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Poster for Daughters

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After yet another tense interaction with her emotionally unavailable mother, Cissy is ready to throw in the towel on their relationship. Thank goodness the connection with her own teen daughter Bennie is so different - thanks to years of therapy. On a regular night in, Cissy and Bennie stumble upon an old family photo album. The aged, crumbling photos they discovered inside not only expose the secrets of their ancestors’ survival, but they also help them travel through time to understand the struggles of the women in their family - and maybe learn how to heal their lineage.

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Poster for Procession

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Ieva is facing the day of her grandmother's funeral, but her goal of saying goodbye to her grandmother is complicated by the domestic problems of such processions and the growing distance between Ieva and her mother.

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Poster for Ultraman M78 Theater Love & Peace

1999 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Ultraman M78 Theater Love & Peace is a 1999 anime film, featured as a double bill for Ultraman Tiga, Ultraman Dyna, & Ultraman Gaia: The Decisive Battle in Hyperspace. Set in an alternate chibi-fied version Nebula M78, where Ultramen, kaijus, chojus, aliens and robots co-exists peacefully, the entire OVA consists mostly of short gags and animated clips.

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Poster for Home Swim Home

2016 · ★ 9.0 (4)

Mia is thirty and getting divorced. She moves into a studio apartment in a low-income housing project. As a former swimming champion, she now finds herself giving swimming lessons to the other inhabitants... Without a pool...

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Poster for Alba

2016 · ★ 6.6 (30)

Alba, 11 years old, passes her days in silence. She loves little animals. She has learned to cope with her mother's illness, helping her to use the bathroom. Alba plays silently so that her mother can rest during the day. One night Alba's mother gets worse, and has to be taken to the hospital. With no one else to take care of her, Alba is sent to live with her father, who she hasn't seen since she was three years old. Living with her father is almost unbearable. Embarrassment, her first kiss, visits to mother in the hospital, Edgar's tender efforts to get close to her, and bullying at school; these are some of the experiences that pave Alba's journey to puberty and to self-acceptance.

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Poster for Ordinary Dangerous Adventure

1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The straight A student and the slacker unexpectedly appear on a dangerous adventure, bonding and becoming friends along the way.

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Poster for 3 Peas in a Pod

2013 · ★ 3.0 (1)

3 Peas In A Pod tells the story of three university friends from Taiwan, Korea and Singapore who go on a road trip that changes their lives forever.

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Poster for The Story of Soaps

2020 · ★ 7.0 (6)

This ABC/PEOPLE television special highlights the impact of the soap opera. In today's shifting television landscape, "The Story of Soaps" traces how female creators migrated from radio to television to become the dominant force in daytime for more than three decades. Today, the legacy of the soap opera continues all over prime time and reality t.v. An extensive look is taken at this iconic, impactful genre.

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Poster for Swindlers

2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for In the Street

1948 · ★ 6.4 (21)

Images of street life in New York's Spanish Harlem during the 1940s.

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Poster for Neighborhood Alert

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The story of a Black mother who is forced to take extraordinary action in order to ensure the safety of her teenage son.

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Poster for His Secret Marriage

2019 · ★ 4.6 (8)

A woman awakens after an accident to discover she has amnesia. Recent events have been wiped from her brain, including just marrying the handsome man at her side.

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Poster for Shoot Me Angel

1995 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two woman chasing each other, the line between violence and erotic tension blurs. An erotic urban fairy-tale : a policewoman locates a suspect. She pursues the black silhouette. A strange duel begins.

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Poster for Altar

2003 · ★ 7.0 (1)

In this lyrical elegy lamenting the death of Madeleine, her husband, a theater actor, relives his very first memories of her.

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Seven years after being sexually assaulted by her high school friend Matt, Evie, 23, agrees to meet him for an apology. But Matt doesn’t remember what he did. As Evie confronts the past, her fearless 16-year-old self emerges, pushing her to reclaim her voice and begin to heal.

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Poster for Full Plate

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Amreen is a Muslim woman with a talent for cooking. After her husband Imtiaz is injured in an accident, she decides to become the breadwinner. Despite family opposition and difficulty finding work due to prejudice against her black hijab, she lands her first job as a cook for a vegan couple, Parul and Vinod. Although Amreen initially struggles with unfamiliar ingredients and strange cooking methods, she gains recognition and becomes highly sought after. Yet in doing so, her husband's position as head of the household inevitably weakens.

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Poster for #Fitspo

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A perfectionistic fitness influencer faces judgement, distractions and insecurities as she races to finish a "Get Ready With Me" video before a long-awaited cheat night.

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Poster for Případ dvou sester

2019 · ★ 3.0 (1)

Captain Vašátko of the criminal police and Horác, a painter, bohemian, and amateur detective, are searching for the murderer of Daniela Jásková, an emancipated young woman who excelled at her job and also excelled at changing lovers. When she is found strangled in her apartment, Vašátko's team begins an investigation. They also focus on the victim's sister, Alena Kášová, who did not like Daniela very much and resented her ability to win over every man. Suspicion also falls on Alena's ex-husband, the sculptor Káš, whom Horác has known since his studies at the academy.

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Poster for Holy Man: The USA vs. Douglas White

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Holy Man is the story of Douglas White, an 88 year old Lakota Sioux medicine man from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, who spent 17 years in federal prison for a crime he did not commit. During the making of this film, filmmakers uncovered new evidence of White's innocence and brought the case back to Federal Court. Holy Man offers a rare glimpse into the mysterious world of Lakota religion, their intimate connection to the land, and a provocative expose of the systemic injustice that Native Americans face in the criminal justice system.

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Poster for Franky Five Star

2023 · ★ 6.0 (3)

When things get too much, Franky checks into a hotel, which exists only in her head. The hotel is the home of four entirely different personalities, who alternately rule over her actions in real life.

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