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2 Thumbs Up (2021-2022)
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Movie: You Are Not My Mother ( 2022 )
In a North Dublin housing estate Char's mother goes missing. When she returns Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.
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Movie: Hive ( 2021 )
Fahrije's husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo. She sets up her own small business to provide for her kids, but as she fights against a patriarchal society that does not support her, she faces a crucial decision.
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Movie: Causeway ( 2022 )
A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home.
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Movie: Hope ( 2021 )
Anja (Andrea Bræin Hovig) and Tomas (Stellan Skarsgård), the principals in Maria Sødahl's moving Hope, adore their careers in dance and theatre. Their blended family structure is complicated, with two young sons and an adolescent daughter from their own union and two adult children from Tomas' marriage. Returning home after the triumphant international debut of a ballet she directed, Anja finds Tomas is working late, a galling abnegation of responsibility in her eyes. Then her physician gives her a dire diagnosis: she has an inoperable tumor that may be connected to the lung cancer for which she was successfully treated the previous year. A long-time superwoman who's been compensating for an often absent, workaholic husband, Anja soldiers on, refusing to tell anyone but Tomas what's happening - and becoming increasingly exasperated by her children's blissful ignorance, while only intermittently buoyed by Tomas' support. The next few days will test the strength of their relationship more than any other challenge they've faced.
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Movie: Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten ( 2021 )
Deadly assault on the 100th anniversary of the crime in the context of other racial massacres and police killings.
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Movie: Something in the Dirt ( 2022 )
Maverick filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead offer up a twisted reflection of our paranoid times in this inventive mix of buddy comedy and sci-fi thriller.
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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: Sabaya ( 2021 )
Film follows a group into Syria's Al-Hol, a dangerous camp in the Middle East, as they risk their lives to save a women being held by ISIS as abducted sex slaves.
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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: Spoiler Alert ( 2022 )
The story of Michael Ausiello and Kit Cowan's relationship, which takes a tragic turn when Cowan is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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Movie: The Janes ( 2022 )
Police arrested seven women who were part of a clandestine network. Using code names, blindfolds and safe houses, they built an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions calling themselves JANE.
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Movie: Holy Spider ( 2023 )
A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
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Movie: El Planeta ( 2021 )
El Planeta is a dark comedy exploring contemporary poverty, female desire, and the always complicated filial relationships of mothers and daughters. A daughter forced to return home after the death of her father, reconnects with her eccentric mother, hustling to maintain the semblances of their middle-class lifestyle in the face of an impending eviction. Over the course of the week we watch as the daughter's hopes are tested as she attempts to use her sexuality as a means of escape. meanwhile the mother grifts her way into definite security -the care of a jail cell.
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Movie: Great Freedom ( 2022 )
In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Over the decades, he develops an unlikely bond with his cellmate Viktor.
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Movie: Paris, 13th District ( 2021 )
Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy - They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.
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Movie: Vortex ( 2022 )
The last days of an elderly couple stricken by dementia.
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Movie: Father of the Bride ( 2022 )
A father's coming to grips with his daughter's upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American clan.
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Movie: Acasa, My Home ( 2020 )
In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, nine children and their parents lived in perfect harmony with nature for 20 years until they are chased out and forced to adapt to life in the big city.
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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.
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Movie: Sharp Stick ( 2022 )
Sarah Jo is a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister. She just longs to be seen. When she begins an affair with her older employer, she is thrust into an education on sexuality, loss and power.
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Movie: The Eternal Daughter ( 2022 )
Returning to a hotel now haunted by its mysterious past, an artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets in their former family home.
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Movie: Wet Season ( 2021 )
As Mandarin-language teacher Ling continues with fruitless IVF treatment while taking care of her ailing father-in-law, she finds herself slowly drawn towards a promising student who seems to have been abandoned by his parents. Outside it's monsoon season, but Ling's inner turmoil looks set to get her into a heap of trouble.
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Movie: Girl Picture ( 2022 )
Three young women try to defy the persistent winter darkness in Finland. In the process, they move between dreams, reality, friendship and relationships, and try to make sense of the whole mess.
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Movie: She Will ( 2022 )
An aging film star retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse to recover from surgery. While there, mysterious forces of revenge emerge from the land where witches were burned.
