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Poster for Wiggle Room

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Determined to save her wheelchair ramp from repossession, Daisy confronts the shady insurance agent who owes her money.

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In the near future, tensions over race and gender have reached violent extremes, so the U.S. government institutes 'The Freshening', an initiative through which every American receives an injection, after which everyone sees others as the same race and gender as themselves.

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Poster for Zafir

2003 · ★ 3.2 (4)

The two 11-year-old girls Anna and Sharbat meet and become friends after a while. They unite around a big and secret goal: Anna is to ride the black stallion Zafir in a riding school competition, and Sharbat is to help her rein in the temperamental creature.

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Poster for Diary for My Father and My Mother

1990 · ★ 6.5 (7)

This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist intelligentsia, she sees her friends and family react differently. Her lover, a married factory manager, supports the patriots and later assists fellow workers in staging a strike. Meanwhile her sister and others express anger at being forced from their homes during the revolution and continue to express a hatred for the rebels afterwards. But in the end they realize that for all people, real life is not possible after the revolt and its brutal suppression by the Soviets and their collaborators.

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2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Istedgade is told in four stories that take place on the same day in or around Istedgade in Copenhagen and together form a lyrical portrait of the city and four women. We meet the flamboyant Emma, who wants so badly to please her boyfriend; the cautious Ida, who doesn't dare choose love; the hungry Nadia, who dreams of stardom; and the pregnant Sophie, who can't feel herself.

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Emma returns to her childhood home upon her father's death. But what set out to be a simple funeral service becomes a journey down nostalgia lane, making her confront her bittersweet relationship with her father.

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Poster for Soldier Girls

1981 · ★ 6.2 (5)

A documentary about women's basic training in Fort Georgia.

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Poster for Homewreckers

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young, dispassionate couple inherit a Bavarian chalet. They invite an old friend for dinner, but mysterious letters appear around the house, descending the evening into chaos.

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Poster for Dear Dictator

2018 · ★ 5.5 (161)

When political turmoil forces a British-Caribbean dictator to flee his island nation, he seeks refuge and hides with a rebellious teenage girl in suburban America, and ends up teaching the young teen how to start a revolution and overthrow the "mean girls" in her high school.

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Poster for Kiss the Ground

2020 · ★ 7.7 (78)

Sheds light on an alternative approach to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that could balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world.

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Poster for Edith Head

1981 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A light-hearted, toe-tapping portrait of the well-known 8 Oscar winning Hollywood costume designer filmed in her opulent house and garden. Edith Head presents some of her famous designs using glamorous models to impersonate Mae West, Barbara Stanwyck, Dorothy Lamour, Ginger Rogers, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly. They move to the music of the films for which she was the designer as Head recalls the times and places that served as inspiration for the famed looks.

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Poster for The Apothecary

2013 · ★ 7.0 (1)

In a former mining town in the American Southwest, a beloved druggist navigates a profound divide between his jovial public persona and his private pain while operating the community’s main hub: the sole pharmacy within 4,000 square miles.

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Poster for Свиделись

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Twenty-four years after the last meeting, the son visits his mother in an abandoned village. But the mother does not recognize her son.

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Poster for High Tide

2020 · ★ 4.6 (14)

Laura is spending a few days at her beach house to supervise the construction of a barbecue shed. One afternoon, she seduces the chief builder, who never returns. Over the following days, the builders continually invade her home – until Laura grows ferocious.

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Poster for Meru

2015 · ★ 7.4 (258)

Meru is the electrifying story of three elite American climbers—Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk—bent on achieving the impossible.

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Poster for After the Wedding

2006 · ★ 7.1 (471)

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

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Poster for Gdanski Railway Station

2007 · ★ 7.8 (2)

Polish Jews, who were forced to leave their country in 1968, meet every year in Ashkelon. After nearly 40 years, they share their memories of exile, loss and regret, and still consider themselves Polish.

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Poster for Hala

2019 · ★ 6.2 (80)

Seventeen-year-old Pakistani American teenager Hala struggles to balance desire with her family, cultural, and religious obligations. As she comes into her own, she grapples with a secret that threatens to unravel her family.

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Poster for The Father

2020 · ★ 5.7 (10)

Vasil has just lost his long-time partner in life, his wife Ivanka. When a woman at her funeral proclaims that the dead woman called her cellphone, Vasil seeks out the help of a well-known psychic in order to try to contact his wife. His son Pavel tries to bring him to his senses, but Vasil stubbornly insists on doing things his own way… Following the internationally successful The Lesson and Glory, Grozeva and Valchanov return with an intimate family drama about the difficulties of connecting with those close to us. As the picture slowly gathers momentum, its story unfolds many of the carefully arranged absurd or comic situations typical for the Bulgarian filmmaking duo.

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Poster for Divorce Hong Kong Style

1976 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Typical Hong Kong drama film: Affairs, betrayal, and divorce.

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