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Poster for Lisette und ihre Kinder

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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1993 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Yingli Ma visits her hometown of Beijing and meets four friends from her school days. Through conversations about their work and personal lives, the film paints a picture of China after the crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy movement and before its economic opening to the West.

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Seeking the true meaning of love, a woman travels to Paris and stays in the hotel room where Oscar Wilde spent his final days. There, she meets a stranger and starts a surreal love experiment with him—one that culminates in her imprisoning him in that very room.

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Poster for New Happy Dad And Son 4:Perfect Dad

2021 · ★ 1.0 (0)

What magical sparks will emerge when children's imagination meets artificial intelligence? One night, Big Tou's son, who was sad and depressed after a bad day, accidentally triggered the intelligent program being written by Little Tou's father and was accidentally led into a mysterious virtual world, where a "perfect man" actually lived.

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Poster for Flashback

2021 · ★ 5.9 (109)

A female lawyer travels back in time and crosses paths with other women in history who fought for women's rights.

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1984 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Original music by David Sylvian. Performed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Steve Jansen, Masami Tsuchiya.

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2009 · ★ 5.0 (1)

The documentary narrates the trajectory of Waldick Soriano, from the time he was a gold miner to his consecration as one of the icons of Brazilian music.

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Poster for Laundriness

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Serif, the manager of a launderette in London’s Bethnal Green, dedicates her time to her regulars. Serving cups of tea and listening to their stories, Serif enriches their lives by helping the local elderly community. Laundriness is a simple and sensitive observational documentary about the meaning of life, fate, hope and regrets.

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Poster for Nine Kingdoms in Feathered Chaos: The Love Story

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When Gu Dai, a soon-to-be graduate of Ningcheng University of Public Security, is first taken on an internship with the Criminal Investigation Police, he is involved in a series of kidnappings of writers in the name of "games" - eight suspense novelists are kidnapped overnight and disappear. When Gu Dai thinks he has deduced the mastermind behind the case, all the clues are thrown at him and he becomes the first suspect in the kidnapping case.

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Poster for Der Nikolaus im Haus

2008 · ★ 5.6 (4)

Klaudia Wehmeyer, the proud co-owner of a pastry shop, has to stand trial because her manager Müller and her fraudulent partner Lehmann accuse her of embezzling half a million euros. After she is wrongly sentenced to prison, the spirited woman flees the courtroom in a hurry. Disguised in a Santa Claus costume, she plans to break into Lehmann's villa to gather evidence of her innocence on her own. When the plan fails, she finds shelter with two neighboring children who believe they are looking at the real Santa Claus. However, their single father is anything but happy about the strange guest. Only when he gets to know Klaudia better does he realize that there is more to the Santa Claus costume than a simple burglar.

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Poster for Claustrophobia

2008 · ★ 5.1 (7)

Pearl has quietly fallen in love with her boss Tom, who’s married with a family. Without warning, Tom asks Pearl to interview for another job. Wounded, Pearl demands that Tom terminate her. The gauntlet has been thrown down. In a space as small, crowded and claustrophobic as the office, love doesn’t grow - it incubates and breeds, like a virus.

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Poster for Container

2018 · ★ 7.0 (1)

A working-class residential village suffers from a flood. Without proper relief measures in place, the flood victims have no choice but to stay inside a cramped, filthy container together temporarily. A young girl named Gyeongju who is staying there with her mother notices Eunae who is by herself. In the midst of the poverty, redevelopment scheme and the cold selfishness of the grown-ups within the community, Gyeongju’s gaze upon Eunae is completely free from any prejudice. The film is a powerful portrayal of the barren landscape of the village soon to be demolished and a young girl who cannot find peace of mind. [JUNG Jiyoun]

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1991 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Scary Fairy Tales: Thumb Princess

1999 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Saeko Machida is a high school girl with a crush on a boy in her class named Yuichi Kimijima. Becoming obsessed with him, she tries to gain his attention and win his affections, but there's no such luck. One day, she meets a strange man at a flea-market who gives her a red liquid, telling her that if she splashes it on Yuichi, her wish will become true. She acquiring the liquid, certain that the liquid will cause Yuuichi to love her. Saeko finally gets the courage to confess her love to Yuichi, but he rejects her. Disappointed, she splashes the liquid on Yuichi, but that liquid actually causes him to shrink about three inches in height.

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Poster for David Loman 2

2016 · ★ 3.2 (4)

Now retired from the criminal underworld, Loman runs a bed and breakfast with his loud, boisterous family. The plot is built around various domestic situations - a relationship crisis between Loman's daughter Jin and her partner Xiao Ho, as well as unresolved issues between David's wife and her younger sister Hottie. Hong Kong's big boss Brother Tien soon arrives to meddle in everyone's affairs.

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Poster for House of Secrets

1993 · ★ 2.3 (3)

Marion Ravinel is trapped in an abusive spousal relationship. She forms a plan with her husband's former lover to kill him. However, the outcome turns out to be more than she planned on as she begins to believe that her husband has come back from the dead to get her.

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2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Set in a small village in China's Guangxi Province, tragedy strikes Yonggui, a 38-year-old construction site supervisor. His only son is involved in a traffic accident while riding their neighbor Heman's pedicab and dies. The court orders Heman to pay a large sum of money in compensation, but he too, has suffered serious injuries and can not even pay the hospital fees. Furthermore, Yonggui is shocked to learn his wife, Yun Zhen, had secretly undergone a sterilization procedure. Yonggui demands of the hospitalized Heman, "give me my son back," but their conversation ends in mutual cursing. Enraged by Heman's sharp parting words, Yonggui goes to Heman's wife, Qiaoyu.

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Poster for The Nail

2017 · ★ 8.0 (1)

Two stories. Two flats. A wall and... a nail

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Poster for Girls

2006 · ★ 4.8 (4)

A few summer days of three ordinary Moscow girls on the threshold of adulthood. Farewell to childhood in schoolyards and entrances of sleeping areas, where everything is for the first time and the world is just beginning - from secretly purchased cigarettes and cans with gin and tonic to an adult passport, first love and almost real tragedies.

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