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TV Show: Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker ( 2020 )
This is the untold and highly irreverent story of black hair care pioneer and mogul Madam C.J. Walker and how she overcame hostile turn-of-the-century America, epic rivalries, tumultuous marriages and some trifling family to become America's first black, self-made female millionaire.
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Movie: John and the Hole ( 2021 )
While exploring the neighboring woods, 13 year old John discovers an unfinished bunker a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive.
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Movie: Flora & Ulysses ( 2021 )
When Flora rescues a squirrel she names Ulysses, she is amazed to discover he possesses unique superhero powers, which take them on an adventure of humorous complications that ultimately change Flora's life and her outlook forever.
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Movie: The Banshees of Inisherin ( 2022 )
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
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Movie: MLK/FBI ( 2021 )
The first film to uncover the extent of the FBI's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on newly discovered and declassified files, the documentary explores the government's history of targeting Black activists, and the contested meaning behind some of our most cherished ideals. From Emmy Award winning director Sam Pollard and featuring interviews with Andrew Young, James Comey, Clarence Jones, and more.
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Movie: The Sadness ( 2022 )
A young couple trying to reunite amid a city ravaged by a plague that turns its victims into deranged, bloodthirsty sadists.
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TV Show: Hemingway ( 2021 )
Hemingway interweaves a close study of the biographical events of the author's life with excerpts from his fiction, non-fiction and short stories, informed by interviews with celebrated writers, scholars and Hemingway's son, Patrick. The filmmakers explore the painstaking process through which Hemingway created some of the most important works of fiction in American letters, including novels The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea; short stories "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber," "Up in Michigan," "Indian Camp" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro;" as well as the nonfiction works Death in the Afternoon and A Moveable Feast.
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Movie: Fathom ( 2021 )
Fathom is a visual and aural wonder of a documentary that follows researchers working to finally decode the communication of humpback whales. With Dr. Michelle Fournet, Dr. Ellen Garland.
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Movie: The Velvet Underground ( 2021 )
The Velvet Underground explores the multiple threads that converged to bring together one of the most influential bands in rock and roll.
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Movie: Hellbender ( 2022 )
A lonely teen discovers her family's ties to witchcraft.
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Movie: Wild Indian ( 2021 )
Decades after covering up his classmate's murder, Michael (Michael Greyeyes) has moved on from his reservation and fractured past. When a man who shares his violent secret seeks vengeance, Michael goes to great lengths to protect his new life with his wife (Kate Bosworth) and boss (Jesse Eisenberg) from the demons of his past.
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Movie: Caveat ( 2021 )
A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island.
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Movie: Beast ( 2022 )
A father and his two teenage daughters find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the Savanna has but one apex predator.
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Movie: The White Tiger ( 2021 )
Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav) narrates his epic and darkly humorous rise from poor villager to successful entrepreneur in modern India. Cunning and ambitious, our young hero jockeys his way into becoming a driver for Ashok (Rajkumar Rao) and Pinky (Priyanka Chopra-Jonas), who have just returned from America. Society has trained Balram to be one thing - a servant - so he makes himself indispensable to his rich masters. But after a night of betrayal, he realizes the corrupt lengths they will go to trap him and save themselves. On the verge of losing everything, Balram rebels against a rigged and unequal system to rise up and become a new kind of master.
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Movie: Quo Vadis, Aida? ( 2021 )
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people - rescue or death? Which move should she take?
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Movie: Lorelei ( 2021 )
A working-class fable about a biker, a mermaid and three shades of blue.
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Movie: Men ( 2022 )
A young woman goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside following the death of her ex-husband.
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Movie: Worth ( 2021 )
An attorney in Washington D.C. battles against cynicism, bureaucracy and politics to help the victims of 9/11.
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Movie: The Forever Prisoner ( 2021 )
Follows the story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA's program, later identified as torture by those outside the agency.
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Movie: Together ( 2021 )
This is the story of a family, like so many, who found a way to survive--together. It is the hilarious and heartbreaking story of a husband and wife who are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of lockdown.
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Movie: Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile ( 2022 )
Feature film based on the children's book about a crocodile that lives in New York City.
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Movie: The Hand of God ( 2021 )
In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.
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TV Show: Colin in Black & White ( 2021 )
This drama series from Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay explores Kaepernick's high school years and the experiences that led him to become an activist.
