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Poster for A Dessert for Constance

1981 · ★ 5.7 (5)

Bokolo and Mamadou, sweepers in the city of Paris, are looking for a way to pay for the return home of one of their sick comrades. When they find an old book of recipes in the trash, they discover a passion for French cuisine and decide to participate in a televised cooking competition.

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Poster for Showing Up

2023 · ★ 5.9 (122)

In the days leading up to a possibly career-changing exhibition, a sculptor navigates her relationships with family, friends, and colleagues.

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Poster for Pleins feux

1992 · ★ 0.0 (0)

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Catherine Moreau is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Adeline Margaux. Catherine maneuvers her way into Adeline's role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Adeline's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Catherine, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

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Poster for Things We Lost in the Fire

2007 · ★ 6.6 (379)

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

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Poster for For You

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Marta has just graduated from prestigious vocal studies in England. She comes home after three years of absence. Family and friends welcome her with a surprise party, in order to celebrate her homecoming and success. At the party, the girl meets her old love whom she once abandoned for realizing her own musical ambitions. Only she knows that her education abroad finished with a failure. Marta avoids confrontation with her relatives’ expectations and searches for safety in the old relationship.

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Poster for #polish_women_resistance

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An animated protest created by 49 animators in 48 hours as a response to the decision of The Constitutional Court about abortion ban in Poland. Moved and broken by the situation in our country, we, a group of students from the Animation Department of Lodz Film School have decided to act. We strongly oppose the recent events in our country and it’s shameful that such a ruling has been pushed through during this extremely difficult time of pandemic. The Constitutional court has issued a ruling that will end legal termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly. Many of us are afraid right now, this is why we want to express unity in a just cause.

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Poster for Assassin Anna

2015 · ★ 2.0 (2)

Popular sexy actress Miyuki Yokoyama starring poetic justice drama. Nuns of Anna, to dispose of the target in the Father-Ohara of instruction killer. She has a fierce past that is not only revealed in Ohara, give up the happiness as a woman, but had decided prepared to live as a killer ....

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Poster for D'Emmanuelle à Emmanuelle

2024 · ★ 8.0 (1)

« Emmanuelle » was released 50 years ago. Its main character, played by the young Sylvia Kristel, delve freely into her sexuality, without taboo. This bold movie became one of the great success of french cinema in the 70s, and Emmanuelle became the face of sexual liberation. Through the gaze of a woman, the character is back on the screen in 2024. This new Emmanuelle, written by Audrey Diwan, go in quest of a lost pleasure.

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Poster for No Other Love

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

A disillusioned horticulturist Zi Ning starts a passionate, all-consuming romance with the middle-aged scholar Kou Yi.

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Poster for Framing Agnes

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the late 1950s, a woman named Agnes approached the UCLA Medical Center seeking sex reassignment surgery. Her story was long considered to be exceptional and singular until never-before-seen case files of other patients were found in 2017. Framing Agnes features preeminent trans culture-makers breathing new life into those who redefined gender in the midcentury.

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Poster for The Antique

2018 · ★ 6.1 (5)

Job-hunting Daisuke heads to the Antiquarian Bookshop Biblia in Kita-Kamakura with a book signed by Natsume Soseki that his deceased grandmother left behind. He asks the beautiful shop owner Shioriko to authenticate the book. However, the book in question hides an unexpected secret from his grandmother.

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Poster for Chow Bella

2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Sophia is hungry to find love. She conducts a series of blind dates in order to find Mr. Right.

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Poster for Children of Monday

1997 · ★ 5.3 (7)

Is it easy to be a walking corpse? How do you spend a half a million dollars? Can you fall in love with the same bride twice?

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Poster for Where Is Ronny...

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

With just one punch, a foreign merchant named Ronny (Mahbub Alam) knocks out In-Ho (Yu Jun-Sang) during one of his Taekwondo training classes. In-Ho then goes to find Ronny to recover his dignity. However, what comes next is separation from his wife and being imprisoned..

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Poster for Accused: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax

2024 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Two children accused parents and teachers of leading a paedophilic satanic cult, supposedly headquartered in secret rooms on the school premises. The story was not true. But once the fire was lit, it was hard to put out. Emily Turner’s film considers the real-world impact of an outrageous online conspiracy theory, exploring the importance of truth and the cost of lies.

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Poster for Dark History Generator

2021 · ★ 0.0 (1)

No matter how old you get, life is just a 'dark history generator'?

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Poster for Das gläserne Kind

2024 · ★ 6.5 (2)

Anne mourned the loss of her son Lukas, who was born with a genetic disease and died six years ago. With the encouragement and support of her boyfriend Daniel, she decided to sell her house and emigrate to La Palma. But it is not only the dissolution of the former family center that brings back many memories - her grown-up daughter Helen has also returned to Germany from the USA.

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Poster for Tell Me Iggy

2022 · ★ 8.0 (2)

This new intimate documentary looks at the extraordinary journey of the 75-year-old American rocker, who has come back from everything, and especially from the worst, but with his capacity for wonder intact.

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Poster for Tulip

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Tulip, a tiny child born from a flower, explores a wondrous miniature word in this little story with a big message of acceptance at its Thumbelina-inspired heart.

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Poster for Love, Ltd.

2000 · ★ 1.0 (2)

A sister and brother turn a dysfunctional family dinner into an unappreciated coming out party. Love Ltd. confronts homophobia through a quirky, unrelenting, tale about the things we choose to say, or not say, to the people we love.

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