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Poster for Letters to Dad

1979 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonestown over the relatively fresh faces of the parapunk art world; the film takes on a musical form - like a 20th-century ballad composed of subliminal behavior cues, advertising testimonials, and the text of the National Enquirer

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Poster for The Swimmers

2022 · ★ 7.4 (625)

From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use.

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1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The two brothers Alfred and Hans are very different, one, a mummy's boy, still hopes for the great love at 35, the other enjoys life as a womanizer. When their mother dies, their lives change. Mama's boy Alfred and Don Juan Hans fall in love with the same woman. Their beloved is called Angelika who is in her mid-30s, works in a travel agency and considers herself emancipated. She has not married the father of her now 18-year-old daughter. All parties involved change as a result of the courtship of Angelika. The sad Alfred becomes a radiant lover, the womanizer starts thinking and Angelika herself feels younger and younger.

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Poster for The Public Girl

2013 · ★ 6.6 (5)

Since she was three months old, Yasmeen has been living with a foster family. Seventeen years have passed by and unbreakable bonds of love have formed between her and her parents and siblings. When Yasmeen is about to be adopted and officially recognised as a member of the family, a woman starts hassling her, claiming to be her mother.

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Poster for New Sunlight

— · ★ 10.0 (1)

A teenage boy is struggling with grief, anger, and feelings of low self-worth after the end of a relationship. He finds comfort in the company of new friends who show him how to live his best life.

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Poster for Reunion

2024 · ★ 10.0 (0)

Memories, regrets, and long-held grudges haunt two lifelong friends preparing their abandoned high school building for a 41st year reunion. Will the care they show each other and their dying town be enough to bring anyone back?

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Poster for Miss Baek

2018 · ★ 7.5 (53)

A woman's past as a convict follows her everywhere and because of this she doesn't open up to others. But then she strikes up a friendship with a broken child who has suffered from domestic violence and decides to save the girl from the cruel world. A man who holds feelings for the woman, tries to protect her in his own way.

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Poster for Riotsville, USA

2022 · ★ 4.9 (4)

An archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of the late 1960s: take a military base, build a mock inner-city set, cast soldiers to play rioters, burn the place down, and film it all.

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Poster for Weather Girl

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Since her parents separation, 16 year-old Molly is undergoing a transformation that she doesn’t yet understand. Trapped in an unhappy family dynamic, Molly has decided that today is the day to make a stand.

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Poster for Lila Downs  - Pecados y Milagros

2012 · ★ 7.7 (3)

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Poster for Sex, the City and Me

2007 · ★ 5.8 (9)

Fast-paced and powerful drama set in the high-octane world of the City of London.

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Poster for Samhita

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A filmmaker visualizes a British Raj Prince tale. The tale concerns a Prince married to his mother's niece. The king comes to the court-singer, though.

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Poster for Question Period

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A group of Syrian women, refugees recently resettled in Canada, are negotiating life in their new home. They have some questions.

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1991 · ★ 0.0 (0)

1991 short by pauline chan

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2018 · ★ 8.0 (2)

To mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS, acclaimed poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journey that weaves the extraordinary story of the birthing of Nye Bevan's vision of free healthcare for all people with personal stories of the NHS in British society today.

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2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Certain circumstances force the successful businessman Viktor to stay in a small seaside city longer than he had planned. It’s the New Year’s Eve. To “kill the evening”, the hero gets acquainted with a young salesgirl, Lyuba. Quite unexpectedly, they fall passionately and fatally in love… A lyrical variation on the theme of a gallant prince and a poor Cinderella, starring the inveterate lady-killer of Russian screen Sergey Zhigunov (“The Princess on a Bean”) and the young primadonna of the Aleksandrinsky Theatre Yuliya Marchenko (“Swan Paradise”), with the musical accompaniment of the famous Gypsy group “Loiko”.

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Poster for Soul Boy

2010 · ★ 6.8 (12)

Abila (14) lives in one of the most miserable slums in Africa. His girlfriend Shiku belongs to a different tribe, as the result of which he is not really allowed to fraternize with her. And then one drunken night his father gambles away his own soul.

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Poster for Moonlight

2002 · ★ 6.4 (20)

Claire lives with her wealthy adopted parents in a luxurious and isolated house in the woods. She discovers a wounded and bleeding boy her age in her family's garden shed. The boy is a young drug courier from Afghanistan; shot and wounded after serving his purpose as human packing material. Claire decides to keep the boy a secret. He slowly recovers under her care; and they fall in love. When the drug dealers return and Claire's family is due to move back to the city; they decide to flee; though Claire finds it difficult to outrun her past as an abandoned child.

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Poster for The House

2022 · ★ 6.0 (109)

Emma, a French novelist aged 27, decide to go to Berlin and join a brothel to uncover the prostitution world, the subject of her new book. Such as gonzo journalism, Emma become a prostitute and her experience, which was supposed to last a few weeks, will last two years. Was writing her book an excuse for Emma to live a shameful fantasy?

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Poster for The Photographer of Mauthausen

2018 · ★ 7.0 (732)

Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.

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