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Poster for Sudden Manhattan

1996 · ★ 5.2 (6)

Twenty-something Donna is jobless, single and broke. On a fateful day, reality turns itself upside down, and she is suddenly faced with one absurdity after another.

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Poster for Childhood

1976 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A thoughtful and sad film about toddlers who spend their days or even weeks away from their mother and home, whether in a day nursery or a day group. The camera observes the great sadness of the small citizens and their subconscious attempts to adapt to a strange situation.

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Poster for Vivante

2020 · ★ 6.5 (2)

Love story between Charlotte & Lou and her physical / mental reconstruction after a traffic accident. Charlotte will come back to life through love, her passion for dance, but also through sex, with the help of a sex worker dedicated to supporting people with disabilities Following her separation, Lou, a reserved young woman, rents out a room in her oversized apartment, which she struggles to take on alone. During one of her dance lessons, she will meet Charlotte, a photographer, looking for a new place to live. After her installation, Lou will quickly be troubled by Charlotte, as much by her attitude, deliberately casual and liberated, as by her beauty and her charisma. Thus begins a passionate and passionate story between the two women which will allow Lou to explore new sensations, new experiences, shattering the limits which were hers until then.

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Poster for Wakey Wakey

2019 · ★ 5.0 (7)

A nightmare anti-love story featuring blood and guts, the deep blue sea, tooth decay and scary boyfriends.

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Poster for Merkel Must Go

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Their names are René, Sabine and Daniel – three people among thousands of others who go on to the streets of Dresden every Monday as “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West”. They shout “We are the people!” They claim “Merkel must go!” The director Sabine Michel accompanied them for one year – on their demonstrations and in their daily lives. Merkel Must Go is not a film about PEGIDA, it asks for the personal reasons for this patriotic protest, a film about realistic and absurd fears of the present.

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Poster for Killing Jesus

2017 · ★ 6.7 (31)

Paula, a young art student, witnesses the assassination of her father, a university professor. Frustrated by the local police she starts to investigate the murder herself. Driven by anger, frustration and sorrow, she commits fearless acts that put her and her family at risk.

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Poster for The Road to Ruin

1934 · ★ 4.0 (19)

A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion.

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Poster for The Immoral Three

1975 · ★ 4.6 (11)

In order to collect a $3 million inheritance, sisters Ginny, Sandy and Nancy must avenge their spy mother's death.

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Poster for Hollywood Wives: The New Generation

2003 · ★ 5.0 (3)

A Hollywood star (Fawcett), fed up with her husband's cheating, hires a private investigator to tail him. Emotional support is offered by her two friends - a soul singer (Givens) and a famous director's wife (Gilbert)

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Poster for Lake-Emba

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

It's 1982 and Becky's second first day of year 6 where she discovers the value in embracing her age and those around her; in her magical town of Lake-Emba.

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Poster for Letters

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Prey

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Frauen in Landschaften

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Four female politicians with East German backgrounds - Anke Domscheit-Berg, Manuela Schwesig, Yvonne Magwas and Frauke Petry - analyse German history and their own life stories.

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Poster for Edhi Alice: REVERSE

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Edhi Alice: REVERSE begins from the perspective of Edhi, who is about to undergo gender confirmation surgery, and transitions into the journey of another protagonist, Alice, as she comes to terms with her body. The narrative of transition expands beyond a personal life story to encompass relationships, bodily experiences, and the sense of space, becoming a cinematic transformation.

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Poster for Happy Hiltons

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young boy encounters a hippie musician while on a stressful family road trip.

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Poster for Deadly Dispatch

2019 · ★ 5.0 (1)

After her best friend is tragically murdered in an apparent robbery gone wrong, Tiffany Jackson takes justice in her own hands to find his killer.

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Poster for Boss in Love

2018 · ★ 5.1 (7)

Se-young stays alone and works overtime. Her lover, Hye-mi, visits Se-young's company and they have a date there. Suddenly, the new employee, Joo-ah, returns to the company.

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Poster for The Rape of Recy Taylor

2019 · ★ 7.8 (8)

Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists. The NAACP sent its chief rape investigator Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice. The film exposes a legacy of physical abuse of black women and reveals Rosa Parks’ intimate role in Recy Taylor’s story.

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Poster for Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted

2015 · ★ 6.8 (20)

Known for her distinctive storytelling and offbeat sense of humor, Tig Notaro often draws on her highly personal experiences with no-holds-barred honesty. Over the course of her one-hour show, Notaro tells stories about a number of subjects, including: the search for the perfect Santa Claus; her favorite laugh noises; bringing her fiancée to meet her Mississippi family; TSA screening; flying in small planes; unusual public signs; and more.

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Poster for Four Women

1975 · ★ 5.0 (3)

An imaginatively choreographed dance interpretation of the ballad by Nina Simone explores four common stereotypes of Black women.

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