An American Masquerade (2024)

Little Sharks

When dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the audition for next year's new students. He lets Johannes, the broke and unsuccessful applicant, stay with him. Ingo decides to go to Munich with Johannes, where he wants to try his luck once again. Hitchhiking, they get rides with very different drivers on the autobahn. They meet up with the smooth-talking Ali in the wayside dinner "Raststätte Spessart". Arriving in Munich, the trio tries to find cheap sleeping accommodation. They enter Ingo into the audition at Munich acting school. Moreover, Johannes falls in love with street artist Herta from Berlin. Written by emkarpf

Duke

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Theo Against the Rest of the World

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Tammy

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Thelma & Louise

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Mr. Bean's Holiday

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The Garbage Helicopter

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Gigantic

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Leningrad Cowboys Go America

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Lake George

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M

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Little Miss Sunshine

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American Huaso

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Wild Hogs

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Didi at Full Speed

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Birds Flying East

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Long Roads - Secret Love

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Sovereign

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Wristcutters: A Love Story

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Rabid Dogs

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The Volcano

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Highway 61

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No More Mr. Nice Guy

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All Hands on Deck!

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SommerHundeSöhne

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Bird on a Wire

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Angel

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Hi, Are You Alone?

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Yao

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Thirsty for Likes

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For 20

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Unpredictable

Martyna and Wojciech form a seemingly happy relationship. However, it is only a façade hiding a cruel truth. Martyna's friend Alicja is a single mother of 20-year-old Daniel, who is the apple of her eye. Alicja is unable to accept that her son has his own life. One day Daniel meets Adelina. A puzzling story in which we ask ourselves not only who killed and why, but above all who died!?

'98 Honda

On a sunny day in 2004, a drug dealer with a secret gets stuck babysitting his girlfriend's 9 year old cousin.

Yomeddine

A Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families.

Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

The Wizard

A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, to compete in the ultimate video-game championship.

Transamerica

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

The Edukators

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

Ice Age

With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned infant and decide to return it to its human parents. Along the way, the unlikely allies become friends but, when enemies attack, their quest takes on far nobler aims.

Stranger Than Paradise

A New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting a strange, unpredictable adventure.

Road to Singapore

Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.

Gasoline

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Aaltra

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The Bastard Son

A young man is going through a deep dilemma between killing his brother to keep his father's inheritance or leaving him alive, so he decides to meet a lawyer in a cafe to ask him for advice. The story is intertwined with an event in his family past, because when the boy decides to act, he is surprised by the consequences of an infidelity that occurred 25 years ago.

Neapolitan

In 2002, an introverted young man falls in love on a beta-test dating site only for the young woman to abruptly stop talking to him. He sets to find out why.

The Flim-Flam Man

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Untamed Royals

A group of wealthy teenagers commit crimes that escalate from petty mischief to dangerous plots, causing chaotic consequences — but not for themselves.

Centaur

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The Long, Long Trailer

A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage.

No Man's Land

Pan Xiao, a young lawyer, goes to a rural small village settled in the western desert lands of China to handle the case of a falcon poacher who has ran over a policeman. Pan wins the case through sophisticated reasoning and forces the poacher to give him his car as a reward. Then, he just drives back home, but the return will not be an easy one.

Fandango

In 1971, five college buddies from the University of Texas embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.

Plastic Guns

During a trip to Denmark, a man is arrested and accused of murdering his wife and three children. Though maintaining his innocence, he remains jailed as police investigate.

Lost in America

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