Klara Jagovit

21 Grams

accident 01:54:00

You would never expect to end up as a drug addict, in prison or homeless. You would never expect that you will contribute to someone's death, whether by accident or not. This is not you, it doesn't concern you, it will not be your future. As a child, you were always for the pretty princesses and happy endings. You would never picture yourself bed-ridden, won by some terminal disease. You would never be the bad guy as you always admired the good ones. Can you really be sure? One terrible accident turns the life of three people upside down. Can sorrow, grief, and pain force you to stand on the other side? How easily can you be pushed from the life of justice? And what these 21 grams really stand for?

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Bridesmaids

comedy 02:22:00

There are periods in your life when everything seems to go downhill. You are in a bad relationship, your career seems to have seen better days, you screw up everything you touch and you disappoint everybody: friends, family and yourself. Especially, if you are a woman. To contrast, your best friend is having the best time of her life and the whole world opens before her like golden gates to heaven and happiness. If you crave some consoling entertainment and a few good laughs, you won't waste time with life at the crossroads classic and hilarious feel good romantic comedy, Bridesmaids.

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Okja

animals 01:14:00

It's best to disassociate yourself from the truth. It's nice to avoid the images of pain, cruelty, and suffering. It's easier to opt for the pretty package: nice shoes, restaurant meals, crispy salad and a barbecue. Fun fact: the ones who are connected with the business, rarely eat meat. Were they traumatized by the images of slaughter, blood, and bones? Couldn't they differentiate between two pictures: a free animal with emotions and a chop on a plate? There were times when people made divisions among themselves, decided who was better and who had the right to live. They built slaughterhouses for people called concentration camps. Now they just build slaughter houses for animals. It's easy to disassociate yourself from the truth if this truth doesn't concern your best friend. An eye-opener and a story of friendship, a battle for animal rights and cruelty of the business world which values profit over mercy. Eye-watering and unbelievably awesome. Maybe we should be better as people to deserve the love and gratitude of our pets. Okja.

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In Secret

crime 09:55:00

Is it easy to be married off to someone who doesn't make us happy? Is it bearable to be always under control, to have no say in life decisions, to be a prisoner of fate? Is it understandable to follow the voice of your heart to fulfill your deepest desires? Can you win happiness against all odds? Can you resort to every crime? Can you live with the guilt or will you be eaten by conscience? What a woman married without passion and right to decisions will do to regain her freedom? And what scruples can you feel once you commit the unforgivable sin? Based on Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola, In Secret.

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Bright Star

Ben Whishaw 07:32:00

In times when man's income was man's value, the priority of a woman wasn't really to fall in love. She was supposed to be well taken care of, as in the case of her parents' death she had to be supported. But you couldn't help to fall for someone despite financial deficiencies, you couldn't help to develop feelings for the ones who you truly respected and admired. Greatest love stories happened despite reason and sense. When life was so short and so fragile, when you couldn't get used to your own children as their growth to adulthood was so uncertain, could you truly fall for a man? Could love for ribbons and poetry find some mutual ground for the firsts buds of fondness to spring, could they bring together two equally passionate people? Last days of John Keats in Bright Star.

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Welcome to Me

Kristen Wiig 07:14:00

Wouldn't you like to have a little bit of fame? Wouldn't you like to share your traumas, everyday observations fears and emotions with millions of people by the means of television? Some turn this nagging need into YouTube vlogs, the Instagram abundance of pictures or Facebook and Twitter posts. We all have a need to communicate. The majority, due to the lack of means, decide to stay quiet or limit their audience to only a couple of hundred of acquaintances. Money opens many doors. What if a huge lottery win could fulfill one woman's wish to become another Oprah? Are fame, money, and power really worth the deal, or is that true that the best things in life you really cannot buy? Welcome to Me.

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Coneheads

aliens 01:26:00

Adapting to American lifestyle is not that easy. You have to work hard, enter the race for the American Dream of a beautiful house, car and respectable family. Your diet will change into fast food restaurant treats such as pizza, pancakes and fried chicken. Your lifestyle will undergo significant alternations from sports and hobbies, enjoyable time spent with your neighbors to the way you do your shopping. You can really blend in if you try. Just get the grasp of the language and try your best. But what if you were an illegal immigrant? What if your stay in the USA was curtailed by mean officials who don't want you to be there? Trump's policy rings a bell? Apparently, not everybody can feel welcome. But what if you came from a different planet and had no other option but to stay among the friendly fellows of the human race? Will you be able to blend in? America at its best and a hilarious family entertainment we all have been brought up watching. Despite the family background. Coneheads. Funny enough, extremely up to date.

