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Poster for Gritt

2021 · ★ 5.9 (8)

The troubled artist Gritt is struggling for relevance and belonging in an unwelcoming society, but then she undergoes a radicalization process in the name of art.

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2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for The Pig

2008 · ★ 6.3 (6)

In this live-action, Oscar-nominated short from Denmark, Asbjorn is a patient admitted to a Danish hospital, who quickly warms to a painting of a whimsical pig hung on the walls. It becomes a source of comfort and solace for him - until another patient has it removed by request (Written by Nathan Southern, Rovi)

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Poster for A Matter of Trust

2022 · ★ 5.1 (14)

The lives of five unrelated people — a husband, a doctor, a wife, a student, and a young daughter — are turned upside-down with irreversible consequences.

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Poster for Eggs

1971 · ★ 6.0 (2)

The spirits of life and death go for a drive in this darkly humorous fantasia featuring an original score by Quincy Jones.

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Poster for Remember Me

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Claire just turned 40 years old, got dumped, and moved home to take care of her dying dad. She decides it’s time for her to go on a date.

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Poster for Ni de aquí, ni de allá

1988 · ★ 7.7 (18)

This Mexican comedy stars La India Maria, who drives the FBI crazy because they cannot figure out whether she belongs here or there.

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Poster for The Christmas Trap

2017 · ★ 3.0 (2)

When a couple on the brink of divorce get stuck in an elevator together on Christmas Eve, both think it will be a nightmare. But surprisingly, the Christmas music brings back memories, the gifts they have just shopped for spark a flame, and a misunderstanding from a Christmas past is resolved. As the elevator crew works overtime to rescue them, they realize where they went wrong and rekindle a love that had never really died.

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Poster for Trasharella Ultra Vixen

2011 · ★ 2.3 (3)

A retro-grindhouse film. Starlets fight off the Hollywood Vampire. Directed by Rena Riffel

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Poster for Tip of my Tongue

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

To mark her 50th birthday, filmmaker Lynne Sachs gathers a group of her contemporaries—all New Yorkers but originally hailing from all corners of the globe—for a weekend of recollection and reflection on the most life-altering personal, local, and international events of the past half- century, creating what Sachs calls “a collective distillation of our times.” Interspersed with poetry and flashes of archival footage, this poignant reverie reveals how far beyond our control life is, and how far we can go despite this.

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Poster for Jack of the Red Hearts

2016 · ★ 7.1 (107)

A teenage con artist tricks a desperate mother into hiring her as a live-in companion for her autistic daughter.

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Poster for Sister Aimee

2019 · ★ 5.9 (12)

In 1926 America’s most famous evangelist is a woman. And she’s looking for a way out. Fed up with her own success, she gets swept up in her lover’s daydreams about Mexico and finds herself on a wild road trip towards the border.

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Poster for The Young Wife

2023 · ★ 5.5 (4)

On her wedding day, all that stands between a young woman and marital bliss with her soon-to-be husband is surviving the chaos and expectations of family and friends, each intensifying her spiraling panic.

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Poster for Schoolgirls

2020 · ★ 6.6 (119)

In early 1990s Spain, eleven-year-old Celia lives with her mother and studies at a convent school in Zaragoza. When Brisa, a confident new classmate from Barcelona, arrives, Celia is drawn into a world that challenges the strict religious teachings and sheltered life she has known. Their friendship pushes her to confront hidden truths at home and the uncertainties of adolescence, leading her to explore questions of identity, independence, and belonging.

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Poster for Couleé-D

2017 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Shea Couleé's debut visual album

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Poster for Eighteen

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

It's the day before Grace Fitzgerald's 18th Birthday - aka the last day of her childhood. Desperate to have one last 'golden' day, Grace and her best friend, Bella, skip school to have an adventure.

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Poster for Diva Futura

2025 · ★ 6.6 (59)

In 1980s - 1990s Italy, Riccardo Schicchi’s agency Diva Futura turns free love into porn, making stars of Ilona Staller, Moana Pozzi and others known around the world. Their fame leads to Cicciolina’s election and Pozzi’s mayoral run.

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Poster for Haircut

1978 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A personal ritual of strength is getting a haircut

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Poster for Hollow City

2004 · ★ 5.6 (8)

A group of children, fleeing the war, is taken to Luanda accompanied by a nun. When they reach the aeroplane, 12-year-old N'Dala decides to leave the group and to reconnoitre the city. The nun then starts her unceasing quest for the missing boy. N'Dala, only carrying a textile bag and a doll made of wire, walks through the busy streets filled with people and traffic. Later he finds the tranquility of the island off the coast, where he meets the old fisherman Antonio, with whom he becomes friends. Not much later, he meets the lively, whimsical Zé, who is a little older than he is. N'Dala starts to experience the city and its inhabitants as increasingly forbidding and he would most like to return to the countryside from whence he came. Then he meets Joka, a fringe figure who persuades him to help with a robbery in exchange for money. With this film, Maria Joao Ganga wanted to provide a realistic sketch of the bitter political situation in Angola. One of her most important motivations ...

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Poster for Soul

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A coming-of-age story rooted in an electric subculture, SOUL deals with the loss felt by Mia's loved ones when she leaves her small hometown to study in the city. Brought together by their love of the Northern Soul scene, loss becomes acceptance, and hope as Mia begins a new chapter.

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