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Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
2009 · Drama
Treeless Mountain
2009
Grey Gardens
2009 · Drama
Piano Girl
2009 · Drama
Lemon Tree
2009 · Drama
Ananda Thandavam
2009 · Drama
Lymelife
2009 · Drama
Sugar
2009 · Drama
Songs from the Southern Seas
2009 · Drama
Ashes of Time : Redux
2009 · Action
Of Love and Other Demons
2009 · Drama
The Edge of Love
2009 · Biography
Tokyo Sonata
2009 · Drama
More Than Blue
2009 · Drama
Everlasting Moments
2009 · Drama
Linear
2009 · Music
Taking Chance
2009 · War
Two Lovers
2009 · Drama
Eden Is West
2009 · Drama
The Naked Kitchen
2009 · Drama
Prayers for Bobby
2009 · Drama
Kaalbela
2009 · Drama
Cherry Blossoms
2009 · Drama
The Consul of Sodom
2009 · Drama
Silent Light
2009 · Drama
The Tree
2009
Waltz with Bashir
2008 · Biography
Buddenbrooks
2008 · Drama
Seven Pounds
2008 · Drama
The Wrestler
2008 · Drama
The Reader
2008 · Drama
True Women for Sale
2008 · Drama
The Dust of Time
2008 · Drama
A Christmas Tale
2008 · Drama
Otto; or, Up with Dead People
2008 · Drama
Synecdoche, New York
2008 · Drama
I've Loved You So Long
2008 · Drama
Heartbreak Library
2008 · Romance
The Paranoids
2008 · Drama
Mary
2008 · Drama
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