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Movie: The Stranger ( 2022 )
Two men who meet on a bus strike up a conversation that turns into friendship. For Henry Teague, worn down by a lifetime of physical labour and crime, this is a dream come true.
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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: 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: Athena ( 2022 )
Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.
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Movie: Fire Island ( 2022 )
A group of queer best friends gather in Fire Island Pines for their annual week of love and laughter, but a sudden change of events might make this their last summer in gay paradise.
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Movie: Emergency ( 2022 )
Ready for a night of legendary partying, three college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an unexpected situation.
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Movie: Giants Being Lonely ( 2021 )
A pair of players on a successful high school baseball team, the Giants, come of age in the American South.
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Movie: The Legend of Molly Johnson ( 2022 )
A lonely bushwoman struggles to raise her children and run the family farm while her husband is away.
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Movie: The Bubble ( 2022 )
A group of actors and actresses stuck inside a pandemic bubble at a hotel attempt to complete a film.
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Movie: True Things ( 2022 )
It follows a young woman living on the fringes of society who becomes intoxicated by a stranger who overwhelms her quiet life.
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Movie: Nothing Compares ( 2022 )
Following the career of singer Sinéad O'Connor through her rise to fame and how her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream.
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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: 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: Days ( 2021 )
Kang lives alone in a big house. Through a glass façade, he looks out onto the treetops lashed by wind and rain. He feels a strange pain of unknown origin, which he can hardly bear, gripping his whole body. Non lives in a small apartment in Bangkok, where he methodically prepares traditional dishes from his native village. When Kang meets Non in a hotel room, the two men share each other's loneliness.
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Movie: Official Competition ( 2022 )
A wealthy businessman hires a famous filmmaker to help make a smash hit film.
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Movie: Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America ( 2021 )
Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America.
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Movie: Nothing Lasts Forever ( 2023 )
Illusions and reality merge, where authenticity and imagination overlap, and questions arise about the value we place on the goods around us.
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Movie: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed ( 2023 )
Follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
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Movie: What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? ( 2022 )
A chance encounter on a street corner has Lisa and Giorgi fall in love at first sight, but an evil spell is cast on them. Will they ever meet again?
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Movie: All That Breathes ( 2023 )
Amidst the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.
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Movie: Both Sides of the Blade ( 2022 )
A love triangle story about a woman caught between two men, her long-time partner and his best friend, her former lover.
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Movie: President ( 2021 )
A young and charismatic leader takes on the corrupt ruling party in Zimbabwe's 2018 presidential election.
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Movie: 2nd Chance ( 2022 )
An exploration of Richard Davis, the inventor of the modern-day bulletproof vest who shot himself at least 192 times to prove his product worked.
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Movie: Wendell & Wild ( 2022 )
Two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild, enlist the aid of 13-year-old Kat Elliot to summon them to the Land of the Living.
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Movie: World's Best ( 2023 )
Follows Prem Patel, who is an expert at math but is also secretly obsessed with his late father's dream of becoming a rap musician, and he almost loses everything in his attempt to achieve multiple goals in life.
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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: Better Nate Than Ever ( 2022 )
13-year-old Nate Foster fantasizes about becoming a big Broadway star. He and his best friend Libby mastermind a daring trip to New York City to audition for "Lilo and Stitch: The Musical".
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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: State Funeral ( 2021 )
Unique, mostly unseen before, archive footage from March 1953, presents the funeral of Joseph Stalin as the culmination of the dictator's personality cult. The news of Stalin's death on March 5, 1953, shocked the entire Soviet Union. The burial ceremony was attended by tens of thousands of mourners. We observe every stage of the funeral spectacle, described by Pravda newspaper, as the Great Farewell, and receive an unprecedented access to the dramatic and absurd experience of life and death under Stalin's reign. The film addresses the issue of Stalin's personality cult as a form of terror-induced delusion. It gives an insight into the nature of the regime and its legacy, still haunting the contemporary world.
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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: A Cop Movie ( 2021 )
Director Alonso Ruizpalacios takes us deep into the Mexican police force with the story of Teresa and Montoya, together known as 'the love patrol.' In this thoroughly original and unpredictable documentary, Ruizpalacios plays with the boundaries of nonfiction and immerses the audience into the human experience of police work within a dysfunctional system.
