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Poster for Summer Outside

2012 · ★ 5.3 (6)

An unusually hot summer. Fourteen year-old Wanda moves with her family from Berlin to Switzerland. Everything will be better here. The move is meant to heal the open wounds of the family. Anna, the mother, has lost her self-confidence due to an affair her husband Joachim had in Berlin. The big house with the overgrown garden and the pretty small town all seems like one big promise. But the new beginning is difficult for everyone. Joachim, 40, throws himself into family activism while Anna, also 40, tries to strengthen the family with new rituals.

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Poster for Windblown

2019 · ★ 10.0 (1)

After the unexpected death of her brother, Beth Reeves seeks solace in her family's New England cottage. Things go badly.

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Poster for Criature

2024 · ★ 5.8 (14)

A social worker dedicates himself to the recovery of children who have dropped out of school in the streets of Naples thanks to the circus arts. His work, however, is not well received by the families of the neighborhood and the courage of these children, with their stilts and their red noses, will clash with the harsh reality.

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Poster for Dead Women in Lingerie

1991 · ★ 2.7 (6)

A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims.

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Poster for Setembro

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mother and son move into a new house, a new city, a new story.

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Poster for Woo

1998 · ★ 4.2 (39)

Woo is a woman in control of her world. She is smart, self-confident, sophisticated and snarky. And she doesn't have any trouble attracting members of the opposite sex. But for some reason no one ever sticks around. Woo meets Tim, a paralegal who is her complete opposite. They shouldn't click. However, Woo and Tim begin to bond when a series of weird and stressful calamities hits them while they are on their first date.

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Poster for Catharsis

2018 · ★ 4.0 (2)

Experimental film based around a woman's thoughts and emotions.

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A bleak and surreal tale about femininity, aging, and identity loss.

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Poster for Deeper

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Gotti, a former kingpin, returns to reclaim power and Chasity's love. Despite challenges, Chasity and King plan their future while Gotti's secrets and ambitions threaten their relationship.

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Poster for Summer Nights on Planet Earth

1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Gunnel Lindblom twists every plot and family conflict to the breaking point in her intense infidelity drama about a family on the verge of a nervous breakdown

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Poster for The Illinois Parables

2016 · ★ 6.8 (5)

From dreamy aerial opening shots, we are sent on an expedition through the storied land of our fifth most populous state, Illinois, often called a miniature version of America. Deborah Stratman’s experimental documentary explores how physical landscapes and human politics can each re-interpret historical events. Eleven parables relay histories of settlement, removal, technological breakthrough, violence, messianism, and resistance. Who gets to write history—physical monuments, official news accounts, or personal spoken-word memories?

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Poster for The Good Sister

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Rose is very close to her older brother Sam. When a woman accuses him of rape, Rose is asked to testify in the investigation against him. This tests both their relationship and her moral integrity.

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Poster for Sprout Wings and Fly

1983 · ★ 5.8 (11)

Set in the North Carolina Appalachians, Sprout Wings and Fly honors the fiddle playing of 82-year-old Tommy Jarrell of Toast, NC. Tommy was quirky, gregarious and generous, and this film shows him at his best, in fine fiddling form.

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Poster for Sprint

2018 · ★ 6.0 (1)

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Poster for Land Tides

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Laura, a heartbroken teenager from Santiago is on holiday in the southern Chilean archipelago of Chiloé with friends. As she wanders the lonely island seascapes she encounters a group of local seaweed collector women, with whom she shares places and stories.

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1989 · ★ 7.8 (4)

When the village school master discovers the body of a mean-spirited, miserly old woman, with whom he has had a disagreement, he decides to dispose of the body himself without alerting anyone else to it, but when the body is discovered by another villager the same cycle begins again, with the body eventually passing through the hands of half of the village.

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Poster for Marie

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Before undergoing reassignment surgery, a trans woman journeys home to confront her father, but she finds him unable to provide her the closure she seeks.

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Poster for Last Love

1980 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A film about an amour fou between a young doctor and a former teacher. She, daughter of German Jews who emigrated to France, returns to Germany one day: she escapes from her bourgeois life in France into the memory of her childhood.

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Poster for Kill Your Lover

2023 · ★ 4.5 (12)

When Dakota tries to break off her toxic relationship with Axel, it starts transforming him into a monstrous creature. He gradually succumbs to the poison of the decaying relationship, becoming a creature with increased aggression, a touch that melts skin and worst of all, he's contagious.

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Poster for Famille et Variations

1977 · ★ 0.0 (0)

a portrait of the changing social and political context of the nuclear family in the 1970s, focusing on four families of varying circumstances: a traditional nuclear family with a special needs child, a separated family, a single-parent family and a family in a communal living environment.

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