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Poster for Tears Teacher

2020 · ★ 7.0 (2)

Yoshida is a “tears teacher.” A firm believer that weekly crying promotes healthier living, he’s made it his mission to make more people weep.

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2013 · ★ 5.3 (3)

A clinically dystopian, yet humorous approach to the deadlock in the Middle East.

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Poster for I Stop Time

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Gunilla Bresky’s new film, “I stop time”, is a story from World War II that is unlike anything else. It is based on the Russian war photographer Vladislav Mikosha’s diaries and photographs. He was filming at the front, but he also visited Hollywood during the war and became a star when he showed his pictures from the front. As Mikosha’s Swedish voice in “I stop time” we have Jonas Karlsson. Gunilla Bresky has made several award-winning documentary films about World War II. The most recent, “Night Witches”, is about female Soviet bomber pilots.

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Poster for Le plafond de verre

2006 · ★ 5.0 (1)

This is the story of the few people who went ahead, beyond racial prejudice. And their struggle to open the workplace to other people.

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Poster for Can't Live Without You

2022 · ★ 5.7 (31)

A gay gym teacher wants to be a father and when his boyfriend's sister, a former addict, comes back on the scene there is now a possible solution.

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Poster for Guilty

2020 · ★ 6.7 (59)

A young woman from a small town accuses the college heartthrob of sexual assault.

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Poster for 1968, Photographic Acts

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Immersed in the melee of the world in 1968, in six photographic registers that underline the importance of the symbolic in our collective memory and the way it is shaped by political choices. Qualified contributors decipher iconic photographs of this pivotal year, putting them in perspective with present-day repercussions. Archival footage and an effective score recreate the era. A necessary interrogation of the photographic act, the impact of the image, and the repetition of history.

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Poster for Black Fire

1993 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mengyu wants to go straight after inheriting his father's crime empire but evil police Captain Zhang pressures him to continue the criminal activities.

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1988 · ★ 0.0 (0)

On the border of a dream a man and a woman are locked in violent embrace on a sofa. Suggesting both passion and violence, the two dancers struggle in slow motion as the intense soundtrack throbs on.

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Poster for Twins at the Zoo

1990 · ★ 4.6 (8)

The parents decided to send two twins, Honza, and Martin, on vacation to their grandfather.

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Poster for Barang Titipan

1991 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Unang, Miing and Didin (members of the Bagito comedy troupe) own a motorcycle-based delivery company that is not doing very well. They hope to do better business by hiring young women to deliver the things consigned to them.

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Poster for The Great War

2017 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Drawing on unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story of World War I through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and the American troops who came to be known as “doughboys".

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Poster for Red Roses and Petrol

2003 · ★ 2.0 (2)

A dysfunctional Irish family gathers after the death of their patriarch.

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Poster for Apoy sa Puso

1992 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A story of love, passion and infidelity.

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Poster for Last Report on Anna

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Péter, a literary critic, is tasked by the secret police to persuade Social Democratic politician, Anna Kéthly, who has been living in exile for decades, to return home.

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Poster for French Women

2014 · ★ 5.7 (382)

A story about 11 girls living in Paris. Each of them has its own problems: career, love life, children. Every girl has their complexes and virtues. They always look elegant, hiding their inner feelings. Will they reach all the goals and overcome all their difficulties?

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Poster for Pity in History

1985 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A sculptor is working to finish off a memorial to the Royalist years - just as Cromwell's men are approaching the surrounding cathedral walls.

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Poster for Taxi Sister

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Taxi Sister is a documentary about Boury, a female taxi driver in Dakar, Senegal. As a woman behind the wheel she leads a busy life filled with everyday drama, and constantly grapples with society’s view and expectations on women. The film is based on the Taxi Sister project, which was started by the Senegalese state in 2007 with the aim of encouraging female entrepreneurs. Ten women were offered the opportunity to get a drivers license and buy a car on credit. Today there are fifteen women taxi drivers in Dakar, which is nothing compared to the fifteen thousand male taxi drivers.

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Poster for Pumpkin Movie

2017 · ★ 10.0 (1)

When two long-time friends call each other over Skype to continue their annual Halloween tradition of carving pumpkins together, they swap stories of negative encounters with men, both first- and secondhand, in this frank window into the pervasive nature of gender inequality.

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Poster for Now and Forever

2023 · ★ 5.0 (1)

In an alternate dystopian present a couple in rural Kerala, South India, try to decide whether or not to become immortal (by downloading the consciousness into chips). In a world where political parties create immortals instead of martyrs, procreation becomes an indulgence rather than necessity what becomes of identity? How much of the individual and how much of the multitude is pared down to meet the needs of the future?

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