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Poster for Daughter from Danang

2002 · ★ 6.8 (8)

In 1975, as the Vietnam War was ending, thousands of orphans and Amerasian children were brought to the United States as part of "Operation Babylift." Daughter from Danang tells the dramatic story of one of these children, Heidi Bub (a.k.a. Mai Thi Hiep), and her Vietnamese mother, Mai Thi Kim, separated at the war's end and reunited 22 years later. Heidi, now living in Tennessee - a married woman with kids - had always dreamt of a joyful reunion. When she ventures to Vietnam to meet her mother, she unknowingly embarks on an emotional pilgrimage that spans decades and distance. Unlike most reunion stories that climax with a cliché happy ending, Daughter from Danang is a real-life drama. Journeying from the Vietnam War to Pulaski, Tennessee and back to Vietnam, Daughter from Danang tensely unfolds as cultural differences and the years of separation take their toll in a riveting film about longing and the personal legacy of war.

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Poster for Helen

2008 · ★ 5.5 (15)

An 18 year old girl called Joy has gone missing. Another girl called Helen is a few weeks away from leaving her care home. Helen is asked to 'play' Joy in a police reconstruction that will retrace Joy's last known movements. Joy had everything. A loving family, a boyfriend, a bright future. Helen, parent-less, has lived in institutions all her life and has never been close to anyone. Gradually Helen begins to immerse herself into the role, visiting the people and places that Joy knew; quietly and carefully insinuating her way into the lost girl's life. But is Helen trying to find out what happened to Joy that day, or is she searching for her own identity?

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Poster for The Second Skeleton

2026 · ★ 10.0 (1)

A reclusive ghost hunter finds something different in an old tunnel one night. A woman with a video camera is lured into a game of cat and mouse with someone who comes from the forest. A young singer still adjusting to her fame is preyed upon by a sadistic talent agency managed by someone from beyond this world. Three loosely connected ghost stories are drawn together as mysterious forces attempt a ritual which might open a gap between our world and another.

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Poster for The Man Downstairs

2025 · ★ 0.0 (1)

Laura investigates a series of disappearances and seeks out Dona Lurdes, the woman whose report against a suspect shifted the entire case. But as their conversation deepens, Laura begins to sense that the truth hiding beneath their words is far stranger than she ever imagined.

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Poster for The Underground

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Trying to get home from a late-night business event, a career woman finds herself alone and menaced on a New York City subway platform.

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Poster for Sink or Swim

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This film follows Lia, a teenage girl, trying to come to terms with the loss of her younger brother that occurred when they were children. Lia’s birthday falls on the same day as her brother’s death, making the day bittersweet for her. The film navigates Lia’s experience of grief, memory, and nostalgia as she tries to grapple with the past.

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Poster for Everything In Between

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Everything In Between" follows a group of filmmakers that are passionate about their work. An intimate portrait of film making and the deep trust that develops in these exceptional circumstances.

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Poster for Redenzione

2023 · ★ 8.0 (1)

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Poster for InBetweening America

2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Based on a New Yorker magazine cover by Saul Steinberg, twenty American icons morph from one to another, representing the vast diversity in this country. InBetweening America was Candy Kugel's first film. She created it in 1977 when she first started inbetweening TV commercials at Perpetual Motion Pictures. It was finally completed in 2001 when The Saul Steinberg Foundation gave permission to exhibit it.

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Poster for Bloody Mary Returns

2022 · ★ 10.0 (2)

A group of vloggers are looking for the ultimate urban legend and soon discover the legend of Bloody Mary is very much real. Now, the group is stuck under her curse and will have to learn how to stop Bloody Mary once and for all before it's too late.

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Poster for VE®NICE69

2021 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Reversed gender surrender of an acid society that obeys mainstream restrictions and prescriptions of how and what to be.

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Poster for Jerome's Bouquet

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

82 year-old Elena Klein, a retired New York florist, can't stop arranging — only now it's not flowers she's arranging, but people's lives.

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Poster for The Book of Ruth

2020 · ★ 6.5 (2)

Margo, Dan, Jordan, and Lizzy visit grandmother Ruth for Passover. Later that night, Lizzy finds Ruth watching a midnight news story about Anne Frank’s death. Lizzy then confesses to have known a related secret for years and Ruth is left with some explaining to do.

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Poster for Women on Trial

1992 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Women On Trail" exposes the innate corruption and sexism in the family court system as children are removed from their mothers and given to fathers who often either don't want them or have been convicted of domestic violence.

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2007 · ★ 6.5 (1)

Oleg lives in a small Belarusian village with his wife, three children, and his in-laws. He has practiced more than one trade: ensign, tractor driver, technician at a local school... Then he decides to leave for Moscow to earn extra money: the life of many people compels them to do this (it is always better here we are not). Yet, what reason has Oleg? A closer acquaintance with the life that remains behind in Belarus provides an unexpected answer to this question.

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Poster for Vostok N°20

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Daily life in a third-class Transsiberian wagon named Vostok N 20. Between discomfort, shared meals, boredom and confessions to strangers, people spend their time as they can. In the form of literary counterpoint, poems of Marina Tsvétaeva told by Fanny Ardant illuminates the feelings of passengers: their loneliness, their desires for freedom and love.

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Poster for Marathon

2008 · ★ 6.5 (1)

Many ordinary but different people take part on a marathon in a small town. Abruptly it becomes foggy and the mist is getting more and more dense. The competitors lose their orientation.

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Poster for Cowboy and Indian

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When a young Bengali bride collapses in the desert, a cowboy appears out of the sunset and rescues her.

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Poster for Ekaj

2015 · ★ 5.5 (15)

EKAJ is a love story between two drifters, a naive teenager and a hustler. Ekaj meets Mecca who takes him under his care. Mecca has AIDS and multiple problems of his own. He is high all day but still manages to be the only voice of reason in Ekaj’s hopeless world. They cruise the city together looking for money and places to stay. Although Ekaj makes some money as a prostitute, he finds himself discarded, and lacking what it takes to survive in the city. Their mutual loneliness leads to genuine friendship.

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Poster for The Clown Children

2005 · ★ 6.0 (1)

A typical day for the two brothers who live by acting as juggling clowns between cars and exhaust in Guatemala City.

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