Dramedy
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Sidewalk Stories
A young artist living in New York, on the fringes of the financial district and its rushing crowds, tries to make a living sketching passers-by on the street. He survives on his meager means and has found refuge in an abandoned building. One night, on the corner of a back...Watch Movie
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I am Not a Hipster
A young singer/songwriter with a growing local following wanders through his apathetic life. When his dad and three sisters show up to spread his mother's ashes, he is reminded of the part of himself he left back in Ohio and is forced to deal with the person he has become. I...Watch Movie
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The Deflowering of Eva van End
In this perfect blend of satire and sincerity, a dysfunctional family gets turned on its head when the 'perfect' exchange student moves in. Every member of the van End family is preoccupied with his or her own peculiar fixation, be it father Evert's Skype relationship with a...Watch Movie
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Hellaware
HELLAWARE gently satirizes the world of high-brow art through the eyes of a wannabe photographer who becomes consumed by the bright lights of mainstream success. Jaded by the "incestuous, New York, socialite shit" that sells at prominent art galleries, Nate embarks on a quest for a more authentic...Watch Movie
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Natural Selection
Winner of the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at SXSW and nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Actress for Rachael Harris, NATURAL SELECTION is a wonderfully irreverent comedy about a devoted Texas housewife whose carefully ordered world is turned upside...Watch Movie
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Reality
From acclaimed director Matteo Garrone, REALITY is a darkly comic look at Luciano, a charming and affable fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on the reality show "Big Brother" leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia. So overcome by his...Watch Movie
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L'assenza
By chance, a man sees his double in an Italian film of the early 1960s. Fascinated, he returns to see the film again and again, only to find the images changing with every viewing. Becoming addicted to his own image, he travels to Paris for another encounter with his doppelganger. In the...Watch Movie
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A Swedish Midsummer Sex Comedy
A SWEDISH MIDSUMMER SEX COMEDY is a heartfelt, ensemble, romantic comedy set in an idyllic Swedish summer. Sumptuous food, saunas and midnight skinny-dipping are tradition during the Swedish Midsummer, the longest day of the year. This year, friends have gathered to the...Watch Movie
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You, the Living
"A slapstick Ingmar Bergman" is how the Village Voice described the films of Swedish director Roy Andersson, while the Washington Post name-dropped Jacques Tati, Monty Python and even Andrei Tarkovsky to sum up an aesthetic that combines formal rigor with anti-capitalist critiques, bizarre human...Watch Movie
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Even Dwarfs Started Small
One of the most bizarre films ever made (and certainly the most bizarre made by Werner Herzog), EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL is an allegory in which the diminutive cast portrays the residents of an apparent asylum who rebel against authority and stage their own revolution. Full...Watch Movie
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Stroszek
After casting Bruno S., the wide-eyed, child-like steelworker and street musician, in THE ENIGMA OF KASPER HAUSER, Werner Herzog wrote STROSZEK specifically for the odd, idiosyncratic non-actor. The biographical details of his starving street musician and social misfit released from prison into...Watch Movie
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An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
With arresting insight, vulnerability and a delightful sense of humor, AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY utilizes a mix of live action and animation to capture the relationship between Terence (Nance) and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide...Watch Movie
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Stepsister
Anna hates Beth for no other reason than she is marrying her stepbrother Matt. The new couple is on the eve of relocating from San Francisco to New York City, leaving Anna to fend for herself. Despite her escalating protest, Anna is forced to accompany Matt and Beth on a shopping spree to a hip...Watch Movie
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Otra película de amor
Diego and Sebastian are two teens who used to be friends in childhood. They reunite one summer, leading to a strong friendship while they get drunk, smoke marijuana and wander to different places looking for the meaning of life, sex and love. Diego is discovering his...Watch Movie
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Special Treatment
In this darkly erotic drama from cult filmmaker Jeanne Labrune, Isabelle Huppert stars as a high-class prostitute named Alice who serves up sexual fantasies for her clientele, from schoolgirl innocence to S&M. Fed up with the seamy underbelly of French masculinity, Alice...Watch Movie
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What Other Couples Do
This frisky comedy finds several thirties-ish couples on variable rungs of the Los Angeles show-business ladder gathering for a dinner party that is by turns competitive, uncomfortable, fidelity-testing and marriage-repairing. A possibly ill-advised game of “Seven Minutes in...Watch Movie
