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Poster for Justice League: Doom

2012 · ★ 7.4 (916)

An adaptation of Mark Waid's "Tower of Babel" story from the JLA comic. Vandal Savage steals confidential files Batman has compiled on the members of the Justice League, and learns all their weaknesses.

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Poster for The 8th Day

2025 · ★ 6.7 (4)

Two small-time thugs, an old woman living with a dark secret, a young woman desperate to get out, and a check cashing store full of money will all intersect in a small Texas town… in eight days.

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Poster for Other Side

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Activist Lynda Bluestein contemplates how to legally end her life - her landmark lawsuit made Medical Aid in Dying in Vermont accessible to anyone in the United States. This is an intimate portrait of finding a way to die peacefully in the U.S.

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Poster for Homeboys

1992 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Colors, corruption and turf wars control the violent city streets of L.A. where crime pays and gangs have the ultimate power. An innocent girl is accidentally killed in a drive-by shooting in the East Side Projects and the word is out, the city wants action and the clues point to the notorious "High Rollers" gang of the barrio. The cops are closing in, and the Gang is ready. Two brothers, one a gang leader, one a cop, must face off, but only one will survive!

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Poster for Rita's Last Fairy Tale

2012 · ★ 5.9 (22)

The film speaks about universal themes of love, hate and search for love. The portrait of three women represents these three states. Tanya Neubivko has never been in love but optimistically is searing for it. Her unfortunate and even dangerous encounters with strangers on dates almost got her killed. Rita is happily engaged and planning a wedding after a routine medical check-up. Nadya is a very unhappy doctor who hates her husband and finds relief in alcohol. The story takes place in a surreal hospital with the leaking roof and hollow walls and constantly smoking doctors, where Rita is destined to die.

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Poster for Please Love Me Forever

2016 · ★ 6.8 (4)

In a surreal world, Lili, a 14-year-old albino, lives alone with her mother CLAUDIE (50) who over-protects her from the outside world. Obsessed with her own appearance; Claudie regularly replaces aging parts of her face, alone in her operating lab while Lili dreams of Lyesse, her 16 year-old handsome neighbor. Scared by so much love, Lyesse rejects Lili. Devastated, she decides to take his heart out to understand why he doesn't love her...

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Poster for Cuntdown - From a Youth Detention Center

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

New Years eve is closing in on a group of young girls locked up behind unbreakable glass windows, enduring a life of meninglessness. A long anticipated fireworks celebration that could break the somberly atmosphere is cancelled at the last minute – a decision that could be life changing for all involved.

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Poster for Escalade

2011 · ★ 4.4 (4)

A group of teenagers, under the guise of celebrating their headmistress’s birthday, turn into her tormentors. They have been cheating all year and plan to steal Baccalaureat answers to pass without effort. The night unfolds with a tense blackmail situation as they hold the headmistress hostage.

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Poster for Voilà l'enchaînement

2014 · ★ 5.8 (5)

With two actors and no sets, master filmmaker Claire Denis traces the arc of a strained relationship, with a focus on race and language. In this fraught arena, words omitted can be as potentially devastating as words used, and what is not seen can have greater political consequences than what is.

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Poster for An Unlikely Couple

2001 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Two men on the brink of divorce are thrown together, yet everything opposes them: their tastes, habits, personalities. They have only one thing in common: their desire to get their wives back.

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Poster for Nipple War 3

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Yong, a TV producer, is ordered by his boss to blur the nipples of a celebrity who wasn't wearing a bra.

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Poster for Sweet Bean

2015 · ★ 7.4 (589)

The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret. Life's joys are found in the little details, and no matter what may be weighing you down, everyone loves a good pastry.

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Poster for Waitress

2007 · ★ 6.7 (561)

A small town waitress stuck in a lousy marriage finds love when an exciting out-of-towner enters her life.

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Poster for Acid Test

2017 · ★ 10.0 (1)

When Jenny (16) comes home from a concert and tells her parents she's tripping on acid, the hallucinogenic parental meltdown unravels the family dynamic as Jenny discovers the power of rebellion.

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Poster for High Heel Nights

1994 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Intimate portraits of gay artists and drag performers talking about gender, identity, and all the fine lines around them. Beth B’s short film is a stirring reminder that drag-queen performances may be accepted in the mainstream today, but there was a time when they were strictly underground.

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Poster for Yvonne Orji: A Whole Me

2022 · ★ 6.3 (6)

Picking up where her debut special left off, Emmy®-nominated actor Yvonne Orji (HBO's Insecure) returns to the stage to offer up her point-of-view on the pandemic, estate planning, being the child of Nigerian immigrants and the brutal realities of dating. With a unique mash-up of stand-up comedy with scripted vignettes, Orji showcases the multi-hyphenate's range and vulnerability, while also serving as a no-holds-barred therapy session – for both the artist and the audience.

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Poster for Tomorrow Will Be Better

2011 · ★ 6.3 (9)

Three Russian street kids, who live on their wits in a train station, take off to the countryside hoping to make it across the border to a better life in Poland. They are alternately looking for tenderness and pushing it away because they sense that it is a sign of vulnerability they can ill-afford. Kędzierzawska has the rare ability to take the world of children on its own terms. There is not a false note in this dazzlingly beautiful and emotionally involving story of three kids trying to find their path to a new life.

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Poster for Fabulous Frogs

2014 · ★ 8.3 (6)

Sir David Attenborough takes us on a journey through the weird and wonderful world of frogs, shedding new light on these charismatic, colorful and frequently bizarre little animals through first-hand stories, the latest science, and cutting-edge technology. Frogs from around the world are used to demonstrate the wide variety of frog anatomy, appearance and behavior. Their amazing adaptations and survival techniques have made them the most successful of all amphibians.

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Poster for Override

2000 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An oppressed office worker is whisked away to a dynamic club scene by a strapping bike messenger.

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