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Brooklyn

emigration 10:41:00
How many of us thought about emigration? How many left their families for months and years just to improve the finances in what then seemed to be a hopeless situation? How many felt unbearable homesickness and longing for friends and family? How many saw their parents grow old and how many missed every single national reminder, not suspecting themselves of any traces of...
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My Summer of Love

Emily Blunt 09:23:00
Occasionally you find yourself in circumstances which are different from your usual daily routine. At times you meet people who enter your world with a completely new perspective and allow you to explore their world. You might be worlds apart. You might end up friends, lovers or enemies. You can have a bad influence on each other. You can make each other mad....
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Ja, ik wil!

comedy 04:31:00
Breaking up is hard. We devote so much energy to build and maintain a relationship that when it's finally over, we feel that we lost time, money and self-esteem. The problem is that when we like someone we try to pretend that we are better, wiser or more attractive. Pretending all the time is impossible and all of a sudden we might not...
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The Survivalist

crime 12:44:00
Europe's population growth has been falling for some time now. The mass migration has boosted the numbers of inhabitants to some extent. But if the numbers don't stop dropping? What if next decades bring us less and less newborns? Will the generation age? Will people have problems with feeding those who remain? Will they be humane to others and which instincts are they...
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The House of Spirits

family 00:02:00
Fate. You may be a little bit skeptical about its devious ways. You might not believe in horoscopes, fortune tellers, and stars. You can be above it. But what about intuition? Feeling? Hunch? Premonition? Why always in your life you choose the second option? Why all your firsts were unsuccessful and why all your thirds proved to be your life's fulfillment? Maybe you...
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Labyrinth

adventure 04:21:00
If you had a bad day at work, if your boss criticized you, if your clients complained, if you tried so hard but there were no results and you might have as well stayed in bed for the whole day, it's good to escape to the world of fantasy. Maybe dealing with problems is better than running away from them but occasionally we...
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Grazing the Sky

dancing 22:41:00
What if you're a medical student who suddenly felt a vocation to be someone else? What if you resigned from years of secure corporation career and decided to live in another country, working in a completely different job? What if your dream is to open a flower shop, a lavender plant, a chocolate factory? What if you come from a family of lawyers...
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Mortys

daughters 08:19:00
If God can have a son, Death can just as well have a daughter. A short animation film with a brilliant concept sheds a different light on the old-school way of dying. The technology significantly influenced our lives and also our deaths. And when your job is difficult to imitate when you perform something so unique, there are no courses and no training...
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Prescription Thugs

business 23:20:00
How many drugs do you take? I mean, really. How many different pills a week do you consume to keep yourself alive? Add vitamins, minerals, herbal pills. Add to this the time when you're really sick - be it the flu, cold, pneumonia, TB. Be it cancer. Are you depressed? Paranoid? Neurotic? Moody? Is your private life torn and you have to treat...
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Steve Jobs

internet 08:05:00
It's easier to talk about one's own perspective. When I was a teen I had a paper notebook in which I scribbled stories with my not so perfect handwriting. Then I got a vintage but hideous typewriter from the sixties and I enjoyed every sound that it made and the lengthy process of scrolling down the page. In junior high, I got my...
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Beasts of The Southern Wild

adventure 11:00:00
When incredible creatures start to be your companions in the life adventure. When the most genuine and honest human values you can learn not from humans but from monsters and when you take a journey in search of home, love, and security. A simple story so original in its plot, it's difficult to pass it unnoticed. What makes us human? Is it the...
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Kołysanka/Lullaby

black comedy 03:52:00
It's difficult nowadays to live a completely secluded life, hiding from people, civilization and the achievements of the modern world. Even if you're a vampire, you need constant nourishment, security, and a house to shelter your children, parents, and grandparents. With the touches of the beloved Adam's family, the ridiculousness of What We Do in The Shadows and unique Polish humor hiding in...
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The Never Ending Story

adventure 04:21:00
I used to love watching the magical fables of brave young people, fantastic creatures, bad princes and evil rulers in their gigantic castles. I adored stories about friendship and comradeship which are difficult to find in real life. I dreamed about distant lands following a completely different set of rules. Don't you miss the times when filmmakers treated us seriously, and even as...
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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.