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1978 · ★ 9.0 (1)

Since she was twelve, Helga has had to take responsibility for others. She never learns that she also has a responsibility to herself.

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Poster for Swan Lake

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Composed of footage from Central Asian film archives, Swan Lake addresses the period running from a decade before to a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The film includes familiar visual markers of the era: long queues outside shops, popular television programs hosted by healers and hypnotists, ballerinas performing Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake (1876). This was a typical television intermezzo in the late Soviet empire, when high culture often filled the airwaves during moments of political uncertainty, whether the death of another elderly leader or an emergency declared in Moscow. What may be less familiar to Western audiences is the footage drawn from Central Asian films of the same period. These fragments extend the usual visual aesthetics of perestroika into a different regional context, introducing other ethnicities, landscapes, and urban spaces into what is often remembered as a predominantly Russian narrative of late-Soviet culture.

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Poster for Run, Johnny, Run

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The scene unfolds from the perspective of a small animal with antennae. In a cluttered room, a woman is lethargically busy preparing to end her life. Finally, when it appears before her, her attempt to avoid it disrupts her plans. While it may seem like a humorous work that re-evaluates a familiar tiny creature always present around us, it cleverly conveys the profound realization that life can continue with just a one-simple hint. A witty piece with a light touch that delivers a heavy insight.

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1976 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

With the help of Hollywood, top Nazi Albert Speer tried to unscrupulously whitewash himself of his crimes in the 1970s. Speer gave long interviews to Hollywood author Jack Neuman and mimed the "good Nazi". After his release from 20 years in prison in Spandau, Hitler's former architect and armaments minister earned a lot of money with books about his time at the side of the dictator and his years in prison. However, a Hollywood feature film about his life was still missing. Speer received Neuman at his villa in Heidelberg.

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Poster for Nowhere Man

2016 · ★ 9.0 (1)

A film based on two separate stories from the filmmaker's middle school in Guangzhou: one of a lunchbox found behind a television stand filled with moldy food during a school health inspection, and the other a story told by a math teacher that a thief's dead body had been found in the gap between two buildings behind the school.

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Poster for Peep Culture

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Pop culture has become “Peep Culture”, where we’ve traded privacy for notoriety and, in the process, reinvented mass culture. But what does it all mean and how is it changing us? Hal Niedzviecki, a 38 year old husband and father, plunges into “deep peep”, with webcams exposing his every move and millions of potential internet viewers invited to watch and engage in the spectacle.

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Poster for Saving the Family Name

1916 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A chorus girl gains infamy after the suicide of her beau.

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Poster for Soft Sand, Blue Sea

1998 · ★ 6.0 (1)

13 year-old David and nine year-old Danni live in a children's home, where despite the best of adult intentions, there is conflict and sudden tragedy. When the pair escape the home, they embark upon a daring adventure in search of the beach.

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Poster for NOVA: Iceman Reborn

2016 · ★ 7.7 (6)

Murdered more than 5,000 years ago, Otzi the Iceman is the oldest human mummy on Earth. Now, newly discovered evidence sheds light not only on this mysterious ancient man, but on the dawn of civilization in Europe.

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2016 · ★ 5.7 (6)

A sexually repressed woman embraces her dark side, experiencing her wildest fantasy.

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Poster for Ámár

2010 · ★ 4.0 (1)

Inés travels to India to visit her friend Ámár, who has been living in a mental institution for years. Inés remembers the last days they spent together and her promise to return.

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Poster for Heiraten macht mich nervös

2005 · ★ 4.5 (3)

Competition rider Nina Becker and movie star Niklas Tremsaal are a happy couple without a marriage certificate. Marrying is not an issue for the two - until the little niece India holds cheap plastic jewelry on Nina's finger for an engagement ring and so gets an avalanche rolling, which can not be stopped. - "Marry makes me nervous" is a joke-staged romantic comedy. Suzan Anbeh plays marrying Nina, who has to choose between her fiancé and her childhood sweetheart.

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Poster for The Drive to Win

1981 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Sha Ou is a volleyball player and works hard against her injuries resulting from training. In spite of her defeat in an international competition and the the death of her boyfriend, she insists on her training.

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Poster for Won in a Closet

1914 · ★ 4.4 (5)

Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent. Mabel’s father, the country constable, is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines “her ideal”. The young couple’s romance is disrupted first by two rival “cut-ups” and then by misapprehension that a tramp is hiding in a closet at the mother’s home. In reality, the mother herself takes refuge in the closet to escape the constable’s attentions.

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Poster for On the Edge

2011 · ★ 5.2 (6)

Set between a numbing, malodorous factory and the demi-monde of nocturnal Tangier, two street-smart young women work tirelessly to move on with their lives. By day the fast-talking, live-wire Badia and her quiet friend Imane peel shrimp in a factory; by night, they hit the seaside hotels, turn tricks and steal small objects from their clients to pawn. One night they meet two pretty girls their own age who work in the Free Zone of Tangier, a heavily guarded, European-style industrial area. The determined Badia hates peeling shrimps and sees the two new girlfriends, who are slightly better off, as a springboard.

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1956 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Waves

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When a young woman revisits her childhood leisure centre, she is drawn into a surreal encounter with a figure who embodies everything unresolved between who she was and who she is becoming.

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1966 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A couple's relaxing evening is disturbed by the discovery of a mouse in the house.

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Poster for DID

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Fah" woke up with bruises all over her body, unable to remember how she got them.

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