High Tide

1987

Judy Davis stars as Lillie, a boozy backup singer for an Elvis impersonator, who wanders away from her job and makes a connection with a teen girl (Claudia Karvan) in a trailer park. But when she meets the girl's grandmother, Lillie realizes the girl is her daughter. Ashamed of the fact that she abandoned her daughter years earlier after her husband died, Lillie vows to make up for lost time. Gillian Armstrong (Little Women) directs.

3.1 Average Rating

Incendiary

2008

Director Sharon Maguire's powerful drama stars Michelle Williams as an adulterous young housewife struggling to come to terms with the deaths of her husband and infant son after they're killed in a terrorist bombing at a London soccer game. Crippled by grief, the widow seeks comfort through affairs with two men (Ewan McGregor and Matthew Macfadyen), inadvertently putting herself in the midst of a dangerous love triangle.

3.1 Average Rating

Grease 2

1982

Michelle Pfeiffer stars as Stephanie Zinone, the leader of Rydell High's sexy and sassy Pink Ladies who catches the eye of Michael Carrington (Maxwell Caulfield), the nerdy new kid on the block fresh from England. The only way Michael will ever be the object of Stephanie's affection is if he shapes up and become as cool as the T-Birds, the male counterpart to the Pink Ladies. Let the transformation begin!

3.1 Average Rating

Almayer's Folly

2011

This affecting adaptation of a Joseph Conrad novel follows the efforts of a Western trader in 1950s Malaysia to ensure a lush life for his daughter. Instead, he finds that his plans may lead to her ruin by the young man hired to work for him.

3.1 Average Rating

The Promise

1995

Just after the construction of the Berlin Wall, five friends attempted to escape to West Germany. Sophie (Corinna Harfouch) made it; her beloved Konrad (August Zirner) did not. For the next three decades, Konrad uses his position as a prominent scientist to try to meet with Sophie. There is little, however, that escapes the watchful eye of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, and Konrad and Sophie will pay with their lives if they're caught.

3.1 Average Rating

Then She Found Me

2007

Already reeling from the death of her adoptive mother and a messy divorce, a put-upon schoolteacher finds her life becoming even more tumultuous when she begins dating the father of one of her students and her gabby birth mother shows up.

3.1 Average Rating

Mikey and Nicky

1976

After 30 years, two friends, Mikey (Peter Falk) and Nicky (John Cassavetes), may finally have hit a wall in their friendship. With his pal embroiled in the mob, Mikey's near the end of his rope, especially when Nicky summons him to get him out of yet another sticky situation. This time, though, Nicky's troubles aren't petty; a contract is on his head, and he and Mikey could both wind up dead. Elaine May directs this intense thriller.

3.1 Average Rating

Rain

2008

Following the death of her beloved grandmother, Rain is (Renel Brown) forced to leave her idyllic life on Ragged Island to live with her drug-addicted mother in a poverty-stricken Nassau neighborhood. Shell-shocked by the bleak surroundings of her new life, Rain finds solace in a burgeoning friendship with a school coach (CCH Pounder) who encourages the teenager to make use of her athleticism by joining the track team.

3.1 Average Rating

Bcuz of U

2004

A runaway bride returns, a woman falls for her worst nightmare and two opposites come together in this trio of romantic tales. In the first story, Ria (Kristine Hermosa) tries to win back the man (Diether Ocampo) she left at the altar. In tale two, solitary Cara (Heart Evangelista) meets Mr. Wrong (Geoff Eigenmann) -- or is he? And in the final yarn, a tour guide (Hero Angeles) meets a girl (Sandara Park) who pretends to be a famous actress.

3.1 Average Rating

Red Birds

2009

Director Brigitte Cornand matches the voices and thoughts of 14 female artists, including Louise Bourgeois and Kiki Smith, with film footage of the various bird species she associates with them. The subjects' serious reflections on their struggles and conflicts as female artists are given a wry perspective by the images of their avian counterparts, ranging from cardinals to chickadees, wood pigeons and blue jays.

3.1 Average Rating

Maria Isabel

1997

This Spanish-language &NFi;telenovela&NFi_; follows the trials and tribulations of the beautiful Maria Isabel (Adela Noriega), a native Mexican woman who nobly agrees to raise her best friend's young daughter. After finding work in the home of wealthy widower Ricardo Mendiola (Fernando Carrillo), Maria Isabel secretly falls in love with him. But because of her &NFi;indio&NFi_; heritage, she holds her feelings back ...

3.1 Average Rating

Angie

1994

Angie (Geena Davis), a spunky girl from Brooklyn, discovers she's pregnant and makes wedding plans -- only to realize that Vinnie (James Gandolfini), her long-term fiancé and the father of her child, isn't the man she wants to marry. When handsome, cultivated Noel (Stephen Rea) arrives on the scene, the charming Irishman sweeps her off her feet, which leads to a tumultuous affair, the wrath of Angie's father and the disfavor of her friends.

3.1 Average Rating

My Only U

2008

Knowing that his longtime crush, Winona (Toni Gonzaga), tested positive for a fatal disease finally gave Bong (Vhong Navarro) the courage to get closer to her. But when certain truths come to light about Winona's illness, it threatens to destroy their fledgling romance. Now, Bong isn't sure that he wants to love anyone. But can a determined Winona convince him that what they have between them is worth it?

3.1 Average Rating

13 Conversations About One Thing

2002

The "one thing" that prompts 13 different conversations is happiness, and in this drama from writer-director Jill Sprecher, a superb cast (including John Turturro, Amy Irving, Matthew McConaughey, Clea DuVall and Alan Arkin) circles all the big questions about happiness, how to find it and how to hold onto it. The characters' stories meld in a gorgeously shot and inventively edited style that creates a breathtaking sense of heightened realism.

3.1 Average Rating

The Wolf Knife

2010

Looking to escape her monotonous life in Florida, Chrissy (Christina Kolozsvary) sets out to track down her estranged father accompanied by her best friend June (Julie Potratz). As the two teenagers journey together, they encounter confusing feelings of attraction, jealousy and tension. Written and directed by Laurel Nakadate, this atypical road movie focuses on the girls' evolving relationship through their small gestures.

3.1 Average Rating

W.E.

2011

This glossy ensemble drama juxtaposes the lives of famous divorcée Wallis Simpson and Wally Winthrop, a young 1990s housewife. Wally yearns to have a romance as dramatic as Wallis's but soon discovers that history can be misleading.

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