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Poster for Fuckgirls

2017 · ★ 1.0 (2)

Three women discuss their experiences of oppression, self-esteem and being able to dictate their living conditions themselves.

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Poster for Star

2014 · ★ 5.5 (35)

Three different persons, three different lives are connected in a mysterious way. 15 year old teenager suffering of misunderstanding, his glamorous and arrogant stepmother and the young untalented but full of optimism actress. Their destinies aren’t predetermined and their lives are very fragile.

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2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Good Morning, My Dear," "Farmers," "It Didn't Hurt," "Yum," "The Pilot," and many others. The unique and original musician and singer David Stypka from Dobrá near Frýdek-Místek wrote many powerful and hit songs. Exactly two years after his death, Stypka's hits were performed in the Gong multifunctional hall in Ostrava in orchestral arrangements by Jan Lstibůrek, performed by the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava, conducted by Stanislav Vavřínek, and the band Bandjeez. Stypka's closest musical companions – Ewa Farna, Mirai Navrátil, and Kateřina Marie Tichá – took turns at the microphone. They also performed a joint rendition of Stypka's hit "Kříž" at the end of the concert, following up on their legendary performance at the Czech Music Academy Awards – Anděl in 2021.

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Poster for Bat Time

2015 · ★ 6.8 (4)

When night dawns on the farm a little bat wakes up. The little bat wants somebody to keep its company. It doesn't want to be alone. It is looking for a friend.

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Poster for Look Back in Anger

1989 · ★ 9.0 (2)

Look Back in Anger is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter, his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter, and her aristocratic best friend Helena Charles. Cliff , an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.

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Poster for Emily @ the Edge of Chaos

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Emily @ the Edge of Chaos interweaves Emily Levine’s live performance with animation, appearances by scientists, and animated characters. The film uses physics, which explains how the universe works, to explain our metaphysics – the story of our values, our institutions, our interactions. Using her own experience and a custom blend of insight and humor, provocation and inspiration, personal story and social commentary, Emily takes her audience through its own paradigm shift: from the Fear of Change to the Edge of Chaos.

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Poster for Our Legacy

2016 · ★ 5.5 (2)

Lucas invites his girlfriend Anäis to visit him at home. His parents aren’t around. The garden is all theirs. They can make love there. A photograph hangs on the wall of a man with a tiger in his arms. “Is that your father?” asks Anäis. “Yes, that’s my father. He’s the chairman of a tiger protection group in Thailand.” The father is Pierre Woodman, the famous pornographic film director. Lucas enters into an imaginary dialogue with his father. He makes an attempt to understand his father and makes an attempt at love himself – always in view of his father, who practised it incessantly.Then Lucas confers Anäis with a knighthood and fiction soars above reality.

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Poster for BARBARACADABRA

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust

2024 · ★ 6.4 (4)

A portrait of Pope Pius XII (1876-1958), head of the Catholic Church from 1939 until his death, who, during World War II, and while European Jews were being exterminated by the Nazis, was accused of keeping a disconcerting and shameful silence.

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Poster for Back to the Hong Kong

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Man-ok, a film director who arrived in Mokpo in 2022 after passing through Hong Kong in 1986, met with Yeo-myoung again and learned the true meaning of making a movie

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Poster for Genji Fantasy: The Cat Fell in Love With Hikaru Genji

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The Tale of Genji Museum in Uji City, Kyoto will be airing a short film blending history and fantasy, the story follows a modern high school girl named Hana who is transformed into a cat and transported back in time. She travels 1,000 years ago to the Heian Era as portrayed in The Tale Of Genji, arguably the most famous novel in Japanese literature. Guided by the novel's titular character Hikaru Genji, Hana experiences firsthand the emotions that the author Murasaki Shikibu depicted in her novel. The short features scenes based on The Diary of Lady Murasaki and other historical materials, such as the real-life noble Fujiwara no Michinaga swiping early drafts of The Tale Of Genji because he could not wait to read chapters as Murasaki wrote them.

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Poster for The Academy

2025 · ★ 7.8 (4)

A young South African woman from the outskirts of Cape Town learns the metaphors of life on the ocean as she prepares to compete in the Round Robben Island race with The Academy, an initiative of the historic Royal Cape Yacht Club.

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Poster for A Zest For Death: A Hannah Swensen Mystery

2023 · ★ 7.3 (18)

They say the real estate business is deadly, but no one is more surprised than Hannah Swensen when her mother, Delores, discovers the dead body of the homeowner – and regular customer of The Cookie Jar – while house-hunting for her sister Michelle. Hannah is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery and is convinced that the prime suspect Mike and the Sheriff are focusing on isn't the culprit. Hannah's sleuthing becomes a family affair when Delores, Michelle and even her sister Andrea – who pays an unexpected visit – take part in the investigation. As Hannah uncovers clues she slowly rules out suspects and is led to the shocking truth about the killer's identity.

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Poster for Mensch

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

As death hovers, Dominique films precious moments of a great love story.

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Poster for The Venus Effect

2021 · ★ 6.6 (14)

A romantic comedy about Liv, who is at the beginning of her 20s. She is very close to her parents and working in the family greengrocer business when, against all expectation, she falls in love with a spirited and somewhat older rainbow girl, Andrea. Andrea claims to be suffering from stress. But in reality, she is heartbroken and has sought refuge at her uncle’s apple plantation. Liv’s encounter with Andrea becomes the catalyst for a divorce, the loss of a friendship and an identity crisis that ultimately shatters their love. But in a rebellion against her parents, Liv realises that love is mutable and that a family may assume many forms.

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Poster for The Song of Cha-Tian Mountain

2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The film, adapted from the Chung Chao-Cheng novel of the same title, Song of Chatian Mountain, depicts the intellectual tyranny of the occupiers at the end of the Second World War and the way that educated persons resisted the war. A Taiwanese man, Lu Zhixiang, well educated in Japan and a judo master, returns to Taiwan to live up to his high ideals.

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Poster for The Borovsk Effect

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The name of Vladimir Ovchinnikov has become widely known in Russia over the last decade - particularly this period of time the street artist has lived in a town that seemed to bewitch him. The town of Borovsk is a strange place, which has been an island of memory for all innocent victims since the XIV century. Boyarynya Morozova died here, Archpriest Avvakum was also imprisoned here and numerous victims of political repression were shot here. Here Ovchinnikov suddenly began to paint on the walls of houses - contrary to the indignation of the authorities: the "naive" graffiti artist is not 19, but 80 years old. Real passions began to flare up in the town in 2015, when Vladimir Ovchinnikov painted on one of the fences his first "memorial to the victims of political repressions"…

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Poster for All Things to All

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for The Non-Actor

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Elliot is staying with her ex’s new girlfriend while attending a medical trial for her recent, unexplained loss of hearing. As she reconfigures her relationship with her (sonic) environment and herself, an intimate connection sparks between the two women. With captivating performances by Victoria Pedretti and Maya Hawke, this loose adaptation of director Eliza Barry Callahan’s semi-autobiographical novel The Hearing Test captures the uneasy process of letting go and embracing change with sensitive warmth.

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When her partner returns from war a changed man, a young woman must put her own life and career on hold as she attempts to save a once perfect relationship.

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