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1) Trust
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English
Description
The second feature film from writer/director Hal Hartley follows the unusual romance between two young misfits, pregnant high school dropout Maria and brilliant electronics repairman Matthew, wandering the same suburban town.
2) Clifford
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Language
English
Description
A mischievous and obnoxious 10-year-old boy makes life pure hell for his bachelor uncle while his parents are in Hawaii.
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English
Description
Craig Dowd went from class nerd to dot.com millionaire in a few short years. And now with the picture complete - he is about to marry the beautiful and sexy Kelli - he has invited his old college friends for a weekend-long reunion. But Craig actually went bankrupt when the dot.com bubble burst. Deep in debt, he turned to the only profitable online business left - porn. Craig tries desperately to keep his college friends from discovering the truth....
4) Down Terrace
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Language
English
Description
Father and son Bill and Karl have just been released from jail free and clear, but all is not well at Down Terrace. Patriarchs of a small crime family, their business is plagued with infighting. Karl has had more than he can take of his old man's philosophizing and preaching, and Bill thinks Karl's dedication to the family is seriously compromised when he takes up with an estranged girlfriend who claims to be carrying his baby.
5) Catch-22
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Language
English
Description
Mike Nichols superbly directed this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller’s scathing black comedy, a tale of a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together they are nervous, frightened, often profane and sometimes pathetic. Almost all are a little crazy. Catch-22 is an anti-war satire of epic proportions.
6) Ghost World
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Language
English
Description
Based on the well-known comic, GHOST WORLD tells the story of neo-cool Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) who, faced with graduation from high school take a hard look at the world they wryly observe and decide what they really want. When Enid takes an interest in the offbeat Seymour (Steve Buscemi) and Rebecca focuses her attention on their mutual romantic fixation Josh (Brad Renfro), the girls friendship is forever changed.
7) Bad Actress
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Language
English
Description
Alyssa Rampart-Pillage is a washed up TV queen whose career has been reduced to starring in commercials for her husband Bernie's appliance empire. When their tree-hugging daughter Topanga dies in a tragic golf ball incident, Bernie goes off the spiritual deep end and tries to give away their fortune. But what starts off as tragedy quickly turns into career re-invention for Alyssa. And as the body count rises, so does her star.
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Language
Deutsch
Description
In this wry German dark comedy, Walter is a professional hitman who has just botched a job. Forced to leave the city, he takes up an offer from eccentric crime boss Berger to protect his house (and young, pretty, free-spirited wife Sybille) in a remote region of the Carpathian Mountains. At Walter's side is Micky, his chatty, thrill-seeking old friend. After a freak accident, what seemed to be a nice, easy holiday job for the hapless pair soon becomes...
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English
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Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of 'old money' privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like Young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.
10) Sandbar
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Language
English
Description
A haunted ex-Marine spends one crazy day with his estranged son.
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Language
English
Description
Lance Clayton once dreamed of a career as a rich and famous writer. He has only managed to be a single dad and high school poetry teacher. His son is a jerk who won't give him the time of day, and his girlfriend won't acknowledge publicly that they are dating. A freak accident provides Lance his worst tragedy, and greatest opportunity at fame, fortune, and popularity. But can he live with the knowledge of how he got there?
12) The professor
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Johnny Depp delivers a wickedly funny performance as Richard, a buttoned-down college lecturer who, after learning he has six months to live, transforms into a rebellious party animal. To the shock of his wife and school chancellor, and the delight of his students, Richard leads a hilarious crusade against authority and hypocrisy in this dark comedy costarring Zoey Deutch.
13) Stepford wives
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Description
When a couple moves into Stepford for a new start, they find that things are not as normal as they seem. All the wives in town are models who cater to their husband's every desire. Can the new neighbors figure out the problem before it's too late?
14) A man called Ove
Language
Swedish
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Description
Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors. Based on the bestselling novel.
15) Amour Fou
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Language
Deutsch
Description
Based on the double suicide of a German romantic poet and his muse, this gorgeous period piece is a darkly humorous postmodern take on love, life, and death.
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English
Description
Suspense-master Willam Golman (Marathon Man) wrote the novel from which this bizarre black comedy was adapted. It's the extraordinary account of a plumber who kills a dowdy matron, a priest who kills a dowdy matron, and a policeman who kills a dowdy matron. Actually they're all the same man, a psychotic master of disguise brilliantly played by versatile Rod Steiger. The killer also gets his kicks phoning in clues to detective George Segal. All of...
17) Between Us
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Language
English
Description
Two couples reunite over two incendiary evenings where anything can happen in this darkly comedic drama of best friends, marriage, love, disappointment and dreams.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
With his beloved Mr. Pickles' Puppet Time off the air for the first time in 30 years, Jeff Pickles must find a way to communicate with his many fans who still need him. Jeff creates a new and controversial method to talk directly to children across the world only to become the target of animosity for the first time in his career. As Jeff navigates the most complicated moral gray areas of his life, he discovers a new side of himself.
19) Cake
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A look into the darkly funny world of Claire Bennett who initiates a dubious relationship with a widower while confronting fantastical hallucinations of his dead wife. With her feisty housekeeper-cum-caretaker ever at her side, Claire searches for human connection and self-forgiveness in this tale of personal redemption.
20) El club
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Four priests exiled to a small Chilean seaside town to atone for the sins of their pasts find their fragile stability disrupted by the arrival of a newly-disgraced companion in this taut blackly comic drama.
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