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3 Backyards
3 Backyards is a film written and directed by Eric Mendelsohn. It premiered at the 2010 Sundance International Film Festival, where it won the Directing Prize, as did Mendelsohn's first feature, Judy Berlin; Mendelsohn is the only director to have...
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- 2010
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7 Days
"When successful surgeon Bruno Hamel’s otherwise uneventful world is torn apart by the brutal rape and murder of his eight-year-old daughter, Jasmine, he embarks on a quest for revenge against the perpetrator of this heinous crime. In a game of cat...
Initial release date:
- Feb 5, 2010
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8: The Mormon Proposition
8: The Mormon Proposition is an American documentary that examines The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and its support of California Proposition 8, stating that the church has been actively involved in the denial of LGBT...
Initial release date:
- Jan 24, 2010
12th and Delaware
12th & Delaware is a documentary film set in a crisis pregnancy center and the abortion clinic across the street from it in Fort Pierce, Florida. The film was produced and filmed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing and covers the center and its patients...
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- Jan 2010
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A Film Unfinished
A Film Unfinished (Hebrew title: שתיקת הארכיון Shtikat haArkhion, German title: Geheimsache Ghettofilm) is a 2010 documentary film by Yael Hersonski, which re-examines the making of an unfinished 1942 Nazi propaganda film of the Warsaw Ghetto two...
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- Jan 2010
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- 2010 Moscow International Film Festival ,
- 2010 Silverdocs Film Festival ,
- 2010 Sundance Film Festival ,
- 2010 Berlin International Film Festival
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A Prophet
A Prophet (French: Un prophète) is a 2009 French prison film directed by Jacques Audiard. Audiard claims that the film aims at "creating icons, images for people who don't have images in movies, like the Arabs in France," though he also had stated...
Initial release date:
- May 16, 2009
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- 2010 Sundance Film Festival ,
- 2009 Cannes Film Festival ,
- 2009 Toronto International Film Festival ,
- 2009 The Times BFI London Film Festival
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A Small Act
"As an impoverished boy in Kenya, Chris Mburu's life was dramatically changed when an anonymous Swedish woman sponsored his primary and secondary education. Now a Harvard-educated human-rights lawyer, he hopes to replicate the generosity he once...
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- Jan 2010
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Abel
"Abel, a nine-year-old boy, has stopped talking since his father left home. One morning he starts to speak again, pretending to be the head of the family. No one dares to challenge this miracle. One day a man shows at the door : his father."
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- Jan 2010
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All My Friends are Funeral Singers
All My Friends are Funeral Singers is a 2010 drama/experimental film, starring Angela Bettis and directed by Tim Rutili of the band Califone. The film makes extensive use of the music of Califone, and was released as a companion to the band's album...
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- 2010
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All that I Love
"Poland 1981: Behind the iron curtain, Janek, the teenage son of a navy captain, forms ATIL (All That I Love), a punk-rock band whose songs express a frustration with socialism and a desire for freedom, echoing the sentiments of the rising...
Initial release date:
- 2009
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Animal Kingdom
Animal Kingdom is a 2010 Australian crime drama written and directed by David Michôd, and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Sullivan Stapleton, Jacki Weaver and James Frecheville. Michôd's script was inspired by the...
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- Jan 22, 2010
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- 2010 Stockholm International Film Festival ,
- 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival ,
- 2010 Thessaloniki International Film Festival ,
- 2010 Sundance Film Festival
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Armless
Armless is a 2010 comedy film directed by Habib Azar and written by Kyle Jarrow, starring Daniel London, Janel Moloney, Matt Walton, Zoe Lister-Jones and Laurie Kennedy.
It was an official selection of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, as part of the...
Initial release date:
- Jan 22, 2010
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Bass Ackwards
Bass Ackwards is a film written, starring and directed by Linas Phillips and also starring Davie-Blue, Jim Fletcher and Paul Lazar. The film has a running time of 103 minutes.
The film stars Phillips as a man who embarks on a lyrical, strange and...
