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I'm So Excited/ Los Amantes Pasajeros

comedy 07:33:00
A comic play on sexuality up in the air. Whether you are a spiritual virgin, a romancing gay steward, a bisexual pilot, a married couple or you're in search of adventure, you will find something which will make you feel better about yourself. The plane, limited by its space, is a perfect place to fulfill one's sexual fantasies, especially when the threat of...
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Song of the Sea

children 07:30:00
A genuinely beautiful film, taking you to the waters of family tragedy and difficult relations between parents, siblings, and grandparents. Trauma and bad feelings last for many years until we grow up enough to deal with all of it on our own. It seems to be a story for children. Each and every one of us was a child, though. And many were...
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La famille Bélier

disability 04:51:00
A tribute to a family. Family in which words are regarded as unnecessary and singing is considered a thing from a completely different planet. Yet there's a girl who can sing and does it exceptionally well. A simple story of growing up, maturation and letting your children go to live their separate lives. And with loads of humor and French traditional cultural additions,...
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Persepolis

feminism 04:50:00
Wonder how difficult it is (was) for a girl to grow up in a conservative country where every step you take, you have to stand against a wall of tradition. Marriage, children, vocational career. You'd seem we have it easier but since my high school years, I found it difficult to make choices which were right for me, not considered appropriate for my...
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About a Boy

children 04:48:00
There are some cult comedies which are worth being reminded of. Is a man an isolated island in the ocean of hostile individuals? Are we there to be alone and die alone or do we need bonds to keep us together? Does the family still matter or should we build units consisting of only two people? What if your one and only comrade...
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A Film About Coffee

Africa 09:44:00
Have you ever wondered how the drink that you're so fond of drinking is made? Have you ever appreciated the complicated process of its brewing, production, and distribution? When drinking a cup of coffee, does your imagination take you to the mountains of Ethiopia, valleys of Kenya, Rwanda and South America? Do you think about the smells, tastes, and aromas which can be...
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The Absent One/Fasandræberne

crime 09:43:00
There is something about Scandinavian countries that creates a perfect setting for the most gruesome criminal stories. Prosperity and the lack of worry about your everyday life made the Viking progeny susceptible to secrets, cruelty, mystery, and madness. It is one of those stories. A pair of unlikely heroes and an unsolved crime from years before. And what is special about these films,...
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The Riot Club

Cambridge 09:40:00
You'd seem that education is a key that opens every door. You'd think that your efforts at school will guarantee a better future, a bigger income, a greater prestige. Western Europe eagerly educates all sorts of people: from different classes and backgrounds, of various financial status, races and religions. Why is it so that the majority of those whose parents are better off...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel

hotel 05:25:00
Convoluted plot of fairy-tale Hungarian Hotel takes you to a completely different realm of vocational trust, loyalty, and intrigue. Great choice for setting as Europe can provide dozens of spectacular views, historically burdened characters, and antique mansions. Wes Anderson is a great conductor in the play of people's windy life paths which cross and intercross with every blink of your eye. In those...
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A Royal Affair

Alicia Vikander 05:25:00
History provides so many interesting stories, such intense relationships fill the blank pages of our past that the modern seems to be bland in comparison. A story of a woman deprived of love and desire. A film about a ruler who wasn't capable of sense, sensibility, and sensitivity. A man who came at the right moment to save both of them. And as...
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Albatross

dreams 05:24:00
Sometimes you run head against a brick wall. You have a passion you want to pursue and yet you find no support among your parents, friends, relatives. You go uphill all the time, you seek signs which will assure that you are on the right path and your choice of career is the right one. Be it a writer, a singer, a painter,...
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A Song for a Raggy Boy

abuse 05:18:00
I wonder why the level of violence in boarding schools amounts to extreme numbers. Films years ago controversial now seem to reveal the truth that should be addressed thoroughly and dealt with instantly. Not that the numbers of those sexually abused are diminishing but the numbers of those who speak loud and clear about the abuse they had experienced by their family members,...
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The Dutchess

family 05:17:00
The family life of Royals and Celebrities are always interesting as we can compare our family lives to the lives of the bold and beautiful. And as much as our grandmothers like finding comparisons in TV-series to their past romances and current dilemmas we might experience cathartic shower while watching a historical costume drama about the life and love of a real woman...
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Brute

abuse 05:16:00
Poignant music creating the background of a bleak story of lost childhood and won love is what made me fall in love with this film. A broken hero who has to deal with the harsh conditions of an orphanage full of corrupted youngsters. A love story in atypical circumstances of the house of abandoned souls. And the music which will make your heart...
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On the nature of pictures

*Every Google image belongs to someone and this someone should be noted. However, if pictures are scenes from the film they most probably belong to owners of the film/producers. I use saved screens of the Google compilation of pictures, thus the pictures of pictures, which I take, cut and edit myself (as a derivative use). They are used for reviewing purposes (fair use), not for diminishing the films' profits by stealing what rightly belongs to them. Copyright is tricky, let's get used to it.