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Movie: Everybody's Talking About Jamie ( 2021 )
Feature film adaptation of the musical about a teenager from Sheffield, England who wants to be a drag queen.
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Movie: Cordelia ( 2020 )
Cordelia is a troubled, damaged soul who is only just recovering after some unnamed trauma; she is an actor rehearsing a play and comes to stay in a creepy London mansion flat occupied by her twin sister Caroline and Caroline's boyfriend Matt. When they leave her alone there Cordelia strikes up a friendship with Frank the charming, but strange and unreliable young man they can hear practicing his cello in the upstairs flat - a relationship which quickly becomes very disturbing.
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Movie: Final Account ( 2021 )
An urgent portrait of the last living generation of Hitler's Third Reich in never-before-seen interviews raising vital questions about authority, conformity, national identity, and their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history.
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Movie: The Mad Women's Ball ( 2021 )
The story of Eugenie, a luminous and passionate young girl at the end of the 19th century. Eugenie has a unique gift: she hears and sees the dead. When her family discovers her secret, she is taken by her father and brother to the neurological clinic at La Pitié Salpêtrière with no possibility of escaping her fate. A clinic, run by the eminent Professor Charcot.
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Movie: I Was a Simple Man ( 2021 )
A family in Hawai'i faces the imminent death of their eldest as the ghosts of the past haunt the countryside.
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Movie: The Weekend Away ( 2022 )
A weekend getaway to Croatia that goes awry when a woman is accused of killing her best friend. As she attempts to clear her name and uncover the truth, her efforts unearth a painful secret.
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Movie: Catch the Fair One ( 2021 )
A former champion boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.
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Movie: Good on Paper ( 2021 )
After years of putting her career first, a stand-up comic meets a guy who seems perfect: smart, nice, successful and possibly too good to be true.
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Movie: Snakehead ( 2021 )
A Chinese immigrant get caught up in an international crime ring of human smuggling while attempting to make a better life for her family.
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Movie: Lapsis ( 2021 )
Struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother, delivery man Ray takes a strange job in a strange new realm of the gig economy.
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Movie: Plan B ( 2021 )
Follows a straight-laced high school student and her slacker best friend who, after a regrettable first sexual encounter, have 24 hours to hunt down a Plan B pill in America's heartland.
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Movie: Gagarine ( 2021 )
Yuri fights to save his home town - which he shares with his namesake, Yuri Gagarin - from demolition.
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Movie: The Killing of Two Lovers ( 2021 )
David desperately tries to keep his family of six together during a separation from his wife. They both agree to see other people but David struggles to grapple with his wife's new relationship.
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Movie: Introducing, Selma Blair ( 2021 )
A deeply intimate and raw portrait of Selma Blair after she is diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and tries to slow the progression of her disease.
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Movie: 7 Prisoners ( 2021 )
To provide a better life for his family in the country, 18-year-old Mateus accepts a job in a junkyard in São Paulo for his new boss, Luca. But when he and a few other boys become trapped in the dangerous world of human trafficking, Mateus will be forced to decide between working for the very man who imprisoned him or risk his and his family's future.
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TV Show: The English ( 2022 )
Set in the mythic mid-American landscape in the year of 1890, The English follows Cornelia Locke, an Englishwoman who arrives into the new and wild landscape of the West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son. Upon meeting Eli Whipp, an ex-cavalry scout and member of the Pawnee Nation by birth, they join together and discover a shared history which must be defeated at all costs, if either of them are to survive.
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Movie: Life of Crime 1984-2020 ( 2021 )
A relentless ride through the streets and prisons of Newark, New Jersey's largest city, and desperate fight to survive the deadliest enemy ever to attack America.
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Movie: Moxie ( 2021 )
Vivian, a seemingly shy 16-year-old, has always preferred to keep her head down and fly under the radar. But when the arrival of a new student forces her to examine the unchecked behavior of her fellow students running rampant at her high school, Vivian realizes she's fed up. Inspired by her mother's rebellious past, Vivian anonymously publishes an underground zine called Moxie to expose bias and wrongdoing in her high school, and unexpectedly sparks a movement. Now at the center of a revolution, Vivian begins to forge new friendships with other young women and allies, reaching across the divide of cliques and clubs as they learn to navigate the highs and lows of high school together.
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Movie: In the Same Breath ( 2021 )
How did the Chinese government turn pandemic cover-ups in Wuhan into a triumph for the Communist party?
