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Poster for Esther Newton Made Me Gay

2022 · ★ 1.0 (2)

Esther Newton was drawn to the drag scene as a student in the 1950s. Identifying as both butch lesbian and between genders, she felt a kinship with the queens; what the feminine clothing society expected her to wear felt like a form of drag. Her 1972 book ‘Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America’ is noted as the first rigorous study of its kind. Now entering her sixth decade writing about queer communities, Newton exudes wisdom and a healthy dose of New York no-nonsense. The film’s amazing archive footage encompasses gay liberation, the feminist sex wars, AIDS activism and life on the safe haven of Fire Island. Her other main passion is dog training, so this illuminating history lesson is peppered with poodles!

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Poster for Sell/Buy/Date

2022 · ★ 8.0 (2)

A hybrid doc/narrative following Tony winning performer and comedian Sarah Jones. As a mixed-race Black woman in America, Sarah, alongside the multicultural characters she's known for, explores her own personal relationship to one of the most relevant issues in our current cultural climate: the sex industry, and the surprisingly diverse range of people whose lives it touches. Through interviews and monologues, this film poses the question: how can we as a society have a healthy relationship to sex, power, race and our economy, without exploitation or stigma? The goal is not to prescribe solutions, but to highlight the human faces and voices at the center of this subject.

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Poster for Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol

2021 · ★ 6.4 (7)

As part of a six-month investigation, The Times synchronized and mapped thousands of videos and police audio of the U.S. Capitol riot to provide the most complete picture to date of what happened - and why.

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2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The story of a love affair. Based on a poem by Edward Lear about the antipodes.

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Poster for The Universe of Keith Haring

2008 · ★ 6.6 (9)

A portrait of New York artist Keith Haring. The film looks to Haring as an artistic role model for his preternatural talent, of course, but also for his infectious lust for life that had him as committed to social activism and teaching children as to his latest painting.

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2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A girl and a man lead each other by the nose without saying a word.

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Poster for Krishnopokkho

2016 · ★ 6.5 (4)

Muhib lost his parents at a early age and brought up by his sister. After the marriage of his sister Jeba, he comes along with his sister in his brother-in-law's house. He grows up with strict rules by his brother-in-law. But for the sake of his sister's happiness, he bears all of this. Muhib is in a deep relationship with Oru. They married each other in a court with the presence of his friends. But they cannot stay together as Muhib has to leave the town for his job. Muhib dreams for a new life with Oru but a mishap changes everything.

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2007 · ★ 5.7 (3)

Using interviews with people about their first experiences with love, this short film uses animal counterparts to tell their tales of humor and heartache.

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Poster for Edge of Summer

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A summer holiday and an old folk tale bring two 11-year-olds together as they set out to explore just what, or who, is calling to them, from deep within an abandoned tin mine.

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Poster for A Party to Die For

2022 · ★ 6.2 (8)

When an after party goes wrong, new friends Sadie and Jessica must hide a dead body. Jessica has a dirty secret to hold over Sadie. The police piece together clues that lead to Sadie, putting people in Sadie's life in danger.

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Poster for Quarantaines

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Quarantines" is a collective film made at the time of the first confinement of 2020. Ten international directors, ten perspectives that intersect in the same period, with their authentic and more atypical universes than each other. A work that unites in isolation and expresses the impalpable. This film is a challenge, a bet: that of creation which persists despite everything within the constraints of the health crisis.

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Poster for SEASONS OF WOMAN

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Widow's Walk

2019 · ★ 4.2 (6)

Eve's husband has been killed in Afghanistan. She takes her young son to a Suffolk beach house on the edge of the North Sea to grieve. But someone else is in the house grieving her loss from another war.

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Poster for Alexandr Zbruev. My Parents

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The documentary focuses on the parents of the famous actor Alexandr Zbruev: Tatyana Alexandrovna and Viktor Alexeevich. The story of their meeting, their love and the tragic events of the year 1937 that destroyed their family, is told by their son, Alexandr Zbruev. A few months after the birth of Alexandr, Viktor Alexeevich Zbruev, was shot, and his mother, of noble ancestry, was sent into exile with her infant.

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Poster for A Choice of Coward: Design for Living

1964 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A comedy concerning a trio of artistic characters, Gilda, Otto and Leo, and their complicated three-way relationship (Episode of A Choice of Coward).

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Poster for Ulysse

1986 · ★ 6.8 (28)

At the sea shore, a goat, a child, and a naked man. This is a photograph taken in 1954 by Agnès Varda. The goat was dead, the child was named Ulysses, and the man was naked. Starting from this frozen image, the film explores the real and the imaginary.

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Poster for Jabbed: Love, Fear and Vaccines

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Diseases that were largely eradicated forty years ago are returning. Across the world children are dying from preventable conditions, because nervous parents are skipping their children's vaccinations. Yet the stories of vaccine injury are frightening, with rare cases of people being seriously hurt by vaccines. This documentary looks at the growing trend of vaccine hesitancy around the world, exploring the reasons for complacency and concerns, and highlighting the impact of delaying or refusing immunisation.

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Poster for Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant

1988 · ★ 7.8 (3)

A compilation of ten music videos produced by Talking Heads during the 1980s. The videos are linked by apparently real people (not actors) telling stories from their lives.

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Poster for The Lottery

2010 · ★ 5.8 (6)

Four children enter a high-stakes lottery. If they win, they can attend one of the best schools in New York. A look at the crisis in public education, The Lottery makes the case than any child can succeed.

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2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Furry is a subculture that unites people interested in anthropomorphic animals in the visual arts, animation, literature, and cinema. Participants strive to embody their chosen animal in creative or literal ways.

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