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Poster for Bad Influence

2025 · ★ 5.7 (277)

An ex-con gets a fresh start when hired to protect a wealthy heiress from a stalker — but their chemistry is hard to resist as they grow closer.

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Poster for Christmas Karma

2025 · ★ 5.1 (8)

In contemporary London, miserly British-Indian businessman Eshan Sood is compelled by three ghosts to reflect on his life and to consider the needs of those around him.

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Poster for Little Book of Love

1997 · ★ 5.6 (22)

Luiza is an architect who just got out of a ruinous relationship. Gabriel is a biologist and he has finished a long marriage with divorce. When they both meet, chances that they can do well together are not that big. But they will try to, even if their friends Barata (a convict bachelor totally skeptical when it comes to love) and Marta (a mathematic analyst who wishes that human relations were just as exact as numbers are) think otherwise.

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Poster for Lisa

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In a small Czech village lost somewhere at the end of the first great war, 9-year old Lisa misses the father who never came back. Her beautiful mother has fallen for new fiancée Jan, but Lisa can't stand the idea. Before the wedding, Jan tries magical little surprise to win her over. Suddenly magic turns into miracle, and Lisa feels something she hasn't in years -- hope.

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Poster for Passion: A Letter in 16mm

1985 · ★ 1.0 (2)

The film takes the form of an extremely intimate Letter in 16mm from Anna, normally a documentary filmmaker, to her unidentified lover. From the first 'exquisite ache' of romantic passion to her final drunken and solitary dance with success, Anna struggles with an all-too-prevalent problem in this achievement-oriented age: Is it possible to balance a passion for excellence with a passion for intimacy?Are obsessions mutually exclusive?

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Poster for Nelly

2017 · ★ 6.0 (30)

A high-class prostitute by choice, Nelly Arcan’s colorful life is recreated in a multi-layered and stylish mix of make-believe and memoir, revealing Nelly’s alter egos: the neurotic writer, the vulnerable lover, the call girl and the star. Nelly shocked the literary world with her elegant writing and the lurid details of sex work in her autobiographical first novel, Whore, which became a critically acclaimed bestseller. Despite unprecedented success, Nelly’s remarkable life ended in tragedy.

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Follows a top military soldier who discovers that a brilliant scientist, who is her former lover, is dangerously meddling with the fabric of time, trying to save both their broken romance and the human race.

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When Ava’s wannabe-rock star fiancé Simon is a no-show on the big day, the trio embark on a fury-fuelled, mayhem-filled road trip to the West of Ireland to find (and possibly murder) the runaway groom who’s ditched the wedding for his big break at a music festival.

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Poster for We Spread

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Follows an aging artist who, after the death of her partner, is moved into a unique long-term care residence where she begins to distrust her day-to-day reality

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Poster for The Escape

2009 · ★ 4.2 (14)

Danish journalist Rikke Lyngvig is taken hostage in Afghanistan by a terror group. With help from one of the terrorists, the young Nazir, Rikke manages to escape. On her return, she is soon declared the Danish Jessica Lynch and her career is launched into the spotlight. All the while Nazir flees from Afghanistan, heading for Denmark. When he finally seeks out Rikke, she is shocked and torn. Is she willing to help the man who threatened to kill her, and to jeopardize her new-found career? Their tumultuous encounter turns into an ill-fated confrontation with their own demons and a nation driven by a hunger for sensation and political populism.

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2021 · ★ 3.0 (1)

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Poster for The Graveyard Keeper's Daughter

2011 · ★ 5.0 (4)

A snapshot of one segment of Estonian present-day life, shown through the eyes of a child: 8 years old Lucia is leading a jolly and naughty Pippi-Longstocking-style life in a small town in Estonia. Her father Kaido, a graveyard keeper, can hardly provide for the family, her mother Maria is a drunk. Then the family receives an unexpected invitation to spend a week in Finland, in the house of the female pastor Sipra. This week will change everybody's life in unexpected ways...

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2014 · ★ 10.0 (1)

A retired university professor who refused to leave his home in the campus despite an administrative order for eviction. With his whole life bearing witness to Diliman estate's evolution, he is the only remaining gatekeeper of the histories of his homeland.

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Poster for Shook

2021 · ★ 5.4 (43)

When Mia, a social media star, becomes the target of an online terror campaign, she has to solve a series of games to prevent people she cares about from getting murdered.

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Poster for Relic

2020 · ★ 6.1 (804)

When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.

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Poster for Le Torrent

2022 · ★ 5.6 (85)

Alexandre finds out his wife Juliette is cheating on him. They quarrel with each over, Juliette runs away during the night, and has a fatal fall. The next day, torrential rain have taken her body away. The police force is investigating and Patrick, Juliette's father, shows up to find out what happened. Fearing to be charged, Alexandre convinces his 18 years old daughter Lison to cover him. But his lies make things worse, and Patrick has doubts about him. It's the beginning of a dreadful chain of events.

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Poster for Holiday Storm

1989 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Summer holidays are beginning for 13 years old Daniel, a boy from East Berlin. He does not know yet that his parents are going to get divorced. They are afraid of Daniel`s reaction, so they have not told him about their decision until now. Together they drive to a village in the mountains. There Daniel finally recognizes the truth about his parents marital problems. When Daniel has an accident, this brings his parents together again, at least for the moment...

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Poster for The Miraculous Mandarin

2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A modernized version of the famous ballet work by Bela Bartok

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Poster for Belle belle belle

2020 · ★ 4.7 (12)

Alice is a thirty-something woman with a lot of hang-ups. She thinks she's ugly and fat, and her lack of self-confidence prevents her from doing anything, professionally or romantically. After a fall on her head, she wakes up convinced that she has magically become a beautiful girl. Armed with her new-found self-confidence, nothing stands in her way: she lands her dream job and finds love in Benjamin. But what happens if this illusion disappears? Will Alice be able to maintain the self-esteem that has been so lacking up to now?

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Poster for History of Love

2018 · ★ 9.0 (1)

Seventeen-year-old Iva is in the process of coming to terms with the death of her mother. Influenced by this deep personal loss and by the discovery that she didn't know everything about her mother, she slowly immerses herself into a strange, almost dreamlike world far from reality...

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