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2015 · ★ 3.8 (4)

During a family weekend in the Swedish wilderness, 17-year-old Victor draws closer to his beautiful, cancer-ill aunt, but fails to notice the wary eyes with which the rest of the family watches her.

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2001 · ★ 4.0 (2)

Fanny is ten year old girl and a very talented gymnast, but suddenly she's getting seriously injured and ends in a wheelchair.

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Poster for Miragem

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

For a while, I doubted about what I felt, but the psychiatrist said I din't need any medicine. So, I decided to make a movie from it. I invited my mother and a great actress to participate. It was a ritual of turning into film what I didn't want to be just real life, or anymore. Mixing memory and invention, women and the cinema.

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Poster for Omelia Contadina

2020 · ★ 6.8 (30)

A farming community gathers on a plateau on the border of three regions for the funeral of traditional agriculture. It’s a film to ward off the disappearance of a millenary culture.

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Poster for Guilty Pleasure

2024 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Guilty Pleasure explores the complex relationships and personal struggles of three ambitious lawyers as they navigate their way through love, betrayal, and ambition.

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Poster for 87 love letters

1992 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Remigio, a man abandoned by his lover, walks his lonely existence through the night of the city. Fate sets him up a date with Julia. As in fairy tales, the enchantment lasts until dawn. The presence of the moon gives us the measure of time and reinforces the feminine ideal.

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Poster for Games of the Heart

2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A woman in love with a musician has a change of heart on her 18th birthday.

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Poster for Junior

2011 · ★ 6.5 (69)

A pimple-faced 13-year-old tomboy starts morphing in bizarre ways after catching stomach flu.

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Poster for Mabel at the Wheel

1914 · ★ 5.6 (41)

A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.

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Poster for Going North

2022 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Rodrigo is 27 years old, and a few fewer teeth are the least of the consequences his addictions have brought to him. In an attempt to rehabilitate himself, he travels to the north of the country accompanied by Natalia, his sister, who carries a camera on her shoulder throughout the entire process. While they both tell their story, they embark on an intimate and lacerating exodus that confronts them with the depths of their family and relationship. A challenging healing process where brotherly love is the only compass that allows to find the north.

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Poster for An Angel at My Table

1990 · ★ 7.0 (180)

Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the author at various stage of her life. Afflicted with mental and emotional issues, Frame grows up in an impoverished family and experiences numerous tragedies while still in her youth, including the deaths of two of her siblings. Portrayed as an adult by Kerry Fox, Frame finds acclaim for her writing while still in a mental institution, and her success helps her move on with her life.

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Poster for Bir Kadın Tuzağı

1971 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Power Alley

2023 · ★ 7.2 (18)

On the eve of a future-defining championship, promising 17-year-old volleyball player Sofia is faced with an unwanted pregnancy. Seeking an illegal termination, she becomes the target of a fundamentalist group determined to stop her at any cost – but neither Sofia nor those who love her are willing to surrender to the blind fervor of the swarm.

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Poster for Cirkusrevyen 2006

2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Inedia

2024 · ★ 10.0 (1)

After a series of mysterious and debilitating allergic reactions to food, a young woman joins a radical community of people who claim to be nourished by light.

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Poster for Valley Girl

2020 · ★ 5.6 (103)

Set to a new wave '80s soundtrack, Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. They are from different worlds and find love. Somehow they need to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends.

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Poster for True Moments

1998 · ★ 3.5 (4)

By chance Erik meets Viivi, an Estonian violinist playing in the Stockholm subway. They start an intense romance. Erik's mother dislikes the relationship, not having forgotten her escape from Estonia during the war. She reveals facts from the past and Erik finds out that his Swedish father adopted him. His real father was an Estonian nazi. Viivi has grown up in communist Estonia where her father was a party member and worked for the KGB.

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Poster for The Daughter of Albino Rodrigue

2023 · ★ 6.2 (13)

Rosemay, 16, lives in a foster home and only joins her biological family for the vacations. One day, her father is not there to welcome her as planned. Moreover, he does not reappear and seems to have evaporated. Her questions are met with lies, and Rosemay can only rely on her intuition.

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Poster for Trauerweiden

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A therapist dies under mysterious circumstances. No one knows how or why. At the Russian-Jewish funeral service, his daughter, relatives and former patients gather to come to terms with the loss together. However, no one seems to have known the deceased well. The question increasingly arises as to who the guests are actually mourning: the deceased, their lost home or simply themselves?

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Poster for Emptying the Tank

2018 · ★ 4.5 (2)

In her striking portrait of Chippewa female mixed martial artist Ashley Nichols, Caroline Monnet eloquently demonstrates and celebrates the athlete's inner strength, fortitude, and dedication to her physical and spiritual health.

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