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U — 161 results

• Us (2019)

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  Us is a deeply subversive film

  A mother and father take their kids to their beach house, expecting to enjoy time with friends, but their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some visitors arrive uninvited.
• Usedom: A Clear View Of The Sea (2017)

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  You'll have the melancholy sensation that you're watching something which is disappearing even as you see it.

  The story of a Baltic island and its changing experiences as a tourist destination.
• A Useful Ghost (2025)

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  Not only ambitious – a term often used to damn films with faint praise – but successfully so.

  March is mourning his wife Nat who has recently passed away due to dust pollution. He discovers her spirit has returned by possessing the vacuum cleaner. But to become a useful ghost, she first needs to get rid of the useless ones.
• US Marshals (1997)

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  There is a suprise twist at the end, which is always nice, and the actors are made to work for their salaries.

  Innocent man goes on the run in sequel to The Fugitive.
• Utama (2022)

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  Grisi has a background in photography and though the images are moving here, there's often a stillness to them and they are no less perfectly composed.

  In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. When an uncommon long drought threatens their entire way of life, Virginio and his wife Sisa face the dilemma of resisting or being defeated by the environment and time itself.
• U Are The Universe (2024)

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  Given that U Are The Universe is practically a one-man-play, Volodymyr Kravchuk masterfully commands the screen combining his knack for humour with a strong sense for drama.

  In the distant future, a space trucker from Khmelnytskyi is trying to get rid of over three billion tons of waste. When he hears from a woman on a distant space station, he becomes determined to reach her.
• uwantme2killhim? (2013)

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  The film's aware that it's an improbable story, so it does everything in its power to couch it as being based on a true story, but for all that it's ironically unconvincing.

  Identities shift and life grows ever more confusing as a high school student pursues an online romance with a woman who has a violent husband.
• Uyghurs, Prisoners Of The Absurd (2014)

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  Packed with information throughout.

  How China's Uyghur minority got caught up in the US invasion of Iraq and ended up illegally detained in Guantanamo.
• Uzumaki (2000)

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  One of the most strikingly original Japanese horror movies of its era.

  The people of a small town gradually become obsessed with spirals.
• Uzumasa Limelight (2014)

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  What marks out Uzumasa Limelight... is its willingness to combine withering criticism of the laziness and corruption in much modern filmmaking with graciousness in the face of change.

  A rising star asks a once prolific film extra for lessons in the art of onscreen swordfighting.
• U Turn (1997)

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  Oliver Stone directs like a grasshopper on amphetamines.

  A drifter cuckolds a rich man in a small town while on the way to deliver goodies for the mob.