Thinkfilm (Firm)
21) 10 items or less
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Once the center of Hollywood, an aging actor finds that his fear of failure has made his career dry up, and he is now forced to consider a role in an independent film. While researching the role, he meets Scarlett, a check-out clerk at a Latino community market. The two begin a trek through Los Angeles finding unexpected situations, chance encounters, and personal revelation that neither could ever have anticipated.
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While living in the red light district of Calcutta, documenting life in the brothels, New York-based photographer Zana Briski embarked on a project by which she gave cameras to the children of prostitutes and taught them photography, awakening within them hidden talent and creativity and giving them a means to transform their lives.
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Carl and Jimmy are two penguins on a desperate mission to get themselves some hot booty. After years of empty one-night stands, Carl wants more than a peice of penguin tail. He wants the love of the beautiful Melissa. Now it is up to Jimmy to help his neurotic friend win her heart and find his dream girl. The only problem that stands in their way is a seventy mile trek across Antarctica.
25) Shortbus
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English
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An exploration into the lives of several characters living in New York City as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex. Male and female, straight and gay, they find one another -- and eventually themselves -- when they all converge at a weekly underground salon called "Shortbus," a mad collision of art, music, politics, and carnality.
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A clumsy clerk overhears the conversation of three coworkers who seem to know about a fix in a horse race and decides to bet a large amount of money. He loses the bet and owes the money to the dangerous and powerful mobster, Fingers. One of the men working for Fingers has the ability of foreseeing the future and he is assigned to collect money for the boss. Fingers's troublemaker nephew Tony is beat up by a gang. The manager of pop-star Trista loses...
29) The king
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English
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A young man discharged from the Navy sets out for Corpus Christi, Texas, to find the father he has never met. Now the pastor of a Baptist church, David Sandow wants nothing to do with his son. Rejected, the young man slowly infiltrates the Sandow family by befriending the teenaged daughter, setting the stage for violence and tragedy.
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Babies arrive in this world with amazing brains. Braincandy believes in nourishing children with enriching ideas that helps feed their hunger for learning. Features funny puppets representing the 5 sense parts. Children engage in capitivating, sensory activities and innovative animation of how the senses work.
33) The dog problem
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English
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A writer gets a dog to cheer him up and finds his life getting more and more complicated when others step forward wanting the dog too.
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English
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With more than 900 items on its menu, all made from scratch in a tiny kitchen humming with improvised Rube Goldberg-like contraptions, Shopsin's has long been a quirky gem of New York food culture. Follows Kenny Shopsin, his family and customers as the restaurant looks for a new place to go.
35) Crashing
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It sounds like a budding writer's dream - a best-selling first novel, a luxurious house in Malibu, and a trophy wife. But it all unravels when writer's block and a failed marriage send McMurray out into the streets.
37) 10th & Wolf
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English
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Marine Sgt. Tommy Santoro thought he had left his family's ties to the mafia behind. But a visit from the F.B.I. sends him home to the tightly knit South Philly neighborhood of 10th and Wolf to face the biggest dilemma of his life.
38) Favela rising
Language
Portuguese
Description
Documents how former drug-trafficker, Anderson Sá and the Grupo Cultural AfroReggae are working to unite a Rio slum, or favela, against a violent drug industry and police oppression.
39) Mondovino
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English
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A documentary on the impact of globalization on the world's different wine regions. Filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter travels to France, California, Italy and New York, speaking with winemakers both great and small.