A modern take on William Shakespeare's King Lear.
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A modern take on William Shakespeare's King Lear.
The behavior of a casting agent during the audition of a 17-year-old girl causes the boundary between reality and fiction, between the acceptable and the unacceptable to blur. How far does the girl want to go to get the part? Does she accept his behavior during the audition?
When a gay couple's impending wedding hits a snag, the grooms must rely on their friends and family to see them through.
A woman recovering from an attempted suicide meets an aspiring doctor who takes a keen interest in her efforts to move forward in life through dance.
Vera knows exactly what paradise looks like – it's the shabby assembly hall of the district recreation center, where the children's and youth theater of the city of Oldinsk is based. But Vera is no longer 14. By the age of 30, all that remains to her from her acting youth are memories, meetings of "graduates" once a year, and love for the director of this very theater, who for some reason successfully survived the end of puberty, and Vera's marriage, and the birth of a child. But maybe you can return to heaven if you turn childhood love into a real adult romance?
Librarian and real crime buff Aurora “Roe” Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she also never wanted to see him dead. When his body is found outside of Aurora’s home, she then becomes the main suspect. Determined to find the killer and clear her name, Aurora can't help but to get involved once again.
When Andrey saved Vera from drowning, she fell in love with him, but he saw her as a sister. Years later, Vera reunites with Andrey but hides her feelings. But when an old rival threatens her, Andrey discovers that he is still a knight in shining armor.
A young boy struggles with the loss of his mother.
Centaur lives a modest life with his family in rural Kyrgyzstan until he abruptly becomes the center of attention when he is caught stealing a racehorse at night. A story inspired by the myth when horses became the wings of men.
The Mahjong Box is a psychological drama following the story of Tom, an American living in Shanghai. Unable to mourn the loss of his Chinese wife, Ling, he finds hope the day he meets her double, Bobo.
Tito is 13 years old and extremely gifted at soccer, his genius brings him a contract that lifts him and his family out of poverty. He shines with his goals, but turns into a petty player, drops out of school, and has no friends. Tito becomes the breadwinner of the family and his father no longer has the authority to force him to finish school. When Tito is one step away from consecrating himself, something unexpected will make his dream disappear. Having lost everything he must return to his village. Tito will have to face the most difficult challenge of his life: to stand up and keep going.
Teo has a good job, a fiancee, a lover, no intention to assume any responsibility in his life. Meeting Emma, a blind woman, will upset his convictions.
A young artist is caught in between the world of fantasy and reality. There he finds a girl that he can't understand, explain, or identify.
Even though he's been living with Fouad for three years, Malik is going to marry Halima. Since Fouad doesn't accept this marriage, which would imply a total upheaval of their everyday life, Malik makes him promise not to attend the wedding, which will take place in his parents’ village. As the ceremony approaches, the pressure builds. Will Malik choose to save face in front of his family and the wedding guests or will he choose to save the relationship with the one he loves?
A military widow, whose faith in Christmas has lapsed, rents an apartment to a handsome Army Captain, recovering from an injury in battle, and whose faith in Christmas is inspirational. As they team up to save the town’s military museum with a Christmas fundraising event, these two ‘wounded birds’ find themselves falling in love — and being healed by the magic of Christmas.
Theseus, Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, become caught up in a domestic quarrel between the king of the elves and the queen of the fairies which results in the intervention of the mischievous Puck and his magic potion along with a troupe of amateur actors. The denouement is celebrated in the form of a grand virtuoso entertainment. One of George Balanchine’s rare narrative ballets, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is entering the Paris Opera Ballet’s repertoire. The sets and costumes for this production have been designed by another magician of the stage, Christian Lacroix.
In an abandoned industrial area, a strange phenomena poisons the environment. A girl has to take care of her sick father suffering from his sickness.
Gloria is a lawyer who throughout her career has never been able to defend someone who was not guilty. His new client seems to be not so different: a man accused of rape in a small town where no one believes his story.
