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Aashiqui 2
2013 · Drama
Arthur Newman
2013 · Drama
Paradise: Love
2013 · Drama
The Oxbow Cure
2013 · Drama
To the Wonder
2013 · Drama
A Long and Happy Life
2013 · Drama
Lootera
2013 · Drama
Blancanieves
2013 · Drama
Very Ordinary Couple
2013 · Comedy
Puerta de Hierro, el exilio de Perón
2013
Everyone’s Going to Die
2013 · Drama
Blinder
2013 · Romance
Mary and Martha
2013 · Drama
The Unspeakable Act
2013 · Drama
The Butterfly’s Dream
2013 · History
11 Flowers
2013 · Drama
Bless Me, Ultima
2013 · Drama
Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
2013 · Drama
Like Someone in Love
2013 · Drama
Yesterday Never Ends
2013 · Drama
Jîn
2013 · War
Free Fall
2013 · Drama
David
2013 · Drama
Night Across the Street
2013 · Drama
With You, Without You
2013 · Drama
Yossi
2013 · Drama
Tokyo Family
2013 · Drama
Straight A’s
2013 · Drama
I Am Not a Hipster
2013 · Drama
Annayum Rasoolum
2013 · Drama
Before the Revolution
2013 · History
Balkan Is Not Dead
2013 · History
Tabu
2012 · Drama
Les Miserables
2012 · Drama
Aquí y Allá (Here and There)
2012 · Drama
On the Road
2012 · Adventure
Yelling to the Sky
2012 · Drama
Any Day Now
2012 · Drama
Parked
2012 · Drama
Neerparavai
2012 · Drama
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