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Poster for Amidst

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Everything is just perfect, and then, boom!

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Poster for Lychen 92

2020 · ★ 8.5 (2)

East Germany 1992: Moritz Schmidtke (12) is spending his holidays at the same campground as every year. His parent’s problems, the changes made by a new political system, and brutal swimming lessons have left their mark. When Enrico has an accident, Moritz is inspired to take matters into his own hands, and to no longer be a victim of his environment. LYCHEN 92 is an adaptation of the short story ELMER by Andreas Steinhöfel, set in the post-reign of East Germany.

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Poster for 80,000 Years Old

2020 · ★ 4.8 (6)

It’s summer. Celine, in her thirties, archaeologist, spends a weekend in her childhood home. Her archaeological research are mixed up with her memories of adolescence and some random reunions from her walks.

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Poster for The Bad Seed Returns

2022 · ★ 6.9 (105)

Several years after the murderous events of the first movie left her father dead, Emma is now living with her aunt Angela and navigating high school. Angela’s husband begins to suspect that Emma may not be as innocent as she appears and suggests sending her off to boarding school. Meanwhile, a new girl at school seems to know Emma’s secrets, leaving Emma no choice but to slip back to her old ways and take care of her enemies by any means necessary.

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Poster for Hope

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

A romantic comedy about the crazy lengths a woman in her mid-30s is willing to go to when she discovers the perfect man.

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Poster for Chronicle of Flaming Years

1961 · ★ 5.0 (10)

Once again, director Yulia Solnsteva directs a movie that her late husband Alexandre Dovchenko scripted but did not live long enough to shoot. In this wartime drama, the emphasis is on the heroics of both the civilians and the soldiers during times of severe stress in World War II. At the core of the action is one man in particular, whose sacrifices and heroics speak for a much larger group.

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Poster for 5 Fitas

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In Salvador (Brazil), every year there is a great and traditional party for Senhor do Bonfim, where the faithful, tourists and revelers, wander to the famous church to tie ribbons and make requests. Two brothers, Pedro and Gabriel, listen to their grandmother's stories and prayers to Senhor do Bonfim from an early age and decide to flee on the day of the wash, to venture out among the crowd, to try to ask for a football, since they grew up without one. father figure. There they confront their grandmother's narratives, with the current wash, bringing questions about religiosity, syncretism, popular manifestation, and the importance of the family.

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Poster for And Usted También

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A bilingual Ecuadorian-American redhead living in Los Angeles enters a seemingly innocuous interaction with a Spanish-speaking stranger, but her anxieties around her Latin identity and relationship to speaking Spanish quickly prove that navigating this exchange is anything but simple. With every possible interaction having run through her mind, one is left rooting for the possibility that the two might share a moment of human connection.

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Poster for The Mascot

1933 · ★ 6.9 (39)

A toy stuffed dog has just been sewn together when it hears a young child ask for an orange. The child's mother explains that they have no money, and so she cannot buy any oranges. The dog is then packed up along with a box full of other toys to be sold, but it soon winds up in the street. The dog picks up an orange from a curb side stand, and hopes to take it home to the child. But that night, before the dog can get back to the child's home, it must face a series of strange and frightening adventures.

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Poster for Demonitron: The Sixth Dimension

2010 · ★ 7.0 (2)

Demons use a woman to open the gates to Demonitron, the sixth dimension.

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Poster for Drowning Love

2016 · ★ 6.2 (80)

Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father's hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situation because she can't do the things she wants to do in Ukigumo. One day, she meets Koichiro Hasegawa. He is the successor of the Hasegawa family. His family is wealthy and is respected in the area. Natsume Mochizuki and Koichiro Hasegawa become attracted to each other, but something changes their fate.

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— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Live action film based on the book series.

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Poster for Unmoored

2024 · ★ 8.6 (5)

A Swedish TV presenter finally confronts her domineering husband about serious accusations made against him, causing her well-ordered life to unravel.

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Poster for Long Live the King

2016 · ★ 5.2 (4)

A feature documentary about the enduring appeal of the character King Kong, and how he has inspired so many of the great filmmakers and artists since 1933.

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2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Katya and Sergei are happily married. Since their family business is flourishing, they are thinking of buying a country cottage. It all changes one day when Sergei vanishes and Katya decides to investigate his disappearance on her own.

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Poster for Girl in the Picture

2022 · ★ 7.1 (284)

A young mother’s mysterious death and her son’s subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman’s true identity, and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all.

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Poster for Jessy

2022 · ★ 6.0 (2)

13-year-old Jessy can hardly remember that her father Miro used to be an important part of her life. His unexpected return after seven years in prison and his intrusion into the safe space she and her mother have built severely disrupts their symbiotic relationship. Forced to deal with this stranger to her, Jessy increasingly trusts Miro. She learns to open up and set new boundaries. Then she meets Max, who strengthens her urge for freedom. Stirred up by new relationships and feelings, she begins to listen to herself and enjoys a sense of independence.

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Poster for The Half of It

2020 · ★ 7.1 (1566)

Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.

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Poster for Apparition

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Anne is determined to find a place to call home, but she soon discovers that New York City's realty market is satiated with sleazy brokers, strange roommates and scary dwellings. Even the perfect place she eventually finds has a secret of its own.

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Poster for Welcome to This House

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Welcome To This House, a feature documentary film on the homes and loves of poet Elizabeth Bishop, is about life in the shadows, and the anxiety of art making without full lesbian disclosure. Hammer filmed in Bishop's best loved homes in the U.S., Canada, and Brazil, believing that buildings and landscapes bear cultural memories. Interviews with poets, friends,and scholars provide missing documents of numerous female lovers. Bishop's intimate poems and the creative music composition by Joan La Barbara bring the poet into our lives with new facts and unexpected details.

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