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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: Gaza mon amour ( 2021 )
Gaza, today. Sixty-year-old fisherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works at the market with her daughter Leila. When he discovers an ancient phallic statue of Apollo in his fishing nets, Issa hides it, not knowing what to do with this mysterious and potent treasure. Yet deep inside, he feels that this discovery will change his life forever. Strangely, his confidence starts to grow and eventually he decides to approach Siham.
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Movie: Hit the Road ( 2022 )
Follows a chaotic, tender family that is on a road trip across a rugged landscape and fussing over the sick dog and getting on each others' nerves. Only the mysterious older brother is quiet.
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Movie: A Crime on the Bayou ( 2021 )
A Black teenager bravely challenges the most powerful white supremacist in 1960s Louisiana with the help of a young Jewish attorney. Systemic racism meets its match in decisive courtroom battles, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and a lifelong friendship is born.
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Movie: Don't Make Me Go ( 2022 )
When a single father to a teenage daughter learns that he has a fatal brain tumor, he takes her on a road trip to find the mother who abandoned her years before and to try to teach her everything she might need over the rest of her life.
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Movie: Sing Me a Song ( 2021 )
As the Internet finally arrives in tiny Bhutan, documentarian Thomas Balmès is there to witness its transformative impact on a young Buddhist monk whose initial trepidation gives way to profound engagement with the technology.
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Movie: Not Going Quietly ( 2021 )
A rising star in progressive politics and a new father, 32-year-old Ady Barkan's life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS. But after a confrontation with powerful Senator Jeff Flake on an airplane goes viral, catapulting him to national fame, Ady and a motley crew of activists ignite a once-in-a-generation political movement called "Be a Hero." Together, they barnstorm across the country and empower people to confront their elected officials with emotional, personal stories to demand health-care justice and Ady holds groundbreaking interviews with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. As Ady rises to become Politico's "Most Powerful Activist in America," he discovers that collective action and speaking truth to power offers hope for his family and millions of others.
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Movie: Neptune Frost ( 2023 )
An intersex African hacker, a coltan miner and the virtual marvel born as a result of their union.
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Movie: A Jazzman's Blues ( 2022 )
Follows an investigation into an unsolved murder unveiling a story full of forbidden love, deceit and a secret.
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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: Tantura ( 2022 )
In the war of 1948 hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated. Israelis call it 'The War of Independence. Palestinians call it 'Nakba"'. The film examines one village- Tantura and why "Nakba" is taboo in Israeli society.
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Movie: Along for the Ride ( 2022 )
The summer before college Auden meets the mysterious Eli, a fellow insomniac. While the seaside town of Colby sleeps, the two embark on a nightly quest to help Auden experience the fun, carefree teen life she never knew she wanted.
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Movie: The Princess ( 2022 )
Princess Diana's story is told exclusively through contemporaneous archive creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death. It also illuminates how the public's attitude to the monarchy was, and still is.
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Movie: Entergalactic ( 2022 )
Jabari, a charming, streetwear-clad artist on the cusp of real success. After a chance run-in with his cool new photographer neighbor, Meadow, Jabari has to figure out whether he can make space for love in his life.
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Movie: Stutz ( 2022 )
Follow Hill and his therapist as he has candid discussions of mental health and the progressively worsening anxiety attacks related to movie promotion that have turned his dream job into a nightmare.
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Movie: Hold Your Fire ( 2021 )
Brooklyn, 1973. Shu'aib Raheem tried to steal guns for self-defense, starting the longest hostage siege in NYPD history. NYPD psychologist Harvey Schlossberg fought to reform police use of violence and save lives by using words, not guns.
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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: The Disciple ( 2021 )
Sharad Nerulkar has devoted his life to becoming an Indian classical music vocalist, diligently following the traditions and discipline of old masters, his guru, and his father. But as years go by, Sharad starts to wonder whether it's really possible to achieve the excellence he's striving for. A journey of devotion, passion, and searching for the absolute in contemporary Mumbai.
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Movie: Citizen Ashe ( 2021 )
Explores the tennis career of Arthur Ashe and his impact on tennis and HIV activism.
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Movie: The County ( 2021 )
A widowed farmer begins a new life on her own terms by fighting against corruption and injustice in her community.
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Movie: Rogue Agent ( 2022 )
The extraordinary and chilling story of career conman Robert Freegard who masqueraded as an MI5 agent and fooled people into going into hiding, and the woman who fell for him, and then brought him down.
