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The Toe Tactic
rating:2.4

The Toe Tactic

2008Runtime:0 minutes
While coping with her father's death, Mona (Lily Rabe) tries to visit her childhood home before her mother (Mary Kay Place) sells it. Along the way Mona loses her wallet, scours New York City looking for it, and comes across colorful characters both real and imagined. Featuring a sweet score by Yo La Tengo, this surreal fusion of live-action and animation includes the voices of David Cross, Don Bryon and Eli Wallach.

Directed by:

  • Emily Hubley
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    Destricted
    rating:2.4

    Destricted

    2006Runtime:0 minutes
    By packing a string of seven erotic shorts into one volume, Destricted removes a bit of the taboo surrounding pornography. Directors range from filmmakers such as Larry Clark to artists from other mediums like Richard Prince and Marilyn Minter. Included are Matthew Barney's "Hoist," in which a man gets intimate with a driveshaft; Prince's "House Call," a salute to 1970s cinema; and Clark's "Impaled," in which he holds auditions for a porn flick.

    Directed by:

  • Larry Clark
  • Cecily Brown
  • Matthew Barney
  • Richard Prince
  • Marilyn Minter
  • Sante D'Orazio
  • Tunga
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    Stray Cats
    rating:2.4

    Stray Cats

    2005Runtime:0 minutes
    Best friends and hopeless romantics Boyet (Ricky Davao) and Martha (Irma Adlawan) cope with difficult relationships in this comic drama from the Philippines that highlights the special bond between gay men and straight women. As Boyet tries to tame his confusing boyfriend, Dom (Lauren Novero), who sometimes says he's straight, Martha deals with the frustrations of her long-standing relationship with Steve (Reggie Curley).

    Directed by:

  • Ellen Ongkeko-Marfil
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    Mob Princess
    rating:2.4

    Mob Princess

    2003Runtime:0 minutes
    After her father goes to prison for murder, Patti (Keegan Connor Tracy) sets out to prove his innocence. To get the evidence she needs, Patti begins seeing Vladimir (Bruce Ramsay), a Russian mobster who draws her into a dangerous world of drug dealers and killers. This crime drama follows Patti's courageous efforts, putting her own life in great jeopardy to help the father she loves dearly.

    Directed by:

  • Mina Shum
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    Free Radicals
    rating:2.4

    Free Radicals

    2003Runtime:0 minutes
    Happenstance 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
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    The Second Awakening of Christina Klages
    rating:2.4

    The Second Awakening of Christina Klages

    1978Runtime:0 minutes
    The first solo directing effort (in 1977) of New German Cinema wunderkind Margarethe von Trotta, this movie is based on the true story of a social worker who robs a bank to fund a failing day-care center. Christina (Tina Engel) is a militant revolutionary who becomes a fugitive hunted as much for her politics (very pro-feminist) as for her crime. Meanwhile, the young woman Christina held hostage tries to track her down for personal reasons.

    Directed by:

  • Margarethe von Trotta
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    Film Star
    rating:2.4

    Film Star

    2005Runtime:0 minutes
    When arrogant, self-absorbed movie star Hira Pandit (Mahima Chaudhry) begins to realize that her popularity is waning, she consults her erstwhile friend Digambar Puri (Priyanshu Chatterjee) for advice. But his critical words only inflame her overheated ego, sending her down a risky road to reclaim her lost luster. In the powerful drama that follows, Hira attempts to become a success again -- not just in her career but as a human being.

    Directed by:

  • Tanuja Chandra
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    Can Go Through Skin
    rating:2.4

    Can Go Through Skin

    2008Runtime:0 minutes
    After a violent act leaves her shaken and emotionally scarred, a young woman named Marieke (Rifka Lodeizen), bent on rebuilding her life, leaves Amsterdam for the countryside, where a new friendship with a local farmer (Wim Opbrouck) becomes vital to her emotional survival. All the while, Marieke journeys through mania, fear, mistrust, pain and a host of other raw sensations in Dutch director Esther Rots's unflinching odyssey.

    Directed by:

  • Esther Rots
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    Roads to Riches
    rating:2.4

    Roads to Riches

    2001Runtime:0 minutes
    Middle-aged Jack (Robert Forster) has kept little from his days as a child star except a few memories. Still holding fast to his dream of acquiring riches, he latches on to Henry (Kip Pardue), who has good luck to spare. But rather than have his luck rub off on Jack, Henry sweeps the beautiful young Moira (Rose McGowan) off her feet. Jack's secret love for Moira now becomes an obsession, and he risks everything he has to win her back from Henry.

