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Poster for Normal Appearances

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

“Women watch themselves being looked at.” –John Berger

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Poster for Harriet

2019 · ★ 7.3 (902)

The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.

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Poster for So Much Tenderness

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Having fled Colombia after her husband was murdered, an environmental lawyer rebuilds her life in Toronto with her tempestuous daughter, only to risk losing everything when her traumatic past re-surfaces.

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Poster for Laymun

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In a Middle Eastern war zone, a gardener defies the violence and destruction around her by growing a lemon garden, filling her home with life-giving lemon plants.

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Poster for Night and Day

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young woman tries to hold it together during a tense and unpredictable evening with her brother and estranged husband.

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Poster for Charlton Heston: For All Seasons

1995 · ★ 5.0 (2)

The life and times of actor and NRA activist Charlton Heston.

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Poster for Die Skorpionfrau

1989 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Lisa is a judge, 44 years opld and divorced. She lives with her 18 year old son Georg. For seven years she has had a weekend relationship with Felix. Suddenly her life takes a drastic turn when she falls for 23 old law trainee Rudi.

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Poster for Four Walls

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for 1982

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Janey is visiting her aunt in New York for the first time traveling all the way from the Netherlands. She asks her to visit her former home of Suriname, but what she hears is even more stunning tale of the revolution.

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Poster for Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo

2006 · ★ 7.9 (446)

After a battle with a high-tech villain named, Saiko-Tek, the Teen Titans travel to the city of Tokyo where they find themselves embroiled in a conflict with an ancient enemy.

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Poster for Cease Fire 2

2014 · ★ 1.0 (6)

A young couple try to fix their marriage troubles with the help of a psychiatrist.

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Poster for Call Me Agostino

2006 · ★ 2.0 (2)

Hélène and Marianne are two girls with love on their minds. Together, they decide to play a short-lived game of deception. A guy called Agostino Stone charms the two but then disappears into thin air, but not without first leaving his mark…

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Poster for Red, White and Blue

2024 · ★ 7.8 (19)

A young mother from Arkansas is forced to travel across state lines in search of an urgent and necessary abortion.

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Poster for Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don't Know Me

2018 · ★ 6.3 (62)

The untold and ultimately inspiring story of legendary singer, Teddy Pendergrass, the man poised to be the biggest R&B artist of all time until the tragic accident that changed his life forever at the age of only 31.

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Poster for Snow Lotus

2008 · ★ 4.7 (3)

A Tibetan girl, who’d be a bride, could sing the traditional folk song Ganglamedo magically and elegantly. Her name was the same as the name of the song. But she disappeared in the night of her wedding. 60 years later, An Yu, a singer of Han nationality, became hot for singing Ganglamedo. But she lost her voice in a performance and then she disappeared, too. Is Ganglamedo a beautiful curse?

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2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Setareh is a lively, positive, and energetic 72-year-old woman. Her life in Iran and Sweden has been a rollercoaster, from the dreams of becoming a pilot she had as a young girl to her life in 21st-century Sweden.

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Poster for Aşkın Kesişme Noktası

1990 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The urban intellectual man is so overwhelmed that he has isolated himself. The young woman, bored in the countryside, is trying to escape to a different and bigger world. One person's place of escape is the other's place of longing. In this film, which encourages us to keep the world livable, director Olgaç says that friendship between people can only exist through love.

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1988 · ★ 5.0 (1)

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Poster for Love Me

2013 · ★ 5.9 (7)

Across a language barrier, a Turkish groom-to-be on an engagement party in Kyiv meets a Ukrainian that represents the 'other woman' for a marriage there.

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2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A silent short film commission for New York City's legendary Film Forum. Jeremy Bentham is considered the founder of utilitarianism, the moral philosophy which says the best actions are those which provide the most pleasure to the greatest number of people. For Freud and Bentham, the pleasure principle is life’s motivating force. Lane went looking for “The Pleasure Principle” in offbeat educational films, from behaviorism and neuroscience (Pavlov’s dogs trained to drool at the sight of a lightbulb, lab rats outfitted with pleasure-producing electrodes triggered by the pressing of a lever) to YouTube tutorials on wireheading (the artificial stimulation of the brain via electrical current to experience pleasure), meditation and tantric sex.

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