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16321) Liza
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Giorgio decides to leave society and goes to live on a desert island with a dog as his only companion. But his hermit's life is disturbed by the arrival of a beautiful blonde who kills his dog out of jealousy. In revenge, he forces her to take the animal's place.
16322) Foreigner
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Mark is a young Englishman who has just arrived to the Cádiz coast. He has come to Spain to visit his cousin, Margaret, who has organized a barbecue with friends in a beautiful house overlooking the sea. After lunch, Amaro invites Mark for a trip out on his boat so he can admire the coast from the sea. Mark, without hesitation, lets himself get carried away; he doesn’t know his life is about to change forever.
16323) Shoelaces
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This drama tells the story of a complicated relationship between an aging father and his special-needs son, whom he abandoned when he was still a young boy. Reuben's kidney's are failing and his son Gadi, wants to donate one of his own kidney's to help save his father's life. However, the transplant committee objects to the procedure claiming that Rueben, acting as Gadi's sole legal guardian, does not have the right to authorize such an invasive procedure....
16324) Arsenault & Fils
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The Arsenaults, a tight-knit family, have ruled for generations in a small village in Bas-du-Fleuve, Quebec. The return of Anthony, the youngest of the family, then the arrival of Emilie, a radio host who exerts a strong influence on Anthony and especially his older brother Adam, will come to test the harmony of the clan.
16325) Marina's Ocean
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A group of students from the countryside are preparing for a special trip to the beach. Marina, a 15-year-old girl with Downs Syndrome, longs to visit the sea for the first time. Not allowed to travel with the other kids, Marina begins her own journey.
16326) 1911
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At the beginning of the 20th century, China is in a state of crisis. The country is split into warring factions, the citizens are starving, and recent political reforms have made matters worse, not better. The ruling Qing Dynasty, led by a seven-year-old emperor, is completely out of touch after 250 years of unquestioned power. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, with no expense spared in production and no detail ignored...
16327) The First Fallen
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1983 - A young biologist returns home from studies abroad, and feels something wrong with his body. This is the start of the AIDS crisis when the first wave of the epidemic hit Brazil. Lives will change, friends lost and the future is uncertain.
16328) A Date for Mad Mary
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A DATE FOR MAD MARY tells the story of ‘Mad’ Mary McArdle returning to her small Irish home town after a short spell in prison – for something she’d rather forget. But everything and everyone seems different. Her best friend, Charlene, is about to get married and Mary is maid of honor. When Charlene refuses Mary a ‘plus one’ on the grounds that she probably couldn’t find a date, Mary becomes determined to prove her wrong. Her attempts...
16331) Kékszakállú
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An unconventional portrayal of several young women witnessed in immersive yet indeterminate states: within their bodies, among their friends and lovers, and ultimately in a culture of economic and spiritual recession. The film presents a documentary-like exposure of the quotidian while extending possibilities for redemption among this brood of the weary. Obliquely inspired by Bela Bartok’s sole opera, *Kékszakállú* radically transposes the portent...
16332) Possession
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After Anna (Isabelle Adjani) reveals to her husband, Mark (Sam Neill), that she is having an affair, she leaves him and their son. Mark is devastated, and seeks out Heinrich (Heinz Bennent), the man who cuckolded him, only to receive a beating. After a series of violent confrontations between Mark and Anna, Mark hires a private investigator to follow her. Anna descends into madness, and it's soon clear that she is hiding a much bigger secret -- one...
16333) Castanha
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Joao is a 50 year old actor who lives with his 72 year old mother, Celina. He spends his time between his work at night as a crossdresser in small gay bars and his parts in small plays, movies and TV shows. Tormented and haunted by ghosts from his past, day after day Joao starts to merge the reality in which he lived with the fiction he is interpreting.
16334) Forever
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Alice is a young investigative reporter. She suffers a sorrowful loss but finds an enigmatic commune where she starts to find her will to live and love again. Starring Deborah Ann Woll ("Daredevil", "True Blood"), and Luke Grimes ("50 Shades of Grey", "American Sniper"). "*Forever is an intriguing psychological thriller that bears attention. The unsettling vignettes seen before the credits provide a chilling harbinger of what's to come. The filmmaker......
16335) Girls Lost
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From the director of KISS ME, BFFs Kim, Momo and Bella are bullied by boys at school while their teachers do nothing. On top of that, Kim secretly confesses to Bella she thinks she was born in the wrong body. So when the trio finds a magical plant whose nectar temporarily turns them into boys (with working genitalia), it offers them the thrilling chance to experience freedoms they’ve never known. But when Kim becomes addicted to the plant and pursues...
16336) Black Pioneer
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A film about a Southern slave who trekked thousands of miles and rose to become a Western hero.
16337) New Order
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Conceived six years ago, Michel Franco’s near-future dystopia feels ripped from headlines that haven’t yet been written. While protests rage in the streets, Marianne’s high society family prepares for her wedding. At first, only splatters of green paint and the appearance of Rolando, a former employee seeking emergency medical funds, intrude on the festivities. But soon the party is unable to keep the reckoning at bay, and what follows is a...
16338) All Is Lost
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Robert Redford delivers one of the finest performances of his career in this thrilling, highly acclaimed film about one man’s battle for survival at sea.
16339) It's Nice in Here
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A fragmented portrait of a young boy called Crimson, nicknamed after the color of the hoodie he always wears. We follow him and his best friend, lmani, as they make their way to a corner store. When a rookie police officer gets a call regarding a possibly dangerous altercation that the two youngsters might be involved in, he rushes to the store and enters the site with his gun already drawn. The film becomes an exploration of how stories surrounding...
16340) Divine Love
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A woman is utterly committed to getting pregnant by her husband in a future of dance parties, ritualistic orgies, and fundamentalist Christianity.
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