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Poster for Madame Jeanette

2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When her husband Ted is put in jail Bibi suddenly needs to provide for herself and decides to contact fortune teller Madame Jeanette.

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Poster for Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

1983 · ★ 3.8 (3)

This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three children are left by her shiftless husband and she is courted by an old beau who is now divorced. In the second, a divorced woman reacts to some unexpected revelations from her aged father. In the third, a childless, middle-aged social worker is swept into an affair with a young cab driver and finds herself pregnant.

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Poster for Falardeau

2010 · ★ 6.5 (1)

Through archival footage and testimonials from some of his closest friends and family, filmmakers Germán Gutierrez and Carmen Garcia paint a portrait of filmmaker and polemicist Pierre Falardeau, who died on September 25, 2009.

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Poster for Strong Shoulders

2003 · ★ 4.5 (4)

A young woman obsessively trains to be a track-and-field star.

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Poster for The Big Steal

1990 · ★ 5.7 (21)

Danny wants two things in life more than anything else, one is a Jaguar and the other is Joanna Johnson. After he is conned into trading his Nissan Cedric for a 1973 Jaguar, he plots to win Joanna and get revenge against the sleazy car dealer Gordon Farkes.

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Poster for Barbaric Land

2013 · ★ 5.0 (5)

Milan-based duo Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi create an astonishing work of militant poetry with this found-footage chronicle of Mussolini's brutal invasion of Ethiopia.

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Poster for Going the Distance

2010 · ★ 6.1 (763)

Erin and Garrett are very much in love. When Erin moves to San Francisco to finish her journalism degree and Garrett stays behind in New York to work in the music industry, they gamely keep the romance alive with webcams and frequent-flyer miles. But just when it seems the lovers will soon be reunited, they each score a big break that could separate them for good.

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Poster for Pentimento

1989 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In this frothy comedy, Lucie never knew her father, but she somehow finds out he has recently died and is to be buried on a certain day at a certain cemetary. In a belated attempt to connect with her roots, she rushes to the cemetary and joins a funeral gathering. She gets to know the people at the ceremony and is soon embroiled in an art smuggling scheme and has some (probably incestuous) romantic feelings for a young man she believes may be her brother. Eventually she finds out that she went to the wrong part of the cemetary and that these people are not her kin.

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Poster for A Thousand Suns

2013 · ★ 7.0 (8)

In 1972, Djibril Diop Mambety shoots "Touki Bouki." Mory and Anta are in love. Two young lovers share the same dream: to leave Dakar for Paris. At the fateful moment, Anta embarks. Mory stays alone on quay, unable to tear himself away from his land. Forty years later, "A Thousand Suns" investigates the personal and universal inheritance which represents "Touki Bouki." What has happened since? Magaye Niang, the hero of the movie, has never left Dakar. And today, the old cowboy wonders where Anta is, the love of his youth. Stories about family, exile and cinema meet between the sphere of intimacy and that of myth.

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Poster for Unforgettable

2017 · ★ 5.9 (679)

Barely coping with the end of her marriage, Tessa Connover learns that her ex-husband, David, is now happily engaged to Julia. Trying to settle into her new life after moving in with David, Julia believes she has finally met the man of her dreams, the man who can help her forget her troubled past. Soon, Tessa's jealousy starts to consume her, and she will stop at nothing to turn Julia's paradise into the ultimate nightmare.

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Poster for Maskrosbarn

1989 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Partially autobiographical film about little Sara who grows up in a home with a neurotic mother.

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At a grand Scottish estate, a wedding party proceeds despite the unfortunate absence of the bride and groom. Felix has abandoned Victoria at the altar, leaving their parents, family and friends to navigate a lavish but increasingly chaotic reception. What begins as an attempt to keep up appearances spirals into a day of calamity, hilarity, and unexpected connections, as the in-laws, staff, and guests confront their own relationships amidst the fallout.

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Poster for Jean-Jacques

2005 · ★ 5.0 (3)

Alexandre, a thirty-year old tailor, has decided to improve his cultural level. That is the reason why he has decided to attend an evening school. The lessons are given in the classroom of an elementary class by a teacher named Etienne. The subject of the course is : "The solitude of Jean-Jacques Rousseau". Will Alexandre become another man after grappling with with Rousseau, Diderot and ... Etienne? - Guy Bellinger

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2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After a lousy evening with a younger lover, fifty-year-old Sabina takes a taxi. A minute later, a blue-haired girl, Anka, runs into the street and asks Sabina for help.

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Poster for Happy Anniversary

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Inspired by the song "Walau Ku Jauh" by Christie

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2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"My name is Pier Felice Filippi. It was 1978, I was 23. I was kidnapped and kept by the Mafia for ransom. I was locked and tied up with an iron chain. I escaped. I wanted to make sure my kidnappers were arrested. And I did it'.

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Poster for Simple Plan: A Big Package for You

2003 · ★ 6.5 (2)

A Big Package for You: 1999-2003 is a DVD/CD by the pop punk band Simple Plan from Montreal, Canada. The band consists of five members Pierre Bouvier, guitarist and lead vocalist, David Desrosiers, bassist and backing vocalist, Sébastien Lefebvre, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist, Chuck Comeau, drummer, and Jeff Stinco, lead guitarist.

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Poster for Der Schulweg

1987 · ★ 8.0 (1)

Anne is a sixth grade student. Every school day, with beating hearts, she waits for her to meet Tom in the stairwell to go to school with him, and perhaps there are signs that Tom may return Anne's feelings. The boy is for her something like the first love, which always changes something every day. But more and more Anne has to realize that Tom is interested in another girl, whereby the disappointment with her is great. But when Jens Anne's new companion on the way to school, Anne can overcome her first heartache.

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Poster for The Sloth Lane

2024 · ★ 6.6 (25)

After a terrifying storm destroys their home, a speedy sloth named Laura and her kooky family move to the big city in their rusted old food truck, Gordito, hoping to make their business a success. The family's delicious food catches the eye of a quick-witted cheetah who will stop at nothing to revive her failing fast-food business.

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Poster for Renoir

2025 · ★ 6.7 (13)

In 1987 Tokyo, a quirky and sensitive 11-year-old girl copes with a terminally ill father and stressed-out working mother while encountering various adults dealing with their own struggles.

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