Movies
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Dryland
Movie
Reeling in the aftermath of her mother’s suicide attempt, a young swimmer works through her trauma in the water while desperately trying to break the wall of silence at home.
AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE presents DRYLAND
starring CHARLIE KANTER and JACQUELINE WRIGHT
directed by LIV COLLIANDER
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D.O.A.
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Small-town accountant Frank Bigelow goes to San Francisco for a week's fun prior to settling down with fiancée Paula. After a night on the town, he wakes up with more than just a hangover; doctors tell him he's been given a "luminous toxin" with no antidote and has, at most, a week to live! Not k...
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D-Day: The Normandy Invasion
Movie
Documentary detailing that fateful day on the beach.
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Cyverius
Movie
In 2120, two young scientists travel to a foreign planet to acquire a rare plant that can save Earth from a pandemic. The 12 to 17-year-old youth from Hillsides Group Home wanted to create a science fiction film that used global warming and a pandemic as a backdrop to promote unity, tolerance and...
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Curse of the Faceless Man
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In the excavation of Pompeii, a stone-encrusted body is found with a bronze medallion bearing a strange Etruscan inscription. Carlo Fiorillo, Italian archaeologist, speculates the robust body may hold some life; medical researcher Paul Mallon scoffs at the idea. But people left alone with the see...
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Cul-de-sac
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A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle. The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful French wife, are initially the unwilling hosts to the criminals. Quickly, however, the relationships between the criminal, the wife, and the Englishman begin to...
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Cuba-Libre
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When a family of anarchist squatters is violently evicted from their "cultural centre" thanks to an overzealous reporter, a reckless car chase leads them to the doors of the Cuban Embassy in Madrid where a media frenzy has begun following Fidel Castro's announcement of Cuba's first democratic ele...
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Crude
Movie
An oil magnate is kidnapped in London. A female journalist interviews eco-outlaw "Gabriel" in a treehouse. Turns out the magnate's lead kidnapper lost her baby to oil pollution in the Niger Delta, and they want the oil boss to feel what it's like to lose a daughter: the journalist held by Gabriel...
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Crippled Avengers
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A wealthy kung fu expert, who is turned bitter and evil by the slaying of his wife and the loss of his son's hands, bullies a town through terror and force. They find pleasure and satisfaction by crippling those who stumble in their way. Four of those who are crippled, a hawker who is blinded, a ...
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Crimes Without Honour
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People have been committing so-called honour crimes since time immemorial. While many of us believed these acts were a thing of the past, reality has bluntly taught us otherwise. Around the world, people are dying by the thousands in the name of honour. The Shafi a murders were Canada’s wake-up c...
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Crazywater
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After years of struggle and shame, five Indigenous Canadians are bravely telling their stories. Crazywater is an emotional and revealing exploration of substance abuse among Indigenous people in Canada, directed by Inuvialuit filmmaker Dennis Allen. Rarely have their own perspectives on the sensi...
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Crazy Kim-chi
Movie
There is a girl who had no choice but to go somewhere with someone to whom she feels hatred all day long. With him she had to see what she does not want to see as well as she had to hear what she does not want to hear. At the end of the day she became a grown-up who is immature.
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Crack Shadow Boxers (Mang Quan Quai Zhao)
Movie
The Tiger gang is no match for these two.
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Corridors of Blood
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In an effort to relieve the suffering of surgery patients, Dr. Thomas Bolton painstakingly develops an opium-based anesthetic, to which he gradually becomes addicted. In order to provide a continual supply of chemicals to continue his experiments and support his addiction, he falls in with a den ...
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Corner Store
Movie
Ten years ago during the second Intifada, Yousef Elhaj left his wife and three small children in Bethlehem to start a new life for them in San Francisco. For a decade he has worked day and night to build his business, save for their future, and remain connected from afar, while waiting to become ...
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Cootie Contagion
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Warning: Code Red! It’s a Cootie Outbreak! The disease is spreading and Matt’s at risk. Matt likes Becca, his infected science partner. Cootieologist Connor has warned Matt about the dangers of girls and will quarantine Matt if necessary. Matt has to stay away from Becca’s birthday party, or it c...
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Consumerism: The Musical!
Movie
Consumerism: The Musical is a satire and celebration of the culture we live in.
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Movie
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity
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Confessions of an Innocent Man
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Confessions of an Innocent Man, directed by Academy Award®-nominated David Paperny, is a raw exposé that examines William Sampson's harrowing experience while imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for a crime he did not commit.
Sampson, who was working as a business consultant in Saudi Arabia at the time o...
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Concealed Time (Verborgen Tijd)
Movie
By getting to know her past, a woman is trying to figure out her future.
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Complications of a Walking Baby
Movie
When a walking baby suddenly stops walking.
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Come on Down and Pick Me Up
Movie
A short documentary about the eternal questions of life, mortality and the true purpose of art.
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Come Worry With Us
Movie
Violinist Jessica Moss and singer/guitarist Efrim Menuck are struggling to balance parenthood with making music in their internationally acclaimed Montreal-based band Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra. They are one of a growing number of bands to have accepted an infant (Efrim and Jessica’s...
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Colonel Effingham's Raid
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The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.