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Poster for Cosmos

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The film addresses the great theme of humanity’s self-destruction. A wanderer hero takes us as stowaways, on a poetic odyssey, a pelagic drift through an infinite universe forever marked by our disrupting actions.

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Poster for Romantic Guide to Lost Places

2020 · ★ 5.7 (40)

Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger, a travel blogger with lots of imagination. They both live off their lies and have no intention of stopping now. Next-door neighbors who had never met until the day he wound up on the wrong landing, and nothing would ever be the same. Sheer chance leads this odd couple on a flight towards lost or forgotten places, where their mutual support makes for self-discovery.

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Poster for Voodoo Macbeth

2021 · ★ 5.0 (3)

In 1936 Harlem, the first all-Black cast to perform Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', directed by a young and arrogant Orson Welles, battles to make it to opening night.

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Poster for Posso entrare? An ode to Naples

2023 · ★ 7.7 (3)

A tour through the alleys of Naples between works of art, music and theater.

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Poster for With You Again

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Maruo, an independent film director, feels that he doesn't want to have sex because he loves her, and because of this, he breaks up with his girlfriend Aki. Unable to forget Aki, he tries to make a new movie based on his experience, but is stuck in writing the script. Why couldn't he hold Aki? Unable to find the answer himself, Maruo decides to meet her again to face that question. On the other hand, Aki is married to Tagashira, an office worker, but even though she wants to have children, she is worried about a sexless marital relationship. When Aki meets Maruo again after a long time, she asks him to give her some of his sperm.

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Poster for The Egg

1982 · ★ 7.0 (1)

A short film about two children who stayed home alone.

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Poster for Anak Indië

2025 · ★ 5.8 (2)

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Poster for Lunatic: The Luna Vachon Story

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The story of WWF villain, Luna Vachon. Raised by a family of wrestling legends, wrestling was her first love. Reaching the peak of her fame in the 90s, Luna’s biggest hurdle was challenging the mainstream wrestling industry and their view on women at that time She aimed to be the biggest, baddest wrestling villain that ever lived. But despite her successes, both her stage persona and reality started to blur. The guilt of abandoning her two sons to pursue her dream job, being diagnosed as bipolar, abuse, and addiction would prove too much. While the crowd yelled out ‘Lunatic’ to her in-ring heel character, little did they know a dark cloud of mental health struggles plagued her in real-life.

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Poster for Eien ga tōrisugite iku

2022 · ★ 9.0 (1)

A collection of poetic and three private short stories will surely rain down on your world as a "hymn" that illuminates even the unrecognized self.

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Poster for Bigger Than Us

2021 · ★ 7.1 (17)

For six years, Melati, 18, has been fighting the plastic pollution that is ravaging her country, Indonesia. Like her, a generation is rising up to fix the world. Everywhere, teenagers and young adults are fighting for human rights, the climate, freedom of expression, social justice, access to education or food. Dignity. Alone against all odds, sometimes risking their lives and safety, they protect, denounce and care for others. The earth. And they change everything. Melati goes to meet them across the globe. At a time when everything seems to be or has been falling apart, these young people show us how to live. And what it means to be in the world today.

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Poster for Leopard Head Lin Chong

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Libertad, Enriqueta, Maricarmen and Albert evoke the years when their mothers and his aunt stayed in Les Corts jail, times of innocence, hopelessness and distress. Their childhood stories inmmerse us in a world whose main characters are memories, oblivion and the passing of time.

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Poster for Close-Ups

2014 · ★ 6.3 (10)

37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways.

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Poster for Domingos

2009 · ★ 2.0 (1)

A look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.

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Poster for One Sings, the Other Doesn't

1977 · ★ 7.1 (112)

The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker - despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others' lives, in the process affirming their different female identities.

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1997 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Cold Cut

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Joy, a 19-year-old student, is about to compete at the local talent show. As she's about to enter the audition, a mysterious butcher takes her to unknown horizons...

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Poster for What The Nanny Saw

2022 · ★ 6.2 (14)

When nanny Kim accidentally discovers that her employer, Steven, is having an affair with his kids’ Spanish tutor, she decides to keep it to herself so as not to risk splitting his family apart. But when Steven’s mistress is murdered and he tells the police that he hasn’t seen her in months, Kim realizes she’s the only person who knows he’s lying and she’s determined to learn why.

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Poster for Be My Kirill

2021 · ★ 4.5 (5)

The insecure girl Sasha is lying to her family that she is dating handsome Cyril, although he is just her running coach, with whom she is afraid to even speak. Sister Pasha's husband knows the truth, but he has enough of his own problems - he and his wife have not had sex for a year. Having signed up for running therapy together, Sasha and Pasha decide that they can get away from problems together.

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Poster for Brown Girl Begins

2017 · ★ 4.0 (4)

It's 2049 on a forsaken island off the coast of Toronto where the survival of the islanders depends on young Ti-Jeanne to risk death by a spirit so she can take her place as a caribbean priestess and save her people.

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