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  • D.A.R.Y.L.

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    Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning — it’s actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the…

  • Ragtime

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    A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

  • Horowitz in London

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    Vladimir Horowitz’s piano recital in 1982 at Royal Festival Hall in London.

  • Horowitz in Moscow

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    A recording of Horowitz’s historic 1986 recital in Moscow, the program also includes highlights of his return to his native Soviet Union–his first visit in 61 years.

  • Horowitz in Vienna

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    Vladimir Horowitz’s piano recital in 1987 at the Musikvereinssaal in Vienna.

  • The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

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    A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.

  • The Piano

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    When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

  • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

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    A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.

  • The Piano Lesson

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    1930’s Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim “my half of the piano”, a family heirloom; but his sister is not wanting to part with it. This is a glimpse of the conditions for African-Americans as well as some of the attitudes and influences on their lives. But whether he is able to sell the…

  • Shine

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    Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

  • The Piano Teacher

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    Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

  • Sur le bout des doigts

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    A piano prodigy nurtures her gift under the watchful eye of her mom, but soon struggles to cope with pressure and expectations.

  • The Piano Player

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    A tale about the relationship between a businessman who launders money for a Mafia figure and his gangster bodyguard.

  • Blueprint

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    The story of the first cloned human being – told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-famous composer Iris Sellin learns that she has an incurable illness. She – a person who wanted to live for ever – does however not give in. In order to preserve her art and also…

  • The Beat That My Heart Skipped

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    A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.

  • Four Minutes

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    Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once was.

  • For Horowitz

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    31-year-old single woman Kim Ji-su once wanted to become a famous pianist like Horowitz. Her dream was shattered but she went on by teaching children piano. One day, she discovers a young musical genius, and begins giviving intensive lessons to prepare him for competition. However, while it doesn’t turn out, Ji-su is shocked when she…

  • Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium

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    Molly Mahoney is the awkward and insecure manager of Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium—the strangest, most fantastic and most wonderful toy store in the world. After Mr. Magorium bequeaths the store to her, a dark and ominous change begins to take over the once-remarkable Emporium.

  • Music and Lyrics

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    A washed-up ’80s pop star gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write & record a duet with her, but there’s a problem–Alex hasn’t written a song in years; he’s never written lyrics and he has to come up with a hit in a matter of days.

  • The Echo

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    An ex-prisoner moves to an old apartment, where one gets to see in the middle of a domestic problem between a police officer, his wife and his daughter. When he tries to intervene, he will be caught in a mysterious curse.

  • Loving You is in the Bones

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    Two lovers meet in a place between life and death. Experimental student short film based on the poem: “Amar está en los Huesos” (Loving is in the Bones) that recounts the romance and tragedy of two strangers.