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Poster for Letters from Baghdad

2017 · ★ 6.7 (14)

Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.

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Poster for A Mother’s Comeback

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When Rosie was in her twenties, she was the drag-racing queen of Sweden, a brilliant star in this almost exclusively male sport. Then life intervened, with marriage and children putting an end to her racing days. Now, after a 34-year break, Rosie is making a comeback. Urged on by her daughter and self-proclaimed manager, she tries to find sponsors. The road is uneven and behind her dreams of a comeback, there are depressions, burnout and family tragedies. This film is a revealing and complex portrait of a woman who gains strength by allowing herself to be weak. The fight to become the world's fastest grandmother is really the fight to reclaim one's own life.

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A struggling painter retreats to the countryside with two friends after heartbreak. Their healing getaway takes a dark turn when an ancient force awakens underground, endangering them all.

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Poster for A Midsummer Night's Tale

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Although they barely know each other, Inés and Guille quickly connect on their first date. It even seems as if the stifling heat has ceased while they sleep together. Inés wants them to watch the sunrise together before falling asleep.

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Poster for Happy Birthday

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Eight-year-old maid Toha goes to great lengths to ensure that her best friend Nelly, the daughter of her wealthy employer, has a successful birthday party in this poignant debut feature exploring classism in modern-day Cairo.

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Poster for Procedimientos

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Short by Maia Navas

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Poster for Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and Me

2022 · ★ 9.5 (2)

Artist and illustrator Charlie Mackesy takes us on a journey through his life, revealing the events that inspired his bestselling book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.

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Poster for Nicole Byer: BBW (Big Beautiful Weirdo)

2021 · ★ 6.1 (16)

Nicole takes the stage at the Gramercy Theatre for a HOT new set, discussing everything from how she basically is a vegan (she's just doing her part), what she's looking for in a man, and just how crazy this past year-and-a-half has been.

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Poster for Simple As Water

2021 · ★ 5.8 (5)

A meditation on the elemental bonds of family told through portraits of four Syrian families in the aftermath of war.

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Poster for The Chambermaid

2019 · ★ 6.5 (59)

Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.

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Poster for Thou Wast Mild and Lovely

2014 · ★ 5.2 (28)

The arrival of a handsome new farmhand threatens the balance between a farmer and his daughter.

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Poster for Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood

2005 · ★ 7.3 (7)

"Bullets Over Hollywood" delves into America's fascination with gangsters and features historical perspective, analysis, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and details about the connection between real-life hoods and their cinematic alter egos. The documentary chronicles films such as the _American Mutoscope & Biograph [us]_ film _Musketeers of Pig Alley, The (1912)_ (the 1912 film directed by D.W. Griffith that began it all), 1930's and '40s classics including "Little Caesar," "The Public Enemy," "The Roaring Twenties," "The Petrified Forest" and "High Sierra," to such modern tales as "The Godfather," "Scarface," "Goodfellas," "Donnie Brasco," "Casino," "A Bronx Tale," "Carlito's Way," "Once Upon a Time in America" and many more. The special takes a look at television with shows such as "The Sopranos" and "Growing Up Gotti," all part of America's parallel fascination with fictional and real-life gangsters.

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Poster for Ruhm

2012 · ★ 6.4 (6)

A nameless man receives phone calls intended for someone else and ends up pretending to be that person, while a female character rebels against her author.

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Poster for Catharsis

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Danna, a 17 year-old girl, finds herself in a dangerous situation in which a man harasses her on the bus. Despite her fear, takes the brave decision of defending another girl from the same man, however, her valiant act gets her arrested, confronting the indifference and prejudice of the authorities.

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Poster for The Gaze

2022 · ★ 10.0 (1)

After watching a film, Jane, a young woman, finds herself trapped within the theater, under the haunting gaze of the man who resides there. During her time at the cinema, she discovers the truth of reality - that women face a predatory gaze throughout the course of their lives, and The Gaze captures Jane's journey trying to escape that harsh reality.

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Poster for Now You Know

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An uninhibited 10 year old girl discovers harsh new boundaries at her strict Catholic school.

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2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the second half of the 18th century, Jeremy Bentham designed the model of a panopticon, a type of building that made supervision most effective. Panopticons were firstly used for prisons, places where supervision and punishment are the main functions. Secret services but also different surveillance technologies are the new panopticons. They can monitor, save and store data about people to identify them, to distinguish the location and time of people’s behaviour and actions. Architecture theorist, software expert, people who are or were monitored, or the former secret service agents explain their panoptical experience. Reading again Michel Foucault´s Discipline and Punish, through experience with different kinds of supervision, in the film we are looking for the perfect application of the panoptical principle.

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Poster for Houkago Lost

2014 · ★ 1.1 (4)

Little Trip: Chairperson Ayako and Yuki, who sometimes skips school, become close. They run away. Rakugaki Uwagaki: Satomi used to be a member of art club, but she stopped drawing. Due to a cultural festival, she decides to draw again. Baion: Kuroi likes recording the sounds of daily life. One day, she meets Rika. Rika begins to enjoy recording the sounds of daily life with Kuroi.

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Poster for Damas do Samba

2015 · ★ 8.0 (2)

Since samba emerged in Rio de Janeiro, the presence of women has been fundamental to its creation, maintenance and perpetuation to this day. Muses, pastors, aunts, composers, dancers, godmothers, carnival dancers, mulatas, performers and even as workers, they form a panel of colors, feelings and sounds in the representation of this culture. This film takes a brief look at the history of some of these women, honoring and recognizing their strength.

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Poster for Detropia

2012 · ★ 6.7 (36)

Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century – the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now… the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos.

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