Movies: Misery

A staged cinematic parable, it presents in symbolic images a painful diagnosis of Poles' sense of identity in the 1970s....

In this documentary Coutinho examines the plight of the people who live off the waste of the Brazilian cities. These people make their living by scavenging the immense urban garbage dumps searching for whatever they can find to sell as well as whatev...

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Flower Buds tells the story of the gradual breakdown of a family living in a small town. Each character lives according to his or her own ideals. Agata wants a happy life far from home, fully aware that her only hope is to escape and therefore betray...

A snapshot of the state of the Danish nation: in one of the stories, a woman enters a pole-sitting contest in a desperate bid to reinvent herself. Another is about Erik, whose wife has been lobbying a Better Homes and Gardens type magazine to do a sp...

Alone on the moon, a dying astronaut faces his past regrets and lost love as the earth sets over the horizon....

An injured Andrew ends up drawn into the complicated world of Rebecca, a solitary writer whose obsession with a divine mythological character has taken over her life....

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Shame condemns a desperate content creator to an egg-splosive collision course with their destiny. INSPIRED BY THE SHORT FILM "Egg Movie"...

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