Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor’s success at playing women. And because this is the 17th century, Maria, like other females, is prohibited from pursuing her dream of acting. But when powerful people support her, King Charles II lifts the ban on female stage performers. And just as Maria aided Ned, she needs his help to learn her new profession.
Category: Romance
Romance
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Une vie à t’attendre
A married Frenchwoman living in Brazil returns to her native country to visit her ailing elderly mother. There, she ends up rekindling a love affair with a man whom she hadn’t seen in twelve years.
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In Love
The story of a broken up family in which the father and the oldest son live in Europe while the mother and the younger son live in Egypt. The older brother decides to travel back to Egypt to know his family better.
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Long Farewell
After a young actress finds herself in a love triangle, she has to choose between a hapless writer and a successful playwright.
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Driving Miss Wealthy
Leung plays Jennifer, the spoiled-rotten daughter of a millionaire. When Jennifer’s father realizes that she’s spending way too much money, he hires Kit (Lau) to pretend to be a Filipino chauffeur and chaperone her. Then, Jennifer’s father decides that he’s going to teach her the value of money and hard-work, so he pretends to be ill, leaving all the money to Pamela, his business partner. Pamela kicks Jennifer out into the street to live with Kit/Mario. The two learn to live together and work hard to get back on top.
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Heaven’s Bookstore
Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites Kenta to work with him, and the next thing he knows, Kenta wakes up to find himself in a room he has never been in before. It is a strange room that seems to have no connection to life. He descends a staircase to find many shelves of books.
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Passionate Encounters
Two psychologists start an experiment which is meant to explore various persons’ behaviour towards each other. It soons turns to sex.
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20 30 40
A woman in her 20s, another in her 30s and a third in her 40s must each find a way to navigate the challenges they face in life and love.
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Enduring Love
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. But fate has other ideas…
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Turn Left at the End of the World
The year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a better life in the west. The instinct driven Moroccans patronize the “black” Indians, while the quiet Indians see the Moroccans as Ignorant and coarse. In this cultural war two girls, Moroccan and Indian, discover the sexual revolution of the 60’s.