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Poster for Cake

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This documentary is about courage and survival and having the will and perseverance to succeed despite considerable obstacles. The story of Mitchell Pham's remarkable journey is told through the evocative use of stop-frame animation, created from a Vietnamese traditional folded paper craft, mixed with live action to show an innovative account of his harrowing but ultimately inspirational journey from Vietnamese prison camp, to a life in New Zealand after the Vietnam war.

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Poster for The One-Minute Memoir

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When Academy Award®–winning animator and painter Joan Gratz asked eleven filmmakers if they would contribute to an omnibus film, she wasn’t sure what to expect—after prompting them to make a “one-minute memoir,” she let them figure out the rest. The One-Minute Memoir is the exuberant result: eleven stories ranging from the heartfelt to the absurd, all reflective of each director’s personal style.

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Poster for Global Family

2018 · ★ 5.7 (3)

Yasmin has lived an almost normal life as a German ever since she was three years old. The family fled from Somalia during the civil war and now lives scattered around the globe. When Yasmin's grandmother no longer wants to stay in her Ethiopian exile, a transnational family drama evolves, circling around the essential question: Where is Granny to live? And suddenly, the family confronts their own aspirations: Have they actually arrived where they want to be? GLOBAL FAMILY is a twistful documentary about a transnational family drama, in which four generations of a refugee family each pursue their own dreams of family, home, and future.

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Poster for Prisoner of the Old Manor

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for One on One

1978 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After years of ignoring the shy cousin whom she and her peers taunted mercilessly as a child, a middle-aged woman (Ingrid Thulin) wrenches the poor man (Erland Josephson) out of his self-chosen solitude to accompany her on a trip. Despite developments which deepen their knowledge of one another, the communication between them does not portend long-lasting intimacy.

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Poster for Wish Us Luck

2013 · ★ 7.0 (1)

A one-month-journey of twin sisters from London back to their home, Bangkok, by train. They traveled via the famous trans-Siberian route through many countries such as Germany, Russia, Mongolia and China, with many stories to tell.

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Poster for Nick Swardson: Seriously, Who Farted?

2009 · ★ 6.4 (19)

Nick started stand up at the age of 18. In his first year of stand up he was chosen to perform at the U.S. Comedy Arts festival. In 2000, he hit a milestone in his career when he taped his Comedy Central half-hour special at the age of 22 (the youngest to do so). More recently, Nick wrote and starred in the Happy Madison-produced films Grandma's Boy and Benchwarmers.

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Poster for Shisshin OL: Fujin kakenshin 2

1993 · ★ 3.7 (3)

Whenever an office lady faints due to sex, she always has an image of the man she will sleep with next, and experiences déjà vu...

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Poster for Killing for Extra Credit

2024 · ★ 5.4 (4)

When a mysterious social media account begins to post blind items about the scandals of a small town high school, a troubled teen and her best friend set out to unmask the culprit – with deadly consequences…

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Poster for Næste sommer, måske!

1988 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Hans and Beate are a happy couple. They have two cute children and are well off financially. Furthermore, Hans is on his way up another rung on the career ladder. Everything looks good. There is only one small but; Hans has a male lover - and suddenly tragedy strikes, AIDS.

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Poster for The True History of the Musketeers

2023 · ★ 8.5 (2)

The Three Musketeers is a legendary work, whose heroes have rocked multiple generations. These fictional musketeers have eclipsed the real musketeers, those who formed the royal company that existed between 1622 and 1775. Who were these men, and how did they serve the King? Did they really take part in the affairs of the Crown? Did Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan really exist? Thanks to the best historians, discover the true story of the Musketeers.

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Poster for Cardi B: The Hustle

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Cardi B is one of the most famous artists of the last decade. Despite being a "regula degula schmegula" girl from the Bronx, she became one of the most influential female artists of all time. She knew if she wanted to reach her dreams, she would have to work - Hard. On the streets, there's a fine line between wrong and right, good and bad. Her journey to the top, although successful, isn't seen as ideal. But she isn't ashamed of it. She started from the bottom and hustled her way to the top. She stays true to her roots and celebrates these factors in her music today. Best-loved for her wild personality, individual sound and passion for current affairs. She is unapologetically herself and is celebrated by her fans as keeping it real on and off stage.

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Poster for Suga Babies

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Follow a gang of femme fatales in the dangerous world of drugs and money in this urban tale of power and wealth.

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Poster for Arena

1979 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Stark black and white photographs of faces airbrushed with color.

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Poster for Who Believes in Storks?

1971 · ★ 3.0 (4)

A teenager starts to rebel against his parents in increasingly radical ways after being forbidden from going out with his girlfriend.

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1989 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Co-produced by Womenlink and the Feminist Film Collective Parituh, Even Little Grass Has Its Own Name was shot on 16mm film and was the first of its kind in Korea to address the issue of female office workers. The film is divided into two parts. Part 1 is about the conflicts of married female office workers who suffer from undertaking office work, housework, and childcare all at the same time. Part 2 focuses on single female workers who break away from being the traditional ‘flower of the company,’ and develop a greater sense of autonomy as they actively participate in forming a labor union.

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Poster for Room in Between

2005 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A contemporary depiction of the "big city" based on black and white images in slow motion.

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Poster for La mélancolie des télésièges

2015 · ★ 1.0 (1)

Josephine is persuaded to get a very rare and particular syndrom called the "Ski Intructor Syndrom". She thinks she contracted this desease at the age of 8 when she went with her family on a ski trip. Now the unhappiness and the love disorders she is experiencing are the results of this syndrom. With her friend Kinga, they decide to go to a ski resort and find how to cure this syndrom. This film is about their journey within the childhood dreams and a world of ski instructors.

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Poster for Inka 1946

2007 · ★ 8.0 (2)

Theatrical Inka - Danuta Siedzikówna - survived the death of her mother, who was murdered by the Gestapo in Bialystok in 1943. Her father died in Tehran after leaving a Soviet gulag. The orphaned sisters, Inka and her siblings, were raised by their grandmother. The heroine was an AK nurse. She was sentenced to death for joining the unit of Major Szendzielarz alias Łupaszko, which was subordinate to the legal authorities of the Republic of Poland in exile. The judges relied on false testimony from militiamen, which, by the way, did not fully incriminate her. In a secret message to her grandmother, Siedzikówna wrote: "Tell my grandmother that I behaved as I should."

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Poster for A Christmas Carol

2000 · ★ 6.5 (11)

Loan shark Eddie Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

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