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Poster for Cut Flowers

1981 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Bill works in a flower shop. Brian comes in to buy something special, and wants it to be something exotic.

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Poster for Mary Goes Round

2018 · ★ 6.3 (29)

When a substance abuse counsellor gets arrested for a DUI and returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls, she learns that her estranged father is dying of cancer and wants her to form a bond with her teenage half-sister that she's never met.

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Poster for You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...

1986 · ★ 5.9 (33)

Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French Cinematheque, presenting a contrast between the famous stairs from the place along with classic film images also revolving around stairs.

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Poster for Present Future

2020 · ★ 6.0 (2)

Anna, a sociology student from a prosperous family, must pass her internship and goes outside to conduct a study, during which it is necessary to find out how modern Russians see their future.

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Poster for Monkey Beach

2020 · ★ 6.6 (8)

A young woman with supernatural abilities reflects on profound events in her life as she awaits news of her brother, who has gone missing at sea under questionable circumstances.

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2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In 1948, a little girl sits smiling on a Parisian carousel – for the first time she experiences a moment of carefree childhood. Her parents are Holocaust survivors; Lily Brett was born just after the end of World War II in a DP camp in Feldafing. The writer Lily Brett artistically explores the trauma she inherited in a remarkable way, marked by gentle humor rather than bitterness or anger. Not as an accuser, but as a bridgebuilder.

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Poster for Lonely Girls

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A woman with falling hair, anxious about her online work, a child unable to leave her room in a power outage, and a yoga buff with body issues, all encounter an unseen terror while alone in their urban middle-class homes during the nationwide quarantine.

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Poster for Tell Me O Kkhuda

2011 · ★ 2.8 (3)

After finding she was adopted as child, a young woman sets out to look for her biological parents.

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Poster for Peter & the Wolf

2006 · ★ 6.7 (104)

Peter is a slight lad, solitary, locked out of the woods by his protective grandfather, his only friend a duck. In town, he's bullied. When a wolf menaces the duck - as well as grandfather's fat cat and an ill-flying bird that Peter has befriended - Peter bravely tries to tree the wolf. Grandfather, the townspeople, and the hunters who have antagonized Peter figure in the dénouement.

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Poster for Attachment Theory

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A woman’s life is upended when a delivery drone develops a deadly fixation on her.

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Poster for Theatrical Romance

2008 · ★ 6.0 (1)

About the performances, backstage life, theater actors and their fans. One group performed every evening. A full hall gathered day after day, and a little sad beetle, who loved the leading actor, was among the many spectators. Can she dare to approach him, handing her bouquet?

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Poster for More Than Robots

2022 · ★ 6.2 (6)

More Than Robots follows four international teams of teenagers as they prepare for the 2020 FIRST Robotics Competition. Get to know competitors from Los Angeles, Mexico City and Chiba, Japan as they work towards the ultimate goal of taking their unique designs all the way to the highly competitive global championships. Along the way they must overcome challenges such as having limited resources or putting everything on hold because of the COVID pandemic. The kids persevere and learn that there is a lot more to the competition than just robots.

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Poster for Who Will Write Our History?

2018 · ★ 7.3 (12)

Documentary about a group of Jews, who collected and hid a lot of stories and documents about everyday jewish life in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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Poster for Would Jesus Wear a Sidearm?

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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2009 · ★ 5.5 (2)

The author Jurga Ivanauskaitė (1961-2007) was considered a pioneer of contemporary Baltic literature well beyond the borders of Lithuania. Her work deals intensively with the tension between religion, sexuality and emancipation. Film documents and interviews serve to reconstruct the life of this independent and willful woman - from her childhood to her artistic breakthrough as a companion of the Lithuanian rock and punk scene, but also depicting her spiritual side, which brought her all the way to India, where she turned to Buddhism. She is shown as fighting for the Dalai Lama and a "free Tibet", shown as a literary mind, but first and foremost she is shown as a woman who stood bravely in the face of inconvenience, pain and inner demons.

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Poster for Strange Case in Western Hunan

2023 · ★ 4.0 (1)

People from Xiangxi have a deep love for their homeland and a tradition of returning to their roots, like fallen leaves. Coupled with the rugged local geography, this gave rise to the profession of "corpse drivers." Long Qiyi and his apprentice Long Ping'an are renowned corpse drivers in the local town. Twenty years ago, Long Qiyi encountered the most dreaded situation for a corpse driver - a dead-end path. Twenty years later, with the appearance of a headless corpse, a series of eerie events began to occur in the town, and surprisingly, these events were connected to what Long Qiyi experienced while driving corpses twenty years ago...

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Poster for Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

2022 · ★ 6.0 (3)

Acclaimed actors draw from five of Douglass’ legendary speeches, to represent a different moment in the tumultuous history of 19th century America as well as a different stage of Douglass’ long and celebrated life, while famed scholars provide context for the speeches, and remind us that Frederick Douglass’ words about racial injustice still resonate deeply today.

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Poster for Hope

2011 · ★ 2.0 (1)

A short film set in Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean divided by war and characterized by people on both sides, both Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot, waiting and hoping for a resolution and some, waiting and hoping for missing loved ones to return. This is the story of one such woman.

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Poster for The Nettle

2017 · ★ 2.7 (3)

Nikola is about to join his girlfriend at her father’s house for a summer holiday, but after wearing makeup for the very first time, he begins a startling and life-changing process of self-discovery.

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Poster for The Grub Stake

1923 · ★ 6.3 (3)

A young woman is lured to the Yukon by a gambler with promises of marriage and a grubstake for a gold mine. She takes her ailing father with her, only to discover when she gets there that the gambler was lying to her and actually planned to sell her to a dance hall. She gathers her father and an old miner she has met, takes a dogsled and supplies from the gambler and the three of them head for the wilderness to look for a lost gold claim the old miner has been looking for.

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