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  • 2009
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    Thawing Out

    Thawing Out

    5.60 2009 HD

    Léo is dragged to a nudist camping resort by his mother. Like most boys at the age of 12 or 13, being nude in public holds little appeal for...

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  • 2017
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    The Gutenberg Enigma

    The Gutenberg Enigma

    7.50 2017 HD

    A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but also an enthusiastic inventor, a daring...

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  • 2011
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    Gas Monopoly

    Gas Monopoly

    7.50 2011 HD

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  • 1997
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    Die Konkurrentin

    Die Konkurrentin

    2.50 1997 HD

    Katharina, a successful management consultant, has to face Maren as a new assistant. The young woman is very ambitious but has been employed by...

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  • 2009
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    Tulpan

    Tulpan

    6.20 2009 HD

    Asa, a young and cheerful dreamer, returns from his Russian naval service to his sister’s nomadic family on the desolate Hunger Steppe of...

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  • 2008
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    Cloud 9

    Cloud 9

    5.67 2008 HD

    A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.

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  • 2005
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    Manderlay

    Manderlay

    6.89 2005 HD

    In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense...

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  • 2010
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    Riddles of the Sphinx

    Riddles of the Sphinx

    6.00 2010 HD

    For over 4000 years, the Sphinx has puzzled all who have laid eyes on it. What is this crouching lion, human-headed creature? Who built it and why?...

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  • 2019
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    Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

    Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

    7.70 2019 HD

    An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war...

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  • 2024
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    Songs of Slow Burning Earth

    Songs of Slow Burning Earth

    8.00 2024 HD

    Reflective observations of Ukraine in wartime are interwoven with eye-witness accounts to contemplate the ultimate tragedy: the normalization of war.

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  • 2010
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    When We Leave

    When We Leave

    6.89 2010 HD

    Umay is a young woman of Turkish descent, fighting for an independent and self-determined life in Germany against the resistance of her family. Her...

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  • 2015
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    Au cœur des robots

    Au cœur des robots

    8.00 2015 HD

    A captivating and vertiginous documentary on the relations between man and machines, in the heart of the laboratories where the humanoids of tomorrow...

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  • 1992
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    The Michael Nyman Songbook

    The Michael Nyman Songbook

    1 1992 HD

    Ute Lemper sings a collection of art songs by Michael Nyman based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare and Arthur...

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  • 2009
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    Coal Money

    Coal Money

    6.50 2009 HD

    On the coal road linking the Shanxi mines with the large port of Tianjin, in northern China, the drivers of 100-ton trucks shuttle endlessly to and...

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  • 1998
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    Eternity and a Day

    Eternity and a Day

    7.79 1998 HD

    Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside...

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  • 2023
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    Orlando, My Political Biography

    Orlando, My Political Biography

    6.90 2023 HD

    Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel "Orlando: A Biography" follows the centuries-spanning life of a young nobleman who awakens to find that they are a woman....

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  • 2019
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    The Phoney War

    The Phoney War

    8.00 2019 HD

    September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when...

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  • 2021
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    Driven round the bend

    Driven round the bend

    6.10 2021 HD

    Pierre, a serviceman with a strong character, goes back to his childhood housing estate to take over his dying father’s driving school. But...

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  • 2009
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    Elegy of a Voyage

    Elegy of a Voyage

    7.20 2009 HD

    This intimately narrated journey from Russia to Rotterdam, via rail, road and Finnish ferry, is a melancholy meditation on divinity, time and place...

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  • 2009
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    Eyes Wide Open

    Eyes Wide Open

    6.43 2009 HD

    A middle-aged Orthodox Jew, Aaron, living and working in Jerusalem with his wife and children, meets a homeless 19-year-old student. Aaron offers to...

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