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Poster for Proof

1991 · ★ 6.6 (107)

Martin, a young blind photographer, is divided between his friendship with restaurant worker Andy and the exclusive love that Celia—who is terribly jealous of this new friendship—has for him.

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Poster for Leïla

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Pamela’s C. Saade first short film. Leila has problems with her boyfriend, with her mom, but mostly with herself.

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Poster for Cairo Time

2009 · ★ 5.9 (82)

In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares.

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Poster for The Water

2022 · ★ 5.8 (35)

Ana, her mother and grandmother live in a small town in southeastern Spain where all three are regarded with suspicion.

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Poster for Hysteria

2011 · ★ 6.7 (848)

Two doctors in Victorian England use manual stimulation of female genitalia to cure their patients' ills, leading to the invention of the vibrator.

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Poster for Death Dive to Saturn

2017 · ★ 8.0 (12)

After decades of amazing discoveries, spacecraft Cassini embarks on its final - and most daring - mission: a dive below Saturn's rings.

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Poster for Lost in Translation

2003 · ★ 7.4 (7866)

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

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Poster for hAPPiness

2020 · ★ 5.0 (3)

An app designed to bring its users happiness helps a man build the perfect life, which he ends up destroying when he learns the app is faulty.

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Poster for Arlette

2022 · ★ 5.4 (14)

Approached by the Prime Minister of Quebec to rejuvenate the image of his government, Arlette Saint-Amour becomes, overnight, Minister of Culture. She succeeds by her look and her daring in creating a real buzz around Culture.

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Poster for Elisa K

2010 · ★ 4.7 (10)

Eleven-year-old Elisa (Claudia Pons) lives with her father (Hans Richter) in Spain following the breakup of her parents. Elisa goes to a fair with her father, and meets one of his friends (Jordi Gracia), a successful jeweler. Days later, a change comes over Elisa -- her mother (Lydia Zimmermann) notices she seems distant and withdrawn, and her teacher (Pep Sais) watches as she grows disinterested in her studies and her grades drop dramatically. Fourteen years later, Elisa (now played by Aina Clotet) is a grown woman who suddenly and unexpectedly recalls the traumatic event changed her life when she was a girl...

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Poster for Sunshine Cleaning

2008 · ★ 6.6 (818)

A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.

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Poster for Nathalie...

2003 · ★ 5.8 (93)

Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she hires call girl Nathalie to have a fling with Gerard. As the affair progresses, Nathalie gives Catherine regular status reports, and the relationship between the women evolves from business to personal.

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Poster for Desrances

2019 · ★ 7.0 (1)

After the brutal massacre of his family in Haiti, Francis Desrances resettles in the Ivory Coast. Years later Francis, his wife Aissey and 12-year-old daughter Haila await the birth of a son, who to Francis' excitement and Haila's irritation is immediately regarded as the worthy heir to the Desrances name. As the birth looms, civil war erupts in Abidjan and amidst the melee Aissey goes missing. Haila courageously steps forward in ways that challenge her father's notion of what constitutes a rightful heir. Cementing her status as a bold voice in contemporary filmmaking, Apolline Traoré's domestic drama escalates into an intense thriller that mounts a passionate challenge to commonly-held gender roles, whilst also highlighting the human cost of civil strife.

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Poster for Slashercise

2024 · ★ 1.5 (2)

Aerobics, neon, and a real Meathead!

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Poster for Starstruck

1982 · ★ 5.3 (13)

A Sydney teen tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old cousin.

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Poster for Clock

2023 · ★ 5.5 (254)

On the eve of her 38th birthday, a woman desperately attempts to fix her broken biological clock.

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Poster for Love Hurts

1993 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In 1990s Amsterdam, Loe and Bob are in a relationship, but wanting different things. Loe is a singer who likes to party and who is also engaged in migrant support. Bob is a lawyer focused on his career. As the film progresses, the tensions in the relationship become exposed.

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Poster for Nune

2016 · ★ 4.6 (8)

A 15-year-old Nune creates a fantasy world to escape from the pain of social rejection and bullying. But her archenemy's girlfriend-a model cheerleader with a bleeding heart-keeps luring her near.

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Poster for A Silent Voice: The Movie

2016 · ★ 8.4 (4342)

Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?

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Poster for Blink Twice

2024 · ★ 6.7 (1753)

When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. But despite the epic setting, beautiful people, ever-flowing champagne, and late-night dance parties, Frida can sense that there’s something sinister hiding beneath the island’s lush façade.

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