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You Were Never Really Here

children 00:39:00
Remember the gentleness of Leon the Professional, who could kill in the blink of an eye, but cared so deeply about his plant and his child protegee? Human beings are so complex that they can comprise the most beautiful and caring aspects of life and at the same time within a minute turn most violent and start a massacre. If you wish to...
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Isle of Dogs

animals 01:22:00
If you established a relationship with a pet, you know the feeling. The fondness, loyalty, instinctive protection, friendship and a lot of fun. Once your pet is dead, you might end up sobbing for weeks. Imagine a boy who went on a rescue mission to save his beloved protector, imagine an island occupied by dogs taken away from their owners. Finally, imagine a...
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The Best Offer

acting 10:06:00
Can you distinguish between an original and counterfeit? How can you tell the difference between a genuine work of art and a fake but produced by an equally brilliant artist? It takes knowledge, experience, years of practice. But if you are an unsurpassed professional in one field can it mean that you are naive in other aspects of life? Can you be a...
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Imagine

disability 05:42:00
A couple of hundreds of years ago the only way to learn about the world was to travel with the first explorers or listen to their stories after they managed to come back. Now it's enough to turn on the TV or watch traveling vlogs on YouTube to see the most distant places all over the world. But some circumstances don't allow you...
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Twarz/Mug

accident 02:15:00
Everything is well in the village life of its citizens. They have their masses to attend, family feuds to solve, christenings, communions, and funerals to celebrate, parties to dance for. There's a place for love, romance, and dreams. But what will be the reaction of the local community when you suddenly lose a face and will have the unprecedented face transplantation? Can you...
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Ready Player One

action 07:11:00
Do you remember Second Life where you could completely change your looks, integrate with people all over the world and turn your boring existence into an exciting adventure where there are no limits? Remember the thrill of the Sims, which gave you endless possibilities of social interaction and rise to wealth? Finally, do you still feel the pang of fear mixed with adrenaline...
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(500) Days of Summer

comedy 02:38:00
You can plan more or less everything in life. The place of your habitation, the career path, let's say the number of children (there are still accidents, and these unplanned babies might be a blessing in disguise). Plans have little to do with emotions, and occasionally you will find yourself hit by the bug of love. It starts innocently to spread like a...
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Calendar Girls

cancer 02:38:00
Nudity sells well. You can see it in music videos, flashing limbs, breasts, bottoms, and bellies. You can observe it in the fashion world, allowing nipples to be seen through the most transparent of materials, you can notice it in films, coloring your perception with artistic eroticism. You can also view it in porn and porn attracts millions of unsatisfied viewers. But can...
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Jane

Africa 05:04:00
Sometimes you just know that some lifestyle is for you. Sometimes the place at the far end of the world pulls you with its unexplainable force, letting you know that your fate has been pre-written. You can fight with it, you can delude yourself that it's just a feeling, that's it's not meant to be. But fight with destiny is lost from the...
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The Eighth Day/Le huitième jour

Belgium 06:35:00
Very rarely the cinema has the courage to talk about a topic which is hidden behind the walls of social institutions, which is mentioned only when it comes to rationalizing abortion, which is shared between parents in the lonely lifetime of struggle and family support or total ignorance and fight with the world. Down syndrome. In the highly opinionated world of those who...
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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.