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Poster for Falling Leaves

1912 · ★ 6.6 (90)

It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a teenage girl named Winifred. Winifred's mother and little sister Trixie are devastated. When Trixie hears the family doctor say of Winifred that "when the last leaf falls, she will have passed away," she interprets the doctor's words literally. Thinking over what she has heard, she determines to do everything possible to save her sister.

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Poster for Magpie: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the quiet of the woods and the shadow of her best friends pregnancy, a woman's yearning for a child takes on a life of its own.

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2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A provocative examination of celebrity haters, public vitriol, and the toxic price of fame.

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Poster for In a Busy Place

1955 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The innkeeper Bessudny and his wife Eugenia are evil and greedy people. And their niece, the modest and decent Annushka, loves the landowner Milovidov. However, the envious Eugenia tries in every possible way to prevent her personal happiness.

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Poster for Always and Forever Christmas

2019 · ★ 6.7 (24)

When marketing exec Lucy learns that she’s inherited her grandfather’s year-round Christmas store, “Forever Christmas," she makes a trip back home to support the store during its final Christmas season before she sells it to a hip athletic leisurewear company. But once she is back in Vermont, she begins to understand why her grandfather's shop is so special with the help of local diner owner, Scott and the magic of a Christmas stranger from the north.

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Poster for Another Mother

1996 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A widowed Latvian father's quest for a much-loved Dutch pen pal, whom he hasn't heard from in three decades, provides the basis of this comedy-drama. The father is accompanied by his traumatized and mute eight-year-old son whom he had to kidnap from a Riga hospital. Together, the two flee towards Holland where the father Yuris hopes to find his long-lost friend Marie, whom he remembers as a great beauty. During the long journey, father and son have several funny adventures, many of which occur because neither father nor son speak much Dutch. They finally arrive at Marie's door empty-handed. What they find, gives them little hope, for the lithe young idealist of Yuris' dreams has become middle-aged and cynical.

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Poster for Brumal

1988 · ★ 6.0 (4)

Adriana and her mother left Brumal, a strange and remote village, and moved to the city while still a child. Once Adriana's mother dies, she's marked by memories and intense nostalgia for her hometown, and returns to Brumal.

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Poster for Park La Brea

— · ★ 10.0 (1)

Park La Brea is a psychological thriller about a woman whose fractured sense of identity begins to distort her perception of reality, forcing her to confront the patterns shaping her inner world and ask... is madness a choice?

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Poster for Bring Back The Tiger

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Has the tiger been stolen, or did someone let it escape? They even rob the inhabitants of the water. Who should we listen to? Order, our own judgment, fantasy? The tiger prowls silently along the path, hiding behind the golden mountains. This fable about coming of age tells of lands, peoples, and individuals who can also be cruel. It confronts the disappointment of seeing things as they are, when the tiger's roar awakens.

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Poster for Timelessness

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Timelessness tells the story of two 13-year-old children, David and Berta, who meet during the holidays in Prague. David brings along a diary belonging to his recently deceased grandfather, which raises many intriguing questions. In his family's former home, he discovers an old watch, and together with Berta, they find a gateway to the Timelessness - a realm between eras, where myths and legends from different times intermingle, and the traces of restless souls linger. David and Berta come to realize that their grandparents knew each other at the onset of World War II and suffered a great injustice. They must now embark on a dangerous journey into the Timelessness to set their souls free.

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Poster for Love Dog Doc

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This is a story about family and love. Xue (Huang Cuiru) and her lover Wei (Wang Kai) bought a cute puppy, Snowy. Taking care of the puppy makes their relationship stronger. Unexpectedly, Wei is transferred to Beijing because his performed well at work. Only after three years he can return to Hong Kong. But Xue has the opportunity to sing at Tokyo, and is not ready to give it up, refusing to go to Beijing with Wei. Xue and Snowy live together, depending each other and learning new life experiences.

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Poster for Weedsowers in Fableland

1970 · ★ 7.0 (4)

All the animals of Fableland are off on their annual picnic, except for Bor the Wolf. Just then an army of termites invades the peaceful forest.

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Poster for This Is Not Me

2025 · ★ 10.0 (1)

This Is Not Me is an intimate, haunting exploration of identity, longing, and the truths we try to hide. A raw, dreamlike film built from five striking monologues. Each character reveals the parts of themselves they’d rather keep hidden, blurring the line between confession and performance.

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1988 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Amy Donaldson, a successful fashion editor of City Magazine, is married to Carl, an accountant, and they have one young son, Brian. Amy is pregnant and she finds that she tests positive for HIV. The films traces the effect of this on her, her family, and her best friend Suzanne.

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Poster for Johnny & Me - A Journey Through Time with John Heartfield

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

At an exhibition, graphic designer Stefanie is thrilled by the work of John Heartfield, the inventor of political photomontage 100 years ago. While trying to understand his life on the run, she suddenly finds herself in Heartfield's studio.

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Poster for 27 Storeys

2023 · ★ 6.0 (2)

27 floors, 10.000 residents: The world-famous residential park "Alterlaa" in Vienna is considered an iconic monument of social utopia. Director Bianca Gleissinger goes back to the place of her childhood, traces the young and old residents of this biotope with a great deal of humor and self-irony, and puts the architect's former promise of happiness to the test.

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Poster for Jackpot

2020 · ★ 5.3 (7)

A bag with over 600,000 euros in cash, just like that in a towed car: When Maren, who works at a car depot, finds the bag, she cannot resist the temptation. She takes the money for herself. Her husband Dennis is shocked. But he is in a wheelchair after an accident. It will be a long time before he can walk again, and whether the insurance will pay is uncertain. The unexpected money is a blessing and gives Maren and Dennis a real perspective.

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Poster for Double Labyrinthe

1976 · ★ 6.5 (6)

With this film-manifesto, the two artists invent what they called the Cinéma corporel (Cinema of the Body), they present themselves as a "double auteur femme" and they lay the foundations of the radical critical and esthetical positions of their work to come. Double Labyrinthe has a mirror structure based on their "mutual gaze": in the first part Katerina performs while filmed by Maria and in the second part Maria performs filmed by Katerina.

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Poster for Fat Camp: An MTV Docs Movie Presentation

2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A group of overweight teens try to turn their lives around at a fat camp in Pennsylvania.

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1996 · ★ 5.5 (1)

An exploration of the hopes and expectations of three working class women from Adelaide, and the differences and similarities they share with their daughters.

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