When a middle-aged woman born in privilege opens a café in a vibrant party of her hometown of Copenhagen, she’s confronted with its dark sides as well in the shape of human trafficking and prostitution, and she has to make some hard choices.
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The people behind it
Trine Pallesen
Tanja
Julie Christiansen
Mila
Jens Andersen
Carsten
Kirsten Peüliche
Tanjas mor
Sarah Boberg
Helle
Bjarne Henriksen
Morten
Dennis Albrethsen
Cafégæst
Anna Berentina
Handlet pige
Peder Holm Johansen
Erik
Ramadan Huseini
Forhandler
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A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
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The true story of Madalyn Murray O'Hair -- iconoclast, opportunist, and outspoken atheist -- from her controversial rise to her untimely demise.
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A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.
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American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-old girl intent on reuniting with her sister in the United States.
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A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son.