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Movie: Devotion ( 2022 )
A pair of U.S. Navy fighter pilots risk their lives during the Korean War and become some of the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
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Movie: Concrete Cowboy ( 2021 )
Sent to live with his estranged father for the summer, a rebellious teen finds kinship in a tight-knit Philadelphia community of Black cowboys.
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Movie: Summer Days, Summer Nights ( 2021 )
It's the summer of 1982 on Long Island. JJ is working for his dad, when he falls for Debbie. Frankie reconnects with a long lost love. But as temperatures cool, so do their relationships, leaving the young men to accept summer is ending.
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Movie: No Future ( 2021 )
After the tragic overdose of his estranged friend, Will, a recovering addict, returns home, where he is reunited with Claire, his friend's grieving mother, with whom he begins a secret but volatile affair.
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Movie: Undine ( 2021 )
Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.
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Movie: What Lies West ( 2019 )
When Nicolette graduates from college to find her big plan to fund her move to LA has fallen through, she's willing to take any job, even one babysitting Chloe, the defensive teen daughter of a severely over-stressed single mom. After Chloe starts dragging Nicolette out on multi-mile hikes around a nearby park every day, Nicolette realizes her babysitting charge from hell also has a secret plan for the summer: embarking on a real hiking adventure. Desperate to keep her job, Nicolette must find a way to make both their dreams come true - before Chloe's mom finds out.
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Movie: Lucky ( 2021 )
A suburban woman fights to be believed as she finds herself stalked by a threatening figure who returns to her house night after night. When she can't get help from those around her, she is forced to take matters into her own hands.
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Movie: Triangle of Sadness ( 2022 )
A fashion model celebrity couple join an eventful cruise for the super-rich.
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Movie: Two of Us ( 2021 )
Nina and Madeleine, two retired women, are secretly deeply in love for decades. From everybody's point of view, including Madeleine's family, they are simply neighbors living on the top floor of their building. They come and go between their two apartments, sharing the tender delights of everyday life together. Until the day their relationship is turned upside down by an unexpected event leading Madeleine's daughter to slowly unveil the truth about them.
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Movie: Gunda ( 2021 )
Documentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.
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Movie: Cow ( 2022 )
A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.
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Movie: The Truffle Hunters ( 2021 )
Deep in the forests of Northern Italy resides the prized white Alba truffle. Desired by the wealthiest patrons in the world, it remains a pungent but rarified mystery. It cannot be cultivated or found, even by the most resourceful of modern excavators. The only souls on Earth who know how to dig it up are a tiny circle of canines and their silver-haired human companions-Italian elders with walking sticks and devilish senses of humor-who only scour for the truffle at night so as not to leave any clues for others. Still, this small enclave of hunters induces a feverish buying market that spans the globe. With unprecedented access to the elusive truffle hunters, filmmakers Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw (The Last Race, 2018 Sundance Film Festival) follow this maddening cycle from the forest floor to the pristine restaurant plate. With a wily and absurdist flare, The Truffle Hunters captures a precarious ritual constantly threatened by greed and outside influences but still somehow protected by those clever, tight-lipped few who know how to unearth the magic within nature.
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Movie: Operation Varsity Blues ( 2021 )
An examination that goes beyond the celebrity-driven headlines and dives into the methods used by Rick Singer, the man at the center of the shocking 2019 college admissions scandal, to persuade his wealthy clients to cheat an educational system already designed to benefit the privileged.
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Movie: The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain ( 2021 )
Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on him.
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Movie: All Light, Everywhere ( 2021 )
A far-ranging look at the biases in how we see things, focusing on the use of police body cameras.
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Movie: My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To ( 2021 )
Two mysterious siblings find themselves at odds over care for their frail and sickly younger brother.
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Movie: Some Kind of Heaven ( 2021 )
Behind the gates of a palm tree-lined fantasyland, four residents of America's largest retirement community, The Villages, FL, strive to find solace and meaning.
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Movie: The Sparks Brothers ( 2021 )
Growing up in the '60s, Los Angeles brothers Ron and Russell got by on a heavy diet of popcorn matinees and pop music until the spotlight of school talent shows illuminated their way on a musical journey as Sparks and spawned 25 studio albums. Edgar Wright's vision brings five decades of invention to life through animations and interviews, digging deeply into the band's rich, career-spanning archival.
