Big Mama
Dec 31, 2000 | IMDB 6.5
35 min Watch NowDocumentary
Eighteen months in the life of 89 years old Viola Dees as she tries of persuade Los Angeles authorities that she can care for her grandson, 9-year-old Walter.
Documentary
Eighteen months in the life of 89 years old Viola Dees as she tries of persuade Los Angeles authorities that she can care for her grandson, 9-year-old Walter.
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Quanto Tempo o Tempo Tem
The Inland Sea
The Mask You Live In
Folie à Deux - Madness Made of Two
Bitch Academy
Maestra
Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire Too
Audrie & Daisy
Newtown
Nuts!
Metrobranding
The Woods Dreams Are Made of
Here Come the Videofreex
Oh! Man
DRIVER
Getúlio Vargas
Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House
Corpus: A Home Movie About Selena
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IMDB 8 | Oct , 2005
"Man in the Sand" is a 1999 music documentary that chronicles the collaboration between Billy Bragg and Wilco, which involved the musicians creating new music to accompany lyrics that were written decades earlier by folk singer Woody Guthrie. The project, which was organized by Woody's daughter Nora, spawned two albums: "Mermaid Avenue," released in 1998, and "Mermaid Avenue Vol. II," released in 2000.South
IMDB 6.2 | May , 1999
Chantal Akerman investigates the American Deep South through the story of a lynching and grisly murder of an African-American man that took place in Texas in 1998.Quanto Tempo o Tempo Tem
IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 2015
We live in a new age. We are always rushing, rushing for no reason, rushing for nothing. As though time had sped up. Everything implies speed, urgency. But ultimately, why does time seem so short? This film is about the director’s conflict about time and the lack of it in today’s world; she reflects on civilization and the future of existence.The Inland Sea
IMDB 6.7 | Dec , 1991
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IMDB 7.7 | Jan , 2015
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 2013
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IMDB 5 | Aug , 2007
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IMDB 0 | Mar , 2012
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IMDB 8 | Jan , 1993
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IMDB 7.2 | Sep , 2016
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IMDB 6.7 | Jan , 2016
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IMDB 6.7 | Jan , 2016
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IMDB 4.6 | Feb , 2010
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IMDB 6.1 | Feb , 2016
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IMDB 7 | Jun , 2015
An idealistic collective launches a TV channel in the very early days of portable video cameras. This wonderful lesson in journalism makes it clear just how perilous it is to promote your own view of society via autonomous media. From the tumultuous period of Woodstock, the Black Panthers, women’s lib and anti-Vietnam demonstrations.Oh! Man
IMDB 6.6 | Mar , 2004
After Prisoners of the war and On the Heights all is Peace, this film concludes Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi's trilogy on the first world war. From the emblem of totalitarianism to individual physical suffering, the directors use this representation of man's rampaging violence to draw up an anatomical inventory of the damaged body and examine the consequences of the conflict on children, from 1919 to 1921. From the deconstruction to the artificial reconstruction of the human body, they try to understand how humanity can forget itself and perpetuate these horrors.DRIVER
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2024
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IMDB 4.2 | Sep , 1974
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IMDB 7 | Aug , 2008
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IMDB 0 | Jul , 1999
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