Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls’ absent father returns.
Tag: woman director
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Herzsprung
In the little town of Herzsprung – whose name harks back to an ancient legend of broken hearts – almost nothing has changed since German unification, except a rise in unemployment. Johanna, a young mother and widow, becomes one of the unemployed and lives on welfare. To make matters worse, she falls in love with a dark-skinned, roving adventurer and the whole village starts talking about it.
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Amelia Lópes O’Neill
A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.
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My New Gun
Debbie Bender is a New Jersey housewife whose life is turned upside down when her husband gives her a gun for self-protection. But his plans backfire when their cute but wacky neighbor Skippy “borrows” it. Soon, bullets are flying, strangers and stalkers enter the picture, and a sure-fire, on-target romantic comedy takes flight.
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Siméon
The ghost of a music teacher pushes a young mechanic to start a career in music.
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Autumn Moon
A Japanese tourist, Tokio, meets a 15-year-old Hong Kong girl and her grandmother left behind in Hong Kong while their family emigrates to Canada.
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Fool’s Fire
A crippled dwarf is forced to become jester to a tyrannical king, but when the king abuses a beautiful dwarf with whom the jester is in love the jester plots a terrible revenge.
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Voyeur Diary of a Female Doctor
Yusaku, an obstetrician and gynecologist, marries Chisato, a female doctor. Yusaku is an abnormal photography enthusiast, and is not satisfied with just taking pictures of Chisato nude, so he secretly installs a video camera in her examination room and secretly captures the patient’s embarrassing state… Snack’s mom, Rika, likes Yusaku, so even though she’s not particularly bad, she often comes to see him. Yusaku asked Chisato to take a picture of him. The two enjoyed sex while watching the video. Meanwhile, when Rika learns that Chisato is Yusaku’s wife, she becomes jealous of her and begins to take revenge on her husband…
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The Waltz on the Petschora
Set in 1937 Stalinist Georgia, the film traces the parallel destinies of a mother, condemned by the government as “an enemy of the people” and exiled to a work camp in Siberia, and her daughter, who meanwhile is sent to an orphanage. Arriving at the overcrowded work camp, the mother and other women who are not considered strong enough to be labourers, must journey still farther, crossing the icy Siberian landscape in search of food and shelter. At the same time, the daughter escapes the orphanage and returns to her former home, where she finds that a KGB officer has taken up residence. He protects her and an uneasy rapport between them develops—one of abhorrence and attraction, need and suspicion.
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Lotta on Rascal Street
Lotta is a five old girl living in Sweden with her mother, father, brother and sister. She is living the very normal life of all children of her age…