Category 2018

The Best of Enemies

Inspired by true events, the film is centered on an atypical relationship between Ann Atwater, a highly visible and publicly appreciated civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a leader of the dreaded Ku Klux Klan criminal group, which in turn struggles to eliminate segregation from schools, being the village that students of color are forced to learn under totally different conditions than white ones. The period in which these events take place is the summer of 1971, in North Carolina, where racialized animosities reach alarming levels...

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Burning

Jong-su, a half-time worker who hopes to become a great novelist in the future, meets Hae-mi, a woman with whom she spent her childhood, being both neighbors and classmates. Although at first she does not recognize it, she tells him that she has changed so much because she has done her cosmetic surgery and then tells her about a trip to Africa. She begs him to go home and feed the cat while she is away...

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Booksmart

Two girls considered by high school classmates to be stupid nonsense, realize the day before graduation that although their colleagues did not learn as much as they did and enjoyed every opportunity to spend they became accepted to the faculty as good as they are, they decide to recover the lost years in one night. They try to get to a party organized by a high school colleague on the occasion of graduation, but instead of getting there, they go on a tour of several parties without necessarily intending this and their night turns into one they will not forget...

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The Party

To celebrate his recent appointment as Minister of Health of the British Government, Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) organizes a party where several friends meet. His colleagues also have surprising news, although the biggest surprise for all will be that revealed by Janet’s husband, Bill (Timothy Spall)...

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Cold War

Poland, 50s. In a country marked by the wounds suffered in World War II, the new communist authorities will promote the creation of a group of musicians who, through local folklore, will try to bring some joy to the Polish comrades, and incidentally transmit messages of praise about Comrade Stalin. Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) is a pianist who is part of this choral group...

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White Boy Rick

Detroit, 1980s, in full swing of the crack epidemic and the War on Drugs. Richard Wershe Sr. (Matthew McConaughey) is the father of a teenager, Richard Wershe Jr. (Richie Merritt), known as White Boy Rick, who at age 14 became an undercover FBI informant. The life of this lower-middle-class family changes completely when young Rick is forced into the world of drugs to carry out his mission...

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The Sisters Brothers

1850. In full gold fever, Charlie (Joaquin Phoenix) and Eli Sisters (John C. Reilly) live in a wild world. The two brothers are gunmen and both have their hands stained with blood. Although he would give everything for his little brother, Eli (Reilly) dreams of being able to lead a normal life...

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Buffalo Boys

In the 19th century, a brutal massacre and murder of Sultan Hamza by Captain Van Trach and his Dutch soldiers compels Arana, Jamar and Suwo – the sultan’s brother and two boys to flee from the country and get somewhere in the American Wild West. After working on the railways there and learning the life style of the cowboys, Arana tells the boys it’s time to return to their native country and revenge their father’s death. Back to Indonesian land, they begin the hunt for those who killed their father...

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I Feel Pretty

Renee is a young woman who has a low self-esteem and is unstable because of her physical appearance. In a basement in the Chinese Quarter she manages a website for a cosmetics firm and hopes she will be able to get her office on Fifth Avenue. When a place is finally released there, she decides not to apply because the requirements state “a beautiful face”. One day while doing physical exercise, Renee falls off a bicycle and strikes his head, losing consciousness...

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The Happytime Murders

In the sunny Los Angeles where puppets are considered to be lower-class citizens by humans, Phil – the first detective puppet in the Los Angeles Police Department who has been reprofiled in a private detective – finds himself drawn into a mysterious world and murder when an unknown sadistic killer hunts the famous sitcom of the ’80s. To have a chance to solve this disturbing case, Phil must bury the rabbit and reunite with his former human partner, Connie. However, some innocent actors also enter the scene...

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