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Poster for Caniba

2017 · ★ 5.6 (30)

Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one Japanese man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun Sagawa.

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Poster for Breakfast at Dad's

2016 · ★ 7.2 (17)

Contemporary Moscow. Sasha Titov is a successful executive, reveling in the single life. One day, a ten-year-old girl, Alya, shows up at his penthouse, claiming to be his daughter. Can this incorrigible bachelor learn to be a father?

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Poster for Super Wings: Maximum Speed

2023 · ★ 6.3 (9)

In a world where toys have become unpopular, villain Billy Willy sets up a terrifying plot to kidnap YouTubers and blow them into space. One million YouTuber Da-in goes out to find Billy Willy with fastest aircraft Sky to save her kidnapped mother! Can Sky save the Earth with Maximum Speed?

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Poster for Blondie Knows Best

1946 · ★ 6.4 (5)

Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while Dithers avoids nearsighted process server Jim Gray. The upshot of all this is that Dagwood ends up in a lunatic asylum, forcing Blondie to come to the rescue.

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A retired sniper hiding out on an Australian ranch gets her elite team of killers back together to protect her daughter when a warlord, seeking revenge, hunts her down.

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Poster for Nobody's Darling

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

It’s the turn of the New Year and a young woman fumbles her way through an unknown future.

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Poster for The Other, Gold

2024 · ★ 1.0 (1)

At the end of the day, sometimes an old friend and a bowl of ramen are as good as gold. For one Black TV writer, this is just the beginning as she battles grief and ‘pandemmy’ isolation in Little Tokyo while seeking to rekindle her bond with a former BFF.

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Poster for Amaeru Fallout 1972

1997 · ★ 6.0 (1)

amaeru(v). the attempt to draw close; depend; belong…’ Two Japanese girls appear in the West country in a radio transmitter field above Eggardon Fort; they go to school in Lyme Regis; they live in the countryside; they sleep in the same bed; they explore the town; they separate. Amaeru.. is a dreamlike narrative of transience and separation, an ode to homesickness through place and time. Includes PJ Harvey performing a specially composed version of the Three Degrees’ "When Will I See You Again."

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Poster for Irena's Vow

2024 · ★ 7.4 (92)

19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major's house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.

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Poster for The Call

2018 · ★ 6.3 (3)

An aged woman is taking a bath. While entering the water a new world reveals. The phone, on a chair, connects her with her son and keeps her linked to the world.

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Poster for Noli Me Tangere

1998 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The title of this piece is the well-known warning of Jesus to Mary Magdalene after his resurrection. It translates to Touch me not. This biblical scene gave birth to a strong iconographical tradition in Christian art, from late antiquity to present. Here, the denial of hope and redemption is removed from its religious context. 16mm film. Dual-screen projection.

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Poster for Missing

2016 · ★ 6.9 (60)

A working single mother comes home one day to find that her daughter and the nanny have disappeared -- and this is just the beginning of her nightmare.

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Poster for Mourir d'aimer

2009 · ★ 8.4 (5)

Priests and educational institutions try to put an end to a forbidden love between a 16-year-old student and his 40-year-old teacher.

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Poster for Baby

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

At an east London house party, Red grapples with second-hand grief as she struggles to support Axel through the silent weight of his father's death— each scene revealing a new stage of mourning in a raw, dialogue-light portrait of love, loss, and emotional endurance.

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Poster for FYP

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An insurance agent, Gloria, finds out she has only three months to live. She quits the job she has always hated and starts to follow her own wish to live.

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Poster for Snow and the Magic Trees

2015 · ★ 7.0 (1)

A collection of four animated short films, with a nature theme.

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Poster for The Hazards of Helen Ep26: The Wild Engine

1915 · ★ 6.0 (2)

Helen, informed of the danger which menaces an excursion train because another engine on the same track is running wild, mounts a motorcycle and speeds down the track to warn the passengers of their imminent peril. Nearing a river trestle under repair, she hurtles into the river; undaunted, she swims to the opposite bank and flags down the excursion train in the nick of time, causing the engineer to run his train onto a siding just a few moments before the runaway dashes by.

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Poster for Ivasyk-Telesyk

1989 · ★ 4.5 (2)

The animation is based on a Ukrainian fairy tale about an old married couple, who had no children. One day the woman asked her husband to cut down a log and put it in a cradle for a night. The old man did what she had asked him to do. Next morning, a surprise was waiting for them.

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Poster for Caleb Hearon: Model Comedian

2025 · ★ 6.5 (7)

​In his debut stand-up special, actor, comedian, writer, and podcaster Caleb Hearon takes us back to his roots in Kansas City...where it all started. Newly 30, Hearon deploys his generational Midwestern wisdom to solve most of the world's problems: politics, internet trolls, learning we're not that different from our parents, and more.

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Poster for Knowing the Score

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Simone Young AM has earned many accolades across her dazzling 30-year music career. All have been hard won. Knowing the Score gets up-close and personal with Simone in an engaging, luscious music documentary revealing two key themes; the long struggle for gender parity in the high art of classical music and the heart breaking struggle for artists to be valued in times of crisis, or sometimes even at all. Though one of the world’s great contemporary conductors, Simone’s work continues to be viewed through a gender lens. Simone is the first woman to be appointed Chief Conductor of The Sydney Symphony Orchestra in all its 90-year history, a post she takes up in 2022.

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