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Poster for Sarah Palin: You Betcha!

2011 · ★ 5.3 (13)

A journey that takes the viewers across the icy mid-winter snows of Alaska to meet her school friends, family, and Republican colleagues, to try and discover the real Sarah Palin.

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2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Fresh off a breakup, Jane Lee throws herself into a wild girls’ weekend—until an unexpected run-in with an old friend takes the night somewhere she never planned to go.

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Poster for Amsterdam Alert

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Struggling to get home to her stranded baby, a young mother in Amsterdam receives an emergency alert on her phone: a nuclear missile has been launched at the city and residents have forty-five minutes to evacuate.

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Poster for Upon Her Lips: Heartbeats

2021 · ★ 4.0 (3)

Witness and explore a whole range of emotions and desires in this series of stories about the lesbian experience. From rediscovering a lost parent in Israel, coming of age in rural Appalachia, finding love in friendship through meditation and imagination, to fending off the competition in a boot-making contest in New Mexico - what Upon Her Lips proves is that variety is the spice of life.

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Poster for I Am the Keeper

2014 · ★ 6.4 (20)

Goalie has just been released from prison after spending a year inside for keeping his mouth shut for his best buddy Ueli. He heads for his hometown of Schummertal, a small town where everyone knows you. He's going to start over, without drugs. Meanwhile, Ueli has gotten ever deeper into drugs, can't understand why Goalie suddenly wants to be a square. Although they've been friends since childhood, everything is different now. Goalie wants a new life but finds his past.

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Poster for Lune

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A daughter must navigate the impacts of her mom's bipolar disorder.

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Poster for Jack 'O' Slasher

2012 · ★ 5.5 (2)

A demon from Hell has an insatiable lust for blood. He is sent from hell to help a Satanic cult try to resurrect Satan and bring eternal Hell on Earth.

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Poster for Critters 3

1991 · ★ 5.3 (445)

As fanged, furious furballs viciously invade an L.A. apartment building and sink their teeth into the low-rent tenants, Josh leads the battle to beat back the conniving critters and save the planet.

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2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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A fresh take on a home invasion feature. Plot TBA.

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Poster for Spotless

2021 · ★ 7.2 (5)

When 15 year old Ruby realizes she is having her period, she doesn't want to ask her mother to buy her period products, because she knows their financial situation doesn't really allow it. She sets out to solve this problem herself.

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1973 · ★ 2.0 (1)

Computer generated music and visuals films directly from a color TV monitor.

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Poster for Under Construction

2015 · ★ 6.1 (4)

Roya is a middle-class Muslim woman that struggles to find herself in the sprawl of urban Bangladesh. When she discovers that she will be replaced by a younger actor for the role of Nandini —a central character of Rabindranath Tagore’s political play Red Oleanders —she battles to reconstruct the part, reclaiming her identity and sexuality in the process. As she sets the play in a modern day ready-made garment factory in Dhaka, her journey to establish her individuality is juxtaposed with the journey of her housemaid Moyna, who later joins the industrial workforce.

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Poster for Lügen und andere Wahrheiten

2014 · ★ 4.5 (17)

Six intertwined people struggle with their own sincerity, and, in so doing, unravel their secrets and the lies they live.

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1980 · ★ 6.0 (1)

This lively film is an unforgettable portrait of legendary vocalist Betty Carter, one of the greatest living exponents of jazz. Uncompromised by commercialism throughout her long career, she has forged alternative criteria for success — including founding her own recording company and raising her two sons as a single parent. Parkerson's special film captures Carter's musical genius, her paradoxical relationship with the public and her fierce dedication to personal and artistic independence.

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Poster for Встреча

2024 · ★ 6.0 (1)

The plot is based on a conversation between two women - an adult and a very young one. Both women are filled with claims against each other. But what is hidden behind this, what relationships connect them? In the dialogue, the woman simultaneously tries to escape from the truth and find the truth.

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Poster for Love, Dad

2022 · ★ 6.2 (4)

A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent. The author rediscovers letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in hope to find the connection again. She puts in writing what could not be said: blaming him for family´s break-up but also trying to understand.

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Poster for Your Own Bullshit

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

There is nothing greater than having a dinner with the family. Although it resembles a looped scenario that repeats itself endlessly. Recited with flying colors for many long years.

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Poster for Semele

2015 · ★ 7.7 (3)

Eleven-year-old Semele unexpectedly arrives at her father's worksite in Cyprus with a note from school that needs to be signed. This is an astutely observed, ultimately heart-rending story about a youngster whose fierce longing to be noticed is matched only by her determination to make it happen.

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2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The body becomes architecture in the iconic abandoned military bunkers of Fort Worden National Park as personal and geographical histories are interwoven in this genre-bending dance.

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