Keyword: woman director

Marie-Octobre

6

2008

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A dinner: One woman and nine men. There is a traitor among them. 10 years after the Liberation of France, Marie Hélène Dumoulin, also known as Marie-Octobre gathers her former comrades of Resistance for one reception . She seeks to unmasked who has betrayed her friend Castille (the chief of a Resistance network) during the war. During the evening each person is suspected but there is just one guilty. A fascinating film with Nathalie Baye.

Merry-Go-Round

6.5

2010

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Four protagonists, two generations and two continents are interwoven in Merry-Go-Round, a grand yet intimate narrative about leaving and returning. It starts in San Francisco, where Eva works as a traditional Chinese doctor, and young, roaming Merry hears that she has leukemia. Both return to Hong Kong: Merry looks up Allen, with whom she had previously corresponded, and gets a job in the Tung-Wah guardhouse for coffins run by the grumpy Hill. Eva tries to prevent the same Allen, her cousin, from selling the family business. In the meantime, the older woman thinks back to an affair she had in the 1930s.

Lost and Love

6.4

2015

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A mans epic 14 year search for his son crosses paths with another man who shares a similar story.

Easy

4.1

2003

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Heart-broken after several affairs, a woman finds herself torn between a Poet and a TV Host.

Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir

7.1

2001

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Narrated by Robert Wagner, this documentary features Lana Turners daughter, Cheryl Crane, talking about her mother and their various personal issues.

I Am Somebody

6.4

1970

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In 1969, 400 poorly paid black women working in a hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, went on strike to demand union recognition and a wage increase, only to find themselves confronting the National Guard and the state government.

Toe to Toe

3.2

2009

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Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must work to overcome racial and other tensions in their classmates, and in themselves, if they hope to keep their friendship alive.

Queen of Katwe

7.3

2016

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A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy

5.5

1998

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In this romantic comedy set in the rugged wilderness of Northern British Columbia in 1940, three very spirited, very different young adults struggle to carve out their independence and the worlds largest cattle ranch.

The Red Kimona

6.5

1926

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A small-town girl finds escape from her cruel home life in the arms of a handsome stranger. Soon she finds herself working as a prostitute in New Orleans, desperately clinging to the belief that he really loves her.

Frenemies

5.1

2012

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Three sets of friends deal with the ups and downs of their ever-changing relationships.

Desperately Seeking Susan

6.3

1985

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A bored New Jersey suburban housewifes fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.