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Poster for The Pearl Remains

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A woman traces her memories through a pearl ring, and comes upon her mother gazing at the same ring. But her memories soon lose their outline and become enclosed within the pearl.

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Poster for Paradise House

2015 · ★ 7.0 (1)

A sassy, no nonsense madam runs a "coloreds only" brothel in Dallas,Tx in the late 1950's. While she and her house of tricks service their regular customers, they run into some very peculiar first time customers and their colorful expectations. She is forced to make a tough decision once she is presented with an unexpected request, that ultimately alters her lifestyle.

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Poster for White Marriage

1993 · ★ 6.2 (4)

Bianka and Paulina are two teenage girls watching a video on the sexuality of people and animals. They are surprised by Bianka's father and change to another channel. They suddenly find themselves in the same house in the 1920's. The girls are totally immersed in problems associated with puberty and reaching adulthood. The atmosphere of the house is imbued with eroticism. Bianka is sensitive with a poetic nature, shocked at the role that tradition has mapped out for her, terrified by the marriage which is being planned for her. Paulina is an extrovert, well adapted to face every situation, who accepts the amorous advances made at her. Based on the 1975 Tadeusz Różewicz play called Białe małżeństwo.

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Poster for Abel/Asia

1998 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Behind the scenes mini-doc from Asia Argento on Abel Ferrara during the filming of New Rose Hotel.

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Poster for Midwives

2023 · ★ 6.9 (17)

After 5 years learning the profession of midwife, “the most beautiful job in the world”, Louise and Sofia are finally entering working life and taking on huge responsibilities in a world where, at a frenetic pace, they handle with birth, motherhood and sometimes death. Will their vocation resist such a storm?

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Poster for Clowns

2009 · ★ 9.0 (1)

Based on the short story Ciudad de Payasos by Peruvian-American writer Daniel Alarcón, Payasos tells the story of Chino, a young journalist who, after the death of his father, takes refuge in the world of street clowns.

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Poster for Variables

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the middle of the Bosnian War, a 15-year-old math wiz is given a way out of the bloodshed when his math club gets an invitation to compete at the International Math Olympiad in Canada.

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Poster for Women's Intuition 2

2005 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The stories of the three friends continue. Inga, having "refreshed" her appearance with the help of plastic surgery, suddenly decides to return to her old love. Due to a stupid misunderstanding, Lilia quarrels with her husband Misha. Everything is going well for Alexander and Dasha, they are heading towards a wedding, but this romantic paradise is suddenly overshadowed by jealousy...

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1973 · ★ 0.0 (0)

It's 1865, Fiodor in St, Petersburg is reluctantly supporting his dead wife's family, when he meets new love in the form of Anna and a new life beckons escaping away and traveling Europe.

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Poster for Not Far from Warsaw

1954 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Imperialist spies try to disrupt and stop production in a large steelworks.

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Poster for Cordelias

2014 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Ten imprisoned women convicted of different crimes organize a theater play that might serve both as therapy to their own frustrations and as a way of reintegrating in society.

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Poster for Boles

2013 · ★ 6.0 (14)

A stop-motion animation about an author suffering writer's block. When his neighbour asks him to write a letter for her fiancé, he discovers something unusual.

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Poster for Bread & Roses

1993 · ★ 8.0 (1)

Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist (and later MP) Sonja Davies. The film covers her life up to 1956, when, at age 33, she was elected to the Nelson Hospital Board. During this period she develops strong socialist beliefs, marries and divorces, at age 17 trains as a nurse, has a romance (and a child) with an American marine who is killed in WWII action. She battles tuberculosis and marries a former boyfriend when he returns from the war. She becomes part of a women's ill-fated campaign to save the Nelson railway line from closure and begins to be elected to political bodies.

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Poster for Sonatine

1984 · ★ 6.9 (9)

Two teenaged friends have separate difficult experiences that make the girls seriously consider suicide.

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Poster for Filth and Wisdom

2008 · ★ 5.7 (54)

Filth & Wisdom is a poignant view of the lives of three not quite ordinary friends settled into meaningless jobs that barely keep them afloat while helping to finance their dreams of bigger and brighter futures. Their unique yet universal stories capture their struggles that are at turns funny and tragic but always brutally honest. Their intertwined lives explore the inevitable: a path paved with filth will often end in wisdom and one paved with wisdom will often end in filth.

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Poster for Montreal, My Beautiful

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A Chinese immigrant mother in Montreal breaks from duty and tradition when she falls for a young Québécoise woman, leading her to confront questions of identity and freedom.

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Poster for Chapel

2025 · ★ 7.1 (9)

A man becomes a suspect in a serial murder case after waking from a coma with no recollection of who he is.

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Poster for The Adversary

2002 · ★ 6.6 (188)

Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based on Romand's life and Carrère's book than was Laurent Cantet's 2001 film L'Emploi du Temps. The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

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Poster for Sheer Madness

1983 · ★ 6.7 (8)

Two women–a literature professor and a painter–start to rely upon their friendship as an alternative to their unhappy relationships with the men in their lives.

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Poster for Westermarck Effect

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Sally gave her son Sam up for adoption 20 years ago and when they reunite, they fall passionately in love with devastating consequences.

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