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Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark

The film is based on the children’s anthology book series by Alvin Schwartz...

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A-X-L

Miles is a great rally biker, but he’s not very comfortable with human relations. Due to a dangerous joke, one day he finds himself alone in a remote valley. There he runs into A.X.L., a robotic dog designed to be a dangerous military weapon, equipped with a sophisticated A.I. which makes his behavior very similar to that of animals. Between Miles and A.X.L. a sincere friendship will be born immediately, but put in danger by the scientists who want their creature back...

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Instant Family

Pete and Ellie live and work together: they renovate houses, inhabit them, resell them. They are a happy couple, but they understand that it is time to become parents: instead of following the traditional way, they will choose to adopt children abandoned by their natural parents...

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The Hate U Give

Starr (with two rs) is a sixteen year old with two distinct identities: at school she is the model student who blends happily with wealthy and Caucasian companions; at home, in the all black neighborhood of Garden Heights, she returns to being the little girl raised between barbeques and survival lessons – in her case given by her father, Maverick, who draws on her Decalogue from the Black Panther Code. In particular, Dad teaches his three children how to behave if a policeman stops them while they are in the car, as often happens – and often without good reason – for African-Americans in the “evolved” United States...

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On the Basis of Sex

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was one of the very few women admitted to the faculty of law at Harvard in the late fifties. She also graduated from Columbia, when she was already the mother and wife of Martin D. Ginsburg, destined to become an important tax lawyer...

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Upgrade

Gray Trace is an old-fashioned mechanic who remained unemployed when traditional cars started to become obsolete in favor of cars equipped with artificial intelligence to drive. His wife, on the other hand, is a career woman with a rosy outlook. Gray convinces her to accompany him when he goes to return a car that he has refurbished to the very rich Eron Kreen, but on the way back the AI ​​of his wife’s car goes crazy and leads them to the slums, where they are attacked. The wife ends up killed and Gray paralyzed, but Eron takes his situation to heart and offers to give him back his mobility by implanting an experimental chip, STEM, which is able to control his body for him...

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Fahrenheit 11/9

While the city of New York was already celebrating Mrs. Clinton, and despite the trumpeted preference of three quarters of Americans for the democratic program, on November 9th 2016 a publicly racist, classist and misogynist man was elected president of the United States of America and privately ambiguous named Donald Trump...

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Downton Abbey

The film is based on the famous TV series of the same name, set in the imaginary Downton Abbey, the noble residence of the Count and Countess of Grantham, and follows the life of the aristocratic Crawley family and their employees, at the beginning of the reign of George V. The series extends in the two years preceding the Great War, which begins with the news of the sinking of the Titanic, an event that activates most of the plot...

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Juanita

This drama has no high ambitions, beyond telling a well-founded, funny story about a woman who wants a change later in her life...

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Tolkien

The formative years of the orphan author when he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of outcasts in school. This leads him to the outbreak of the First World War, which threatens to tear the “Fellowship” to pieces...

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