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- Jan 23, 2010
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Bhutto
"A riveting journey through the life and work of recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto, former Pakistani prime minister and a polarizing figure in the Muslim world."
Quoting the description from the 2009 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2009 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- Jun 11, 2010
Bilal's Stand
"Bilal is an upright black Muslim teen who works at his family’s taxi stand in Detroit. “The Stand,” as they affectionately call it, has been the family’s social and financial hub for the past 60 years, and Bilal is in line to carry the torch. But...
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- Jan 25, 2010
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Birthday
"Sara loves her wife, Katarina. For her fortieth birthday, Sara wants to surprise her wife, unaware that Katarina also has a surprise for this memorable day."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- Jan 22, 2010
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Blue Valentine
Blue Valentine is a 2010 romantic drama film written and directed by Derek Cianfrance. The film premiered in competition at the 26th Sundance Film Festival. Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis wrote the film, and Michelle Williams and...
Initial release date:
- Jan 24, 2010
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Born Sweet
"Arsenic-laced water has poisoned a 15-year-old boy from a small, rural village in Cambodia, who fashions dreams for karaoke stardom in spite of his illness."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- Jan 22, 2010
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Boy
Boy is a 2010 New Zealand coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi and financed by the New Zealand Film Commission. In New Zealand, the film has eclipsed previous records for a first week's box office takings for a local...
Initial release date:
- 2010
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Bran Nue Dae
"One of Australia's most anticipated films of the year, the musical Bran Nue Dae arrives with all the energy, fun and downright sass of the original stage version. Featuring a cast that includes both acclaimed and emerging Australian actors and...
Initial release date:
- Jan 14, 2010
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Buried
"Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) is a U.S. citizen working as a contract driver in Iraq. After a swift and sudden attack on his convoy, he awakens to find himself buried alive inside a coffin with nothing more than a lighter, a cell phone, and little...
Initial release date:
- Jan 23, 2010
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Film festivals:
- 2010 Toronto International Film Festival ,
- 2010 Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival ,
- 2010 Deauville American Film Festival ,
- 2010 Sundance Film Festival
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Bus
"An examination of those who live amidst the complex rules, walls, soldiers, and permits that make up the Israel/Palestine bus system."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
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- Jan 22, 2010
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Can We Talk?
"Vince gets way more than he bargains for when he dumps his girlfriend . . . again."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- Jan 22, 2010
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Cane Toads: The Conquest
"The cane toads are ba-a-a-ck! But this time those pesky varmints are coming at you in glorious 3-D. In 1988, filmmaker Mark Lewis had tongues wagging when he unleashed his celebrated documentary Cane Toads: An Unnatural History, exposing a bizarre...
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- Jan 26, 2010
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Casino Jack: The United States of Money
Casino Jack and the United States of Money is a 2010 documentary film directed by Alex Gibney.
The film focuses on the career of Washington, D.C. lobbyist, businessman, and con man Jack Abramoff, who was involved in a massive corruption scandal that...
Initial release date:
- May 7, 2010
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Catfish
"Nev, a 24-year-old New York–based photographer, has no idea what he’s in for when Abby, an eight-year-old girl from rural Michigan, contacts him on MySpace, seeking permission to paint one of his photographs. When he receives her remarkable...
Initial release date:
- Sep 17, 2010
Charlie and the Rabbit
"Charlie, a four-year-old who loves Bugs Bunny, decides to hunt a rabbit of his own."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- Jan 22, 2010
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Chicken Heads
"After his father's prized sheep goes missing, Yousef devises a strategy to keep the truth buried."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- Dec 14, 2009
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Climate Refugees
"If global warming is our planet’s most pressing issue, large-scale population displacement is the human consequence. Massive continental migration is already under way, and diminished natural resources continue to threaten the lives of millions.
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- Jan 23, 2010
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Countdown to Zero
Countdown to Zero is a documentary film released in 2010 which argues that the likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons has increased since the end of the Cold War due to terrorism, nuclear proliferation, theft of nuclear materials and weapons, and...
