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Poster for Delayed Happiness Syndrome

2022 · ★ 6.0 (1)

40-year-old provincial Natalya Nikitina has been living in St. Petersburg for the seventh year. She works as a nurse for ailing old people and endures their countless quirks and humiliations. Once in her life, a new friend appears - a masseuse named Love, who plunges Natalia into the abyss of bright and risky adventures in search of love and happiness.

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Poster for The Siamese Bond

2021 · ★ 7.3 (8)

Estela and her mother Clota must travel from Junín, where they live, to the town of Costa Bonita, in Necochea, to see some apartments that Estela's father has inherited from her.

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2010 · ★ 6.0 (1)

In a dark tattoo parlour over one tumultuous afternoon, a group of schoolgirls flirt with boys and danger and are shocked by what they discover.

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Poster for Follow Your Heart

1996 · ★ 6.1 (37)

The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly family matriarch. Marta, her granddaughter returns from the US to attend the funeral and once in Olga's villa in Trieste, begins reading her grandmother's diary. Olga's story unfolds via flashback. As a young woman, Oldga had to marry Antonio a man she didn't love. Later she became passionately involved with a handsome doctor at the local spa. He impregnates her and shortly thereafter dies in a terrible car wreck. The result of their love is Illaria, who grows up to be terribly neurotic. She bears Marta and then she too dies in an automobile accident, leaving Marta to be raised by Olga.

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Poster for The Bad Guardian

2024 · ★ 7.6 (5)

A woman tries to save her father from a corrupt and greedy court-appointed guardian.

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Poster for The Janes

2022 · ★ 5.6 (42)

Defying the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the Chicago Mob that was profiting from it, the members of “Jane” risked their personal and professional lives to support women with unwanted pregnancies. In the pre-Roe v. Wade era — a time when abortion was a crime in most states and even circulating information about abortion was a felony in Illinois — the Janes provided low-cost and free abortions to an estimated 11,000 women.

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Poster for Autour de Brazzaville

1943 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"The crime of the cease fire was to capitulate as if France had no empire" - Charles De Gaulle

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Poster for Smetak

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Zebra

2013 · ★ 10.0 (1)

There once was a happy zebra. One day, however, she ran into a tree and her stripes changed. She then tries to fix it, but the more she tries, the more diverse the shapes are that appear on her. In the end, the unhappy zebra discovers that, because of her uniqueness, she'll be a successful star to the others.

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Poster for Metal and Melancholy

1994 · ★ 7.3 (7)

This documentary is an offbeat "road movie" in which acclaimed documentarian Heddy Honigmann travels with, and thereby discovers the stories of, taxi drivers in Lima. In the early 1990s, in response to Peru's inflationary economy and a government destabilized by corruption and Shining Path terrorism, many middle-class professionals used their own cars to moonlight as taxi drivers in order to weather the financial crisis.

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Poster for The Toll

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Set in the 1930s, two siblings use their imaginations as a coping mechanism to come to terms with their mother's mysterious disappearance.

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Poster for Hole: Miss World

1994 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Hole performs in the short film "Miss World" from the album "Live Through This." The short begins with Courtney Love singing as she is putting powder and lipstick on. The band performs on stage as Love accepts a crown and flowers.

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When Helen finds out about her husband Jörg's affair with her younger coworker, she is faced with the shambles of her previous life. At first, she tries everything she can to hold on to their relationship, because the desire for freedom would come at too high a price. Only when Helen becomes downright invisible does she realize that she has to let go of old role models.

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Poster for Circles

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young woman is stalked by an unseen anxiety after getting off on the wrong floor.

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Poster for Ñam

2014 · ★ 5.0 (2)

Fruits are one of the good things in life. This film is dedicated to their tanginess and sweetness, a jumpy animation of fruits dancing to the rhythm of the song “El mango” by the Venezuelan singer Jesús Sevillano.

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Poster for Edgar Morin, un penseur à Paris

2019 · ★ 4.5 (2)

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Poster for I Am Evidence

2017 · ★ 6.4 (24)

The modern criminal justice system is hindered by the fact that countless rape kits remain untested in police evidence storage facilities across the United States. Only eight states currently have laws requiring mandatory testing of rape kits.

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Poster for Too Close

2017 · ★ 2.0 (2)

Caro lives happily with her 18-year-old son Ben. Her ex-husband Manni moved out a long time ago and has a new family. Ben is now at an age where he is very bored of the occasional sailing trips and visits to relatives with his mother. But there is a lot to try out: late nights, clubs, girls and drugs. Caro has to experience how Ben tells her less and less and needs her less and less. When she sees surveillance footage of a robbery at a petrol station, where she was with her son shortly before, her protective instinct is awakened.

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Poster for Des frères et des sœurs

2014 · ★ 7.0 (3)

Three siblings gather to celebrate the birthday of their father, on the island of Ré. This is Adele, the elder of the two sisters, who had the idea to organize this surprise. Alice and Antoine adhere immediately. Arnaud, the eldest, is sidelined because of his bad temper. But then they make their way to the family home, an incident occurs. A black cat crossing the road when the father arrived by motorcycle. It is the accident.

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Poster for Where Is Winky's Horse?

2007 · ★ 6.7 (15)

In the sequel to "Winky's Horse", 8-year old Winky looks after the horse of St Nicholas. Then one day the horse runs away.

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