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Poster for Mothers and Monsters

2023 · ★ 6.1 (8)

An elegant woman presides over a banquet whose increasingly surreal nature reflects ideals and anxieties about modern motherhood.

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Poster for Souris, tu m'inquiètes

1973 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Sun on the Horizon

1996 · ★ 7.0 (1)

The last piece of the trilogy, following 'Katatsumori' and 'See Heaven', filming her grandma and herself. Her gazes and insights are cast on the lovable beings in front of her eyes.

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Poster for The Linen

1991 · ★ 6.0 (3)

A subdued observation of daily life in a children's hospital. The driver of a delivery van regularly delivers clean linen to the wards where small, tense dramas of life and death are played out.

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— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Present day. Artist Natasha is preparing for an exhibition of her paintings. At the gallery, before the opening, she recognizes one of the employees as her former classmate and first love, the musician Igor, and she plunges into memories. The beginning of the 2000s. Young Natasha is torn between the pressure of her rational parents, determined to send their daughter to study law, and her dreams of entering the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. A new classmate, the talented musician Igor, helps her believe in herself and take a risk. The young people fall in love with each other, but their happiness is interrupted by a family tragedy. Natasha, not ready to sacrifice her dream for Igor, leaves for St. Petersburg and begins to build her life. The choice made in youth often turns out to be decisive. And the adult Natasha wonders what she should have done if she had the opportunity to turn back time.

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Poster for Dis ek, Anna

2015 · ★ 8.2 (5)

Set in modern-day South Africa, it tells the story of Anna Bruwer, who avenges years of abuse suffered at the hands of her stepfather and the court case that ensues.

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Poster for Posto

2017 · ★ 7.1 (7)

This film to be a family drama based on the theme of parenting. The film revolves around the upbringing of a young boy by his grandparents and his working parents and also deals with the legal fight over parenting as the plot unfolds. His grandpa wins.

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Poster for #SaveRosa

2025 · ★ 6.2 (4)

A young influencer decides to investigate her past after fainting at school. What she discovers puts not only her relationship with her overprotective mother at risk, but also her own life.

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Poster for Siragu

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

It’s a journey of two individuals who set out on a travel to explore life & relationship in a different perspective.

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Poster for The City Girl

1984 · ★ 7.0 (2)

A female photographer who is engaged to a businessman investigates a cult in the local club scene. By living out some of her sexual fantasies, she faces the truth about her life and helps one of the cult's victims escape.

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2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An encounter of a boy and a girl during a traffic jam, when in the back of their parents' cars their two different worlds come close to converging.

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Poster for Hope

1997 · ★ 5.2 (6)

The story of a town's secret, a family's crisis, and a young girl's struggle to reveal the truth.

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Poster for Soulmate

2013 · ★ 5.1 (29)

A widow retreats to a remote cottage to recover from a suicide attempt, only to discover the place is haunted.

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Poster for Medusa's Ankles

2018 · ★ 10.0 (1)

A classics professor finds herself enticed by a Matisse print and becomes enamored with its owner, hairdresser Lucian.

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Poster for Black Seconds

2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Helga Joner's daughter Ida leaves home bound for the local shop riding a yellow bicycle and wearing a red cycle helmet. Helga is shown to be an over-anxious mother who worries excessively about her daughter. She even resorts to calculating the approximate time Ida will take to reach the shop. As night starts to fall, and Ida doesn't return, Helga becomes worried about her daughter, going so far as to phone the shop to see if Ida is there, but she is told that Ida never arrived. Helga and her sister Ruth search for Ida but to no avail. Finally they call the police.

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Poster for A Taste of Romance

2012 · ★ 6.4 (48)

Uptight French chef, Sara Westbrook, gets fired up when her upscale café, Chez Varenne, is suddenly overshadowed by a new restaurant moving in next door run by a group of rowdy firemen. Led by handsome former fire fighter Gill Callahan and his friend Danny, The Five Alarm Grill is soon a big success while Sara and Patsy, her pastry chef, struggle to bring in customers. Sara suddenly softens when she meets Gill's ten-year-old daughter Hannah. Ignoring the obvious tension between her dad and Sara, Hannah is soon playing matchmaker. Can Gill and Sara's burgeoning romance survive the temptation to compete with each other, or will the heat of competition drive them apart?

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Poster for Lagniappe

2006 · ★ 4.2 (4)

A film created by Les Blank and Maureen Gosling from footage that was cut from the documentary "Always for Pleasure" (1978) about Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

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Poster for L'altra donna

2002 · ★ 0.0 (0)

During a television interview in which architect Simone Marini presents an ambitious project he will be in charge of realizing, he is recognized by a young man who, from that moment on, begins to stalk him, his wife, and their young son.

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Poster for The Taste of Mango

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In this hypnotically cinematic love letter flowing through time and generations, director Chloe Abrahams probes raw questions her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, tenderly untangling painful knots in her family’s unspoken past.

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2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An explicit depiction of dressing and undressing two characters, frontally nude, while several people make very relevant comments in the background.

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