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Poster for Stray Dolls

2019 · ★ 4.2 (17)

Riz is a recent South Asian immigrant who takes a job at a seedy motel in a bid to start over in America. But the motel’s other employees and guests pull her back into a life she preferred to leave behind.

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Poster for Summer Soundtrack

2020 · ★ 6.5 (2)

A tender, summer-on-repeat piece that explores how we traditionally define a soulmate on the day of a wedding.

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Poster for Embers

2015 · ★ 5.6 (79)

After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without memory in a future that has no past.

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Poster for Red, White and Blue

1971 · ★ 3.1 (6)

A documentary about the hearings of President Nixon's Commission on Obscenity, featuring adult-film producer David F. Friedman (one of the producers of this film) testifying before Congress, and involved in the production of one of his films, "Trader Hornee."

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Poster for Hindle Wakes

1976 · ★ 7.0 (1)

In the best play of 1912, the conventional morals and manners of a North England mill town are overthrown by a young woman with ideas far ahead of her time.

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Poster for Good Girl

2014 · ★ 5.2 (5)

Successful documentary filmmaker Solveig Melkeraaen suffers a heavy clinical depression. Treatment with electroshock therapy helps her, but when she falls into a second depression, she has to accept that being perfect is not an option. A feelgood film on depression.

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Poster for Alô!?

1998 · ★ 3.0 (1)

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Poster for Connie

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Dolly Diggs needs a voice and Connie needs a body, but she's nobody's puppet... Who's the dummy in the dead of night?

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Poster for Amy

1998 · ★ 5.9 (16)

Amy's father, Franco, was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and deaf. So the 8-year-old is brought by her mother, Tanya, to Melbourne to diagnose the reasons for her continued silence.

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Poster for At Sea

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

No Mar is a film about Cecília, the only teacher on a small fishing island. One fateful morning Cecília's daughter Maria asks her best friend Lúcia to cover for her as she goes to the beach to watch her father's boat come in. She never returns. Cecília struggles to deal with the guilt of her daughters death and attempts to embrace the impoverished Lúcia. Lúcia's own struggle with her friends death and eventual confession, forces Cecília to reconcile with her own grief and loss.

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Poster for Chrysalis

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

After being awoken in the middle of the night by a mysterious presence, Ellen has an encounter with someone, or something, that looks very familiar.

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Poster for Howl

2021 · ★ 2.0 (4)

A young woman leaves the sanitarium to watch over her grandmother's house. As she descends into madness, she must decide whether to be devoured or embrace her true nature.

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Poster for König Drosselbart

2008 · ★ 7.3 (3)

A king has a daughter, Princess Isabella of Geranium, who is so beautiful that kings and princes come from miles around in hopes of winning her hand in marriage. But although she is beautiful, she is also proud and arrogant, and constantly insults and rejects her suitors. She even rejects noble Prince Richard of Begonia, and mocks him as "King Thrushbeard," even though she secretly likes him. Finally, her father loses patience with his rude daughter and declares that since she has rejected every man who has come to court her, she will be married to the first beggar who comes to the gate.

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Poster for Home Song

1996 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A family struggles to overcome the past and forgive one another when a long buried secret surfaces.

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Poster for Cat Person

2023 · ★ 5.7 (100)

When Margot, a college sophomore, goes on a date with the older Robert, she finds that IRL Robert doesn’t live up to the Robert she has been flirting with over texts.

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Poster for Invisible Beauty

2023 · ★ 8.7 (3)

Fashion revolutionary Bethann Hardison looks back on her journey as a pioneering Black model, modeling agent, and activist, shining a light on an untold chapter in the fight for racial diversity.

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Poster for Pascalina

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After a series of unpleasant events in her life, Pascalina receives news that her Aunt Taba is dying but cannot do so unless she passes on a curse. Pascalina visits her dying aunt thinking that the news is only a big joke. But Pascalina begins to experience changes in her life that will push her to the edge of madness and monstrosity.

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Poster for Glorious

2022 · ★ 5.8 (192)

After a breakup, Wes ends up at a remote rest stop. He finds himself locked inside the bathroom with a mysterious figure speaking from an adjacent stall. Soon Wes realizes he is involved in a situation more terrible than he could imagine.

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Poster for 我的Mr. Right

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Bowling Alley

1995 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A film made for multimedia artist Shu Lea Cheang’s first art installation features a series of bowlers staring into the lens of the camera, preparing to make a move. Commissioned by the Walker Art Center.

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