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Poster for Janis: Little Girl Blue

2015 · ★ 7.3 (161)

Janis Joplin is one of the most respected and iconic rock & roll singers of all time, a tragic and misunderstood figure who captivated millions of listeners and blazed new creative trails before her death in 1970 at age 27. Director Amy Berg explored Joplin's story in depth. A portrait of a complicated, driven and often beleaguered artist. Joplin's own words recount a series of letters she wrote to her family over the years. Janis was a vessel of energy when she sang. Her rapid rise and untimely death changed music forever.

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Poster for Margo Lily

2012 · ★ 8.0 (1)

A couple is determined to plant a tree in the middle of winter following the loss of their child.

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Poster for Marie's Counter

1998 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A bistro counter will decide the fate of two women. The first, Marie, the owner of a cafe for forty years in a Breton village, wants to realize her dream and go to the city. The second, Joelle, wants to leave town for the countryside.

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Poster for Tris

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Tristan feels useless to his family. His decision to see a psychologist made him realize something he had never imagined before.

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Poster for Swing Ride

2022 · ★ 6.5 (11)

Benedetta, an obese fifteen-year-old yearning for attention, lives in a tawdry province in the south of Italy, emblematic of her inner landscape where everything could be and yet is not. She falls in love with Armando, aka Amanda, a young transvestite who is attracted to the young girl's innocence and begins an unhealthy relationship of mutual dependence with her. Amanda runs a carousel at the fair across the street from Benedetta's house, and the girl is magnetically drawn to this colorful and exciting world. But Amanda not only runs the carousel, she's also a call boy and sells drugs. Between intoxication and family rebellion and the discovery of sex - a great disappointment - she completes her rite of passage into adulthood.

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Poster for Now and Then

1995 · ★ 6.9 (466)

Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty, four childhood girlfriends — Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta — recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, they reconcile experiences with boys, secrets, bullies and more.

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Poster for Frisky

2015 · ★ 4.1 (7)

Two twenty-somethings move to San Francisco to chase their career, but end up chasing tail instead.

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Based on the comic book/graphic novel by Alejandro Jodorowsky.

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Poster for Running Cool

1993 · ★ 6.4 (6)

Bone and Bear, two rough and tough bikers ride out from Sturgis, SD. to the marshes of South Carolina to help out their "bro" Ironbutt Garrett, who's land is being eyed by the money-grubbing, domineering Calvin Hogg.

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Poster for Ripley's Game

2002 · ★ 6.4 (303)

Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience?

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Poster for Bury Me an Angel

1971 · ★ 4.8 (11)

After a stranger murders her brother, Dag sets out on the road to avenge his murder, toting a shotgun and leaving any restraint behind.

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Poster for Prodigal Sons

2008 · ★ 5.3 (18)

Filmmaker Kimberly Reed returns home for her high school reunion, ready to reintroduce herself to the small town as a transgender woman and hoping for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother Marc. Things are complicated by the shocking revelation that Marc may be the grandson of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, forcing Kim and her family to explore questions of sexual orientation, identity, severe trauma and love.

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Poster for Tigers Are Not Afraid

2017 · ★ 6.8 (275)

When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.

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Poster for Bataca

2024 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Julián is a single father, who will try everything to give his daughter Renata, a very special birthday present. Meanwhile, he will realize Renata's mother is further he thought.

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A documentary about a young Finnish Romany Carmen, 11, who lives with her grandmother and aunt in the suburb of a small town in Northern Finland.

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1990 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Marjánka is a first-class chateau cook, but she has a nice manner and also a quarrelsome nature. The patient gardener secretly loves her, and so he lets her get away with a lot. Marjane, however, does not want the gardener; she thinks straight of the Marquis, who is to visit the castle. So when the magical Grandpa Hádalík appears in the castle kitchen, it looks like Marjánka's dreams will come true. Or is he going to fix Marjane's head?

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Poster for Oh, Ramona!

2019 · ★ 5.8 (420)

Oh, Ramona! seeks the transformation of Andrew from a teenager into an adult who lives candidly and selflessly his first love story, innocent and uninvolved, alternating with the second, intense and insane story, incapable of making a choice.

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Poster for Honor Society

2022 · ★ 7.5 (423)

Honor is an ambitious high school senior whose sole focus is getting into Harvard, assuming she can first score the coveted recommendation from her guidance counselor, Mr. Calvin. Willing to do whatever it takes, Honor concocts a Machiavellian-like plan to take down her top three student competitors, until things take a turn when she unexpectedly falls for her biggest competition, Michael.

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2010 · ★ 4.0 (1)

Siri meets her ex on the street. To avoid having to deal with the grief, she is willing to try different things.

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Poster for Just Because We're Friends

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

One night, a young woman initiates sex with her prudish male best friend in the hope of starting romance. But things become complicated, putting their friendship at risk. Can love come after sex? Or must love come first before sex?

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