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  • Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole

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    A satiric comedy which dissects the iconography of the ‘Soviet Hero’. Original footage of a propaganda film from 1941 is the starting point for this parody of the ideological cliches of Soviet cinema. It follows the story of a Russian crew across the North Pole.

  • A Luxury Crime

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    Pontius Branco was a climber of the economy, climbed by money like Mount Everest. aggressive businessman. His wife Bernarda felt betrayed. He replaced her for the orgies between the purchase intervals, sells and deceives. Here comes the train from 15:30 to Lisbon a coming emigrant from France with a five year old daughter in her…

  • Life Stinks

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    A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with a homeless woman.

  • Shadow, or Maybe Everything Will Be Fine

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    The action of the movie takes place in a certain fairy-tale town. The main character – the scientist Christian-Theodore discovers a lot about the inhabitants of the city, about their oddities and peculiarities. The princess of the city has struck the imagination of Christian-Theodore, but he does not notice that he is not indifferent to…

  • The Smoke

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    The film is based on a legendary school film of Tomáš Vorel, called INg (1985). The storyline stays the same – a young engineer finds a new job and wants to work, this proves to be impossible in the last days of the communist era.

  • Defending Your Life

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    Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a…

  • Gayniggers from Outer Space

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    Extraterrestrial beings travel the galaxy to free men “oppressed” by females to make way for an entirely-homosexual society.

  • A Royal Commission Into The Australian Economy

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    Dame Victoria Market, under instructions from the Queen, holds an enquiry into why the Australian ecconomy does not work.

  • Everyone Off to Jail

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    A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended.

  • CB4

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    A “rockumentary”, covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group “CB4”. We soon learn that these three are not what they seem and don’t appear to know as much about rap music as they claim… but a lack of musical ability in an artist…

  • Swimming with Sharks

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    Guy is a young film executive who’s willing to do whatever it takes to make it in Hollywood. He begins working for famed producer Buddy Ackerman, a domineering, manipulative, coldhearted boss. When Guy also finds out that his cynical girlfriend, Dawn, has been using sex as a career move, he reaches his limit. Guy decides…

  • The New Age

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    Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find meaning to their empty lives, they follow various New Age gurus and other such groups.…

  • Serial Mom

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    Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.

  • Natural Born Killers

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    Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

  • Spice World

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    World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans.

  • Pleasantville

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    Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called “Pleasantville,” and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer’s modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville’s peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.

  • BoJack Horseman

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    Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the ’90s , 20 years later. He’s a curmudgeon with a heart of…not quite gold…but something like gold. Copper?

  • Trigger Warning with Killer Mike

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    In this funny and provocative series, rapper and activists Killer Mike puts his revolutionary ideas about achieving social change into action.

  • Salaam Cinema

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    Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.

  • Plan 10 from Outer Space

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    A woman accidentally discovers the Plaque of Kolob which leads her to discover an insidous alien plot for world domination documented by a disreputable early Mormon prophet. ‘Plan 10 from Outer Space’ is an eccentric comedy involving a bizarre relationship between Mormons, bees and extra terrestrials, hot on an obviously miniscule budget with a largely…

  • Dracula: Dead and Loving It

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    When a lawyer shows up at the vampire’s doorstep, he falls prey to his charms and joins him in his search for fresh blood. Enter Professor Van Helsing, who may be the only one able to vanquish the Count.