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Poster for Geerbtes Glück

2004 · ★ 1.0 (2)

Hamburg landscape architect Ulrike inherits a vineyard near Barcelona, where she falls in love with Pablo. Her fatherly friend Joe advises her to be careful, because Pablo is the son of a real estate shark. Is the Spaniard just after her property? Until this is clarified, the drama takes many a bumpy turn.

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Poster for This Is You and Me

2016 · ★ 2.0 (4)

A chance encounter at a bar unravels into a surreal and intense all nighter.

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Poster for Somewhere More Central

1981 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A TV play by Beryl Bainbridge. Formby. As the family gathers for Grandma's funeral, it seems to Olive that the eccentric old lady they have come to bury is far from dead.

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Poster for Ashes and Blood

2009 · ★ 6.7 (5)

Exiled from her country since her husband's murder ten years earlier, Judith lives in Marseille with her three children. After having refused to see her family for years, Judith, in spite of her fears and secrets, allows herself to be influenced by her children's wishes and accepts an invitation to their cousin's wedding. They set off to spend a summer in the old country, discovering their roots and their past. But Judith's return revives old hatreds between rival clans. The spiral of violence is inexorably set in motion, blood will tell...

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Poster for Anne B. Real

2003 · ★ 3.6 (18)

Anne B. Real is the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration by reading the Diary of Anne Frank.

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Poster for Queen of Montreuil

2013 · ★ 5.9 (20)

It's early summer and Agathe is back in France, at home in Montreuil. She has to get over her husband's death and return to her work as a film director. The unexpected arrival at her house of a couple of Icelanders, a sea lion and a neighbour that she has always desired yet never vanquished will give Agathe the strength to get her life back on track...

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Poster for Urlaub vom Leben

2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Rolf Köster has been working as a cashier in a small bank branch for years. Every day passes like the day before. He has a thirteen-year-old daughter who would rather write in a diary than speak and a six-year-old son who has to wear a bicycle helmet because he is constantly banging his head against walls. His wife organizes the whole family life, and Rolf stays in the background. But he has doubts as to whether he, who has "everything", is really happy. Then Rolf is unexpectedly given a week's vacation. He decides not to tell his family and to leave the house as usual. Rolf Köster begins to lead a double life.

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Poster for Savannah

2013 · ★ 6.0 (32)

Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, his long-time friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side. Master of Shakespeare, and the shotgun that provides Savannah's markets with fowl, Ward fights for his rights as a hunter. His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him. An elderly Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy, who passes the legendary Ward Allen down to the next generation.

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Poster for By My Side Again

1999 · ★ 6.2 (10)

When three estranged sisters, Gloria, Ana and Lidia, meet up again on the death of their mother, Adela, they find themselves obeying her somewhat eccentric last wishes. Though their mother has spent the last 30 years without uttering a single word, she has left very clear written instructions of what she wants done after her death.

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Poster for The Sleep Room

1998 · ★ 5.5 (2)

At the height of the cold war, the C.I.A. secretly funded Dr. Ewen Cameron, director of the Allan Memorial Institute, and his experimental research into brainwashing techniques. Twenty-five years later, the last nine survivors of those gruesome experiments fight to expose the truth...of The Sleep Room.

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Poster for Imaginative King

1990 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Mutum

2007 · ★ 7.5 (15)

Thiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place that he had never been able to before, thus slowly letting go of his innocence.

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Poster for Rest Stop

2014 · ★ 7.0 (2)

Everything changes one night for Meredith, a young backpacker desperate to find meaning in her life, when she meets a mysterious stranger in a dingy British service station... claiming to know her.

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2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Images of female sexuality and the insecurities and attitudes that surround women and ageing. Plus the rather unusual affects certain indigestion tablets can have on one's tongue

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Poster for Capernaum

2018 · ★ 8.1 (1915)

After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.

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Set in the mid 1990s, a 12-year-old Jane begins to rebel against her role as proxy-carer for her mother Sylvia, a recently divorced and ever so slightly fading Broadway diva. As Jane does her best to protect her mother from everything that threatens to disturb her delicate equilibrium, she moves quietly from childhood into something else-wiser, freer, and more alone

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Poster for I Am the Other Woman

2006 · ★ 5.1 (14)

Successful architect Robert has a one-night stand with a mysterious lady in red. The next day they meet again, but Carolin is now a corporate lawyer working on a major contract for Robert ...

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Poster for The May Lady

1998 · ★ 5.8 (4)

Forough Kia is a film-maker who got divorced from her husband many years ago and now is living with her son Maani. She decides to make a documentary about perfect mothers. In order to do so she meets many mothers to chose the perfect mother among them. She finally decides to quit making this film because of tiredness but doctor Rahbar wants her to continue. Maani is teasing her every day preventing her from marrying doctor Rahbar but she finally decides that she wants to marry him.

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Poster for Hester Street

1975 · ★ 6.1 (31)

A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.

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Poster for Apaixonada

2024 · ★ 6.6 (25)

Based on the book by Cris Souza Fontes, Apaixonada tells the story of a woman who realizes how monotonous her life is. She finds herself desperate and facing an identity crisis. From then on, she is forced to begin an exciting journey of self-discovery that takes her close to all the passions that life has to offer.

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