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Poster for Broken Glass Park

2013 · ★ 6.1 (15)

Teenage Sascha has two dreams: to write a novel about her mother and to take revenge on her step-father who brutally murdered her. When she meets the newspaper editor Volker, he invites her to come to his and his son's place. A subtle love triangle begins which helps Sascha to find her personal way of growing up.

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Poster for Your Street

2020 · ★ 7.0 (1)

A featureless street on an industrial estate in Bonn – desolate, unfinished and inconspicuous. The street bears the name of a child. It is meant to commemorate the racially motivated terrorist attack that this child did not survive. A public memorial, consigned to no man’s land. A film against collective amnesia.

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Poster for He Knew Women

1930 · ★ 4.8 (2)

A novelist has to choose between his wealthy patron and a penniless romantic.

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Poster for Totally True Love

2011 · ★ 6.5 (46)

When the new boy in class, Jørgen, moves into the haunted house down the road, Anne’s world turns upside-down; she falls head over heals in love with him.

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Poster for Long Shadows

2008 · ★ 4.9 (8)

After two decades in prison Widmer, a former German RAF-terrorist, is released. He meets Valerie, his next door neighbour. The young woman tries to get her life back on track after she lost child custody for her little son. She shows some interest in Widmer, the two of them seem to have something in common. They discreetly enter into the secrets of their lives. Till the truth comes between them.

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Poster for Späte Aussicht

2007 · ★ 7.0 (1)

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Poster for Bubble Gummed Girl

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Emma is addicted to chewing gum and in the middle of puberty, but doesn't really want to admit it. She doesn't want to do anything with her sandpit friend Lasse other than swinging, playing with her father's railroad world and chewing gum - nothing should change. But Lasse suddenly has a girlfriend and, even worse, he's also interested in sex.

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Poster for Lost in Beijing

2007 · ★ 6.5 (61)

A look at modern-day life in China's capital centered on a ménage-a-quatre involving a young woman, her boss, her husband and her boss's wife.

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Poster for Painkillers

2014 · ★ 6.0 (31)

Casper has never met his father and lives alone with his mother Marit. He likes to spend his free time playing the piano, so he is thrilled when he is chosen to become a pianist in a youth orchestra – and especially when he makes friends with Anouk. She knows what Casper is going through when he learns that his mother is seriously ill: Marit has cancer. Scared of what might happen to her, Casper and his best friend Pim decide to find his father.

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Poster for Sambá

2017 · ★ 4.7 (6)

After fifteen years in an American jail, a man returns to the Dominican Republic. As he faces family problems, he turns to illegal street fighting and is discovered by an Italian ex-boxer.

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Poster for Ailey

2021 · ★ 6.0 (6)

Alvin Ailey was a visionary artist who found salvation through dance. Told in his own words and through the creation of a dance inspired by his life, this immersive portrait follows a man who, when confronted by a world that refused to embrace him, determined to build one that would.

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Poster for Amreeka

2009 · ★ 6.7 (57)

Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi, divorcée Muna Farah leaves her Palestinian homeland and takes up residence in rural Illinois -- just in time to encounter the domestic repercussions of America's disastrous war in Iraq. Now, the duo must reinvent their lives with some help from Muna's sister, Raghda, and brother-in-law, Nabeel.

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Poster for Smoke Eater

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In 1981, a young girl spends a day at the fire station with her mother, the only female firefighter on the force, and witnesses what a typical day of work looks like, for better and for worse.

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2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Small Body

2022 · ★ 7.0 (55)

A young woman in early-1900s Italy searches for a mystical sanctuary where her stillborn child can be brought back to life long enough to be baptized.

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Poster for Kitty

2016 · ★ 6.1 (9)

A girl dreams of becoming a kitten.

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Poster for Kuldesak

1998 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Four stories unfold in Jakarta, a big city that feels cold and dehumanizing. Life there strips away meaning, turning people into soulless zombies. In their search for purpose, youths turn to the only things that seem worthwhile—television and movies. This obsession pushes them down a dark path, transforming them into twisted versions of anti-heroes who make anti-social choices that spiral out of control.

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Poster for Bella Australia

2012 · ★ 6.0 (2)

Bella enjoys her life in Berlin after separating from her husband Martin. She buys her daughter Lena a dress for their Abifeier and proposes a joint trip around the world. However, Lena has her own plans. Why else would she drop a meeting at the mall with the handsome cop Sebastian Berg, who still raves about bubbly Bella? But Bella's mind is not on men - she has Lena, that's enough for her.

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2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Amarantos is a meditation on history and the shifting relevance of temporal and spiritual values. Inspired by the Kölner Dom during Karneval 2010.

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1973 · ★ 2.0 (1)

Mathematical functions are the basis for a science film on contour plots and an art film. Both are shown simultaneously at a two screen production for an IEEE conference in NYC. Beauty in Science & Art.

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