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An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.
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122 min
2005-04-13
Released
English
39
6.2
Jamie Dodd
Elena Van Den Ende
Alexander Auchinleck
Fraser McBride
Toko
Likola
Abigail McBride
Beckinsale
Comte de Verchemont
Angus
Zachary
Hector Duncan
Sir Walter Stephenson
Gyllenhaal
Rajiv
Bakaro
Roi Mateke Seko
Purvis
Milos
Douglas
Mortuary Official
7.2
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8.0
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6.4
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7.9
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
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5.8
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7.7
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0.0
Jay Parini finds himself stuck in a Morris Minor, chauffeuring the brilliant, blind Jorge Luis Borges through Scotland. Quiet and conservative, 23-year-old student Parini dreams of becoming a writer but is at a loss to make sense of the wild, irrepressible 70-year-old Borges. As the journey takes a surreal turn, their differences magnify until, in the tradition of a classic road trip, the two ultimately find common ground.
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7.5
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7.0
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2002-09-07 | en
7.1
Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.
2000-12-21 | en
0.0
Lesego's Story is a short film about the struggles of a young girl in Gaborone, Botswana.
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7.5
In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
1996-07-05 | da
7.4
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
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6.1
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
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7.1
Comedy drama about a vain barrister who undergoes a personality change after having a heart transplant. Believing that this could be linked to the character of the donor, he travels to a village in Scotland to find out more about him, and there falls for the man's widow.
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7.4
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
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6.9
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
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10.0
A historian named Patrick discovered an old untold love letter. Tracking down the grave. Patrick reads out the letter to whom it letter was for setting the spirit free and liberating their love.
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5.9
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6.0
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