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Poster for The Dragonfly

1920 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mr. Vinner's daughter, Lillan, accidentally breaks her mother's brooch and tries to catch a dragonfly as a replacement for the destroyed jewelry.

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Poster for The Island

2023 · ★ 5.3 (3)

Robinson is a doctor and unlike Robinson Crusoe, his solitude is voluntary but his island in the Mediterranean Sea is invaded by migrants, NGOs, guards. Friday is a castaway, the only one from his boat to have survived when sailing from Africa to Italy. During his strolls on the island, Robinson confronts his own solitude by keeping a diary - that works like augmented reality - filled with extraordinary beings and events, which both fill and trouble his daily life.

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Poster for Xuxa Popstar

2000 · ★ 3.3 (33)

Nick, a famous fashion model, decides to retire and goes back to her home country Brazil, after a briliant international career. She becomes the head executive of Popstar, the modeling agency where she started her career, and has to deal with intrigues, fashion faux pas and a budding online romance with Sunshine, a mysterious online friend.

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Poster for La Musica

1967 · ★ 4.8 (10)

A husband and wife meet three years after their formal separation, when they return to the provincial town where they once lived to pick up their divorce decree.

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Poster for Emilio

2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Emilio is the soulful tale of a young man who leaves his village in Mexico looking for his kidnapped sister. His journey leads him to Los Angeles, where we see the city through the eyes of a penniless illegal immigrant on a desperate quest.

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2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Takes a look at twelve working actors in Hollywood over 80 and how they have managed to survive this crazy business.

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Poster for Sweetie

1989 · ★ 6.0 (109)

The buttoned-down, superstitious Kay is attempting to lead a normal existence with her new boyfriend Louis. That’s until Sweetie, her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, returns home after an absence, exposing the rotten roots of their family and placing a strain on Kay and Louis’ relationship.

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Poster for Vertraute Angst

2008 · ★ 6.0 (2)

When Anja is finally ready to start a new life, her husband Thomas is released from a psychiatric ward. He had set fire to the house years ago and threatened his family. Just as Anja enters into a new relationship, she learns that Thomas is healthy. She is now supposed to help him find his way back to normal life. Somewhat taken by surprise, she agrees to do so - on the condition that Thomas doesn't "mess things up". At first, everything seems to go well: Thomas is very nice and reserved, and is able to win over the children and even Anja again with his charm.

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1978 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In “A Man”, Police Inspector Shek reports his corrupt colleagues, but it is his own integrity which comes under investigation, Joyce's implication that being honest to oneself can extract a high price. Also characteristic of her ICAC scripts is that they're non-judgmental and the protagonists have distinct personalities. Unfortunately, it was banned by the authorities until its initial release at the Hong Kong International Film Festival in 1999.

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Poster for Shades of Love: The Garnet Princess

1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young woman discovers she is a long lost princess and heir to a throne in her home country.

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Poster for Aschenputtel

2010 · ★ 6.8 (20)

Little Marie is turned into a maid, a Cinderella, by her stepmother, while her stepsister Clothilde is pampered. One day, Prince Leonhard and his friend Peter appear, both disguised as servants, and present Clothilde with an invitation to a masked ball. Cinderella falls in love with Leonhard and fights to be allowed to go to the ball because she wants to see her supposed servant again. However, the ambitious stepmother only gives her own daughter a beautiful dress. But the magic tree on Marie's mother's grave throws down a beautiful dress. Cinderella shines at the ball and enchants the prince, but just before midnight, before the spell expires, she flees. Will the prince be able to love a Cinderella?

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Poster for Mama Africa

2002 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In 1997, six African women pledged that in the first year of the new millennium they would tell their stories, stories by African women. They called their series "Mama Africa" and drew their tales from the depths of their hearts. The result is a groundbreaking initiative bringing together the incredibly fresh talents of six female directors from the vast and diverse continent of Africa.

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Poster for Iceberg

2005 · ★ 6.0 (22)

Fiona is the manager of a fast-food restaurant. She lives comfortably with her family in the suburbs. In other words, Fiona is happy... until one day she accidentally gets locked into a walk-in fridge. She escapes the next morning, half frozen and barely alive, only to realize that her husband and two children didn't even notice she was missing. But when Fiona develops an obsession for everything cold and icy: snow, polar bears, fridges, icebergs--she drops everything, climbs into a frozen goods delivery truck and leaves home. For a real iceberg.

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Poster for Hancock Park

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

On the brink of homelessness, Ruby goes to stay with her pregnant baby sister and husband after the death of their alcoholic father. Her theatrical presence and blatant lies quickly cause problems as a distraught Ruby tries to hide her vulnerable circumstance in hopes of being saved by showbusiness.

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Poster for Sugar!

2017 · ★ 3.5 (2)

A housewife of a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate secretly forms an all-women rock band turning her entire world up side down.

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Poster for Danzón

1991 · ★ 6.5 (29)

A telephone operator from Mexico City tries to support a family and her passion for popular dance.

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2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Sari is a high school principal with high standards but no idea of what to do with them. In the teachers' lounge her nitpicky style hasn't won her popularity. When Sari hears that the teachers are organizing a get-together and she's not invented, she decides to act: get an invitation and win everyone's hearts. There is nothing standing in the way of her and popularity - except one broken mug.

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Poster for Jan Oppen

1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The Oppen family has lived in Berlin, Griesener Straße, for generations. The first names of the family members are also repeated, so the grandson Jan has the same first name as his grandfather. The Oppens' husbands have maintained a tradition up to now: they were or are all carpenters. But the latter does not yet fall on fertile ground with 16-year-old Jan, whose passion is the moped, his "machine". Of course, he is a newcomer among the motorcycle fans around the black Jonny, but he loves to be in their company to experience adventures, and of course he wants to be able to "keep up" with them. Jan has already developed a strategy for how he can do this.

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1976 · ★ 2.7 (3)

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Poster for Body of Night

2020 · ★ 2.5 (6)

When a woman begins seeing a mysterious man who challenges her to a series of tests, she enters the dangerous and dark side of online dating.

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