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Poster for The Spiral

1976 · ★ 6.2 (4)

Documentary on the events provoked by the systematic attack of imperialism on the Popular Unity government in Chile, presided by Salvador Allende.

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Poster for A Family of Three

2012 · ★ 5.0 (6)

When novelist Andrea Dewenter dies in a car accident, the lives of her husband Christian, grown-up son Lars, and adolescent daughter Elaine go off the rails. For all three, the few days between Andrea's sudden death and her funeral turn into an emotional roller coaster that eventually shows them the virtue of being a family.

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Poster for Maximum Breakout

1991 · ★ 2.0 (2)

Vacationing lovers Travis and Bobbi encounter an unexpected nightmare on a lonely country road. Two strangers kidnap Bobbi, and brutally beat Travis. Six months later, though Bobbi's family is wealthy, there's no ransom demand, and the police, even Travis's boss, Detective Wyatt, have all but given up. Only Travis, encouraged by Bobbi's best friend Debbie, keeps searching for Bobbi. Travis teams up with Debbie's brother Reb, who assembles a team to rescue Bobbi. Other than Travis and Reb, the team consists of the Professor, a computer nerd who likes to blow things up, Loch, a gun-crazy nut case, and a stuntman named Suicide. Together, they track Bobbi to an isolated ranch where blond, blue-eyed women are forced to bear children who are sold to desperate couples by a man named Frank and his boss, an icy woman with a Southern accent. Now Travis and the team must plan a way to infiltrate the ranch and rescue Bobbi and the other women.

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Poster for Bacon on the Side

2010 · ★ 4.9 (152)

Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.

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Poster for Unobjectified Masturbators

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A group of girls seek out a height with a view. Slightly intoxicated, they snap romanticizing pictures of themselves and the beautiful surroundings. Suddenly, they discover they are not the only ones to “romanticize” the moment.

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Poster for La Jetée: The Fifth Shot

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In Paris, at an exhibition on the French writer, photographer and filmmaker Chris Marker (1921-2012), Jean-Henri Cabrera thinks he sees himself in a specific shot of the short film La Jetée, directed by Marker in 1962.

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Poster for New Beginnings

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Will Alun's new friendship blossom under the cover of a rugby stand? Abbie is already on side, but Ben is proving a more difficult opposition.

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Poster for Attentat

1979 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A very little man attacks two huge feet and fights with all his power against them until his downfall. While dying, he is still convinced that he is the winner. However, the feet continue running like nothing happened.

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2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Right alongside Jerusalem, in a Russian Orthodox Convent in the Mount of Olives, in the middle of the Arab quarter, lives the 82-year-old Estonian nun Mother Ksenya.

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Poster for Igniter

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Li Zizhou, a young revolutionary builds a secret network in northern Shaanxi to spread communist ideals and train future leaders. Despite facing betrayal, arrest, and ultimate sacrifice, his efforts ignite a revolutionary fire that inspires the next generation to continue the fight for justice and freedom.

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Poster for The Alfred Alfer Movie

2016 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Emily Youcis' self-declared "magnum opus", a grotesque, vulgar, experimental animation depicting the mentally disturbed dog Alfred Alfer, who is left to find emotional intimacy in maggot-filled corpses and far-right political forums after being abandoned by his special friend.

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Poster for The Girl With the Golden Hands

2022 · ★ 6.1 (5)

East Germany, in autumn 1999. Gudrun Pfaff is about to turn sixty when she finds out that the orphanage she grew up in is being sold to turn into a hotel, and she is willing to do anything to stop it.

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Poster for The Ghosts Above

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Photographer and filmmaker Renan Ozturk joins an expedition to solve the Mount Everest mystery of who reached the summit first. The film follows the intense expedition and the team's conflicting emotions as they push up Everest searching for the long lost body of Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, who disappeared along with climbing partner George Mallory in their 1924 attempt to reach the summit.

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Poster for Bevel Up

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Bevel Up is an educational film designed to give students and instructors access to the experience of health care practitioners who work with the drug-using population of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Produced by the same street nurses who work with these users on a daily basis, the film contains invaluable knowledge that can't be found in nursing schools and teaching hospitals.

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Poster for Red Maria

2012 · ★ 5.0 (1)

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Poster for Excursiones

2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A group of aliens travel to Earth to issue a warning to humanity.

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1998 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Bionda Salvatore, an 83-year-old farmer's wife from a small village in Abruzzo, had to leave her house and garden and now lives in Switzerland with her daughter-in-law and son. What is her everyday life like in emigration, how does she cope with homesickness and what must real gnocchi taste like?

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Poster for On the Fringe of Wild

2021 · ★ 4.0 (12)

A 2000's Romeo and Juliet in small town Ontario, where love does not win, but surviving players grow up to accept themselves as members of the LGBTQ+ community.

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Poster for Three Poplars on Plyuschikha Street

1968 · ★ 7.2 (38)

A married woman fresh from the countryside meets a charming cab driver on her first day in Moscow. They spend the day together and their fondness for each other grows...

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Poster for There Will Be an Election

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

On April 25, 1975, the first free elections were held in Portugal. The adult population exercised their right to vote democratically for the first time. Around 92% of registered voters went to the polls, a turnout rate that has never been surpassed to this day. Election night was held at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, while the vote count was broadcast live on television. This film revisits the elections through the images produced during that night and the testimonies of those who lived through this historic moment.

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