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Poster for Beneath the Skin

2005 · ★ 6.1 (5)

Based on the chilling novel by Nicci French, a police officer struggles to unravel the murderous plot of a methodical stalker targeting three women.

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Poster for Twelve Days

2023 · ★ 3.3 (3)

Like her directorial debut Twelve Nights, Twelve Days depicts 12 scenes of a tumultuous marriage, from its blissful beginning through its bitter collapse. On day one, Jeannie and Simon seem to have the makings of a perfect marriage, but the following 11 vignettes reveal the various conflicts, both big and small, that slowly eat away at their bond. Love may build a marriage, but Twelve Days shows that reality can just as easily shatter it.

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2013 · ★ 6.0 (1)

What is it like when you have lost your memory, when you wake up and you cannot even recognize your husband? A woman wakes up from a dream facing a stranger who claims to be her husband. DARLING deals with loss, intimacy as well as alienation, helplessness and despair, but also hope.

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Poster for Çelo

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Çelo is a village boy who was orphaned at the age of two. After becoming an orphan, he is forced to grow up with his cruel uncle and aunt. The only thing that kept him tied to the village was his deep love for his uncle's daughter, Kezik. As he grew older, Çelo struggled to survive as a shepherd, but eventually he could no longer endure his uncle and aunt's cruelty and ran away from home at the age of 14. Leaving the village with the intention of returning to take Kezik, Çelo finds her married to someone she does not love when he returns years later. Determined to claim his share of his father's fields and the girl he loves, Çelo does not give up, but both Çelo and Kezik will be tested by having to sacrifice great things for this cause.

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Poster for The Exhibition

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Lena gets mixed up in an adventure of her girlfriend and agrees to participate in an exhibition. Unexpectedly she becomes a living statue: before hundreds of long- ing eyes, deprived of the possibility to move or speak – everything that remains is to meet herself and her inner enemies.

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1992 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Good neighborliness and mutual affection characterize the relationship between an elderly lady and her Turkish neighbor and her son. When the boy is killed in a fight with skinheads, his mother becomes increasingly withdrawn. The elderly lady observes her Turkish neighbor's isolation with curiosity and dismay, until she makes a surprising discovery.

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Poster for Exotica, Erotica, Etc.

2015 · ★ 6.2 (10)

This essay film tells of the ocean as a place of yearning, of the world of giant container ships and their crews, and the women that wait for them in ports and drinking holes. The protagonists' thoughts are rendered as inner monologues in voiceover, all set to striking documentary images.

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Poster for Dream

1988 · ★ 5.9 (9)

Dream (1988) is a somnambulist short about dreams taking over reality and rendering protagonists inactive.

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Poster for Polite Society

2023 · ★ 6.3 (205)

Martial artist-in-training Ria Khan believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.

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Poster for 42 One Dream Rush

2010 · ★ 5.0 (1)

An omnibus project bringing together acclaimed directors from around the world, each contributing a 42-second short inspired by a dream. Produced by 42 Below vodka, the collection blends surreal, poetic, and experimental visions into a mosaic of oneiric cinema.

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Poster for Attenti a quei tre

2004 · ★ 4.5 (3)

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Poster for Fantastic Lies

2016 · ★ 7.2 (19)

One night in Durham, North Carolina, a rape accusation set fire to the reputations of three college athletes and their elite university. As the Duke lacrosse players grappled with their transition from model student to the criminally accused, several wars were launched on different fronts.

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Poster for Deep

2021 · ★ 6.3 (120)

Four insomniac med school students are lured into a neuroscience experiment that spirals out of control and must find a way out before it’s too late.

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Poster for Atropia

2025 · ★ 4.3 (3)

When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.

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Poster for Screw Mickiewicz 3

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for The Era of Chan

2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Film historians discuss the Charlie Chan films

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1955 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Starting from its source, this film tells the story of the Orquil Burn, Orkney.

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Poster for Art Museum by the Zoo

1998 · ★ 6.7 (23)

Through a misunderstanding, Chul-su arrives on the doorstep of Chun-hi. Having nowhere else to go, he forces her to allow him to stay until they can contact their mutual friend to solve the problem. Their initial contempt for each other gradually softens.

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Poster for The Dry Valley

2012 · ★ 5.4 (4)

This story unites the destinies of the landowners and their servants, and is considered to be one of the most complete portraits of the Russian life in the late XIX century. It takes place in Dry Valley, a village owned by the noble family of Khrushevs. The story tells about Natalia, a young and naive girl who serves in their country house. We see and experience her love, dedication to her masters, mysticism, exile, betrayal and faith, while the Dry Valley is falling to pieces, slowly but inevitably, as well as the lives of its inhabitants.

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2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

For 17-year-old Johanna, a vacation in the idyllic countryside of Piecht is anything but relaxing. While her mother dreams of an ecological alternative to city life, a real nightmare unfolds for Johanna when she confronts the far-right, close-knitted community and encounters brutal resistance.

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