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Blue is the Warmest Colour/ La Vie d'Adele

France 07:32:00
A beautiful love story with the abundance of sex scenes. Sometimes you have to fill your work with eye-catching images which will guarantee that people would watch. But apart from explicit eroticism, it is the story of love and affection. A loving relationship can exceed the limits set by historical norms. And when in more and more countries same-sex marriage is being legalized,...
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Billy Elliot

dancing 07:31:00
Dreams. The elements that make us wake up in the morning and pursue the most extravagant life paths. The windy road to the realization of dreams often requires standing up to your family, friends, and lovers. Sometimes your vocation is stronger than physical love. Sometimes your dream means abandoning the life you're so used to, abandoning the ones who have been with you...
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The Theory of Everything

Eddie Redmayne 23:59:00
Marriage. You'd wish it would be that easy as shown in the fairy tale. After some months of complications, you wear your white wedding dress, put on a wedding ring and hope for the best. Fairy tales rarely happen. There's life. Children. Diseases. Problems. Sometimes your husband leaves you for a younger woman. Sometimes you're being cheated for years, not having the slightest...
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Piano

daughters 23:57:00
There's a bond that connects mothers and daughters. A bond very few understand. Years of conversations, memories shared, experiences bestowed trigger something deeper than comparisons and jealousy that in time might arise. And once isolated at the end of the world they have each other, despite bad relationships, despite traumas and stresses of everyday life. Piano is a film about a mother and...
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Cinema Paradiso

cinema 23:56:00
What I love about films is the fact that they are about people, made by people and serve the people. Films are like bread. Entertaining, without barriers, prejudices, divisions. You don't have to be educated to fall in love with a film. You don't have to be rich to make your dreams come true, to see Paris when you cannot afford the ticket,...
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Fish Tank

children 01:09:00
If you're fond of little princess story of how it is difficult to be a teenager, how tormenting is the life surrounded by mean comments and rude boys, if your life circulates around looks, perfumes, and cosmetics, silly TV shows which are there only for entertainment, this is probably not a film for you. There are, however, girls whose lives are real, whose...
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The Constant Gardener

Africa 01:09:00
Sometimes filmmakers selflessly deal with real problems and real people. They touch upon subjects which might be politically improper, which can meddle with money invested and earned by huge corporations. Africa is an ocean of mistreated tribes, incurable diseases, tragic exploitation of children, injustice, and poverty. And the colonial countries, instead of helping, seem to be worsening the conditions of the poorest. This...
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Tamara Drewe

comedy 01:08:00
Small towns. Your birth places, motherlands, points of departure. You move to a big city, you develop your career, forget about past problems and all the people you knew. And then something happens that you come back home. Small towns. Every scandal leaked and analyzed by all around you. Unhappy marriages. Lives devoted to the cheating husbands. Teenagers driven by imaginary romances. Rural...
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The Last King of Scotland

Africa 01:07:00
When civilization and career-oriented environment starts to be unbearable. When you want to scream from frustration and the fact that your life has no meaning. When living a lie of the western world seems to be futile... There are always countries which can inspire you by their completely different culture of life, work and climate. Sometimes a heavenly landscape can turn into a...
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Doubt

innocence 02:17:00
There's an aura of suspicion hanging over institutions such as government, church, and school. We tend to disbelieve whether priests are the ones with a vocation or is it a safe and secure job that they're choosing (or a shelter where they can fulfill their sexual fantasies). A politician, a priest and a teacher are difficult jobs: demanding, responsible, burdened by hundreds of...
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Hotell

Alicia Vikander 02:14:00
Motherhood is not a fairy tale. Those who fully understand its turmoils seem to be better mothers. A big percentage of mothers-to-be are not best prepared. We all learn from mistakes. Sometimes you're tricked into it by cute images of little kids and you hear all the encouraging voices of aunts, grandmothers, and mothers. Then you realize that pregnancy can be traumatic, the...
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Redirected

action 02:12:00
What if English roughness mixes with Lithuanian Slavic rural simplicity? What if a dangerous situation in your English-speaking environment turns into an even more treacherous one way-way further east? If you think you used up all your laughs, you might be wrong. And me being Polish myself, I do appreciate when a typical Slavic Village is shown in an English-speaking film. It's great...
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Manufactured Landscapes

art 02:12:00
Made in China. This is what I saw when I turned my trainer upside down. The sole had an inscription so vivid that it couldn't be ignored. Have you ever considered the number of items you own which are made at a place so distant from your lifetime accommodation that you don't even think about it minding your own business? Have you counted...
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Vincent Wants to Sea

anorexia 02:10:00
Your family life might be fucked up. We don't choose our families. We cannot be blamed if our parents don't understand us, if they want to disinherit us, if they don't approve our life choices. But what to do when you have real problems with which you cannot deal with on your own? Where to seek help? How to find support? And even...
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Don't Tell Mum the Babysitter is Dead

comedy 02:10:00
What if a parent-devoid family is left to their own devices? How to manage a house and pay the bills? How to reverse the roles from the immature to responsible and trustworthy? It's a classic comedy for those who already have problems with growing up. Sometimes a bunch of kids can create a better family than we could have expected. The inspiration for...
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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.