonus Track

2024 · ★ 6.2 (11)

George, a 16-year-old who believes he is a future star musician, can't believe his luck when the son of a famous duo takes an interest in his music. This new arrival helps him rehearse for a talent show and leads both boys to learn from each other and grow closer.

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Poster for Hard Breakers

2011 · ★ 3.6 (36)

Tired of the dating scene, Lindsay and Alexis take matters into their own hands, clubbing potential mates and dragging them back to their house.

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Poster for Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

2006 · ★ 2.0 (1)

Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his play Homebody/Kabul and running through 2004, as he worked on John Kerry's presidential campaign, got married to Mark Harris, worked with Maurice Sendak, and opened the Broadway musical Caroline, or Change.

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Poster for The Daisy Chain

2008 · ★ 5.2 (66)

A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to become involved in a series of strange occurrences.

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Poster for One-Two-Three Now!

2016 · ★ 6.2 (12)

Jeppe falls for a mysterious girl from school, but their relationship is on borrowed time.

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Poster for Trick or Cheat

2009 · ★ 6.0 (2)

A school is trying to sabotage a student group's efforts to put on a musical dance number, citing their atrocious grades. The group's leaders must lead everyone to the promised land of academic competency via some innovative cheating methods.

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Poster for Hero

2022 · ★ 4.5 (4)

The background of "Hero" is set in 2020: a sudden disaster that disrupted everyone's lives. When society face unemployment when families fall apart, when lovers are separated, when death is approaching quietly, and when a peaceful life suddenly undergoes unexpected changes, how will women respond? What are the vital and irreplaceable roles that men play in women’s lives and growth? The three female directors Zhang Aijia, Li Shaohong and Chen Chong used their unique female perspectives to explore and show people's plights and struggles in family, career, and love in special times.

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Poster for Mitos del éxito

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Anton's Right Here

2012 · ★ 4.1 (7)

How is it possible to feel someone elses pain? The hero of this film is an autistic boy. His life is divided between an apartment with peeling walls on the outskirts of a large city, and a mental hospital. Anton comes into the frame when he is on the point of becoming a patient at a residential neuropsychiatric institution, a place where people with the sort of diagnosis that he has do not live long. The author, the camera, the hero. The distance between them shrinks with every passing minute, and the author has to enter the shot and become a character in the story. However, it is not a story about how one person helped another, but about how one person recognized herself in another. About how there is Another who lives in each of us and must be destroyed every day inside of us in order to survive.

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Poster for A Sesame Street Christmas Carol

2006 · ★ 6.8 (5)

Oscar the Grouch is visited by three ghosts in an attempt to teach him the true meaning of Christmas.

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Poster for Dream Hunters

1996 · ★ 2.0 (3)

The smell of leather, whiskey and cigars: Two young girlfriends fall in love with the same man, an adventurous young businessman. Missing, forged documents wreak havoc on the lives of everyone involved.

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1992 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Documentary Filmmakers go into Patton State Hospital, a 240 acre, maximum security facility housing the criminally insane. Get an inside look at the day to day lives of the criminally insane.

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Poster for City in Red

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A 2009 Cuban drama by Rebeca Chávez taking place in Santiago de Cuba at the beginning of revolution. In the late 1950s, the city of Santiago de Cuba was afire, the site of some of the fiercest resistance to the murderous dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. The film's narrative unfolds over 24 hours in the lives of several youthful members of the underground as they confront their own uncertainty about the morality of armed struggle and the necessity of severing bonds that had seemed unbreakable.

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Poster for Malka

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Malka, a Holocaust survivor, begins seeing visions of her past during a family seder and must find hope in the present to survive, just as she did in the past.

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Poster for Like the First Time

2022 · ★ 1.0 (1)

A long walk home sets the scene for young romance, a trip to the beach becomes an opportunity for quiet reflection and self-acceptance, a naïve mother uncovers the secret life of her daughter, and a sullen teenager sees a new side to her mother. Re-live the journey of young love through six coming-of-age stories exploring chance encounters and hidden longings.

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Poster for Teen's Confessions

2014 · ★ 6.3 (80)

Four sisters work together to raise rent money after learning they have to move to another neighborhood in this coming-of-age drama based on the series.

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Poster for Mistaken Identity

2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Revisits the forgotten characters and deserted landscapes of Robert Aldrich’s classic film noir, KISS ME DEADLY (1955). Scenes re-photographed and then drawn over to produce a commentary on the artifice of cinema and memory.

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