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Movie: This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection ( 2021 )
When her village is threatened with forced resettlement due to reservoir construction, an 80-year-old widow finds a new will to live and ignites the spirit of resilience within her community.
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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: The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile ( 2022 )
Decades after Tanya Tucker slipped from the spotlight, music star Brandi Carlile takes it upon herself to write an entire album for her hero based on Tanya's extraordinary life, spurring the greatest comeback in country music history.
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Movie: Playground ( 2022 )
When Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora tries to find her place, torn between children's and adults' worlds.
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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: Sankofa ( 1993 )
A self-absorbed Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Africa is spiritually transported back to a plantation in the West Indies where she experiences first-hand the physical and psychic horrors of chattel slavery, and eventually the redemptive power of community and rebellion as she becomes a member of a freedom-seeking Maroon colony.
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Movie: Ali & Ava ( 2022 )
Ali and Ava, both lonely for different reasons, meet and sparks fly. Over a lunar month a deep connection begins to grow, despite the legacy of Ava's past relationship, and Ali's emotional turmoil at the breakdown of his marriage.
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Movie: The Velvet Queen ( 2021 )
Two men explore the high-altitude wilderness of Tibet with many cameras, filming wildlife from a respectful distance and searching for the rare snow leopard.
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Movie: Foxhole ( 2022 )
Over 36 hours in three different wars, a small group of soldiers grapples with mortality, futility and an increasingly volatile combat situation.
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Movie: Riotsville, U.S.A. ( 2023 )
Welcome to Riotsville, a fictional town built by the US military. Using all archival footage, the film explores the militarization of the police and creates a counter-narrative to the nation's reaction to the uprisings of the late '60s.
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Movie: 7 Days ( 2022 )
As if their pre-arranged date, organized by their traditional Indian parents, wasn't uncomfortable enough, Ravi and Rita are forced to shelter in place together as COVID-19's reach intensifies.
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Movie: A Wounded Fawn ( 2022 )
A serial killer brings an unsuspecting new victim on a weekend getaway to add another body to his ever-growing count. She's buying into his faux charms, and he's eagerly lusting for blood. What could possibly go wrong?
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Movie: Coming Clean ( 2020 )
"Coming Clean" examines America's opioid crisis through the eyes of the recovering addicts and political leaders on the frontlines. These unlikely allies emerge from the darkness to face their pain, bring the profiteers to justice, and rebuild in the wake of the deadliest drug epidemic in our history.
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Movie: Relative ( 2022 )
As various members of the Frank family come together for a college graduation party in Chicago, they find their bonds being tested, and strengthened, in surprising ways.
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Movie: Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood ( 2022 )
A coming-of-age story set in the suburbs of Houston, Texas in the summer of 1969, centered around the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.
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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: Dear Mr. Brody ( 2021 )
A documentary about Michael Brody Jr., a 21-year-old hippie millionaire who in 1970 promised to give away his $25M inheritance in an effort to usher in a new era of world peace.
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Movie: Faya Dayi ( 2021 )
A spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar, immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf Sufi Muslims chewed for centuries for religious meditations - and Ethiopia's most lucrative cash crop today.
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Movie: Utama ( 2022 )
In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.
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Movie: Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue ( 2021 )
Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most esteemed writers.
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Movie: No Ordinary Man ( 2021 )
No Ordinary Man is an in-depth look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton. Complicated, beautiful and historically unrivaled, this groundbreaking film shows what is possible when a community collaborates to honor the legacy of an unlikely hero.
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Movie: A Febre ( 2020 )
The Fever tells the story of Justino, a 45-year-old member of the indigenous Desana people, who works as a security guard at the Manaus cargo port. Since the death of his wife, his main company is his youngest daughter who he lives with on the outskirts of town. A nurse at a local health clinic, Vanessa is accepted to study medicine in Brasília, and plans to leave shortly. As the days go by, Justino is overcome by a strong fever. During the day, he fights to stay awake at work. During the night, a mysterious creature follows his footsteps. Meanwhile, a visit from his brother makes him remember the life he left deep in the jungle twenty years prior. Between the oppression of the city and the distance of his native village, Justino is no longer able to endure an existence without a sense of belonging.
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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: 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.