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Poster for Watchmakerʼs Apprentice

2019 · ★ 4.5 (11)

Urban, an orphan, serves a greedy master watchmaker as an apprentice. When Urban grows up, he falls in love with the watchmaker's daughter Laura and wants to marry her. Before this can happen, the master sends his apprentice out into the world with the task of looking for a mythical watch that can warn of death. No one knows if the watch even exists, but if Urban doesn't bring it back, Laura will never be his wife. The watchmaker's apprentice therefore sets out on a long journey full of hardships, which he must overcome with bravery, skill and a good heart.

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Poster for Heavenly Grassland

2002 · ★ 8.0 (1)

A small Chinese boy is adopted by a nomadic family in Inner Mongolia.

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Poster for 50 l 50

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

50|50 looks at the frustrations and triumphs that couples still encounter as they try to find a balance between raising children and working. Each story unveils the obstacles and prejudices that men and (mostly) women still have to overcome. This documentary sheds light on the roads to conciliation, giving voice to ambitious, career-oriented women, but also to couples who are struggling to have children or to share their unpaid domestic duties fairly. 50 | 50 evaluates the advancements accomplished while also questioning whether the ongoing progress is sufficient in light of the times we live in.

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Poster for Thriller

1979 · ★ 6.0 (9)

What happens after the curtain falls on the death of Mimi, tragic heroine of Puccini's La boheme. In Thriller, Mimi teams up with the opera's comic heroine Musetta to investigate her own death.

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Poster for Taiji Bay

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Anka's once-large family is falling apart: her younger brother was killed at school, and her own mother pretends that this did not happen, diligently trying to convince everyone around her of this. Anka's grandfather unsuccessfully struggles with progressive Alzheimer's, talking to his deceased grandson in between searching for a wiretap hidden, as it seems to him, in the house. The father, who, according to his mother's stories, is a diplomat traveling around the world, actually turns out to be an alcoholic who drank the last thing they had: an apartment. In an attempt to get justice and help her family, Anka, unbeknownst to herself, slides into the abyss of insanity so deeply that it seems there will never be a way back.

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Poster for Silêncio da Primavera

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Temps Mort

2026 · ★ 10.0 (1)

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Poster for Affection Affection

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the winter on the French Riviera, a teenage girl goes missing on her birthday. Géraldine, an employee in the mayor's office, takes on the role of detective. Versions of the truth rapidly multiply as she struggles not to be overwhelmed by all the gossip and theories.

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Poster for Parallels

2022 · ★ 8.5 (2)

Lena Samoilova, a headstrong and creative teenager in suburban Russia, yearns for the support and approval of her working-class parents in pursuit of her dream to become an actress.

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1981 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Views in and around Kirkwall concentrating on things that have changed. These include a new grammar school building, model yachting on the Peedie Sea, demolition of a building, the 'No Uranium' campaign in Orkney.

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Poster for To Each His Own Cinema

2007 · ★ 6.5 (150)

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

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Poster for There's Something Wrong with the Children

2023 · ★ 5.7 (230)

Margaret and Ben take a weekend trip with longtime friends Ellie and Thomas and their two young children. Eventually, Ben begins to suspect something supernatural is occurring when the kids behave strangely after disappearing into the woods overnight.

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Plot TBA; described as a non-Hollywood film shot in a 'guerrilla warfare' style.

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Poster for Book Hunters

2017 · ★ 8.0 (2)

When chaos reigns, while barbaric and fanatical rulers, both ecclesiastical and secular, systematically burn entire libraries, book hunters, secret heroes of history, travel the world saving and copying texts, threatened by the madness of censors, with the noble purpose of preventing the ultimate loss of human knowledge.

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Poster for Tales

1971 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Made entirely by women - a group of young men and women have a cinema verite confessional about their most bizarre sexual experiences in a strange modern day Decameron.

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Basia works as a guide in the salt mine and she treats her job very seriously. One day she takes around the trip of the deaf kids and their tutors. It forces her to adjust the tour script she always follows. Basia doesn’t have any control anymore and it doesn’t make her feel confident. Especially one little girl keeps causing chaos. Though chaos can be very illuminating…

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Poster for Belleville Tokyo

2011 · ★ 4.8 (11)

Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette situation. Elle trouve du réconfort dans son travail auprès de ses deux « cow-boys » de patrons, Jean-Jacques et Jean-Loup, qui dirigent un cinéma du quartier latin spécialisé dans les films classiques américains…

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Poster for A Game of Catch

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Min-young fills in for her brother and drives the factory workers home. When she reaches her last stop, she finds Han Jong-do, one of the workers, was dead in her front passenger seat. Completely shocked, she leaves her brother to take care of the police and runs home.

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1966 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A boy doesn't like snow. Until a fairy appears.

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Poster for Seaside

2002 · ★ 5.1 (7)

Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all winter. His mother, Rose (Ogier) likes to play the slots just about anytime; his girlfriend Marie works in the local factory - the town's biggest business - but watching the summertime vacationers each year just makes her increasingly curious about what else might be out there. From these and several other stories, aided by close, revealing observations, we see a community perched between transition and stasis.

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