Top Cast
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Fernando Fernán Gómez
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Luis Suárez
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María Antonia Rodríguez
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Amparo Soto
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Ofelia Angélica
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Gustavo Pérez de Ayala
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Miguel Rellán
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Mercedes Camins
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Luis Maluenda
Overview
A film director deals with the frustration of not having achieved anything in his life.
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In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
The Safety of Objects
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
Strange Weather
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Bastard Out of Carolina
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
El Chicano
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
All Day and a Night
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
Hardball
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
A Dry White Season
On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.
Helen
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
The Trials of Cate McCall
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.