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Poster for Benjamim

2003 · ★ 4.6 (9)

Benjamim Zambraia is a lonely man, a famous model with a tragic past. Some time in the past, he showed some officers the exact location where the woman he loved was hiding with her guerilla lover. As a result, the two were killed. One day, he casually meets a woman who looks very much like his former love, and this fact changes his life. Could she be the daughter of his great love? Or her reincarnation?

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Poster for The Hour Before the Rendez-vous

1965 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A comic mini-opera for adults about the misfortunes of a unhappy lover who finds himself at a service center where he wants to iron his trousers. Naturally, he is deprived of both his suit and his hope to be on time for his date.

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Poster for The Culminating Point

2025 · ★ 10.0 (2)

After months of silence and utter desolation, two women reunite in a hotel room to face the demise of their forbidden love affair. The suspicions and pressures coming from their inner circles have forced them into an atmosphere charged with silenced emotions and shattered dreams. Having reached a crossroads, the two are forced to confront each other and come to terms with their reality.

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Poster for Bad Timing

1982 · ★ 0.0 (1)

Nancy Savoca’s second student film follows two twelve-year olds, Bobby (Joey D’Arelli) and Denise (Kelly Cinnante) who run away to Hollywood. They land at an open mic night in a New Jersey bar where Bobby’s aunt and uncle (once aspiring actors) lay out the realities of life as a working actor. The film was inspired by performers Savoca met while making her first student film, most notably William DaPrato. Filled with wry humor and quiet revelations about the pursuit of artistic dreams, Bad Timing also features Marianne Leone and the on-screen debut of future Academy Award winner Chris Cooper.

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Poster for Culture Catcher

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When Jeff, one of Arby’s four part-time managers and unfamous host of East Anglia Broadcasting Company's Culture Catcher, heard that the most popular show ever held at the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery Los Angeles was due to close in two days time, he assembled his finest audio/visual crew and arrived at the scene with a one day and 18 hours spare. Truly a connoisseur of the arts; Jeff assesses every aspect of 'Natalie Cohen’s' first major US solo art show and takes it in real deep. He paces every room of the iconic gallery and leaves no corner unturned in his search for the meaning of (her) art.

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Poster for Sunday's Child

2021 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Esi is a 25 year old, queer, biracial woman. Growing up in a conservative town in Missouri with immigrant parents, her sexuality and desire to be a photographer have become laced with shame and guilt. Six months after moving to LA, we find Esi isolated and disconnected from world around her. After another day of feeling invisible as a PA, Esi stumbles upon a vivid house party of QTPOC (queer and trans people of color). For the first time in her life, Esi is welcomed into a community where she can let down her walls, let go of societal and family pressures and begin to embrace her true self.

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Poster for Dombey & Son

1974 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.

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Poster for Love Is a Story

2015 · ★ 7.0 (11)

Near by Christmas, in an old and charming town in Transylvania, Sebastian and Aprilia start a beautiful love story. However, nothing is as simple as it would seem. Being influenced by three men with strong personalities, Aprilia needs to find the balance between adulthood and the choices of a young girl's heart. It's Christmas time and life holds for this talented beautiful girl only the presents that she is strong enough to grab.

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1999 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A rose is a rose by any other name would be, well, something different, particularly if the rose was a woman. This tape is a witty and thoughtful exploration of naming and the importance of names in knowing who you are and where you come from, particularly in a world where you meet so many people but get to know so few. Christine Stewart s teasing voiceover and sly visuals slip between the pages of the phone book to provide a cunning directory to the loss of women's names, the anonymity that makes them feel safe and the eclipse of their identity in shedding their maiden names. Rich colours, great found footage and insightful musing open up traces of history in the story behind Jane Doe.

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1975 · ★ 1.0 (2)

A large company offers consumers to acquire a "second identity", having the character traits that individuals would not normally adopt. Because of all these uninhibited behaviors, anarchy is quick to take hold.

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2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Seventeen-year-old Sara is hiding a secret on a school trip. When the trip spirals out of control and Sara witnesses a classmate’s sexual assault, she and the girl seal a bond that will last forever.

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Poster for The Zykovs

1970 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The play “Zykovs” was written in 1912, during a time of confusion and depression in Russian society, a period of pre-war spiritual and moral decline. The state of the world is depicted here with a single phrase: “there was confusion of concepts”... The film-performance based on the eponymous play by M. Gorky, directed by the Moscow Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin.

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Poster for La camera di consiglio

2025 · ★ 6.0 (3)

It's 1987, the final act of the Maxi Trial in Palermo, the largest criminal trial in Italian history. On this occasion, eight jurors, four women and four men, are locked in a deliberation chamber for thirty-six days. Their task is to determine the convictions or acquittals of 470 defendants accused of mafia crimes.

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Poster for Brother

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After family chaos from his brother's death, Xuan tries to hold things together. Months later, while his parents visit the Spirit Bone Tower, Xuan sits alone in the car, quietly staring out the window, lost in his own world.

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Poster for Help Me To Forgive

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A short film about the the story of a young woman,Desiree, reflecting on the betrayal of her significant other and her struggle through forgiveness, healing, and restoration in their relationship.

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Poster for Perfect kiss: Nurashite playback

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Sayuri, who aspires to become a teacher, is forced to kiss a student while working as a private tutor, which is viewed as a problem by the student's mother. Through no fault of his own, he was lectured by his girlfriend's biological mother, who is a university professor, and was forbidden from becoming a teacher, so he took a job as a clerk at the office run by her mother. As a result, she spent most of her days with her mother, such as going to lunch or shopping, and she was given a fiancé arranged by her mother, leading to her living the life of an extremely boxed daughter. Still, he felt rebellious, and with the help of his cousin Rumi, he finally found an environment where he could live on his own.

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Poster for For the Love of God

2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Kévin-Mohamed is a young high school student from an integrated and secular family. He befriends a girl from a strict religious family and falls in love with her

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Poster for The Seagull

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Late 19th century Russia, the countryside. The young playwright Treplyov is in love with Nina. This is a tale about many complicated loves and lives. Takarazuka Star Troupe 2014 adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.

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Poster for The Girls of 1960

2023 · ★ 8.0 (1)

This is an intimate and personal story about women who were supposed to be the children of complete and total socialism, about the environment they grew up in, their youth and their life now. Teacher Lapaine’s class reunion happens every year on March 21. This year is no different. Just like 25 years ago, when director Una Celma first documented her classmates in a film under the same title. The traditional table is set with beverages, cakes and candy, and the yearly photo taken. Nowadays, they are mothers, aunts and grandmothers. Their fates have changed, but what about themselves?

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Poster for On Different Sides

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Rallies in Moscow. At Ivan’s door the bell is rung by a scared stranger who asks “to sit it out for a while”, explaining that she went by a rally and “accidentally” got her share. Vanya lets her in. But at the door an OMON officer turns up, who is looking for the most active protesters. Vanya opens: he has nothing to hide, especially since he hates these “morons shouting outside his window”. To get away, the beauty plays a whole performance before the OMON, involving Vanya; it becomes clear that she is not what she pretended to be.

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