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Poster for Spider Lilies

2007 · ★ 5.5 (45)

When Jade, a web-cam girl, visits Takeko's tattoo studio she becomes entranced with the image of the spider lily and with Takeko as well. In order to get closer to the object of her desire, Jade asks Takeko to give her the same lily tattoo, challenging Takeko's monastic existence and opening up memories which threaten to tear the two women apart.

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Poster for Unlovers

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Submerged in a tragicomic atmosphere, the film tells about a special event in the life of Oswaldo, who suffers from compulsive disorders and is consumed by his failed marriage. On a timely night, he hires the services of the beautiful Elisângela, and, protected by the gloom, the strangers become intimate through the most unusual situations.

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Poster for You Can Live Forever

2023 · ★ 6.8 (122)

When Jaime, a gay teenager, is sent to live in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses in small-town Quebec, she falls madly in love with a devout Witness girl. The two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives.

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Poster for Descent

2020 · ★ 8.0 (1)

When Triin closes her car door, in a moment of solitude, her depression comes crashing in, threatening to drown her.

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Poster for Emoticon

2014 · ★ 2.0 (1)

Elena Gallenti is an anthropology graduate student struggling to complete her thesis on 'modern means of communication.' All that changes when she meets her new boyfriend's teenage kids, who are going through their own journeys of self-discovery. All of them learn to navigate love and intimacy in the digital age.

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Poster for 3pm, Thursdays

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

It’s time to get on the stage and shake your money-maker, but when a dancer has an unexpected but completely natural mishap, it turns into a theatre of terrors as an audience of rowdy men looks on in disbelief.

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Poster for #TBB4

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After a community organized hate crime against a group of LGBT activists turns fatal, the survivors retaliate.

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Poster for Le ratel prédateur inattendu

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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2013 · ★ 7.0 (2)

Ursula is preparing an Easter breakfast in honor of her daughter and her new fiancé. When her daughter arrives, it turns out that her fiancé is thirty years older than her. Breakfast turns into dinner, and Ursula experiences the worst day of her life.

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Poster for Chaos By Design

1988 · ★ 6.3 (3)

Controversial director Angela Chan explores the "La Cage Aux Folles" demi-monde that thrives in today's Hong Kong, but which has never before been portrayed in a major movie. Alex To plays a handsome fashion designer trapped in a tangle of ambiguous relationships that becomes even more complex when he falls for a beautiful D.J. (Cecilia Yip) who, with the help of her best friend (Cherie Chung), is trying to get out of an arranged marriage. This film looks and sounds like a comedy, but has some serious comments about a veiled segment of Hong Kong.

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Poster for The Boogeywoman

2019 · ★ 5.0 (10)

While roller-skating, Sam, a sensitive teenage girl, hears about her small town's local legend: the Boogeywoman.

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Poster for The Pig Child

2014 · ★ 5.6 (5)

A scientist makes a reckless decision to carry on with an illegal surrogacy experiment, using her own body.

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Poster for The Little Stones

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Chloe is a young woman who leads a small and happy life, letting herself be happily by the things of life... with a certain nonchalance. But visceral physical pain makes herself bend little by little. Where does this mysterious illness come from? Will Chloe succeed in getting rid of it ?

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Poster for Kobane

2022 · ★ 6.4 (8)

Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, a female Kurdish fighter guides her fellow fighters in the resistance to defend their city, Kobanê, from the deadly threat of ISIS. A real story of war, sacrifice, love and hope that kept the whole world on tenterhooks.

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Poster for Golden Girl

2016 · ★ 5.7 (3)

Golden Girl is a film about the forces at play around Frida Wallberg, WBC world champion. It's about putting it all on the line in a deadly sport. About rosy dreams that crash into a nothing less than brutal reality.

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Poster for Life Without Gabriella Ferri

2008 · ★ 5.2 (4)

A man and a woman lead a complicated love life, filled with erotic tension and despotic passion. Their son is an involuntary witness to all this, cooped up despondently in his room banging his head against the wall. To get away from the situation, he escapes into a virtual world. But when the man finds himself inopportunely stuck out on the balcony of the apartment, a burglar gets into the building. At the same time, in a neighbouring apartment, spies are getting ready to listen in on a group of scientists.

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Poster for Our Infinite Further

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Adapted from real stories from an innovation and entrepreneurship competition for university students, it features a group of university students helping with poverty alleviation through a startup business.

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Poster for Personal Velocity

2002 · ★ 5.8 (45)

In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.

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1994 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A 4 minute film based on flowing changing images from liquid-like faces to flashing abstract imagery.

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Poster for The Railway Children

2000 · ★ 6.7 (25)

At the dawn of the 20th century, following their father's arrest on suspicion of betraying state secrets, the three Waterbury children—Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter—move with their mother to Yorkshire, where they find themselves involved in unexpected dramas along the railway by their new home.

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