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Poster for Dash and Lilly

1999 · ★ 8.0 (2)

Biographical look at the bombastic love affair that writers Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman shared in 1940 and 50's Hollywood. Refusing to marry, but deeply in love, the two engaged in many affairs and battled alcoholism.

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Poster for In a World...

2013 · ★ 6.3 (556)

An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.

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Poster for Picassos Friseur

2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In 1948 Pablo Picasso met the hairdresser Eugenio Arias. Both were linked by the fate of emigration. If Picasso initially only had his hair cut by Arias, a deep friendship soon developed.

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Poster for Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation

2012 · ★ 6.1 (135)

Carl Hamilton manages to infiltrate an international gang that has stolen advanced Swedish GPS-guided missiles. But the league is subjected to a sudden deadly attack by a well drilled group of mercenaries of unknown clients. Hamilton escapes the massacre, but the rockets have disappeared without a trace.

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Poster for Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

1972 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir describes the problems faced by works in one of Paris’s working-class suburbs.

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1968 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Nena

2017 · ★ 5.0 (3)

'Nena' is a documentary about Rosalina Avilés. She had a very big house in Cuernavaca, Mexico. When her husband died, she needed to rent her home and start working, fighting for her three children. Now they live in the US and she is alone with her memories. Nena talks about absence and resilience.

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Poster for Flora & Ulysses

2021 · ★ 6.5 (261)

When Flora rescues a squirrel she names Ulysses, she is amazed to discover he possesses unique superhero powers, which take them on an adventure of humorous complications that ultimately change Flora's life--and her outlook--forever.

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Poster for Zino

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Zinedine, not yet 16, had never thought about becoming an actor and playing the lead role in a feature. He was training at his boxing club in Aubervilliers, when Cynthia invites him to come to a casting. Helier chose him.

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Poster for Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family

1978 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This short film from the Canada Vignettes series profiles a unique French-Canadian family, the Fourniers, 12 of whom work as stunt men and women for films.

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Poster for Far

2019 · ★ 10.0 (2)

During 2018's presidential election in Brazil, a young woman expects her mother for dinner. But a homophobic social media post makes her rethink this mother-daughter relationship.

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1991 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for ME 3.769

2019 · ★ 6.5 (1)

A Pubescent Latina looks forward to her maturing body, but must soon cope with the sexual misconduct of someone she trusts.

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Poster for Whisper

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A hauntingly beautiful ghost story, where nothing is what it seems.

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Poster for Aniara

2019 · ★ 6.1 (415)

A ship carrying settlers to a new home on Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.

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Poster for Harvest Time

2004 · ★ 5.3 (9)

A beautiful portrait of a woman living in a small Russian village after World War II. A piercing meditation on family unity.

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Poster for South

1999 · ★ 6.2 (14)

Chantal Akerman investigates the American Deep South through the story of a lynching and grisly murder of an African-American man that took place in Texas in 1998.

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Poster for Into the Deep: The Submarine Murder Case

2020 · ★ 6.6 (64)

In 2016, a young Austrialian filmmaker began documenting amateur inventor Peter Madsen. One year in, Madsen brutally murdered Kim Wall aboard his homemade submarine. An unprecedented revelation of a killer and the journey his young helpers take as they reckon with their own complicity and prepare to testify.

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1983 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Nu stiger den

1966 · ★ 4.0 (5)

A folk comedy loosely based on the career of Danish inventor and aviation pioneer Jacob Christian Ellehammer. We follow Ellehammer, his loyal assistant Pehtersen, and his patient wife as they battle creditors and widespread ridicule until, on September 12, 1906, Ellehammer becomes the first person in Europe to get a flying machine off the ground on the island of Lindholm.

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