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Poster for King of Atlantis

2019 · ★ 9.0 (2)

Samuel is the primary carer for his father - a paranoid schizophrenic. A chance encounter with a young woman disrupts their carefully constructed world and leads Samuel to question the kind of man that he would like to be.

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Poster for Moontown

2013 · ★ 4.0 (2)

A wandering boy with nothing to offer chases a bourgeois girl he once loved.

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Poster for Man in the Corner

2019 · ★ 1.0 (2)

What starts out as a hot hookup with his dream guy turns into a nightmare when Daniel realizes they aren't alone in the house.

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Poster for Bus

2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This documentary follows a bustrip from Tallinn to Kaliningrad. A route that was so common in the Soviet times now passes through 4 different countries and crosses 3 different borders.

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2002 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Father and Son's Car

1990 · ★ 5.7 (3)

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Poster for Canal

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

He came from the city and is trying to fit in the countryside – Alentejo. His life is dedicated to picking raspberries, hunting and taking swims in the canal. She is passing through and comes from the world he wanted to leave behind. One day they meet and their attraction is immediate. But their natures prevail over all else: she is free and he's a hunter.

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Poster for The Fire

2011 · ★ 4.4 (7)

Judith decides to go on her own to the salsa-dancing night, even though her boyfriend, with whom she goes there every week, can’t accompany her. A stranger, with whom she briefly dances, offers to walk her home. Next morning, upon returning home, Judith refuses at first to accept that she’s a rape victim, but in the end decides to go to a doctor and press charges - which prove inadequate to have the rapist convicted. Under the influence of sweeping bodily and mainly psychological oscillations, Judith decides she has to follow an unorthodox path in order to prove the perpetrator’s guilt.

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Poster for For Sama

2019 · ★ 8.2 (300)

A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.

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Poster for While Choking

2008 · ★ 8.0 (1)

Miles is sent to therapy by his parents, as the couple believes their son has a problem with drugs. During the therapy session the story takes a turnaround.

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Poster for Londeleau

1988 · ★ 2.0 (2)

A young woman accused of witchcraft tells an inquisitor the story of her parents who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

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Poster for Hot Money

2021 · ★ 5.4 (5)

With wit, satire, and historical context, Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, General Wesley Clark and his son Wes Clark Jr. take us on a journey through the financial circulatory system connecting farmers, homeowners, bankers, academics, and business professionals in a tale that explains the knot of economic forces that can lead to collapse and how to untie it.

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Poster for Virago

2019 · ★ 6.5 (2)

A man falls off a roof. Another one drowns. Another catches fire. Wherever you look, men are dropping like flies. “May God rest their souls,” sigh the widows as they cross themselves somberly. This is the life and the death of the men in Virago—a village where for centuries no man has lived long enough to see his fortieth birthday. Until today.

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2000 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Nick and Henry are supposed to receive a package of drugs from Maria and then deliver it to their boss. But in order to earn more money, they have tracked down another buyer who is now waiting for his drugs. Since Maria is carrying the drugs around in her stomach, they have already provided a bottle of castor oil. However, the woman drops dead on the way to the bathroom, which is why the two now have to find another way to get the drugs so that they can still get their money to fly to the Caribbean...

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Poster for Tales of the Dumpster Kid

1971 · ★ 3.2 (6)

The Dumpster Kid is an artistic creation: in every story society forces her to learn something. But she, fully grown from the moment of her birth, unquestionably learns more than is called for. This extra knowledge, which is not wanted by society, regularly brings her into danger. Dumpster Kid dies in each story, and across each genre. Her stories are set in a whole range of different time periods. What is a Dumpster Kid?

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Poster for Nice

2009 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Martial, seventeen year-old, has ran away to Nice, to see his mother, singer with a chaotic life. Near her house, he meets three women : an employee of the Organization managing unemployment, a former classmate, and owner of the place. Three educational and sentimental fragments. Three secrets. Three songs.

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Poster for Buffy the Vampire Slayer

1992 · ★ 5.6 (889)

Blonde, bouncy Buffy is your typical high school cheerleader. But all that changes when a strange man informs her she's been chosen by fate to kill vampires.

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Poster for Tonio

2016 · ★ 5.9 (16)

After 21-year-old student Tonio dies in a traffic accident, his novelist parents face sorrow and regret as they suffer the agony of losing their only child.

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Poster for The Blot

1921 · ★ 6.2 (25)

Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the professor's rich student Phil West falls for beautiful Griggs daughter Amelia and also befriends the poor Reverend Gates (a young man who is also in love with Amelia), he observes the difference in his life and theirs and tries to help make a difference.

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Poster for The Secret Life of Bees

2008 · ★ 7.5 (561)

Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past.

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