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Life of Pi

Ang Lee 03:56:00

We, humans, don't learn by rules. If I tell you not to put your fingers into an electric socket, you'd most likely ask why. They have two holes, if you're bored the best way to spend your time is to stick your fingers there and wait for the result. If you say you're not so stupid as to even try, I'll ask whether you checked or someone told you that you shouldn't do this. How can you be so sure? Maybe the danger is only in theory?

We, humans, learn by stories. Possibly once you heard a story about a boy who was so intrigued by the electric socket that he decided to put there his two fingers and experienced a tragic death. Half of his body was burned from the shock, some pieces of meat from his arms, hands, and calf literally fell apart. He died, of course. But the smell of grilled meat was filling the room for days.

Are you still attracted to the electric socket or will you steer clear of it, always remembering the story about the grilled boy every time you want to play with the tempting device? Would you like to be told a story about a boy who survived on a boat with a tiger? Unbelievable? Possibly, yes. Would you like to learn something about God, religion, friendship, faith, us as humans and discover wisdom which reaches far beyond intellect and reason? Something more than a film, Life of Pi.

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La Reine Margot/Queen Margot

brothers 09:12:00

If you seek another reason for why people are killing themselves mercilessly for centuries, don't look far. Think about your beliefs. Maybe you believe that after death you will be saved for following the rules of your religion, that your soul will be elevated and you will be awarded for all good deeds you committed. Well, that might be true. Eternal bliss seems to be a nice life motivation. The problem is that the same attitude is shared by a follower of a different religion. Different rules, different awards, and in their eyes, you might be a heretic. It's always about the perspective. Things haven't change that much over the years. Do you still think that you are right and they are wrong? Can you love despite religious differences? Can your enemy turn into your friend? What a ruthless massacre can stem from the game of power? And how many deaths can follow one small difference in religious beliefs? In divided France there was a royal family, breaking all social norms, there were marriages for truce, love affairs despite divisions and executions without reason. Based on Alexandre Dumas' novel, bloody and hypnotizing Queen Margot.

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I Love You Phillip Morris

crime 10:24:00

Love. Yep, it helps you move mountains, give up smoking, give up random acquaintances and nasty habits of biting nails and eating past midnight. Yep, it is rare, as nowadays it is easy to mistake it for passion, attraction, and infatuation. Love is a process and sometimes not the easiest one to digest. Love can also make you fall into the trap of the same mistakes. If your intellectual abilities allow you, you can really do something amazing just to be with the one you cannot be without. An inseparable couple and a lot of hilarious prison cunning mischievousness. Based on an incredible true story. Yep, I Love You, Phillip Morris.

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Big /Freaky Friday /13 Going on 30 /17Again

career 03:01:00

There are stages in your life when you would like to be bigger, have access to things unavailable: be it different friends, a totally different salary, the benefits of a good job, the house of one's dreams. Crazy thing is that for everything in life you have to wait and it's best to enjoy the journey. The important thing, though, is to understand that every phase of life has its problems, benefits, and frustrations. It doesn't mean that in time it will get better, but in retrospect, you will know whether the choices you made were the good ones and whether you have regrets. A great trip down the memory lane: four films with a slightly similar concept. It's not always that great to be an adult, but would you like to take that route once again? Enjoy.

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Gremlins

animals 01:58:00

Imagine the cutest little pet that you get as a Christmass present. It's sweet, furry, soft and adorable. It will be your best friend if you just allow you two to bond. But every perfection has its dark side. If you break a couple of rules, you can suffer terrible consequences. What is beautiful on the outside can easily morph into the ugliest, the most dangerous and uncontrollable creature that will make your life a living nightmare. With a sequel: Gremlins. A cult gem from some people's childhood. Enjoy.

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Sabrina

brothers 05:14:00

We all love the Cinderella story. We are all for the justice. The poor, innocent and good girl should be the one to marry the prince. She should be rewarded for her hours of daydreaming and wishing for a better future. Forget about your misery of separating seeds and cleaning chimneys! The castle can turn into a mansion, the horse into a limo, the prince into a businessman, the fairy godmother into an industrious father and the ball dress into designer clothes. And you're bound to set off on the journey to happiness. But sometimes it is another type of prince that you should be looking for. A modern fairy tale with a twist and a dream of many to finally find the right guy. Unforgettable classic: Sabrina.

