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Poster for Extramarital

1998 · ★ 3.8 (10)

An aspiring writer gets involved in the investigation of her best friend after she is killed while having an affair.

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Poster for Diggers

2007 · ★ 6.0 (49)

It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as their grandfathers before them. They must cope with and learn to face the changing times in both their personal lives and their neighborhood.

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Poster for Orphans

2007 · ★ 5.0 (5)

Two estranged, twenty-something sisters reunite five years after the death of their parents, and soon revisit their treacherous history.

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1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The puppet monkey saves the baby from the pernicious influence of cigarettes.

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Poster for Roadside Attraction

2017 · ★ 4.7 (3)

After a very famous airplane arrives at Palm Beach International Airport, an otherwise ordinary stretch of Florida highway attracts an avid cluster of excited onlookers and selfie-takers. In the ensuing spectacle, these curious Americans reveal the qualities they may share with the plane’s huuuge-ly notable passenger.

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Poster for The Disobedient

2014 · ★ 6.0 (6)

As children, Leni and Lazar were best friends. When Lazar returns from extensive travels abroad for his father's funeral, Leni yearns to reconnect with her childhood soulmate but still feels the sting of their years of estrangement.

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Poster for Pretty Far from Okay

2017 · ★ 5.9 (15)

Isi doesn't get the world anymore. Just a short while ago, life was wild, fun, and without obligations, but suddenly everyone around her seems to be grown-up and successful. With her diploma in one hand and a drink in the other, she is stuck between the careless days of college and real life. When her best friend Lotte gets a respectable job and becomes pregnant, Isi realizes that she needs to find a way to start living a life on her own.

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Poster for Jamila

1994 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the 1940s, young Kirghiz boy falls hopelessly for Jamilla, but their love has no future.

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Poster for Vortex

1982 · ★ 5.6 (13)

A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who seeks government defense contracts through real "corporate wars" and the manipulation of politicians.

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Poster for Look at Me

2004 · ★ 6.3 (101)

Talented 20-year-old Lolita dreams of a singing career. But her self-esteem is low due to her weight problem and her narcissistic father, Étienne, a literary star with scant interest in his daughter's life. Lolita finds little comfort in the attentions of her vocal coach, suspecting the woman is using her to meet her influential father. Étienne's second wife proves to be Lolita's only trustworthy ally in her private battle to find a sense of worth.

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Poster for Disrupt

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When a burglary goes wrong, a meth addict must choose between his family or his next fix.

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Poster for Stormheart

2008 · ★ 4.6 (8)

The father of a Finnish family brings home a cute puppy, Stormheart. No one in the family knows anything about the dog. Little by little, the mystery of Stormheart unravels and the dog's new owners learn more about him. They find out that Stormheart's parents had served as guard dogs at the Berlin Wall. Pearl, the 7-year-old daughter of the Finnish family, takes the puppy under her wing and Stormheart, who grows up to the size of a bear, undertakes the task of removing all dangers, threats and obstacles from the path of Pearl.

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Poster for Unicorni

2025 · ★ 6.1 (22)

Lucio, the host of a popular radio show, is confident, charismatic, and holds progressive views. He is married to the beautiful Elena, who is insecure and emotionally dependent on her husband. Together, they form a harmonious blended family (which includes Lucio’s first wife and daughter) and have one child together: Blu, a 9-year-old who loves dressing in girls’ clothes and is allowed to do so—by both mom and dad—but only at home. When the school play comes around, however, Blu is determined to wear a Little Mermaid costume on stage. His parents, caught between their desire to support him and their instinct to protect him, find themselves confronting the limits of their open-mindedness. They embark on a journey of self-awareness and acceptance, joined by a diverse group of “Unicorn Parents” led by a compassionate psychologist.

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Poster for Porcelain

2024 · ★ 3.0 (3)

A woman returns to her childhood home following her father's death, and begins to remember the horrors of her past.

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Poster for Twenty Something

2021 · ★ 7.2 (92)

Follows Gia, who has to deal with the challenges and insecurities of "adulting" during her 21st birthday.

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Poster for The Purse Snatcher

1995 · ★ 6.0 (5)

Alex is very close to his elderly grandmother partly because his busy parents seem to have little or no time for him. One day he surprises two boys from his school leaving her house and is shocked to find her tied up inside – they have robbed her! Alex is sworn to secrecy as his gran is worried that her daughter will think her incompetent. This secret leads Alex into trouble as the two boys accost him in the street and bully him into becoming a pickpocket ("tasjesdief") for them, mugging old ladies. Alex learns how to deal with this situation in the end.

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Poster for Drifting Apart

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The story of two lovers growing apart and drifting into their isolated realms. Like stars in space, Vera and her astronaut husband Aleksei drift further apart with every unspoken word between them. When the truth finally comes out, a painful void has already taken over their formerly close relationship.

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Poster for Misbehaviour

2020 · ★ 6.4 (292)

A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World competition in London, resulting in overnight fame for the newly-formed organization. When the show resumed, the results caused an uproar and turned the Western ideal of beauty on its head.

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Poster for Meine Mutter, meine Männer

2014 · ★ 3.0 (4)

For Jenny, in her mid 30s, everything is going great: Her career at the Munich Opera House is going uphill and in her friend Tobias she seems to have found the ideal man. But then the events rush: The new stage designer at the opera proves to be her ex-boyfriend Erik and a pregnancy test turns out to be positive. That's not enough, Jenny's free-spirited mother Jutta lodges with her and Tobias indefinitely. The casual hippy lady soon shakes up the orderly life of the couple. At the same time, Erik Jenny turns his head violently.

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Poster for Waiting for the Clouds

2003 · ★ 5.7 (11)

A member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her youth. However, events cause her to face her own past.

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