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Movie: Downfall: The Case Against Boeing ( 2022 )
Examining the months since the tragedies, which caused global panic in March 2019 after two new aircrafts crashed within five months, killing 346 people.
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Movie: Attica ( 2022 )
This unnervingly vivid dive into the 1971 uprising from Emmy® winning director Stanley Nelson sheds new light on the enduring violence and racism of the prison system and highlights the urgent, ongoing need for reform 50 years later.
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TV Show: Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union ( 2021 )
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union chronicling the personal and political journey of President Barack Obama as the country grapples with its racial history. Weaving together conversations with colleagues, friends, and critics, and interspersed with his own speeches and news interviews, the series begins with Obama's childhood and takes us through his perspective as the son of a white mother from Kansas and an African father, his spiritual formation informed by a generation of Black leaders, and his hopes for a more inclusive America.
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Movie: Freeland ( 2021 )
An aging pot farmer finds her world shattered as she races to bring in what could be her final harvest.
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Movie: Come from Away ( 2021 )
7,000 passengers are stranded after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in a small town in Newfoundland, where they were housed and welcomed. Filmed live on stage at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater in New York City.
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Movie: Bodies Bodies Bodies ( 2022 )
When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong.
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Movie: Bring Your Own Brigade ( 2021 )
An investigation into our landscape's hidden fire stories and on-the-ground experiences of firefighters and residents struggling through deadly fires.
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Movie: Language Lessons ( 2021 )
A Spanish teacher and her student develop an unexpected friendship.
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TV Show: WeCrashed ( 2022 )
Follow the greed-filled rise and inevitable fall of WeWork, one of the world's most valuable startups, and the narcissists whose chaotic love made it all possible.
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Movie: Speak No Evil ( 2022 )
A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.
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Movie: The Inheritance ( 2021 )
A woman's inheritance leads her to Eastern Europe to uncover a dark and disturbing family secret.
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Movie: Falling ( 2021 )
John Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds collide.
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Movie: Sylvie's Love ( 2020 )
Years after their summer romance comes to an end, an aspiring television producer and a talented musician cross paths, only to find their feelings for each other never changed. With their careers taking them in different directions, they must choose what matters most.
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Movie: Tár ( 2022 )
Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.
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Movie: Strawberry Mansion ( 2021 )
In a future where the government records dreams and taxes them, a dream auditor gets caught up in the dreams of an aging eccentric.
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Movie: The Fabelmans ( 2022 )
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
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Movie: Test Pattern ( 2021 )
In the early stages of a loving and committed interracial relationship, the strength of Renesha (Brittany S. Hall) and Evan's (Will Brill) bond is tested by the gender and racial prejudices she encounters as a Black woman seeking justice within the healthcare industry and criminal justice system.
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Movie: Ailey ( 2021 )
Alvin Ailey was a visionary artist who found salvation through dance. An immersive portrait told in his own words and through the creation of a new commission inspired by his life, Ailey fully profiles this brilliant and enigmatic man who-when confronted by a world that refused to embrace him-was determined to build one that would.
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Movie: 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible ( 2021 )
Fearless Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja embarks on a seemingly impossible quest to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks in seven months.
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Movie: The Last Cruise (Short 2021) ( 2021 )
A terrifying origin story of the pandemic, DIAMOND PRINCESS chronicles the first and largest outbreak of the novel coronavirus outside China: the Diamond Princess cruise liner. Through never-before-seen footage from passengers and crew, we watch class divisions erupt as humanity misses its chance to contain Covid-19.
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Movie: Finding 'Ohana ( 2021 )
A summer in rural O‘ahu takes an exciting turn for two Brooklyn-raised siblings when a journal pointing to long-lost treasure sets them on an epic adventure with new friends, and leads them to reconnect with their Hawaiian heritage.
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Movie: Paper & Glue ( 2021 )
Using unexpected canvasses, JR's intention is to give a global voice to everyday people through a genre-blending combination of public art, photography and large format spectacle.
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Movie: Watcher ( 2022 )
A young American woman moves with her husband to Bucharest, and begins to suspect that a stranger who watches her from the apartment building across the street may be a local serial killer decapitating women.
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Movie: Try Harder! ( 2021 )
At Lowell High School, the top public high school in San Francisco, the seniors are stressed out. As they prepare for the emotionally draining college application process, students are keenly aware of the intense competition for the few open spots in their dream colleges. At Lowell - where cool kids are nerds, nearly everyone has an amazing talent, and most of the student body is Asian American - the things that usually make a person stand out can feel commonplace. With humor and heart, director Debbie Lum captures the reality of the American college application process and the intersection of class, race, and educational opportunity as young adults navigate a quintessential rite of passage.
