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Poster for Island Queen

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Young Dylan, with hockey gear in tow, is recruited by his father to work on a popular ferryboat, even though it jeopardizes an important audition.

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Poster for Co-Husbands

2023 · ★ 4.9 (44)

Emilio and Tono both receive phone calls that their wives are in comas after a ski-resort avalanche. At the hospital desk, they make a shocking discovery: their wives are, in fact, the same person … Laura. Forced to wait together until Laura regains consciousness, Emilio and Toni battle to prove who is her one and only true husband.

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Poster for No Mercy, No Future

1981 · ★ 3.4 (5)

Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She's religious, believing she is God's favorite child; she searches for Jesus. She has sent a letter to a filmmaker suggesting her life as the subject for a movie. We see her raped then take up with a series of men she believes are Jesus, each willing or insistent on sex. A young man with his own crisis of faith invites her to join a cult. We see her involuntarily committed to an asylum from time to time where medication and constraints await. Her wealthy parents are helpless. Will a medical professional ever talk to her? If one did, would it help?

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Poster for Velorama

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Documentary looking at a century of cycling. Commissioned to mark the arrival of the 2014 Tour de France in Yorkshire, the film makes full use of stunning British Film Institute footage to transport the audience on a journey from the invention of the modern bike, through the rise of recreational cycling, to gruelling competitive races. Award-winning director Daisy Asquith artfully combines the richly-diverse archive with a hypnotic soundtrack from cult composer Bill Nelson in a joyful, absorbing watch for both cycling and archive fans.

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Poster for Here I Am, Here I'm Not

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Ramiro is a journalist that after being on a car accident, develops phobia to speed. Suspended from his job, a mysterious publisher commissioned him to write the unauthorized biography of Ana Patricia Jones Ahumada, a Chilean rock legend. The investigation leads them to start a relationship, until one day she dies in a car accident. Devastated, Ramiro meets a woman of identical features and try to reconstruct it the image of his beloved, but is this a coincidence? Free adaptation of Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

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Poster for From Straight A's to XXX

2017 · ★ 5.8 (157)

When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox. Miriam lies to her family and her friends at school, keeping her double life a secret. But soon rumours spread and Miriam becomes the subject of vicious online attacks and unwanted attention. Miriam fights back: she talks to the media, saying her new line of work empowers her as a feminist. But her confident stand has unintended consequences. Miriam is shunned by her conservative family and her colleagues in the adult film world. One impulsive decision has quickly spiralled out of control - and Miriam's problems are just beginning.

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Poster for Daddy's Girl

2020 · ★ 6.5 (2)

Te Puhi prepares for the toughest day of her life—she must come to terms with her father’s dementia. But first, the two share a traditional meal.

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Poster for True Love

1990 · ★ 2.0 (2)

A man and a woman meet. In the confusion of their short encounter they fail to give their names and exchange addresses. They go back to living their lives without the prospect of seeing each other again. From then on, the dream of true love interrupts the sober routine of their daily lives. Their longing for love increases and draws them back to the place where they met - and they barely miss noticing each other there. In the turmoil of the city in which they live there are moments when they just fail to run into each other by chance. Their short meeting has transformed their lives as well as their dreams. Perhaps they will find true love when they least expect to find it.

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Poster for The Island Funeral

2016 · ★ 5.4 (5)

Laila leaves Bangkok, besieged by law enforcement due to political and social unrest, and embarks on a road trip to the town of Pattani, in the far south of Thailand, along with her brother Sugood and Toi, a friend of his, to visit Sainab, the brothers' aunt, whom they barely know.

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Poster for The Substitute

2006 · ★ 7.7 (3)

Zohara has been waiting to go home ever since she was first stationed at a distant military base, but when the day arrives her hopes evaporate. The soldier sent to replace her appears to be suicidal. Instead of leaving, Zohara is ordered to guard the new girl.

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Poster for White

2021 · ★ 6.7 (3)

Samuel has lived many lives, troubled by the past he tries hard to forget. He is sent by the crime boss, Loro, to take the souls of unsuspecting victims. In a diner, he meets a seemingly abandoned girl, Anna, and becomes fond of her, without knowing the secrets she possesses.

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Poster for Maverick Modigliani

2020 · ★ 7.4 (6)

Born in Livorno, Tuscany, artist Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) lived a short, tormented life, narrated here from an original point of view, that of his young common-law wife, Jeanne Hébuterne.

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1999 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When misfortune befalls the prince and the fairy, what will happen to their love? What will happen if misfortune befalls us...? But what exactly is luck and what is misfortune? Who knows? Prince Lukáš is convinced that luck is beauty. The beauty of images, the beauty of words, the beauty of a face. So it's no surprise that when he catches sight of the lovely fairy Oxana, the most beautiful creature in the forest, he falls in love. He falls in love with her beauty. But how will the young prince react when, later on, Oxana sacrifices her beauty for him...?

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2016 · ★ 8.0 (1)

A documentary portrait of high-school students in the Quebec city of Sorel-Tracy.

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Poster for The Black Forest

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two families go on holiday together to Europe. Whilst the children enjoy their new found freedom, little secrets start to unravel from within the quartet of adults, sparking conflict.

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Poster for I Am Katya Golubeva

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The question is, whether Katya Golubeva, an icon of the European underground cinema, determined her fate with the parts she played, or the fate of her characters affected her own fate?

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Poster for Amor de madre

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A mother tells her fellow Alcoholics Anonymous members how her life has been, how she became an alcoholic.

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Poster for Confrontación

2022 · ★ 8.0 (1)

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Poster for Společnice

2000 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The story of old Hana, who devoted her entire life to gardens. She designed them, planted them, cared for them, lived for them. Now she is old, sick, has difficulty moving, and feels that her life has shrunk and is coming to an end. However, Hana is not a whiny poor thing; she is a realistic woman with a sense of ironic humor who can still tease even her very grown-up son. She sees quite clearly that nothing new will happen in her life. The opposite is true. A young girl in worn-out sneakers enters Hana's life.

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Poster for Já Passou

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Alice and Samantha are ex-girlfriends who run into each other by chance at a bar in Recife a few months after their breakup. Faced with the prospect of once again sharing the same spaces as the girl she loved for so long, Alice tries to understand how a feeling she thought was over still runs through her life. How can we tell if our time has truly passed?

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