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Poster for The 100 Years Show

2015 · ★ 7.4 (9)

Carmen Herrera is one of the oldest working artists today. She was a pioneering abstract painter in the '40s and '50s, but only recently found the recognition that eluded her for most of her career, as she approaches her 100th birthday.

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Poster for Amok

1999 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Entertaining movie about the early days of Polish stock exchange in the beginning of 80's. Young TV reporter is sucked into the inferno of easy money, deception, crime, sex and drugs. Sometimes like Kieslowski's moral tales, sometimes like Pasikowski's brutal fables, even sometimes like "Once upon a time in America". Fantastic creations of Baka as Maks and Majchrzak as Rekin /the Shark/ - evil incarnated.

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Poster for The Young Mistress of Niskavuori

1979 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The most famous work of the remarkable classic of Finnish literature Hella Wuolijoki is the saga of the Niskavuori family, consisting of five plays. The first of them, *"The Young Mistress of Niskavuori"*, which reflects the Finnish national character, tells the story of love, changes in life, disappointments, and views on morality through the eyes of straightforward, stubborn people from the countryside who must adapt to new circumstances. The action takes place in 1880.

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2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Pasha has just come back from the army. Misha is evading mobilization. akin in their loneliness they have no luck meeting each other.

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Poster for Fanatic

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In a realm of love, longing, and lies, Raina, an isolated and unattractive woman harboring a secret infatuation, becomes enamored with the devilishly handsome Sterling Robinson. However, as their connection deepens, she discovers his perilous, dark secret, thrusting her into a dangerous situation that jeopardizes her very existence.

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1974 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The film provides a historical overview of the history of the Palestinians between 1948-1974 and shows the living conditions of Palestinians in territories occupied by Israel since 1967.

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Poster for San Francisco 2.0

2015 · ★ 6.6 (14)

San Francisco has long enjoyed a reputation as the counterculture capital of America, attracting bohemians, mavericks, progressives and activists. With the onset of the digital gold rush, young members of the tech elite are flocking to the West Coast to make their fortunes, and this new wealth is forcing San Francisco to reinvent itself. But as tech innovations lead America into the golden age of digital supremacy, is it changing the heart and soul of their adopted city?

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Poster for Floating Life

1996 · ★ 6.1 (7)

An aging Hong Kong couple move to Australia with their two youngest sons. They stay with a daughter who has already begun a successful career. Meanwhile their eldest daughter lives in Germany and their eldest son remains in Hong Kong. The film explores the different ways the family members cope with isolation and alienation.

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Poster for Too Early / Too Late

1982 · ★ 6.5 (30)

Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime, Straub-Huillet filmed this film in France and Egypt during 1980. They reflect on Egypt’s history of peasant struggle and liberation from Western colonization, and link it to class tensions in France shortly before the Revolution of 1789, quoting texts by Engels as well as the pioneering nonfiction film Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895).

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Poster for Return to Sender

2024 · ★ 6.8 (4)

When a weathered old envelope appears in the mailbox of Meg's new apartment marked Return to Sender, she joins the building manager Ollie along with podcaster Ellen and partner Pete to find out who sent this mysterious love letter.

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Poster for A Love Story

2022 · ★ 10.0 (3)

He loves her more than anything in the world... ummm... their love??? transcends universes. Something about how he needed her to like him. yeah

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Single father and overprotective of a teenager, Geraldo loses the ability to feel when an iron beam passes through his skull, in a work accident. Fearing that he would lose his affection for his daughter, he sets off on a motorcycle trip from São Paulo to Rio Grande do Sul, with the intention of leaving the girl in the care of his ex-wife. Along the way, Geraldo reveals himself to be a violent man as a result of the accident. The girl tries to regain her father's love, but he ends up being guided more and more solely by his paternal sense of responsibility. And what's worse: even this tenuous thread that still connects father and daughter runs the risk of breaking at any moment.‍

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Poster for Chikan densha: Kaiijiri

1996 · ★ 2.0 (2)

Bank employee Ando witnesses Miki being groped on the train. He then becomes an obsessed stalker...

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2011 · ★ 5.0 (1)

A multimedia documentary project consisting of a series of fresh, colourful insider point-of-view short stories on the present-day life of young people, linked by animated episodes and directed by 15 young and talented filmmakers from the 15 republics formerly annexed by the USSR.

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Poster for Song of the Siren

1997 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A plain woman with a beautiful voice is trapped in a difficult life caring for her cranky elderly father.

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2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The 19-year-old Krzysztof is a frequent gym-goer. He gets a job in a safeguarding company, which takes him to a Opera Music Festival. When the protagonist hears an aria for the first time in his life, his distance related to the world of classical music diminishes. Moved by the art so far unknown, he decides to take up singing lessons. Opera changes not only his preferences but also lifestyle.

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Poster for Raped On The Beach

1971 · ★ 4.7 (10)

A young girl witnesses a violent and ultimately fatal act between her mother and another man and it emotionally scars her for years to come. As a young woman, she takes a vacation with a more worldly girlfriend to Sardinia, and in doing so, attracts the attention of a young man in the village. Despite her interest in the man her haunted past prevents her from developing a normal relationship with him.

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Poster for It Runs in the Family

2022 · ★ 5.0 (1)

A revelation about Oscar Torres, her unknown and once world-famous queer filmmaker cousin, sends Victoria down a path of self-discovery through reconstructions of his intimate memories living in the 1950's authoritarian Caribbean, as Victoria leads re-enactments of his unproduced screenplays with the family who erased him.

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Poster for Commuters

1970 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An early morning in a quiet suburban railroad station, where middle class men depart for jobs in the city and female domestics arrive to work in the middle class suburban homes.

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Poster for J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius

2019 · ★ 5.6 (7)

What started out as an inside joke amongst two self proclaimed weirdos in Ft. Worth, Texas soon becomes much more than they bargained for. Frustrated by the rising consumer-driven culture, out-of-work pals Douglass St. Clair Smith and Steve Wilcox decide to turn their conservative southern ideology on its head and invent a new religion all their own. Spurred on by the overreach of religion and zealous televangelists of the day, the pair concoct religious monikers (Reverend Ivan Stang and Dr. Philo Drummond), a newly minted prophet (J.R. "Bob" Dobbs), and devise a crusade to expose the conspiracy of normalcy by using humor as the ultimate weapon.

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