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Poster for Purplemind

2021 · ★ 7.0 (3)

Sally aka Purplemind, a telepath who once founded a superhero collective, now lives in a retirement home. Interviewed by a journalist who wants to write her biography, Purplemind looks back on her past. The traumatic discovery of her powers in the 90s, the creation of a group of heroes, their fame and then their decline after the death of one of them.

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Poster for Airy Me

2013 · ★ 4.0 (2)

After injection of medication, the test subject girl turned into Chimera when her switch of nose got pressed. What kind of sight can be seen when no longer a human being keeps humane needs or wants? Is the creature moved by memories, admiration, love, or hates? Who saw the world of this fragmentary story that swinging camera works tell?

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1978 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The fifth episode of Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “ICAC” Series (1978) around bribery and corruption

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Poster for Stripped Down

2006 · ★ 1.0 (1)

A surreal dark comedy where revenge becomes redemptive.

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Poster for Xenoi

2016 · ★ 8.0 (1)

The Greek island of Syros is visited by a series of unexpected guests. Immutable forms, outside of time, aloof observants to human conditions.

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Poster for Sanda

1990 · ★ 6.3 (3)

Sanda spends all her time working in a plastic factory, raising her two small children and catering to an indifferent husband, leaving little room for herself. A chance encounter with another man may offer her an escape from her daily chores.

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Poster for Beacon

2024 · ★ 6.5 (39)

After an ambitious solo trip leaves her shipwrecked on a remote island, a young sailor is rescued by its lone inhabitant: a lighthouse keeper. As the walls of reality begin to vanish and the trust between them unravels, survival becomes a test of grueling proportions.

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Poster for Sonntagsvierer

2010 · ★ 6.8 (3)

Emil, Bruno, Fritz and Dieter-Thomas are four fit pensioners and old friends. They want to refresh their friendship with a cozy golf weekend in the mountains. Having just arrived at the hotel, Emil confronts his friends with serious news: he is terminally ill and has decided to put an end to his life with a deadly pill here and now with his friends. Now he asks the men for nothing less than to support him. The responses to this request could not be more different.

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2005 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Co/Ma

2004 · ★ 2.0 (1)

19 filmmakers from ten european countries selected by Mike Figgis for a Masterclass by the European Film Academy come to Slovenia in a challenging mission: to conceive, shoot, complete a 90m feature film in seven days and screen it on the day after in a cinema for the public.

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Poster for Boulevard

1994 · ★ 4.3 (19)

A street prostitute takes in an abused young woman on the run from her misogynist boyfriend, leading to both facing off against the prostitute's dreaded pimp and a relentless police detective out to arrest all of them.

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Poster for Isla

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A busy daughter buys her lonely dad a smart speaker, but in this dark and sometimes troubling comedy, nothing goes as planned.

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Poster for Agua

2006 · ★ 5.0 (4)

Thirty four year old Goyo, a former open water swimming champion, has been hiding out in the desert. Wrongly accused of doping in the Santa Fe-Coronda Marathon, a 57 kilometer river swim, he has abandoned his career and his dreams. Eight years later, Goyo returns to Santa Fe where the marathon will be held again to try to re-gain his title and clear his name. However, long buried emotions come back to haunt him. He meets Chino, a stubborn and disciplined pool swimmer, who tries hard to be selected for the national team, but fails. Identifying with Chino, Goyo asks him to be his guide on the boat that follows him during the marathon.

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1971 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Aljubarrota

2008 · ★ 7.5 (2)

A commission from CIBA - Battle of Aljubarrota Interpretation Center, from the Batalha de Aljubarrota Foundation.

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2003 · ★ 5.0 (1)

A woman wants to clear her father's name. He supposedly murdered a shady night club owner. She starts looking for clues about the real perpetrator, but finds more than she bargained for.

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Poster for Joy of Madness

2004 · ★ 6.0 (6)

Documentary showing the backstage of production of Samira Makhmalbaf's film Panj É Asr(At Five in the Afternoon), in Kabul, after the fall of the Taliban regime. Everything was recorded with a small digital camera by Samira's 14-year-old sister Hana.

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Poster for A Bird of the Air

2011 · ★ 6.6 (29)

A man in search of his past, and a woman who lives in the moment, are brought together when they pursue the origins of a stray parrot in this comedic and romantic drama.

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2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

China and animal love - it is an unlikely association in a country where almost everything that crawls, walks or flies disappears into the pot. Yet there are also avid dog lovers in Hong Kong and filmmaker Chen Angie sought them out. She spoke to the founder of a dog shelter, a homeless man who considers his dog his only companion and other eccentric dog crazy people who all call for more respect for the four-legged friend.

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Poster for Me and Me Dad

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An intimate portrait about the iconic filmmaker John Boorman directed by his daughter Katrine. The story is told through the relationship of father and daughter, it is a journey about film making, family conflict, love and reconciliation.

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