    Directed by:

  • Michelle Gallagher
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    We Want a Child
    rating:2.4

    We Want a Child

    1949Runtime:0 minutes
    Infertile Else (Ruth Brejnholm) discovers a way to make her dreams of motherhood come true when her friend Jytte (Grethe Thordahl) becomes pregnant with a married man's baby and agrees to let Else adopt the child. But complications ensue when Jytte decides to keep the newborn. Abortion and sex before marriage -- scandalous subject matter at the time of the film's 1949 release -- are themes at the heart of this stirring Danish melodrama.

    Directed by:

  • Lau Lauritzen
  • Alice O'Fredericks
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    Dunia
    rating:2.4

    Dunia

    2005Runtime:0 minutes
    Looking for an outlet to express her feelings -- and to follow in her mother's footsteps -- Cairo University poetry student Dunia (Hanan Turk) pursues her ambition to become a belly dancer in this Egyptian drama. With religious and cultural constraints standing in her way, Dunia begins a journey -- aided by her literature professor (Mohamed Mounir) -- that forces her to confront the traditions that have crushed her ability to experience pleasure.

    Directed by:

  • Jocelyn Saab
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    Yeh Zindagi Ka Safar
    rating:2.4

    Yeh Zindagi Ka Safar

    2001Runtime:0 minutes
    Sarena (Amisha Patel), a pampered daughter of millionaire Vivek Dewan (Gulshan Grover), is on the threshold of a great musical career. But father and daughter's perfect world is torn apart when a young and intrepid reporter, Jai (Jimmy Shergill), stumbles upon a scoop: He discovers that Sarena is not Vivek's real daughter. The news makes headlines, and a devastated and enraged Vivek uses all the power at his command to suppress more information.

    Directed by:

  • Tanuja Chandra
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    Me and Will
    rating:2.4

    Me and Will

    1999Runtime:0 minutes
    After meeting in rehab and bonding over their love of motorcycles, Los Angeles club-hoppers Jane (Sherrie Rose) and Will (Melissa Behr) head out to Montana in search of the bike used by Peter Fonda in the counterculture classic Easy Rider. Co-starring Patrick Dempsey and Billy Wirth as Jane and Will's strung-out boyfriends, this touching road drama also features appearances by Traci Lords and Keanu Reeves.

    Directed by:

  • Melissa Behr
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    Purgatory House
    rating:2.4

    Purgatory House

    2004Runtime:0 minutes
    Fourteen-year-old Celeste Davis wrote and stars in this stylized film chronicling the teen angst of Silver Strand, who feels disconnected from the world around her and is caught in a form of emotional limbo. After she dies, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery and a quest for unconditional love. A dark and quirky nonlinear approach to storytelling by director Cindy Baer helps reinforce the confusion and turmoil of the main character.

    Directed by:

  • Cindy Baer
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    Daman
    rating:2.4

    Daman

    2001Runtime:0 minutes
    Durga (Raveena Tandon) endures constant abuse by her husband, Sanjay (Sayaji Shinde). One night, Sanjay brutally rapes Durga, resulting in the birth of their daughter, Deepa (Raima Sen). Determined that Deepa not suffer the same fate she's endured, Durga flees with the child. But when Sanjay tracks them down, Durga will have to make a final stand in this award-winning drama from Kalpana Lazmi with music by Bhupen Hazarika.

    Directed by:

  • Kalpana Lajmi
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    The Rat Tamer
    rating:2.4

    The Rat Tamer

    1995Runtime:0 minutes
    In this Aussie prison drama directed by Kate Woods, no one can explain why inmate Kevin Jones (Hugh Jackman) arrived at Blackstream Penitentiary with brain damage and horrible bruises on his body -- least of all Kevin. Can a jailhouse psychologist (Deborra-Lee Furness) help Kevin regain his memory, or will it take an act of violence to bring out the truth? The film's cast also includes Richard Piper and Sue Jones.

    Directed by:

  • Kate Woods
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    Now and Then
    rating:3.8

    Now and Then

    1995Runtime:0 minutes
    Waxing 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
  • rating:3.8 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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