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Poster for The Bird of Happiness

1993 · ★ 4.8 (9)

While some people need to be surrounded by friends to be happy, Carmen (Mercedes Sampietro) is perfectly content by herself, pursuing her vocation as an art restorer. But her bubble of isolation is punctured when she becomes the survivor of a violent assault. Shaken by the incident, Carmen decides she needs a break from it all. So begins a soul-searching journey that takes Carmen back to her hometown in southern Spain, where she contemplates the joys and sorrows of her past.

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Poster for Echte Wiener 2 - Die Deppat'n und die Gspritzt'n

2010 · ★ 5.2 (6)

The Sackbauer family unexpectedly inherits a villa with a large garden in a cottage district in Lower Austria. The villa itself is in acceptable condition, but the garden is less so. Mundl quickly sets about sprucing it up with garden gnomes, lanterns, and lots of love.

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Poster for Alice Is Fine

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Forced to reckon with doctors who treat her debilitating pain as though it's all in her head, what will it take for Alice to get the care she needs?

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Poster for Symbiosis

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Liron (29) and Liel (27) are inseparable. When Liel's mental health lapses, Liron starts documenting her sister's struggle. A drunk night out and hospitalization in psychiatric wards put their relationship to the test and uncovers the depth of the pain they carry. In an intimate and intrusive documentation, we are allowed a glimpse into an invisible person dealing with trauma.

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Poster for This Is the Moment

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A youth romance drama that depicts the process of a man and a woman who were college lovers, breaking up in front of social reality and starting love again after becoming office workers.

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Poster for My Home on the Green Hills

1985 · ★ 0.0 (0)

It's so different — the world of our childhood. For Arman, the little hero of the film, these are endless meadows and snow—white flocks of sheep grazing on the steep slopes of green hills, the calm warmth of a yurt, an ancient stone baba, to which a real hunting golden eagle arrives every day, a smart dog Aktaban, boundless expanse and clear sky overhead. And suddenly this familiar world narrowed down to the size of a city boarding school with unusual laws, unfamiliar people - Arman went to the first grade.

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Poster for Control

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Locked in a dance of mesmerising mimicry, a prisoner has to fight against her captor’s mysterious powers of possession in order to save her life.

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Poster for El héroe silencioso

2008 · ★ 5.0 (1)

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Poster for La Chanson du maçon

2002 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Three eccentric old homosexual men encourage a love affair between their snobbish young landlady and a mason.

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Poster for Black Boys

2020 · ★ 3.5 (3)

Illuminates the spectrum of black male humanity in America. An intimate, inter-generational exploration, the film strives for insight to black identity and opportunity at the nexus of sports, education and criminal justice.

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Poster for The Nymphs of Hindu Kush

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In Pakistan, a land of Islam, women are relying on education to preserve the traditions of their people, the animist Kalash minority of the Hindu Kush.

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Poster for I Killed Alex

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Young girl finds herself locked in empty apartment without food, water and any ways to contact the world outside. After useless attempts to get away she realises the one and only answer to her sufferings: long time ago in this very apartment the other person used to suffer as well. Because of her.

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Poster for The Kiss of the Tiger

1988 · ★ 1.0 (2)

With the dangerous smoothness of a tiger stalking his prey, Peter has circled the au pair Michèle. She quickly succumbs to his fascinating charisma and experiences for the first time a hitherto unknown, tender security. "I'll kill you," says Peter, as gently as cold-bloodedly. A macabre joke or a serious warning?

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Poster for Ivanushko

1991 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Superstar

2009 · ★ 6.1 (14)

An arrogant movie star's life drastically changes when a teenage girl shows up.

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2002 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Pilgrim Song

2012 · ★ 5.5 (6)

Seeking escape from his stalled relationship and unhappy place in the world, a recently pink-slipped music teacher sets out to hike Kentucky's Sheltowee Trace Trail. Among the verdant hills of Appalachia, he encounters various strange characters and becomes the reluctant companion of a gregarious father and son who ultimately help him rediscover what he's been missing.

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Poster for Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States

2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An impressive roster of celebrities -- including Lili Taylor, Paul Robeson, Sarah Jones, Brian Jones, John Sayles and Wallace Shawn -- lend their voices to this performance of readings inspired by Howard Zinn's best-selling book. Segments bring to life Tecumseh's speech to the Osages, Frederick Douglass' thoughts about July 4 and Paul Robeson's Unread Statement before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

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Poster for Mr. Hidayet

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Hidayet Usta is a shoemaker in his early 80s who has made a living repairing shoes. Having separated from his wife years ago and with a strained relationship with his children, Hidayet lives alone, but contentedly in his own world.

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