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Poster for Magda

2023 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Podhale, Poland. Winter of 1939. Magda, an excellent skier, joins the Polish Resistance and helps by bringing documents and fugitives across the mountains into Slovakia. One day she learns that a group of 23 pilots urgently need to cross the border, as Gestapo is on their heels. She comes up with a risky plan.

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Poster for My Country, My Parents

2021 · ★ 6.0 (27)

This anthology drama presents four short films honoring Chinese families, spotlighting the struggles of key groups across four pivotal eras: the revolution, construction, reform and opening up, and the new era, while highlighting their perseverance, dedication to ideals, and commitment to passing on the national spirit through generations.

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Poster for Jane Brakhage

1975 · ★ 10.0 (1)

"I picked up Stan and Jane Brakhage at the airport and drove them to San Francisco State College where Stan spoke about his films to the student body. I was fascinated with Jane. She was so interested in the world around her while Stan seemed caught up only in his ideas. She picked seed pods from trees and plants and told me she had written a lexicon of dog language. She was so much more complex than Stan's portrayal of her in Window Water Baby Moving (1958) that I decided to make a documentary about her for my graduate project." — Barbara Hammer 16mm film, Color/Sound

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Poster for The Specimen

2002 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When, before the revolution, accidentally arrested, the philistine - a tsarist civil servant of high status - falls in deep, lethargic sleep. 20 years later he wakes up and finds himself in a post-revolutionary, still young Soviet Union. He is stunned. He is shocked. But a philistine always finds his way.

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Poster for Hana

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The day after her father’s funeral, Hana goes to his old house to clear the place out, and finds an unexpected company—none other than his dog, Ddaengi. Hana struggles to accept the sudden death of her long-estranged father, and ends up abandoning Ddaengi. At last, her daily life is back on track. She tries to forget her old family and seeks stability in her new family. However, haunted by a sporadic sense of guilt, she starts looking for Ddaengi again.

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Poster for 24h Jerusalem

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Two Bad Daughters

1988 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A whirlwind tour of paternal institutions: fatherhood, Lacanian psychoanalysis and bondage.

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1960 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Face the Music

1993 · ★ 4.8 (11)

Tensions run high when a recently-divorced couple are given an offer they can't refuse. Once well-established movie songwriters, Lisa and Charlie are thrown together again when a movie producer offers them a rewarding contract to compose a new song. However, old wounds and new love interests guarantee that this job will be anything but easy money.

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Poster for The Velveteen Rabbit

2023 · ★ 7.1 (72)

When seven-year-old William receives a new favorite toy for Christmas, he discovers a lifelong friend and unlocks a world of magic.

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2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

FRONTLINE and NPR investigate why the U.S. is more vulnerable than ever to climate change-related storms and how Hurricane Helene became an ominous warning about America’s lack of preparedness. In “Hurricane Helene’s Deadly Warning,” Laura Sullivan goes on the ground in North Carolina in the days after the 2024 storm and speaks with survivors who describe the devastation, fear and shock they experienced at seeing entire communities washed away. She revisits Houston, Texas, where thousands of homes remain in an area that already flooded during Harvey in 2017. Sullivan also returns to Staten Island, where, according to a former FEMA director, the billion dollar rebuilding process may not have been enough to prevent mass destruction should another Superstorm Sandy hit.

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Poster for Permitted

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for How to Build a Girl

2020 · ★ 5.7 (65)

The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton. Based on Caitlin Moran's bestselling semi-autobiographical novel.

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Poster for Keep Talking

2017 · ★ 8.0 (1)

Three Alaska Native women work to save their endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq, and ensure the future of their culture while confronting their personal demons. With just 41 fluent Native speakers remaining, mostly Elders, some estimate their language could die out within ten years. The small community travels to a remote Island, where a language immersion experiment unfolds with the remaining fluent Elders. Young camper Sadie, an at-risk 13 year old learner and budding Alutiiq dancer, is inspired and gains strength through her work with the teachers. Yet PTSD and politics loom large as the elders, teachers, and students try to continue the difficult task of language revitalization over the next five years.

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Poster for Inferno

1992 · ★ 1.0 (2)

A young English author is having trouble finishing his latest work. He needs to "avoid distractions, particularly of the female kind." To achieve this, he tries to find a quiet place in Italy to write. However, he is continually beset by beautiful nude or scantily dressed women, played by several well-known (super)models.

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Poster for Alma's Rainbow

1994 · ★ 6.2 (5)

The teenage daughter of a Brooklyn beauty-parlor owner blossoms under the influence of her recently-returned show-biz aunt.

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2009 · ★ 4.3 (6)

An impressionistic experimental drama. A woman walks a fine line between sanity and madness in a world of constant twilight. She works at a filling station and lives a life of emotional isolation. No one seems to pay attention to her, and she lives in a run-down flat that looks as if it's decaying before our eyes. As the woman wrestles with the demons that are taking hold within her mind, she frequently confronts herself in the mirror, often while naked.

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Poster for Eltern und andere Wahrheiten

2017 · ★ 5.2 (2)

Nina (38) loves her little family and is passionate about her job as an architect. When she returns to work after parental leave, she is able to save the office from bankruptcy with an ingenious idea. The only catch: she has to pretend to be single and married to her work. Nina gets no help from her husband Torsten (38) because he sees her dream job as a threat to the family. In desperation, Nina pretends he is her brother and secretly hires granny-for-hire Irmgard (70). Between lies and success, Nina's life picks up so much speed that she soon can no longer find the emergency brake.

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Poster for The Republic of Varnu Street

1970 · ★ 4.8 (4)

Children of Varnu Street whose fathers work in nearby factories face the "Tuliana Empire" - a group of boys, children of merchants from the nearby Lauku Street.

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