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Poster for The Deeper You Dig

2019 · ★ 5.8 (69)

14-year old Echo and her mother Ivy, a tarot card reader, live a quiet life in a rural area. When reclusive Kurt moves down the road to restore an abandoned farmhouse, an accident leads to Echo’s murder, and suddenly three lives collide in mysterious and wicked ways. Kurt assumes he can hide his secret under the ground. But Echo burrows into his head until he can feel her in his bones. As she haunts his every move, trying to reach her mother from beyond, Ivy must dig deep to see the signs and prove that love won’t stay buried.

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Poster for Věra 68

2012 · ★ 8.0 (1)

Vera Cáslavská, the most successful Czechoslovak sportswoman and the fourth most successful Olympic sportswoman globally, won seven gold and four silver medals. After her 1968 Mexico City Olympics victory, she became the second most popular woman after Jacqueline Kennedy. In 1968, she signed the 2000 Words Manifesto, which she never retracted. Despite her fame, she faced a troubled life due to political issues, marriage, and family tragedy. Her story reflects Czech society during both communist and democratic regimes, where she was active in the civil sphere. She views her sports career as fleeting fame compared to her challenging life. Now 68, 42 years after her sports career, she remains admired in the Czech Republic and Japan. Her life is a unique chapter in Czech history.

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Poster for Self-Portrait

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Grieving photographer Lu Rile moves into a run-down artists' warehouse in 1990s Brooklyn, where she befriends Katherine, an accomplished painter who lives downstairs. When Katherine suffers her own tragic loss, Lu unknowingly captures the incident in one of her self-portraits, creating a sublime but terrifying image. Consumed with their mutual grief and intensifying relationship, the women discover that they are haunted by a demonic force intent on shaking their reality.

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Poster for Carte Blanche

2011 · ★ 9.0 (1)

A documentary about investigators of the International Criminal Court trying to gather evidence of crimes committed in Africa.

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Poster for Portraits

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The 16-minute colour film observes Hockney smoking five cigarettes and thinking about painting in his Los Angeles studio, surrounded by a series of portrait paintings that featured in his 2016 exhibition at the RA (82 Portraits and 1 Still-life)

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Poster for New York Minute

2004 · ★ 6.2 (925)

Top student Jane Ryan heads to Manhattan for a college-scholarship competition. Her rebellious twin Roxy Ryan goes along to crash a video shoot. But anything can happen - and does - in a romp involving a pursuing truant officer, a smuggler, hunkalicious guys and the girls' realization that when the chips are down, a sister can be the best friend of all.

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Poster for Lady Windermere's Fan

2018 · ★ 10.0 (1)

The day of Lady Windermere’s birthday party, and all is perfectly in order. Until her friend Lord Darlington plants a seed of suspicion. Is her husband having an affair? And will the other woman really attend the party? First performed in 1892, Lady Windermere’s Fan explores the ambiguity of upper class morality and the fragile position of women in society in the late Victorian era in one of Wilde’s most popular and witty plays.

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Poster for Rhode Island Red

1968 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Ten minutes in an enormous chicken coop. Camerawork by Roy Levin.

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Poster for Nenette and Boni

1997 · ★ 6.4 (37)

Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger sister, having run away from boarding school, suddenly turns up. There's a problem that they must confront.

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Poster for A Long Walk

2014 · ★ 7.5 (2)

A father humiliates his son by parading him through the neighborhood in women's clothing in front of all the other kids on a summer day. The impact of that decision ripples through his family and best friend's lives for years to come. This story is based on true events.

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Poster for ¡Van Van empezó la fiesta!

2001 · ★ 7.0 (1)

The members of the superband Los Van Van tell their individual stories, comment on the love and pride they feel for their group, and testify about the origin, development, and characteristics of the most famous Cuban dance orchestra—founded more than forty years ago by Juan Formell—until they won the coveted Grammy Award in February 2000. Of particular note are the sincere and entertaining statements by singer Mayito and those popular melodies with which our people have identified themselves for several decades.

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Poster for Petite Maman

2021 · ★ 7.1 (439)

After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps her come to terms with this newfound loss.

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Poster for Erica - Man Made

2017 · ★ 6.2 (4)

Erica is 23. She has a beautiful, neutral face and speaks with a synthesized voice. She has a degree of autonomy – but can’t move her hands yet. Hiroshi Ishiguro is her ‘father’ and the bad boy of Japanese robotics. Together they will redefine what it means to be human and reveal that the future is closer than we might think.

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Poster for Animal Farm

1954 · ★ 7.0 (517)

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.

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Poster for Caveman

2023 · ★ 5.5 (22)

Robert Müller has wanted to be a comedian since he was a kid, but he's only made it as a car salesman so far. This is about to change when he takes part in an open-mic show. He puts the program together with his imaginary friend, the stone-age Caveman. Then his girlfriend Claudia breaks up with him...

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Poster for Pour Djamila

2012 · ★ 4.1 (4)

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Poster for Tattooed Tears

1979 · ★ 4.5 (11)

An intimate, hands on encounter with a maximum security juvenile correctional facility in Chino California.

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Poster for The Little Flower

1979 · ★ 7.0 (2)

This movie is adapted from the novel Heroes in Tongbai. Xiao Hua, a sister of Zhao Yongsheng, is deserted by her poor family. He Xiangdong, a woodworker, adopts her and rename her He Cuigu. To steer clear of arrest by the enemy, Dong Hongguo, offspring of a revolutionary family, is renamed Xiao Hua so as to be adopted by her adopter. Later, Zhao Yongsheng's parents are killed by the enemy, he joins the Liberation Army. In 1947, when Zhao Yongsheng returns to his own village Tongbai, his sister Xiao Hua happens to find her brother. Doctor Zhou who works in the hospital of the army, adopts Xiao Hua without knowing she is her own daughter. He Cuigu has become a well-known guerrilla hero after she grows up. She doesn't recognize her brother Zhao Yongsheng when she carries him on the stretcher. After the war, Zhao Yongsheng, Xiao Hua and Cuigu meet each other happily; Dong Xiangkun and Doctor Zhou also feel happy to reunite with their own daughter after 17 years of departure.

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Poster for Nymphs

2018 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Amidst the mists and wild nature of Aspromonte, an archaeologist and two of his assistants are searching for an ancient treasure. From the earth opened up by the excavation, three nymphs emerge, mythical and mysterious creatures. Once free, they come into contact with the inhabitants of a remote mountain village, triggering a series of mysterious and terrifying events.

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Poster for Ivan Tsarevich & the Grey Wolf 3

2016 · ★ 7.1 (23)

Prince Ivan, Grey Wolf and Vasilisa set off on a magic carpet ride to new lands as the deputy scarecrow in charge of the kingdom sets new rules.

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