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Poster for The Japanese Wife

2010 · ★ 6.6 (23)

Snehmoy and Miyage are pen friends who exchange wedding vows through letters. Fifteen years pass but they never meet. Yet the bond of marriage is strong between them. This unusual relationship comes under a cloud when a young widow, Sandhya, comes to stay with Snehmoy along with her eight-year-old son Poltu. Snehmoy and the little boy bond and the arithmetic teacher discovers the joy of palpable bonds and fatherhood. There develops an inexplicable thread of understanding with Sandhya too. But Snehmoy remained loyal to his unseen Japanese wife.

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Poster for T.V. Tart

1988 · ★ 6.0 (1)

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

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Poster for Super Mario Bros.

1993 · ★ 4.5 (1404)

Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.

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1978 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Over three silent sequences, the short film shows moments of sustained, internal tension just before an emotional outburst on the part of the protagonists.

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Poster for Fréwaka

2025 · ★ 7.4 (34)

Care worker Shoo, who is haunted by a personal tragedy, is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman, who fears both her neighbours and the Na Sídhe – sinister folkloric entities she believes abducted her decades before.

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2010 · ★ 3.3 (3)

A love triangle is complicated by an urban legend, Captivus, whereby an entangled couple cannot physically separate themselves.

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Poster for Oy to the World

2025 · ★ 7.3 (3)

After a water line break at Temple Beth Am, the members search for a place to celebrate Hannukkah, and are welcomed into St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church. With the last night of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve falling on the same day this year, the St. Joseph’s youth choir director must team up with the temple’s substitute youth choir director — and they’re old high school rivals.

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Poster for Glass Tears

2001 · ★ 5.5 (2)

An ex-cop searches for a missing teen as a favour to her parents.

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Poster for 200 Cigarettes

1999 · ★ 5.8 (176)

In 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses on New Years Eve.

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— · ★ 0.0 (0)

A full-figured Latina in a “Real Women Have Curves” support group must decide between staying loyal to her girlfriends or risking the loss of her dream man.

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Poster for Hee

2016 · ★ 3.0 (3)

Years after she related to him the story of her parents’ death in a fire, for which – rightly or wrongly – she feels responsible, Japanese psychiatrist Dr. Sanada meets his former patient Azusa once again. Back then, she lambasted him for being wrong for the job. Back then, he let slip that she isn’t actually crazy. Now she’s a prostitute living in precarious circumstances in Los Angeles and is accused of murder, with her memories once again moving inexorably towards a fire. Sanada assesses her in the presence of an investigator who appears not to understand Japanese. Is Azusa now mentally ill for real? Was she back then? And why does the description of her tormentors upset him so?

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2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A comedy drama about relationships, London and a Desert Island Discs obsession. Anna never follows through with anything. But she's absolutely determined to break up with Steve.

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Poster for 8' 19"

2018 · ★ 7.0 (1)

8 minutes and 19 seconds – that’s all the time we have until the news about the death of the sun reaches us. That's what it takes for the light to travel from there to here. And then the darkness comes… But the theme of this Apocalypse is not necessarily going to be expressed through a global cataclysm, horsemen of the apocalypse, angels of death, fire and destruction. It will rather be shown as something very personal, intimate and almost silent.

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Poster for A View of Love

2010 · ★ 5.9 (107)

Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours later, Marc finally puts a name to her face. It's Cathy, the girl he was in love with growing up in Oran, Algeria, in the last days of the French colonial regime. Marc hurries to her hotel. They spend the night together. Then she's gone again. And Marc's mother tells him Cathy never left Algeria. She was killed with her father in a bombing just before independence...

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Poster for In the Footsteps of Elephant

2020 · ★ 8.0 (8)

Follow filmmakers as they capture the epic journey of African elephants across the Kalahari desert. The team faces extreme weather, inaccessible terrain, crocodile-infested waters and close encounters with lions in order to shine a light on these remarkable creatures and their ancient migrations.

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Poster for Home Remedy

1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A 30-year-old bachelor who refuses to leave his house strikes up a relationship with a neurotic neighbor.

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Poster for Unlocking the Cage

2016 · ★ 6.8 (14)

Renowned filmmakers D A Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus follow determined animal rights activist Steven Wise into the courtroom for an unprecedented battle that seeks to utilize the writ of habeas corpus to expand legal “personhood” to include certain animals. Wise’s unusual plaintiffs—chimpanzees Tommy and Kiko, once famed showbiz stars—are now living in filth, struggling to survive. Wise and his impassioned legal team take us into the field, revealing gripping evidence of such abuse and plunging us into the intricacies of their case as they probe preconceived notions of what it means to be a non-human animal.

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Poster for Tooth Fairy: Queen of Pain

2022 · ★ 4.0 (4)

An escaped lunatic who was once known for murdering and collecting teeth has escaped from a mental asylum. Now, a group of teachers on a trip find themselves in grave danger as they are stalked one by one in the middle of the mountains.

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Poster for Cirkusrevyen 2023

2023 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Joy-Maria Frederiksen is the new director in 2023, and there is plenty of topicality and depth, while preserving the revue's fine heritage. Cirkusrevyen 2023 is an elegant performance with enthusiastic performers.

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Poster for Alex

2014 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Alex was adopted at birth. Now that she has come of age, her biological mother has agreed to meet her. She has to choose between letting this opportunity pass or know her at last, striving to overcome the fear of loosing something precious on the journey.

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