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Español
Description
Ramón Sampedro wants to end his life because a diving accident 28 years before that turned him into a quadriplegic. For most of those years he made the most of it: writing, developing a close relationships with his family, who all help to care for him. While grateful to his family and friends for their help, Ramón was always an active person. He has come to see his life as frustrating and pointless and wishes to die with what remains of his dignity....
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Language
English
Description
Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
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English
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In a poor suburb of Auckland, Jake and Beth Heke live a life defined by drunken parties, unstable friendships, and confrontations with authorities. Jake, a complex man with a rascal's charm, is weighted down by a quick temper, alcoholism, and an evil streak of male entitlement. Beth's beauty has been scarred by broken dreams and Jake's beefy fists. Yet her inner strength and desire to save her family make her the solid center around which this story...
65) Human nature
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English
Description
Take a walk on the wild side in this deliciously twisted tale about three strangers caught in a hair-raising love triangle.
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English
Description
Harry Block has gone through three wives, six psychiatrists and dozens of girlfriends during his long literary career. But when Harry writes a bestseller about his best friends, his best friends become his worst enemies. Now, instead of going back to his old school to be honored for his literary achievements, Harry's going straight to hell.
67) Tumbleweeds
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Language
English
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A road movie about the unconventional love between a single mother and her wise-beyond-her-years little girl.
68) Saving Grace
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English
Description
A recent widow joins with the caretaker of her inherited estate on the Cornish coast to use her green thumb for fun and profit. All goes well until the business starts booming.
69) Double happiness
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English
Description
East clashes with West and generations collide in this comedy about a young Chinese woman struggling to appease her old-fashioned father, and at the same time pursue her modern dreams.
70) Cherish
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English
Description
"[A] computer animator becomes the victim of a bizarre kidnapping that ends in the death of a policman. Placed under house arrest until the trial, she has only one chance to prove her innocence and catch the killer. But first, she has to find a way out of her apartment."--Container back.
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Español
Description
Dr. Jano is speaking at a medical convention at an Argentinean hotel well past its prime. He is attracted to Helena, single mother and co-owner of the hotel. Amalia, Helena's teenage daughter, is starting to explore both her faith and her sexuality, spending much of her time with her best friend Josephina. In their imaginations, the girls tend to conflate the erotic, the religious, and the lurid. Then Dr. Jano makes an anonymous sexual advance towards...
72) A dirty shame
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English
Description
When a concussion awakens the carnal urges of Sylvia, the people of Pinewood become pitted against each other in a battle of decency versus depravity.
73) The Rapture
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English
Description
A young woman, so unhappy with her life that she attempts suicide, undergoes a religious conversion when she is comforted by members of a cult. Her involvement with the cult leads to a frightening and ultimately tragic denouement.
74) Swoon
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English
Description
A film noir "thriller" that presents the true case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, brilliant young men from good Jewish families, who were convicted for murdering a 13-year-old boy.
Language
Italiano
Description
The Benedetti family has been haunted by a curse for generations. On a long drive to visit their reclusive grandfather in Tuscany, Luigi Benedetti tells his children the mysterious story of their ancestors. It is a tragic tale filled with forbidden love, passion, vengeance and betrayal.
Language
English
Description
In September 1871, Paul Verlaine, a poet, young but already established in Paris, received a letter from the provinces containing eight extraordinary poems by one Arthur Rimbaud. He wrote back at once, saying: "My dear great soul, come to us, you are summoned, you are expected." What follows is their story directly taken from their letters and poetry. While Verlaine was a great poet, Rimbaud was a genius, a revolutionary. His poems from age sixteen...