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Poster for Rukhsat

1988 · ★ 9.8 (2)

Arjun Rai lives a poor lifestyle in Bombay, and works as an auto mechanic for a living. He and wealthy Sapna are in love with each other, much to the chagrin of Sapna's dad, who wants her to get married to someone wealthy. Arjun decides to buy his own garage and borrows money from a client, Jagdish Chopra. He works hard and is able to save some money. When he goes to propose for Sapna's hand, her dad asks his watchmen to throw him out, while doing so they find out he was armed, as a result police are summoned and he is arrested. Sapna re-locates to the U.S. to stay with her aunt, who subsequently convinces her to get married to Gautam Saigal.

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Poster for Her First

2019 · ★ 7.2 (2)

Two film school graduates intimidated by the gender stereotypes that pervade film industry decide to make a documentary to explore the issue. The two women spend two years shooting, make 5000 kilometers, talk to established women directors and record every moment of this journey of discovery and self-discovery. But the real journey is just about to begin.

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Poster for Europe - 99euro-films 2

2003 · ★ 2.0 (2)

Second part of a short film project, where every single short film is only allowed to cost 99 Euros. This time there are not only German filmmakers, but directors from all over Europe involved...

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Poster for Uvanga

2013 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Anna is nervous when she and her son, Tomas, arrive in the small, close-knit community of Igloolik, in the Canadian Arctic.

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Poster for Cockaboody

1974 · ★ 7.0 (3)

John and Faith Hubley combined animation with the voices of their preschool daughters Georgia and Emily to make this award-winning short (New York Animation Festival), similar in concept to their earlier work "Moonbird".

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Poster for 100% Human Hair

2002 · ★ 0.0 (0)

100% Human Hair is an action-packed musical extravaganza set in a Los Angeles wig shop. Threatened by eviction, Mr. Kim struggles to keep the business afloat for his motley crew of employees and customers while his yuppy daughter pressures him to retire. Can he keep the shop alive? Eureka! His streetwise granddaughter has a plan. 100% Human Hair ranges from country to opera, surprising with every song. . . .

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2011 · ★ 2.7 (3)

Rob Lawson's perpetual quest for success is interrupted when his estranged daughter shows up pregnant, challenging him to be a father before he becomes a grandfather.

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2000 · ★ 7.5 (2)

During the promotional campaign for "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" in 1999, BBC broadcast a documentary about the Coen brothers, mainly concerning their past. The documentary consists of featured interviews with many of the actors that they have worked with, along with family, friends and crew members.

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Poster for The Bicycle

1982 · ★ 5.5 (6)

Susanne is a young single mother who lives a somewhat "carefree" lifestyle. After quitting her job, she finds herself in trouble financially and attempts a minor insurance fraud to make ends meet. Despite its rare view of everyday socialism from a woman's perspective, East German officials were critical of this frank portrayal of a less-than-ideal socialist citizen and turned down all invitations for the film to be screened abroad.

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Poster for Room Service

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A woman enlists the services of a stranger-turned-sperm donor, but her gay best friend complicates the transaction.

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Poster for Father by Force

1969 · ★ 5.0 (3)

The story is inspired by the comedy of the most famous Yugoslav playwriter Branislav Nušić. Žarko, a young poet is being chased by police for publishing an anti-regime poem. He hides in his friend Dušan's house, who introduced him to his parents and sister Zorica under the name of his old school mate, Vlajko Mićić. Love will develop between the false “Veljko” and Zorica, who admires Žarko’s poems. However, the poet does not reveal his true identity. Zorica’s parents notice the love between the two young people, and on the advise of their family friend secretly invite Vlajko’s father to come to their home.

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Poster for Maybe, Baby!

2018 · ★ 5.7 (8)

Marie is in her mid-thirties and has been with Sascha for a very long time, sometimes she does not even know for how long exactly. The next phase in their relationship is initiated as they only get naked on her fertile days. But does she really want it? The big picture? Or rather be wild and free? When the questions in her head get too loud, she hits the 'mute' button. Until she finds herself in a chalet in the mountains, with three others. Learning that no decisions are decisions. Running away is no option, so it gets straight down to the nitty-gritty.

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Poster for Pride Speeches 25'

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Bruna Linzmeyer and Milton Cunha use humor to portray situations in the LGBTQIA+ community, reflecting on diversity in a light and amusing way.

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Poster for Easy Girl

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two childhood friends reconnect in their twenties: one was once the irresistible beauty of the schoolyard; the other was the shy, kind shadow. On a whim, they decide to move in together, and what begins as an impulsive decision soon turns into a luminous adventure of love, desire and discovery. Nights blur into mornings, laughter into intimacy, and new romances unfold with all the excitement of newly found freedom. However, this joyous and spicy celebration of friendship and desire gradually reveals deeper scars, as echoes of a hidden trauma resurface and shift the meaning of every sexual and romantic encounter.

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Poster for The Writer: Almudena Grandes

2025 · ★ 7.7 (3)

In her own words, over the years, Almudena Grandes shared her way of seeing the world, understanding life, and approaching writing. But Almudena is no longer here. The aim of this film is to keep her memory alive: to celebrate her life and work without forgetting the painful void left by her passing. Luis García Montero, her husband, steps into that void and, in doing so, completes the intimate portrait of a writer who, like few others, has been able to tell the story of our lives.

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Poster for Our Quinceañera

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A high school principal in a small town in Texas hosts a yearly Quinceañera for students that can't afford it. The entire border town gets together to teach these girls that with the power of community any dream can come true.

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Poster for Screen Tests

1977 · ★ 5.9 (7)

Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has an affair with his boss' wife. They meet during the film's screen tests.

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Poster for Eamon

2009 · ★ 5.5 (7)

Grace, Daniel and Eamon, their hyperactive son, spoiled by his mother, envied by his father, go on vacation to an Irish coastal town for a few days, without money but plenty of hidden feelings inside them that they are unable to express.

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Poster for A Kidnapping in Amish Country

2024 · ★ 7.2 (5)

When an Amish woman's daughter is kidnapped, she seeks help from her estranged friend who left the Amish community and found social media stardom.

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Poster for Past Midnight

1992 · ★ 5.0 (47)

A man gets out of prison after 15 years for stabbing his wife to death, and his social worker becomes convinced he was innocent. As she researches his case, and interviews other people who were involved, she begins to fall in love with him, as her friends warn her that he's dangerous.

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