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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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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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