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Poster for Officer Henderson

1913 · ★ 5.0 (3)

Two policemen are required to dress as women to catch pickpockets.

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Follows a young Black woman’s ascent on male-dominated Wall Street.

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Poster for Falska Greta

1934 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A woman on vacation is mistaken for Greta Garbo.

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Poster for This Is My Life

1992 · ★ 5.9 (18)

Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store while dreaming of becoming a comedian. After she inherits some money, she decides to move to New York with her children Erica and Opal in order to begin a stand-up career in small bars. Dottie soon rises to stardom, but while she travels all over the USA, her daughters stay home lonely.

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Poster for Superior

2015 · ★ 5.6 (5)

A stranger passing through town sparks a teenage girl's desire to distinguish herself from her identical twin sister. As one sister struggles to break free, the other insists on preserving their distinctive bond.

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1984 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A tragicomic story about Lady Poverty who, unmistakably and without any hesitation, catches one lazy fellow after another. However, she is helpless when she comes across a diligent and work-loving fellow. Poverty simply cannot be destroyed, but it can be defeated.

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Poster for ¡Despertar!

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

On June 28, 2018, laundry workers from El Barrio in New York City marched to the laundromat where they work. Their community and the Laundry Workers Center were there to support them.

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Poster for Militia Battefield

1975 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An unusual documentary that looks at the gay clubs and expatriate entertainers in London who exist in a bizarre subculture. It focuses on the story of Militia Battlefield, a young singer in search of work, and a homosexual pianist who has just married an old lady.

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Poster for Heritage Day

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After Evie dresses up like her estranged grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, on “Heritage Day” at school, she becomes increasingly obsessed with this dark part of her family history.

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Poster for Creep

2008 · ★ 5.5 (2)

Produced for Glass Eye Pix as part of their 2008 Creepy Christmas Online Film Festival, in which each short was inspired by the inhabitants of a Christmas diorama advent calendar. Each filmmaker was assigned a specific date and given the props that were used in that window to use in their short. This is the fifteenth film in the series.

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Poster for The Bandit Hound

2016 · ★ 4.6 (8)

A lovable dog named Bandit starts stealing cash to help his adopted family, he unwittingly sets them on a collision course with his dangerous ex-partner.

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Poster for A Butterfly's Heart

2022 · ★ 7.0 (3)

This delicately-rendered live action narrative follows the story of a ten-year-old boy and budding entomologist named Juozapas, who was born with his heart outside of his chest. Can Rugile, the fearless new girl in town, help Juozapas gain courage and acceptance to overcome exclusion and the insensitivity of the people around them?

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Poster for Alien: Specimen

2019 · ★ 6.2 (85)

During the night shift in a colony greenhouse, a botanist does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have alarmed her sensitive lab dog.

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Poster for Wet Sand

2022 · ★ 5.7 (13)

A village on the Georgian Black Sea is full of friendly people convinced they know each other. One day, Eliko is found hanged. His granddaughter Moe comes to organize his funeral. She is confronted with a web of lies and the tragic consequences of Eliko's hidden love life with Amnon, which lasted 22 years. The truth however frees Moe’s capability to love and forces the villagers to take a stand.

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Poster for Gorgonà

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Greece. A small, impoverished city-state dominated by a massive refinery—its only source of income: oil. The men, all armed, hold absolute power. Their leader, Nikos, is gravely ill and must arrange his succession. Shock spreads when he includes his protégé, Maria, among the contenders. The fate of this young woman—unaware of the most tragic part of her family’s past—will be turned upside down by the arrival of Eleni, a singer at the town’s bar.

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Poster for Plush

2013 · ★ 5.5 (112)

A young singer/songwriter, despite being married, becomes involved with her new guitarist, who she soon discovers has a dark past and may be a danger to her and those close to her.

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Poster for Berlioz: Les Troyens

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Berlioz’s epic masterpiece retells the magnificent saga of the aftermath of the Trojan War and the exploits of Aeneas. Rising tenor Bryan Hymel, in his Met debut, stars as the hero charged by the gods with the founding of the city of Rome. Susan Graham is Dido, Queen of Carthage, who becomes Aeneas’s lover, and Deborah Voigt sings Cassandra, the Trojan princess whose warnings about the impending destruction of Troy go unheeded. Francesca Zambello’s atmospheric production, featuring choreography by Doug Varone, is led by Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi.

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Poster for Stolen Tango

2015 · ★ 1.0 (2)

Tells the paralleling lives of an upscale Argentinian prostitute and a war traumatized Marine whose worlds collide in the underground network of sex trafficking.

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Poster for The Elephant Walk

1979 · ★ 7.4 (5)

A young girl dreams of a birthday party, where family and friends from her day-care center are invited. But in fact, her parents are always quarreling.

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2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Kumbh Mela "Festival of the Sacred Pitcher" is an important Hindu pilgrimage, celebrated approximately every 6, 12 and 144 years, correlated with the partial or full revolution of Jupiter and representing the largest human gathering in the world. In 2007, National Geographic filmed and broadcast a documentary of the Prayag Kumbh Mela, named Inside Nirvana, under the direction of Karina Holden with the scholar Kama Maclean as a consultant.

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