Initial release date:
- Jan 25, 2010
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Cyrus
Cyrus is a 2010 comedy-drama film written and directed by brothers Jay and Mark Duplass and starring John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei, and Catherine Keener.
The film opens as Jamie (Catherine Keener) walks in on her ex-husband John (John C....
Initial release date:
- Jan 23, 2010
Daddy Longlegs
Daddy Longlegs is a 2009 American independent film directed by the New York based brothers Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie. It premiered at the 2009 Directors' Fortnight section of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival, under the title Go Get Some...
Initial release date:
- Apr 28, 2010
Film festivals:
- 2010 Sundance Film Festival ,
- 2009 Taipei Film Festival ,
- 2009 Thessaloniki International Film Festival ,
- 2009 Directors' Fortnight
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Dock Ellis & the LSD No-No
"In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, here's the animated tale of Dock Ellis' s legendary LSD no-hitter."
Quoting the description from the 201 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 201 Sundance Film Festival site.
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- 2009
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Double Take
"Hitchcock, doppelgangers, the Cold War and American TV: a complex, conceptual and very enjoyable brew from artist/film-maker Johan Grimonprez.
An ingenious hybrid, Double Take is part mock-documentary, part conceptual provocation, and altogether a...
An ingenious hybrid, Double Take is part mock-documentary, part conceptual provocation, and altogether a...
Initial release date:
- Feb 10, 2009
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Douchebag
Douchebag is a 2010 independent film directed by Drake Doremus. The film is a black comedy set in Los Angeles, focusing on Thomas Nussbaum (Ben York Jones), his older brother Sam Nussbaum (Andrew Dickler) and Sam's fiancée Steph (Marguerite Moreau)....
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- Oct 1, 2010
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Drunk History: Douglass & Lincoln
"On March 22, Jen Kirkman drank two bottles of wine and then discussed a historical event."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
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- Jan 23, 2010
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Drunk History: Tesla & Edison
"On January 7, Duncan Trussell drank a six-pack of beer . . . then a half a bottle of absinthe . . . and then he discussed a historical event."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
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- Jan 22, 2010
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Echo
"After murdering a young girl, two boys have to relive the brutal crime they committed and confront the strange and shocking feelings that linger."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
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- 2009
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Enemies of the People
"Enemies of the People takes a peek at "the project" of Thet Sambath, whose parents were among the approximately two million who perished under the Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970s. In an attempt to win their trust so they will admit to their...
Initial release date:
- 2009
Film festivals:
- 2010 Hong Kong International Film Festival ,
- 2009 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ,
- 2010 Santa Barbara International Film Festival ,
- 2010 Sundance Film Festival
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Enter the Void
Enter the Void is a French film written and directed by Gaspar Noé, starring Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, and Cyril Roy. Set in the neon-lit nightclub environments of Tokyo, the story follows Oscar, a young American drug dealer who gets shot...
Initial release date:
- May 22, 2009
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Exit Through the Gift Shop
Exit Through the Gift Shop: A Banksy Film is a film directed by Banksy, which tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles, and his obsession with street art. The film charts Guetta's constant documenting of his every waking...
Initial release date:
- Mar 5, 2010
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Family Affair
"At 10 years old, Chico Colvard shot his older sister in the leg. This seemingly random act detonated a chain reaction that exposed unspeakable realities and shattered his family. Thirty years later, Colvard ruptures veils of secrecy and silence...
Initial release date:
- Jan 2010
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Family Jewels
"Carol, a mother and a U.S. solider ready for deployment, finds that the most painful part of leaving is spending the last night with her family."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
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- 2009
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Fiddlestixx
"Fiddlestixx is about a monkey . . . a very special monkey."
Quotihng the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quotihng the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- Jan 26, 2010
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Fix ME
"Raed Andoni has a tension headache—one that has lasted generations and isn't going to end soon. That's because Andoni is a Palestinian, living in the Ramallah, where the prospects for a stress-free life are elusive. Fix ME, Andoni's latest...
