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Poster for Küß mich!

1995 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Paula knows exactly what she wants to do after her studies. She wants to marry her long-term boyfriend Michael, start a family and earn money. Her only problem is her fountain pen kleptomania. She compulsively takes her writing instruments everywhere. During an auction, she steals a fountain pen from an auction guest. A short time later, this man, Fabian, is invited to dinner: He is a friend of Michael's. Paula falls deeply in love with Fabian and her plans for the future begin to falter. In the end, she decides against security and follows her passion. She flees into uncertainty with Fabian.

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Poster for My Sister's Double Life

2025 · ★ 8.5 (4)

When Chelsea's sister vanishes after a late-night shift at a diner, she must convince the police that someone has abducted her. As she races against the clock, she discovers that not only is her sister's life in danger, but the captor is now after her...and they'll stop at nothing until both women are dead.

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Poster for Hammer

2024 · ★ 2.0 (1)

Cartagena, Colombia – 1666. An enslaved woman accused of witchcraft comes face to face with evil incarnate and a Faustian bargain for her freedom while imprisoned in the bowels of the Palace of the Inquisition.

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Poster for Flowers of Blood

2002 · ★ 5.7 (7)

In custody after she murders her middle aged photographer lover, a fourteen year old Pam reflects back on the bohemian life she spent with her mother Lily, a free spirited cabaret performer. Lily tried to elevate her stripper performances from the level of erotic spectacle to artistic expression as she dragged her young daughter from nightclub to nightclub and hotel to hotel, but ultimately lost her at nine to the Paris child authorities.

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Poster for Translating Grace

1996 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An innovative drama that explores the unique relationship between two Korean-Canadian women. Grace, a second generation feminist academic, and Hyang-Sook, a recent immigrant from Korea. Grace is the translator for Hyang-Sook's immigration interviews and finds herself facing a moral dilemma-- is translating a lie an act of lying itself? The conflict is played out in Grace's psychic lanbdscape. In a role as a kiseang, a female court prostitute of 15th century Korea, she finds herself engaged in a mysterious poetry (sijo) competition with Hyan Sook dressed as a nobleman. The structure of the film incorporates elements of Korean performance art and popular Korean melodrama.

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2005 · ★ 5.0 (2)

A young girl who plays a trick on a friend, unaware or uninterested in the possible consequences.

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Poster for Rao Saheb

1985 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Adaptation of a literary work on the slow deterioration of an orthodox family, where the women are unable to achieve emancipation and the men succumb to insanity.

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Poster for Puede ser divertido

1995 · ★ 5.0 (1)

Alicia and Carmen are two recently divorced single mothers who become friends after their kids get in a fight at school. Their new friendship is put to the test when they agree to start dating the same man for fun.

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Poster for Una Palabra Tuya

2008 · ★ 4.7 (12)

After years of setbacks, hopes, anxiety and realities, the fear that they don’t deserve to be happy has taken shape. Together, Rosario and Milagros take two different routes in life: one towards the cruelest nothingness with a joyful and vital attitude and the other towards a hopeful future from a redeemed life and in the middle there is forgiveness.

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Poster for Todo personal

1998 · ★ 5.0 (3)

When a policeman begins dreaming that he is a murderer and the homicides actually start taking, his brother is to blame.

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1991 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The little dove Vinga gets lost when she is on her way home after buying strawberry jam.

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Poster for Stoned Alone

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

A 20-something loser misses the plane for his holiday ski trip and gets high at home, only to then discover that thieves have broken into his house.

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2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Slightly absurdist story about a busy working mother who is left to herself when her husband forgets about their family outing. Stressed, she arrives at the fun fair with her children, where she is annoyed to find herself surrounded by all sorts of beaming families. A feeling of loneliness besets her. In her search for warmth and security, she not dispenses with her husband, but also her common sense.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna travel to Europe for their honeymoon and end up staying in a health resort in Switzerland, only to return to Russia after four years. Fyedya can’t shake his roulette habit and keeps losing their money. His wife accepts this fate since he keeps assuring her that it’s all for inspiration and soon he shall write his to-be masterpiece, 'The Idiot'.

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Poster for Hello

2022 · ★ 6.3 (175)

An emotionally unavailable flight attendant meets a potential love interest and later finds out that her "perfect guy" has ulterior motives. As the clock ticks down on New Year's Eve, she must fight to keep her murdered ex-boyfriend's secrets or find herself dead.

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Poster for Nothing Bad Can Happen

2013 · ★ 7.0 (62)

Tore, a young lost soul involved with an underground Christian punk movement, falls in with a dysfunctional family who test his seemingly unwavering faith.

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Poster for On Falling

2025 · ★ 7.0 (28)

Aurora, a Portuguese migrant, works as an order picker in a warehouse in Edinburgh, Scotland. Caught between the walls of a huge distribution centre and the solitude of her own room, Aurora tries to seize every opportunity to resist the alienation and isolation that threaten her identity.

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Poster for National Theatre Live: War Horse

2014 · ★ 8.8 (5)

Based on Michael Morpurgo's novel and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France.

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Nora Grey is a straight-laced girl who always does the right thing. She has a level head and an independent streak that comes from raising herself for most of her life. She is very studious and has a firm, clear plan for the future -- but her entire life is turned upside down by the appearance of the new, attractive and darkly charismatic student at her school, a mysterious young man named Patch.

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Poster for My Mother's Wedding

2025 · ★ 7.1 (20)

Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. But the mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, with help from a colorful group of unexpected wedding guests.

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