Movies: Introspective

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Sheltered in her own world of music and carefreeness, a curious young girl fights against a mysterious melancholia as she whizzes on her roller-skates around the most colourful London....

A Canadian couple reflect on how their painful journey in fundamentalism led to them rescuing their faith & relationship. Along the way, they uncover a supportive community that helps them navigate their journey of rediscovery....

Extroversion is an attractive description, but why do we idealize this personality trait more highly? LISTEN TO THE WALLFLOWERS is a poetic short documentary about the need for quietness and spending time alone in a world that can't stop talking....

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Tony Palmer directs this 1970 documentary about Scottish bass player and former Cream member Jack Bruce. The film tracks Bruce's life from his childhood in the Gorbals to the height of his fame with Cream and beyond....

Despite Blacks making up only 7% of Madison WI's population, they are leading in so many important areas from education to politics, and are launching so many multi-million dollar projects that people describe this period as a "Black Renaissance."...

Some words were left unspoken by two lovers before one of them departed. In desperation, one decided to go back in time to a specific moment in the past to achieve some sort of closure....

Secret ladder. Borne from firmament. Stone, atonal waters. Chorus of silent hands. A vanishing act. Night is burning. Night is burning white. Flesh, a white fire. Avian. Given. Secret ladder. Mirror, become mirror....

A down-on-his-luck petty criminal gets in over his head when an old friend shows up....

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Based on a true story, a woman enters rehab expecting solitude but is forced to share her space with a volatile teen. As their uneasy connection grows, she begins to confront the patterns that led her there and what healing might actually require....

Justin is caught up in the mundane routine of everyday life. Can anything break him out of the cycle, or like most of us is he doomed to repeat it forever?...

For 17 years, from the age of about six or seven, Kathy Chu keeps a diary. It's a complete fiction, denying disappointments (when her older sister doesn't want to spend time with her, Kathy invents and records a happy encounter) and rejections (she's...

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Notorious serial killer "The Sniffler" is desperately trying to leave his dark past behind and make a genuine friend, but his quest for redemption is constantly derailed by Kyle Connor, a bumbling, hopelessly inept detective who’s determined to bring...

Short documentary on Chilean poet Jorge Teillier (1935-1996), who comes back to Lautaro, on the south of Chile, the place where he was born....

Lily and her friends go on their yearly beach trip(s) amidst major life changes....

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When the war in Ukraine breaks out, Haris and two of his colleagues take a bus from Haris' company and drive it to the border to deliver emergency aid and transport refugees from war to a safe harbor in Denmark. A moving and thought-provoking documen...