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The Unbearable Lightness of the Revolution
2021 · Drama
Man of God
2021 · History
Wet Season
2021 · Drama
Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition
2021 · Adventure
Aarkkariyam
2021 · Drama
The Wife
2021 · Horror
Tracing Her Shadow
2021 · Drama
Still Life in Lodz
2021 · Documentary
The Father
2021 · Drama
Endravathu Oru Naal
2021 · Drama
The World to Come
2021 · Drama
Pebbles
2021 · Drama
Kadaisi Vivasayi
2021 · Drama
Supernova
2021 · Drama
One for the Road
2021 · Drama
Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
2021 · Drama
Our Friend
2021 · Drama
The Dig
2021 · Biography
Acasă, My Home
2021 · Documentary
Pieces of a Woman
2020 · Drama
Louis van Beethoven
2020 · Biography
To the Ends of the Earth
2020 · Drama
Wander Darkly
2020 · Drama
Nomadland
2020 · Drama
Uncle Frank
2020 · Drama
Ainu Mosir
2020 · Drama
Mank
2020 · Biography
Ammonite
2020 · Biography
What We Wanted
2020 · Drama
Swipe
2020 · Drama
Ham on Rye
2020 · Drama
The Kid Detective
2020 · Drama
Varmaa
2020 · Romance
Ka/Pae. Ranasingam
2020 · Drama
Anita
2020
i'm thinking of ending things
2020 · Drama
I Hate New York
2020 · Documentary
Dreamchild
2020 · Romance
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Love Affair(s)
2020 · Romance
Lingua Franca
2020 · Drama
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