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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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Poster for Trivial

2007 · ★ 4.2 (30)

An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is helped by a ghost of an actress who died 30 years ago, or is he slowly going insane?

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2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

One assassin is sent to kill another - one he has had an intimate relationship with.

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Poster for The Hunger Years: In a Land of Plenty

1980 · ★ 4.2 (5)

Hungerjahre is a movie about adolescence in 1950s West Germany, in which director and scriptwriter Jutta Brückner comes to terms with her own memories.

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Poster for Billy Madison

1995 · ★ 6.2 (1757)

Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire, but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2 weeks per grade, to prove that he has what it takes to run the family business.

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2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mysterious portrait of Fernando, aka Deborah Krystal, the glittering and poetic performer of the Lisbon club Finalmente, where he has been performing every night over thirty years in golden dresses. Under the layers of his colorful fabrics, the many skins of Fernando are revealed, letting Lisbon’s legends come to life. Alternately woman mermaid, female birds, woman lion, we are taken into the desires and dreams of metamorphosis and myths.

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Poster for Murdercise

2023 · ★ 3.6 (19)

Phoebe is an obsessed fitness nerd who gets her big break on a sleazy workout video. After being ridiculed by her co-stars, Phoebe befriends a mafia princess wild child, who teaches her how to murder her way to the top.

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Poster for Donzela Guerreira

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Emilia is a writer, living in Lisbon in the year 1959. She is the “Damsel Warrior”, a fictional woman composed from the literary universes of Maria Judite de Carvalho and Irene Lisboa, writers of the city and the characters that inhabit it.

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Poster for Ocean Giants

2011 · ★ 8.0 (4)

A 3-part documentary granting a unique and privileged access into the magical world of whales and dolphins, uncovering the secrets of their intimate lives as never before. Episode 1: Giant Lives / Episode 2: Deep Thinkers / Episode 3: Voices of the Sea

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Poster for Love of the Irish

2025 · ★ 7.4 (8)

Tired of her bad luck, Fiona takes her mom on a trip to Ireland to turn things around where she meets a charming single dad who helps her make her own luck.

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Poster for Love You, Mama

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After the sudden death of her father, a young woman becomes haunted by the uncertainty of the world around her.

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Poster for Surrender

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Triggered and wanting to escape her past trauma, Naomi, a young Asian American female, falls into the world of blackjack to regain a sense of control but finds herself addicted to the game.

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Poster for Appearing Nitely

1979 · ★ 9.0 (1)

Lily Tomlin's Tony Award-winning show "Appearing Nitely" features a repertoire of over 20 zany characters--from Edith Ann and Ernestine to Crystal "the terrible tumbleweed." Tomlin was the first woman to appear solo in a Broadway show with her premiere at the Biltmore theatre in April 1977.

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Poster for Fysh

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This is the story of an old man and a fish that changed his life.

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Poster for Not a Pretty Picture

1976 · ★ 7.6 (4)

Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.

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Poster for AWOL

2011 · ★ 4.7 (6)

Days before deployment to Afghanistan, Joey returns to rural Pennsylvania for Christmas with big dreams of running away to Canada with her beautiful lover. But Joey learns that things don’t always end up as planned. This short film was expanded into a feature film of the same title, it premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, and it was released in 2017.

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