The comedy-thriller revolves around a DSP, two inspectors, one aspiring actor and the daughter of a smuggling king.
Nora is a young housewife and mother, living in a quaint little village with her husband and their two sons. The Swiss countryside is untouched by the major social upheavals the movement of 1968 has brought about. Nora’s life is not affected either; she is a quiet person who is liked by everybody – until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot on February 7, 1971.
Against oppression, change, and seismic political shifts, a father and his daughter find solace in the seemingly clandestine act of kite flying, in the latest by Afghan filmmaker Tarique Qayumi.
Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstairs to his top-floor apartment in Naples when he meets Michela. The charming young woman, who has just moved to the facing apartment, has forgotten her keys and finds herself locked out. Cynical and grumpy, the retired lawyer who has been living estranged from the rest of the world, should normally leave her to her fate but he mellows under her spontaneous charm. He helps her, becomes friends not only with her but with her husband Fabio and their two children. For once, the self-declared misanthropist seems to be experiencing the long forgotten feeling of empathy.
Zheng Xiang reunites with the members of his high school band and reminisces about their lead singer and his past love, En Pei, whose pursuit of her dreams ended in tragedy. He regrets encouraging her to join the pageant, wondering if she would have died if he hadn't done so. Drunk after the memorial, he's suddenly transported back to the past, where he sets out to stop En Pei from making the same mistake.
What is the human cost of unraveling the secrets of time?
A strict female CEO of an insurance company has already given up on love and believes that only the love towards a child is true and eternal. Thus, she decides to have her own child so she "borrows" sperm from a delivery man whom she hired, but things start to get out of hand when the two starts to fall in love with each other.
A son has a hard time dealing with his parents’ condition.
Rubens is a carefree, charismatic swimming instructor who finds himself accused of displaying inappropriate affection toward one of his students by the boy's mother. Other parents and colleagues are only too eager to condemn him.
Ehsan has experienced bitter emotional incidents in the past, He has been looking for true love but has failed to find it. And now he tells his stories to his friend Danial, so that he can tell why.
A famous psychology professor was killed under the motif of the murder game in the novel. But a young writer Han Joon conceals the killer for immediate success. As a result, Han Joon, the original author of the novel, is swept away by media and public opinion due to copycat crimes, and his life is turned upside down by sudden success. A month later, Han-jun received a threatening letter from Nuance that Han-jun knew the secret of Han-jun with a photo of the mysterious woman murdered, and Han-jun met the woman in the photo with Jeong-hyun, a young woman who helped him succeed.
A monk must come home to take care of his dying mother. The problem is his mother is still mad at him for leaving home years ago, so she does not want to see him again. However, since the moment the monk stepped into home, everything around here has triggered his deepest memory...
Trapped in routine, a Jeju poet finds himself drawn to a boy—and to emotions he’s never dared name.
A young refugee leaves Nigeria for Berlin in search of a decent life with a properly paid job.
A young Icelandic football player is on the cusp of living his childhood dream. Crucially, he will have to leave the familiar comforts of his home town to achieve this goal, a departure which turns out to be somewhat more painful than he anticipated.
With their father in prison for murder, siblings Alison and Brandon are instantly considered suspects when a string of killings plagues their town, and they must fight to clear their names.
Daniel, a young pianist, learns that his birth mother is still alive. Becoming nostalgic, he remembers his childhood. Alone with Mother Nature and his memories, he looks for this woman, hoping to find if not the truth at least consolation.
A widow must confess her infidelities in her husband's wake to appease his angry ghost and the scared townsfolk. Based on the short story by the Puerto Rican writer Emilio S. Belaval.
Haruko (Kuriyama Chiaki), a 34-year-old single woman and BL manga artist, realizes she's lived a life doing what she wants without any thought of the future. She's motivated to attempt marriage and begins going to marriage parties in hopes of finding someone. But her past of being rejected by previous boyfriends due to her career choice and interest leaves her shy and unable to speak out. Will she find love and marry?! ~~ Based on the autobiographical essay manga "BL Mangaka Desukedo Kekkon Shitemo Iidesuka?" by Fujimoto Haruki.
