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84
7.6
/4352/
75
/79/
72
/74/
4.0
/5639/
99
/74/
84
/153/
91
/26/

Moolaadé (2004)
When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
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MUBI
72
71
7.0
/15433/
70
/366/
68
/312/
3.5
/16841/
83
/53/
80
/533/
67
/15/

XXY (2007)
Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final decision regarding her gender, she meets both hostility and compassion.
poster
71
60
6.9
/3179/
64
/37/
63
/41/
3.6
/2795/
83
/48/
78
/37/
70
/23/

Lost Embrace (2004)
In Buenos Aires, the twenty-something Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff ditches the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an importation business. Ariel has never understood why his father left him when he was a baby, but when his dad returns to Argentina, that will soon change.
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Kanopy
75
51
6.9
/1076/
61
/13/
71
/18/
3.6
/1090/
100
/9/
77
/37/
78
/4/

Dry Season (2006)
Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a sixteen-year-old youth, to trace the man who killed his father and to execute him. Atim obeys him and, armed with his father's own gun, he goes in search of Nassara, the man who made him an orphan. It does not take long before he finds him. Nassara, who now goes straight, is married, goes to the mosque and owns a small bakery. After some hesitation Atim offers him his services as an apprentice. He is hired then it will be easy for him to gun down the murderer of his father. At least, that is what he thinks...
poster
73
51
7.2
/3409/
69
/30/
62
/40/
3.7
/987/
88
/48/

Luna Papa (1999)
The unborn child of Mamlakat is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a travelling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and gets her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.
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Netflix
67
49
6.8
/2313/
63
/40/
67
/35/
3.5
/4095/
92
/12/
49
/4/
66
/7/

El bonaerense (2002)
Zapa is a locksmith in a quiet and little town lost somewhere in the province of Buenos Aires. After getting involved in a crime, his uncle, a retired policeman, bails him out and sends him to Buenos Aires city so he can become an aspiring police officer. Soon he will get involved in a new type of corruption.
poster
80
48
7.2
/1605/
76
/25/
72
/18/
3.8
/888/
100
/12/
85
/31/

Son of Babylon (2009)
A willful young boy follows his just and obstinate grandmother on a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.
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MUBI
67
41
6.8
/1187/
70
/33/
64
/25/
3.6
/8533/
75
/12/
69
/5/
52
/6/

The Magic Gloves (2003)
This film follows the crisscrossed fortunes of, among others, a rock musician, a flight attendant, a dog walker with an alarming penchant for over-the-counter medication, and a cab driver, who doesn’t really care about his life spiralling out of control, as long as he can sit in his old Renault 12.
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70
38
6.6
/767/
61
/13/
57
/16/
3.5
/1154/
93
/14/
74
/7/
70
/10/

Abouna (2002)
Two boys (Tamir & Amine) awake one morning to find that their father has abandoned their family. Shocked, they begin to misbehave. While surreptitiously watching a movie, they think they see their father speaking to them and steal the film to examine the frames. Their mother (Achta) eventually despairs and sends them to Koranic school. Unhappy, they plan their escape until the eldest boy falls in love with a deaf girl (Khalil).
poster
57
36
5.9
/3523/
61
/117/
57
/66/
3.1
/996/
51
/22/

Don't Look Down (2008)
A sexy Spanish siren named Elvira schools a young man in tantric lovemaking.
poster
Kanopy
69
33
6.7
/712/
71
/9/
69
/9/
3.4
/396/
75
/12/
68
/19/
66
/8/

The Puzzle (2010)
Maria's family give her a puzzle for her 50th birthday, and she loves it. Not only does the patient housewife have fun solving the puzzle, she's also really good at them. Overflowing with enthusiasm for her new-found passion, she goes back to the shop where they bought the gift for another puzzle. There her eye is caught by a notice on the message board: Partner for puzzle tournament wanted. Maria musters her courage and, despite her family's misgivings, answers the announcement.
poster
60
31
5.7
/1791/
60
/56/
55
/54/
3.2
/1770/
67
/3/

Gemini (2005)
An incestuous love affair. Meme and Jeremias are the younger children in a typical bourgeois family. Their mother Lucia is the dominant force in the household, but her fixation on upholding the niceties of upper middle class life has prevented her from seeing what is going on under her roof. When the siblings’ older brother and his fiancee arrive home for their wedding, it seems inevitable that the concealment will be impossible to sustain. But equally it becomes apparent that if Lucia were to find out about the affair, there would be catastrophic consequences.
poster
59
23
6.1
/654/
66
/8/
57
/15/
3.3
/440/
56
/9/
53
/19/

She, a Chinese (2009)
This is the story of Mei, a young woman on a trip from East to West after her escape from her provincial Chinese village. Beginning in Chongqing and a disastrous factory job, Mei soon heads out for London and a marriage to an older man where her entrapment begins anew.
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The Roku Channel
69
13
6.5
/451/
68
/11/
62
/19/
3.5
/415/
83
/2/

The Prize (2011)
Ceci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn't completely understand what is the secret about. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must she keep silent about? Ceci and her mom live hidden from military repression in Argentina. Ceci asks herself: what must she say? What should she really believe and do in order to deserve the love of her mother and others?
poster
62
11
6.5
/368/
63
/8/
51
/11/
3.4
/610/

