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Toy Story 2(1999)

G
| 1h 32min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 6,276 votes)

Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps Woody. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz Lightyear meets his match and Woody has to decide where he and his heart truly belong.

Superman III(1983)

2.7/5 (with 779 votes)

Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects in the third installment of the 1980s Superman franchise. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.

Racing Stripes(2005)

PG
| 1h 42min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 261 votes)

Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark stripes mark him as different, he decides he'll race anyway. And with help from the young girl who raised him, he just might end up in the winner's circle.

Primer(2004)

PG-13
| 1h 17min | Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 918 votes)

Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.

The Face of Another(1966)

NR
| 2h 4min | Drama, Science Fiction
3.9/5 (with 100 votes)

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

Persona(1966)

1h 24min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 975 votes)

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. The time they spend together only strengthens the crushing realization that one does not exist.

Sam Was Here(2016)

1h 15min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 71 votes)

California, Mojave Desert, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients.

Directed by Christophe Deroo

Quién te cantará(2018)

2h 5min | Music, Drama, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 60 votes)

Lila, a famous retired singer, loses her memory after suffering an accident, just as she planned her return to the stage.

Palombella Rossa(1989)

1h 29min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 93 votes)

Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election day, he starts to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors the one of Italian communism.

Mug(2018)

1h 31min | Drama, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 31 votes)

After fun-loving metalhead Jacek is disfigured in an accident at work, he becomes the first person in Poland to receive a face transplant. This leads to his status as a media spectacle and martyr, all while battling ensuing identity issues as a consequence.

Directed by Małgorzata Szumowska - With Mateusz Kościukiewicz, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Małgorzata Gorol, Anna Tomaszewska, Dariusz Chojnacki, Robert Talarczyk, ...

Takva: A Man's Fear of God(2006)

1h 36min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 32 votes)

Humble and introvert Muharrem lives in a solitary and meager existence of a prayer and sexual abstinence adhering strictly to the most severe Islamic doctrines.His extraordinary devotion attracts the attention of the leader of a rich and powerful Istanbul religious group and he offers him an administrative post as a rent collector for their numerous properties. Muharrem's new job throws him into the modern outside world he has successfully avoided for so long. He soon witnesses conflict attitude toward alcohol consumption and goodwill.He notices that he himself has become proud, domineering and even dishonest.To make matters worse, Muharrem's inner peace is unnerved by the tormenting image of seductive woman who tempts him in his dreams,both night and day.With the balance of his devotion now upset,his fear of God begins to eat away at his senses.

My Name Is Julia Ross(1945)

NR
| 1h 5min | Mystery, Crime, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

A woman finds herself entrenched in a murder cover-up when she goes to work for a wealthy widow.

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The Man Who Lies(1968)

1h 35min | Drama, War
3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

A man may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down by the Nazis and wanders into town. Mourning the death of an unseen comrade, he is taken in by the family of the dead rebel. He engages in a superfluous affair and witnesses the lesbian relationship between the man's sister and a female servant. When passions subside, the family has doubts about the reliability of the man's story.

Cortex(2020)

1h 36min | Thriller, Drama, Crime
2.4/5 (with 12 votes)

Two men, two lives, a fateful encounter: Hagen suffers from irregular phases of sleep in which he cannot decide between dream and reality. When his frustrated wife cheats on him with the small-time criminal Niko a series of disturbing events is set in motion and the lives of both men will never be the same.

Kanak Attack(2000)

1h 26min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

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Directed by Lars Becker

The Venus Effect(2021)

3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

A romantic comedy about Liv, who is at the beginning of her 20s. She is very close to her parents and working in the family greengrocer business when, against all expectation, she falls in love with a spirited and somewhat older rainbow girl, Andrea. Andrea claims to be suffering from stress. But in reality, she is heartbroken and has sought refuge at her uncle’s apple plantation. Liv’s encounter with Andrea becomes the catalyst for a divorce, the loss of a friendship and an identity crisis that ultimately shatters their love. But in a rebellion against her parents, Liv realises that love is mutable and that a family may assume many forms.