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Movie: Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time ( 2021 )
Márta, a forty-year-old neurosurgeon, falls in love. She leaves her shining American career behind and returns to Budapest to start a new life with the man. But the love of her life claims they have never met before.
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Movie: Knocking ( 2021 )
Molly suffers a traumatic incident due to an eerie sound from upstairs in her new apartment. As the noises grow more desperate and sound more and more like screams for help, Molly realizes that her neighbors are not listening when she goes to them for help. In a disturbing search for the truth, Molly realizes that no one believes her, and begins to question herself .
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Movie: The Witch: Part 2 - The Other One ( 2022 )
A girl wakes up in a secret laboratory and meets Kyung-hee, who is trying to protect her from a gang. When the gang finally finds the girl, they are overwhelmed by an unexpected power.
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Movie: The Man in the Hat ( 2021 )
The Man in the Hat journeys through France in a Fiat 500 accompanied by a framed photograph of an unknown woman. He is pursued by five angry men in a Citroën Dyane. Why are they chasing him? And how can he shake them off?
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Movie: Luzzu ( 2022 )
A man risks everything to provide for his wife and newborn son by entering Malta's black-market fishing industry.
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Movie: We Broke Up ( 2021 )
Longtime couple Lori and Doug break up just days before Lori's little sister Bea's wedding to Jayson. In order to not disrupt the fun, they decide to pretend they're still together until the weekend is over.
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Movie: Herself ( 2021 )
A young mother escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. She sets out to build her own home and in the process rebuilds her life and re-discovers herself.
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Movie: Petite Maman ( 2022 )
Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her age building a tree-house.
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Movie: Hustle ( 2022 )
A basketball scout discovers a phenomenal street ball player while in Spain and sees the prospect as his opportunity to get back into the NBA.
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Movie: Rose Plays Julie ( 2021 )
It's during a term studying animal euthanasia that veterinary student Rose (Ann Skelly) decides to contact Ellen (Orla Brady), the birth mother who gave her up for adoption. But Ellen, who is now a successful London-based actress, doesn't want to know. Undeterred, Rose will not be ignored. And curiosity leads her to discoveries that shake the fragile identity she has built for herself. Directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, also known as Desperate Optimists, have spent years making formally rigorous, atmospheric cinema that often deals with the uncanny effects of impersonation and the slippery nature of truth. With Rose Plays Julie (2019) hey have crafted a slow-burn thriller that builds a sense of dread inside an exquisite world of immaculate architecture, rendered through an icy performance style and enveloped by a claustrophobic soundtrack. Ann Skelly and Orla Brady are both exacting and measured in their delivery, as the film takes us through longing and revenge to arrive at the dark places of power and its abuses. This is frank, immersive and decidedly feminist filmmaking.
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Movie: Beginning ( 2021 )
In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah's Witness community is attacked by an extremist group. In the midst of this conflict, the familiar world of Yana, the wife of the community leader, slowly crumbles. Yana's inner discontent grows as she struggles to make sense of her desires.
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Movie: There Is No Evil ( 2021 )
The four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty that ask to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.
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Movie: The Unthinkable ( 2018 )
In Swedish film collective Crazy Pictures feature "Den blomstertid nu kommer" Sweden faces a mysterious attack while Alex tries to reunite with his youth love, Anna.
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Movie: The Valet ( 2022 )
A movie star enlists a parking valet at a Beverly Hills restaurant to pose as her lover to cover for her relationship with a married man.
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Movie: Homeroom ( 2021 )
Oakland as a tantalizing case study. In a city that struggles with rising crime and health care woes, its public school systems aren't exactly equipped to prepare youth for the travails of young adulthood.
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TV Show: The Girl from Plainville ( 2022 )
The Girl from Plainville is inspired by the true story of Michelle Carter, of Massachusetts, and her controversial "texting-suicide" case. Based off of the Esquire article of the same name by Jesse Barron, the series will explore Carter's relationship with Conrad Roy III and the events that led to his death and, later, her controversial conviction of involuntary manslaughter. Carter was convicted in 2017 for encouraging Roy's suicide via a series of texts and phone calls.