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Poster for Fürchte dich nicht

2007 · ★ 7.5 (2)

A soldier runs amok in a school. Military police and SEK take aim at the heavily armed man. Suddenly he is shot dead, but none of the snipers fired the final shot. Inspector Bischof is tasked with finding out who killed the soldier. The soldier was stationed in the very barracks that is under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Ralf Bischof, Kathrin's husband. An officer from the Military Counter-Intelligence Service is assigned to assist her in the investigation. Kathrin bites into the case. She finds out that the dead soldier was taking part in a series of scientific experiments testing methods to prevent anxiety. This research project is being led by her sister Ariane, a renowned psychiatrist. Kathrin's investigation puts her in extreme danger.

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2000 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for A Voyeurs Body

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Born with an unusual defect that left her without a navel, she grows up feeling like she doesn’t quite belong. Her body and her being carry traces of something foreign, something she cannot understand. To escape this strangeness, she develops a fascination with watching — always the observer, never the participant. But when she encounters a man, her fear of closeness begins to give way, turning into obsession. Gradually, her watching crosses boundaries: from distance to intimacy, from desire to intrusion.

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Poster for Her name was Persephone

2025 · ★ 10.0 (1)

In a young actress sitting in a hospital office, we recognize a youthful Persephone. She is facing surgery that may become the final act of her personal play. By signing the consent form, the doctor, Hades, stamps the paper with a seal shaped like an obelisk — the coin given to souls in Greek mythology for their passage to the underworld. This gesture symbolizes the fatality of her decision.

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A hacker blackmails a small town.

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2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for The Silent Man

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young lady attempts to re-capture the magic of doomed relationship - by ordering a life-size doll, in his exact image.

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Poster for Just The Two of Us

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JUST THE TWO OF US is a comedic short film with heart that is entering the film festival circuit for 2021. After weeks of dating, Walton and Jess are back at his place and ready to have sex together for the first time. But before they can, Jess has to share a secret about her anatomy that may just scare Walton away.

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Poster for Secrets of 1979

2021 · ★ 7.8 (2)

In the summer of 1979, during Taiwan’s martial law period, Bing-Kuan asks her college friend Shu-Lan to help out on her family’s banana plantation. As time goes by, the two girls secretly develop a romantic relationship, and decide to volunteer at the Formosa Magazine in order to promote democratic freedom of expression. Yet their youthful romance is threatened as the Kuomintang regime seeks to suppress dissident voices.

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1993 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Dolzura Cortez has had several men in her life. One returns to her as an AIDS researcher and unwittingly, Dolzura becomes his subject. He encouraged her to come out in public so she can dispel the social stigma that comes with the disease.

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Poster for Life Guidance

2018 · ★ 4.7 (6)

The film is set in the near future, in a world of perfect capitalism. Society is sustained by a class of top achievers; meanwhile, so-called minimum recipients live under sedation in Fortresses of Sleep. The great majority of top achievers view themselves as happy. An outsourced agency has been established for the rest: Life Guidance is charged with turning these individuals into optimal people as well. Alexander has internalized the system but one wrong word to his child triggers Life Guidance. He starts to rebel and encounters the horror of the system in all its brightness and affability.

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Poster for What I Want My Words to Do to You

2003 · ★ 7.2 (4)

An inside look at a writing workshop led by playwright and activist Eve Ensler, consisting of 15 women, most of whom were convicted of murder. Through a series of exercises and discussions, the women delve into their pasts and explore the nature of their crimes and the extent of their own culpability. The film culminates in an emotionally charged prison performance of the women's writing by acclaimed actors Mary Alice, Glenn Close, Hazelle Goodman, Rosie Perez, and Marisa Tomei.

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Poster for One. Two. One

2011 · ★ 3.8 (5)

In a society where all social customs are based on the beauty of a woman, her challenge is to find self confidence and inner beauty despite having lost her physical beauty.

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2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Hanna Schygulla, one of the icons of European cinema and herself a refugee child, meets four young men again after seven years who came to Berlin as unaccompanied refugee minors in 2015.

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2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

About how Cheburashka, Crocodile Gena, and Old lady Shapoklyak move to the new building of the Soyuzmultfilm studio.

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Poster for Tips for Cheating 2

2023 · ★ 4.4 (8)

After his girlfriend expresses discomfort with his all-women client list, a therapist pivots by helping the leader of a support group for a distressed men.

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2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In this new program, James Mangold (Cop Land, 3:10 to Yuma) discusses the enormous impact Milos Forman had on his maturation as a filmmaker.

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Poster for Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion

2002 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A look inside the Playboy mansion around the year 2000. Features Hugh Hefner and his 7 girlfriends pre-Girls Next Door.

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2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Sunao Sato, who runs the studio following the wishes of her parents, who was a master of social dance, was spending days with her sister Hazuki and her partner Ryosuke. One day, Keiji, whose partner was refused in Hazuki, attacks her, and Ryosuke, who happens to pass by accident, saves Hazuki ...

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Poster for Harald Juhnke - That's Life

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Harald Juhnke was a great entertainer, actor, comedian, singer, emcee and charmer. The stage was his life and success his drug, a life and a career with many ups and downs, triumphs and crashes. He loved his audience and the audience loved him. The film portrays the great entertainer. His family, friends, fellow artists and companions have their say.

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