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Poster for U2: Rockumentary

2022 · ★ 3.0 (2)

A cliche start: 4 teenage boys form a rock band in the drummer's kitchen. 45 years, 14 albums, 24 concert tours, 22 Grammies. U2 raises millions to fight hunger, disease and poverty. Music transcends melody. It means mission.

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Poster for Octave

2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Hubley created this short while at work on her first feature, The Toe Tactic, as a musical exploration of poetry featured in the film. Each frame was drawn on a single sheet of paper using watercolor pencil and ink, and the animation is accompanied by Yo La Tengo’s meditative score.

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Poster for The Town I Live In

2017 · ★ 5.0 (1)

In L.A.’s Boyle Heights neighborhood, local activists and members of the art community clash over the fate of a beloved neighborhood.

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Poster for The Red Suit

1998 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Modern-day urban problems like unemployment and teenage depression come under the microscope. Husband and wife lose their jobs, and their daughter is under considerable stress studying for her college exams. Meanwhile, grandmother is having an unexpected romantic liaison. Will the family be able to pull together to solve their problems?

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Poster for CALIFORNIA

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Calli, a young woman trying to make it in LA, wants to have a relationship with her father back in England but has to come to terms with the phone call that changed everything for her. It’s a story about family, responsibility, and how Love is not turning your back on someone even when they’ve failed you.

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Poster for Back Shot

1921 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mr. Vinner gets shot in the back. To ease the pain, he tries to apply a cat skin to the painful area, but the skin is difficult to apply and forces Mr. Vinner into a series of embarrassing situations.

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Poster for Marisa Monte: Portas e Janelas

2021 · ★ 8.0 (1)

The musical special shows an intimate and casual version of Marisa Monte, which features some tracks from the album “Portas”, her latest release.

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Poster for Father

2016 · ★ 4.2 (7)

Mourning the death of her father, Giulia is contacted by him from the other dimension.

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2016 · ★ 2.0 (1)

Mali Elfman directs this haunting short, LOOP, a metaphorical piece she describes as what it feels like trying to become a filmmaker.

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Poster for Viimeinen ilta

1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A film about a night out dancing in 1961. About love that is crushed before it can flourish.

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Poster for Frida

1989 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Frida is 11 years old and on the threshold of adolescence. Her older sister Kaisa is into boys and sticky, romantic youth magazines. Frida thinks Kaisa is behaving very stupidly and she herself has never intended to be like that.

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Poster for Miró, The Painter

1979 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Short piece for the TV series Aujourd'hui en France [Today in France]. Reporting on a Joan Miró exhibition at the Maeght Foundation, Sarah Maldoror enjoys filming the Spanish painter and sculptor engaging with children during a theatre piece. The filmmaker's central themes are in full bloom here: the theatre, the interrelationship between the arts and the transformation of the childhood experience through art. The ensemble is like a work by Joan Miró translated into real life.

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Poster for Fantasma: The Cursed Mansion Vol.2

2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The second volume of the omnibus-style erotic horror "Fantasma," which has been airing on TV Tokyo since July and is directed by six celebrities.

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2000 · ★ 4.0 (5)

Charlie, his sexy girlfriend, and his moronic best friend drink, drug, and self-destruct over the course of one day at Charlie's father home in Los Angeles.

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Poster for Reminiscence

2021 · ★ 6.5 (1903)

Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Mae. What begins as a simple matter of lost and found becomes a passionate love affair. But when a different client's memories implicate Mae in a series of violent crimes, Bannister must delve through the dark world of the past to uncover the truth about the woman he fell for.

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— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Animation project of Ekaterina Grokhovskaya

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Poster for Kwaku Ananse

2013 · ★ 6.0 (4)

This short by Akosua Adoma Owusu offers a spellbinding, semi-autobiographical interpretation of a traditional Ghanaian folktale in which the contemporary collides with the mythological in both content and form.

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Poster for August

2017 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Deep in Louisiana's swampland, a woman wakes from a fever dream where it has been August for 16 years.

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Poster for Bergman Island

2006 · ★ 7.5 (17)

The desolate and mysterious island of Fårö, Sweden, Baltic Sea, 2004. Swedish master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) looks back on his personal and artistic life; a journey through more than sixty years devoted to film, plays and television programs. (An abridged version of Ingmar Bergman Complete, 2004; a collection of three thematic documentaries: Bergman and Film; Bergman and Theater; and Bergman and Fårö Island.)

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1992 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Miranda and Josef's relationship is shaken when Anastasia enters the couple's life. The chronology of a partnership unfolds: from getting to know each other to the fading of passion.

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