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RHINO MAN 0

RHINO MAN

2024 96 min Movie
RHINO MAN
0202496 minHD
RHINO MAN follows the courageous field rangers who risk their lives every day to protect South Africa's rhinos from being poached to extinction.
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The Boy and the Heron 8.3

The Boy and the Heron

2023 0 min Movie
The Boy and the Heron
8.320230 minHD
A boy discovers an abandoned tower in his new town and enters a fantastical world with a talking grey heron.
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The Braid 7.7

The Braid

2023 121 min Movie
The Braid
7.72023121 minHD
India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident, ...
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Genre:Comedy, Drama
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Combat Shock 6.3

Combat Shock

1986 97 min Movie
Combat Shock
6.3198697 minHD
A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle.
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Genre:Drama, Horror
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Lute: Forge On or Die 5.9

Lute: Forge On or Die

1987 123 min Movie
Lute: Forge On or Die
5.91987123 minHD
In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic ...
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Genre:Drama
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Pelle the Conqueror 7.2

Pelle the Conqueror

1987 157 min Movie
Pelle the Conqueror
7.21987157 minHD
In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to travel ...
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Genre:Drama
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El Lute II: Tomorrow I’ll Be Free 5.8

El Lute II: Tomorrow I’ll Be Free

1988 120 min Movie
El Lute II: Tomorrow I’ll Be Free
5.81988120 minHD
This is the story of a man fighting with all his might for his life and his freedom. Eleuterio (”El Lute”) embarks upon an action-packed future, fuelled by the notions of freedom and ...
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Genre:Crime, Drama
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The Dull-Ice Flower 8.2

The Dull-Ice Flower

1989 99 min Movie
The Dull-Ice Flower
8.2198999 minHD
Ku Ah-ming is a 4th grader at Chungshan Elementary School in Shuiyu Township, Taiwan. Despite being not very good in most subjects at school, he is very talented in art and has a great ...
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Genre:Drama, Family
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Crack House 4.3

Crack House

1989 90 min Movie
Crack House
4.3198990 minHD
Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes ...
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Genre:Action, Drama
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Isle of Flowers 8.0

Isle of Flowers

1989 13 min Movie
Isle of Flowers
8.0198913 minHD
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among ...
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The Fifteen Streets 7

The Fifteen Streets

1989 104 min Movie
The Fifteen Streets
71989104 minHD
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent ...
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Genre:Drama, History
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Freeze, Die, Come to Life 6.7

Freeze, Die, Come to Life

1990 105 min Movie
Freeze, Die, Come to Life
6.71990105 minHD
Stuck in a mining town near Vladivostok in 1947 amongst Soviet exiles and Japanese POWs (Japanese prisoners remained in Siberia for years after the war had ended), the kids have to come ...
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Genre:Drama
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Riff-Raff 6.7

Riff-Raff

1991 95 min Movie
Riff-Raff
6.7199195 minHD
Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration ...
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Genre:Comedy, Drama
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Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks 7.6

Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

2002 551 min Movie
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
7.62002551 minHD
A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the ...
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Mi Vida Loca 7.1

Mi Vida Loca

1994 92 min Movie
Mi Vida Loca
7.1199492 minHD
Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named ...
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Genre:Crime, Drama
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Bandit Queen 6.8

Bandit Queen

1995 119 min Movie
Bandit Queen
6.81995119 minHD
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as an avenging warrior, the eponymous ...
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Genre:Action, Crime
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Cyclo 7.1

Cyclo

1996 123 min Movie
Cyclo
7.11996123 minHD
Follows a young cyclo (bicycle cab) driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters ...
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Genre:Crime, Drama
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying 6

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

1997 101 min Movie
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
61997101 minHD
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on ...
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Genre:Comedy, Drama
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Lawn Dogs 7.2

Lawn Dogs

1997 101 min Movie
Lawn Dogs
7.21997101 minHD
In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around while their unwitting husbands try desperately to climb the social ladder. Trent, a ...
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Genre:Drama
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The Rose Seller 7.7

The Rose Seller

1998 115 min Movie
The Rose Seller
7.71998115 minHD
Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her friends, her boyfriend, who sells drugs, ...
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Genre:Crime, Drama
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Poetical Refugee 6.6

Poetical Refugee

2001 130 min Movie
Poetical Refugee
6.62001130 minHD
Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a ...
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Genre:Drama
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Blackboards 6.6

Blackboards

2000 85 min Movie
Blackboards
6.6200085 minHD
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with ...
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Genre:Drama, History
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Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets 6.4

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

2000 99 min Movie
Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets
6.4200099 minHD
Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the ...
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Genre:Drama
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The Bench 6.8

The Bench

2000 89 min Movie
The Bench
6.8200089 minHD
Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term ...
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Genre:Drama