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Poster for The Little Panda Fighter

2009 · ★ 2.4 (36)

A panda named Pancada, who works at a boxing club, wishes to become a dancer but gets caught up in an upcoming fight due to a case of mistaken identity.

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Poster for Quince años

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

On her fifteenth birthday, life reminds Vianney that it isn’t easy being different.

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Poster for Maggie

2017 · ★ 7.0 (1)

A step-mother struggles to connect with her new daughter who is full of "eccentricities."

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Poster for 10 Crosby

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A series of short films following the interconnected lives on Crosby street, New York City.

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Poster for Accused: The Karen Read Story

2026 · ★ 10.0 (1)

When Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe is found dead in a snowbank outside a friend’s home, his girlfriend Karen Read, is ​charged in connection with his death. What begins as a tragedy quickly ignites a firestorm that captures national attention.

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Poster for American Fable

2017 · ★ 6.0 (95)

When 11-year-old Gitty discovers that her father, Abe, a good and beloved farmer, is holding a wealthy man hostage in their abandoned silo in order to save their suffering farm, she befriends the captive in secret. As the truth unfolds about who he is and what will happen if he escapes, Gitty chooses to confront the thin line between reality and fiction.

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Poster for A Thousand and One

2023 · ★ 6.6 (144)

Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.

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Poster for Alexis Tremblay: Habitant

1943 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This short documentary illustrates rural French Canadian life in the early 1940s. The film follows Alexis Tremblay and his family through the busy autumn days as they bring in the harvest and help with bread baking and soap making. Winter sees the children revelling in outdoor sports while the women are busy with their weaving, and, with the coming of spring young and old alike repair to the fields once more to plough the earth in preparation for another season of varied crops. One of the first NFB films to be produced, directed, written and shot by women.

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Poster for Perfect Number

2012 · ★ 6.6 (71)

A brilliant math teacher formulates the perfect cover-up after his neighbor murders her abusive ex-husband.

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Poster for Fin.

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

After witnessing their husbands explode in a freak fishing accident, Edna and Bertha are forced to carry on the family business.

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Poster for Us

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Jo is an outgoing, liberated second generation Chinese-American girl who begins a passionate romance with Helen at the opening of the film. Since long before dating Helen, Jo has been extravagantly out and on the scene as a lesbian, but crisis unfolds when she reveals a secret. Helen can't swallow the news and suddenly mistrusts Jo's intentions and fidelity.

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Poster for Tenants

2018 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Some very special tenants move into the María Teresa building.

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Poster for The Landfill

2012 · ★ 6.3 (3)

Trash becomes energy at a small New York landfill where people are thinking differently about garbage.

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Poster for Hellish Nell

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

The story of Helen Duncan, who became the last woman ever to be tried for witchcraft in Britain in 1933.

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Poster for Üçünüzü de mıhlarım

1965 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Linda

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Gloria Steinem's text from her book "Revolution from Within" inspired this manifesto. Linda is my mother's first name. I wanted to honor both. For all the other women. Those we aim to embody, those we aspire to become, and those we once were.

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Poster for The Narcissus Season

2017 · ★ 5.0 (2)

A story about normal people who have not lost themselves in today's narcissistic world.

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Poster for The Devils, the Devils

1991 · ★ 5.0 (5)

Even in Poland today, Gypsies are viewed with profound suspicion -- not that things are that much better for them anywhere else in Europe. In this coming-of-age drama, Mala, an ordinary Polish girl who is about thirteen years old, is just beginning to wake up to the world around her. When she hears the adults of the village making disparaging remarks about Gypsies, that's exactly what it takes to motivate her to go out and visit them. She has a rich and rewarding encounter, until the authorities come into their camp to drive them off. No one is harmed, and Mala's life has been changed for the better by her adventures.

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Poster for Find Me Falling

2024 · ★ 6.6 (165)

After a failed comeback album, a rock star retreats to a cliffside home on Cyprus, only to find his new life complicated by visitors — and an old flame.

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Poster for Fresh Kills

2024 · ★ 6.1 (19)

Rose Larusso, an inquisitive young girl in 1980s Staten Island, discovers her father is an emerging mafia kingpin. Rose's growing desire to break free from the path set before her soon threatens her existence and alienates her from her closest allies: her mother Francine, her sister Connie, and her aunt Christine.

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