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Poster for Alekseich

1971 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Realizing that his school is unreachable in stormy weather, young teacher Aleksey "Alekseich" Savostin files a request with the kolkhoz management for the construction of a boarding school.

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1971 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A man, his garden of flowers and a salesman.

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Poster for Our Lives

1985 · ★ 8.0 (1)

The documentary addresses the stereotypes that imprison both men and women, the prejudice against women at the time and the need to legalize abortion to avoid the damage caused by illegal abortion.

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2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Discovery of the Strahov stadium, the largest stadium in the world, where thousands of gymnasts gathered during the communist era. A wordless film that connects the past and the present of a grandiose location.

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Poster for Unter Blinden: Das extreme Leben des Andy Holzer

2015 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Andy Holzer is an extreme mountaineer and has climbed six of the "Seven Summits". What distinguishes him from other professional mountaineers? He is blind. For "Unter Blinden - The Extreme Life of Andy Holzer" Eva Spreitzhofer embarks on a journey into a strange, unknown world for sighted people.

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Poster for Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

2019 · ★ 1.5 (2)

In the aftermath of a huge scandal, Trinity Childs, the first lady of a prominent and respected Southern Baptist Mega Church attempts to help her pastor-husband, Lee-Curtis Childs, rebuild their now borderline non-existent congregation. They must however, reconcile their faith with their personal demons in order to make the biggest comeback that commodified religion has ever seen.

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Poster for Black Heart

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A couple looks to mend their relationship and build a new home in the Azores.

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Poster for Happiness in Other Words

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Veterans are selected for filming an “artistic provocation” dedicated to the image of an unprotected human body during a war. Only one agrees. In the pavilion, when he is painted in gold and removed, he tells what he was thinking when he went to the front in 1944, assigning to himself one extra year.

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1981 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Debut film.

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Poster for Eva's Man

1976 · ★ 7.0 (2)

A short film, based on a novel by Gayl Jones. The film treats a black woman, Eva, who kills her lover. She refuses to speak to a white psychiatrist who questions her about her motives, so he leaves her with a tape recorder to confide in. In flashbacks, we see the abuse Eva suffered at the hands of a husband and two lovers.

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Poster for Women of Venezuelan Chaos

2018 · ★ 5.5 (2)

Five Venezuelan women, from different backgrounds and generations, draw a portrait of their collapsing country that faces possibly its worst social, economic, power and political crisis in its 200-year-history.

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Poster for Let's Be Together

2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Hairon is a Brazilian teenage boy who likes to wear makeup and dress in women's clothes. He lives with his mother and stepfather in a small town in Denmark. Hairon's birthday is coming up, and he travels to Brazil to meet his father for the first time in three years in the hope that his father will come to his party.

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2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In this dark tale of an esoteric ritual, a woman enters a shadowy laboratory where three witches attend a bubbling cauldron, surrounded by hanging skeletons of dresses. She is disrobed, led to a bath, laid in the water and her finger pricked to draw blood. The witches circle, chanting in strange tongues. As the smoke clears, we see the woman has made the ultimate sacrifice, transforming herself into the object of her desire.

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Poster for Neue Freunde, neues Glück

2005 · ★ 6.5 (2)

Nele Ungureit is blindsided: suddenly, after 35 years of marriage, her husband Fred leaves her for his secretary. Nele's ideas of happiness together in old age are suddenly shattered. Even her two grown-up children Susan and Hannes are no support for her in this difficult situation. Nele has great difficulty adjusting to her new single life - until the surprising inheritance of a spacious city villa gives her an idea: together with some senior citizens she has met in the meantime, Nele sets up a shared flat and life together. The only problem is that her son Hannes has his own plans for the villa.

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2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A documentary directed by Antonia Bird.

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2016 · ★ 10.0 (1)

'Heaven is Now' is a colorful, psychological thriller that journeys into the enigmatic realm of Mira's unconscious as she becomes entangled in a devastating love affair with Penny, the pink-haired, perverse girl-next-door. Her haunting encounters with a woman named Claudia drive Mira into a world of drugs, crime and otherworldly circumstances. Mira's sense of reality blurs further into her dreamworld, as she gets trapped in her inner extremes of both heaven and hell.

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Poster for Paul Bowles: Half Moon

1995 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Three short films based on short stories by expatriate American novelist Paul Bowles capture the sense of loss and alienation so common in his works. "Merkala Beach" follows the dissolution of a friendship after a pretty face enters the picture; "Call at Corazon" traces a newlywed couple's challenges while cruising up the Amazon River; and "Allal" chronicles the extraordinary transformation of an Indian boy who befriends a cobra.

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Poster for A Million Miles Away

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An adult woman (the conductor) on the edge of failing and a pack of teenage girls (the choir) simultaneously experience a supernatural version of coming-of-age. The transformation is equal parts tense and tender. It unravels patiently to the infectious beat of an 80s era heavy metal anthem rearranged as a lamentation.

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Poster for A House in Berlin

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A Glasgow woman inherits a house in Berlin and has her eyes opened

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2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Qesya already in love with Iskandar for 5 years. Qesya wants Iskandar thinks about their future. Their relationship is strong and Qesya wantS to tie the knot. However Iskandar is ambitious. He wants to continue his study up to the highest level. Iskandar loves Qesya but he also does not want to sacrifice his dreams.

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