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Movie: My Name Is Pauli Murray ( 2021 )
A look at the life and ideas of Pauli Murray, a non-binary Black lawyer, activist and poet who influenced both Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall.
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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: My Father's Dragon ( 2022 )
Elmer Elevator searches for a captive Dragon on Wild Island and finds much more than he could ever have anticipated.
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Movie: My Donkey, My Lover & I ( 2020 )
A schoolteacher crashes her married lover's family vacation and befriends a donkey named Patrick.
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Movie: Murina ( 2022 )
A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.
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Movie: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris ( 2022 )
A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own.
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Movie: Mr. Malcolm's List ( 2022 )
A young woman courts a mysterious wealthy suitor in 19th century England.
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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: Mothers of the Revolution ( 2021 )
Mothers of the Revolution is a feature-length documentary being directed by Briar March (A Place to Call Home and There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho). This film will tell the moving true story of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp and how it changed the world.
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Movie: Morris from America ( 2016 )
The romantic and coming-of-age misadventures of a 13-year-old American living in Germany.
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Movie: Moonage Daydream ( 2022 )
A cinematic odyssey exploring David Bowie's creative and musical journey. From visionary filmmaker Brett Morgen, and sanctioned by the Bowie estate.
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Movie: Montana Story ( 2022 )
Two estranged siblings return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved, confronting a deep and bitter family legacy against a mythic American backdrop.
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Movie: Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon ( 2022 )
A girl with unusual powers escapes from a mental asylum and tries to make it on her own in New Orleans.
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Movie: Mogul Mowgli ( 2021 )
A British Pakistani rapper is on the cusp of his first world tour, but is struck down by an illness that threatens to derail his big break.
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Movie: Moby Doc ( 2021 )
A surrealist biographical documentary about trailblazing electronic musician and animal rights activist Moby.
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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: Mixtape ( 2021 )
When a young girl accidentally destroys the mixtape that belonged to her mother, she sets out to track down each of the obscure songs on the cassette.
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Movie: Miracle ( 2021 )
A young nun sneaks out of her monastery to attend an urgent matter but never makes it back and a police detective's investigation into her fate, uncovers clues and revelations that lead not only to the truth but a miracle as well.
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Movie: Minions: The Rise of Gru ( 2022 )
The untold story of one twelve-year-old's dream to become the world's greatest supervillain.
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TV Show: Mind Over Murder ( 2022 )
Mind Over Murder chronicles the bizarre and psychologically complex story of six individuals who were convicted for the 1985 murder of a beloved 68- year-old grandmother, Helen Wilson, in Beatrice, Nebraska. Despite five of the individuals originally confessing to the crime, the "Beatrice Six" as they became known, were exonerated by DNA evidence in 2009, a turn of events which divided the rural town and incensed the family of Helen Wilson.
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Movie: Minari ( 2021 )
Yearning to own a small patch of land and be more than a chicken sexer, the ambitious paterfamilias, Jacob Yi, relocates his Korean-American family: sceptical wife, Monica, and their children, David and Anne, from California to 1980s rural Arkansas, to start afresh and capture the elusive American Dream. However, new beginnings are always challenging, and to find out what is best for the family, let alone start a 50-acre farm to grow and sell Korean fruits and vegetables, is easier said than done. But, amid sincere promises, cultural unease, fleeting hopes, and the ever-present threat of financial disaster, Jacob is convinced that he has found their own slice of Eden in the rich, dark soil of Arkansas. Can grandma Soonja's humble but resilient minari help the Yi family figure out their place in the world?
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Movie: Mija ( 2022 )
Follows Doris Muñoz, who began a career in music talent management and met Jacks Haupt, an auspicious young singer, and both share the ever-present guilt of being the first American-born members of their undocumented families.
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Movie: Metal Lords ( 2022 )
Two friends try to form a heavy metal band with a cellist for a Battle of the Bands.
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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: Memoria ( 2021 )
A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.
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Movie: Medusa ( 2023 )
In order to resist temptation, Mariana and her girlfriends try their best to control everything and everyone around them. However, the day will come when the urge to scream will be stronger than it ever has been.
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Movie: McEnroe ( 2022 )
It follows John McEnroe as he finally tells his side of his storied career and performances on the court.