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Their Finest

Bill Nighy 01:07:00

Circumstances force you to perform actions which you would normally never have thought about plunging into. Sometimes, due to financial difficulties or personal situation, you join a venture, which is below your expectations or out of your comfort zone. You can be a woman trying to save a relationship, an actor short of roles, a writer trying to deal with past traumas. For some, it might be a chance, for others a comical flattery of their raw talent. Life is not always about happy endings, happy relationships, sweet kisses under the mistletoe. But it has some sort of plan for you, a perfect plan to squeeze the best out of you, teach you lessons and make you suffer just enough to allow you to survive the greatest pain. War was a great time for a group of talented individuals to console millions that after each conflict, mass executions and destruction there is light at the end of the tunnel and good will always win the battle with evil. Their Finest.

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Lady Macbeth

children 09:04:00

What a tragical thing is to be married without love. Just look at the rates of divorce. A nice house, financial security, the father for your children or the right guy accepted by your family and friends won't guarantee passion, love, and happiness. If you're kept in a cage, you will try to flee at all cost, not paying attention to people's opinion and reputation. Love can turn into hate and even the most polite and well brought up girl can turn into a monster able to do everything for the sake of her happiness. A story about a woman. Lady Macbeth.

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About Time

Bill Nighy 01:44:00

Don't you wish you had a magical ability to turn back in time every time you fuck up? If you look at your life, you can definitely pinpoint moments that forced you to make decisions not particularly profitable to your life. It was that one exam that destroyed your grades, it was that one date that put an end to your relationship, it was this one night stand that you would have never jumped into otherwise. It was this one business that you didn't start, one yes to a bad proposal. Any regrets? Any wishes for a time machine? Or was it all for the better to bring you to a more suitable and happier place? A fun story about life, relationships, parents and letting go. Do you really need a time machine? About Time.

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Marie Curie

chemicals 08:32:00

It's difficult enough to be a scientist. To devote endless hours for research, skip your favorite talk show, chose less profitable future. It's challenging to devote your life to books and experiments, while tangible results are uncertain. It's painful to put in extra hours for studying, while your friends are having fun or developing their love life. It's brave to offer your life for the higher good, while millions are way more into earthly pleasures. But to be a woman scientist is an entirely different matter. Men don't have to choose between family and career, they don't have to be equally good mothers and employees, manage households and convey scientific theories. Men don't have to explain their love affairs, younger lovers, negligence at home. Men are not criticized by the army of other men. They are admired. Women are patronized by men and ostracized by women. As if it wasn't difficult enough to be a scientist. Someone finally has to beat the system. There was one woman who outwitted many men, who was awarded not one but two Nobel Prizes for achievements in science. Marie Curie. An inspiration for many, maybe also for you. Enjoy.

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Super Size Me

diet 02:09:00

What did you have for dinner? Honestly, was it a healthy low-fat home-cooked meal with adequate proportions of vegetables or was it a fast food treat consumed conveniently in the closest fast food restaurant? The latter is so popular and tasty that it's difficult sometimes to make a different choice. But, since you are what you eat, shouldn't you better analyze what will happen to your body if you consume only deep-fried meat, artificial preservatives, and fizzy drinks? How much is enough to make all of us make healthier food choices? Super Size Me. Still adequate and worth reminding. Enjoy.

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Maniac

crime 07:47:00

What happens in the mind of a serial killer? Why people have the urge to deprive others of their precious everything, blaming unhappy childhood and personal problems for their hostile revenge? Why some murder for the sake of pleasure and have no empathy for suffering and pain? Why some forms of mental diseases trigger aggressive behaviors, and why those in the majority who are really sick and innocent suffer from discrimination and fear of humiliation of being labeled and exposed? A story about a serial killer. Maniac. And possibly a few tips how to avoid a genuine one lurking just around the corner.

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Holidays by the Sea/ Ni à vendre, ni à louer

comedy 00:51:00

Don't you wish, after a hard year of work, for some rest and relaxation? Don't you want to forget about exams, stressful days at the mercy of demanding bosses? Don't you crave free time, fun and suntan? Every holiday is different, as every person needs a different type of rest. For some, it's a luxury hotel and crazy sexual adventures, for others it's an opportunity to cheat and start an affair with a complete opposite of the current partner. For some, a backpack and a loving hand are enough. For others budget means budget and every penny is worth saving. What kind of tourist are you? Are you a fan of luxury paradise islands, leisurely all-inclusive treats, independent escapades without any plan and purpose or do you stay at home and watch TV? Catering for all tastes, slapstick in fun and timid in words: Holidays by the Sea.