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Poster for For the Love of Chocolate

2021 · ★ 6.2 (13)

Preparing for the annual Masters of Chocolate Festival, Aria’s plans are rattled when she loses her partner shortly before the festival. However, the dashing single father Rhett steps in just in time to help Aria find the winning ingredient. In their search, Aria and Rhett discover that the missing ingredient for the perfect chocolate is not so different than what they’ve been missing in their lives: a dash of love!

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Poster for Vikram Vedha

2017 · ★ 7.2 (216)

A notorious gangster Vedha surrenders himself to encounter specialist Vikram whom he challenges every step of the way by narrating his life events in the form of riddles that needs to be solved in order to capture him.

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Poster for Break Free

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Filmed in a refuge for abused women, Break Free shows the courage of these women, most of whom tell their story openly to the camera. The film chronicles the shelter’s ups and downs, its dramatic and happy moments, and at its heart we get to know the residents and workers of the L’Escale in Sherbrooke. Break Free was filmed over more than three months and reveals the immense wounds of these women and the great generosity of the ones who try to heal them.

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Poster for Release

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Short horror film about a young man, Ty, who slowly starts to lose his perception of reality after his recent break up. He discovers creative ways to enact revenge, unsure if he will get the answers he deserves while his own demons consume him.

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Poster for Scorpions & Frogs

2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young woman, engaged to be married, suddenly commits suicide two days after her father does, leaving no note and no reasons.Her heartbroken fiancee is left with the task of writing the obituary for a woman he finds he does not know.Joey's mother Eleanor, the aristocratic matriarch leads Joey's fiancee on a wild goose chase of both her daughter and her family's history. Each of Joey's siblings agrees to speak with Joey's finacee, and proceeds to contradict and reveal each other's stories, secrets, and motives.Through the course of these interviews John glimpses the life Joey hid from him, and for all he comes to know, it is Eleanor who, as always, has the last word. And what began as a story about a father and his daughter's bond, ends as a story of mother's betrayal of her daughter.

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Poster for Bahia of All the Saints

1994 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This documentary explores the music ,culture and religion of this Brazilian city.

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Poster for ŠTÚR

2026 · ★ 6.0 (1)

While visiting her uncle in Zemianske Podhradie, Adela, the only daughter of a respected nobleman and owner of an estate in Ostra Lúka, meets an extraordinary man. Scholar, philosopher and poet Ludovít Štúr rebels against social conditions in Hungary and, by drawing attention to political injustice, teeters on the edge of the law. 20-year-old Adela falls passionately in love with him against all common sense. She believes that if she manages to get him close to her, the proud and sarcastic man will begin to love her back. So she provides him with a temporary home in her mansion, pays for his private philosophy lessons and uses her father's influence to have Štúr elected to the Hungarian Diet. Just when it seems that Adela's plan is starting to succeed, a revolution breaks out and Ludevít is swept up in a whirlwind that will forever change Europe and their fate.

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Poster for Booze Birds

2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Nicky Taylor hits the drinking circuits of Britain to investigate what's going on with women on their nights out, asking how big is the problem, is the binge drinking to blame, and what the link is between alcohol and aggression.

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1923 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After P. C. Gordon is murdered and robbed of a diamond ring that he bought as a birthday present for his wife, one of the thieves, C. Dates, is apprehended. A woman prosecuting attorney makes a compelling case against him, and he is given a ten-year penitentiary sentence.

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2008 · ★ 8.0 (1)

Island (2008) is a 12-minute black-and-white video that surveys the distinctive terrain of Gotland, an island off the eastern coast of Sweden. Projected on a large wall in Vancouver, Island uses prolonged static shots to immerse the viewer in an austere landscape.

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Poster for Welcome to Switzerland

2004 · ★ 5.0 (33)

Thierry, an ethnologist specializing in the Sami people, travels to his native Switzerland with his partner, Sophie, to attend his grandmother's funeral. There he reunites with his family and discovers that he has inherited two million Swiss francs, but that in order to obtain it, he will have to pretend to adapt to the Swiss values and lifestyle that he had rejected. To do so, he agrees to undergo a sort of crash course provided by his Swiss cousin Aloïs, who seems to have his eye on Sophie.

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Poster for The Queens

2015 · ★ 4.6 (5)

Based on the novel of the same name, the film follows three cosmopolitan women, an actress, a PR specialist and a gallery manager, all wrestling with the ups and downs of their romantic lives.

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Poster for Three Times

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Emma lives in the Argentinean Patagonia with her granddaughter, whom she raises in the art of dance. The sudden visit of her daughter from a psychiatric hospital will challenge their roles as mothers and daughters.

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Poster for My Killer Client

2019 · ★ 5.4 (14)

Christa Bright's an aspiring stylist who has an instant connection with new client Kat Niven, a woman who needs help gaining confidence. When Kat's admiration for Christa turns into obsession, Christa begins to get suspicious. She soon discovers that Kat's her fiancé's ex-gf and she's trying to become Christa in a ploy to win Jack back for good.

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Poster for Generation Wealth

2018 · ★ 6.5 (103)

Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence. Underscoring the ever-increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots, portraits reveal a focus on cultivating image over substance, where subjects unable to attain actual wealth instead settle for its trappings, no matter their ability to pay for it.

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Charlotte Biltekoff is the author of “Eating Right in America” where she traces the food reform movements throughout American history. She questions socially accepted ideas about “good and bad eaters” and what those assumptions reveal about food, culture, and the struggle over moral values.

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Poster for Let Bygones Be Bygones

1989 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A man from the city arrives at the village to the house his grandmother Nyura. He didn't like his grandmother's inheritance, so Nyura's friend decides to teach her grandson a lesson and invites the house spirits Akulka and Dunyka. At night, they sing and dance, turning the house upside down, so that the heir remembers his childhood and comes to his senses.

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Poster for Mother Earth

1991 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This short documentary is a celebration of life on planet Earth. Made from haunting visual images selected from 50 years of NFB productions, the film looks at human beings, their place on earth, and their deep interconnection with all other beings. Evocations of forces that threaten the planet and all its inhabitants also offer avenues for reflection.

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Poster for Beard and Raincoat

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

One day, an ordinary high school girl touches her boy friend's brother’s beard, which gives her an indescribable feeling she can never forget. Meanwhile, the brother also has his own fetish.

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2015 · ★ 4.7 (3)

A boy steps out of a 3D printer to meet his maker...

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