Grown Up Movie Star

2009

Teenage Ruby's life turns upside down when her mother runs off and her hard-luck ex-hockey star father, Ray, comes home. While her dad struggles with failed expectations, Ruby strikes up an ill-advised friendship with an older man.

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Germany, Pale Mother

1980

Director Helma Sanders-Brahms takes an unflinching look at the devastating post-World War II experience of many German women and, especially, children, who had to reconcile their national identities with the atrocities committed by their own people. Through vivid cinematic imagery combined with actual footage from the period, the filmmaker uses a dramatic story to give the audience intimate insight into her own tragic beginnings.

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Towards Evening

1991

Life takes a chaotic turn for solitary Prof. Ludovico Bruschi (Marcello Mastroianni) when he becomes guardian of his 4-year-old granddaughter, Papere (Lara Pranzoni), in this bittersweet drama. After she's dumped on his doorstep, the widowed Bruschi takes Papere in and schools her in the art of genteel, orderly living, but their mannerly world is disrupted when the girl's wayward mother (Sandrine Bonnaire) returns.

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Imani

2009

This searing drama from director Caroline Kamya follows three Ugandans as they struggle through the violence and corruption of their society, including the story of a maid (Rehema Nanfuka) forced to bribe crooked cops in order to free her sister. Other threads include a hip-hop dancer (Philip Buyi Roy) who tangles with an underworld crime lord and a former child soldier (Stephen Ocen) who journeys home to his war-torn village.

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The Einstein of Sex

2000

Long before the Stonewall Riots, Masters and Johnson or even the Kinsey Report, there was Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a gay German Jew living in 19th century Berlin. Now, Rosa von Praunheim, the firebrand of German cinema, presents a compelling account of the doctor who founded the first gay political group in 1897 and established the first medical practice for gays, the renowned Institute on Sexual Science, which thrived until Nazi oppression.

2.9 Average Rating

Waiting for the Moon

1987

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this erudite biopic provides a fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Gertrude Stein (Linda Bassett) and Alice B. Toklas (Linda Hunt). During the summer in which the film takes place, Alice attends to an ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier (Bernadette Lafont), Guillaume Apollinaire (Jacque Boudet) and others; and Hemingway (Bruce McGill) pays a call.

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Four Eyed Monsters

2006

Uninspired artist Susan (Susan Buice) and romantically naive videographer Arin (Arin Crumley) meet via the Internet and strike up a relationship in which they make a pact not to speak to each other, inspired to find the true meaning of intimacy. Writing, drawing and instant messaging keep romance fresh for the offbeat couple in this semiautobiographical indie production that is written and directed by the film's stars.

2.9 Average Rating

Place Vendome

1998

A jeweler's wife doesn't realize her husband is morally and financially bankrupt until he asks her to guard stolen diamonds. When he's found dead the next day, the wife and the loot are soon pursued by a diamond cartel and other interested parties.

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All About Love

2010

After more than a decade apart, ex-lovers Anita (Vivian Chow) and Macy (Sandra Ng) reunite unexpectedly, and learn they still share a mutual passion. But there's one -- or rather, two -- big hurdles: the babies they're carrying in their pregnant bellies. William Chan and Eddie Cheung co-star as the fathers-to-be in this Hong Kong romance about uncommon complications and commitment from director Ann Hui.

2.9 Average Rating

Melody for a Street Organ

2009

In this cynical yet lyrical film from Ukranian director Kira Muratova, stepsiblings Alena and Nikita have just lost their mother and spend Christmas Eve searching high and low for their respective fathers, or at least a new place to call home. As they wander alone through the cold night, the world transforms from harsh reality to grim fairy tale to dark nightmare, and every stop along the way comes to represent another place they don't belong.

2.9 Average Rating

Home

2008

When an unused highway next to their home is rebuilt and put back to use, Michel (Olivier Gourmet) and Marthe (Isabelle Huppert) soon discover it's an affront to their once peaceful life, adding din and dust to their daily existence. Their extroverted son, Julien (Kacey Mottet Klein), grows more introspective; their daughter, Marion (Madeleine Budd), turns obsessive; and Julie (Adélaïde Leroux) is a near lost cause. But how can they fight back?

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City of Glass

1998

David (Daniel Wu) and Susie (Nicola Cheung) come together to make arrangements after his father, Raphael (Leon Lai), and her mother, Vivian (Qi Shu), are killed in a car crash. Soon they begin to learn surprising truths about their parents and their families' histories. Reunited years after being torn apart, college sweethearts Raphael and Vivian had reconnected as lovers, despite the fact that they were both married with children.

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Cinévardaphoto

2004

How potent is the power of a picture? Filmmaker Agnès Varda asks this question and attempts to answer it in three separate vignettes. In the first, a female artist, Ydessa, collects photographs of teddy bears. But why? Next, the director examines her snapshots from the 1950s, taking a step back in time. The final short captures Cuba after the revolution, full of possibilities and on the brink of otherness.

2.9 Average Rating

Les rendez-vous d'Anna

1978

While promoting her latest release across Western Europe, film director Anna (Aurore Clément) makes brief but fascinating connections with friends and strangers alike, who cannot stop themselves from sharing intimate details of their personal lives. Written and directed by renowned Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, this moody drama about modern relationships also stars Helmut Griem, Magali Noel and Hanns Zischler.

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The Rider Named Death

2005

Based on the 1909 novel &NFi;The Pale Horse&NFi_; by Boris Savinkov, this Russian drama from director Karen Shakhnazarov follows the members of a social revolutionary group who believe they're carrying out political justice by assassinating a series of high-ranking government officials. With the grand duke next on their hit list, Georges, Erna, Vanya, Heinrich and Fyodor must grapple with their own motivations for taking part in organized murder.

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Borough of Kings

2000

Jimmy's (James Stanek) ambition in life is to get out of Brooklyn and avoid the criminal lifestyle for which he seems destined. To that end, he follows his dreams of becoming an actor and lands a role in a Shakespearean production. But being center stage might not be such a good idea when Jimmy witnesses a brutal mob murder. Olympia Dukakis co-stars as the theater director who sees potential in the budding young thespian.

2.9 Average Rating