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K-PAX

alternative worlds 02:15:00
Remember that Jesus Christ had difficulty with persuading people that he is the son of God? He had to die and return from the dead to open the eyes of non-believers. There are still millions of those who aren't entirely sure. Nowadays, another Jesus Christ would have a tough task to convince us that there's something extraterrestrial and divine in his being.  He...
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American Beauty

family 03:31:00
Behind every family, there is a facade of the censored version presented to family and coworkers, and there's the real life of grudges, hatred, and humiliation. Picture perfect usually works only in pictures. Why is it so difficult to deal with the frustration of a failed career, a failed marriage, and a failed life when you are getting older? Why the middle-age crisis...
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Zgoda/The Reconciliation

disease 03:14:00
War isn't the best time for love. Instead of cheerful days by the river, bouquets of flowers, hearts cut from red pieces of paper and exchanges of goodnight kisses by the moonlight, you have pain, dirt, hatred, sickness, and death. But can you really stop loving under hostile and life-threatening circumstances, can you wait for better days if you have no certainty that...
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Iris

art 09:38:00
It's extraordinary to be loved by one person for an entire life. Among the skyrocketing rates of divorces, it's increasingly rare. People love you for certain things in life. At some point, they love you for your beauty and youth: you are physically attractive and you have potential. At some point, they love you for your experience, money, help that you can offer:...
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Safari

Africa 03:15:00
There is a strange belief among human beings that we, as species, are better than animals. We think that our inferiors have no feelings, attachment, and emotions whatsoever. They can be used for milk, meat, skin, fur, and jewelry, bred in disastrous conditions to multiply the profit. Some people like killing on their own terms, be the trigger to the bullet. They want...
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Frida

art 02:31:00
Some women are extraordinary. They are born just like that, once in a million, among the crowds of obedient housewives, hardworking mothers, polite secretaries, and devoted teachers. Some women are not afraid of breaking rules established by men and years of patriarchal traditions. Some women leave a heritage of points of view, ideas and experiments able to fill the lifetime of numerous women...
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A Dangerous Method

Keira Knightley 09:30:00
Your mind is full of layers. Some layers are those of the obvious, socially accepted and loud; others are hidden under your memories, traumas and nightmares, either suppressed or exploding in the most unexpected moments, shattering your life into pieces. There are reasons why your mind is what it is, why you are attracted to particular individuals, why your taste in sexual pleasure...
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Back to Burgundy/Ce qui nous lie

business 02:53:00
Running a family business is hard work. It requires patience, self-respect, stamina, persistence and a pinch of luck. Having your family members as coworkers doesn't come easy either. But being the master of your success is a feeling very few can be proud of and fully appreciate its outcomes. Three siblings faced with a difficult task of running a vineyard, coming to terms...
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Franz

death 02:59:00
Imagine that there is a stranger, walking unexpectedly into your life, opening old wounds but also helping them to heal. Imagine that your heart can once again find a purpose after a tragic loss and there is a feeling budding like a flower, growing on the water of your blood, willing to stay afloat. Imagine times in silence after a huge storm of...
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The Double Lover/L'amant double

brothers 03:15:00
Who would you choose? A gentle boyfriend who will make you feel safe and loved but add no spice to the relationship? Or a walking villain who will make you walk on your tiptoes but satisfy you in bed? Good girls and bad girls equally have their share of experiences which either ended in boring marriages or excruciating heart-aches. But occasionally, you don't...
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Maudie

art 01:52:00
In the bubble of excess, consumption, fast food and fast life we lose the sense and purpose. In the chaos of greed, we lose what is the most important. Sometimes it's enough to be loved and love in return, devote your life to art and passion and reach the state of happiness despite physical deformity and hostile relatives who would sell everything just...
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Desperately Seeking Susan

comedy 09:20:00
Women tend to obsess about clothes, hairstyles, boyfriends, and gossip. They don't like the boring routine of uneventful lives, relationships which lead to nothing and being closed in a cage of same old romance, money-talk, and circle of friends. They also seem to obsess about other women, comparing themselves endlessly to the image which they would like to follow. The problem is when...
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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.