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Dragged Across Concrete (2019)
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S. Craig Zahler actor: Mel Gibson / Vince Vaughn …
other title: Dragged Across Concrete - Poliziotti al limite / Na Sombra da Lei …
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.
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The Wicker Man (1973)
The Wicker Man
★ 8.4 32 ratings
Robin St. C. Hardy actor: Edward Albert Arthur Woodward / Christopher Lee …
other title: L'uomo di vimini / Offerfesten …
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
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The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
★ 6.3 7 ratings
Alex Gibney actor: Elizabeth Holmes / Alex Gibney …
other title: The Inventor - La più grande truffa della Silicon Valley / Die Erfinderin - Böses Blut im Silicon Valley …
With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.
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Christiane F. (1981)
Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
★ 8.0 8 ratings
Uli Edel actor: Natja Brunckhorst / Thomas Haustein …
other title: Christiane F. - Noi i ragazzi dello zoo di Berlino / Christiane F. - i morgen er det slut …
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.
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Free Solo (2018)
Free Solo
★ 8.2 21 ratings
Jimmy Chin / Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi actor: Alex Honnold / Tommy Caldwell …
other title: Free Solo - Sfida estrema / Free Solo: Klatretur med livet som indsats
Follow Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's 3,000 foot high El Capitan wall. With no ropes or safety gear, this would arguably be the greatest feat in rock climbing history.
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Willow (1988)
Willow
★ 6.9 10 ratings
Ron Howard actor: Val Kilmer / Joanne Whalley …
other title: Willow: Na Terra da Magia
The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with delivering her from evil.
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A Wolf at the Door (2013)
O Lobo Atrás da Porta
Fernando Coimbra actor: Leandra Leal / Milhem Cortaz …
other title: O Lobo Atrás da Porta / O Lobo atrás da Porta …
Based on real events, and set in Rio de Janeiro, A Wolf at the Door is the nerve-rattling tale of a kidnapped child and the terror of the parents left behind. When Sylvia discovers her six-year-old daughter has been picked up at school by an unknown woman, police summon her husband, Bernardo, to the station for questioning. From that point on, the film takes increasingly sinister turns as it delves into the events that led to the girl’s kidnapping. With plot twists that will keep the audience on the edge of their seats, A Wolf at the Door is a darkly disturbing journey into the extreme limits of the human capacity for obsession and revenge.
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Feb. 9, 2019
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The Man Who Sleeps (1974)
Un homme qui dort
Bernard Queysanne actor: Jacques Spiesser / Ludmila Mikaël
other title: Un uomo che dorme / Un homme qui dort …
A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.
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They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
They Shall Not Grow Old
★ 8.4 8 ratings
PJ actor: Thomas Adlam / William Argent …
other title: They Shall Not Grow Old - Per sempre giovani / Pour les soldats tombés …
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of Armistice Day, and the end of the war.
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Wildlife (2018)
Wildlife
Paul Dano actor: Jake Gyllenhaal / 凯瑞·穆里根 …
other title: Wildlife : Une saison ardente / Lo que arde con el fuego
14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.
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Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Såsom i en spegel
★ 8.0 7 ratings
Ingmar Bergman actor: Harriet Andersson / Gunnar Björnstrand …
other title: Come in uno specchio / Wie in einem Spiegel …
Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger brother, Minus, is confused by Karin's vulnerability and his own budding sexuality. Their father, David, cannot overcome his haughty remoteness. Beset by visions, Karin descends further into madness.
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Bleach (2018)
ブリーチ
Shinsuke Sato actor: Sota Fukushi / Hana Sugisaki …
other title: ブリーチ
High school student Ichigo Kurosaki lives an ordinary life, besides being able to see ghosts and the blurry memories of his mother's death under strange circumstances when he was a kid. His peaceful world suddenly breaks as he meets Rukia Kuchiki, a God of Death.
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The Silence (1963)
Tystnaden
Ingmar Bergman actor: Ingrid Thulin / Gunnel Lindblom …
other title: Il silenzio / Stilheden …
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.
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Halloween (2018)
Halloween
★ 6.5 12 ratings
David Gordon Green actor: Jamie Lee Curtis / Judy Greer …
other title: La noche de Halloween / 月光光心慌慌 …
Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
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My Father's Glory (1990)
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Yves Robert actor: Philippe Caubère / Nathalie Roussel …
other title: La Gloire de mon Père / Der Ruhm meines Vaters …
Raised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young Marcel grows up during the turn of the century in awe of his rationalist dad. When the family takes a summer vacation in the countryside, Marcel becomes friends with Lili, who teaches him about rural life.