A young Jew in 19th-century London, Esther Kahn is so disconnected with her surroundings – hardly speaking, emotionless – that she seems retarded. Unhappy among her poor tailoring family, she yearns for the stage. Only there does she engage with life.Read More »
The film is a Drama/Comedy starring DOUG STANHOPE as an alcoholic standup comedian, who gets a second chance in life when he reconnects with the son he’s never known.Read More »
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A chorus line girl, Virginia and a small time smuggler, Aldo try to be together and change their lives. He cannot find a job however while she has to bear lots of men making passes at her.Read More »
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A university student wants to avenge his sister from a businessman who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the man’s sister to make him suffer the same fate.Read More »
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Noura struggles to reconcile two worlds, Muslim women and men, while also dealing with his own sexuality.Read More »
After their daughter’s kidnapping, the Prices are forced to sell everything, but their new life as a working class family proves difficult.Read More »
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Fernando, an unemployed teacher, survives at the expense of his lifemate, textile worker Rita. One weekend, the couple, who lives in the region of São Paulo ABC, meets with computer technician Luiz Carlos and his girlfriend, inexperienced Lilita. Luiz Carlos, who was Fernando’s student, is reactionary and upstart. The two couples, amid the bucolic scenery of Billings Dam, find the corpse of a newly hanged man.Read More »
In Southern Tunisia, Mattéo, a local who lives off the generosity of his listeners as he spends his time telling stories in the streets of Sfax, falls in love with a prostitute, Safia. She gives up her profession and they move, Matteo working at the port, in a house on the edge of the desert in which Mattéo’s father (the Maltese) live. But Safia being pregnant, Mattéo gets involved with a gang of gun smugglers, hoping to earn more money to provide for his family. But Matteo doesn’t come back and Safia belives him dead. Matteo’s father kicks her out of the house and she meets André, an archeologist who falls under her spell and she accepts to follow him to Paris. Three years later, out of jail, Matteo goes to Paris, hoping to find his beloved Safia and their child.Read More »
A woman seeking a quiet life in post-World War II British Malaya finds love and a common interest in gardening with a mysterious Japanese man.Read More »