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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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Poster for Mutt

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

If you had the power to grant dignity in a desolate world – but it meant sacrificing yourself – would you?

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Poster for Hotel Colonial

1987 · ★ 5.3 (16)

Marco Veniera goes to Bogotá, Colombia to find his brother, Luca who supposedly committed suicide. In his search, he meets fiery and exotic Irene Costa, who leads him into the depths of the Amazon jungle. But it's every man for himself. And brotherly love turns to hate.

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Poster for Darling

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After months of suspicion, Fiona follows her husband to a seedy motel where her worst fears are confirmed. Accepting an invitation from Liza, the sex worker, to enter the motel room, Fiona learns that not everything is as it seems.

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Poster for Janie

1970 · ★ 4.2 (10)

A sadistic teenager searching for "Daddy" murders and dismembers anybody who picks her up hitch-hiking.

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Poster for Shepherds

2024 · ★ 7.4 (52)

A young Montreal advertising executive, converted to a Provençal shepherd, has various misadventures with a civil servant who has cavalierly quit her job.

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Poster for Northern Travelogues

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In 1917 Finnish explorer Sakari Pälsi travelled to Northeastern Siberia carrying a cinematograph and 13,000 feet of film with him. The journey produced a unique documentary film and a travelogue. A hundred years later director Kira Jääskeläinen returns to the Bering Strait in Pälsi's footsteps. Combining old and new film footage, Pälsi's notes and the stories of the local indigenous peoples, the film highlights the story of the Chukchi and Siberian Eskimos from bygone days till today.

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Poster for Emmy

2018 · ★ 8.0 (1)

An iPhone obsessed gym-rat overdoses on a muscle relaxant and makes an unlikely connection with a stranger.

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Poster for Braid

2019 · ★ 5.7 (168)

Two drug dealers on the lam seek refuge inside their mentally unstable friend’s mansion. But in order to stay, they have to participate in her elaborate, and increasingly dangerous, game of permanent make-believe.

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Poster for Loved

1997 · ★ 4.2 (18)

After a man is accused of driving his third wife to suicide, his first wife Hedda, a troubled woman who can't hate or hurt others even if they had wronged her, is subpoenaed to testify on his abusive behavior during their marriage.

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Poster for Quietly, I Walk the Wrong Way

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The film is comprised of a collection of Instagram story posts taken with an iPhone during the pandemic year 2020. Reflections on isolation, separation, and distance - as felt in remote locations of interior Alaska and a village on the island of Lesbos.

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Poster for The Ascent

1977 · ★ 7.8 (234)

Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.

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Poster for The Troublemakers

1990 · ★ 7.0 (1)

The lives of four down-on-their-luck characters. Surrounded by the vestiges of conspicuous consumption, they struggle to survive outside of society, fashioning their own aesthetics of poverty and devising strategies to navigate a surveillance society, evading or performing for cameras everywhere.

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Poster for Workaholic

1996 · ★ 4.0 (7)

Rhoda loves Max but he is a workaholic. So Rhoda decides to become a successful businesswoman herself and falls in love with her co-worker Paul. So Max quits his job to fight for his relationship with Rhoda full-time.

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Poster for The Rye Horn

2023 · ★ 6.3 (20)

Maria is a shellfisherwoman and midwife in a small village in the Illa de Arousa in 1970s Galicia. After an unexpected event, she is forced to flee to Portugal.

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Poster for Austenland

2013 · ★ 6.4 (478)

Obsessed with the BBC production of "Pride and Prejudice", a woman travels to a Jane Austen theme park in search for her perfect gentleman.

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Poster for Disco Graveyard

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Don’t be dead. The dead are dumb. Be weird.

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Poster for Soledad

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A thug love. A ruthless passion. A devastating fire. Thus began the saga of death and revenge by the one they called Soledad.

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