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Poster for Breath

2007 · ★ 5.8 (16)

A 12-year-old boy who is yet to feel the first trembles of love. He is shy when a girl calls him for a bike ride and then at the beach it becomes clear that he is a bit embarrassed of his body, as he struggles behind a towel to change into his swimming suit.

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Poster for Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

2016 · ★ 5.3 (257)

Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they're accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing around London's trendiest hotspots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more!

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2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Looking for Dawn is a personal search of a filmmaker to explore how the skin color of a bi-racial actress could ultimately define her roles, career, self image and identity. Throughout interviews and archival footage Dawn Wilkinson explore how other bi-racial actresses are creating their own work in order to express themselves.

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Poster for Hawkins

2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Hawkins was an original film for BBC Television about a man who lives a double life, as a Nietzschean Philosophy Lecturer and as a Detective who is fascinated by lowlife and criminal mentalities.

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Poster for Binary

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A man and a woman struggle up a corporate ladder in two very different ways. Pushed to the brink, they are going to find out if they can cope.

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Poster for Peaceful Times

2008 · ★ 1.0 (2)

After fleeing to the West in 1961, peaceful times were supposed to begin for the Striesows. But Irene longs for the familiar GDR, fears her husband Dieter's supposed "second wives" and expects the Third World War every day. When the war finally breaks out in the living room, her children Ute, Wasa and Flori decide to help their mother's happiness along, with unexpected consequences.

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Poster for Samson

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A recently broken up couple are forced to work together when they are kidnapped by two masked men.

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Poster for Taartman

2009 · ★ 5.0 (3)

Pastry chef Ben van Bommel runs a hitherto successful bakery, but lately run into trouble with the tax service. In order to save his business, he succumbs to criminal temptation. So he's persuaded to bake a cake with a valuable 'secret ingredient': smuggled drugs. Nobody could have foreseen the wide ramifications, such as who ends up saving Ben's bacon.

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Poster for Ballet Shoes

2008 · ★ 6.4 (270)

An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation of Noel Streatfield's novel.

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Poster for Cirkusrevyen 2017

2017 · ★ 10.0 (1)

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Poster for The Wedding Ring

2016 · ★ 8.0 (3)

Recently returned to her home in the Sultanate of Zinder after completing her degree abroad, a young woman suffering from the pain of a lost love finds renewal while awaiting the mystical promise of a new moon.

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Poster for It's Him

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An unexpected encounter during an afternoon at the cinema catapults a young woman into a confrontation with her own grief, her parents’ pain, and the still raw wound of her missing older brother.

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Poster for The Banker

2004 · ★ 5.8 (6)

A story about unrequited love, focused on a lonely scientist who toils away in a sperm bank.

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Poster for Tight

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A woman grappling with difficulty finding sexual pleasure after childbirth falls back on an old coping habit.

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Poster for Aarohanam

2012 · ★ 8.5 (2)

Every cloud has a silver lining and Aarohanam showcases the brighter side of a mental disorder, along with all the trials and turbulence of such a life. In an age where the morbidity of poverty has been vehemently publicized, this film strives to unassumingly uncover the true essence of Indian culture while offering a raw and intimate experience of family and community life in the Indian slums.

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Poster for Cuming Out

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Kennedy’s desire for a heteronormative experience sees her embark on a one-night stand. What could possibly go wrong?

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Poster for Solitary

2016 · ★ 7.1 (17)

There are 100,000 US citizens in solitary confinement across the country, a staggering number prompting comment from both President Obama and the Pope. Situated in rural Virginia, 300 miles from any urban center, Red Onion State Prison is one of over 40 supermax prisons across the US built to hold prisoners in eight-by-ten-foot cells for 23 hours a day. Filmed over the course of one year, this eye-opening film braids stark prison imagery, stories from correction officers, and intimate reflections from the men who are locked up in isolation. The inmates share the paths that led them to prison and their daily struggles to maintain their sanity.

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2005 · ★ 1.0 (2)

Through a series of flashbacks the story unfolds of how a 'swinging' couple lead up to a sexually explicit argument about where exactly the boundaries of their relationship are.

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Poster for Birdie

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Birdie used to live in the tree, but his nest’s been broken and he’s now living on the streets of Rio de Janeiro with all he needs to survive: two abandoned dogs and the cart from which he sells tropical fruits and a lot of dreams.

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Poster for Cidade; Campo

2024 · ★ 5.8 (5)

Two tales of migration. In the first, after a tailings dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana (55) moves to São Paulo to find her sister Tania, who lives with her grandson Jaime. Joana enters the universe of insecurity, replying to an application for house cleaning. She bonds with her colleagues, and their struggle for better conditions gives Joana’s life a new meaning. Her relationship with young Jaime brings back old memories. In the second part, after the death of her estranged father, Flavia (32) moves to her farm with her wife Mara. The couple suffer a shock of reality when facing the harshness of rural life. The contact with the abandoned house reveals to Flavia unknown aspects of her father. She begins to suspect that there is something supernatural in the woods.

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