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Poster for Seeking Mavis Beacon

2024 · ★ 3.0 (3)

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions globally, but the software's Haitian-born cover model vanished decades ago. Two DIY detectives search for the model while posing questions about identity and artificial intelligence.

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Poster for The Mystery of Chaco Canyon

1999 · ★ 8.0 (2)

Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in an elaborate pattern that mirrors the yearly cycle of the sun and the 19-year cycle of the moon. How did an ancient civilization, with no known written language, arrange its buildings into a virtual celestial calendar, spanning an area roughly the size of Ireland?

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Poster for A Boyfriend to Die For

2025 · ★ 6.0 (2)

Olivia, a rising star in her father's firm, crosses paths with Jonathan, the heir to a banking dynasty. As their careers and ambitions intertwine, a chilling secret begins to surface -- one that threatens to unravel everything she's worked for.

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Poster for The Can

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A broken-spirited Tim struggles to navigate love and loss, only to find the extraordinary beauty of life from an ordinary can.

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Poster for 10 let muzikálu v Ostravě

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Live broadcast of the gala concert of the best Ostrava musical production... The festive concert is a reminder of the last 10 years of the Ostrava musical. In 2010, the originally operetta ensemble of the Moravian-Silesian National Theater became an operetta/musical ensemble, and it was the musical that gained a dominant position in its repertoire. The concert will present a cross-section of important titles that the musical scene had in its repertoire over the entire ten-year period. In a live broadcast, it will offer the audience unforgettable songs from the most famous musical productions performed by Hana Fialová, Martina Vlčková, Michaela Horká, Patricia Janečková, Tomáš Savka, Lukáš Vlček, Tomáš Novotný and others, directed by Gabriela Petráková and in an attractive set by scenographer Ondřej Zicha, using scenic elements from selected productions. For example, songs from the show West Side Story will be heard.

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Poster for All My Mom’s Phone Calls

2021 · ★ 6.0 (1)

In this warm-hearted puppet animation documentary, we get to know the filmmaker’s 54-year-old mother Maija through her phone calls. We see how she copes with the difficult things in her life, like alcoholism and autism, demanding family members, and various absurd situations that seem to follow her.

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Poster for Janet Jackson: From Janet. To Damita Jo: The Videos

2004 · ★ 7.3 (9)

The anthology contains music videos from her first four studio albums released on Virgin Records.

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Poster for The Sarthois

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for The Secret Gift of Christmas

2023 · ★ 6.5 (26)

Bonnie is a personal shopper who helps her new, widowed client Patrick reconnect with his young daughter. Though Bonnie and Patrick's ideas of shopping couldn't be more different, she is determined to get Patrick and his daughter everything on their wish list.

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Poster for Les mères espagnoles

1975 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A few hours after Sanchez Bravo's execution, his sister recounts the condemned man's last night. Otaegi's mother talks about her son's life and the last conversation she had with him. Txiki's mother speaks of the solidarity of her village, where she has lived for eleven years, a widow with seven children. She denounces the "phantom" trial, the torture and murder of her son.

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Poster for I «Loved» my Husband. The Movie

2023 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Ksenia is an exemplary wife and mother. She obeys her greedy and ungrateful husband in everything, who takes Ksenia's reverence for granted. After learning about her husband's infidelity, Ksenia accidentally kills him during sex. Now the housewife has to hide the body, cover her tracks so as not to go to prison and leave the children orphaned, as well as find a way to make a living, because Ksenia does not have her own money, and she cannot use her husband's accounts without his presence.

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Poster for Venefica

2015 · ★ 1.0 (1)

Penelope is a modern-day witch - a 'Venefica,' to be exact. Today, she must undergo the mystical - and potentially deadly - rite of passage that determines whether her magic is to be used for good or for evil.

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Poster for Red Rose

2014 · ★ 4.7 (9)

A politically complacent middle-aged man and a young pro-democracy activist debate about the future of their country while hiding from the police, in this fascinating drama that blends scripted scenes with on-the-ground footage from Iran’s 2009 Green Revolution.

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Poster for Gentlemen Prefer Nature Girls

1963 · ★ 4.6 (12)

Married nudists Anne and Tom work in real estate but Tom is fired for his lifestyle. Unfortunately, as he was ready to close a big major deal, Tom goes to his favorite nudist camp to take his mind off his problems and discovers that the client is also a member. Together, they scheme to get Anne and their boss to visit in order to make the deal.

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Poster for You and Me

1971 · ★ 6.3 (15)

The film centers on Pyotr, a once-promising neurosurgeon who walked away from his groundbreaking research and career abroad, only to return home years later in search of fulfillment. Encountering old friends, strained relationships, and the realities of his choices, Pyotr grapples with regret, identity, and the value of his work.

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Poster for Blondie in the Dough

1947 · ★ 6.5 (2)

BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so popular that a cookie magnate makes her an offer that is difficult to refuse. Unfortunately, this creates all kinds of problems for the Bumsteads.

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2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Beyond The Visible - Hilma af Klint

2019 · ★ 7.2 (13)

How can an artist discover abstraction by the beginning of the 20th century and nobody is noticing? A woman, misjudged and concealed, rocks the art world with her mind-blowing oeuvre. Hilma af Klint was a pioneer creating her first abstract painting in 1906, four years before Vassily Kandinsky. But why was she ignored? Why are her paintings not available on the market? This first film on her is about her life and work, the role of women in art history and the discovery of an art scandal. Her quest for meaning in life and a boundless thinking led into a timeless, outstanding oeuvre.

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Poster for Ghost of Asia

2005 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Taking the recent tsunami in Asia as its starting point, the filmmakers have used the idea of a ghost seen wandering along the rocky coastline of a Thai island and, in a life-affirming gesture, they have invited some local children to direct the film for them, suggesting and filming the movements of the actor-ghost.

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Poster for Life-Changing Ad

2015 · ★ 5.6 (16)

Annette, 38, answers an ad from Paul, a farmer. She has only met him twice when she and her son Eric move in with him in the dead of winter. There Annette has to face Paul's hostile sister and her own past, which soon catches up with her.

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