Raising each other’s child as their own was a decision that Raju and Rao made when they swapped their newborns at the hospital. But what happens when they grow up is beyond the control of their respective fathers.
sang-tae's son, ha-Tae is on his way to Yangyang with sang-tae who had an stroke. There was a surfing shop run by his brother jung-tae. three peole met for a long time
Professor Madhusoodhanan is an applied Mathematics professor whose weapon is his intelligence. With nothing to lose except his daughter, Madhusoodhanan must win the fight to keep his daughter safe.
It's Christmas and Miranda leaves Seattle with a suitcase full of presents to join her long- lost family in Carlton Heath, where she will experience the joyful traditions she missed as a child. Last Christmas, Miranda fell in love with Ian, a local man who helped her as she searched for her father, James Whitcomb, a famous theatre actor she believed had a connection to the town. At his widow Margaret’s request, Miranda agrees to keep it a secret to protect the family from scandal.
The adolescent world of Jenny consists of boredom, school, and her "best friend forever". Everything changes when she falls in love with the new boy, Boris. It's time for her to have new experiences.
Fernando, a lonely and tormented man, gets a job as a night watchman in a warehouse close to being demolished. The building is huge, with several floors and wings interconnected by a confusing network of corridors and stairs. One night, Fernando hears strange noises and finds a gate open that should be closed. From that moment on, nothing will be the same.
Four different women discuss life, love and marriage with people from their past and present during the course of one day at a café in Seoul.
Follows several characters who become an instagram celebrity in the age of instant fame and cultural shift that shape today's social media landscape.
Petar is a retired detective and all he has left is his daughter Iskra. His pensioner's days are interrupted when Iskra disappears. The pursuit to find Iskra begins and the investigation takes Petar back to his past.
Samuel returns to his neighborhood after eight years in prison, which have obligated him to act in ways he never imagined, but also to think about his life and what he believes he is made for: boxing. Many things have changed since Samuel has been gone. Joe, his former coach, is now training a new prospect called Víctor. If Samuel wants to box, he will have to prove that there is still room for him. But in order to support his family, he agrees to be this new fighter's chata (sparring). This is the story of characters predetermined to failure.
A voyeuristic journey through the homoerotic work of Alair Gomes.
Maggie, a single mom has to balance between her career and her son, Jordan. Jordan finds a tutor named Casey to help him at school, and Casey becomes like a father figure. Will the three of them find happiness and love once again?
One summer day, 400 goldfish were found in the swimming pool of a secondary school. This is a story about the four 15-year-old girls who put them there.
End of August. Corsica. Elbe, 17 years old, deaf since birth, is vacationing at her older sister Mathilde. One day, during her visit of the Revellata lighthouse, she catches a glimpse of a man who is coming out of the sea after scuba diving.
A young hitman is forced to confront his tragic past.
Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary in a restaurant. While on their way, their share their views on Algeria: Amal talks about lost illusions and Samir about the necessity to cope with them. At the same time, their son Fahim and his friends Feriel and Reda are wandering about in a hostile Algiers about to steal their youth.
Jackie Sands, a washed-up comedienne thrown out of her Upper Eastside apartment by her married boyfriend, finds refuge at Hotel Bleu. There she meets Jay, a charismatic trumpet player, who challenges her wise cracking abrasiveness. Rediscovering her passion as a singer, she realizes that aging isn't such a tragedy as long as she can sing the blues.
Working at a nightclub in Chengdu, a transgender Chinese woman receives an unexpected visit from her cousin informing her that the mother she has brushed aside, has died. As the only "son", she feels obligated to return to her birthplace for the sake of her family, even though she'll have to hide her true self from those that once shared her past.
Recent immigrants to Canada, working on scaffolding break the routine of their job by observing the people in the the neighbourhood from a unique, precarious and ephemeral vantage point.