Female Perversions1996This movie tests Louise J. Kaplan's novel, through the character of Eve, a young, successful attorney. Caught between her career aspirations and her desire to help her kleptomaniac sister, Eve walks a tightrope between toughness and vulnerability. Directed by:Susan Streitfeld
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2.8 Average Rating |
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| Expired2007Claire (Samantha Morton) lives a sheltered life, taking care of her invalid mother and working as a traffic enforcement officer. When she meets the equally shy Jay (Jason Patric), the pair falls in love. This is the first intimate relationship for both of them, opening the door for awkwardness and fear, tenderness and hilarity. Documentarian and award-winning filmmaker Cecilia Miniucchi makes her feature debut with this achingly honest romance. Directed by:Cecilia Miniucchi
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2.7 Average Rating |
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| La Lingerie2008When Miu hits a romantic dry spell, she turns to her girlfriends CC, Celine and Donut for support. But as her pals dispense advice from the lingerie shop where one of them works, they reveal that their own love lives aren't exactly sizzling hot. Directed by:Hing-Ka Chan
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2.7 Average Rating |
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| Across the Moon1995Looking to start life anew, two disparate women -- Carmen (Elizabeth Peña) and Kathy (Christina Applegate) -- leave Los Angeles behind to be near their boyfriends (Peter Berg and Tony Fields), who are serving time in a Mojave Desert prison. Kathy and Carmen share a tumbledown trailer owned by a slimy defense attorney and struggle financially as they await their men's release. How will the ladies survive when authorities seize their home? Directed by:Lisa Gottlieb
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2.7 Average Rating |
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The 24 Hour Woman1999After her pregnancy is unexpectedly revealed on her morning television program, frenetic TV producer Grace Santos agrees to let the show exploit her "condition" for ratings. But soon the strain of career, marriage and motherhood take their toll. Directed by:Nancy Savoca
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2.7 Average Rating |
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How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer2005Mexican-American family matriarch Dona Genoveva (Lucy Gallardo), her divorced daughter Lolita (Elizabeth Peña) and teenage granddaughter Blanca (America Ferrera) all tinker with love during one sleepy summer in their Arizona border town. Dona's driving lessons take an unexpected turn, while things heat up at the butcher shop where Lolita works, and Blanca cooks up some romance for herself. This charming drama received a Grand Jury Prize nod at Sundance. Directed by:Georgina Riedel
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2.7 Average Rating |
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| Water Lilies2007A Caméra d'Or contender at Cannes, this coming-of-age drama from first-time feature film director Céline Sciamma tracks the sexual awakenings of three female friends over the course of a single summer. Finding privacy in the solitude of the swimming pool locker room, blossoming teens Marie (Pauline Acquart), Anne (Louise Blachère) and Floriane (Adele Haenel) come to learn the true meaning of arousal and the power of sexual attraction. Directed by:
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2.7 Average Rating |
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| Fires Within1991When her journalist husband Nestor is imprisoned in Cuba for his political beliefs, Isabel flees the country with her daughter. Saved off the shores of Miami by a fisherman, she soon falls deeply in love with her rescuer. But just as she's on the verge of building a life with him, Nestor unexpectedly appears. Directed by:Gillian Armstrong
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2.7 Average Rating |
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Bar Girls1994Stood up yet again at Los Angeles' Girl Bar by her gorgeous but flaky girlfriend, successful TV cartoon writer Loretta (Nancy Allison Wolfe) fears she may never find her soul mate. But then in walks Rachael (Liza D'Agostino), an aspiring actress who more than catches Loretta's eye. They hit it off brilliantly, but when another woman starts flirting with Rachel, Loretta's jealousy flares up and their life together is threatened. Directed by:Marita Giovanni
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2.6 Average Rating |
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| High Season1987Katherine (Jacqueline Bisset), a celebrated British photographer, lives a quiet, idyllic life with her daughter on the Greek island of Rhodes. But a young local sets out to encourage tourism, and Katherine's past and future are about to catch up with her as she suddenly finds herself in a hilariously tangled plot involving lovesick tourists, irate locals, smugglers, her ex-husband and an old friend who reveals himself to be a Russian spy! Directed by:Clare Peploe
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2.6 Average Rating |
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| Chilly Scenes of Winter1979Set in Salt Lake City, this bittersweet romantic tale centers on civil servant Charles (John Heard) and his obsession with winning back the love of his life, Laura (Mary Beth Hurt), who left him to return to her unappreciative husband, Ox (Mark Metcalf). To find out whether Laura is really happy with Ox, Charles takes to following her around and befriends her co-worker (Nora Heflin). Peter Riegert, Gloria Grahame and Griffin Dunne co-star. Directed by:Joan Micklin Silver
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2.5 Average Rating |
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| A Man in Love1987While working abroad and filming a biopic of a famed Italian author, American actor Steve Elliott (Peter Coyote) falls for his sultry co-star (Greta Scacchi) and immerses himself in an erotic love affair ... which is all well and good, except that his wife (Jamie Lee Curtis) is waiting at home. Diane Kurys directs her English-language debut, which was France's official 1987 entry to the Cannes Film Festival. Directed by:Diane Kurys
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2.5 Average Rating |
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Sweet Lies1988When American insurance adjuster Peter Nicholl (Treat Williams) jets to France to investigate a claim, he meets cunning Parisian lovelies Joelle (Joanna Pacula) and Dixie (Julianne Phillips), who make a bet over which of them can seduce the hunky Yank first. But when Peter discovers their wager, he turns the tables on the would-be femmes fatales, who have since become genuinely smitten with him. Nathalie Delon directs this rollicking rom-com. Directed by:Nathalie Delon
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2.5 Average Rating |
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| The Night and the Moment1994A philandering writer (Willem Dafoe) in search of true love accepts an invitation from an aristocratic salonniere (Lena Olin), only to insinuate himself into her house and try to seduce her with stories of his various conquests. But what he doesn't realize is that their passions date back to his recent imprisonment, when she was incarcerated in the cell beside his. Directed by:Anna Maria Tato
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2.5 Average Rating |
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| Sweet Revenge1990When thriving lawyer Linda (Carrie Fisher) divorces her husband, John (John Sessions), he sues her for alimony. The judge rules that the agreement written on a balloon years ago stating she would always support him if he put her through law school is valid -- unless he remarries. Determined to get out of the payments, Linda hires an actress (Rosanna Arquette) to seduce John, instructing her on tactics to draw him into marriage. Directed by:Charlotte Brandstrom
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2.4 Average Rating |
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| Free Radicals2003Happenstance is the cornerstone of this intriguing film. A young woman miraculously survives a plane crash only to die in a head-on car collision six years later. The teenage driver of the car, who's barely injured, is the younger son in a family whose first son was abducted at a young age. And so the cycle begins -- an odd, chainlike link that encompasses reactions to the woman's family members and the people in their lives. Directed by:Barbara Albert
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2.4 Average Rating |
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Now and Then1995Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, they reconcile experiences with boys, secrets, bullies and more. Lesli Linka Glatter directs; Gaby Hoffmann, Ashleigh Aston Moore, Cloris Leachman, Thora Birch and Christina Ricci co-star. Directed by:Lesli Linka Glatter
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3.8 Average Rating |
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Now and Then (1995) A heartwarming movie about four childhood girlfriends who, in adulthood reunion, relive their experience of the life-changing summer of 1970, including a mystery death, divorce, standing up to the boys, first kiss, and the meaning of true friendship. Each explores her unique identity amidst family and friends. Beautifully directed by Lesli Linka Glatter.
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