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Poster for Tango Bar

2024 · ★ 10.0 (0)

A young woman travels abroad trying to realize her dream of being a model, but there she is deceived and subjected to prostitution at the Cabaret Tango Bar, where she experiences the horrors as a victim of a sex trafficking network.

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Poster for Fear

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mikail had to flee Chechnya for being homosexual. Unexpectedly meeting his old childhood-friend Daud in Germany, Mikal is not only faced with a renewed friendship, but a recurring fear of persecution.

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Poster for Bare Essentials

1991 · ★ 3.2 (6)

A couple leaves for a vacation on a tropical island and finds happiness and love... just not with each-other.

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Poster for Howard

2019 · ★ 1.0 (2)

A film based on the real life events of Keo and Ben: a gay, Mormon, interracial couple who stayed together for almost 30 years. A special and loving relationship that defies condemnation from family, church, and community when tolerance and acceptance of relationships outside the perceived "norm" were rare.

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Poster for Fidelity

2019 · ★ 6.7 (324)

A successful obstetrician living a seemingly stable married life begins to question her relationship when emotional and physical intimacy fades. Suspecting her husband of betrayal, she seeks connection elsewhere, stepping into a hidden world that offers desire, control, and escape. As she navigates this parallel existence, the boundaries between loyalty, loneliness, and self-discovery slowly begin to blur.

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Poster for Pool Party

2023 · ★ 8.0 (1)

In this bitterly funny short, a trans woman adjusts to the onslaught of microaggressions by cis people at a pool party.

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— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Plot under wraps. Said to be a silent film.

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Poster for We Grown Now

2024 · ★ 6.7 (33)

In 1992 Chicago, a story of two young legends in their own right begins. As wide-eyed and imaginative best friends Malik and Eric traverse the city, looking to escape the mundaneness of school and the hardships of growing up in public housing, their unbreakable bond is challenged when tragedy shakes their community just as they are learning to fly.

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Poster for Sound It Out

2011 · ★ 6.2 (13)

A portrait of the last surviving vinyl record shop in Teesside, North East England, at a time when independent record shops were closing in the UK at a rate of one every three days. A distinctive, funny and intimate film about men, the North and the irreplaceable role music plays in our lives. High Fidelity with a Northern Accent.

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Poster for Code Haneke

2022 · ★ 7.3 (7)

Features interviews with two-time Palme d'Or winner Michael Haneke and his key collaborators, alongside excerpts from his films.

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2011 · ★ 3.5 (3)

A young married couple decides to appear in a porn movie to shore up their joint budget.

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Poster for Warm Swamp

2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A chain of harshness. Brother’s divorce brings ceaseless conflict to the family. Disputes over custody of his kid and alimony constantly plague him, but I can neither help him nor ignore his troubles. Boyfriend seems to be selfish and makes me nervous. There are always anxieties lurking below the surface of any human relationships. This anxiety becomes incarnated in the shadowy face of a pervert hiding in the alley, and darkness has its metaphorical meaning in the entire film.

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Poster for Ricky Rapper

2008 · ★ 4.8 (10)

Ricky Rapper is a ten year old boy who lives with his aunt Serena and likes to play drums and rap. His aunt breaks her leg, leading to cousin Fanny moving in to take care of the household. Fanny is very strict and that means no more drums for Ricky. With the help of his downstair neighbor Nelly, Ricky seeks to restore the normal order to the apartment.

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Poster for Just 1 Day

2022 · ★ 3.7 (3)

Mosaic, an urban sketch artist suffering from motor neurone disease, meets an old school friend, Angelfish, at a class reunion. As his illness takes a tragic hold, he asks her to fulfil one wish - to be his girlfriend for just a day.

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Poster for Esperança

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A 12-year-old Black girl dreams of becoming a professional soccer player in the outskirts of Brazil, facing exclusion on the field and resistance at home.

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Poster for Fort McCoy

2014 · ★ 5.6 (4)

Unable to serve in World War II because of a heart condition, a barber moves his family adjacent to a Wisconsin army base and prisoner-of-war camp to provide his services. But even in rural America -- far from the frontline -- the war finds victims.

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A successful scientist develops a revolutionary recreational drug that works only on women, awakening a powerful sense of ecstasy and pleasure even when nothing in their circumstances has changed. However, a trial takes an unexpected turn, when he dangerously entangles one of his patients in his own marriage.

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Poster for Kneidler

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Gambler

2006 · ★ 6.8 (10)

A humorous documentary about Nicolas Winding Refn and his struggle to secure his family financially and help him get on with his life. Forced to file for personal bankruptcy after the failure of "Fear X" at the box office, Refn has only one chance to wipe the slate clean and continue his career as a filmmaker: produce sequels to his breakthrough movie "Pusher."

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2003 · ★ 10.0 (1)

The documentary film Remembrance is an outline of the past century taking as a motif the life of Luis Frank, a Lithuanian emigrant. It is a journey through a time wich the world was made by war, that of wich we have so many times heard of and by wich we live constantly under menace. Emigration, war, freedom, childhood, the quest for something, a country -Mexico- kept in memories, are some of the subjects dealt within this film. Remembrance is the story of people who have traveled the world in search of a place where to belong, people whose lives were punctuated by ruptures.

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