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Poster for The Sentimental Policeman

1992 · ★ 3.6 (7)

In this affectionate, leisurely paced comedy, an Odesa policeman is out walking his beat when he discovers an adorable infant abandoned in a cabbage patch. He does his duty and takes the baby to an orphanage, but later he and his wife, who have an unusually affectionate and cozy relationship, decide to try and adopt the little one. What they must go through to accomplish that goal is anything but straightforward.

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Poster for The Sitdown

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When a mother’s passing brings together her lawyer son and mobster husband.

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Poster for Hell in Paradise

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Migrant Nina takes a hotel job in the Maldives, but her island paradise turns nightmarish after an incident. Falsely accused, she must evade traps to escape her unjust life sentence.

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Poster for Happily Never After

2022 · ★ 6.0 (8)

When a wedding planner falls in love with the soon-to-be groom, she decides the bride has to disappear.

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Poster for Snatched

2016 · ★ 5.8 (4)

Raïssa and Alio have shared the same room in a foster home since their childhood. One evening, as she returns home, Raïssa discovers that Alio has left the place without telling her.

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Poster for National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses

2016 · ★ 6.0 (6)

Marquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cécile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel.

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Poster for Take Off

1972 · ★ 4.5 (4)

Ellion Ness, a thoroughly professional stripper, goes through her paces, bares her body, and then, astonishingly and literally, transcends it. While the film makes a forceful political statement on the image of woman and the true meaning of stripping, the intergalactic transcendence of its ending locates it firmly within the mainstream of joyous humanism and stubborn optimism.

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Poster for Keening Woman

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

During a farewell ceremony for a family friend, Cotton begins feeling as if her body and her consciousness are separating. Different memories, identities and actions are lingering inside Cotton, which aggravate the unusual relationship between herself, her lame boyfriend and her psychiatrist.

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Poster for The Go-to Restaurant

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Ye-boon, the owner of a home-cooled style Korean restaurant in a friendly neighborhood, disappears. Her daughter comes to her hometown for the first time in a long time to find her mother’s whereabouts. As she begins to search for her mother, joining with the neighbors in town, the secrets kept by her mother start to reveal.

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2005 · ★ 0.0 (0)

We think, we talk, we write. Without language, we wouldn't be human. Out of the 6500 languages in the world, half of them will disappear. Voices of the World discusses the multiplicity of the world's languages. There is the language of violence, the dying language, the minorities' language, the youth's language and new languages. How will globalization affect them all?

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Poster for Mother Virgin No More

2015 · ★ 4.0 (1)

As an unexpected truth about a young women gets revealed to her mother, the basic fact that a mother - daughter relationship is supposed to be based on unconditional love will have to be questioned.

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Poster for Fall From Grace

1990 · ★ 5.3 (3)

Jim Bakker establishes a large televangelical empire in the 1980s, including Heritage Village. However, they are removed from P.T.L, the ministry that they had established in 1987.

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Poster for Dinner Time

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Caught in the complexity of an unplanned pregnancy, a young teenager faces the daunting task of disclosing the news to her family. But her world is further shaken when her parents announce their divorce.

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1990 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Daily Rains is a measured, poetic work that confronts head-on the micro- and macro-aggressions faced by young Black women. Restored by the Academy Film Archive.

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Poster for Bite the Dust

2013 · ★ 6.0 (5)

A village so small all the residents not only knows each other, but also can easily recognize the neighbor's cow face a frightful news. It was announced on TV that the most powerful coronal mass ejection in the Earth's history would take place. Humankind has only 24 hours left. The world runs mad in different ways getting ready for the apocalypse, and a unique local scenario of waving the life goodbye is inverted in the village. Tables are put together, pies are baked, and some gather strength and courage to make the most important decisions of their lives... But what about the doomsday? It just doesn't arrive. Oops, got it wrong! The situation is heating up. Everybody realize they can't go on as they did before.

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Poster for La mitad de Ana

2025 · ★ 7.2 (13)

Son confesses to his mother, Ana, that he does not feel like a girl; he is a boy. Confused and blocked, Ana will decide to stop in order to observe and understand him and, in the same way, to understand herself. Ana and Son are two sides of the same coin: a mother who does not take care of herself, of her own identity, and a boy in search of his identity with all his strength.

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Poster for If Only I Could Hibernate

2024 · ★ 6.8 (15)

Ulzii, a teenager from a poor neighborhood in Ulaanbaatar, is determined to win a sciences-physics competition to get a scholarship. His illiterate mother finds a job in the countryside, leaving him and his brother and sister in the middle of winter. Ulzii wanders around at night looking for things to burn for heat while preparing for the national competition.

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Poster for Meditation Park

2017 · ★ 6.6 (19)

A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry.

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Poster for Los perros

2017 · ★ 5.8 (23)

Mariana, an upper-class Chilean, feels a strange attraction towards her riding teacher, Juan, a former colonel with a shady past.

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Poster for Naturally Native

1999 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Naturally Native follows the lives, loves, pain, joy and relationships of three sisters as they attempt to start their own business. Of American Indian ancestry, but adopted by white foster parents as young children, each sister has her own identity issues and each has chosen a very different career path. Now dedicated to starting a Native cosmetic business, they attempt to overcome obstacles both in the business world and in the home. A touching love story of family and culture, Naturally Native also interweaves a subtle, but strong wake-up call regarding the treatment of Native people in corporate America. Naturally Native also provides some insight into tribal infrastructure and gaming issues.

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