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1995 · ★ 2.0 (3)

Computer expert Silvia Berger suffers from severe amnesia: she neither knows her true identity nor can she remember the past. She is tormented by terrible nightmares. Against the wishes of her psychoanalyst, she researches her past. Using a computer, she finds her home town: a small island in the Baltic Sea. Silvia travels there - and discovers her family's criminal machinations...

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Poster for Police

2025 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Berlin, post-Corona. Anton is getting his life off the ground: apprenticeship, his own place with his girlfriend, no drugs, nothing dodgy. But then Anton gets a “yellow letter” in which he’s accused of a serious breach of the peace and resisting arrest. It all happened two years ago and the images come flooding back: the 1st May demo, his arrest. Anton has to get reinvolved in the life he was hoping to put behind him. The naive, good-natured boy feels burning hatred when he realizes he’s not the culprit, but the victim.

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Poster for Rakushka

2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A husband whose young wife has committed suicide meets for the first and last time his Russian mother-in-law who has arrived to collect the coffin.

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Poster for Detroit

2017 · ★ 7.3 (1718)

A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.

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Poster for Fiction

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Billie is a 16-year-old girl growing up in the 1940s, whose family struggles to understand what family is supposed to mean. She turns to her books and her friend Jeanie for comfort and solace and wishes she could live in any world more fictional than her own. When she starts to uncover some more difficult truths about the state of her family's dysfunction, she wonders whether or not family is even worth the effort of trying to connect with.

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Poster for Crazy Glue

1998 · ★ 6.0 (1)

An animated puppet short adapted from a story by Israeli author Etgar Keret, this film tells the story of one innovative attempt to patch up a disintegrating marriage -- through the use of crazy glue!

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Poster for Five Bottles of Vodka

2000 · ★ 5.9 (12)

A film about the backstage life of an ordinary Moscow bar, where relationships between the owner, the racketeer and the employees are pretty reminiscent of the ones in a family. However, unlike a family, they are connected by a mutual cause, the role in which are far from equal. Submission and humiliation weave through the characters' entire lives.

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2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A sixteen years old girl is brought to a park for little children by her puritan overprotective authoritarian and abusive mother to celebrate her 16th birthday. For the mother the Girl is still a little child. The most terrible thing that could happen to her is to see or think about anything connected to the sexuality, so she keeps her innocent 16 years old daughter away from teenagers, she sends her to play to the area for the most little children. While Mother is enjoying her power, the Girl meets a big Rabbit who surprisingly opens for her the whole new world of wonder.

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Poster for Taboo: Family Secrets

2024 · ★ 5.8 (4)

A family is fractured by Lukas, the patriarch, and his ongoing infidelities. When the son Tyler comes home for a visit, a taboo passion between him and his stepmother Amanda blossoms, changing the family dynamics forever. The allegiances and expectations shift radically as the truth is revealed.

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Poster for Mountaintop

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An unfiltered look at the recording of the new album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

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2011 · ★ 5.0 (1)

A young boy asks his pregnant mother if he will like his baby brother, and he asks her if she has a brother. This sends the mother, Lisle, on a reverie of her relationship with her older sister, Aurora, when they were kids and their mother was dying. Flashbacks show the contrasting reactions of the two girls, Aurora's anger and Lisle's innocent determination to find her mother. The boy's questions also prompt Lisle to visit Aurora and to tell her a story.

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Poster for We Are Humans

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A short film from Rose Glass

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Poster for Ratatoing

2007 · ★ 2.6 (66)

Marcelle Toing, owner of the best restaurant in Rio de Janeiro, must go on missions to steal ingredients from human restaurants to keep his meals the best.

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Poster for X-Manas

2017 · ★ 6.6 (6)

In the underworld of sexual dissidents, gangsters, transvestites, ballet shoes and all marginalized bodies come up with a plan to destroy the cisheteronorma.

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Poster for Scale 6

2013 · ★ 4.1 (5)

After a landslide in the Axenstrasse, geologist Mara Graf and her boyfriend, seismologist Gian Wyss, are investigating for the Seismological Service of the University of Technology in Switzerland. For Gian this is a good opportunity to spend some weeks of Spring at home. For Mara to be with her grandmother and sister. The next day Mara Gian want to anchor indicators at the bottom of Lake Lucerne in a dive. They decide to dive alone. Before Mara could follow him, an explosion rocked their ship.

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Poster for Vinyl

2012 · ★ 5.5 (30)

Based on true events. When a new record by an old band is turned down by ageist record companies, the veteran punk band assemble a group of youngsters to stand in for them, and fool the music industry.

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— · ★ 0.0 (0)

New film from Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili. Plot TBA.

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Poster for Poor Behavior

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A weekend in the country spins out of control when jealous wife Maureen (Heidi Armbruster) makes a reckless accusation about her husband Ian (Alan Smyth) and their old friend Ella (Katie Kreisler). Ella's husband Peter (Brian Dykstra) tries and fails to stop the domestic carnage in this fierce and funny story about the unexpected ease of betrayal and the fragility of marriage.

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Poster for Across the Universe

2007 · ★ 7.1 (1412)

When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.

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2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Abel Salazar, a scientist and an artist persecuted by the Fascist regime in the 40ies, is trying to finish a portrait, obsessed by the face of a woman. Ana, a young researcher in the present days, is dreaming about him. Or is it the other way round?

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