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Movie: Max Richter's Sleep ( 2021 )
This documentary follows composer Max Richter and his creative partner Yulia Mahr as they prepare to stage an ambitious open-air, overnight performance of his celebrated eight-hour magnum opus Sleep in Los Angeles, while also exploring the origins and impact of this groundbreaking composition.
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Movie: Master of Light ( 2022 )
George Anthony Morton, a classical painter who spent ten years in federal prison travels to his hometown to paint his family members. Going back forces George to face his past in his quest to rewrite the script of his life.
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Movie: Mass ( 2021 )
Aftermath of a violent tragedy that affects the lives of two couples in different ways.
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Movie: Marvelous and the Black Hole ( 2021 )
A teenage delinquent teams up with a surly children's party magician to navigate her dysfunctional family and inner demons.
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Movie: Martha: A Picture Story ( 2019 )
In 1970s New York, photographer Martha Cooper captured some of the first images of graffiti at a time when the city had declared war on it. Decades later, Cooper has become influential to the global movement of street artists.
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Movie: Marry Me ( 2022 )
Music superstars Kat Valdez and Bastian are getting married before a global audience of fans. But when Kat learns, seconds before her vows, that Bastian has been unfaithful, she instead decides to marry Charlie, a stranger in the crowd.
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Movie: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On ( 2022 )
Feature adaptation of the animated short film interviewing a mollusk named Marcel.
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Movie: Mama Weed ( 2021 )
A translator working for the police gets involved in the other side of drug dealing.
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Movie: Mad God ( 2021 )
A corroded diving bell descends amidst a ruined city and the Assassin emerges from it to explore a labyrinth of bizarre landscapes inhabited by freakish denizens.
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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: 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: Lux Æterna ( 2022 )
Two actresses, Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg, are on a film set telling stories about witches - but that's not all. 'Lux Æterna' is also an essay on cinema, the love of film, and on-set hysterics.
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Movie: Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom ( 2019 )
An aspiring singer living with his grandmother in the capital of Bhutan dreams of getting a visa to move to Australia.
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Movie: Lucy and Desi ( 2022 )
This film will explore the rise of comedian icon Lucille Ball, her relationship with Desi Arnaz, and how their groundbreaking sitcom I Love Lucy forever changed Hollywood, cementing her legacy long after her death in 1989.
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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: Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power ( 2022 )
It tells the story of the courageous campaign of citizens and activists who faced violence and oppression in the struggle for the right to vote
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Movie: Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues ( 2022 )
Follow the life and legacy of the master and so-called founding father of jazz, America's first pop star, and cultural ambassador.
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Movie: Loudmouth ( 2023 )
It tells the story of Rev. Al Sharpton, painting an intimate portrait of a tireless warrior who has never ducked a fight in his mission to transform the status quo.
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TV Show: Lost Ollie ( 2022 )
Lost Ollie is the tale of a lost toy searching across the countryside for the boy who lost him, and the story of the boy who lost more than a best friend.
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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: Live at Mister Kelly's ( 2021 )
The iconic Mister Kelly's, once called a "supernova in the local and national night life firmament," illuminated legendary Chicago's Rush Street, and the entire country, by launching talent like Barbra Streisand, Richard Pryor, Bob Newhart, Bette Midler and Steve Martin. Its visionary owners George and Oscar Marienthal smashed color and gender barriers to put unknown, controversial voices on stage and transform entertainment, as America knew it in the '50s, '60s, and '70s. Now, with the club long gone, and its star talent reaching its golden years, George's son David and director/screenwriter, Theodore Bogosian, go on a quest to collect the memories of the clubs before they are lost. Celebrity interviews now include Bob Newhart, the Smothers Brothers, Dick Gregory, Lainie Kazan, Herbie Hancock, Dick Cavett, Tim Reid, Fred Willard and Ramsey Lewis. The film portrays through interviews, live footage, photos, music, and song, the most beloved and famous talent of our time at the decisive moments when they showed up, dug deep, and broke in. How do you change the world with a laugh and a song? Find out in a film that documents the rise and fall of one of American entertainment's great proving grounds.
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Movie: Little Fish ( 2021 )
A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.
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Movie: Listening to Kenny G ( 2021 )
An examination of the most popular instrumentalist of all time, Kenny G, and why he is polarizing to so many.
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Movie: Lingui ( 2021 )
Amina, a practicing Muslim, lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.
