6.3 /10
Three stories of Angelenos linked linearly by people associated with each are told. In story one, Mamie works as a psychologist at an abortion clinic, she, in addition to providing counseling, assessing mental fitness and thus approving or declining the request by potential patients for the procedure. This job is somewhat ironic as she purportedly aborted a pregnancy when she was seventeen, nineteen years ago. Her stepfather urged her to go through with the pregnancy and give the baby up for adoption, he, now dead, the only person in her personal life who knew that she went through with it. She is approached by Nicky, an aspiring filmmaker, who has proof of her son's identity, said son who threw such information away in no longer wanting to contact her. As his application for a scholarship to the AFI, Nicky wants to make a film on Mamie "discovering" her son. Not wanting to have her story splashed across a movie screen, especially as the biological father is still in her life and doesn't know, while wanting to know the identity of her son which Nicky won't divulge unless she agrees to the documentary, Mamie enlists the help of her masseuse boyfriend, Mexican immigrant Javier, to throw Nicky off the track of her plan of stealing the information from him while helping him with his AFI scholarship submission. Mamie, Nicky and Javier's lives may take a turn as documentaries often take on a life of their own. In story two, Charley, Mamie's stepbrother, who is the biological father of Mamie's child from a very brief sexual relationship they had after her mother and his father married, has grown up to realize his homosexual orientation. Managing the last existing of the chain restaurants he and Mamie inherited from their father, Charley is in a long term relationship with Gil, an architect. They are best friends with Gil's friend from high school, Pam, and her current partner, Diane. Pam and Diane had once asked Gil to be the sperm donor to artificially inseminate Pam, but ultimately they decided to use sperm from a bank instead that resulted in their now two year old son, Max. Sharing his belief with Gil but not the extent to which he is going, Charley is convinced that Pam and Diane did end up using Gil's sperm to father Max without telling them, he going on a quest to discover proof. And in story three, twenty-two year Otis has worked at Charley's restaurant for two years. He also plays in a band. Not the best drummer or backup vocalist, Otis' band-mates keep him in the band as his wealthy father, Frank, provides the band with many of their toys, he spreading his money easily to those in his life. Still in the closet in fearing Frank's disapproval, inexperienced Otis secretly has a crush on Charley. Needing a temporary vocalist, the band ends up hiring Jude, who Otis met performing karaoke at the restaurant. Opportunistic Jude knows the situation into which she is walking, she using Otis' naiveté to get to Frank and his money.
Run Time: . MMPA: 18 . Release: Jan 20, 2005
Director: Director: Don Roos,
7.2 /10
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.
Run Time: 161 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: Jun 17, 2009
Director: Director: Gaspar No,
Stars: Paz de la Huerta, Nathaniel Brown, Cyril Roy, Olly Alexander, Masato Tanno,
6.1 /10
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
Run Time: 107 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: Aug 18, 2010
Director: Director: Noah Baumbach,
Stars: Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Merritt Wever,
7.6 /10
Dramatisation of three real-life stories of how three families were each affected by Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law before it was lifted in 2019.
Run Time: . MMPA: 0 . Release: May 10, 2021
Director: Director: Alex Kalymnios,
Stars: Dearbhla Molly, Sinead Keenan, Amy JamesKelly, Genevieve OReilly, Colin Morgan,
6.1 /10
A teacher tries to overcome his frustration teaching a high-school that seems to be full of flunkies.
Run Time: 107 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Oct 05, 1984
Director: Director: Arthur Hiller,
Stars: Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Judd Hirsch, Ralph Macchio, Allen Garfield,
5.4 /10
Set in 1980's Australia, this is the true story of a woman whose husband eventually reveals to her that he is an active member of the Nazi party. A real nightmare begins for her.
Run Time: 93 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: May 03, 1983
Director: Director: Frank Shields,
Stars: Kerry Mack, Ralph Schicha, Gabriella Barraket, Judy Nunn, Vic Robins,
7.5 /10
Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and moves to the city. She finds a job as a cleaner and tries to survive in a wretched apartment in the shabby part of a big city. She is pregnant, and the fact that her boyfriend has abandoned her does not help matters. When her father goes to the hospital for an operation, her mother comes to stay with her. Her neighbor, an old recluse whose only friend is his dog, begins to come out of his shell and these three lost souls try to give each other the strength to start over.
Run Time: 101 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Mar 05, 1999
Director: Director: Tim Andrew, Benito Zambrano,
Stars: Lisa Welti, Doug Jeffery, Tony Guma, Robert Donavan, Neil Delama,
7.5 /10
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.
Run Time: 96 Min . MMPA: 14 . Release: Dec 05, 2007
Director: Director: Jason Reitman,
Stars: Elliot Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney,
7.3 /10
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.
Run Time: 112 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: Dec 16, 2010
Director: Director: Derek Cianfrance,
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, John Doman, Mike Vogel, Ben Shenkman,
5.5 /10
As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, Abby Johnson was involved in upwards of 22,000 abortions and counseled countless women on their reproductive choices. Her passion surrounding a woman's right to choose led her to become a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood, fighting to enact legislation for the cause she so deeply believed in. Until the day she saw something that changed everything.
Run Time: 109 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Mar 21, 2019
Director: Director: Cary Solomon, Chuck Konzelman,
Stars: Ashley Bratcher, Brooks Ryan, Robia LaMorte, Emma Elle Roberts, Robin DeMarco,
7.4 /10
A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
Run Time: 101 Min . MMPA: 13 . Release: Mar 13, 2020
Director: Director: Eliza Hittman,
Stars: Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Thodore Pellerin, Ryan Eggold, Sharon Van Etten,