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Poster for Look Both Ways

2005 · ★ 6.0 (27)

During one unusually hot weekend, four friends struggle after hearing some life-changing news.

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Poster for Finnischer Tango

2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Alex is a passionate musician. He travels from one gig to the next with his tango band. He can't make a living from his music, but he doesn't really care. This changes when he and his bandmates steal a rocker band's tour bus and there is an accident. Alex's friend Tommy dies and the tango band is finished. Suddenly Alex finds himself without an apartment, a pile of debts and with the grim rockers breathing down his neck. There's only one thing to do: go into hiding.

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2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Earthworm

2022 · ★ 4.5 (2)

When twenty-year-old Claire finds out she’s pregnant, she knows she wants to have an abortion. With confidence in her choice, support from her family, and good healthcare, it should be straightforward. But the night before the appointment, skin-crawling hallucinations begin to shake her resolve. At the gynecologist’s office, what should be a routine medical experience becomes a waking nightmare with lasting repercussions.

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Poster for O Horizon

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Abby, a brilliant, young neuroscientist who has recently lost her father, drowns her grief by spending her days working with a monkey named Dorey. Abby meets a programmer, Sam, who has created a technology that reconnects Abby with her beloved father. Her relationship with her digitized dad then forces her to re-examine everything from her romantic relationships to her life’s work.

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Poster for Love

1982 · ★ 4.5 (12)

A unique anthology of six short vignettes on the subject of love, all of them written, directed and produced by women.

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Poster for Nantucket Noel

2021 · ★ 6.3 (27)

During the Seaside Noel celebrations, Christin learns of a developer who is planning to tear down the wharf that is home to her toy store. Tensions rise as she falls for the developer's son, Andy.

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Poster for Circle

2016 · ★ 6.0 (1)

The tale of the Togni family, the most important and long-lived circus dynasty in Italy, begins with the legendary love story that started everything to the highs and lows that followed. The family’s footage—filmed on Super8, then VHS, to Hi8 and MiniDV—reveals an epic sixty years of stories.

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1985 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Pina Bausch created and performed Café Müller for her dance company Tanztheater Wuppertal. The dance was inspired by and based on her childhood memories of watching her father work at his café in Germany during and immediately following World War II. In this silent style featurette, Bausch shows a restaurant after closing, in which the ghosts of the departed customers stumble blindly into walls and onto chairs but fail to find one another.

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Poster for Shattered Vows

2025 · ★ 5.0 (1)

A honeymoon goes tragically wrong when new groom, Brendan, falls off a hotel balcony, leaving his bride, Sarah, devastated. When the autopsy points to murder, Sarah must quickly prove her innocence or risk a lifetime separated from her stepdaughter.

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Poster for 500 Years

2017 · ★ 5.9 (9)

From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a president, the sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala’s recent history is told through the actions and perspectives of the majority indigenous Mayan population, who now stand poised to reimagine their society.

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Poster for Chick Flick

2023 · ★ 1.0 (1)

Upon discovering her fiancé cheated, Claire (Louise Linton), a witty, driven fashion columnist, jilts her husband-to-be at the altar. In the weeks that follow she loses her job and hits rock bottom. With nothing to lose, Claire turns to online dating and social media to launch her retaliatory dating streak. When her dating exploits go viral, things begin to take a toll. But when she runs into her first love, Kyle (Sam Page) will he ignite the fire or put out the flames?

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Poster for Haggis

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Lighthearted short drama inspired by Burns’ classic poem Address to a Haggis, which follows the lives of the MacNeep family in their ill-fated plans to get together for Burns Night 2020.

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Poster for Step Up

2006 · ★ 6.9 (3839)

Delinquent Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with up-and-coming dancer Nora.

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Poster for The Wobblies

1979 · ★ 6.7 (6)

"Solidarity! All for One and One for All!" With that slogan, the Industrial Workers of the World, aka the Wobblies, took to organizing unskilled workers into one big union and changing the course of history. This award-winning film airs a provocative look at the forgotten American history of this most radical of unions, screening the unforgettable and still-fiery voices of Wobbly members--lumberjacks, migratory workers, and silk weavers--in their 70s, 80s, and 90s.

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Poster for First Winter

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Ángel is a newly arrived immigrant who is experiencing his first winter in Chicago. The film follows his realisation of what it may mean to be away from home for a very long time.

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Poster for Engel & Joe

2001 · ★ 6.2 (21)

A love story of a 17 year old punk-rocker and a 15 year old runaway girl.

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Poster for Gilaneh

2005 · ★ 5.8 (5)

A mother's courage, hardship, and love, in times of war. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, Gilane escorts her pregnant daughter, Maygol, from the relative calm of their village, Espili, into war-torn Tehran to search for Maygol's husband, Rahman. The journey is arduous and what they find when they reach the capital is dismaying and frightening. Fifteen years later, as another war begins in Iraq, Gillane is at home caring for her son Ismael, who suffers from epilepsy, a byproduct of war. As she cares for him, she hopes for a visit from the doctor and from another daughter, Atefah. "Better be a dog than a mother," she says.

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Poster for Apotheosis

1972 · ★ 4.5 (2)

“Apotheosis, which is developed from images made in the radiation treatment of human cancer, is the most beautiful and the most subtly textured work in computer animation I have seen.” – Roger Greenspun, N. Y. Times Award Foothills-1973.

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Poster for Thirteen

2003 · ★ 6.7 (1719)

When 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money. But it isn’t long before Tracy’s new lifestyle begins to take a heavy toll on her and her family.

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