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Poster for A Ballad

2022 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Merjem-Meri, an unambitious, 30-year-old homemaker and mother to 8-year-old girl Mila, moves back to her parental home after 10 years of marriage. Soon after, Meri realizes she is stuck in a circle of provincial rules and expectations and a complex relationship with her ambitious mother and spoiled younger brother. Her hope to get the custody of her daughter wanes from day to day because she has no chance of finding a permanent job. The only thing that makes her happy, but also makes everyone else look down on her, is participation in an audition for a film role in her neighborhood.

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Poster for Sex Pistols: The Whole Story

2011 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Rules are made to be broken and over three decades, the Sex Pistols lived this lifestyle better than anyone. The Sex Pistols went from public enemy number one to national treasures, and influenced an entire generation along the way. With rare and exclusive interviews and live performances, band members tell their side of the story. There was nothing like them before, and there’s been nothing quite like them since. Without them, popular culture would be very different. They ignited the punk rock revolution in Britain and created controversies that often eclipsed their music. During their twenty-six month existence they released just one album, and a handful of singles, which remain some of the most definitive releases in the history of modern music

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Poster for Huayna

2020 · ★ 10.0 (1)

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Poster for Just One of the Guys

1985 · ★ 6.4 (330)

When Terry Griffith loses her high school's writing competition, she's convinced that it's because she's a girl. So Terry decides to change high schools and pose as a boy to prove her point. Her brother, Buddy, helps her pass as a guy so well that she is soon making friends with the boys at school, including the attractive Rick, who becomes her new best friend. But her gender-swapping makes things difficult when she falls in love with him.

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1966 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for The Kingdom of Doug

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A devoted cult gathers in an ice-skating rink to mass suicide. All are complicit but one. At the eleventh hour a young woman called Josie begins to doubt her faith in Doug, her charismatic cult leader.

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Poster for Des mains en or

2023 · ★ 5.4 (34)

Philippe is a well-known writer, whose life was going smoothly: a surgeon wife, a circle of high-ranking friends, a Parisian mansion... And above all, an imminent entry into the Académie Française. Except that Philippe suffers from terrible back pain that plagues his life. When he meets the incredible Martha, who picks him up after a car accident on the roads of Normandy, his vision of the world changes. With her gentle madness and her healing hands, this woman who seems so free is especially concerned with treating others, even if it means forgetting herself. Between these two characters that everything opposes, a surprising friendship is woven, with the opportunity for them to finally seize the best that life can offer them.

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1999 · ★ 0.8 (3)

Cassy is a hot new indie film director with an inflated ego and an aggressive libido. When she hires Lauren, a smart and experienced theater director, as her assistant director, sparks fly. Although Lauren may not have an ounce of film experience, she knows how to tell a story -- a skill her director hasn't quite perfected. As the director and her A.D. find a creative balance together, both the film and the budding romance begin to show great potential.

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Poster for The Alley Cats

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Altitude Cent Square, in Brussels. William (55) lies, claiming he's waiting for the tram; Béatrice (38) pretends that everything is fine; and Evdokya (75) tries to convince herself that she'll make it. The three of them coexist in the solitude of the night, each facing in their own way the fear of revealing their vulnerabilities.

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Poster for Hi, Mom

2021 · ★ 7.0 (163)

Devastated after her mom's serious accident and grief-stricken because she hasn't become the daughter she wanted to be for her mother, Jia Xiaoling finds herself transported back in time to the year 1981, where she meets her young mother before she was her mom.

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Poster for Complex Human Seeks Similar

— · ★ 1.0 (2)

A pragmatic young woman is swept into an augmented reality service developed by FRNDLNK, which her brother used before his untimely death, and befriends the young man whom he spent his last days with.

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Poster for Im falschen Leben

2011 · ★ 5.9 (5)

Marie thinks to return to her job one year after the birth of her daughter Nora. Her husband Holger is already looking forward to two-month parental leave in which he wants to be totally there for her daughter. Her daughter? They rush into an emotional hell without warning. The youth welfare office informs them that their child has been swapped in the clinic. Sandra, the other mother with the exchanged and actually biological child of theirs, is a single-parent student. While Sandra outwardly comparatively seems to handle it with ease, Marie is completely overwhelmed. Sandra's life situation leads to a dispute with Holger, because Marie can not accept that "her" daughter should grow up with a poor single parent. When the press also gets wind of the matter, there is no turning back: The children must be exchanged.

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Poster for Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated

2017 · ★ 7.6 (139)

A personal and intimate look into Demi Lovato's life as not only a regular 25 year old, but also one of the biggest pop stars in the world.

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Poster for The Assistant

2020 · ★ 6.3 (514)

A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.

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2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A tragic, yet inspiring love story between a young actress and young filmmaker, whose relationship blurs the line between what transpires within the movie screen versus in reality, pushing their artistic endeavor to the brink as they try to create something worthwhile together.

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2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Story of the Rosaire family, a 9th generation family of circus performers known for their unique and respectful manner of performing with animals, as they struggle to maintain their family heritage and adapt to the modern world of entertainment. Documentary.

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Poster for Opus One

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In Opus One, Hao Jingban employs a dual-channel video to connect two historical moments through music. As a young Chinese couple in bustling 21st-century Beijing browse TikTok for swing dances, they find themselves caught up in the craze that swept through the African American community in Harlem in the 1930s and gave rise to the Lindy Hop, a development of the Charleston. Their process of studying the dancers’ movements while exploring the icons, legends and dance halls of the era takes them far beyond the simple aim of learning to dance, and they end up forging a dialogue between two different moments in history united by a shared need for bodily expression and popular creation and an avid passion for music.

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Poster for Ladykiller

2022 · ★ 4.0 (2)

In her latest comedy special, Jena Friedman probes America’s obsession with (dead) women, finding humor in marriage, motherhood, and murder.

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Poster for When We Kill the Creators

2022 · ★ 10.0 (1)

A soul rock and roll movie about love, talent, death, and music. It is about a singer's (Shelby Lynne) improbable journey to achieve her dreams, and when she does, it's about the price she has paid and the question of whether or not it was worth it.

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