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Poster for Gringa

2023 · ★ 5.5 (24)

Unpopular and down-on-her-luck, Marge is already having a tough time navigating the minefield that is her suburban high school. But Marge’s life is completely upended when her beloved mother and only champion dies in a tragic accident. With nowhere else to turn except her ultra-conservative grandparents, Marge decides instead to hunt down her estranged father, a former soccer star living in rural Mexico as a beach bum and coach to the local women’s team. Neither is ready for such a big change, but the best shot they have at fixing their past and moving forward is together.

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Poster for Wadena

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Wadena, MN: (population 4,060: town motto “Where the Prairie Meets the Woodands”) was hit by a tornado in June, 2010. “I didn’t need the things I lost,” Cindy said on a windy day on the empty ground where her house used to be. “I didn’t need to hold on to everything."

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Poster for Accidental Stars

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When aspiring actress Nerissa started attending David’s acting class, she dreamed of becoming a star of stage and screen. Desperate for his guidance and approval, she pays for private acting lessons in hopes that she can reach a deeper sense of truth. But under his judgmental gaze, her sanity starts to crack. As she struggles to maintain her grip with reality, a hysteria begins to take hold of her — But it might just be the salvation she’s been looking for all along.

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Poster for Journey with Tarsilinha

2022 · ★ 5.4 (4)

Tarsilinha sets off on a journey to save her mother’s memory. The only way to do this is to find her mom's stolen keepsakes and overcome her own fears.

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2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

AFTERGLOW is a short film about a moment in time when a man is confronted with his past actions. The love of a young woman leads him to a place of the most profound loss. A loss that will force him to question the very meaning of his own life and those he loves.

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Poster for Tarot

2024 · ★ 6.4 (1339)

When a group of friends recklessly violate the sacred rule of Tarot readings, they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate and end up in a race against death.

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Poster for Habibi

1983 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young gay man falls head over heels in love with an Algerian labourer he meets in transvestite bar where he is a regular.

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Poster for Dust Cloth

2015 · ★ 7.6 (15)

Nesrin and Hatun are two Kurdish cleaning women living in Istanbul. While Nesrin tries to survive with her little daughter, trying to understand why her husband left her, Hatun dreams of buying a house in the district where they clean.

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Poster for Istanbul Story

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Katia’s unexpected journey to Istanbul traps her in a chain of adventures enacted on the front of her disrupted childhood. She discovers her mother’s secrets and faces her own inner desires and dilemmas.

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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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