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Poster for Losing Control

2012 · ★ 4.7 (12)

A smart and original, quirky comedy about a female scientist who wants proof that her boyfriend is "the one."

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Poster for I Am Your Biggest Fan

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An obsessive fan kidnaps a former child star to live out the fantasy of having her character as a best friend.

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2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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1922 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Swagatam

1998 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Lisbon has the second largest community of Hindus in Europe. This film portrays this community, focusing on a family originally from Diu, who then emigrated to Mozambique and then, in 1976, to Lisbon. The film portrays the contrast and conflict between this group of Diu families, low caste with the Lohanas group, the merchants caste. A new temple is being built, however in the courtyard of his house the family Carsane still makes its parties and alternative rituals ....

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Poster for I Do

2010 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Mayumi is a girl with a happy disposition in life who dreams of meeting her "the one" someday. She has been dreaming of meeting her "the one" and having the perfect wedding ever since she was a little girl. When she meets Lance, a Chinese descendant, in a wedding, she immediately knows that he is "the one" she is waiting for, her faith and destiny. The two of them become lovers despite the unwillingness of their families to their relationship.

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Poster for Her Absence is the Ritual

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Serani (20) lives among a land that cultivates silence and patience, where time never truly moves forward, it only loops, repeating events that keep knocking in different faces. When truth is seen as a disturbance, and silence is praised as virtue, Serani drifts between those who stay quiet and those who know. Her voice slowly loses its form.

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Poster for National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When a golden wedding anniversary reunites the Randolph family on the eve of WWII, Dora and Charles must reckon with the adults their children have become. Their children, meanwhile, are haunted by the memory of the family they once were. As the weekend’s celebrations unfold, the family walks a tightrope between intimacy and estrangement, camaraderie and rivalry, love and hate. Heartbreaking and joyful, this captivating revival of Dodie Smith’s play is a moving dissection of family and what it means to grow up and return home.

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Poster for The Girl Raised as a Future Daughter-in-law

1965 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Choi Eun-hee’s directorial debut The Girl Raised as a Future Daughter-In-Law is the story of ups and downs of a future daughter-in-law who, due to poverty, married an infant rich groom. A ruined widow’s daughter Jum-soon has no time to rest, as her mother-in-law treats her like a maid, leaving her with all the kitchen chores, house cleaning, grinding grain, and sewing, while the mother-in-law smokes a pipe and nitpicks on her. What allows Jum-soon to endure is her ‘duty as a woman’ taught to her since young and her child husband’s lovable yammering.

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Poster for Ein schrecklich reiches Paar

2017 · ★ 4.3 (8)

The unorthodox millionaire's wife Eva Klüber raves when her husband Rainer divorces her and she should keep according to the marriage contract nothing of the common assets. Eva fictitiously her own kidnapping, in order to come to what they see as more than earned money. But her perfect plan is backfiring in several ways.

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Poster for Tough Kids

1983 · ★ 5.5 (21)

A former athlete runs a camp dedicated to reforming juvenile criminals, a tough job with no quick payoffs.

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Poster for Rosamunde Pilcher: Jahrestag

2025 · ★ 5.5 (2)

Pam Holloway believes in love and a stable marriage. Her parents Laureen and Elliot are her great role models: they are celebrating their silver wedding anniversary this year.

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Poster for Partisan Snow Maiden

1981 · ★ 7.0 (1)

During World War II, even children had to perform feats. Such an occasion, which occurred on the eve of New Year holidays, will be discussed in this story. A little girl goes to the way from her wooden snowbound house. She will have to pass a very important message to guerrillas despite the threats around her...

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Poster for Rapunzel, or The Magic of Tears

1988 · ★ 5.9 (4)

Adaptation of the classic fairytale. Rapunzel lives alone in the woods, in a tower with no doors. Then, one day, a mysterious stranger comes for a visit.

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Poster for It's Easier for a Camel...

2003 · ★ 4.6 (29)

As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world. Now a charming thirty-something-single woman, Federica's fantasies have evolved, adding lovers, stardom, and motherhood to her waking dreams, where Federica continues to press for her everyday life to be as real as the fantasies that invade her. Unfortunately, Federica's daydreams can only provide a meager distraction from the reality she faces. Her career as a successful playwright is heading south, her boyfriend is pressuring her to start a family, a former lover wishes to rekindle an old affair, her sister is barely talking to her, her brother is self-centered and her loving father is terminally ill. And as if to make matters worse, Federica is rich, too rich, and the guilt that consumes her because of it is pushing her over the edge.

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2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two best friends reevaluate their friendship all while driving aimlessly in a car.

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Poster for Folk!

2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Featuring the legendary ballerina and choreographer Roma Pryma Bohachevsky and the Syzokryli Dance Ensemble of New York, the Virsky National Dance Company of Ukraine, the Kashtan School of Ukrainian Dance in Cleveland and The Voloshky Dance Ensemble of Philadelphia, "Folk!", dubbed the greatest film about Ukrainian folk dancing ever, explores the unique underground and acrobatic world of Ukrainian folk dancing through the eyes of narrator/filmmaker Roxy Toporowych. This documentary is the first film to be a joyful embracement of Ukrainian culture and dance in North America today as well as a musical feature that is also extremely relevant to anyone trying to balance ties to one's heritage and culture.

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Poster for To Pluto

2017 · ★ 9.0 (1)

A cancer patient who is looking for redemption forms an unexpected bond with a nurse who is questioning her life choices

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Poster for They Say

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mila has taken the puppy of her friend, who has developed an allergy. Her friend talked about it to her teacher, who shared the story with her husband, who discussed it with his trainer, etc. But each time as the story gets told, the meaning changes and soon in the social networks appears a post that Mila is prostituting herself. This story is about the speedy transformation of harmless news into a gossip which literally destroys the life of the heroine.

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Poster for Angel Sign

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Manga creator Tsukasa Hojo's debut live-action film. 'Angel Sign' is Hojo's debut as a director, which is made by editing a number of short films into one movie. Hojo directs the "Prologue" and "Epilogue" stories, while a different director will handle each of the other stories, which were selected in Silent Manga Audition. All the stories will have no spoken lines, and will only have video and music.

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