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Poster for SIROP DE NAMAQUEMONO

2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Animated short by Mai Tominaga.

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Poster for The Trampoline

2017 · ★ 5.7 (3)

The Trampoline is not a romantic love story - it is a film about a powerful and sometimes double-edged love, and the darker side of a mother-daughter bond that has been stretched to breaking point.

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1955 · ★ 0.0 (0)

General shots of Edinburgh City Centre taken by film-maker Margaret Tait, focussing on the Royal Mile, Holyrood House and Princes Street Gardens.

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Poster for Vidal

2025 · ★ 5.3 (3)

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Poster for Amnesia

2014 · ★ 5.4 (7)

The couple Thomas and Kathrine are both writers, but she is in a violent relationship with a psychopath. During a weekend at a remote island they have a fight, which leads to Thomas having amnesia after hitting his head. Kathrine sees this as an opportunity to get out of the forced relationship, and hides anything that can help him understand who he is. Or could they have a new start? Or will Thomas gradually find out what's the case?

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Poster for Dangerous Cheaters

2022 · ★ 2.2 (5)

When star student Kaley gets suspicious of a group of underachievers’ high SAT scores, she unwittingly uncovers a cheating ring and puts her life in jeopardy.

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Poster for Kai

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A small German village in the south of Brandenburg is preparing for a traditional youth ceremony. Children become adults, which is a cause worth celebrating. The young Kai lives with his father on a farm. They have invited guests for the festive meal planned for the following day. Everything has been arranged and the calf is ready for slaughter. But Kai's father does not want to slaughter or celebrate, he wants his peace. Driven by the fear that everything could go wrong, Kai races through the sleepy village. The afternoon leads him to Lea, a local girl. With her, time takes on a different pace. KAI captures a formative moment in life, where a boy tries to find a way out. From a village, from a family situation and from his own anxieties.

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Poster for Faithless

2000 · ★ 6.6 (50)

Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by Markus' decision not to let her have custody of their daughter. Finally Markus announces he may have a solution to the stalemate, but this leads to deception, lies and ultimately, tragedy.

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2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The Devil wants to hire a publicist to change his image but a phone call to his mother reveals even the devil has a mother who let let him do what he wants.

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Poster for Last Dance

2023 · ★ 5.9 (11)

Germain, an introspective retiree, abruptly becomes a widower at 75. He barely has the time to realize what has happened to him before his family forces their way into his daily life: non-stop phone calls and visits, meals and activities organized in advance – all meant to make his life as regular as clockwork. But Germain’s mind is elsewhere. Honoring a promise he made to his dear departed wife, he suddenly finds himself at the heart of a contemporary dance company’s newest work.

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Poster for Still the Water

2014 · ★ 6.8 (106)

On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito suffers from the absence of his father, who moved to Tokyo after his birth, Kyoko must come to grips with her mother’s terminal illness.

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Poster for Loto-Méno

2021 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Véro compares perimenopause to the lottery: you can experience 3, 10 or 30 symptoms. In her case, she won the lottery. The first signs came early in her life. So she didn't make the connection between the mood swings, water retention, dry skin, hair loss - and menopause. Before finding comfort, she wandered for years. Loto-Méno is her story, her quest, told with courage and frankness.

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Poster for Anak Hoki

2019 · ★ 6.0 (1)

In his early teens, Ahok has to leave the comfort of his life in Belitung and start living independently in Jakarta. Ahok then gets to know Daniel, Bayu, and Eva who become his closest friends. Ahok is determined to apply all the moral values and goodness he learned from his father. But doing good is not as simple as he thought. When Bayu begins to fall in love with Eva and is jealous of Ahok, when Daniel begins to involve Ahok in his lies with his family, and when Eva apparently keeps a big secret and runs away from home, Ahok realizes, there were times when doing right needed sacrifice and struggle. Not to mention when Ahok realizes that he could not fulfill his father's hopes of becoming a doctor.

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Poster for Ruweda

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Three people cross paths at a local town carnival, each with something to gain and to lose. One of them acquires it, the other two pay the price.

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Poster for The Bear

1998 · ★ 5.5 (11)

A polar bear breaks out of his enclosure to bring a little girl's teddy bear back to her. While she cares for him, the bear takes her on a magical journey. Based on Raymond Briggs' best selling storybook, this enchanting animated tale is from the makers of The Snowman.

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Poster for Bored

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

London 2017, everyone’s over-stimulated, under-energized and trying to love, laugh and live as hard as the next Instagrammer. Jamie and Eve are mates who’ve always shared everything and after getting high at a party, they share everything. In the sober light of day will things ever be the same again?

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Poster for Audição

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

During the selection process for a film, actors show the struggle and tiredness of those who decide to make a living from Art. While parading their truths, fictional characters merge with recurring narratives from the actor's daily life. But who is just an actor and who is a character?

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Poster for Ultra

2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Superhero Pearl Penalosa juggles the impossible combination of keeping up a social life, searching for love, and battling the forces of evil.

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Poster for Cinema Komunisto

2010 · ★ 7.1 (14)

This eye-opening and bittersweet chronicle of the Yugoslavian film industry recounts how the cinema was used—often with direct intervention from President Josip Broz Tito—to create and recreate the young nation’s history, replete with heroes and myths that didn’t always hew closely to reality.

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— · ★ 0.0 (0)

A story about family ghosts, wild pigs and the end of the world, which we all imagine differently. The drama Wilderness is an existential grotesque about building and breaking down family myths, love, memory and impermanence.

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