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Poster for Webseries: The Movie

2019 · ★ 7.3 (3)

In 2019, a group of four "filmmakers" set out to make a world-changing web series.

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Poster for Some Other Stories

2010 · ★ 6.4 (5)

The film is a high-concept project with five stories exploring the themes of motherhood and pregnancy, directed by women filmmakers from five former Yugoslav republics. “Croatian Story” follows an anguished painter who must decide whether or not to keep one of her unborn twins, diagnosed with Down syndrome. “Serbian Story” finds an expectant mother in the same emergency room with a charming killer. “Bosnia-Herzegovina Story” centers on a financially strapped Sarajevo family whose son?s lover is pregnant. “Macedonian Story” unfolds in a clinic where a drug addict struggles to keep her baby, and “Slovenian Story” ends the omnibus on a humorous note with a nun who finds her own way to immaculate conception.

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Poster for The Other Boleyn Girl

2003 · ★ 7.3 (51)

Based on the controversial novel by Philippa Gregory, "The Other Boleyn Girl" is a fictionalised account of the life of Lady Mary Boleyn who becomes mistress to England's king, Henry VIII, before being ousted by her younger sister, Anne. Mary leaves the Court to marry a commoner, but returns when Anne embarks on a reckless policy to save herself from ruin.

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Poster for Sex, Lies and Butterflies

2018 · ★ 8.0 (1)

An exploration of the diversity of moths and butterflies from caterpillars to larvae to chrysalis to winged flight. The documentary covers camouflage and other anti-predatory tactics along with uniqueness of different species and amazing feats and colors.

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Poster for Hoodie

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young woman enters into a toxic, co-dependent relationship with a heather grey, comfy as fuck, hoodie.

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Poster for Seed

2016 · ★ 1.0 (1)

Naomi Kawase describes Sakura Ando, the lead character in her film, as "a mysterious creature" who is "like a fairy. SEED is the story of the journey this girl takes from the enchanted nature of Nara to the chaos of Tokyo, and the encounters she has along the way. A boy offers her the gift of an apple, which she in turn gives to a homeless man, who proffers a soft piece of chiffon fabric in return. Moving like a tree that sways in the wind, the girl embodies a spirit that secretly runs through places and living things. The eleventh film commissioned by Miu Miu Women's Tales was directed by the multiple Cannes award-winning Japanese director Naomi Kawase.

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Poster for Annaluise & Anton

1999 · ★ 7.1 (30)

Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pretends to fulfill, is never available to her as a mother. Anton, son of a single and sick mother in financial trouble, does his best to help her out of it by working late. Pünktchen decides to help her only friend (as nobody else would anyway) and starts singing in public places. Trouble arises when Anton can't resist stealing a golden lighter and Pünktchen's secret life is discovered by her parents. Two troubled families finally can see the need for actions to be taken.

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1929 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Attica

2021 · ★ 6.9 (42)

Follows the largest prison uprising in US history, conducting dozens of new interviews with inmates, journalists, and other witnesses.

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Poster for Ornette: Made in America

1986 · ★ 6.3 (11)

Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.

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2017 · ★ 5.0 (1)

Jas is the story of a young, English-Iranian girl, and her unlikely meeting with a racist war veteran. It is a story of the desire to escape, and the impossibility of escaping oneself. Alice Trueman won the Red Rock Entertainment Film Competition 2016 to make this short film, which is currently in post-production.

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Poster for Don't Look Too Far

2015 · ★ 4.5 (13)

An eternal landscape from the Yesilcam.

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Poster for Chekhovian Motifs

2002 · ★ 4.1 (11)

The film is based on A. P. Chekhov’s play “Tatiana Repina” and short story “Difficult People”. At his wedding, the groom is horrified to see among the church crowd his former mistress who had recently committed suicide.

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Poster for WOACA

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A woman's skin-care routine ceases to be the bulwark she'd hoped.

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Poster for Sixteen

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In Edinburgh, a sixteen year old girl has a year long relationship with an older guy.

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1980 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A document of a 1980 gay wedding at Pittsburgh's Le Cyrk club

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Poster for The Souvenir: Part II

2021 · ★ 6.5 (96)

In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.

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Poster for Romance

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Despite having the scar that marks the domesticated, Juliana has to keep her freedom. Is romance the ultimate trap?

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Poster for Gibbi West Germany

1980 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Gibbi Westgermany is the name of a former sailor with a Mick Jagger look—leather jacket over the bare chest—who roams the Hamburg neighborhood St. Pauli homeless. His destination is a snack bar in St. Pauli run by his mother. But it is not the safe haven he is looking for.

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Poster for Sisters in Arms

2019 · ★ 7.1 (148)

Kenza and Yaël are two young French women who go to Syria to fight alongside the Kurdish forces. There they meet Zara, a Yezidi survivor. Born in different cultures but deeply united, the women-fighters heal their past wounds and discover their present strength, especially the fear they inspire in their opponents. The three young women soon bound together and become true sisters-in-arms.

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