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Poster for Zitterinchen

2022 · ★ 5.5 (2)

Alma manages to obtain a job as a court painter with the bourgeois prince Philip, passionate about botany. When he sees a portrait of her sister, the beautiful Christine, he immediately falls in love. But the Baroness has plans for her own daughter. Fortunately the faithful Shaky is still here.

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Poster for Baby

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A couple argue about whether or not they should have a baby.

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Poster for A Happy Family Life

1975 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Manfred, a lathe operator, and Manuela, a seamstress, marry and try to find happiness together. They have two children in quick succession and realize that their simultaneous material advancement is beyond their strength. Marianne stops working and Manfred's position in the company deteriorates. The atmosphere between the two becomes more irritable, even more so when Marianne finds a new job. She becomes increasingly distant from Manfred, who is suspicious of her emancipation, and ends up sleeping with another man. But the two move towards each other and, after five years of marriage, find their way back together.

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Poster for Pulsebeat

1985 · ★ 7.0 (2)

Roger is the owner of a very successful and exclusive health club. His gym attracts good looking women and men who want to pump iron, aerobicise and mostly socialize. Roger and his beautiful aerobics instructor, Annie, work out together in and out of the club. Annie pushes Roger to complete in the National Aerobithon. But for Roger to even come close to winning he must overcome his fear of defeat - in front of Annie and the world.

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Poster for Portrait

2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Esther is beautiful beneath the surface, in an office where the surface is all that matters. Plus she has brains and about 100 extra pounds. Her nasty, brutish, and tall colleagues (Donna, Caroline, and Erica) make fun of her even as they depend on her knowledge. One day, she excitedly offers to show them a portrait she's had taken by Bud, of "Bud's Glamour Shots," who had spammed the office with an e-mail promising a picture that will reveal her true inner self. Cut to Esther, driving home in tears. That night she sleeps with the portrait near the bed and awakes to discover something extraordinary. When the three harpies see the result, will they book a session with Bud?

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Poster for Fassbinder

2015 · ★ 6.2 (9)

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director, and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality, which chronologically covers all the important stages from Action-Theater to the director's early death, supplemented with anecdotes.

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1978 · ★ 3.0 (3)

An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad succumbs to his dominatrix.

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Poster for Seeds

2024 · ★ 5.7 (17)

A Mohawk woman is hired as a social media influencer but gets caught in a deadly cat-and-mouse game, as she's forced to go to war to preserve her people's heritage from corporate interests.

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Poster for Unsaid

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A biracial man finally gets the courage to tell his grandmother how her racist past affected him… at her funeral.

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Poster for Vilde, the Wild One

1986 · ★ 4.7 (6)

In a rural western town in 1890 a woman has a mute old daughter after relations with her step father, which in his need of money, wants to sell them off to a rich skin tradesman. While resisting this, the woman turns lame.

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Poster for Malaika

1998 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An African elephant wanders into the lives of four wide-eyed children and all pandemonium breaks loose.

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Poster for Zero Dark Thirty

2012 · ★ 7.0 (4790)

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.

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Poster for Dark Lullabies

1985 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Seen through the eyes of the filmmaker, a child of concentration camp survivors, this program explores the impact of the Holocaust on a generation of Jews and Germans born after World War II. Includes interviews in Canada, Israel, and Germany with the children of survivors, with young neo-Nazis, and with the children of former Nazis.

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Poster for Jack

2015 · ★ 4.5 (4)

Delving deep into the soul of one of Austria’s most infamous real-life convicts, Jack is a fascinating, unprejudiced look at the path to redemption and the obstacles that bar the way.

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Poster for Djon Africa

2018 · ★ 6.2 (13)

Miguel —alias Tibars, alias “Djon África,” born and raised in Portugal— is a kindhearted Rastafarian who loves women and lives a carefree life. Until one day a stranger tells him he's the spitting image of his father, “a player and a crook.” His father, whom he never even knew! This intriguing discovery makes him change tack. Particularly when his grandmother, who always took care of him, finally tells him how his father was in prison; how sad Miguel was as a toddler when he couldn't see him; how his father was banished to Cape Verde. Miguel goes there to visit him. Who is this man?

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Poster for To All the Boys I've Loved Before

2018 · ★ 7.6 (8655)

Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control when her secret letters to every boy she's ever fallen for are mysteriously mailed out.

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Poster for Compulsion

2008 · ★ 4.5 (6)

A beautiful young woman with every privilege except freedom. A despised older man with nothing except his obsession. Are they the key to one another’s salvation? Or are they destined to destroy each other and themselves? Having just finished a degree at Cambridge, Anjika Indrani has the world at her feet. However when her father announces that he intends for her to marry the son of his business associate, Anjika is angry and distraught at the unfairness of it. Then help is offered from an unlikely corner. Her father’s sinister chauffeur Don Flowers proposes a way out… but it comes at a cost.

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Poster for Her Difference

2025 · ★ 6.6 (13)

Katia, a 35-year-old researcher in a documentary production company, has a chaotic way of navigating her relationship with Fred, her boyfriend. When she takes part in a new project, she finally puts her difference into words – and this revelation will turn their life upside down.

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Poster for #blessed

2015 · ★ 5.0 (1)

Dallas Mapleshade, a struggling actress, dancer, and singer in New York City, decides she must take success in her own hands by paying a filmmaker to make a feature documentary about her life.

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Poster for Torpedo

2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After her mother's death, 15-year old Mia moves in with her aunt, the actress Cleo, who lives with her son Fritzi in a shared apartment in Berlin. Mia lingers for stability and attention but in between Cleo's rehearsals at the theatre and her relationally disturbed housemate Elisa, she finds herself in a world of adults who themselves seem to be unable to cope with life.

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