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Movie: Lightyear ( 2022 )
While spending years attempting to return home, marooned Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear encounters an army of ruthless robots commanded by Zurg who are attempting to steal his fuel source.
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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: Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive ( 1990 )
A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found. With no further instructions, he decides to take in the sights of Hong Kong, which consist of him taking part in a great deal of blood, sex and general weirdness, all while wearing a briefcase handcuffed to his arm.
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Movie: Licorice Pizza ( 2021 )
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
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Movie: Let the Little Light Shine ( 2022 )
A high-achieving elementary school near downtown Chicago is a lifeline for Black children - until gentrification threatens its closure.
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Movie: Let Him Go ( 2020 )
A retired sheriff and his wife, grieving over the death of their son, set out to find their only grandson.
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Movie: Leonor Will Never Die ( 2023 )
Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.
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Movie: Legend of the Underground ( 2021 )
A timely documentary uncovering rampant discrimination in Nigeria while exploring the lives of several non conformist men who must choose to live imperiled lives there or flee to the USA.
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Movie: Lee Daniels' The Butler ( 2013 )
As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.
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Movie: Last Looks ( 2022 )
A disgraced ex-cop seeks solace by moving to the woods, but his quiet life comes to an end when a private eye recruits him to investigate a murder.
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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: Language Lessons ( 2021 )
A Spanish teacher and her student develop an unexpected friendship.
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TV Show: Landscapers ( 2021 )
Inspired by real events, Landscapers explores the lives of convicted killers Susan and Christopher Edwards, and asks how this devoted and mild-mannered couple came to kill Susan's parents and bury them in the back garden of their Mansfield home, in a crime that remained undiscovered for over a decade. This blackly comic, narratively playful true crime drama is based on extensive research, hours of interviews and direct access to the accused, who have always protested their innocence of murder.
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Movie: Land ( 2021 )
Edee, in the aftermath of an unfathomable event, finds herself unable to stay connected to the world she once knew and in the face of that uncertainty, retreats to the magnificent, but unforgiving, wilds of the Rockies. After a local hunter brings her back from the brink of death, she must find a way to live again.
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Movie: Lady Chatterley's Lover ( 2022 )
An unhappily married aristocrat begins a torrid affair with the gamekeeper on her husband's country estate.
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Movie: Labyrinth of Cinema ( 2021 )
The story centers on a group of young people who travel back in time when they are in a movie theater just before closing time. They witness deaths during the closing days of Japan's feudal times and on the battlefront in China before they are sent to Hiroshima just before the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of the city.
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Movie: Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time ( 2021 )
Recounting the extraordinary life of author Kurt Vonnegut, and the 25-year friendship with the filmmaker who set out to document it.
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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: King Richard ( 2021 )
A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams.
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Movie: King Car ( 2022 )
A teen's ability to surreally speak with cars sparks a revolution that could save his community. However, he soon finds himself in a fight for survival when his invention inadvertently accelerates the underlying problems.
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Movie: Kimi ( 2022 )
An agoraphobic Seattle tech worker uncovers evidence of a crime.
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Movie: Julia ( 2022 )
Julia tells the story of the legendary cookbook author and television superstar who changed the way Americans think about food, television, and even about women.
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Movie: Judas and the Black Messiah ( 2021 )
Offered a plea deal by the FBI, William O'Neal infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton.
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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: Jockey ( 2022 )
An aging jockey aims for a final championship, when a rookie rider arrives claiming to be his son.
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Movie: Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President ( 2020 )
This rockumentary-style presidential portrait shows how Jimmy Carter reinvigorated a post-Watergate America-with the music of the counterculture, including the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Jimmy Buffett. Low on campaign funds and lacking in name recognition, Carter relied on support from these artists to give him a crucial boost in the Democratic primaries. Once Carter was elected, the musicians became frequent guests in the White House.
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Movie: Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story ( 2022 )
A film that not only captures the signature annual music and cultural event that has been called America's greatest festival in all of its beauty and glory, but also delves deep into the rich culture of The Big Easy.
