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Poster for Da Capo

2017 · ★ 9.0 (1)

The exchange of a used piano makes two strangers confront their own failures.

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Poster for Aktorka

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A documentary about Elzbieta Czyzewska, one of Poland's greatest actresses, a beauty icon of the 1960s, who died in 2010. She had a great career in Poland, but the filmmakers focus more on her attempts to make a name for herself as an actress in America, after her sudden emigration to the United States with her husband, American journalist David Halberstam. Friends and acquaintances of Elzbieta Czyzewska speak without embellishment about her failed marriage, her battle with alcoholism won after years, and her attempts to return to Poland. This is a story about the fate of the actress at different stages of her career: at the top, at the bottom and in between.

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Poster for Oriana

1985 · ★ 5.5 (19)

A young girl is sent to a Venezuelan hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, Oriana.

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Poster for After Winter Comes Spring

1989 · ★ 7.6 (5)

A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers, intellectuals, young and old are implored to reflect on their life choices, the sacrifices they've made, and their place in the world. Despite everything, hope persists.

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Poster for The Red Kitchen

1980 · ★ 3.8 (5)

On a wedding day, women are confined to the kitchen to prepare the meal while the men wait to be served. While men talk politics and sports, women talk about their condition. A teenager observes the gap between the sexes. Co-directed by two actresses, Paule Baillargeon and Frederique Collin, The Red Kitchen is the birth of the Quebec women's cinema. The birth of the film was difficult, and funding has been largely achieved through donations from friends and a benefit concert. This war of the sexes takes place in a demanding formal research, based on the improvisation of the actors, whose preparation took place over long sessions in the workshop. The end result mixes black humour, horror and a very expressive fantasy that gave rise to heated debates.

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Poster for Stay Home

2020 · ★ 6.5 (6)

During the COVID quarantine some of the biggest names in horror are targeted by a suspected killer. With no one able to leave their homes, will any of the genre legends make it until morning?

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Poster for 19(1)(a)

2022 · ★ 5.3 (6)

The mundane life of a woman running a photocopy shop goes into a tailspin when a revolutionary writer leaves the manuscript of his unpublished novel with her.

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Poster for Das Buschgespenst

1986 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the forests of the Ore Mountains, on the border with Bohemia, a gang of smugglers is up to mischief. Anyone who dares to oppose them is murdered in cold blood. The locals are paralyzed by fear of the ominous bush ghost that is said to be behind it all. Then a stranger turns up at the remote forester's lodge and begins investigating a murder that took place twenty years ago. Having become wealthy in the Alaskan gold fields, Arndt is now looking for the woman he once loved and whose perjury landed him in prison. The forester and the weaver Eduard Hauser help him with his investigations. But Hauser himself soon becomes the victim of a sinister intrigue. Fritz Seidelmann, an unscrupulous profiteer who is after Hauser's fiancée Angelika, lures him into a trap. Hauser is arrested as an alleged bush ghost. For the time being, Arndt can do nothing for him ...

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Poster for Project X

2016 · ★ 6.3 (24)

Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams, and based on classified NSA documents, the film reveals the inner workings of a windowless skyscraper in downtown Manhattan.

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2008 · ★ 2.0 (2)

Plump Jana is a single mother. She's not looking for a man at all, she assures us during speed dating, but she can't take her eyes off a handsome guy. Her friend Grit snatches him from under her nose, but Jana doesn't let up. Daniel is soon on the hook and even moves in with her stepdaughter, but keeps his distance. When Jana tries to force the situation by getting pregnant, she promptly achieves the opposite. But then the children run away.

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Poster for Advantageous

2015 · ★ 6.0 (164)

In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, Jules, do all they can to hold on to their joy, despite the instability surfacing in their world.

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Poster for Lady Cops

1987 · ★ 4.6 (18)

Mireille Molyneux, police inspector, tracks down pimps. With the complicity of Yasmina, a prostitute, she arrested Charlie, her pimp. To take revenge on Mireille, Jean-Pierre, another pimp, accuses him of corruption. It was then the subject of an investigation by two IGS inspectors: Blondel and Lacroix. Soon after, Charlie was released for lack of evidence. To keep Yasmina, he kidnaps his son and threatens to kill him.

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2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Queen Victoria, the original "Instamum," struggles with postnatal depression while facing a photo shoot to show off her perfect family to the world.

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Poster for Black Karen

2022 · ★ 4.0 (1)

The story of one Black woman who, on the advice of a therapist to treat anxiety by thinking and behaving as happy people do, notices that white people seem pretty happy.

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Poster for Helping Mihaela

2011 · ★ 6.0 (1)

A Roma beggar on his knees raises many extreme emotions: guilt, rage, sympathy and frustration. Most people just walk on by, but there is always someone willing to help. In this film, the director follows the confrontations between the Roma beggars from Romania and Finnish people, and is forced to question, over and over again, her own ideas about helping.

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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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