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2011 · ★ 2.0 (2)

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Poster for Why Not!

1977 · ★ 5.9 (24)

Alexa, Fernand, and Louis form a tender yet unconventional trio in a quiet suburban home. Fleeing failed marriages and societal expectations, they build a life rooted in love and mutual support. But their unorthodox arrangement stirs suspicion, especially from a curious police inspector whose own life is about to change in unexpected ways.

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2012 · ★ 6.4 (5)

After years behind bars, three young men begin to rediscover lives of aggression and excess in their raucous Roma community. Among them is Alex, a captivating figure with a disturbingly blasé attitude toward violence, women, and guilt. In this absorbing documentary, offering a rare peek into contemporary Roma culture, Alex and his fellow ex-cons reconcile the outside world with the gray-shaded areas of morality with which they all struggle.

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Poster for Sampai Jumpa

2019 · ★ 4.0 (1)

Based on true events, a story about a Taiwan-raised second generation Indonesian and a Taiwanese senior citizen who aren’t from the same bloodline but have intimacy beyond family members.

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Poster for The Protectors

2017 · ★ 5.0 (1)

A short VR documentary exposing the dangerous and grueling reality faced by rangers protecting African elephants from ivory poachers. Over 30,000 African elephants die each year at the hands of poachers, and despite global outcry the trafficking continues. The biggest key to saving these elephants from extinction is the rangers working on the ground within Africa's national parks.

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Poster for My Year with Helen

2017 · ★ 4.8 (5)

With unique access to high-ranking candidate Helen Clark, filmmaker Gaylene Preston casts a wry eye on proceedings as the United Nations chooses a new Secretary General.

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Poster for The Secret of the Far Away Island

1958 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The adventures of the pioneer Petya, the islander Doom and the scientific Soviet submarine in the southern seas. The boy Doom lived on the island, he was looking for pearls in the sea. Grandfather showed him the knife of their ancestor, Chief Batuallo. On the handle was scraped an island, and on it a mountain with two peaks. The grandfather said that there are many pearls around this island, and Doom sailed for a search. A thunderstorm began, and the boat dumped once to this island, but there a large shark attacked him.

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Poster for Вышел ёжик из тумана

2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Agonía

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In this original denunciation of ageism, two former classmates, one a teacher and the other a hitwoman, meet the same fate shortly after turning sixty.

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Poster for Give Us A Smile

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

A humorous retelling of the sitting of the Mona Lisa featuring the master himself, Leonardo da Vinci, and his not-so-talented pupil, Alessio.

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Poster for Apartment Wife: Keiko's Insane Sex Life

1990 · ★ 4.0 (3)

A high-rise housing complex. Keijiro Adachi, the managing director of a small and medium-sized company, and his wife Keiko also live here. When her husband left, Keiko went out on her bicycle. Keijiro passed an exhausted man at the station. He is Yasushi Naito, who lives in the same housing complex...

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Poster for Under the Moonlight

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Soledad is a young woman who returns to her grandmother's house after years of having cut off communication with her family. She wants to connect with nature, her family's spiritual practices and her sister with whom she never developed a relationship. At the same time she is looking for a way to heal the duel of her mother's death years ago. Soledad will realize that the process is long and exhausting and will lead her to reconnect with the people around her and herself.

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Poster for Slope

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Living in a village full of slopes can drive you mad. Those who have climbed them in the old-fashioned way are fully aware of that. What they don’t know is that their souls might have stuck around.

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2003 · ★ 2.2 (4)

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2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

2004 short by Kit Hui

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Poster for The Fountain

2007 · ★ 3.0 (2)

A filmmaker makes a film about a young woman who baths in a public fountain, casting herself in the role.

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1970 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Straight and Narrow is a study of subjective colour and visual rhythm, although it is printed on black and white film, the hypnotic pacing of the images will cause most viewers to experience a programmed gamut of hallucinatory colour effects. Through the intermediary of rhythm, the maximal impact is drawn from the simplest of universal human images: straight horizontal and vertical lines. Set to a strong percussive musical background, rapidly alternating images of black and white straight lines are juxtaposed in precise rhythmic patterns to create specific colours... if you can watch without becoming hypnotised...

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Poster for Regarding Susan Sontag

2014 · ★ 5.7 (17)

An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracking feminist icon Susan Sontag’s seminal, life-changing moments through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, as read by Patricia Clarkson.

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Poster for La véritable histoire du soldat Ryan

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Family Portrait

2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This story is like a flash of a match that fades quickly, but leaves a mark…

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