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A film based on Louisa May Alcott’s classic work about four sisters, Amy, Jo, Beth and Meg, and their lives in America during the Civil War.
The director is Gerta Gerwig and the actors are e.g. Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Timothée Chalamet and Meryl Streep. Movie won an Oscar from Best Costume Design.
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An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.
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The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
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When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.
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Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
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Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
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inter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in Swinging London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown. As she prepares for the show, battles with management, charms musicians and reminisces with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine through. Even her dreams of love seem undimmed as she embarks on a whirlwind romance with Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband.
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In the hilarious drama-comedy, Christine, who calls herself “Lady Bird”, struggles with the cross-pressure of her school’s rigid traditions, caring parents, first heartaches, and big dreams for the future. Lady Bird is on a collision course with her strong-willed nurse mother. This works tirelessly to keep the family afloat after the father becomes unemployed. Both are carved from the same wood and have the same bull’s head.
The story, which takes place at the beginning of the 21st century, tells a touching story about human relationships that shape us, beliefs that define us, and a place called home, the meaning of which is irreplaceable.
Directed by Greta Gerwig. As actors, e.g. Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, and Tracy Letts.
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Teenager Yi finds a young jet on the roof of his home in Shanghai. He and his friends Jin and Peng name the creature Everest. Together, they set out to take the magical creature back to its family in the highest corner of the earth. To help Everest get home, the friends must stay one step ahead of the wealthy Burnish, who plans to capture the creature for himself, and Dr. Zara, who studies animals.
Directed by Jill Culton and Todd Wilderman. As original voice actors, e.g. Chloe Bennet, Albert Tsai, and Tenzing Norgay Trainor.
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A touching love story based on the lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. 1926 Copenhagen-based artist Einar Wegener, who is married to Gerda Wegener, is known for his landscape paintings. Gerda is also an artist, less well known, but employed as a portrait painter of celebrities. Their marriage is strong and full of love.
Everything changes when Gerda asks her husband to pose as a model and wear a woman’s outfit to complete her painting. The experience changes the couple’s entire life. Einar notices that when he is Lili, he is able to realize himself at his truest and begins to live as a woman. Gerda, on the other hand, finds a new muse in Lili and matures into a new blossoming as an artist. The couple also has to face the prejudices of the surrounding society. They leave their home country for a more open-minded Paris. Again and again, Gerda shows her support for Lili.
Directed by Tom Hooper. As actors, e.g. Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander and Amber Heard. Movie won an Oscar from Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role.
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