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The Art of Crying |
Life is not easy for 11-year-old Allan living in South Jutland during the early 1970s. His mentally unstable father frequently threatens suicide and his mother has long since given up. It's up to Allan to keep the family together. When a rival family threatens his father's livelihood, Allan starts committing atrocious acts. |
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Bag of Bones |
Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, unable to cope after his wife's sudden death, returns to the couple's lakeside retreat in Maine, where he becomes involved in a custody battle between a young widow and her child's enormously wealthy grandfather. Mike inexplicably receives mysterious ghostly visitations, escalating nightmares and the realization that his late wife still has something to tell him. |
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Rise of the Animals |
In a world where animals have turned on humanity, a teen travels across the country in search of the girl of his dreams. |
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Nasty Baby |
Nasty Baby centers around a Brooklyn couple, Freddy and his boyfriend Mo, who are trying to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly. Freddy is an artist, and his latest work is all about babies – it’s clear he’s dying to be a father. Polly is a family practitioner who is more interested in having a baby than having a man. Mo is hesitant about the entire idea, especially when Polly isn’t having success with Freddyʼs sperm and the donor responsibility shifts to him. Set almost entirely in the multicultural vibrancy of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the trio navigates the idea of creating life, when they are confronted by unexpected harassment from particularly aggressive neighborhood man, nicknamed The Bishop. The Bishop is bothersome in small, yet persistent ways, with a hint of danger. As their clashes become increasingly aggressive, someone is bound to get hurt. |
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Walker |
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat. |
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Dudley Do-Right |
Based on the 60's-era cartoon of the same name. Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot to buy all the property in town, then start a phony gold rush by seeding the river with gold nuggets. Can this well-meaning (though completely incompetent) Mountie stop Whiplash's evil plan? |
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Koko: A Talking Gorilla |
Koko: A Talking Gorilla is a documentary directed by Barbet Schroeder. The film is a study of Dr. Penny Patterson and her current scientific study, Koko, a gorilla. |
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Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh |
The Candyman moves on to New Orleans and starts his horrific murders once more. This time, his intended victim is a school teacher. Her father was killed by the Candyman, and brother wrongly accused of the murders. |
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Backtrack |
Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers a horrifying secret that all of his patients share, he is put on a course that takes him back to the small hometown he fled years ago. There he confronts his demons and unravels a mystery 20 years in the making. |
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Swooni |
6 personages. 24 uur. Een hotel middenin een hittegolf in Brussel. Anna en Hendrik hebben het allemaal: een toffe zoon, een goeie job, een mooi huis… Het huwelijksfeest van Anna’s zus doet hen echter nadenken over de keuzes die ze gemaakt hebben. Violette wil zich voor ze sterft verzoenen met haar dochter Vicky, die als kamermeisje in het hotel werkt. Maar Vicky lijkt niet zo snel geneigd om het conflict bij te leggen. Ze ontfermt zich over Joyeux, een kleine Afrikaanse vluchteling die zich in het hotel verschuilt voor de politie... |
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Roadgames |
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer who uses a young female hitchhiker as bait to lure victims on a desolate Australian highway. |
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Hard Sell |
When Hardy Buchanan, a senior at an elite private school, needs to make some quick cash, he enlists the help of Bo, a beautiful runaway. Together, they devise an unconventional plan of profiting off of the wayward teens at Hardy's school. When the students learn that Bo has more to offer than what meets the eye, the unlikely duo's new business takes a unique turn, tossing them headfirst into the lifestyles of the rich and dysfunctional. |
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Death of a Cyclist |
A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed. |
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Don Quixote |
The classic tale of a man's dream, his epic journey, and one true love. |
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Tom and Jerry |
A priest tries to save a marriage that appears to be headed for the rocks in time for Christmas. |