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Poster for Surprise

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

As the successful actor Ingrid arrives at her daughter's 35th birthday party, her unexpected return is not as well received as she has hoped. Instead, her years as an absent mother come to the fore and the gap between mother and daughter are felt to be an abyss.

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Poster for BlacKorea

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The story is set in the late 1980s in Chicago. Two children, born to a Korean mother and African-American father, are forced to live with the tangled consequences of their parents' decisions while struggling to traverse a new life in the Windy City.

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An adaptation of the graphic novel.

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Poster for Pocahontas

1995 · ★ 6.0 (17)

Pocahontas' journey to the land of the settlers is softened with the help of comic sidekicks White Eagle and Fluffy Wing. Along with an upbeat soundtrack, the story showcases the American Indian girl's union with John Smith.

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Poster for Sabah

2005 · ★ 5.9 (14)

One day, when Sabah least expects it, she falls in love with the wrong man. She's Muslim, he's not. Unbeknownst to her family, she goes on a whirlwind affair before both culture and love collide.

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Poster for Diving

2017 · ★ 6.1 (53)

A restless photographer leaves her family to "find herself" and takes up deep-sea diving.

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Poster for 199 Little Heroes

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

What does the simplest of phrases “going to school” mean for children in different places of the world? What do they see and what do they experience? The everyday “journeys” to school around the globe are fascinating and full of surprises. An international documentary series that follows children at the four corners of the planet on their way from home to school. Their personalities are as varied as the landscapes in which they live. These children guide us through the endless diversity of landscapes across various continents and share their dreams, as well as their fears – of child labor, war, and delinquency – while praising the beauty of nature and the importance of friendship. We see the world through their eyes.

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2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two women go on a shared quest to find resolution and closure.

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Poster for The Sirens

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two sisters take their terminally ill younger sister to die peacefully at a mysterious lake.

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Poster for Yavrularım

1984 · ★ 8.5 (2)

When a couple with five children return from abroad, the father is unable to find work and his wife develops a terminal disease. He then looks for a new family to adopt each of his five children.

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Poster for Sleepless in Seattle

1993 · ★ 6.7 (2528)

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Across the country, an engaged woman becomes convinced that they belong together, despite their never having met. Will their paths collide despite the odds?

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Poster for Winner

2024 · ★ 7.0 (65)

Winner is a brilliant young misfit from Texas who finds her morals challenged while serving in the U.S. Air Force and working as an NSA contractor. A fresh take on the traditional whistleblower thriller, the coming-of-age story follows an idealistic young woman persecuted for standing by her principles.

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Poster for Portrait of a Lady on Fire

2019 · ★ 8.1 (2851)

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

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1996 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The setting is an island peatbank, far from any habitation. The time is bright early summer. A man and a woman enter this empty landscape to cut peat for winter fuel. Before the sun goes down they will encounter shadows from the distant past and begin to come to terms with the troubling realities of the present.

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Poster for Archipelago

2011 · ★ 5.7 (49)

Deep fractures within a family dynamic begin to surface during a getaway to the Isles of Scilly.

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Poster for Dreamstates

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Equal parts love story, road movie, and Americana, DREAMSTATES tells the haunting tale of two wayward souls (Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman) discovering their love for one another in their dreams and reality while touring the United States with some of the most pivotal figures of the Afro-Punk movement – Sultry, sensual, and quixotic, an underground portrait of America: haunted and hollow.

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Poster for Happy Bees

1954 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This film poem evokes childhood happiness on the island of Orkney. Footage includes wildflower meadows, toddlers playing in garden, friends fishing together and images of the sea.

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Poster for Harana

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In 1995 Las Vegas, a homesick cover band singer writes an original song to connect with her daughter who is growing up in the Philippines without her.

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Poster for Mečiar: The Lust For Power

2017 · ★ 5.3 (3)

The film Mečiar is the confession of the young director Tereza Nvotová about Vladimír Mečiar and the influence that this politician had on Slovak society, but also on the life of Tereza herself. When the totalitarian communist regime fell in Czechoslovakia in 1989, Tereza was one year old. The leaders of the Gentle Revolution then decided to hold an audition for the Minister of the Interior, to which Vladimír Mečiar, an unknown business lawyer from the Slovak countryside at the time, applied. After success in bankruptcy, Vladimír Mečiar reaches the political top, from where he rules the country with a series of questionable practices. Against the background of events such as the division of Czechoslovakia or the kidnapping of the son of the president of the Slovak Republic, Tereza and her peers relive their childhood.

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Poster for Chicho

2023 · ★ 2.0 (1)

A pimple on the day of Chicho's grad photos hurls him down an anxiety-driven spiral that challenges his sense of self, home and reality.

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