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Poster for The Wolves

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the mid-18th century, the Beast is hunted around the Château de Saint-Alban. In the mid-20th century, a new kind of psychiatry is invented there. Theatre and madness span the centuries.

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Poster for A Bagful of Fleas

1963 · ★ 5.9 (18)

The themes of anarchy and individualism that run through Věra Chytilová’s work begin here, in an almost docu-realist look at women finding freedom and joy amid the rigid conformity of life in a communal factory dormitory.

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Poster for New Russians 2

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An anthology of five stories that can literally happen to anyone.

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Poster for Grandma

2004 · ★ 5.9 (24)

An old Russian grandmother or "babushka", who took part in the Battle of Stalingrad, sacrificed everything for her children and even sold her house to get money for her grandchildren, is shuttled among those very grandchildren--products of the "new" Russia--none of whom want her to stay with them since she's too much of a "burden" for them.

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Poster for Lust Life

2011 · ★ 2.7 (3)

Caught between what was and what could be, a woman who has lost her lust for life in the world's most passionate city, takes a chance.

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Poster for Close to Danger

1997 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A college student (Rinna) typing a manuscript for a novelist (Estes) begins to realize he's planning to carry out the murder mystery in real life.

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Poster for Fervor

2000 · ★ 4.0 (1)

Two-channel video installation by Shirin Neshat

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Poster for Peter's Odyssey

2018 · ★ 6.3 (3)

As every summer, 12-year old Peter is spending the holidays at his grandmother's outside Moscow. But the happy days with the country house, the trees and the lake come to an abrupt end when his parents decide to emigrate to Germany. In the new, unfamiliar surroundings, Peter feels lost and he remains an outsider at school too. The result is that he withdraws increasingly into his own private world and imagines how he could get back to his grandmother's on his own initiative.

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Poster for In the Mirror

2023 · ★ 5.9 (15)

The film is freely inspired by the great actress Monica Vitti, but it is in no way a biopic. It is the story of a woman named Monica, who loses her memory and regains meaning in her life.

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Poster for Nina

2012 · ★ 4.7 (12)

The contemporary architecture of Rome are at the heart of the beautifully shot and winsomely appealing Nina, which charts the oddball escapades of a young woman in a depopulated Rome during one hot summer. This heartwarming tale of a lonesome girl who teaches singing and dog-sits during her holidays on the outskirts of Rome. Its striking cinematography evokes Nina's indefinable anxiety. By opening herself up to life she conquers a vision of her future full of imagination and beauty.

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Poster for The House Is Black

1963 · ★ 7.4 (144)

Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.

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Poster for Arthur Christmas

2011 · ★ 6.8 (1596)

For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.

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Poster for Black Scorpion Returns

2001 · ★ 7.5 (4)

Darcy Walker is a police officer, who by night takes to the streets and fights crime as the superhero the Black Scorpion.

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Poster for Trudell

2005 · ★ 5.4 (14)

A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances, and politics.

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Poster for Marabou

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

With days to live, legendary drag queen Marabou Larrieux reflects on her legacy during one last interview, leading up to her greatest confession of all.

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Poster for Charley Junior's Schooldays

1949 · ★ 3.0 (1)

A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth.

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Poster for Mother/Country

2003 · ★ 1.0 (3)

During the cultural revolution, six-year-old Gharavi was sent from Iran to live with her father in the West, remaining separated from her mother into adulthood. This intense personal documentary follows Gharavi’s return to Iran in an attempt to understand her mother’s decision and to reconnect to her lost past. Choosing not to explain the last twenty years of her life, Gharavi drops the viewer directly into the moment of her return, sharing the immediacy of the event. With the use of verite and acted scenes to mirror the reunion’s emotional landscape, Gharavi’s frustration with her mother’s ambiguity becomes clear. As the visit draws to a close, her mother remains elusive about why she sent Gharavi away, while continuing to encourage and pressure her daughter to return to and settle down in Iran. Gharavi, however, has her own reasons for why she does not want to move back to Iran and meet a “good man.”

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2008 · ★ 8.5 (2)

Annie Lloyd is a daughter's complex and poetic documentation of the last four years of her mother's life and a portrayal of the creativity and wisdom of old age.

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Poster for A Real One

2023 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Two friends living on the south side of Chicago find their friendship tested when one reveals a tightly-held secret.

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Poster for Fatal Honeymoon

2012 · ★ 5.2 (20)

Based on a true story, Fatal Honeymoon tells the shocking story and controversy surrounding a newlywed who tragically dies on her dream honeymoon and the subsequent investigation as to whether or not her husband was guilty of killing her.

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