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Poster for The Girls

1968 · ★ 5.9 (31)

As they tour Sweden in a theatrical production of "Lysistrata", performing to often uncomprehending audiences, three women find their own lives and marriages mirrored in Aristophanes’s play. Soon, onstage drama, offstage reality, and surrealist fantasies begin to collide.

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Poster for We Joined the Navy

1963 · ★ 5.6 (9)

Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.

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Poster for Moana

1926 · ★ 6.6 (34)

Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, portraying Samoan village life with a painterly eye. Blending ethnographic detail with a romanticized “Gauguin idyll,” the film celebrates daily rituals, communal traditions, and the passage into adulthood, suffused with what Flaherty called “pride of beauty, pride of strength.”

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Poster for Inbetween Worlds

2014 · ★ 6.4 (24)

Jesper is a soldier in the German army, who reports for a new tour of duty in Afghanistan. His unit is to protect a village from the Taliban.

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1986 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In a seaside village, fishermen have no catch and are starving. The bravest of them, Azmun, sets off to the land of the "sea grandfather" to help him. But the grandfather is angry because the fishermen have long since broken the agreement according to which they were supposed to throw small fish back into the sea. So Azmun is given tasks that he must complete in order to please the sea grandfather. He is helped by a magical fin and a clever girl. And Azmun promises that the fishermen will forever obey the laws of the sea and not just use it.

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2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Chocchan's Story

1996 · ★ 4.5 (2)

In pre-World War II Japan, Chocchan marries a violinist despite the objections of her father. They live in poverty, have three children, and are happy together, able to face all misfortunes with a smile. However, a new obstacle to their happiness appears when the war breaks out and Chocchan's husband must eventually leave for the front...

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— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Centers on tourists trapped inside a New Orleans movie theater, where ravenous soul-sucking ghouls descend upon them for a night of pure, unadulterated horror.

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Poster for Resurrection Slope

2013 · ★ 6.0 (1)

In 'Resurrection Slope' A young boy at the brink of adolescence takes a harrowing journey through a mystical dreamworld, confronting his emerging questions of individuality and gender. Through splintered fantasies of his reckless, fading beauty of a mother and cruel, alcoholic father, he performs a holy ritual that will one day form into a defiantly singular adult persona.

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Poster for Hide and Seek

1996 · ★ 6.0 (9)

Mixes documentary interviews of memories of lesbian adolescence with the story of the 12-year-old girl Lou discovering her sexuality in 1960s America.

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Poster for The Fortress

1994 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Set in the late 80s in a quiet, rural village headed by a suspicious, conspiring group of nasty leaders. Ewald has arrived there to measure water levels. Surrounding the fortress near the village are soldiers.

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Poster for Paint It Black

2016 · ★ 5.8 (26)

A young woman attempts to deal with the death of her boyfriend while continuously confronted by his mentally unstable mother.

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Poster for Love, Cecil

2017 · ★ 6.4 (12)

A documentary about Academy Award-winning costume designer Cecil Beaton. A respected photographer, artist, and set designer, Beaton was best known for designing on award-winning films such as 'Gigi' (1958) and 'My Fair Lady' (1964). The film features archive footage and interviews with a number of models, artists, and filmmakers who worked closely with Beaton during his illustrious career.

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2012 · ★ 8.0 (2)

A man returns home after a prolonged absence and makes a shocking discovery, compelling him to reexamine his past and reconcile with the present.

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Poster for Proxy

2020 · ★ 2.7 (3)

In a world where people hire 'Proxys'-humans trained in the fine art of 'standing in' for a lost loved one, a family member that has passed, a husband or wife that left, or an estranged daughter or son-Victoria (Emma Booth) tries to navigate the life of being one of the highest in demand proxies in the city while at the same time struggling with her own demons. But it's a delicate state that is the human condition which leaves her with her own deficiencies-those she cannot seem to fill.

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Poster for Neighbors

2019 · ★ 4.5 (1)

The 43rd edition screens Neighbors, with five segments about the theme “neighbors”: not only about physical proximity, but also about relationships. In Brazil, Olga is a 90-year-old black woman who lost her husband one year ago; her neighbors, who come from different parts of the world, interrupt her grief. In Russia, an employee tries so hard to please his boss that he becomes inconvenient. An Indian woman, with the help of her male friend, decides to learn how to drive, an uncommon practice for women in the country. In China, an elderly, owner of an old and decadent barbershop, argues with his son, who wants to change the business. In South Africa, a group of homeless fights for the right to housing.

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Poster for You Will Be Fine

2017 · ★ 5.7 (3)

Give it time. You'll get over it. Jean celebrates his birthday, gets drunk and recalls the dreadful weekend that led to his break-up with Mathilde.

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Poster for Aquamarine

2006 · ★ 6.5 (1555)

Two teenage girls discover that mermaids really do exist after a violent storm washes one ashore. The mermaid, a sassy creature named Aquamarine, is determined to prove to her father that real love exists, and enlists the girls' help in winning the heart of a handsome lifeguard.

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After Man loses his job, he begins to fall into a dark mental spiral. When Woman comes home to find Man strangely vacant, she tries to convince him to join her and their friends at the beach.

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Poster for Soft

2020 · ★ 4.0 (5)

Sam - 16, queer, and falling in love - struggles to untangle himself from his abusive martial arts coach.

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