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Poster for The Enchanted Desna

1964 · ★ 5.3 (15)

Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Ukrainian film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.

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Poster for Night Comes On

2018 · ★ 6.0 (36)

Angel is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future.

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Poster for Lisa

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

USSR 1960s. The writer lives in a studio apartment with his beloved Margot. The writer is writing a novel and wants recognition. In his imagination, he creates a family of characters. Hoping for success, the writer takes several chapters of the novel to different publishers, but gets rejections everywhere. Failures give rise to doubts and fears in the creator, which mystically are embodied in the image of a lady in a black dress. Lady is negative energy. One day, the writer decides to burn the manuscripts of the novel. At this moment, in the form of a hallucination, a Lady appears in front of him.

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Poster for The Beast

2016 · ★ 7.5 (2)

A hundred year old woman called Nada and her 75-year old daughter Vera have a tense but familiar relationship. The childlike Vera takes care of her frail, mute though at times cruel, mother until one evening a bat flies into Nada's room and starts hibernating underneath her bed. The animal's presence gradually reinvigorates the old woman, eternally and fatally changing the relationship between mother and daughter.

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Poster for Howler

2017 · ★ 10.0 (1)

In the foggy town of Hemlock Springs, a string of animalistic killings has left the townspeople terrified. Caroline (Alvin Soprano), a sarcastic high school senior with a love for B-movies, starts to suspect something supernatural when her classmate Donnie (Victorius Kingston) begins acting extra weird… even for a teenage boy.

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Poster for Solo

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The Solo documentary reveals six unique stories of individuals who use the art of dancing as their own tool in fighting back difficulties, dealing with pain, incomprehension, and obstacles standing in their way to happiness through creative self-expression. Six young performers who belong to completely different styles - classical ballet, contemporary dance, krump, vogue, experimental hip-hop, pole dance - represent the new generation of Russian artists, free from preconceptions, clichés, and ready to be part of the dance revolution. The documentary format of the project looks at real people in an intimate setting and the behind-the-scenes routine of professional dancers.

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Poster for The Old Town Girls

2021 · ★ 5.6 (8)

Inspired by a true incident, Shen Yu's debut OLD TOWN GIRLS tells a tale about how an unsustained economic boom desolates working-class communities and familial relations. Tempted by living a new life as a professional dancer in big cities, Qu Ting bid farewell to her marriage in a decaying rust belt town, leaving behind her infant daughter Shui Qing, who’s been alienated by her dad’s new family since. Never felt equally loveable as her peers, Shui Qing instantly gets carried away by Qu Ting's worldly charisma and maternal attention when the two meet seventeen years later. But the high schooler is soon forced to face the reality behind her mom’s sudden reappearance and years of unglamorous survival. As dangers loom, she decides to sacrifice everything for the slim chance of reunification.

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Poster for Summer is the Coldest Season

2020 · ★ 6.0 (2)

Jiahe's mother was murdered unexpectedly two years ago. Because of that, she and her father both lost their focus in life. Jiahe's father failed to find any decent job after retiring from the wrestling team, so he worked for a slaughterhouse as a beef deliverer. This job made Jiahe a victim of public shaming. She became lonely and helpless, and formed her own personal moral code — fighting back in every way possible towards shaming and unfairness.

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Poster for Mindshadows

1988 · ★ 5.5 (2)

A Dutch couple is confronted with the husband's rapid onset of senility during a snowy winter in North Eastern Canada.

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Poster for Cristal, papel, orgánico

2022 · ★ 5.0 (1)

Juan and Patri take the trash out to the neighborhood containers.

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Poster for Little Tiger

1973 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The five-year-old kid Dimo must go to the kindergarten. He is not used to talking to the other kids and he has problems adjusting. His teacher gives him the task of taking care of aquarium. Dimo caused a flood, catches a old and stays at home for few days. Once day his parents take him to the zoo. His mother shows him the tiger cage and tells him that he looks as a little tiger. When Dimo goes back to the kindergarten, he makes a mess again, refuges to apologize and runs off. He walks around the streets of Sofia, plays on the swings in the park, goes to the distorted mirrors room, watches a soccer practice and becomes an unwilling participant in a TV show. The teachers in the kindergarten are worried about his disappearance. A search begins. Without suspecting anything, two young people take Dimo to a restaurant but have an accident on their way back. The young people run away and Dimo hides in telephone booth, from where he calls his house. His parents look for him with no success.

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Poster for Summer of Bees

2021 · ★ 2.0 (1)

On a particularly hot summer, Eedi (27), suffering from climate anxiety, decides to start beekeeping with the help of her mother Anne who, rather than fearing for the future, is scared of every single little bee.

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Poster for Hot!

2019 · ★ 6.0 (3)

Russian pop stars are flying to Baku for the "Heat" festival. Among them is Dasha Steklova, a talented debutante whose fame began with a victory in a popular musical TV show. Dasha doesn't want to play by the rules and craves creative freedom. In Baku, having quarreled with her producer (and also a young man), the girl runs away. In a fabulous city breathing music and sunshine, she is waiting for a lot of adventures and romantic encounters that will help Dasha fulfill her dream and become truly happy.

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Poster for A Title Rewon

1979 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Stepan the Sailor

1955 · ★ 6.0 (1)

The story of an unscrupulous young worker who doesn't understand how serious his job is.

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Poster for Dangerous Vacations

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A story about funny adventures of the group of children during their summer vacations.

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Poster for Deadcon

2019 · ★ 3.3 (34)

The horrors and isolation of being a social media influencer run rampant when a collection of YouTube and Instagram stars soon discover there are things scarier than thousands of teenagers armed with phones asking for selfies.

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Poster for The Decameron

2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The Decameron

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Poster for Flatastic

2024 · ★ 5.8 (2)

Pushed to their limit, the Manta Rays rise up against Man to take control of the Earth; it is the dawning of a new Manta Ray Era and the “flattening” of Mankind.

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Poster for On Sacred Ground

2023 · ★ 5.3 (9)

Based on the true events during the 2016 construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that runs through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota on land that is owned by the Lakota “Sioux” Tribe. The film follows Daniel, a journalist and Afghanistan War military veteran, and Elliot, an oil company executive, who find themselves on opposite sides of the fight during the construction of the contentious pipeline.

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