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- Jan 2010
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Four Lions
Four Lions is a 2010 British satirical comedy film. It is the debut feature from director Chris Morris, written by Morris, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong. The film is a jihad satire following a group of homegrown Islamist terrorist jihadis from...
Initial release date:
- Jan 23, 2010
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Freedom Riders
"In 1961 segregation seemed to have an overwhelming grip on American society. Many states violently enforced the policy, while the federal government, under the Kennedy administration, remained indifferent, preoccupied with matters abroad. That is,...
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- Jan 2010
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Frozen
Frozen is a 2010 American survival thriller film written and directed by Adam Green and starring Kevin Zegers, Shawn Ashmore, and introducing Emma Bell.
Childhood friends Dan Walker (Kevin Zegers) and Joe Lynch (Shawn Ashmore) along with Dan's...
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- Jan 24, 2010
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Gasland
Gasland is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Josh Fox. The film focuses on communities in the United States impacted by natural gas drilling and, specifically, a stimulation method known as hydraulic fracturing.
In May 2008,...
Initial release date:
- 2010
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Get Low
Get Low is a 2009 drama film directed by Aaron Schneider, written by Chris Provenzano and C. Gaby Mitchell, and starring Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, Lucas Black, Gerald McRaney, Bill Cobbs, Lori Beth Edgeman, Andrea Powell, Rebecca...
Initial release date:
- Sep 12, 2009
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Film festivals:
- 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival ,
- 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival ,
- 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival ,
- 2010 Tribeca Film Festival
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Glottal Opera
"Disturbing, confronting, mesmerizing, yet ultimately compelling."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- Jan 22, 2010
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Gone to the Dogs
"A dinner party turns ugly when one of the guests brings her dog along."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- Jan 22, 2010
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Grown Up Movie Star
Grown Up Movie Star is a 2010 Canadian drama film written, directed and co-produced by Adriana Maggs. Shawn Doyle, Jill Knox Gosse and Paul Pope are the other co-producers. The film was produced by Pope Productions and distributed in Canada by...
Initial release date:
- Jan 29, 2010
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Happythankyoumoreplease
happythankyoumoreplease is a 2010 comedy-drama film written and directed by Josh Radnor in his directorial debut. The film stars Radnor, Malin Åkerman, Kate Mara, Zoe Kazan, Michael Algieri, Pablo Schreiber, and Tony Hale, and it tells the story of...
Initial release date:
- Jan 20, 2010
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Harold and Maude
Harold and Maude is a 1971 American dark comedy film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures. It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama, with a plot that revolves around the exploits of a young man intrigued...
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- 1971
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Herbert White
"In this film based on the poem by the same name, a man struggles with his inner demons while trying to live a normal family life."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- Jan 22, 2010
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Hesher
Hesher is a 2011 American dark comedy/drama film written and directed by Spencer Susser and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainn Wilson, and Natalie Portman. First screened at the Sundance Film Festival January 22, 2010, the film was released in the...
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- Jan 22, 2010
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High School
HIGH school is a 2010 comedy film starring Adrien Brody. It is the feature length directorial debut of John Stalberg, Jr. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and will be distributed in theatres by Anchor Bay Entertainment on April 20th,...
Initial release date:
- Jan 24, 2010
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His & Hers
"This distinctive documentary, shot through with charm and humour, has a deceptively simple conceit that manages to deliver an honest and revealing insight into life in Ireland.
The creator of a number of acclaimed documentary shorts, Ken Wardrop...
The creator of a number of acclaimed documentary shorts, Ken Wardrop...
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- Oct 2009
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Holy Rollers
Holy Rollers is a 2010 independent film written by Antonio Macia, directed by Kevin Asch, and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Ari Graynor, Danny Abeckaser, Q-Tip and Jason Fuchs. Holy Rollers is inspired by actual events in the late...
Initial release date:
- Jan 25, 2010
