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Poster for Cafune

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Maye Sora, a 19-year-old university student living in Tokyo, receives news of her grandfather's death. Busy with moving with the help of her friends, she puts off confirming the news.

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Poster for Sweeter Is the Night

2024 · ★ 7.2 (2)

West Africa, early 1960s. A French officer is assigned to find a missing missionary. His investigation, amid mistrust, silence and prejudice, takes him far away from the glittering shoreline, where day and night become one.

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In the middle of Maike's sister Inka's wedding preparations, the marital dispute between Sören and Maike is still simmering because she has been cheating. Maike suggests that Sören should have a fling himself so that peace can finally be restored. With whomever! But Sören ends up in bed with Maike's best friend Doris, of all people. Dirk, Doris' husband, is not the only one fuming with rage and wants to give Sören a thrashing. Maike in particular reproaches Sören: the offer was never meant to be like that! And in the midst of all the chaos, Inka decides to throw the stuffy wedding, which groom Nils only wants to go ahead with for the sake of his conservative mother Renate. So: no wedding and three break-ups?

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Poster for Wandering Letter

— · ★ 4.5 (1)

The film Wandering Letter hangs by a thread: the tiny thread of a single letter of the alphabet, the letter R and its many pronunciations. Through the childhood memories of six people with different mother tongues (Norwegian, Japanese, Russian, Persian, Arabic and Creole), a whole world unfolds, from the intimate to the political. The film raises questions about life and death, filiation, migration, exile, resistance, and gender.

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Poster for Haunted

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mary keeps hearing strange noises in the middle of the night. She thinks her house might be haunted, so she hires a priest to perform an exorcism. But when he tells her this won't be a "normal exorcism", Mary doesn't know what to believe.

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Poster for 难忘中学时光

1986 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Chikan densha: Ecchi ga ippai

1988 · ★ 2.0 (2)

Haruki Michikawa is a female lolicon manga artist who is currently gaining popularity under the pen name Minamino Vibe. She is popular not only among readers, but also liked, or even targeted, by editorial production staff. This is because while Haruki draws extreme erotic manga, she is still rumored to be a virgin. Then Haruki receives a request from her editor, Kitayama, to create a manga covering her molester experience. The ending of the molestation experience coverage on a crowded train... A lecherous editor also appears among the perverted staff, and what will happen to Minamino Vibrator's virginity?

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2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This sonic wonder, which premiered as part of the U.S. Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, documents Leigh’s practice as a sculptor and her evocation of the endurance of Black womanhood by way of spirit and tradition. As scholar Yasmina Price puts it, the film is “an incantation of multiple architectures of the self for black women.”

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2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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1914 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mabel attempts to master a bucking horse as it speeds towards a cliff with Mack hot on her trail!

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Poster for Chez Jolie Coiffure

2019 · ★ 6.6 (7)

Rosine Mbakam is invited to step in Sabine’s small hairdresser’s because it is dangerous in the street. She accepts and pushes in with her camera. Sabine’s stories and the customers’ joys, worries, problems and fears bring depth and life into the premises. At times, it feels like the entire African quarter of Brussels had squeezed in. Laughter abounds, anecdotes and life stories elicit emotions, and a male visitor brings a touch of flirt into the salon.

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Poster for Hayflower, Quiltshoe and the Rubens Brothers

2017 · ★ 6.0 (4)

When Kattilakoski family goes on a week-long Summer vacation to a rented cottage, the local police constables Bigbelly and Stronglass are joyful. Finally one week of peace! Their joy doubles when they win a rent-free summer cottage for one week. What they don't know is, that these two cottages are next to each other! When the truth comes out, the constables are forced to masquerade themselves to remain incognito. Unfortunately their alter egos, artistic Rubens brothers, become an instant hit for Mother Kattilakoski. Hayflower and Quiltshoe have instant doubts about Rubens; they must be escaped bandits instead. The girls set to prove their theory.

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Poster for A Computer Glossary

1968 · ★ 6.0 (1)

From hardware to software, the basics of then-current computing technology is explained.

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Poster for L'échappée

2009 · ★ 7.0 (6)

In her room, Mona, a young teenager, gets ready. She waits for the arrival of the one with whom she is in love.

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Poster for Joseph l'insoumis

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

1956, a handful of families survive in makeshift shelters in appalling poverty and daily violence. A man, Joseph Wresinski , a priest, himself born into great poverty, decides to settle among those he calls "his people". Among these families, that of Jacques. His life will be transformed by his meeting with Father Joseph. His own, but also that of the people who will join the fight of this revolutionary priest. A fight against assistance and charity which, he says, “push the poor into indignity

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Poster for Daisy Doodad's Dial

1914 · ★ 6.0 (20)

Daisy and her husband both go in for a face-pulling contest, but when the big day comes she is unable to attend the competition, and her husband wins instead. When the next opportunity comes around, she is determined to win -- but gets a little over-enthusiastic on the way to the contest and finds herself in trouble! She is most ungrateful for her rescue; fate, however, catches up with her that night…

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Poster for Es ist nicht vorbei

2011 · ★ 7.2 (4)

Carola Weber is shocked when her husband Jochen introduces his new colleague from the hospital: she knows this voice. Hearing it catapults Carola back to the worst time of her life, her imprisonment in the GDR women's prison Hoheneck. She is convinced that Prof. Wolfgang Limberg was the doctor who treated her there with psychotropic drugs in order to force her to testify, and thus caused her to lose two fingers while working on the conveyor belt. Carola's career as a pianist was over forever.

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Poster for The Cabbage-Patch Fairy

1900 · ★ 5.0 (28)

The fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy's 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.

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Poster for The Occupant of the Room

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Based on the short ghost story of the same name by Algernon Blackwood from 1909, The Occupant of the Room centers on a schoolteacher whose late-night arrival at a hotel in the Alps leads to a sleepless night full of uncanny occurrences.

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