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1977 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Dominic

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Ten years after his lover's inexplicable suicide, Dominic is consumed with a need for absolution. But he is unable to let go and instead discovers an elaborate method of coping with his loss.

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Poster for Savannah Bay

1989 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The film tries to retain the memory, the compulsion and the nostalgia of a text by Marguerite Duras.

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Poster for Video Visit

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Each week, people visit the Brooklyn Public Library to video call incarcerated loved ones. A story of two mothers and their sons, and the librarians who keep the families connected.

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Poster for El Sol Sobre Mi Piel

2025 · ★ 6.0 (1)

The addiction to the unique sensation of the sun on the skin.

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During a book signing in Normandy, Annie Ernaux, 70, revisits her memories of the summer of 1958, when she was 17. That summer, she left her hometown to work as a camp counsellor. At the first party, the head counsellor set out to deflower her. Finding him handsome, she lets him do it, as if against her will... Her body becomes a foreign place for her, an offering to be sacrificed.

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Poster for In Darkness

2011 · ★ 6.9 (198)

A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lvov (formerly Poland).

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Poster for My Father's Dragon

2022 · ★ 7.1 (112)

Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elmer’s adventures introduce him to ferocious beasts, a mysterious island and the friendship of a lifetime.

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Poster for Our Dream Wedding

2021 · ★ 4.9 (13)

Commitment-shy Haley is as anti-marriage as it gets, but when she tries on her grandma’s ‘magical’ wedding veil, she’s transported to her future, where she and long-term boyfriend Scott are happily married with two beautiful children. Shocked, Haley tracks down her family to make sense of her vision and her view on love is changed for good. Is Haley ready to take the veil off – and is she finally ready for what will come after?

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Poster for Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me

2013 · ★ 7.5 (28)

Broadway legend Elaine Stritch remains in the spotlight at eighty-seven years old. Join the uncompromising Tony and Emmy Award-winner both on and off stage in this revealing documentary. With interviews from Tina Fey, Nathan Lane, Hal Prince and others, ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME blends rare archival footage and intimate cinema vérité to reach beyond Stritch’s brassy exterior, revealing a multi-dimensional portrait of a complex woman and an inspiring artist.

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Poster for My Rainy Days

2009 · ★ 7.4 (136)

Because of her past, 17-year-old Rio lives her days filling the emptiness in her heart with money—until one day, she meets a university professor named Kouki and falls in love.

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Poster for The Awake

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Vision becomes the primary anchor to reality for patients in the later stages of motor neurone disease – also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Poetic, abstract dance evokes ALS patients’ rich, heightened consciousness as everyday objects dissolve under the weight of illness: a motionless wheelchair; drifting curtains; a dining table for two; a fish in its bowl.

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Poster for Ocean Heaven

2010 · ★ 7.6 (84)

The story of a father's tireless love for his autistic son. A terminally ill father's attempt to teach his autistic son the necessary life skills to survive on his own before he passes away. It is also a poignant tribute to the infinite love that parents have for their children and their unending desire to take care and look after them to their best abilities, no matter the struggle, no matter the effort.

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Poster for Die schönsten Jahre

2006 · ★ 3.5 (4)

The relationship between journalist Nina and her mother Eva has always been tense. One day Nina is supposed to be interviewing Richard Gere in Budapest. Her friend Flora and her mother Eva accompany her there. Flora succeeds in defusing the tensions between mother and daughter. Then Eva is suddenly admitted to the hospital. Nina's visit to her mother's sickbed is moving for both women.

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Poster for The African Woman

1990 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A dying woman, who stole her best friend's lover, is convinced that a spell has been cast on her, so she orchestrates her former friend's return from a self-imposed exile in Africa in the hopes of breaking the spell.

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Poster for Bastards

2013 · ★ 5.8 (104)

Marco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy – though he is ill-prepared for her secrets as they quickly muddy the waters.

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Poster for Weirdo

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When an odd boy is confronted by a bully, conflict leads to a grim conclusion.

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Poster for The Second Mother

2015 · ★ 8.0 (766)

After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.

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Poster for The Goddess: How I Fell in Love

2004 · ★ 4.0 (20)

Young police detective Faina tries to experiment with herself in order to meet her dead love.

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