Upstream Color

Apr 5, 2013

1h 36m

★ 6.3

You can force your story's shape, but the color will always bloom upstream.

Overview

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

Genres

Drama

Science Fiction

Production Companies

erbp

Upstream Color Trailers

Cast

Kris

Amy Seimetz

Jeff

Shane Carruth

The Sampler

Andrew Sensenig

Thief

Thiago Martins

Wife

Carolyn King

Maggie

Mollie Milligan

Monty

Myles McGee

Lucas

Ashton Miramontes

Peter

Andreon Watson

Husband

Frank Mosley

Bank Investigator

John Walpole

OBGYN

Kerry McCormick

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6.7

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7.3

Random Harvest

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7.4

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

May 24, 1991

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0.0

Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas

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When a marriage is threatened by a long excursion for work, domestic trouble is buffeted by family and friends.

6.2

Agnes of God

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When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.

7.7

Colors of Wind

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6.3

The Fourth Kind

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Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when, during the course of treating her patients, she finds evidence of alien abductions.

6.8

Dear John

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While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eventually falls in love with Savannah, who promises to write to him until he returns from overseas.

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2.0

Barstool Cowboy

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6.9

Koi... Mil Gaya

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A developmentally disabled boy's life changes after he encounters an extraterrestrial being.

6.4

The Reckoning

Feb 26, 2004

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10.0

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0.0

La Défaite du rouge-gorge

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6.2

A Moment in the Reeds

Jun 29, 2018

Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, and when Leevi's father has to return to town on business, the two young men establish a connection and embark on a romance set against the idyllic Finnish summer. However, looming over this chance encounter, is the father's imminent return to the lake house, the continuation of Leevi's studies abroad as well as Tareq's complex relationship with his family in Syria.

5.8

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8.0

Impossible Love

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0.0

South

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A made-for-television play about an exiled Polish Army lieutenant faced with his darkest secret.

5.8

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

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