Directed by Anna Emma Haudal - With Josephine Park, Anne Sofie Wanstrup, Lars Mikkelsen, Sofie Gråbøl, Morten Hee Andersen, Jeanett Albeck, ...

The Mundane Goddess(2014)

11min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Hera, Queen of the Greek gods, is forced to live a mundane existence among modern day humans. In an effort to cope with this reality she visits a therapist.

Looking for Alibrandi(2000)

3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

Josie Alibrandi has a lot to deal with right now. She’s 17, got the dreaded H.S.C. in front of her, and the boy of her dreams seems completely out of reach. Then there’s that other problem. She’s a wog. Sure, it’s where Josie comes from, but it’s not where she feels she belongs. In fact, Josie doesn’t know where she belongs. With her Nonna in one ear talking about the old country and the stuck-up girls at her school telling her she’s an outsider, it’s no wonder. This year, however, everything is going to change. Josie will let loose, face her fears, uncover secrets - even discover the true identity of her father. It’s going to be a year when Josie finally finds out where she belongs.

The Hole in the Fence(2021)

1h 40min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

As every year, the Los Pinos school, a prestigious school of the confessional type, sends its students on retreat to the countryside. Under the watchful eye of teachers and priests, the children are led on the path of their physical and moral development. Through the gaze of several middle and upper class teenagers, the film shows how their upbringing affects the future of society itself.

Directed by Joaquín del Paso

Women in the Mirror(2003)

2h 9min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.

Lost Luggage(2016)

NR
| 10min | Drama, Thriller
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Neil Bishop has spent his whole life living on the fringes of society. His only interaction with people is through his job as a lost luggage courier. One day, Neil delivers luggage to a woman in suffering, and he discovers someone like him. In this dreamlike psychological thriller, Neil Bishop sets out to make today, unlike any other day.

A Cormoran(1986)

1h 30min | Drama

A story about sailor Maks in a crisis of his life.

Directed by Anton Tomašič - With Boris Cavazza

Something About Alex(2017)

18min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A teenager struggling with his gender attempts to reconcile with his identity.

The Dolls with Attitude(2017)

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Eri as a child hides her pain with a determined smile. This leads to an unprecedented change, turning her into a doll. After landing a singing contract she learns the depth of what she has become.

Ninth Miracle on the East(1972)

1h 23min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Perpetual wandering of a man who searches for his own identity, never reaching the final destination.

Into the Mirror(2018)

1h 5min | Drama, Thriller
2.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Daniel is a young man struggling with an inner identity that is desperate to be realised. After leaving his father to move to London, his subconscious desires begin to take control. Led by his new co-worker and upon finding London's Drag hotspot 'Lost & Found' nightclub, Daniel realises his life will never have to be the same again.

Suddenly Sami(2009)

52min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Min Mors Hemmelighet (Suddenly Sami) is a personal film about identity. During the director’s childhood and youth in Oslo her mother never told her about her indigenous Sami background in the Arctic area of Norway. Why didn’t she? And how can the director suddenly become Sami in the middle of life? And does she really want to?

Chronicle of an Industrial(1978)

1h 27min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

After a life of richness, a conservative industrialist blames himself for abandoning his youth's left values. In existential misery, he keeps looking for a possible personal redemption after a foreign company buys his business. His life breaks into pieces.

High Power(2022)

9min | Comedy, Fantasy

After a god-awful shameful performance, an insecure comedian falls into a spiraling, celestial, adventurous mental breakdown.

Homeland Gone(2020)

35min | Documentary

Lebanon is a country hijacked by sects, money, and power. While citizens long for a collective identity to thrive as a community, politicians use the sectarianism for their corrupt ambitions. Unless there is a change, Lebanon will be lost forever.

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