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Poster for It's Getting Late

2012 · ★ 5.3 (3)

In the translucent LA dusk we discover four women living very different lives. The camera follows each as they wind down their working days, their four stories weaving together as each prepares for their evening.

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Poster for Sing Me Back Home

2019 · ★ 5.0 (3)

After scuttling her career as a singer, Jewell Stone lives in Paris a job as a waitress. Marie, her grandmother and only family, who lives in Vermont, USA, arrives overnight to see her. But how to welcome her when Jewell tells her so long about her life, her work and her loves? From one letter to another, she has invented a career that works, a life with Paul, and even a girl, Ruby. But as an Italian proverb says, lies have short legs.

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Poster for When Little Lindy Sang

1916 · ★ 6.0 (2)

Lindy, the lone Black girl in her class, is mostly ostracized by her classmates. When Lindy emerges as a heroine during a school fire, attitudes change.

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Poster for Patient 001

2018 · ★ 2.8 (5)

A young-wife desperate to give her beloved comatose and dying husband a child considers her only option: cloning. Giving birth to a son fulfills her dream of having a family. But the arrival of the baby awakens a supernatural presence unleashing unexpected results. The family must make an impossible choice and live with a secret forever. (DCIFF)

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Poster for Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine

2014 · ★ 7.1 (40)

An intimate portrait of Matthew Shepard, the gay young man murdered in one of the most notorious hate crimes in U.S. history. Framed through a personal lens, it's the story of loss, love, and courage in the face of unspeakable tragedy.

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2007 · ★ 4.8 (5)

A behind-the-scenes look at the trials and tribulations of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directing his first film in ten years, Youth Without Youth (2007).

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— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Inspired by a true story, a mother is forced to enter war-torn Syria to recover her young daughter after the child is taken across borders by her estranged husband. Alone and out of her depth, she must navigate shifting alliances, bureaucracy and constant danger, as the window to save her child begins to close.

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1985 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for The Good Soldier Schwejk

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

During World War I, a Czech civilian is forced into the Austrian army. Everywhere he goes, everything he is ordered to do becomes a disaster for the Austrians. Is Schwejk astoundingly stupid or deviously defiant?

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Poster for Just the Two of Us

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In a small apartment in Lisbon a young girl is looking to get her life together, while dealing with the pressure of living up to her parents' expectations.

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Poster for Never Anywhere

2025 · ★ 4.0 (1)

Behind closed doors in a car, three friends from the small town of Sept-Îles discuss their desire to reconnect with the North Shore, the region where they grew up. As the hours lenghten on the road 138, the young women reflect on the quest for identity that accompanies the regional exodus and reveals a social landscape decentralized from the metropolises.

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Poster for Danny's Girl

2020 · ★ 4.4 (5)

Danny meets his online girlfriend for the first time, but accidentally discovers her unspeakable possession, which throws their first night together into a dizzying tailspin.

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Poster for This Dangerous Balcony Door

1976 · ★ 7.0 (1)

When Rolands and his friends' amateur movie seen at his 18th birthday party unfolds as a crime testimony, fragile bond between people threatens to break completely.

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Poster for This Magnificent Cake!

2018 · ★ 6.7 (39)

In 1885, Africa is a succulent cake destined to be wildly divided and everyone wants a piece. A disturbed European king, a Pygmy working in a luxury hotel, a successful but lonely businessman, an enslaved porter, a young army deserter, a ghostly clarinetist. Some benefit from colonialism and greed. Others suffer racism and violence.

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Poster for Crater

2018 · ★ 5.6 (15)

The Crater is a land of underdogs, indistinct space, constant noise. Rosario is a street vendor, a gitane of village fairs, who gives away soft toys to whoever draws a winning number. The war he has declared against his own destiny has the immature and indolent body of his thirteen-year-old daughter: Sharon is pretty and can sing, and in this hotbed of stopgaps and desperate living, she’s his weapon for survival. But success becomes an obsession, and talent becomes a punishment.

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Poster for Julius Caesar

2018 · ★ 8.5 (2)

The first installment of Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking all-female Shakespeare Trilogy sees Harriet Walter take on the role of Brutus, who wrestles with his moral conscience over the murder of Julius Caesar.

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Poster for Einer muß die Leiche sein

1978 · ★ 5.7 (3)

A group of tourists from the GDR spend their holiday at the coast of Bulgaria. When making a trip to a small fisher house, they have to stay they night, because the ship's motor broke down. One of the group proposes a game: Someone has to be a corpse, one the detective and another one the murderer. But shortly after starting the game the "corpse" has vanished only to befound at the foot of the nearby cliff - being dead for real. Now the group start their investigation...

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Poster for Jim Norton: Contextually Inadequate

2015 · ★ 6.6 (19)

Comedian Jim Norton tackles the twisted state of the 21st century, including how modern technology affects everything from free speech to hooking up.

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Poster for Boris Ryzhy

2008 · ★ 7.2 (5)

Russian Poet Boris Ryzhy was handsome, talented and famous. So why did he end his own life at the age of 26? A quest to find the answer takes the filmmaker to the notorious neighbourhood in the cold industrial city of Yekaterinenburg where Boris grew up...

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Poster for The Inspector General

2002 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A performance by the Alexandrinsky Theatre based on the eponymous play by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. The production is based on the stage version by Vsevolod Meyerhold and M. Korenyev (GOSTIM, 1926), directed by Valery Fokin.

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