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Movie: Jakob's Wife ( 2021 )
Spending her days on cooking, housekeeping, and gardening, Anne, the dutiful, obedient, and supportive suburban wife to local pastor and pillar of the community, Jakob Fedder, realises that decades of passionless marriage have taken a toll on their relationship. Trapped in an uneventful existence, suddenly, Anne finds her world turned upside down when her old flame, Tom Low, drives into town, eager to pick up where they left off. Now, against the backdrop of unaccountable disappearances and an inexplicable rat infestation, temptation takes over, and Anne starts to build self-confidence, a whole new attitude, and her dream wardrobe. What is wrong with Jakob's wife?
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Movie: Jackass Forever ( 2022 )
After 11 years, the Jackass crew is back for another crusade.
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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: Is That Black Enough for You?!? ( 2022 )
Tracks the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the '70s, with archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era.
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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: 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: In the Heights ( 2021 )
In the Heights centers on a variety of characters living in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, on the northern tip of Manhattan. At the center of the show is Usnavi, a bodega owner who looks after the aging Cuban lady next door, pines for the gorgeous girl working in the neighboring beauty salon and dreams of winning the lottery and escaping to the shores of his native Dominican Republic. Meanwhile, Nina, a childhood friend of Usnavi's, has returned to the neighborhood from her first year at college with surprising news for her parents, who have spent their life savings on building a better life for their daughter. Ultimately, Usnavi and the residents of the close-knit neighborhood get a dose of what it means to be home.
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Movie: In the Earth ( 2021 )
As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run.
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Movie: In Our Mothers' Gardens ( 2021 )
In Our Mothers' Gardens celebrates the strength and resiliency of Black women and Black families through the complex, and often times humorous, relationship between mothers and daughters.
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Movie: Infinite Storm ( 2022 )
When a climber gets caught in a blizzard, she encounters a stranded stranger and must get them both down the mountain before nightfall.
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Movie: I'm Your Man ( 2021 )
In order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy.
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Movie: I'm Totally Fine ( 2022 )
Vanessa, a woman in mourning, takes a solo trip to clear her head after the death of her friend, but her self-care vacation plans change when she's met with an out-of-this-world situation.
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Movie: I Love My Dad ( 2022 )
A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.
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Movie: I Didn't See You There ( 2022 )
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into a meditative journey exploring the history of freakdom, vision, and (in)visibility. Shot entirely from director Reid Davenport's physical perspective - mounted to his wheelchair or handheld - the film serves as an unequivocal rebuke to the norm of d...Read all
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Movie: Identifying Features ( 2021 )
Months after Jesús (Juan Jesús Varela) set out on foot for the U.S. with a friend from their rural town in Guanajuato, Magdalena (Mercedes Hernandez) has lost contact with her beloved adolescent son. Determined to unravel his fate, Magdalena soon finds herself in over her head, entangled in an expansive crime syndicate and labyrinth of disorienting lies on an increasingly surreal journey to uncover the truth. At the mercy of those with the power and courage to help her find closure, Magdalena's path fortuitously converges with that of Miguel (David Illescas), a young man not unlike her son Jesús, returning from U.S. deportation. Ensconced within the realm of magical-realism while exhibiting remarkable restraint, IDENTIFYING FEATURES is an impressive, symbolic re-imagining of a culture adrift and seeking spiritual reunification. Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Audience and Screenplay Awards at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Movie: I Carry You with Me ( 2021 )
Ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate in Mexico and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.
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Movie: I Care a Lot ( 2021 )
Poised with sharklike self-assurance, Marla Grayson is a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards whose assets she seizes and cunningly bilks through dubious but legal means. It's a well-oiled racket that Marla and her business-partner and lover, Fran, use with brutal efficiency on their latest "cherry," Jennifer Peterson - a wealthy retiree with no living heirs or family. But when their mark turns out to have an equally shady secret of her own and connections to a volatile gangster, Marla is forced to level up in a game only predators can play - one that's neither fair, nor square.
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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: Human Factors ( 2022 )
A mysterious home invasion triggers off a shake in the core of a cosmopolitan middle-class family and unveils the fragility of truth and the power of individual perspective.
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Movie: Huda's Salon ( 2022 )
A woman whose visit to a hair salon turns into a nightmare when she is blackmailed by its owner.
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Movie: How to Please a Woman ( 2022 )
When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.
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Movie: House of Darkness ( 2022 )
Hap offers Mina a ride home with ulterior motives, but his night takes a turn when he learns she lives in a creepy American castle...and the shadowy figures in the corridors make it clear that he isn't welcome.