Buenos Aires 100 km (2005)
A remote village 100 kilometers from the city of Buenos Aires. Stephen, Matías, Alejo, Damián and Guido were born 13 years ago in this small town. They have always been friends and together they share the monotonous summer afternoons sitting on the stoop of a women's hairdresser. Anxious, restless, impatient for a change, they go through the most confusing period of experiment -- the transition from childhood to adolescence.
poster
?
7.6
/70/
45
/2/
75
/2/

Khorma (2002)
In the arid Tunisian village of Bizerte, Khorma -- with his blonde-red hair and quirky habits -- is the town's kindly joke. His guardian is Bou Khaleb, the official announcer of births, deaths, and marriages. When the Bou mistakenly announces the death of a woman rather than her daughter's marriage, the film immerses us in the often-hilarious power struggles amongst the clerics of the "religion business".
poster
74
?
7.2
/119/
82
/4/
68
/6/

Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (2012)
Under the Khmer Rouge regime, Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, directed the M13 prison for four years, before becoming the head of S21, the terrifying death machine that eliminated Khmer Rouge opponents. Some 12,280 Cambodians met their deaths here. In July 2010, Duch was the first Khmer leader to appear before an international court, which sentenced him to 35 years in prison. He appealed the sentence. While Duch waited for his new trial, Rithy Panh questioned him in depth.
poster
67
?
6.9
/317/
75
/2/
61
/12/
67
/7/

Dam Street (2005)
Yun is shunned when she becomes pregnant in school, and her mother gives the child up for adoption. When Yun tutors a boy 10 years later, her mother discovers he is Yun's son.
poster
60
?
7.0
/205/
60
/4/
50
/7/

Moloch Tropical (2009)
In a fortress on a hill in Haiti a democratically elected president prepares himself for a state ceremony. On the day of the festivities the president finds his country in turmoil. The whole nation is in the grips of a riot that has broken out overnight. But nothing should stop the president’s ceremony.
poster
?
7.0
/85/
80
/1/
60
/5/

Clouds Over Conakry (2007)
BB works as a political cartoonist at a liberal newspaper, his more outrageous efforts duly appreciated but not necessarily published by his boss. He's in love with the boss’ lovely, talented computer-scientist daughter, Kesso. But his choice meets with stiff opposition from his strict Muslim father Karamako, who is the chief of his village as well as imam of Conakry, especially when Kesso becomes pregnant with BB’s child.
poster
64
?
6.6
/337/
61
/5/
49
/7/
80
/10/

The Season of Men (2000)
An 18 year old on the island Djerba, Aicha, is married to Said, who works in Tunis for much of the year. Aicha breaks with tradition and decides to join Said in Tunis, weaving rugs to make money. Said asks that she give him a son, so Aicha lives under the rule of her mother-in-law.
poster
56
?
6.8
/333/
42
/4/
45
/8/
3.6
/523/

Killer (1999)
Marat works as a personal driver in Almaty, capital of Kazakhstan. When he hits a Mercedes, the nightmare begins. The loan he accepts to pay for the damages puts him at the mercy of a Mafia boss.
poster
49
?
6.3
/230/
67
/4/
57
/9/
12
/1/

Buried Secrets (2009)
A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to her new neighbors.
poster
?
6.4
/31/
53
/3/

The Building (1999)
On May 1, 1975 with Viet Cong troops march through Saigon celebrating their victory. Tham, caretaker of Victory Hotel, a relatively small establishment in downtown Saigon, nervously observes these celebrations. The owners have fled Saigon and the hotel is to be requisitioned by the new government. Tham wonders what his fate will be under the new regime. The next day he is told that that the hotel is to be transformed into a collective flat for the Viet Cong cadre and their families now entering the city. Tham is not hostile to this but is concerned about his place in the new set up. Will he still have a job? Will he be treated as an enemy?
poster
56
?
6.4
/199/
50
/2/
60
/6/
50
/2/

Breath of Life (1999)
It begins with the tragedy of Armero, during the course investigates the murder of a beautiful woman and on his way some people die in the end a killing and a cemetery. Emerson Roque Fierro, former policeman and private investigator shadowing, investigates the murder of "Golondrina", a beautiful young woman, occurred in a seedy hotel in downtown Bogota. Without knowing who it is, begins to understand their relationships with a motley gallery of men: a corrupt politician, connected to drug trafficking and paramilitary groups, a bullfighter cunning and good for nothing, a boxer fallen on hard times with a force so stupid as rare Lotero intellect and an insightful blind. And in the midst of this, the dark threads entangling power to everyone, and especially the poor Fierro.
poster
61
?
5.8
/73/
70
/2/
55
/2/

Another Man's Garden (2007)
Sofia, a young girl in Mozambique who is studying to be a doctor, finds that her professor wants more from her than hard work. An unwillingness to compromise her values and potentially her health, may cost her a place there.
poster
?
6.7
/51/
70
/1/
86
/2/

María y el Araña (2013)
A 13-year-old girl living in a Buenos Aires shantytown falls for a 17-year-old boy who earns a living juggling in a Spiderman costume.


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