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Poster for Virgínia e Adelaide

2025 · ★ 8.4 (4)

Adelaide and Virgínia met in 1937, a year after the German arrived in Brazil, fleeing the Nazi persecution of the Jews, where she came with her husband and two daughters. Together, they founded and popularized psychoanalysis in Brazil, breaking down barriers and prejudices. They were doctor and patient for 5 years, colleagues for more than 30 years, great friends their entire lives.

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Poster for Sweet Life

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Masha is a kept woman. She lives in Moscow with a support of her rich married lover. One day she begins to make her own video-blog on YouTube, advising other women how to behave with men. This blog starts very quickly to gain unpredictable popularity. The film follows the vicissitudes of Masha\'s life, her attempt to become independent, her travel to motherland (Ukraine) and her fails to find love without price.

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Poster for Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation

2015 · ★ 6.3 (3)

A documentary chronicling the impact and day to day operations of the journal The Nation.

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Poster for From Friendship to Lust

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Best friends Sarah and Ted make a huge move to Los Angeles where they are introduced into a new world of swinging couples and bi-sexual pleasures.

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Poster for Christmas Plus One

2022 · ★ 6.4 (21)

When sisters Cara and Amy make a pact to find their soulmates by next Christmas, they’re not expecting to be so successful! One year later, Amy’s winter wedding approaches and Cara finally finds her own perfect man, inviting him as her plus one. But after immediately losing his number, all hope is lost. Will she find him in time to make her Christmas wish come true? Or does love have other plans for Cara?

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Poster for Sugar Daddy

2021 · ★ 6.4 (50)

When a struggling musician can't afford her rent, she signs up for a website where rich older men pay to date younger women. Her new money-making venture sends her down a dark rabbit hole that forces her to grow up fast, shaping her music, and how she sees the world.

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Poster for The Hospital of Leningrad

1983 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A story of political imprisonment set in a mental hospital where the Stalin state police placed whoever their opponents were.

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Poster for The Lost Child

2000 · ★ 6.0 (5)

Knowing the past changes the future. Seeking a connection to her heritage, Rebecca Hoffman sets out on a journey of discovery following the deaths of her adoptive parents. She finds that connection with her birth family in the Navajo community. But cultures clash when her husband is rejected as an outsider. Rebecca and her family experience rebirth in a rich culture and renewal as a family in this dramatic film based on the autobiography Looking for Lost Bird by Yvette Melanson (with Claire Safran).

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Poster for Mami

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

As Carolina's sense of isolation grows so does her anger at her mother for emotionally anchoring her to their apartment.

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Poster for El Jaïda

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Four women meet at Dar Joued on the eve of Independence. With different ages and social conditions, they are condemned to live together under the authority and injustice of their jailer: "El Jaida". They will share memories of the outside world, joy, emotions and distress of their daily lives.

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Poster for Gone Shopping

2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A satirical drama about how a nation's obsession with shopping changes the course of one woman's life. Clara, a forty year old 'tai tai' (wealthy lady of leisure) faces a mid life crisis and decides to runaway to the only place that has ever made any sense to her - the shopping centres. As she lives there, Clara crosses paths with other 'creatures' of the mall, namely Renu, an eight-year old latchkey kid who has been abandoned by her parents in a 24 hour mall and Aaron, an angst-y twenty three year old who skives work to hang out at the mall with his friends. Together, these characters lead audiences through a journey of love, loss and liberation through the heart of Singapore where they find that their dreams can be bought and broken.

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Poster for Some Things That Stay

2004 · ★ 4.1 (7)

A coming-of-age story of a teenage girl from a liberal upbringing who moves to a conservative baptist community in rural 1950s America.

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Poster for And Happiness is Nearby

1978 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Rano is a matchmaker; trying to find a bride for a forty-year-old bachelor. She does not even dare to think about the fact that she can love herself, as this is contrary to tradition, because she is a widow.

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Poster for Daughters

2024 · ★ 6.9 (27)

Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.

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Poster for Division Avenue

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A short film about one of the most prominent yet often ignored landmarks of Los Sures, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, (the BQE). The film examines the architecture and fabric of the BQE through poetic imagery and experimental ambient sound recordings, inviting the audience to encounter urban landscape in a unique and curious way.

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Poster for Zimbo

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Zimbo is a puppet that longs for freedom. He discovers all he has to do to get it is to cut the strings that keep him captive.

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Poster for Beauty and the Billionaire: Bali

2024 · ★ 6.6 (11)

A self-serving billionaire benefactor and a selfless doctor working at a free health clinic in Bali butt heads when forced to work together.

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Poster for Cancer is Gay

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Maggie is 17 years old, fresh out of the closet and going through cancer treatment. While getting chemo Maggie escapes by rewatching the same bad lesbian movie. When she meets Jesse, a fellow teen cancer patient, she plunges into an imagined affair that further distracts her from reality.

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Poster for Her Deadly Night in Paris

2023 · ★ 4.0 (1)

An American exchange student in Paris falls in love with her host family's handsome son, but when she witnesses a murder, the couple must go on the run to prove her innocence.

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Poster for Long Story Short

2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Tells the story of Larry and Trudie Long, a popular Asian American nightclub act of the '40s and '50s, told through the eyes of their daughter, actress Jodi Long.

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